Everything's Better with Bacon and You Can Never Have Enough Butter (but karma's a bitch... ): THE FIRST CHILD - Softcover

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The novel is intended to engage lovers of fantasy in a complex story that will awaken them to the concept of speciesism and to human animals’ exploitation of other animals.
The first chapter is intentionally unnerving, setting the stage for the story that follows. It is illustrative of the connection some animal rights’ thinkers have made between the original Holocaust and the ongoing, hidden animal holocaust on which our economy is based.
The characters include a general population oblivious to the plight of animals, lots of evil people (some who seem to be based on modern-day politicians), awesome animals with supernatural aspects, a small human support group (who have to navigate daily mass shootings), and two brilliant and magical minority children who have the ability to force people to see what they should always have seen.
The non-human animals in the story are, by nature, light-filled, magical creatures, known as “Deor.” Early humans are awed by these beautiful beings and begin to worship them. The animals’ Mother foresees that this worship will cause world-wide war; and, in order to prevent this from occurring, asks the animals to assume non-threatening flesh-and-blood bodies and to subjugate themselves to humankind. This purgatory will end when – according to a Deor prophesy – two special Children, who have the ability to make other humans see, are born.
The Living World, which was the creator of all conscious life, implanted a specific genetic code in a few early humans. This code would, one day, cause the two Children to be born.
They will be known to the animals by their natural “Scent,” which would be a combination of lotuses, oranges, peppermint, fir needles, vanilla, cinnamon, and rain.
There are two factions of Deor: those who follow their Mother’s wishes (the “Apalacheela”), and those who have grown to hate humankind for its cruelty (the “Killapaka”). The Apalacheela, or “Cheela,” actively seek to find the Children so that they may realize their destiny. The Killapaka, or “Kills,” also actively seek the Children in order to control their power to their own ends.
A fascist, xenophobic, racist, homophobic, misogynistic group of humans has also found out about the prophesy, and is part of the race to seize the Children.
The questions are: What is the Children’s power, and how will they make people see? The prophesy does not provide the answers, but those answers will slam the reader at the conclusion of the story, in a most satisfactory manner.

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