Introducing my new trilogy, "Tale of Twins".
THE STORY IN BRIEF
Tale of Twins is an epic American novel in three volumes—and counting—rooted in Lakota tradition, Indigenous sovereignty, and one of the most extraordinary premises in contemporary fiction: the discovery, by a Native family who belongs to the land above it, of the largest natural resource find in the recorded history of human civilization. Written under the pseudonym Joe Kidd, the series moves from the intimate emotional territory of siblings making life-defining choices to the vast geological and spiritual territory of an underground world that has been waiting, in its specific patient way, for the right people to find it.
It is a story about what it means to belong to land rather than own it. About what happens when the people who have always been displaced from the center of their own story finally stand at the center of it. About the relationship between what the earth holds and what the people above it are capable of receiving. And about the oldest question of all—one that the second book raises at its close and that will take the full length of the series to answer.
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Tale of Twins Trilogy Volume 1: Revelation - Discovery
Tale of Twins, Volume 1: Revelation – Discovery is the origin story of the Amity saga: where the prophecy of the twins meets a blizzard on I‑70, a fractured family tree, and an unthinkable discovery buried beneath the Kansas prairie. It braids five strands—prophecy, family, land, law, and science—into the moment when two men who never knew they were twins and the woman between them become the human center of a planetary‑scale discovery.
The book opens not in a courtroom or a lab, but in story. The prologue, “The Four Times Broken, The Fifth Time Chosen,” traces four generations of twins across Lakota and Diné histories: babies lost in storms, brothers separated by fear and policy, twins who walk with thunder in their blood, and a fourth generation stretched between plains and mesas. Each time, something breaks—death at the door, families splitting the twins “for their own good,” distance and divided tongues. By the time the fifth twins arrive in the modern era, the prophecy has hardened into a pattern: four times broken, the fifth time chosen. These twins will be given a chance to refuse the old fractures and walk the two paths together.
From there, the narrative jumps to a snowy Tuesday in December 2000 on I‑70 in central Kansas. A historic blizzard closes the highway near a tiny town called Homer, driving stranded travelers into Drea’s Country Stop, a converted Stuckey’s with a Cold War bunker underneath. Down in that bunker stairwell, three lives collide: Thomas Jefferson “TJ” Lakota, a left‑handed law student on his way to New Mexico; his partner Hana Chee Sani, a pregnant Diné medical student; and a right‑handed stranger coming up the stairs who looks exactly like TJ.
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Tale of Twins Volume 2 - New Beginning - Long Journey
Tale of Twins: Volume Two – New Beginning – Long Journey is the breathtaking continuation of Joe Kidd's epic American saga a novel of geological wonder, spiritual reckoning, family obligation, and the most extraordinary discovery in the history of human civilization, found by the people who always belonged to the land above it.
Five hundred meters below the Kansas plain, sealed within a cavern system that is itself the scar of an asteroid impact eight hundred miles wide, the Lakota family uncovers a world that has been waiting for them since before the human species existed.
A freshwater sea 682 miles long, 327 miles wide, nearly five miles deep at its center containing one hundred and fifty-eight times the volume of all five Great Lakes combined. Alive with microbial life that has been evolving in sealed isolation for tens of millions of years. Sitting directly below a region where the Ogallala Aquifer is failing and the communities above it are watching their future drain away one foot per year.
An oil lake of staggering proportion, its ceiling embedded with rubies and sapphires and emeralds following vein networks through obsidian rock, the gem field extending across fifty thousand square miles of underground ceiling above crude oil reserves that exceed every proven petroleum deposit on the surface of the earth.
An asteroid iron, nickel, lead, sixty-nine miles wide sitting in the center of the crater it made when it arrived. Carrying in its depths a mineral that no instrument has previously described: Wakantankium, an eighth crystal system, denser than any natural material known to science, interacting with light at the quantum level in ways that existing physics cannot account for.
And a road.
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Tale of Twins Vol 3: Mitákuye Oyás’iŋ – Sacred Hoop Restored
The book opens with a framing chapter, “The Tale of Twins Fulfilled?”, which re‑tells the five‑generation twin lineage from the earlier volumes, but now as an explicit author’s note on Lakota philosophy and the meaning of Mitákuye Oyás’iŋ.
The generational sections Red Blanket’s missing twin, the Hunt of Mirrors, Thunder in the Blood, the fourth‑generation twins stretched between Diné mesas and Lakota grasslands, and finally Thomas Jefferson Lakota and William Chee Jefferson are laid out alongside a clean five‑generation genealogy.
This sets the stakes: the Jefferson–Lakota twin pattern isn’t just family lore; it’s a structural through‑line in the work of mending the hoop broken at Wounded Knee.
TJ stands under too‑bright LEDs in Amity’s Little Theater, tasked with summarizing the city’s near‑death experience for elders, managers, union reps, and international observers. He walks them through the occupation by Vanguard and the Exile Protocol, explaining how “partnership” turned into corporate control via emergency clauses. The coup arrived as workflow dashboards, not tanks.
Tommy narrates the Cavern’s awakening. Vanguard’s disruptor drill shattered the illusion that the Wakantankium Cavern was inert; under assault, the Cavern began to “process” the harm, refining Wakantankium into the Golden Breath, a liquid capable of neutralizing pollution and stabilizing its own field.
That behavior fits the Sacred Care statute’s definition of life: “sustained, self‑organizing resonance that maintains balance within and between systems.” Legally, that means the Cavern is a Living Patient, with rights to care and representation; spiritually, it confirms what Tommy has been feeling since Volume 1.
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