Why Read The Elovian Fables?
I’m glad you’re here.
Why someone in their right mind would want to read a disconnected narrative about a solar-system that is slowly itching to its inevitable end is beyond me.
I guess the question is, why would someone want to write about it?
Elovian Fables, on its bare naked face, is a story that refuses to progress linearly. It is a collection of fables that have already been told and retold countless times across the galaxies. Every story is supposed to have a pool of central characters, a pool of central events, and an order in which these events occurred. Elovian Fables refuses to be bound by those constraints.
Then again, I am overrating the fables. They are not all that different from other literature that we can access. Hardly special. They contain the same events, the same characters, the same conversations, the same emotions, the same beginning, and perhaps the same end. What they do differ in, in my opinion, is their approach to telling a story that has already been told.
These Fables are split into fourteen different tales, each intended to be a separate piece of the puzzle. To say that they are not connected would be damnable, because if there is one thing that has forced them to be together it is their interconnectedness. But they are not interconnected the way pieces of a conventional puzzle are, big and round edges and clear boundaries. They are narrower, wilder, and do not wish to gel together.
It is when the reader forces these self-aware pieces together and arranges it in the order that they are supposed to be arranged in, do they reveal the broader plot of the Elovian Fables.
Why would someone in their right mind want to read a story where they are as active a participant as the author? I do not know.
But I sure as hell would want to read something like that.
The fourteen stories presented here give the overview of the timeline and the plot. And they have been written in the fashion that they can serve as foundation on which the future series can stand. The true purpose of writing the fourteen stories was to create a world where other intricate and more personal stories can take place. I will get to those stories some day. But as of now, do enjoy these stories.
(Medium doesn’t allow sorting the articles from Earliest to Latest. Hence the stories have been sorted by Latest to Earliest. If you wish to read them in the order that they were written in, do go to the bottom of the publication and read.)
Here is the first story to get you started:
I hope you enjoy reading them.
-Alay.
