Soup Of The Moment

<p><strong>The award-winning novel BARSK contains a bedtime story a legend of the Fant who flew. Now read the story that gave rise to the legend...</strong></p><p> </p><p> The soup of the moment can transform a life says Granny Rosie. </p><p><br></p><p>Young scientist Pholo is trying to transform the life of all the inhabitants of Barsk creating a wearable device to harness the power of their world's stormy atmosphere and use it to fly. </p><p><br></p><p>Pholo's lovers - poet Bindle and physician Gavi - worry for her safety. Her grandmother offers her the family soup business if Pholo will just put all this science foolishness aside. And her therapist warns that Pholo's obsession with flight is blinding her to the importance of the people in her life who truly love her.</p><p><br></p><p>How can Pholo balance her dreams with demands of family? </p><p>Can she master the dangers of her experimental technology and the turbulent skies? </p><p>Will she fly? </p><p>And how will her own life be transformed?</p><p><br></p><p>Come to Barsk a wet and stormy world populated with the anthropomorphic descendants of elephants uplifted by a long-vanished humanity. This novella is a prequel to Lawrence M. Schoen's bestselling novels <em>Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard</em> and <em>The Moons of Barsk</em>.</p>