Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Saturday, April 7, 2012
list of novels I am writing
1. Then in Rome
2. A Dark Love
3. Axelia
4. Faiere Tale
5. Fayola
6. Eastern Adventures
7. Journeys to the New World
8. A search for God
9. Mermaid Sisters
10 The Memoirs of Helen of Troy
11.Eastern Queen
12. Alexander and Candace
13. Venus and Mars
14 Leila
15 Blanche Schmit
16 Sinful Tunisian adventures
17 Tainted Love
18. Songs of the Sea
19. Land Baby
Friday, April 6, 2012
After I die
After I die
I want my spirit to ride with the waves
Swim with the dolphins
Swim as fast as the speed of light
I want flow with the wind
Feeling the cool breeze on me
I want dance in the rain
The cold icy rain
After I die
I want to clip
My wings
Fly away with the doves
Reach high into the sun
Riding, flying
Into the heavens
Where I meet God
After I die
I want to ride the clouds
The fluffy clouds
Feel the thunderstorms
Sing in the snow
And smile
I finally made it
This is what heaven is
After I die while I am riding the waves
My spirit is called to a ceremony
Where my love ones
Gives my ashes to my dear friend the lovely wind
And she calls to me and blow beautifully together
Yeah after I die
I can be finally free
To roam the universe.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Escape in Love
Escape in Love
A Romance/Historical Fiction
By
O’Nika Barnette
Escape in Love
By O’Nika Barnette
Part One
1651
It was a cool night on November 17th 1651 and European ships were making their way off the coast of island Hewanorra, (meaning "Island of the Iguanas) which is present day Saint Lucia. The people who lived on the island had seen this and were on the guard in trees and surrounded the fort and beach in the place which became the town of Vieux –Fort (old fort). Those settlers dealt with European explorers before and these encounters always led to disaster. The guards went to their chief Anacona wife of their decease chief to notify her
Some years ago some European explorers Dutch, English and French settled on the island but were forcing the Caribs of their own land and the Caribs forced those settlers off the island with only a few French and English men who were captured by the Amerindians and those men had to teach the Indians their native languages. So they Amerindian “nobility” if that’s the correct word of saying knew English and French and European learning.
Meanwhile on the French ship called Marie. Philip de Orleans Duke of Brittany was scouting the island from the ship, though it was nightfall he thought from what he could see that the island was beautiful and would make a good colony for France. The Marie was home for 300 men including priests, scholars and soldiers and they were beginning to get restless and wanted to make land fall right away but Philip wanted to wait until morning because they don’t know what lies ahead. Queen Anacona sent some of the Carib guards back to the Old Dutch fort to see when the pale men will enter the island.
Anacona could not sleep during the night for she heard about the white man’s interactions with other Caribs on the other islands and what her husband experience at their hands. She was afraid of what they may do her and her people. Anacona was happy for the few Europeans her husband and his men were able to capture they were valuable resources for she learnt English and French and the ways of their people. She would get no sleep this night without knowing what the explorers had in mind.
November 18th
Philip and his men of 300 anchored the ship and approached the island on what is now called Sandy Beach, Anacona was waiting with guards surrounding her who had clubs and bows and arrows for weapons. When the foreigners saw the Indians they couldn’t believe the great beauty they had seen. These pale men had heard of the great beauty of the Amerindians but thought it was myth. Philip especially could not keep his eyes off Anacona who didn’t know at the time was the leader.
The Caribs were a gorgeous people medium to short in height, long black hair to their feet and had slender bodies to show they were a fit race but something about Anacona keep Philip looking at her it wasn’t the fact she was naked because all the Indians were without clothing. Something about her made her outshine they rest of these uncivilized people. Anacona approached the men not knowing whether they were French or English she decided to speak to them in English
“Good morning and I would have said it’s pleasure to have you on Hewanorra but my people and I have experience your people’s greed and cruelty.”
Philip was impressed with this and he replied “I’m Philip de Orleans duc of Brittany and my people have no quarrel with you. We want to trade with you.” many of the men with Philip knew that’s was not the reason they came. The real reason was to colonize the island but they were going with Philip’s game.
