This is a collection of poetry amassed over the course of a decade of personal dredging and wroth with wry wit and world-weary wisdom. At least it is hoped anyone reading it will find it so to some extent or in some way. To be found are musings of emotion and experience observed beneath the lens of a verbal microscope. Some take the form of essays, some stories, some characterizations, some light verse, and some random snippets. From all that are thoughts and truths that are bittersweet and admissions both funny and forlorn sifted from the muck and mire of one man's mental state. Enjoy it for...

The NightDragon, the new protector of the city of Nocturnity, finds himself facing a number of complications. As Johnny Chen, he has come into contact with Sonya Gunn, a young police officer who has been assigned to the police department's task force intent on catching him. And a mutual attraction is forming. As a vigilante, he's become the target of Eagle Force, a special counter-terrorism unit of the NSA, led by a no-nonsense gung-ho major who means to get his man. As a hero, he's failed to stop and apprehend an international team of killers who are known as the Deadly International Trio or...

Dialogues are an important piece of every historical story and recorded event, and the Bible is filled with both. God's Word contains various sorts of dialogues: between God and an individual, between God and a group of people, between individuals, and between an individual and a group of people. When one considers how we verbally interact in this day and age, it shouldn't be surprising to realize that nothing has changed over the course of time since Creation. Sarcasm, rhetoric, tact (or a lack of it), semantics, and other forms of verbal sparring can readily be found in the Bible. This book...