Fate or free will? This is a theory which has plagued the mind of man since the dawn of his time. Long ago, in an age when man was beginning his destiny, six people stood atop a mountain. Their purpose was to enter the cavern before them and find an ancient prize sealed within its rocky embrace. Little did they know that this prize was greater than they could have ever imagined. Their actions throughout this endeavor would prove to have a profound consequence for the human race, a consequence so great that even biblical scriptures have ignored them.

Now, in our modern day, one nurse, Evelyn Bryce, is about to stumble upon this divine truth. Through her actions and the actions of those around her, she begins to suspect that all things are not what they appear to be and a strong force, as old as man himself, holds the answer to his origins.

End's Beginning is a novel of the past and present that links humanity to the divine. Biblical history has taught us how we came to be. Science has provided an alternate explanation. What if the answer of how man has come to be lies in both evolution and an unwritten scripture?

Follow Bryen as he struggles with the fact that he wants to be more than a baby daddy.

Modernist Parasites: Bioethics, Dependency, and Literature, post-1900 analyzes biological and social parasites in the political, scientific, and literary imagination. Initially referring to a guest who exchanged stories for a place at the dinner table, Sebastian Williams argues that the parasite has developed into a vile and hated figure who drains energy from the body politic. With the rise of Darwinism, eugenics, and parasitology in the late nineteenth century, he posits that “parasite” became a biosocial term for Humanity’s ultimate Other—a dangerous antagonist. But many modernist authors reconsider the parasite to critique the liberal humanist sense of an independent Self. Considering work by Isaac Rosenberg, John Steinbeck, Franz Kafka, Clarice Lispector, Nella Larsen, and George Orwell, among others, the author argues that even parasites have their place in a posthumanist world. Ultimately, he argues the parasite inherently depends on others for its survival, illustrating the limits of ethical models that privilege the discrete individual above interdependent communities.

"Send Them to Hell" is a horrifying, authentic chronicle of life as lived by foreign inmates over the past two decades in Bangkok's notorious prison system. Murder, human-rights abuse, drugs, prisoner and child sex slavery, blackmail, extortion, extreme violence, medical maltreatment, and unjustifiable death penalties feature as everyday occurrences in the living hells that are Bangkwang and Klong Prem jails. Sebastian Williams has graphically revealed this shocking reality through the eyes of a long-term inmate who has endured at first hand the unimaginable, inhuman nightmare that constitutes the Thai penal system.

Twins, they both had tempers just like all the men in their family. It remained to be seen if the oldest had any of the other traits of his family. The problem was that both brothers had inherited their family anger and their family's issues with the other side. Neither knew anything about it, but it was going to play a huge part in their club life from now on. The twin's mother was a devout follower of the Santerial religion in St. Johns, meaning there were other aspects added into the twin's lives. Magic and other worldliness were prevalent. The twins would soon find out that this was to complicate their lives, whether their mother was around or not. There was so much that the twins were not made aware of, but sooner rather than later they would begin their journey. It was a journey that would suck every one of their compatriots into the mire, one that would threaten all they had come to know.

Years ago, Bryen was a proud father with nothing but happiness before him. Now he was a doctor and a published author struggling to remain relevant in his daughter's life. The struggle was real, the struggle to not be another baby daddy, but to be a father.

It was at this moment that she realized that she was doomed; as soon as the guards realized that D'kin was not coming out they would come in. That would be the end of her. Even her comrade's back home would not know to mourn her. She knew she was in no condition to take on trained armed men. She had to get out quickly, tho she had accomplished this part of her stratagem she still had more to do. Not to mention this Katarasina character, her greatest rival would never know how close she came to death.

As the sun makes its final passage into the eastern horizon, I am slowly scanning the terrain for any slight movement. My eyes are unfocused, a result of years of training at ""The Factory , so as to catch any menial amount of movement present. Sebastiaen, my brother and best friend, is slowly making his way into the compound. We haven't had contact with the rest of our team in forty-eight hours and I can tell that Bas is worried. Why shouldn't he be? I am just as worried. Zo, who hasn't been in the field since we thought that we had lost Shaun, was bringing himself out of semi-retirement, Katarasina, Bas' assistant who is secretly in love with the idea of fieldwork, and Bas is finally getting to show her stuff. And the two newest acquisitions to the team; Kaleo Kalani, the Hawaiian recruit just out of the factory, has yet to see this kind of action, and N Kia, the rogue MI-6 agent brought in to fill in the holes left by Shaun and Nancy. I just wish we had ...

Fate or free will? This is a theory which has plagued the mind of man since the dawn of his time. Long ago, in an age when man was beginning his destiny, six people stood atop a mountain. Their purpose was to enter the cavern before them and find an ancient prize sealed within its rocky embrace. Little did they know that this prize was greater than they could have ever imagined. Their actions throughout this endeavor would prove to have a profound consequence for the human race, a consequence so great that even biblical scriptures have ignored them.

Now, in our modern day, one nurse, Evelyn Bryce, is about to stumble upon this divine truth. Through her actions and the actions of those around her, she begins to suspect that all things are not what they appear to be and a strong force, as old as man himself, holds the answer to his origins.

End's Beginning is a novel of the past and present that links humanity to the divine. Biblical history has taught us how we came to be. Science has provided an alternate explanation. What if the answer of how man has come to be lies in both evolution and an unwritten scripture?