I’m pleased to announce the publication of my third novel. It is the follow-up to my first novel, BECOMES THE HAPPY MAN.
Free Kindle eBook on Amazon until May 26
In BECOMES GOD’S SILENT PROPHET, the man wakes up to find things are slightly different than they were in BECOMES THE HAPPY MAN. Those differences inspire the man to take a journey to find God.
What is God? Why is the idea of God universal to the human experience while the particular expressions of God are so diverse in human culture? What does the distinction between a universal and a diverse God mean for a person’s belief in God? How does that belief change the way a person relates to other people? These are the questions for which the man seeks answers.
As in BECOMES THE HAPPY MAN, the man as a young man and the man as a boy also make appearances.
The young man contemplates his experiences in the gathering of believers for the celebration of the supreme being, and he also learns to relate to one of the girls who lives and works in the house where the old woman lived before she died.
The boy falls asleep and finds himself on a spaceship with an important task as dictated by someone claiming to be God. His arrival on a distant planet, and the completion of his task bring a surprise that not even the boy as a man could have anticipated.
S.R. Mallery (no relation) has written a fascinating novel about Sonia, a young woman struggling to break the cycle of bad choices that have run in her family. As a college psychology student, Sonia is actively involved in her psych study group where she explores her OCD behavior and where her study partner, Harry, frequently causes her to examine her relationship with her erratic and neglectful boyfriend. Sonia’s boyfriend is the front-man in a rising rock band, and the band’s growth in popularity creates drama that complicates Sonia’s life.
Sonia finds solace in the contents of a trunk in her parents’ attic. Keepsakes from the Sixties tell the story of her parents’ early marriage and her father’s experience in Vietnam, and journals from her ancestors give Sonia a new perspective on her personal history.
Interwoven with Sonia’s narrative are first-person narratives of Sonia’s ancestors going back four generations to the beginning of the twentieth century. Effectively, the collected narratives of Sonia’s family history parallels U.S. history over the whole of the twentieth century. Her family is involved in the women’s suffrage movement, the sinking of the Titanic, the rise of the assembly line, building of the Empire State Building and the Great Depression. World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. The Civil Rights movement and the cultural revolution of the Sixties.
Through her understanding of where she came from, Sonia gains the insight and courage to confront her present challenges.
Highly recommend!
Kwaiku
Rain on River Kwai.
Love nest on a bamboo raft.
You still want that bridge?
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Bridge Over Teenage Troubles
When a mother demanded of her son why he had been smoking pot under the bridge with the other kids, he told her it was no big deal because all the kids do it.
“And if all the kids jumped off that bridge, would you do it too?” the mother asked.
“Oh, Mom,” the son replied, “Why do you say that stupid phrase every time I’m in trouble. It doesn’t even make sense.”
The mother thought for a moment and then said, “Because all the parents do it.”
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The Bookie and the Bookie
(The Pimpkins #6)
Mitsy asked Tinker what made him want to own a bookstore.
Tinker told Mitsy when he was a boy his father was always on the phone with his bookie, and that had inadvertently set his ambition toward books.
Mitsy said she bet his mother was happy for the error.
Tinker said he didn’t think it mattered to her either way–considering she was his dad’s bookie.
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This is not a Story
The mayor asked the fire marshal, “Why has none of the city’s citizens visited our new city hall?”
The fire marshal asked the mayor, “When is a door not a door?”
“When it’s ajar?” replied the mayor. He’d heard that joke before.
“No,” said the fire marshal, “When you hire Pepe Magritte, the half-brother of Belgian painter René Magritte, as your architect.”
“This cannot be happening!” exclaimed the mayor.
“It isn’t,” said the fire marshal.
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Fast Food
Two cheetahs nuzzled after devouring their anniversary dinner on the Serengeti.
“Do you know what I like about fast food?” the female asked.
“What?” answered her mate.
“It’s never fast enough for us.”
And the sun went down on the Serengeti.
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