The essays collected in Among Other Things reveal the depth and significance of mundane objects a puzzle, a skillet, an antique cannon, an avocado sandwich. With wry wit and insight, Robert Long Foreman examines small things close-up, casting his eye on what we have in our closets and on our shelves. With the personal and collective histories of everyday touchstones in view, the essays explore ancestry, inheritance, and the implications of ownership. Together they trace the author's fraught path from adolescence to adulthood, and contemplate the complexities of family and belonging.

A teenage, pregnant, junkie named Danielle ... a barren, divorced Nurse named Betty ... a middle-aged, family-oriented Cardinal named Gary ... a powerful, three-member clandestine organization called the Concilium Tria, which is overseen by the strongest, evilest force known to man since its inception almost 2000 years ago, are all connected. It all begins with Nurse Betty's reoccurring dream night after night until it becomes a shocking, sudden reality. A male, newborn is kidnapped from the hospital shortly after being delivered. Danielle almost dies giving birth. After decades of faithful service, Cardinal Gary abruptly leaves the Catholic Church when he decides to go against what he is asked to do by the Pope. The Concilium Tria starts its desperate search for the last prophet. A war involving every soul-living and dead-will happen if the Concilium Tria discovers the whereabouts of the last prophet. Humanity's only chance is the last prophet not being found. A dangerous, deadly storm is on the horizon. Will man's innate capability for benevolence conquer its lewd desire for the materialistic?

A teenage, pregnant, junkie named Danielle ... a barren, divorced Nurse named Betty ... a middle-aged, family-oriented Cardinal named Gary ... a powerful, three-member clandestine organization called the Concilium Tria, which is overseen by the strongest, evilest force known to man since its inception almost 2000 years ago, are all connected. It all begins with Nurse Betty's reoccurring dream night after night until it becomes a shocking, sudden reality. A male, newborn is kidnapped from the hospital shortly after being delivered. Danielle almost dies giving birth. After decades of faithful service, Cardinal Gary abruptly leaves the Catholic Church when he decides to go against what he is asked to do by the Pope. The Concilium Tria starts its desperate search for the last prophet. A war involving every soul-living and dead-will happen if the Concilium Tria discovers the whereabouts of the last prophet. Humanity's only chance is the last prophet not being found. A dangerous, deadly storm is on the horizon. Will man's innate capability for benevolence conquer its lewd desire for the materialistic?

The book is a collection of short stories and poems that were written as I moved through several relationships over a four year period. I wrote blogs that were originally supposed to be a part of this. I charted and chronicled every step of my healing, every growth, every realization. Rehabilitating one's personality is hard. At the beginning, the book was supposed to be a chronicle of my recovery from my divorce, but I made the mistake of going straight from my marriage into a bad relationship with a younger woman. Getting away from that relationship almost killed me. 5 years of marriage plus 5 years of abusive relationship plus ten years of custody battle equals fifteen years of pain and suffering (the first five of the custody battle were served concurrently with the abusive relationship). But really, the pieces collected in this book were the expressions that came out of the healing period, from 2006 to 2011. These were the creative parts, the art therapy. I decided to leave out the blogs, the rants, the emotional gushing, the instant message transcripts. I suppose at some point, if there's ever an interest, those things might be restored. They're all stored somewhere. Now that I've bummed you out, realize the collection is hopeful. I'm still alive, and on the other side of it all... my life is picking up momentum, and I'm doing more with the time afforded me now than I ever have before. There is a novel that I'm very proud of, coming very soon. So a personal thank you to all those who helped create what's inside. I can't list the names, because apparently that's gauche, and besides, there are enough first names dropped to make the curious have something to salivate over. But thank you to all of them nonetheless; thank you for the laughter, and the tears, the anger and the fears, thank you for the pain and the joys that have helped me bring me to this point, to who I am today. I am still alive. The story goes on.

Just another vampire novel? No, this is the vampire novel that makes all other vampire novels come together. Horror fans know the story of Vlad the Impaler, a real-life Wallachian tyrant who became the basis for one of the most iconic characters in the history of horror fiction. But what if the vampire Vlad became was NOT fictional? What if, to convince people he did not truly exist, Vlad Tepesch told his story to an author, who then published the story as fiction, leading people to believe that the creature Vlad the Impaler became did not actually exist? And what if other vampires picked up the strategy and took over the media, with the idea of disseminating disinformation through hundreds of horror "fiction" productions? This strategy is at the core of "The Tepesch Agenda." Not just an interview, "The Tepesch Agenda" is an in-depth exploration of vampire psychology, the ins and outs of what it truly means to have walked the earth for centuries. Daniel Tiernan, aka Morrigan, may just change horror "fiction" forever.

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These new and delightful fables expand on the themes that Aesop wrote about and now concern the issues, vices, and virtues of this century. The one hundred fables, which involve animals, insects, people, and objects, touch on a variety of social, moral and even political themes that are particularly relevant to this time.