Jayson valencia (8 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Orchard That Eats Its Own is not a simple tale of haunted ground. It is a record of inheritance, written by a woman who never meant to become part of the story she was trying to preserve. What begins as a return to family land in rural Malaysia becomes a descent into the oldest form of debt, one measured not in money but in blood.Li Mei Tan inherits her mother's orchard after the funeral rites have ended and the mourners have scattered. To outsiders, the orchard looks like any other. Rows of trees heavy with fruit, a small house worn by rain, and the steady rhythm of harvests that shape the seasons. Yet those who grew up within its reach know better. They speak of trees that lean closer than they should, of storms that turn up bones from soil that refuses to stay settled, of voices that call from the rows long after night has fallen. Li Mei tells herself these are only memories of childhood fears. She is wrong.The manuscript that follows is her testimony. Written in bursts, interrupted by stains and torn paper, it carries the tone of confession and warning. She catalogs the rules she discovers, rules that her family had hidden behind silence. The orchard must be fed. Each generation has answered its call. Some offered animals. Others offered their own kin. Li Mei finds records of names crossed from old tally books. She begins to feel the pressure of that count in her own marrow.Her body changes as she writes. Seeds wedge between her teeth. Her saliva thickens to pulp. The scent of iron lingers on her fingers no matter how often she scrubs them. She tastes sweetness that does not come from fruit. Shadows stretch across her pages. She records them anyway, refusing to let her words be swallowed without trace.Relatives vanish into the trees. Cousins stop returning her letters. The orchard shifts its ground and closes its paths behind her. At night she hears her mother's voice in the rafters, whispering rules that are older than prayer. Her resistance falters. She writes faster, as if speed might save her. Yet each line sinks deeper into the orchard's pull, until it is unclear if she is author or scribe, victim or accomplice.This book presents her words as they were left, with stains intact and questions unresolved. To read them is to step into her silence, to walk the rows she describes, and to feel the orchard's reach press against your own skin.Enter at your risk. The orchard has always claimed those who listen too closely. The page itself may be its newest root.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Every four seconds, the dead breathe.At an isolated barangay hall in the Philippine uplands, Sergeant Antonio Dumlao and his squad are sent to perform the simplest, ugliest task in war: recover bodies, log them, move on. But the ravine below the outpost does not keep the dead. Heat films the skin like resin. Blades go soft against flesh. Flies refuse to land. And when a prayer is whispered on a four-count, the corpses answer in time.What begins as procedure (notes, temperatures, range cards) slides into a siege measured by breath. Radios speak with no power. Nails sink themselves deeper into wood. Salt breaks a rhythm for a heartbeat and then fails. The battalion says hold position. Faith says pray. The count says obey.Dumlao fights to keep his men inside the only things that still feel solid: doctrine, language, the logbook's square handwriting. Valencia, young and stubborn, wants the truth on paper. Fadriquela, a medic with shaking hands, will risk anything to miss the beat that has taken root in his chest. Nicasio, who knows the old rites, hears something inside the cadence calling itself mercy. And Corporal Todio, mouthy, loyal, and running out of jokes, decides the only order left to him is how to go.The phenomenon spreads like a song you cannot stop humming. The outpost itself begins to breathe; walls flex, floorboards seal, windows turn to wood. Cadence infects machines, prayers, and men. Every ritual, whether military or holy, becomes a door. To step through, you have to count.When the fog finally swallows the field, the enemy that advances looks unnervingly familiar: formations drilled to Dumlao's voice, uniforms he signed off as KIA, weapons lifted by hands that move on someone else's inhale. Is it contagion, faith, physics, or command itself wearing a new face The only instruction that comes through clean is the oldest: hold the line.Told in crackling, field-report prose that keeps tightening around the throat, HOLD POSITION fuses supernatural horror and military realism into a terrifying study of obedience. The novel moves like a metronome, shifting from four seconds to six, until breath, prayer, and trigger squeeze are indistinguishable. It is about the orders we believe, the rituals we inherit, and the moment a soldier realizes the thing giving commands might be listening from the other side of the radio.Fans of Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation, Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, and the dread-driven precision of A24 horror will find a new obsession here. Once the cadence catches you, you will not read; you will march.