A collection of short stories, excerpts from novels, and poems by one of today's great writers. Scavinold shares with us his journeys into sci-fi, Buddhism, erotica, and poetry that will linger in your thoughts for years to come. Thoughtful, eclectic, diverse and anything but ordinary.

Marcus leaves a job assignment in turmoil and seeks solace with his estranged grandfather. For the first time in his well disciplined life he is experiencing an unprecedented explosion of rampant uncontrollable emotion. Aside from his grandfather he has nowhere else to go. But the old man is more than he bargained for and pushes him through a series of self-realizations that throw him so far over the edge he fears he will never make it back to the comfort of what he called life. Voodoo. Corporate theft. Entities. Rebirths. Crooked old cons. Beautiful deadly women. Bull Sharks. Serpent men and staple guns. Marcus must learn to differentiate between his head and his heart. Standing forever in the background is the only link between these two men, mother to one, daughter to the other, the woman who walked into the ocean. Marcus is the modern all American boy - and boy is he paying for it. A choice education leaves a lot to be desired. A childhood of convenience plants seeds that take years to grow - but when they do they choke out everything else in the forest. This yarn of coming to terms with who and what we really are will ruffle your feathers, unravel your senses, and leave you standing alone on a grass-flat in the middle of the night in the Gulf of Mexico waiting for hungry sharks. You are never too old to be taught a new lesson or two.

Theseus is an epic tale of love and friendship. Torn unjustly from his wife and children, Theseus becomes the pawn of three old gangsters set on revenge. He becomes an integral part of the old gangsters elaborate plan and learns lessons no school could ever teach. Thrown back into the streets he worked so hard to escape from, Theseus alters the plan to set in play a course of events that influences everything and everyone it touches. The tale of his journey unfolds as he finds his lost wife in a better place and is forced to look at his own motives and drives, life and ideas of love. Theseus treads that blurred line between good and bad, love and hate, right and wrong, madness and sanity. It is a wholesome tale that leads us through our own mis-wrought illusion of self aggrandizement and pride. The roles women have suffered, our inadequate leaders and societal oppression, and the economic hardships of today are explored with insight only fiction can even begin to unveil.

A satire and a ghost story. Set in the early to mid 1960's this play focuses on the misconceptions of blacks and whites towards each other, and the undying love between a father and daughter. Three acts. A wonderful, witty, unveiling of our limitations and strengths.

Elegant. Raw. Real. Recently early retired, Alex wakes one morning from a dream of developing a new Tai Chi form. Each morning before dawn Alex wanders down to the bay to stand silently awaiting the first intuition of movement. Instead, broken elements of his past converge on him like whirlwinds merging into a torrid life storm. Is life bringing these things together for him to interpret into a form? Is the form bringing his knots and kinks, like stiff muscles, together for him to process so he can move on? Patterns set up from early childhood loom. With years of Taoism, Tai Chi, and street smarts, we perceive through Alex a fresh take on the madness of our lives and silliness of our convictions. A story of pain, love, and the subtle wisdom only time and experience can convey. A great read.