The Amazing Adventures of Gal in Fantasyland

William Whitfield

Description

This is a fictitious autobiography of fantasy.The hero faces a rocky road to follow; at all times faith and honour are at stake where he has to trust advice given to complete his quest. Not all advice is good. This book is mainly humour with an atmospherically charged feel of well-being to it. A few high jinxes here and there don't go amiss.The hero starts off thinking that he can run before he can walk; this is never so. He has to learn from scratch. As the journey goes on, he starts to realise this. There are a few surprises and laughs in store especially in the last chapter which holds more reasons why the quest has to be completed.

Sujets

• Fantasy (canción de Mariah Carey)
• Fantasy

Informations

• Publié par: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Date de parution: 31 mars 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781528970815
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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The Amazing Adventures of Gal in Fantasyland
William Whitfield
Austin Macauley Publishers
2020-03-31
The Amazing Adventures of Gal in Fantasyland About the Author Dedication Copyright Information © Acknowledgment An Introduction to the Introduction Chapter 1 A Chapter Introducing You to Gal Chapter 2 1969, New Year’s Eve, a Birthday and a Lucky Find Chapter 3 A Strange Adventure Begins and Some Rafting Chapter 4 Fountains, a Pesky Sheep, Now it’s Hotel-Rejection Time Chapter 5 A Bad Knight, Then Getting Washed out to Sea Chapter 6 A Mountain Walk, Treasure and Luxton Fete Chapter 7 Dealing with a Dragon and a Visit to Casino City Chapter 8 A Huge Sandcastle, an Arrest with a Court Appearance Chapter 9 A Lovely Garden and a Walk in the Forest of Enchantment Chapter 10 In the Wilderness, a Vision, a Welcome Surprise Awaits Chapter 11 Some Good Advice, Gifts and a Circus Chapter 12 Lost in a Desert, Sky Pirates and a Crazy Car Chase Chapter 13 A Big Clean-Up of a Mansion and Town Chapter 14 An Invisible Time Begins and Back to Visibility Chapter 15 A Sombre Time Where New Adventures Chapter 16 A Bad Sheriff, Reminiscing Gal and an Excursion Chapter 17 Oh! No, Not Court Again, a Fine Game of Pirates, Indians, Gypsies and Bi-Planes Chapter 18 At Last, Meeting the Learned Man, Leaving Twilight Beach Chapter 19 The Final Challenge Awaits Chapter 20 Going Home at Last with Some Revisits, a Huge Joke Played with a Surprise for All
About the Author
William Whitfield has enjoyed growing up in the countryside of Cheshire and Staffordshire and reflected on his remarkable journey to date and started writing over 20 years ago from his school days. This has resulted in The Legend of Gal in Fantasyland for all readers to immerse themselves in and experience for themselves… Travel to various parts of the world has inspired William, and the colours of the world can be felt through the journeys of Gal.
Dedication
To Mum and Dad, Uncle Brian and Auntie Netta.
In 1992, I said to Mum and Dad that I am writing a book, and I acknowledge this book is dedicated to all my family.
I give special thanks to John and Annie for their help with my cataracts from the recent past.
I dedicate this book to all fantasy fans who like a story with humour, suspense and surprises, with an atmospheric feeling to it.
Copyright Information ©
William Whitfield (2020)
The right of William Whitfield to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with section 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publishers.
Any person who commits any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental
A CIP catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library.
ISBN 9781528941624 (Paperback)
ISBN 9781528941631 (Hardback)
ISBN 9781528970815 (ePub e-book)
www.austinmacauley.com
First Published (2020)
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Acknowledgment
I have to thank countless people from my long, distant past right up to the present. Some friends wish to remain anonymous—thank you for your guidance and help and inspiration that you gave me in order to write this book. You have informed me that I am the only one to write this book; to get it published is another matter. I sincerely hope you enjoy reading it, thank you so much.
Here are a few words of warning and good advice. Try not to read this book in a confused state of mind or at inappropriate times. If you must, so be it. Remember, read with responsibility.
If not at some point, for some reason or other, you might get a thwack resulting in a little bit of a sore head, you have been fairly warned—it is up to you. Now let us begin and see what happens when this rollercoaster starts up.
An Introduction to the Introduction
In order to get a book published, an interesting picture on the cover tells part of a story within itself, combined with a resounding explosive title. Regardless of the name of the author, known or not, catches the eyes of potential customers, the book then has to captivate, enthral, wow, surprise and entertain the individual. An unknown author must show that the work done is worthwhile publishing.
Putting yourself as the hero will drive you onwards supporting him and you will realise that you can achieve an almost impossible task, it does not matter how long this takes, after all, Rome wasn’t built in a day. At times, the hero is a bit like the proverbial Jonah going to Nineveh.
Making the impossible become a reality takes true grit determination and faith. Put yourself on a magic flying-carpet rollercoaster, following a meandering river shimmy sparkling and dancing over the rocks giving you gentle floating lifts that charges the enthrallment. Some bits are nail-biting and tension adds to the suspense of what is going on. What does not seem relevant for the now becomes so later.
A magnetic force keeps you on the carpet so that you don’t fall off, now you can’t put the book down, for you are intrigued to find out what happens, as the story unfolds you find out. Take a trip down memory lane to nostalgia road where feel-good times are abound from fond memories.
Our hero faces a rocky road to follow, at all times, faith and honour is at stake where he must trust advice given to complete his quest, not all advice is good. This book is mainly humour with an atmospherically charged feeling of well-being to it. A few high jinks here and there don’t go amiss.
Some readers automatically visualise themselves as the hero. With some people in the book, the hero has to gain their affections before they accept him as a friend.
The hero starts off thinking that he can run before he can walk, this is never, so he has to learn from scratch, as the journey goes on, he starts to realise this. There are a few surprises and laughs in store especially in the last chapter which holds more reasons why the quest must be completed.
I believe that GOD has asked me to get this book published. HE gave me the gift of inspiration, drive and the passion for the love of creative writing, HE gave me the whole script to this to be published as is, done this way shows obedience TO GOD, trust and faith is a must IN HIM.
All I want is to honour GOD for this book by getting it published, HE has authorised this to happen. Everything in this book is relevant to what is going on, this is a fictitious autobiography. Have faith and trust me on this, I trust and believe every word OF GOD.
William Whitfield has enjoyed growing up in the countryside of Cheshire and Staffordshire, and reflected on his remarkable journey to-date and started writing over 20 years ago from his school days, and this has resulted in The Legend of Gal in Fantasyland for all readers to immerse themselves in and experience for themselves… Travel to various parts of the world has inspired William and the colours of the world can be felt through the journeys of Gal.
Chapter 1