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Orchard That Eats Its Own is not a simple tale of haunted ground. It is a record of inheritance, written by a woman who never meant to become part of the story she was trying to preserve. What begins as a return to family land in rural Malaysia becomes a descent into the oldest form of debt, one measured not in money but in blood.Li Mei Tan inherits her mother's orchard after the funeral rites have ended and the mourners have scattered. To outsiders, the orchard looks like any other. Rows of trees heavy with fruit, a small house worn by rain, and the steady rhythm of harvests that shape the seasons. Yet those who grew up within its reach know better. They speak of trees that lean closer than they should, of storms that turn up bones from soil that refuses to stay settled, of voices that call from the rows long after night has fallen. Li Mei tells herself these are only memories of childhood fears. She is wrong.The manuscript that follows is her testimony. Written in bursts, interrupted by stains and torn paper, it carries the tone of confession and warning. She catalogs the rules she discovers, rules that her family had hidden behind silence. The orchard must be fed. Each generation has answered its call. Some offered animals. Others offered their own kin. Li Mei finds records of names crossed from old tally books. She begins to feel the pressure of that count in her own marrow.Her body changes as she writes. Seeds wedge between her teeth. Her saliva thickens to pulp. The scent of iron lingers on her fingers no matter how often she scrubs them. She tastes sweetness that does not come from fruit. Shadows stretch across her pages. She records them anyway, refusing to let her words be swallowed without trace.Relatives vanish into the trees. Cousins stop returning her letters. The orchard shifts its ground and closes its paths behind her. At night she hears her mother's voice in the rafters, whispering rules that are older than prayer. Her resistance falters. She writes faster, as if speed might save her. Yet each line sinks deeper into the orchard's pull, until it is unclear if she is author or scribe, victim or accomplice.This book presents her words as they were left, with stains intact and questions unresolved. To read them is to step into her silence, to walk the rows she describes, and to feel the orchard's reach press against your own skin.Enter at your risk. The orchard has always claimed those who listen too closely. The page itself may be its newest root.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Every four seconds, the dead breathe.At an isolated barangay hall in the Philippine uplands, Sergeant Antonio Dumlao and his squad are sent to perform the simplest, ugliest task in war: recover bodies, log them, move on. But the ravine below the outpost does not keep the dead. Heat films the skin like resin. Blades go soft against flesh. Flies refuse to land. And when a prayer is whispered on a four-count, the corpses answer in time.What begins as procedure (notes, temperatures, range cards) slides into a siege measured by breath. Radios speak with no power. Nails sink themselves deeper into wood. Salt breaks a rhythm for a heartbeat and then fails. The battalion says hold position. Faith says pray. The count says obey.Dumlao fights to keep his men inside the only things that still feel solid: doctrine, language, the logbook's square handwriting. Valencia, young and stubborn, wants the truth on paper. Fadriquela, a medic with shaking hands, will risk anything to miss the beat that has taken root in his chest. Nicasio, who knows the old rites, hears something inside the cadence calling itself mercy. And Corporal Todio, mouthy, loyal, and running out of jokes, decides the only order left to him is how to go.The phenomenon spreads like a song you cannot stop humming. The outpost itself begins to breathe; walls flex, floorboards seal, windows turn to wood. Cadence infects machines, prayers, and men. Every ritual, whether military or holy, becomes a door. To step through, you have to count.When the fog finally swallows the field, the enemy that advances looks unnervingly familiar: formations drilled to Dumlao's voice, uniforms he signed off as KIA, weapons lifted by hands that move on someone else's inhale. Is it contagion, faith, physics, or command itself wearing a new face The only instruction that comes through clean is the oldest: hold the line.Told in crackling, field-report prose that keeps tightening around the throat, HOLD POSITION fuses supernatural horror and military realism into a terrifying study of obedience. The novel moves like a metronome, shifting from four seconds to six, until breath, prayer, and trigger squeeze are indistinguishable. It is about the orders we believe, the rituals we inherit, and the moment a soldier realizes the thing giving commands might be listening from the other side of the radio.Fans of Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation, Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, and the dread-driven precision of A24 horror will find a new obsession here. Once the cadence catches you, you will not read; you will march.…