The Summer Before the Ascent — Chapter One, The First Kingdom Written by Dennis Harvell Chapter One | The Kingdom Before the empire, before the decades of mastery, before the name carried weight, there was a room. Not a grand hall, not a studio, not a gallery — just a modest space where the world handed him a task that seemed small, forgettable, routine. But this young man — the one forged in the heat of that 80s summer — didn’t see “routine.”

The First Kingdom — Chapter 1 of a 19‑part memoir about the season that reshaped my life from the inside out.

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Hey, fellow travelers!

I wrote my very first short fanfic today and I'm super proud of it. You can check it out on my Substack!
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I almost didn't continue. I couldn't. The echoes of my past were left to scream in my ears at too high a volume for so long.
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Book cover for Launching into the Unknown, The Beautiful and Bewildering World of the Sudanese by Leoma Gilley

Launching into the Unknown is the first of my memoir series, Not How I Planned It. So far, readers like the humor and honesty expressed. I hope you will enjoy it too.
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