A Chapter Introducing You to Gal
A friendly skeleton wearing a dark-red robe with the hood drawn slightly over his face, puts on the record; On a storytellers’ night then sits down on a red leather Gothic style armchair with brass lion heads on the arm ends, in front of a merrily blazing fire, for the night was icy cold. He lights up a large storytellers’ cigarette, in other words, a joint, and after a couple of breaths, he begins to tell a story.
Today is the present time where a tale is about to be told from the early 1970s. Back then, there were no plasma TV sets, or the very expensive executive toys that we now have, let alone the internet.
A thunderstorm had just started. The lights flickered on and off. A huge flash of lightning turned the house into darkness. The only light was from the fire and candles having to be lit for the storyteller to continue telling his story.
Many flashes of lightning spectacularly lit up the night sky, a little like a light show at a concert or a fireworks display, rumbles of thunder broke the silence.
At last, the storyteller opens his book and starts to narrate his story. "Hello, children, are you sitting comfortably? Good, then I shall begin. After all, we are someone’s child. Excuse me a moment. Gal is interrupting. I think he might have something to say. Whatever it is, hurry up. I have a story to tell. You are stopping me.
"No Gal, this is not the radio programme, Listen with Mother . This is the twenty-first century. I am surprised that you remember that one from all those years ago. No, this is listen to the skeleton storyteller, for I have a feel-good story for all to enjoy.
"Now, please sit quietly and behave yourself and don’t interrupt again, or else, there will be big trouble and you shall be in its deep style, not only from me but from all those present. They are looking daggers at you, thinking, do be quiet, we want a story, from now on, you are being given silence, in anticipation.
"Good evening, one and all, welcome. This evening, I have an interesting tale to tell you. Come on and gather round, sit down and put your feet up, and relax and get warm. Tonight is a perfect night for a story of fame, fortune and adventure. These adventures pass through lands where monsters might be freely roaming through them. Other lands show a friendly outlook in hospitality.
"Most of the time, lands are peaceful where he could relax and have some fun with