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Twin Tales: Three Kingdoms

Twin Tales: Three Kingdoms

Stokes, Graham D.

Paperback

FantasyGeneral Fiction

ISBN13: 9798951784438
Publisher: Graham D. Stokes
Published: Jul 31 2026
Pages: 56
Weight: 0.14
Height: 0.12 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Two halves of something broken - a family, a city, a civilization - and what happens when they finally find each other again.

Twin Tales follows Hermann and Giselle, twins separated at birth and raised on opposite sides of the world. Hermann grew up in Berlin, becoming a celebrated architect. Giselle built a career in medical diagnostics in Buenos Aires. When they reunite in Berlin in 2001, they bring with them something extraordinary: each holds one half of a brick from the fallen Berlin Wall. When the two pieces are brought together, the brick glows with a ruddy golden pulse - and neither twin can explain why.

Over five luminous days in Berlin, the twins explore a city reborn from division, trace their hidden ancestry through Operation Paperclip and Cold War nuclear science, debate consciousness, holographic reality, near-death experiences, and the official narratives of human history they were both taught to accept without question. And the brick keeps glowing - as if reunion itself releases light.

Three Kingdoms, the book's companion allegory, takes these same themes into the realm of parable - a story of East versus West, weaponized gifts, underground civilizations, spirit beings, and the question of whether surface humanity can choose peace before it is too late.

Together, these two stories form a quietly remarkable book - warm, curious, intellectually alive, and dedicated to the memory of a beloved wife whose presence runs through every page.

I hope this book will lift the reader to take a less monocled view of societal norms and assist in self-expression. - Graham D. Stokes

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