Anacona was somehow readily attracted to this European beyond her good sense although she sense something bad from Philip’s men replied “you are welcome to stay for however long you want. Please follow me to my village”. Philip and his men follow her to the Carib village. The village was very different than from anything they had seen in Europe. There were mud huts, naked women, children and men and crops and vegetation they had never seen. The men were fascinated but Philip seemed enchanted with this great Amerindian queen, he vowed to have her in his bed and to make her his wife. The Caribs then brought the men into their huts and feed them. Philip decided to go to Anancona’s hut. Her hut was bigger than the other huts in the village but it was made the same, when he arrived there, male Indians who weren’t to please with a man in a woman’s hut were there guarded her. Philip then saw her sitting on the mud ground eating cassava and so he decided to make conversation with her.
“How did you know how to speak English” he said with his French accent
She replied “we have slaves who are English and from another land they called France and since you sound similar to them then you must be from that country.”
But you spoke to me in English he said
That’s because I thought you were English.”
Why are you on Hewanorra really? She asked
I’m here to trade” he answered
“I don’t believe you!” Spat out anaconda
I know your kind you pretend to want to trade with us and exchange ideas but in the end what you really want is to destroy us she said.
Look all we want we really wanted to trade with you Philip said knowing it was not the truth.
Anaconda found herself very attracted to Philip , his dark blond hair, his grey eyes his accent everything about was different but she could not allowed herself to fall for a lying European she knew he was lying ,she could see it. So she decided suddenly that she was going to keep him captured but again decided against it. Philip’s attraction of this barbaric queen was growing he did not know why but it was becoming stronger.
Well my queen what can I do to prove that France is not her to destroy your people?
You can stay on this island only with you promise to only trade and exchange ideas. She said
Then it’s agreed he replied in a sly way.
So as the days, weeks and months went the French men and the Amerindians began to slowly coexist. The English and the French slaves were set free and joined the band of 300 settlers.
The Caribs taught the men how to grow cassava, corn and other crops common to the indigenous peoples. The Europeans in returned built a church, taught the men how to read and write, about horses which they bought on the ships. They didn’t teach them about the weapons which they planned to use if the Caribs did not subject to them.
Anaconda and Philip who were the leaders were growing closer as time went by .Anaconda came to trust him and he came to rethink this plan of conquest she really amaze him. “You know you never told me your name he said as they walked the beach”
It’s Anacona she said
Do they always follow you? He asked pointed to the naked Caribs
“Yes they do I’m a queen by accident , Caribs do not allow their women to be chiefs I’m a Arawak my husband got in a raid in a huge island north of here. When he died I became queen because his son by his first wife is still a child so I’m chief in his place. That ‘s why they are following me.”
Why don’t we lose them he says he takes her hand and they run as far away from the beach as possible with the Indians following them? Suddenly they reach a river.
Good God we lost them” he said panting. Now my dear queen he said as he sat on a rock “please sit with me and tell me more about your people.”
“I think we better go back for our disappearance might cause trouble between our people” she whispered frightened
No he then pulls her closer. Anacona will it frighten you if I said I was attracted to since I saw you on the beach that first day. He then comes closer to her and kisses her. Anaconda did not know what to make of this. She enjoyed him kissing her, she was attracted to him but it was not her culture to fall in love. Questions were beginning to swirl in her mind what if her people found out? What happens if his men found out? As she continues to spend time with Philip she liked him more and was beginning to fall in love.
Anaconda wasn’t the only as they were kissing that was thinking Philip was seriously falling for this barbaric queen he was going to take her back to France and make her his duchess but would she accept and what people in France would think.
Then kissing turned into touching and caressing until Anacona stopped and said we can’t
Then they stopped touching and caressing both knowing they couldn’t get any further.
Philip knew in his mind it was like the forbidden fruit in the Eden of eve but he wanted her and he knew she wanted him. He just had to wait when he goes back to France in a few weeks his make preparations to marry her. He was going to marry and no one was stopping him.
Anaconda couldn’t believe what she had done she hoped that she had not angered the gods but she loved this man and couldn’t help it. She knew he was different from the other white settlers, she also knew if he planned a conquest he was rethinking because of her. But right now her mind was on getting back to the village.
“I think we must go now back before trouble starts she said smiling.
“Trouble would not start not if I can help it” replied Philip
They then walked to the village together and finally reach it was obvious there was worried among the French and Caribs. Father Dubois a priest said to Philip Your Excellency we were beginning to worry for you.
