About the book: "Riding Shotgun Through a Hurricane: A Memoir of Addiction and Radical Recovery" chronicles Matthew Kowalski's journey from gifted child to homeless meth addict. Raised in a chaotic environment of generational abuse, he ran away at age 15 and spent the next 27 years lost in coast-to-coast madness fueled by drugs, alcohol, sex and mental illness. How does a smart, charismatic kid go from Freshman Class President to starving, shivering runaway; from British boarding school to San Francisco squats; from musical prodigy to homeless junkie? Just when his odds of survival were at...

Dedication:



This book is for you; the forgotten, lonely, abandoned, the locked up.

This book is for people who dont know they need it. Its for everyone who is a Sane or knows a Sane. For you who are alone or heart broken, use the power in those experiences. Use the power for others and for life, because if we do, we can encourage life within the environments that life loves to thrive in.

Our story so far A lot of our history has been lost to the ages. The world was not doing well. Humanity also was not doing well. We were falling apart waiting for salvation to come, waiting for the second coming of Avatara. The early 23rd century (2400 ad) was frustrating, humanity felt abandoned. We were abandoned.. Can't blame the force though, would you want to come home if the kids were running around like beasts destroying the house? Good question huh? Our depression, anger and frustration spawned the larvae, the insectoid young. Not in flesh but in spirit. They possessed the minds of...

An Empire of Blood I Amadeus, born in eldritch form before the pact of states, before a union forged. My immortal birth rip, rended and slashed into my already broken depraved soul; in a sleepy town in the west