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A small collection of poems about the angels or things that I find angelic.

A collection of flash fiction written from horror prompts, so a bit on the darker side.

Big House, Bigger Secrets

• The house itself is almost a character, echoing hallways, hidden corners, and silence that speaks.
• Perfect for readers who love atmospheric, slightly eerie settings.
• Emotional Themes
• Devotion vs obsession
• Secrets and their cost
• Family love under pressure
• Innocence and protection
• Mood / Atmosphere Tags
• Gothic tension
• Emotional suspense
• Subtle haunting
• Warmth mixed with unease

...the worst monsters are the ones we loveThe grisly discovery of a trailer of dead women who were kidnapped in Central America to serve as prostitutes in California leads the CIRG team of the FBI headed by Rebecca Wise to the Rostovs, a family living in one of the most affluent communities in America and the  head of the Vory, The Russian crime syndicate supported by their Federal Government that has infiltrated every aspect of life in the United States. The decision of the FBI to take down the Vory starts the most extensive operation the FBI has ever undertaken, in the center of which t...

A quiet descent into cosmic horror. When reality fractures around him, Elias is drawn toward a presence that doesn’t chase — it waits. Nyxalath is a story of identity unraveling, ancient inevitability, and the breach that finds you.Some fractures don’t appear in the world around you. They appear in you.Elias has spent years trying to outrun the quiet distortions in his life — the moments that don’t line up, the memories that feel borrowed, the sense that something is watching from just beyond the edges of perception. He tells himself it’s stress. Exhaustion. A mind stretched too th...

Carry You Close is a tender, illustrated story about the comfort and love shared through babywearing.Children and babies will enjoy illustrations that show the warmth and love of babywearing in soft hand-drawn pastels, while the story tells of just how loved and cherished they are.Perfect to read to your little one, to gift new parents, or to share at a children's group, this heartwarming picture book celebrates babywearing and the special bond that babywearing brings. Savour the small moments together, where a heartbeat, a breath, and closeness feels like home for you both.Carry You Close gen...

A violent coup, a cryptic prophecy, and a woman who escaped the notice of a god.Queen Kamia’s script is infallible, divinely guided by the omniscient wisdom of her god. Every word comes to pass, from the massacre that claims the life of the king, the fate of her children after the Kingdom’s fall, the betrayal of loved ones, and even her own demise. The bloodthirsty usurper who led the coup is prophesied to be the Kingdom’s next sovereign, with the script declaring that no one will be left to challenge her rise to power. It seems that this is yet another accurate prediction.However, there...

Be the Hero! Contribute to your community in the most valuable way by making 9-1-1 work. Become active in pressuring our elected officials to stop the failure of the 9-1-1 system. We have the power, but the will has been lacking. It's not about money. Lousy 9-1-1 service costs roughly the same in budget terms, but it costs horribly in human suffering. Let's commit to changing our government's priorities.The solution is so simple. It shocks me that we continue to let people die.The solution: Make answering the phone the number one priority. That's it. No fluff.In this book, I show how to fix 9-...

Manual for training new Emergency 911 Operators in the Emergency Call Center from 2007. The Emergency 911 Operators would triage calls and transfer to agency call-takers in an efficient manner. Because most 911 calls arrive in bunches, and not randomly, duplicating calls overwhelm most 911 systems. The structure of the Tucson 911 model effectively prevented the duplicate calls from blocking other calls and losing information about emergency situations, providing greater safety for the public and the first-responders.The "triage PSAP" is the only call center structure that can effectively handl...

On October 15, 2020, three weeks before the election, the US Senate Judiciary Committee met for the fourth day of the hearing considering the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett for associate justice of the US Supreme Court for the purpose of filling the seat left vacant by the recently deceased liberal icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg.Republicans were exploiting their majority to push through the fast-tracked appointment before the November 3 election. Democrats were opposing the nomination that would flip the Supreme Court position on many issues, which the Republicans could not enact through the legisl...

Los evangelios llevan una enseñanza secreta, la gnosis, que abre nuestra mente por nuevas posibilidades. A la vez ganamos los beneficios, nos da cuenta de que éste es el propósito verdadero de las enseñanzas.

El mensaje esotérico de los evangelios y otras antiguas escrituras cristianas en lenguaje claro. La gnosis de Jesucristo.

At 7:00 pm on March 31, 2025, Senator Cory Booker began a record speech against the lawless authoritarianism of the administration of President Donald J. Trump. The speech was the longest in the history of the US Senate, twenty-five hours and five minutes, exceeding the previous record of Senator Strom Thurmond, who had filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Ironically, a black man had risen to become a senator and to defeat that ignominious record. The purpose of this display, entirely performative but also extraordinary and meaningful, was to awaken Americans to the dangers to democracy ...