You worry too much priest. And he walked to the hut that was built for him by the Indians.
Weeks passed and as the settlers were getting more restless and bored from farming , hunting and fishing, Anacona and Philip grew closer they spent any time they had together.
She showed him how to make pottery of clay, how to paint his body and how to grow the local food to take back to Europe. She told of the Carib and Arawak legends and stories and he told everything he knew about Europe and particular France he left out the bad for he wanted to marry her and take her to Brittany Anacona even took him near the volcano and the sulphur springs which took about a day’s walk. The village was left to its own devices.
As she walked near it they smelled something like what we today called a smell of rotten egg
“Anacona why are you taking me to this miserable place” he asked
Because I want to show what my people believe
As they near the springs Philip could see the water was boiling because the water was sending out bubbles.
My people believed that this spring is a god and has some violent powers but the French men who we had for slaves says it has healing powers and is safe to bathe in.” she said
I hear you but why are we here”? He asked
To bathe in it she said and she jumped into the hot springs.
So you want me to jump in with you?
Yes I do
In their absence the French men were causing trouble, they were restless they were tired of the hard work for they were not use to it. The French using their weapons, guns, swords and knives threatened to kill the Caribs and the priests after all these weeks failing to convert them called for their execution or to be enslaved but the Caribs resisted and fighting broke out.
At the springs Philip who was still not in the water wanted Anacona out of the springs. Anacona came out of water and pulled Philip into the springs with clothes on and everything.
He wasn’t too happy about it “let me guess since you brought into boiling water it’s part of your culture” but she didn’t answer she just kissed him passionately. He could feel her heart was racing and his heart was racing. He lifted her up from the water and walks into the grass and kisses her back. The kissing led to one thing to the next. And before they knew it they were making passionate love. Their attraction and love was too strong to resist and they didn’t care anymore if anyone found them they just wanted each other. Philip was really going to marry her he had decided after their night he was going to ask her to come with to France. They spent the entire night making love.
The next day they embarked on their trip back to the village with Anacona going back to France with Philip. He decided he was not going to marry her right away; he needed for her to get accustomed to the country. They walked hand in hand not knowing there was trouble.
When they arrived they realize the Carib Indians were gone only a few women were left and told Anacona the story of how the settlers killed and slaughtered the men while others fled to the hills or to the nearby island. Only the European settlers were there. Philip was angered
How could you do this he yelled?
Father Dubois then came up and said Your Excellency they are uncivilized they must be destroy
And who gave you the right priest he said to the priest
Then a group of men came behind Anacona holding weapons around her ready to kill her. Then one of them came up to him and said “we are leaving this prison or she dies”
Philip then answers “she comes with us”
Then the priest replied “do you think a haven is going to be accepted in France, she will not come with us and if you bring her I’ll see to it that she is executed and I know you don’t want her blood on your hands.
One man then came up closer to the queen and held a knife to her throat and said what is going to be her life or we get out of here today.
Philip realizing he had no choice but leave his love said defiantly we’ll leave today.
The men then left to board the ships with everything they had while Philip stayed behind to say goodbye to Anacona
He said to her “I’ll come back for you just wait for me”
Anacona with tears in her eyes replied I’ll wait just please go so you can come back for me soon” and she then kisses him
Philip leaves to go to the ship and boards it, with sadness and regret. They left at as nightfall began to approach. Philip looking and staring at Anacona until he could see her no more vowed to himself that he’ll come back for her if it’s the last thing he does.
Anacona was on the beach looking on and crying and wishing she could be with her love.
Her people almost destroyed and her love gone she felt so defeated and wish the spirits would take care but then she remembered Philip promise to come back and that’s the hope she had.
She’ll wait him no matter how long it took.
End of Part One
Faeire Tale
This is one of my novels I am working on
Faeirie Tale A novel
Faeirie
Chapter One
It was the most atrocious moment in her life; Twinkle was flabbergasted by the turn of events. Her father whom she loved and admired was forcing her into the bondages of marriages with the foul goblin for the survival of the Kingdom.
Her father always said he loved her the most that he would lay his own life down for her. She was only seventeen; she was far too young to be prepared to lift such heavy burdens that accompanied marriage like the ticks to a rabid wolf.
