Self Righteous

Many of us have witnessed someone walk free despite being guilty of a crime. Perhaps we have even felt the urge to take justice into our own hands but held back due to fear of reprisal or the legal consequences. But what happens when a victim, or someone connected to a crime, decides to act? Does seeking vengeance make them self-righteous, or are they justified in making the guilty pay?

In this gripping and suspenseful novel, Jake does exactly that. As he takes justice into his own hands, he leads the police on a relentless chase, leaving behind cryptic clues about his next target. With each riddle, the stakes rise. Can the police decipher his messages and catch him before he strikes again, or will Jake continue to outmaneuver them while carrying out his version of justice?

Tales from Beyond

This anthology brings together a riveting collection of science fiction and horror tales, each set in a different place and time, inviting readers to explore the unknown.

In ‘Destination Infinity,’ astronauts on a mission around the Alpha Centauri system return to Earth 150 years later than planned, only to find a totalitarian regime has seized control of a high-tech society with unsettling visions for communal life.

‘An Encounter With Destiny’ follows the survivors of a plane crash stranded on a remote Pacific island during a nuclear war as they confront the haunting possibility that they might be the last people on Earth. Among them is a mysterious scientist, whose presence stirs both hope and unease.

In ‘The German Factor or The Recreation Machine,’ a man invents a device that turns photographs into reality. But as he falls in with a reneged army bent on rebellion, his invention is weaponized, transforming this tale into a thrilling war story.

The horror story ‘Even the Wicked for the Day of Evil’ follows a Haitian immigrant who, after his French roommate dies in police custody, turns to voodoo for revenge.

In ‘The Next Star Past Luyten 725-34,’ the first astronauts on a mission of interstellar colonization stumble upon colonies already established by previous Earth expeditions.

The science fiction tale ‘A Return to Huntington Grounds’ imagines a near future where a baseball team travels back in time, altering the course of their sport forever.

Finally, in a ‘Deadland,’ a lonely man driven by despair reaches for the occult to escape his misery, gaining unimaginable power to retaliate against everyone who stands in his way.

This collection offers a journey across the strange and the terrifying, where the boundaries of reality, ambition, and revenge are pushed to their limits.

Thoughts Expressed Through the Written Word

This literary work is the product of my personal activity in the effort of lifelong self-expression. Self-expression can be accomplished through a number of manners, including all forms of art, music and performance. My form of expression is through the written word. As I experience the varied performance arts of others, I appreciate the message and communication of the artist and ultimately experience self-growth.  Some individuals are driven to self-identify and as Dale Carnegie stated, “Self-expression is the dominant necessity of human nature.” I started writing when I was twelve years old.

This work expresses the intellectual, emotional, and personal growth I have experienced over a period of fifty-five years. As stated by Oprah Winfrey, “If we’re really committed to growth, we never stop discovering new dimensions of self and self-expression”. My two previous literary works, Grinnin’ Like a Jenny Eatin’ Saw Briars and Let Me Tell You a Story, published by Austin Macauley involve the communication of events and experiences in my life. As stated by Pearl S. Buck, “Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfilment”. For this reason, I have chosen to fulfil my literary work through the writing and publication of this book.

Iris Lynne

If you like historically accurate depictions of various topics that might take you all over the world and through different periods of time, this book is for you. There is no intended relation between the subjects chosen other than that the author herself wondered about another explanation for what had actually occurred: a supernatural one. This is historical fiction with a supernatural twist, with the exception of the first story. The first story is dedicated to one of my older sisters, Iris Lynne, who always wanted me to write scary stories that would hold one’s attention when learning factual history, especially if one’s mind tended to wander off into the fictional areas of the supernatural. She loved my purely non-historical fictional story. The other stories, which move around the globe and through time to discuss such things as Cleopatra’s little sister, Harriet Tubman’s Underground Railroad, Balboa, Percy Shelley, President William Henry Harrison, and the Pendle Witches of England, should be fascinating!

Growth, Modernity and the Nations of Wealth

Eric Humphrey and Dwight Semler present a new theory explaining the mysterious historical emergence of modern economic growth and its even more baffling offspring, modernity. Noticeable changes in material life began less than three centuries ago, but previous theoretical accounts have failed to explain their arrival. Thinkers assumed modern wealth and morality were the universal standard driving human history. They assumed modern rights and riches were natural and normal. In this way they thought of such things as ends rooted in human nature, rather than deriving them as consequences from a historical, nonmodern baseline. Misdirected, they set out to liberate the imprisoned modern homunculus who “caused modernity” through moral education and economic institutions. Modernity became an “awareness problem.” Yet this high-maintenance modern self and its ever-growing needs are a consequence of modern processes rather than their cause. Consequently, theorists of the modern world produced comically omnipotent notions of human agency. Marxists and developmental economists saw modernity as a moral or material self-realization project, requiring only a liberator or engineer. But when their God-of-Genesis model failed the facts, they overreacted and defaulted to its alter ego—humans were passive leaves in the wind of history. Modernity thus oscillates between a chosen destiny and a given fate. With modernity represented as a historical fate, all pretense of a grand theoretical view vanishes in thick description of one damn thing after another, and the historian’s rote chronology replaces any theoretical causality, as a specific description of a particular falling rock replaces a general theory of gravity.

Understanding the modern world and how it came to be, argue the authors, is less a matter of facts than of the foundational assumptions used to link facts together into robust and coherent theories. We must un-assume our modern selves and give poverty and illiberality their just historical due. With better and more scientifically consistent assumptions, they argue, the old facts of history can be seen in a new way. Then the solution to understanding the most puzzling and abnormal of human events, the modern world itself, turns out to be hiding in plain sight.