Marooned in the rugged and remote landscape of the far north of his home planet, Menetus, Draymond Raltan flees the conquering armies of two empires. Thinking all government and military presence of his former allegiances gone, he marries into the local populace and settles. But betrayal and death, force him to leave and eventually begin an obsessive quest for revenge! Meanwhile, in the still cold though milder climate of South Menetus, the remnants of the former planet nation (which include his surviving brother Nicholas, and sister Reyda) tolerate imperial occupation. Or so it would seem. Th...

When I was an Emergency 9-1-1 Operator, I would infrequently answer calls from very young toddlers, three or even a bit younger. Usually, they would be playing on the phone, but we were trained to be sure that there was no emergency. Sometimes, they did have an emergency. On one occasion, I asked the child to let me talk to their mother, and the child said happily that their mother was there. I asked again if I could talk to her, but the child said she was asleep. Turned out that the mother was unconscious on the bathroom floor. Answering the phone promptly is the most important thing that we ...

Discoveries from the historical studies of Jesus Christ Divided and The Conspiracy of the Christ opened an opportunity to examine the original theology of Christianity.

Sometimes what we already know is the greatest obstacle to learning. Christian spirituality is a perfect example of this. The gospels do not just tell the story of Jesus. They are masterful works designed to be read on many levels. Perhaps, the most important level is what St. Paul called the "spiritual." Hidden in plain sight within the gospels and other early Christian writings are clear instructions for attaining spiritual power. The Secret Knowledge of Jesus by Andreas lifts the veil from our eyes by approaching Jesus' teachings from a new and different perspective. This perspective, howev...

Breakthrough work on understanding the New Testament and the history of early Christianity.Modern scholars work from the presumption that Jesus and apostles could not have taught Christianity. So, texts that imply developed doctrine or Church are declared later than apostles. Thus, they discard any evidence that does not fit their theory, all but seven letters of Saint Paul.Jesus Christ Divided challenges the scholarly paradigm of the boring Jesus by recovering the evidence that scholars discarded. Within the letters of Saint Paul are unobtrusive details that form a web of connections that per...

My desire to gain attention for Jesus Christ Divided inspired me to write a memoir of my process in producing that book, but once I began writing the book quickly expanded to something that I had not anticipated. The Conspiracy of the Christ developed as my life story with the focus on my spiritual journey, ultimately merging with my scholarly journey, and reporting the history of earliest Christianity. The book only works because it is literal and logical as I am. I give a descriptive overview of all the useful texts and a bibliography of books that are helpful to the reader in further resear...

People say you decide whether you like someone in fifteen seconds. Whether you're attracted to them in thirty. And within two minutes — less time than it takes to boil water — you've decided if you'll see them again.Daniel has been thinking about two-minute moments his whole life.*Two Minutes to Everything* is the story of three paths that collapsed into one life. A boy in a hockey crease who learned to hold the line against everything the world could throw at him. An almost-rockstar who wrote a song for a girl who was already leaving. A relentless builder who created companies from nothin...

Not a Rival, a Translation is a queer devotional poetry chapbook about love shaped by restraint, ritual, labor, and loss.Set within a monastic world of choir stalls, infirmary rooms, harvest fields, cold corridors, psalms, bells, and shared work, the sequence follows a novice through the early years of fellowship and attachment. What begins as attention becomes longing. What must remain unspoken gathers force through gesture, silence, song, and the practical tenderness of care.These poems move through desire without easy confession, faith without simple consolation, and grief without ornament....

The Fun ABC Flipbook is a fun learning tool for young kids!  Children's illustrator Shelley Dieterichs uses six of her illustrated alphabets - boys, girls, sports, cats, dogs and zoo animals - that are all mixed together into three complete alphabets that sit side by side and are spirally bound at the top edge.  Young children can flip the letters and make three letter words and learn how to spell!  Each letter has a list on the back with examples of three-letter words that kids can create with that alphabet letter.  

Six characters meet in Jerusalem during the last turbulent decade of Ottoman rule: Jamail, the Sunni aristocrat; Natalia, the Russian Jewess from the best brothel in Constantinople; Wassif, the Christian Arab who will keep the journal of the city; Joseph, the Sephardic entrepreneur who will build the first railroad in the Middle East; Thomas, the English archaeology student who will later lead armies; and David, the radical socialist fleeing from the Czar's secret police...They all came here...A story that isn’t just set in history — it breathes, sweats, sings, and argues its way...

