"At the dawn of the 21st century, the residents of Century, Florida, prepare for their centennial celebration. There's a parade to plan, a murder to plot, a marriage to save and one to let go. Here, universes revolve around a small-town Lolita, a high school teacher sees possible futures, a Piggly Wiggly meat cutter tries to please his Vegan wife, and a lonely woman weaves a new cosmology in the patterns of her crochet. Secrets will out, lives will end, and nothing will be the same." -- Amazon.com.

It's the end of the world as we know it, but the Devil has other plans. Join a man at the end of his rope who finds himself drafted into a celestial war, fighting fallen angels and heavenly hosts. Take some advice from Cain, the first murderer, who lives outside of Eden Gardens State Park. Borrow a ride from Elijah, who likes cars with flames on the side. Meet the Watchers who hover in the night sky over Gulf Breeze. Dream of new lives in other worlds, and awake to find them true. Step through a door into the torture rooms of Hell, and walk the wilderness with Lilith, first wife of Adam. Stand on the edge of the world, part the sea, and raise the light of hope in a world where Lucifer is lord of all. It's an adventure through parallel realities and dream countries, an exploration of time/space paradoxes at the root of proof and faith, a road trip into the depths of forgiveness and the power of joy, Along the way, Gabriel meets Shekinah, the female aspect of God, tangles with myths and legends, reads chapters from 'The Book of Cain,' and travels paths of mystery in the presence of cosmic archetypes. Will Gabriel discover his true nature in time to prevent the end of all things, or will Satan remake the universe in his own image? -- page [4] of cover.

This eclectic collection of stories, poems, flash fictions, character studies, experiments - and stranger things - resulted from the author's personal challenge to write every day for a year, a challenge born of the pain of loss, a struggle to drag himself out of the darkness after the deaths of loved ones. Here are ghost stories; the tales of weird items found in the Museum of Alternate Histories; "what if?" stories and "why not?" stories; gothic poetry and humorous haiku. Here walk aliens, devils, bank robbers, widows, dreamers, vampires, and Beat-generation zombie fighters. Here are ruminations upon the human spirit and extrapolations of where technology may propel human desires.

For parents who are devoutly religious they can feel safe in God’s will, and for parents who are devotedly new-age they can feel secure in the Universe’s plans. But for the growing amounts of parents who aren’t either, but also don’t wish for their children to be spiritual orphans, it can feel like a lonely Parenting Place to reside. So OH GOD is about imbuing our Alpha Generation-Z children with the insightful Cosmopolitan IQ and Old-Age New-Age IQ of understanding the beliefs of others – so that our children can become more intelligently equipped to live in this exponentially expanding multi-cultural multi-religious society. It’s about teaching our children the societal intelligences that no-one ever taught us. ​But this book won’t be for everyone – oh no, this will be for those select parents who find themselves irresistibly drawn to delving more deeply into these topics. OH GOD will be for the hardcore amongst parents!

20% of all proceeds from this title are going to Morgellons research. An introduction to transhumanism, genetics, nanotechnology, AI, informatics, synthetic biology, DNA, the atmosphere, electricity, and what mankind has to look forward to in the future. ----------------------------------------- From the back cover- While we were recovering from the tragedy of September 11, 2001; the global powers that be were making plans for humanity that were so large and so sweeping, they needed to keep the general public in the dark about exactly what they were planning. As humanity on Earth enters a new century and millennium, we look forward to such advancements as immortality, convergence of the mind with computers, bionic augmentation, super-soldiers for fighting new wars, nano-bots that help keep us healthy, and even hybridization of our DNA to allow humanity to achieve things that we never thought possible. With the rapid advancement of new technology such as genetics, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, synthetic biology, and electronics we soon will be able to augment and change our very bodies at the molecular level. The convergence of these technologies spell out some exciting prospects for the future, but at the same time there exists a danger so great that extinction of every living organism on the planet could be closer than we think. We must be aware of our past, to know where the future leads, and we must not remain apathetic. Ignorance is not bliss... it is terminal. Awareness is the cure.

This work investigates the ‘Janus face’ of international relations, refracted through the prism of the duality of Jan Christian Smuts, as it manifested in his contribution to the League of Nations and his struggle against the emerging peace treaty. A predominant characteristic of international relations is its requirement to face two different ways at the same time - its Janus face. States profess their adherence to lofty ideals for humanity alongside the pursuit of their own immediate self-interest. This phenomenon in the behaviour of states has been referred to as the distance between vision and reality, and the gap between rhetoric and reality. International relations is, and is likely to remain, suspended between these two extremes: on the one hand, the pursuit of utopian ideals for the world, and, on the other, a defence of narrow self-interest, often prompted by the dictates of the realpolitik of the moment. How, then, are the values that underlie the founding of the first cornerstone of the current international order — the League of Nations — to be understood? An under-explored case study in understanding the complex framework of international relations is that of the visionary and controversial South African, Jan Christian Smuts (1870-1950). On the one hand, Smuts was one of the principal authors of the Covenant of the League of Nations, and the person directly responsible for the recognition of human rights as a founding value of the Charter of the United Nations. On the other, the Premier of racially segregated South Africa.