Sake: For You and Me

These inspiring haikus will capture your heart, offering profound wisdom wrapped in a simple poem of 17 syllables in three lines. The author dives deep into feelings of love, loss, flirtation, passion, self-awareness, and the experience of living life fully and inexcusably.

Sake: For You and Me is a collection of versatility, confronting honesty, and intense expression, alongside hope, light, and distinctive spirit. The author’s evocative language reveals a whole panorama of thought in three lines. This collection of enchanting haikus tackles topics that strike most deeply at the core of what it means to be human.

The Crumbling Tower of My Life

The Crumbling Tower of My Life is a resounding and moving collection of deeply felt poems. Found within this outpouring of soul are echoes of both hope and hopelessness. Fears are personified, given an identity, and addressed out in the open. This book is a journey through healing, written in tandem with the emotions experienced along the way. It takes you on a ride from a life-shattering ending towards a journey of rebirth.

This poignant collection of poems will have you riding waves of melancholy, relieved by uplifting touches of whimsy and possibility. It beautifully captures the facets of the life we lead through a lens of love and loss.

The lovely, the deluded, the unhinged, the magical, and even the mundane: nothing is off limits with alchemy such as this. Its simple goal is to transform suffering into connection by speaking the darkness into existence. Vulnerability is capable of holding immense beauty and space for a collective to form, even within its breakdown.

This book is an attempt to make tangible the anguish of coping poorly with lost love. It explores all stages of hurt, as well as the overwhelming nature of all the possibilities ahead that remain unknown. It serves as a reminder of the massive mess of love you can gain if you learn to open your heart to it. It is a genuine telling of horrid beauty and a raw expression of the human experience. The journey starts within, and the fight for rebuilding is a worthy one.

Consideraciones psicoanalíticas sobre diarios de Marion Milner

Este libro trata sobre un momento en la vida de los diarios de Marion Milner, quien fue una destacada psicoanalista y amiga de Donald Winnicott. Lo que este libro intenta establecer es una interpretación desde dos perspectivas del psicoanálisis: primero, la clásica freudiana y luego, la intersubjetiva. Aprenderá más sobre su vida, su obra y también sobre las formas de pensamiento respecto a lo que se puede decir sobre el psicoanálisis contemporáneo.

Rayna's True Colors

Rayna and her caterpillar friends attend Metamorphosis School to learn how to become a butterfly. She dreams about what colors she will be. When Rayna emerges from the chrysalis, she can’t understand why no one acknowledges her presence. She discovers she is transparent, with no colors. Iris, a butterfly fairy, appears and tells Rayna she has been chosen to lead all monarch butterflies in migration. But, first, she must earn each of her three colors by performing good deeds to help others. Will Rayna succeed in her mission to find her true colors?

Welcome to Grandpa and Grandma's House

Do you like to swing from a very tall oak tree? How about getting on a saddle with cowboy boots? Do you like to swim with sharks? What is your favorite birthday cake? Well, c’mon with me, and let’s take an adventure to Grandpa and Grandma’s house and see what we will find!

Beyond the Clinic

As Musa goes through the final years of medical school, he begins to engage in activities outside clinical work, starting with organising the annual medical dinner with limited funding during his fourth year. After his internship, he is posted to a hospital that becomes besieged during the war. There, he finds himself drinking beer at a bar belonging to a disreputable woman who is a concubine of the commander of the losing army and is also trying to woo the commander of the victorious one.

After the war, Dr Musa finds himself organising a wedding for a colleague with insufficient funds. Meanwhile, the night before the wedding, the groom and best man are accosted by ‘the Twins’ – two sisters known to seduce any man they desired. When Dr Musa drives a sports car, he becomes vulnerable to seduction by single women until his niece comes to occupy the empty seat in his car as a chaperone. His car adventures include being carjacked in Nairobi. He is also kissed on the lips in Geneva by two ladies whom he helps to jump-start their car, and again in Jakarta by a woman he assists in getting her car out of a tight spot.

Dr Musa’s life outside the clinic was characterised by one crisis after another. These included: using his personal account to manage funds from his employer; his daughters warding off a ‘lady-in-red’ who had fallen for him in Amsterdam; having to answer his young daughter’s question about when he started to have sex; and responding to his granddaughter’s query about whether he was married.

He equates these crises to a pivotal moment during a friendly football match between Ugandan and Kenyan doctors. In that game, he kicked the ball high in the air, not knowing if it would land in his own goalposts or on the opponent’s side. He only discovered later that it had landed safely on the opponent’s side. In the end, he wonders whether one can survive by simply ‘kicking the ball’ in a crisis, reacting without planning, and get by in life without strategy, relying on the Grace of God.

Finding May

And there she sat. Legs crossed with eyes straight as an arrow.

The sun slipped inches at a mile behind Snow Recreation Center on the eleventh of October, two thousand and two. John met May in the hustle of his happy, full life. Pausing the daily exercising. Exchanging numbers and smiles, the two briefly tucked away from time. Centrum to Eastern Michigan’s heart, ideation began blooming. Tracing began—Finding May and John adoring each other’s warmth inside—if only for two minutes.

Two minutes that day, seconds later next month as John reached a suicidal breaking point, and months forward into 2004.

The girl he was destined to barely know. A Monet-traced beauty. Kind. Sweetly adorable. A thousand budding, poetic lines incapable of capturing May’s immediate place in John’s mind. She’d try to save his life with these two minutes, and later eleven seconds, of her time. A northern star streaking across the Vanilla Sky.