Backgammon is the story of two lifelong friends and their path to forgiveness. It is an engaging, wickedly beautiful journey through the great successes and devastating accidents of life through the eyes of one who has seen it all, but is still looking - looking to reclaim a piece of something precious that was lost to him years ago while in the hands of his best friend. Backgammon was the tortoise's life. It was not just the simple game itself that enamored him, but his opponents and the insights he gained from playing with them. Success, much like life, hinges on the luck of the roll. Once...

A well-respected thinker has created a new mind-altering technology that will forever change humanity. But before he can decide how to introduce it properly to the world, it is stolen from him and prematurely deployed to a society not psychologically prepared. When all hell breaks loose, he is blamed by the very people who stole his idea - a government that is trying to maintain power over a vulnerable society recovering from a devastating world war. Feeling morally obliged to help, he struggles to survive while simultaneously trying to expose the corrupt bureaucracy and repair the damage...

Wouldnt it be nice if you could just send your mind to work? A down and out young man eagerly embraces a breakthrough technology that allows him to send just a replica of his mind to work, leaving him with plenty of time to mend his shattered personal life. As his replica mind toils away in the Mind Garden to maintain his modest living, disturbing memories begin to barrage the man, prompting him to investigate the Mind Garden and the strangers that are haunting his flashbacks. But he becomes consumed with finding elusive answers and his search sets off a chain of events that leave him unsure...

In a time when the future is known yet free will indisputably exists, people are dying - melting, from the inside out. With a recent technological breakthrough, extrapolated particle positions can be predicted with 100% precision. But given exact knowledge of an immutable future, people cannot resist the urge to try to change it to suit their needs. With the help of the Future Miners, the general public discovers that tinkering with this paradox yields mostly destruction and confusion; but it doesn't keep some from coming back to them again and again. The son of the reclusive creator of the...

This is the "Life Story" of someone you most likely don't know and care nothing about - someone who no one knows, really. But someone who has a need to share the most personal inner workings of his mind... Welcome to the world of Yorick von Fortinbras, author and musician, as he tells his story in the form of poetry, short stories, sketches, lyrics and musings made in various states of mind from age 10 through his current age. So find a quiet place and delve into "I Write on Anything (Written on a Napkin)." Maybe soon after you'll be one of the few who truly knows Yorick von Fortinbras.