Eleven stories blur the lines between surrealism, magical realism, fantasy, sci fi, romance, and satire with tart depictions of popular culture, imaginative takes on the future (and past) of humanity, and mystical currents swirling below the surface. Gatuskin combines vivid description of external details with sympathetic attention to the inner lives of her characters to draw the reader into her imaginative and thought-provoking scenarios.
In this literary novel by Zelda Leah Gatuskin, young artists find themselves, lose their innocence, challenge authority and confront harsh realities in a southwestern college town at the end of the twentieth century. Their impassioned, expansive lives are contrasted with the contained drama of ninety-one-year-old Muffin living out her final months in a nursing home. When Claire and her best friend Lydia reluctantly take on "the Muffin project" for the summer, they soon find themselves attached to Muffin and other residents of Westcare Manor. While teens and seniors bond, teens and parents clash; and Muffin and her aging daughter Jo battle on in their own way. The concerns and relationships of four generations of women are brought into sharp focus. The thread that connects all is art and its power to expose, express, inspire and heal. For young adults and up. Finalist, NM-AZ Book Awards.
Occult romance, time-travel, and magical dance return in this long-awaited sequel to Zelda Gatuskin's fantasy novel, "The Time Dancer." Continuing their adventures, Esmarelda, George Drumm, and Sylvestor the cat have their hands (and paws) full with with unwelcoming Witches, shape-shifting Familiars, half-mad Magicians, and inquisitive New-Agers.
The year is 2170. Humans live under massive domes on Mars and Luna, and only vacation on Earth. Two teens touring out-dome Great Britain discover an uncharted castle under a rampant growth of ivy, and in the turret they read from a mysterious tablet. Time stops. Earth's fate hangs in the balance while competing researchers race to unlock the secret of the mutant vine. Adventure, romance, magic and mystery, times two!
Here concludes the romantic, magical saga of time-traveling Gypsy dancer Esmarelda and Celtic fiddler George Drumm. George has leapt ahead ten years to be with Esma. Now he must make up The Ten Years. Can the Time Dancer stay with him and go around again? Maybe they can hide out ... somewhere. Complications abound, more than the unsuspecting couple realizes. At The Top Of The World, Weaver Oshi frets over the tangled threads of Fate that have brought together more than one pair of Time-crossed lovers. Meanwhile, the lingering spells of the Two Magicians weaken the divide between the alternating worlds of the Spiral Map of Time. And In Caliente, NM, Robyn's metaphysical shop, The Lost Unicorn, must again act as a way station between worlds, as the mammoth cottonwood tree in back becomes an actual portal!About The Spiral Map of Time Trilogy:What if there was a world of Magic just the other side of our dreams? At The Lost Unicorn in Caliente, NM, Robyn suspects, and then is drawn into, the parallel world on the reverse side of the Spiral Map of Time. In Book 1, THE TIME DANCER, Esmarelda is on a quest that takes her to the unresolved Past and gives her a forbidden peek at her Future. She finds love along the way, but can she keep it? In Book 2, THE TWO MAGICIANS, two wizards hold the key to colorful carpets that enable Robyn to dance across the Spiral into the magical parallel world. This time, Esmarelda must come to Robyn's rescue. In THE TEN YEARS, both Past and Future catch up to Esmarelda, while across the Spiral Robyn's universe is also shaken.
The year is 2170. Humans live under massive domes on Mars and Luna, and only vacation on Earth. Two teens touring out-dome Great Britain discover an uncharted castle under a rampant growth of ivy, and in the turret they read from a mysterious tablet. Time stops. Earth's fate hangs in the balance while competing researchers race to unlock the secret of the mutant vine. Adventure, romance, magic and mystery, times two!
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