Excerpt: "Clearly, this would be the most fitting way. As Zach prepares to cast away the only copy of his newly finished book, a hint of irony collides with rationale, not unlike the jarring force of a blunt rotten two-by-four striking the back of his head. Had creating been this easy since the beginning? Only a month earlier, he had begun writing what he considered a running tab on life's day-to-day discreetly disclosed secrets, but more importantly, desires. Now, the only copy of those captured realizations on the face of the planet lay in print beside him, the original file deleted from...

Come along on a journey that attempts to define the space between love and loss with a story spanning locales ranging from a tropical paradise during the Great Depression, on through to the deepest reaches of the observable cosmos, aboard an intergalactic cruise ship--a metallic island dubbed: Surdus Sus.