She wished beyond all else to go to the human world and to the mer world. She refused, completely refused to wed the ugly creature. Nor did she wish to marry her other suitor her father had in his fogged up mind, the King of the Rats.
Not only was she rushed to a phase of her life she was utterly unprepared for; her only two options were a foul goblin and a disease-infected rat. No way in hell would she marry any of them, even if it meant the downfall of faerie.
She had trust in her father, he had hurt her with his decision but she thought it was possible to reason with her father, the new Galaxy King of faerie. He was as wise and just a king as he was a father.
But he always placed the Kingdom above all, apparently even above his own daughter. He was willing to give away his daughter to the King of the rats or the goblin commander, what danger could faerie be in to drive her father to such extremes.
Her father sat on his rose petal throne. Busy as usual issuing orders to his many servants, all while keeping a form of calmness and authority. The doors blew wide open with the ferocity of a thousand storms. Not even leaving time for her father to dismiss his servants she yelled angrily at him, “ Father! I am not marrying that filth of a Black Rat or the hideous goblin commander!”
Servants in the chamber flinched at her pure anger, emanating from her entire body like lava bursting from a volcano. However her father turned to her with a diplomatic face and responded as calmly as the gentlest wind to the fiery rage of his daughter, “Twinkle darling, be reasonable. It is for the best interest of Faerie, do you truly believe it pleases me to give away my daughter, my beautiful daughter, to marry any of them.”
He walked down and put his hand on her shoulder in a manner meant to sooth her and said more sympathetically, “I do not, it is the last thing I want. But the survival of Faerie is on its knees, its head on the execution block. With but a command we can either be spared or be terminated.”
Twinkle refused to listen, she retorted selfishly, “ I don’t give a damn if its for the welfare of Faerie or for a piece of Kaya fruit, I shall not marry anyone by force!”
She turned around, ignoring the protestation of her father and marched thunderously out of the chamber. Her footsteps echoed like boulders rolling down a cliff. As she slammed the doors shut they quavered off its hinges, falling to the ground with a loud clang.
It was decided, she was to run away from her childhood, for she could not for a second imagine herself married to a rodent or that atrocious looking whom she could best describe as ugly.
She definitely did not wish to produce rat children, the mere contemplation of such a freakish act of nature sent shivers down her spine, like cold water splashed over her body.
With each step she became more determined to leave, as though each fall of her footsteps hammered the idea deeper and deeper in her mind until it could no longer be pried easily. She was walking to her bedchambers when she met her younger sister Starlight.
Although starlight was younger than twinkle she was very wise and patient and when her sister told her what her father had done, Starlight being full of wisdom knew that her land was in danger if Twinkle did not chose between the goblin commander or the king of the black rats. These leaders were not to be toyed for. Starlight had to convince her sister to chose for the betterment of Faerie. Twinkle was fuming she could not believe what her father was telling her to do, she would not be told what to do not even by her father, oh wish her mother was here but her mother had disappeared some years ago to go to the Human world, no one knew where Leila was and who or what she was with. Twinkle knew her mother would try to convince her father not to marry her off. Twinkle became sad of the thoughts of her mother and broke down in the corner of the palace where she had met her sister, and sobbed for her mother.
Starlight seeing this realized that as much as she loved her sister, saw her sister was weak and would not do want is best for their land, starlight knew right at this moment that she had to talk some sense into her older sister and went and sat close to the sobbing Twinkle, she gently patted her own the back and said “twinkle you need to do what’s best for people and our land , this isn’t about us” she told her sister gently.
Twinkle could not believe what she heard her sister say, she got up her face all puffed from crying and glowing red from rage for her younger sister and screamed at her “ YOU want me to chose between those filthy things that our father has as suitors for me!” she was really mad. Her rage was boiling.starlight then stood up and calmly said you have to do what’s best for the kingdom you are the heir apparent, you have to put the kingdom first and stop for once thinking about yourself”
Twinkle’s rage had reach a boiling point and she was furious, twinkle slapped her sister so hard that you could see the hand print and all starlight did was stare at her sister and couldn’t believe twinkle did this to her.Twinkle then began to scream again at her “ HOW DARE YOU!, you and father are out of your minds if the two of you think I am marrying anyone. I am definetly leaving this place” and twinkle ran out of the palace and starlight began to chase after her screaming her name Twinkle but the older was to fast and twinkle disappeared from the castle went wondering out of Faeire. Starlight decided to get her father to send a rescue team for her sister before her sister disappears into the human world but she was too late Twinkle had entered the realm of humans. Twinkle ran as fast away from her land as she could until she could see the land of her fathers anymore and realized she was in a human garden and she was in a sunflower in which a pretty young girl name Hayely picked up the flower to smell.
