"The Changeling Chronicles" An EPIC of over 194,000 words and 383 pages or so, that may very well be Morpheus' best work.
I have just re read it for about the fourth or fifth time and it still held me spellbound for two days!
If you're into Swords and Sorcery, The Fairie, interaction between Humans and Fairie, hell if you're just a fan of a cracking great tale, you need to check this one out. The TG elements are light, but there are fights, epic battles, love and renewal, loyalty, personal growth and much more in this tale.
http://www.fictionmania.tv/stories/readtextstory.html?storyI...
I'll warn you ahead of time...if you're gonna read this one, have a supply of refreshments at hand and a comfortable place to sit for an extended amount of time. You're not gonna want to stop reading for such mundane things as sleep or work.
Again, it's "The Changeling Chronicles" by Morpheus and it's at Fictionmania if the link doesn't work for you...or if I screwed up copy/pasting it.
Thank you Morpheus, for writing and sharing this wonderful, uplifting, just great story. I seriously think you should publish IRL. It's as good or better than most of the other similar stories that are out there in bookstores.
A fan forever,
Catherine Linda Michel
Comments
Here's my review of it from 2012
Amazing!
Submitted by areader on Sat, 2012/06/30 - 8:46am
Morpheus,
I've read a lot of TG fiction and a lot of Horror-sci-fi and fantasy. This story is in the top 1% of them all. It is the perfect example of a Bildungsroman, with a little twist, a bit like The Marvelous Land of Oz, so you have historical underpinnings. However, yours is much more adult and contemporary.
I always proof as I go so now I have the "corrected version" as well (and would be happy to send it to you).
If this book were out as hardback, at Amazon, I'd happily pay $28 for a copy. It deserves to be mainstreamed. The line "It seemed that my full power merely turned me into some kind of night light" was hilarious.
I hope you have more of these sorts of books in your future. Congratulations on writing a classic.
A Reader
This was he best ever
The Changeling helped me get through the worse time of my whole life. Family was reaching the end of their life cycle. My soul mate, Jean was taken from my life by cancer. An emotional escape was needed and The Changeling provided as I left the world behind provided by Morpheus exceptional talent and skills as a writer. I lived in the story with Aeslyn and read the story again and again many times over. To Morpheus, many thanks for such an exceptional story. I lived in your story until I could finally get a hold of my own world.
Barb
Life is a gift, treasure it until it's time to return it to the one who created it.
Oklahoma born and raised cowgirl
BigCloset link
https://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/37563/changeling-chro...
Cool.
A new to me story that people are enthusiastically recommending. I look forward to reading it.
I still remember reading this as a serial
Way back, Morpheus posted a chapter of this story on their Yahoo group every 3-4 days, almost without fail, for nearly a year. It stood as their longest story for a very long time; To The Core is the only story to pass it in length, before it was split into three parts.
I still think about it sometimes, and often have to resist spending hours on yet another re-read, since I can't stop once I start.
Fictionmania
I will offer a different link for those who use the FM version.
They have two formats of HTML pages.
If you look at the index link below:
http://www.fictionmania.tv/searchdisplay/authordisplay.html?...
The story will be halfway down the page and will look like (except for having blue links):
The Changeling Chronicles ST HTML by: Morpheus (304) Details Reviews, last 08/25/18 (56)
Added: 06/25/2012 Rating: R Complete: yes File Size: 1049.2 kB Age: Teenager 13-18
Synopsis: When strange things begin happening to Shane, he soon discovers the truth about himself and this leads him into an adventure in a world of myth and legend.
Categories: Action / Adventure Bizarre Body Modifications Magical Transformations Key Words:
If you click on the title, you will get the link presented earlier, but if you click on "HTML," you will get text to html conversion files that will be formatted so that you can zoom to 3 times without sentences scrolling of the page . (this works with Firefox and Seamonkey that I have tried)
The link for the story in this format is:
http://www.fictionmania.tv/stories/readxstory.html?storyID=1...
This is of course relevant to other FM stories
I think
The Changeling Chronicles is actually my very favorite Morpheus story, and quite honestly that's saying something since I love just about everything that Morpheus writes. It's definitely worth a read for anyone who hasn't and likes a good fantasy or urban fantasy with a touch (or more) of magic.
*big hugs*
Amethyst
Don't take me too seriously. I'm just kitten around. :3