Welcome to Earth One
A Conscious Planet with a Conscience
Eons ago, the first earth felt pain when its inhabitants spread across the Heartland, damaging the environment. When some ancients learned to communicate in rhythmic rhyme, the lowest speech form that could synchronize with Earth One's crystal matrix mind, the planet recruited Earth SCOUTs* to act as its appendages and repair the damage. As the population grew, Earth SCOUTs' lower BODIE did routine maintenance. The HEAD Council used Earth One's powerful crystals to repair bigger problems by rearranging matter.
This re-creation also served as recreation after SCOUTs turned the western desert salt flats into fertile sugar sand. The desert became luscious dessert territory. All within the Heartland's heart-shape boundaries lived in peace and plenty. But the Outlands grew jealous. The Great War which followed killed most of the ancient SCOUTs and tore the Heartland in two. Open wounds festered and Earth One's mind went dormant. Blight spread across the Heartland, turning lower life forms to low-lives which threatened civilization's last remnants.
At last the ancient planet awakens to find its life-blood poisoned, choking off the Heart Well. Earth One has no other hope than sending crystal distress messages across the universe. Only one mind hears the plea, and that one lives on Earth One's youngest sibling, Earth.
*All acronymns are explained in the book.
This re-creation also served as recreation after SCOUTs turned the western desert salt flats into fertile sugar sand. The desert became luscious dessert territory. All within the Heartland's heart-shape boundaries lived in peace and plenty. But the Outlands grew jealous. The Great War which followed killed most of the ancient SCOUTs and tore the Heartland in two. Open wounds festered and Earth One's mind went dormant. Blight spread across the Heartland, turning lower life forms to low-lives which threatened civilization's last remnants.
At last the ancient planet awakens to find its life-blood poisoned, choking off the Heart Well. Earth One has no other hope than sending crystal distress messages across the universe. Only one mind hears the plea, and that one lives on Earth One's youngest sibling, Earth.
*All acronymns are explained in the book.
The Heartland is breaking, ripe for another taking.
Who will rescue the war-torn planet?
Find out by reading Earth Won.
Boy Scout Morgan Earhart has his hands full trying to earn his Orienteering Merit Badge and respect from the jock bullies at school, all while enduring nightmares of his brother’s fiery death and dealing with a mother obsessed with rhyme. When he finds a crystal distress message only he can see, he thinks he’s gone crazy. Either that or Earth One, the sentient planet that sent the message, is desperate to want a nearsighted, pointy-eared bully-magnet as an Earth Scout.
This may be Morgan's chance to do something more important with his life than besting bullies--until another mind takes over his body. Under mental control, Morgan will be lucky to survive his Boy Scout Orienteering challenge. The race against jocks using only a map and compass to find the way through rough woods turns into a nightmare stop in the Nulland Void. Even if mysterious voices send Morgan on to Earth One, they can't save him from mental captivity.
In a race through twisted just desserts, punishment and pun-nishment abound. Morgan must somehow defeat his captor and then find help to purify the poisoned Heart Well. Otherwise he'll die a double death, along with Earth One, when earthquakes tear the Heartland apart. Maybe a bewitching Green Witch villager will decide who gets his just desserts and who lives, if her fire-breathing firebird doesn't eat everyone first.
If you'd like to read Earth Won, please contact the author to be notified upon publication. This book can stand on its own once its gets a cover, but seriesly, it's the first of many pun-filled Earth One adventures written by the author, Sher A. Hart, for teens and the young at heart.
Have platform, will travel. This writer loves to visit schools and teach students the art of creative writing. It's fun and free for all, not a free-for-all, so visit my contact and interact page to make arrangements within Okaloosa County in Florida's panhandle.
Even if you're not a teacher or a parent, please click the facebook like button below to show your interest and support. | Explore the Heartland, if you dare.* The map above is a working copy, but you may be able to locate some not quite North American feature near your home. Whatever you do, don't assume the Rock Candy mountains are a harmless candy-land. These rock candies may be your worst nightmare.
*Have a heart. The author is not responsible for any injuries to a viewer's eyes, nor to their intelligence from unaccustomed exercise, or for insults to any area excluded from the Heartland. It's all in pun. |
