DarkNeology

  The events described here take place approximately three years before the prologue of Dark Neology – Dante’s Gray Pages , of which David’s Legacy is a spin-off. Enjoy your reading. It had been over three years since that old highway was last used for any practical purpose, the O ld John  was once regarded as the pride of a route where billions in merchandise flowed every month. Heavy cargo now traveled through underground routes, light packages arrived by drone, and people rarely left the hyper-urban conglomerates. But on that sweltering summer morning, just as the first rays of sunlight pierced the trees, a slender young man walked alone down the road. His mud-caked boots dragged dry forest leaves in his wake, and his faded jeans were soaked up to the shins. Slung over his shoulder, an old backpack held nothing but a handful of dreams and on his face, the bright gaze of someone who, living far from the cities, had not yet been broken. The young man, with his long twi...

  A Literary Sense.  When immersing yourself in a work of fiction, how much information do you actually perceive in the text as you read? I would humbly say that most people absorb very little beyond the surface descriptions. This is a result of how people have grown accustomed to consuming literary content shallowly, or more accurately, ignoring it altogether in favor of easily diluted entertainment. A habit that emerged alongside the rise of the internet. Minds are constantly focused on short, fleeting texts. Writing is art, a byproduct of the human element, a reflection of someone’s life. The writer poured their soul into it, becoming a catalyst for an entire world—the era, the feelings, the essence—and delivered all of that into your hands. Do you understand its value? Your duty as a reader is to grow in order to meet it, to experience the content in its entirety, not the other way around. The danger of taking the opposite path is severe, grotesque, stomach-churning. Once ...