Pain. Grief. Sacrifice. Honor. Necessity. Love. Every suicide has its reason. Every suicide has its story. The ending of one's life can be the apex of grief for the family of the departed while a release from the ceaseless pull of torment's unyielding grasp for the victim. It can be a merciful balm or an eternal march to the gallows; a grandiose gesture or an ill-fated martyrdom; an instantaneous conclusion or the terminal destination of a fated path. In his third released collection of poetry, Justin Bohardt explores in a cycle of twenty-five poems the reasons and the rationales, the pathos...

The Grand Duchy of Miraval is a small, picturesque country of great snow-capped mountains, rich alluvial valleys and plains, and grandiose sections of woods and waterlands strategically located between the world's two great powers. The past two decades have seen Miraval forced to go to war twice with the Dominion, their belligerent, saber-rattling neighbor to the north. Miraval ceded territory to the Dominion in each of those wars to earn an uneasy peace, but most Miravallians knew that the Dommies were just biding their time. The Dominion would come for the entire country sooner or later,...

For Dag and Alex Dagenham and their ragtag group of partisans, militia volunteers and National Guardsman, the defeat of the Dominion forces invading their homeland was but a small victory compared to the crushing defeats suffered by the hopelessly outmatched Grand Duchy of Miraval. Nearly a third of their country has fallen to the military onslaught of the mighty Dominion, and the mountainous woodlands know as the Crest, the Dagenham brothers' home, is now cut off from the rest of Miraval. The Miravallian freedom fighters have no time to rest on the laurels of their victory. The Dominion...

This collection of poetry from Justin Bohardt is actually the combination of two separate collections that had previously been released exclusively as E-books under the titles Solar Tempests and We're All Gaijin on Mars. Although stylistically quite different, the two collections both reflect the same genre of speculative poetry- works in the science-fiction, fantasy and (occasionally) horror categories.