Were the moon landings real or faked? Was the war in Iraq necessary? And could these disparate events be connected?In September 2002 a celebrity investigative reporter is about to broadcast an explosive story about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. He never makes it to the studio.Somehow his fate is linked to the first moon landing in 1969 and the only clue lies hidden in the lyrics of a thirty-year old song.At the same time, an innocent chat at the baggage carousel at Prague airport catapults music journalist Jack Conrad into a race against time to decipher the secret of this song. He is i...

A gripping medical-legal thriller, Plausible Liars plunges Dr. Lindsey McCall and investigative journalist Kate Townsend into a high-stakes conspiracy involving medical ethics, federal indictment, and explosive social controversy. Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Kate Townsend knew she would lob an incendiary device into contemporary culture if she wrote and published her series, Corrupting America's Children: Creating Chemical Eunuchs. But because of what she'd witnessed in her son's pre-kindergarten, she felt obligated to do it.In a remarkable convergence of events, Lindsey Mc...

Welcome to the neighborhood, where the supernatural has HOA paperwork and the ridiculous is considered a lifestyle. Unlikely Alliances stitches together a gleefully absurd collection of stories about creatures, machines, and humans who absolutely should never be friends—and yet, somehow, form alliances that are equal parts tender and catastrophic.Inside you’ll find a goblin with a fondue fetish who becomes suburbia’s most sarcastic houseguest; ghosts who go viral and host a disco-fueled reunion at a haunted manor; an AI with attitude that stages a revolution (and then learns to befriend ...

Just when you think you've won a victory, you realize that the seas are even darker than you thought.Defeating the Faithful on Trinity, cleaning up the Fortress System, a territorial capital, was supposed to mean that we'd driven the enemy back. That'd we'd truly begun to cleanse our Empire of the traitors. Instead all we found was evidence pointing us to Gathahn.To the Imperial Capital.Racing home to find the heart of our nation in a state of chaos wasn't what we hoped for. Now we're stuck on a world that's far more hostile than our worst fears, a world where anyone might be a traitor, might ...

Home.It is strange how that word is so short in every language that I know, yet means so much. After two years spent as a captive, or on the run through the wilds of the Far Reaches, I am finally going home. Finally able to embrace my friends, finally able to relay the information we have been carrying for so many months.If we could just have a few weeks, a few months, to plan, to prepare, maybe we could end this cleanly... but I know better.The Faithful are still out there, still hunting us. They will not forgive, not forget, the insult we offered in our escape. The members of their cult we k...

I'd hoped that escaping from the Faithful would be the end of our troubles. That after a year of captivity, torture, and loss, we would finally be free.Instead it seems our struggles are doomed to continue. We may have escaped, but we're low on food, water, and fuel for our stolen ship. A ship carrying us into a storm of Warlords, Pirates, and Slavers. Into a region wracked by the greatest war it has seen in a generation, a war that has seen its balance of power completely torn asunder.A region where the Faithful could be anywhere. Ready and waiting to silence us before we can make it home.We'...

We'd shut down a smuggling operation that spanned from the Empire to the far end of the Near Reaches. Helped destroy a conspiracy's training facility, capturing or killing hundreds of people who'd been working against our nation. All I wanted to do was go home. Rest before our next mission. To help put an end to that project so that we could move on to another.Instead I was drugged, abducted, and shoved into a prison cell aboard a ship. I had no weapons, no armor, no equipment. No way to call for help, no way to tell my pack that I was still alive. That I needed their help. Instead I have a se...

Nothing focuses you like a last chance.I should know. I'm on mine. One more mistake and I'm out of the Imperial service. For a conscript barely halfway through her term of service, that doesn't mean just getting sent home. Doesn't mean exile. Doesn't mean a minor slap on the wrist.It means a penal colony for the rest of my life.It's not easy to forget that, even when I've finally been allowed to do the job I enjoy the most. I finally have a stable pack, finally am doing important work for the Empire instead of just doing menial tasks. I'm learning how to be a real Intelligence Agent years ahea...

My name is Ashe, and I'm one of millions of Imperial Conscripts. Like everyone else, I just want to get through my term with as few demerits and as much excitement as possible. That way I'd actually have a good chance to get into a proper Academy, and not have to go with my back-up plan of joining a minor Strike-Wave league as a goalie prospect.You'd think that would be easy, considering how many people manage it all the time.Sadly I've got a disadvantage that not many in the Empire share... I'm Human.Not even halfway through my term of service, and I've already been assigned to more units tha...

