Fast cars, faster women, and revenge leads Jon Henri Tyler to con his way into " The Society" , the largest moonshine operation in the foothills of North Carolina. For five years he honed his skills and relied on his wit and cunning to out drive, out maneuver, and out think every moonshine rival in Murdock County. The hatred of poverty and the love of money were two more reasons Jon Henri became involved with " shine" . Now he wants out, but learns, too late, just how deadly " The Society" can be.

Ancient mysteries and taboos are here revealed, undressed, and denuded. Words and speculations long forbidden are freely spoken. The sacred seal of future time is forcibly opened and a new light blooms forth, which pushes the creatures of darkness back into their deepest unholy sanctuaries. Triumphal trumpets sound and echo their sacred call for a new tribe to assemble and to take their rightful place to guide an inspired journey into the future.

Within these pages lives a story of love, of friendships, and of families, which are imbedded within a place and time, where the most diametrically opposite of human values existed and survived side-by-side, where heaven and hell daily rubbed their social elbows, and each of their elements were ever threatening the survival of their counterpart. Here is a story of people caught between the gears and wheels of their god's invisible machinery that daily drives their universe. Here is portrayed both the physical and psychological landscape of a time whose structures, writings, and beliefs have...

"Real World Poetry" contains a group of individual poems, which I wrote over a very extended period of time. Some few of these poems have singularly appeared in some of my other writings. The mood of these poems is intended to address the lack of objective truth within many of the major philosophies of the world's cultures, and to dress those wounds, of cognitive dissonance, with a dressing of hope and guidance towards a more reasonable outlook upon life, and of life's struggles to discover a meaningful perspective, which can be embraced by reasonable peoples, allowing them to find a guiding...

In 1519 Cortes sailed from Cuba, leading an expedition of search and discovery of any lands to the west of Cuba. What he found was a land and a civilization that was larger and richer than anything in his wildest dreams. He became compulsively determined to have this new land and its riches as his own. But within the fog that hides the future, it was the Aztec's own beliefs and their complete ignorance of any nations existing beyond the seas that made up the substance of that fog, and led them blindly into a collision with a fate, which time and distance had been ever-ripening. It is through...