Hayely was the sister of the younger of Prince Michael of
Austroceanica, Starlight wanted to get out of the flower before Hayely saw her because knew young children has a special powers to see magical beings and creatures but the pollen was getting to her and she sneeze herself out of her the flower and as she was thinking that maybe Hayely did not see or hear her as she fell to the ground the little human hand picked Twinkle and looked at her in awe.
“ you are a fairy! Said the excited Hayley
“ yes I am but please don’t tell anyone” said twinkle smiling at the excitement in the little girls voice.
“ you are a real fairy but you not in fairy land ? I have lost tooth but the tooth fairy already brought some thing. Are you another tooth fairy?”
“no I am not I am the princess of all the fairies” twinkle said proudly
Then a handsome young human man who happened to be Prince Michael called out to Hayely. Hayely come into the palace ! called the prince.
“that’s my brother , I’ll put into my pocket and twinkle was placed into Hayely’s pocket and the little run into her brother’s palace.
Meanwhile in the land of the fairies , goblin commander and the rat king were not too please of what twinkle did, they demanded the kingdom to divided between them since the princess had run off but starlight and her father ask them to give them three weeks to find twinkle and surprisely they agreed and King Galaxy sent some fairies to find Twinkle , he sent Starlight with them. Though they had no idea where to start to look for twinkle, this fairy princess had no idea the position to placed her family in. they could lose everything because of her selfishness and lack of consideration and starlight was not going to let that happen , she was going to find her sister , if it meant she search the globe for her, her father had put every creature on alert for her sister, the mer people promised to keep an eye on the oceans and seas, so did the were wolves and vampires also said they would look during the nights, every magical creature were on their toes because if the fairies were in danger that also meant everyone them were in danger of losing their kingdoms.
Danger was on its way for twinkle she was going to marry someone whether it was the rat king or the goblin commander or someone who could stop them both. She was really going to marry someone even though she didn’t want to. Her sister and father going get want.
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chapter two
Prince Michael
Michael thought Hayely was acting strange ever since he called her from the garden. Michael loved his eight year old sister but she had a wild imagination, once she claimed while they and their father and his stepmother Hayely’s mother Queen Leila were on the beach she claimed she saw mermaids and when she lost her tooth she said she saw the tooth fairy who left her a beautiful diamond necklace, no one knew where the little girl got the necklace from and Hayely claimed the tooth fairy gave to her. “Oh well” Michael to himself. The king and queen were out of town and Michael was babysitting instead of playing cricket and football with his mates and spending time with his girlfriend Lady Aurora. Michael decided to take Hayely to the beach to get her out of the palace. He walked towards her room when heard voices in Hayely’s room, the little girl was talking to Twinkle but Michael did not know that. Michael did not know that Hayely had friends over and the servants did not say anyone was there.
Prince Michael wanted to know who his sister was talking if she was talking to anyone. He slowly sneaked into her room without her seeing him and saw his little sister on her bed talking to herself and he decided let himself known. “Hayely who were you talking to” he said with concern. Hayely being a naïve , innocent little girl was still so excited and though she had promise Twinkle who was laying on the bed not to say anything she could not restrain herself and told her brother “ I was talking to Twinkle “ she said happily. Now twenty four year old Michael was concern very worried he must tell his father and Hayely’s mother when they got back today. “ Hayely who is this Twinkle?” he said worrily. And Hayely look into her big brother’s face and saw her very concern face. “Michael what’s wrong?” she asked. Michael not sure what to say about this Twinkle imaginary friend replied “Nothing ‘s wrong Hayely, so tell me who is this Twinkle person?”
“ she’s a fairy! In fact she’s a fairy princess! She said. Twinkle couldn’t help but laugh at the little girl. She giggled so much that she fell of the bed. “ Hayely fairies do not exist “ Michael said. Yes they do
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