Free ebooks novels by Francis X. Kroncke
The Bodywanderer
Luke, once Friar Alfred, leaves the monastic order of "The Brooders," whose communal dreaming maintains the mythic structure of reality. His task was to dream Genesis, but something eerie that makes him shudder drives him away. It's the 1960s and he is Black Ops in Vietnam; trained as an assassin. Three women: Rian, Sunflower and Laura upend his sexual identity and understanding of the feminine both mythically and intimately. Driven as he is, he joins raids on draft boards and is arrested. Instead of prison he is sent back to Nam to assassinate the country's Cardinal, who is himself a Brooder. Unless the Cardinal dies, the war will not end! Luke ends up in Southern California where he meets Laura, a highly skilled massage therapists who can read his life as she wanders his body—a bodywanderer! Attraction and repulsion are the rhythm to their struggle to become lovers, but together they begin to dream as beloveds and so counter the twisted male dreams of the monastic Brooders. Luke and Laura make present a mythic story—one that counters the biblical Adam and Eve story—that enables them to discover a deeply sensual and intimate embrace through which they become one.
Beloveds
Nick and Karen, two small town Minnesota kids, meet during a college visit to San Diego State. He is a star athlete. She a budding Mesoamerican archaeology student. As he rises to fame, she struggles with the sexual and spiritual implications of the polytheistic Aztec mythology which has numerous, both wondrous and fearsome, female deities. She flees back to Minnesota. After plundering the sexual benefits of being a collegiate hero, he returns and they marry. She promotes a rigid, biblically fundamentalist story about the divinity of male dominion. As a woman, it is her role to enable Nick to exercise dominion. Just as she starts to abandon this notion, she dies in a car accident. Nick is forlorn; a dysfunctional father for their twin children. He sends them off to college in California, and, unknown as to her relationship with Karen, he develops a relationship with Nona, her therapist. Nona intends to heal Karen by helping Nick develop and embrace the mythic sexuality story Karen was developing for to move beyond dominion. Nona gets intimately involved with Nick and they move forward on this deeply sensual and erotically challenging journey. They discover themselves as making present the creative force of numinous intimacy which is the Love that is source for all living, now and for eternity. Their journey challenges the understandings and models of love, intimacy, marriage, relationship—the whole Western, biblical spiritual/sexual mythic story. They begin to live and love within a vision wherein males and females make themselves present as Beloveds—lovers embraced in an eternal, numinous intimacy.
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