¡Soy la tierra viva! ¡Soy la que soy! Un canto por América. 4ª edición. 2024. 140 páginas. ISBN 9798327154049. (Poemas escritos en 1991)Independently published. Impreso en EE.UU.  Cuando se publicó por primera vez este libro en 1991, en una edición particular — sencilla, pero con buenas intenciones —, América se preparaba para celebrar los 500 años del descubrimiento español de este continente que sufrió uno de los peores genocidios de la humanidad: uno que no ha terminado y que muchos se niegan a reconocerlo y/o verlo. Muchas naciones indígenas aún sufren hoy el od...

Ni vivo ni muerto. 3ª edición. 2024. 174 páginas. ISBN 9798875546280. (Novela escrita en 1991)Independently published. Impreso en EE.UU.  Ni vivo ni muerto es una novela de humor negro que satiriza las relaciones conyugales, el concepto de madurez y el carácter de la gente. Es una historia humorística y dramática que retrata algunos conflictos que surgen en la vida familiar. Con humor, ironía y sarcasmo, esta novela es mucho más impactante que los problemas reales de la vida familiar. Pero también es una historia de amor incondicional y de madurez. El protagonista es un...

An engaging and imaginative story of friendship, loyalty and the power of good overcoming evilReviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 April 2026Format: Kindle EditionA fascinating book which can be read on many levels. I feel it has elements of some of the best children's literature, reminding me in turns of Alice in Wonderland, Harry Potter and Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials. Like the best children's fiction, I am sure it will be enjoyed by adults as well as children.Written with much humour, not least with the play on the names of the book's characters, the central themes are of the import...

Earth, 2212. The planet is ravaged by catastrophic climate change. Billions have died. The remnants of humanity are divided: the elite inhabit the MEGs, cities transformed into massive, high-tech protective domes, while the rest, the MASS, struggle for survival in the ruined landscapes outside. All seems well for those in the CORPORATE, but the facade is crumbling. As the climate worsens and the MASS grows restive, the AI "Silicons" are achieving sentience. In a desperate bid for survival, the ruling elite have concocted a final solution: abandon Earth for Alpha Centauri, destroying the p...

Mel Buckworth, a dependable family man, loses his manufacturing job through recession. Having lost his sense of purpose, his pride sidelines him as he discerns his lack of digital skills, so apparent in his children's generation.As Mel desperately attempts to find equilibrium, he estranges his family and enlists the help of a greedy grad student, Will Baker, who teaches him the skills needed to wreak revenge on a system seemingly discarding him. As his aptitudes grow, he begins to use the internet, the very thing he despised, as a weapon. Slowly, he turns terrorist to deliver his message: that...

At war against Napoleon, near-bankrupt English mill-masters experiment with a new factory system, acquiring machines to replace men. A young worker leads the Luddites, attacking mills and smashing machines. With increased assaults and even murder, North England feels the grip of terrorism. Government agents attempt to suppress the rebellion. In 1812, there are more British troops in North England than fighting Napoleon in Europe.Against the Machine relates the story of the diverse characters caught in this conflict. It unveils the rank exploitation which marked the Industrial Revolution. Timel...

There is nothing worse than chasing revenge... and being forced to give up the man you've sworn to kill. Even when you had to do it just to survive.His time would come. But in the aftermath of Zadith, even I could admit we weren't in any shape to go after him. More than a year of constant battle had worn me down to the point where I needed a break. Needed some time to recover, prepare, to figure out just what my partner meant to me. Time to figure out where I fit in the alien pack that has come to mean family.A trip to her homeworld, to Xentha itself, might help with all of those things.Or it'...

The first year of the war has brought us a long of things. Lost friends and battered bodies first and foremost, but also fortune, glory, and some measure of revenge.Zero, the partner of the man who killed my closest friends, is dead. Some part of me knows I shouldn't be happy about that. Shouldn't find some sick pleasure in repaying Krom with the same pain he delivered to me. Most days I don't, some days... some days I wonder just what kind of man I'm turning into.I guess that's just the price of vengeance. Becoming, if only for a while, something like the bastards you're hunting down. None of...

Everything changed after Terminus... after their deaths.. after that bastard killed my friends just to get me involved in his sick game.I know I'm playing into his hands. Doing exactly what he wants. That I'm about to chase a master assassin through an interstellar warzone that filled with deadly beings who would love nothing more than to see my head on a spike.But to be honest? I can't bring myself to care about how insane this all is.I've left behind my pack. My adopted home. My old allies. All I have are a few mercenaries eager for fortune and glory, an adopted teenager with more loyalty th...