"On Thought" is a compilation of poems and stories written throughout the years during the author's travels around the world, including the strong influence of surgeries he performed in third world countries during times of war and the aftermath that followed. Some of the poems and stories are a relection of how others have touched the life of the author, and others reflect the atuhor's vivid imaginatin.

Scarlet Roads presents the real experiences of Don Mangus in story form, where characters and places have been changed to protect the innocent. He challenges all religions to look into themselves and their own inequities, and ask how a Creator would give us a world of suffering and pain, agony and loss, love and rejection, and endless loneliness and regret. How could He or She allow such misery to exist? Throughout the surgical experiences, the reader will find humor intertwined within the tragedy.

A gentle fantasy about little Sadako Asawa and Professor Charles Danbury, who met one cold evening in 1944 at the campus where the Professor taught music. Mysteriously, he was inspired to compose a sonata for her. Many Japanese children lost their lives in the great firestorms of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - long before their time. Providence could not allow such waste; thus, their spirits were sent afar on the wings of 1,000 cranes, seeking purpose and need, fulfill such, and ultimately rest in their destiny.

A gentle fantasy about little Sadako Asawa and Professor Charles Danbury, who met one cold evening in 1944 at the campus where the Professor taught music. Mysteriously, he was inspired to compose a sonata for her