Counseling, DBT, Dual Diagnosis Groups, Charting, Nursing Assistance

Counseling, DBT, Dual Diagnosis Groups, Charting

Published in Pulp City, Galaxy, SHARDS, Avatar Review, Fence, The Furnace Review,Short Cuts, Astral Iconoclast, The Sound, Jabberwocky, Best Poem 2008. Currently working on a serial novel with the working title of The Books of Moab.Its 400 years after all the major nations have annihilated each other with nuclear destruction. Civilization has begun to rebuild, and seats of power have shifted. In the country of New Prussia, the largest in Western Europe in the town of Estragert, a gypsy caravan sits outside the town with strained relations with the local township. In a year of strange circumstances a boy is born in the gypsy tribe. Many believe he is a prophetic birth, including some from the white village of Estragert. When an explosion rocks the Western Wall of New Prussia, it is revealed that Brishen has a destiny and he must leave to fulfill it with the utmost urgency. He, Durriken and Aishe begin to travel the land on the vague notion of their mysterious fate discovering a world of magic, destruction, superstition and hope. Brishen finds that his tribe is not the only one who knows of his kismet. The Britons learned of his birth and have labeled him as the Anti-Christ. Briton, now a land ravaged by power and “sorcery” is bent on destroying him. Brishen’s one destiny is to get to America now known as The Silent City. A land no one has heard from in over 400 years since the Old War and through both horror and joy his journey finds many strange and wonderful characters that join his new tribe and his volition to reunite the Gypsy people after 4000 years. Mixing Old Testament history, modern epithets, and dark fables, this is a story of what happens to the things we leave behind and what they can be turned into through the eyes of a boy bent on rebuilding this destroyed mosaic of a world. Planned to be a trilogy: Out of the Dead Lands, In the Silent City, and The Rising.