The Kikiloa Chronicles: A Literary Science Fiction Novel of Time Travel, Magical Realism and an Irrepressible Mitochondrial Eve

The Kikiloa Chronicles: A Literary Science Fiction Novel of Time Travel, Magical Realism and an Irrepressible Mitochondrial Eve

As a time surfer flickering across a trillion universes, Kiki is determined to discover an antidote to entropy before everything meaningful is lost. And now she’s a freckled fourteen-year-old trickster bounding across a San Francisco park to meet her kind and grounded friend Hazel, who Kiki believes can cause even death to pass people by. Probably. When a cliff collapses beneath them and Kiki vanishes mid-fall, Hazel is left alone with their attacker to begin her contemporary coming-of-age, while Kiki’s hopes unravel back to the trauma of her bleak beginnings as outcast and slave in a dystopian prehistoric world. But Kiki never lets up, whether lamenting a Hawaiian tsunami, alchemizing sniper attacks, telling quantum stories, weaving through highway pileups, going Jungian, or baking perfectly average cookies. And throughout, she spars with her infuriating, enigmatic mentor Paha, who believes surfing is elegy: all waves break, and fighting the end only creates suffering. The Kikiloa Chronicles is Erik D. Larson’s emotionally vast, funny, and wild speculative literary debut, carried by Kiki’s unmistakable voice from the devastating loneliness of her first life to the hard wisdom of friendship. Irrepressible and imperfect, she wrestles with love, a force like gravity, alive at the core of a universe destined for darkness. Circe meets The Midnight Library by way of Ursula K. Le Guin. 📖 Available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4gBVo0W [https://amzn.to/4gBVo0W]

Three Days In Hell

Helman is a town where God no longer listens. Disgraced and desperate after an affair with his boss's wife, Bobby Santos is exiled to Helman to hock Bibles for a crooked ministry that trades in faith the way others trade in contraband. The job is simple: unload the books or lose everything. But Helman is a dying desert town where sin is the only thriving industry, and salvation has no buyers. Helman belongs to JB and Amelia-beautiful, ruthless, and untouchable. Together they run every legal business and every criminal pipeline flowing through town, including a brutal cartel corridor trafficking drugs and underage girls north across the border. With nowhere else to go, Bobby embeds himself in Helman's corruption, guided by a small-time thief named Bins who teaches him how the town really survives. Bobby soon finds himself in trouble. Trapped by blackmail, watched by killers, and unable to flee, Bobby is offered one last gamble during Helman's infamous Chili Festival - a single night of excess that floods the town with outsiders and chaos. Bobby's chance of escape closes when both spouses come to him separately with the same unthinkable proposal. Murder the other. On a rooftop beneath a burning sky, with a gun and two bullets in his hands, Bobby must choose which devil survives, and whether his own soul is already beyond saving. 📖 Available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4ey9z4w [https://amzn.to/4ey9z4w]

Reflections Of Me: Living Life Experiences

Reflections of Me: Living Life Experiences is a collection of short stories written in poetry style. It is written as narrative poetry. Narrative poetry is one of the most common poetic forms. This poetic form is very much like a novel. Narrative poetry includes a series of events, including actions and dialogues. I uses a number of poetic methods such as rhyme, meter, and rhyming scheme. Usually, a narrative poem has a single speaker who is known as the narrator. The narrator recites the entire story from beginning to end. I am the narrator of these short stories/poems. The short stories in this narrative poetry are about life experiences such as; looking in the mirror, self-image, blind fate, family reunions, "isms" of the world, friendships, my way of thinking, testing the trials of life, communications, betrayal, beware of the snares, math problems of everyday life, "As Is" and more of life experiences that everyone can relate to at some point and time in their past, as they look in the mirror and reflect upon their life. These are some of the short stories/ poems titles that you will find inside this book. 📖 Available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3SlfcM5 [https://amzn.to/3SlfcM5]

Kit's Awakening: A Dark Progression Fantasy of a Fractured Mind (The Book of Kit: Book 1)

His father tried to break his body. To survive, he rewrote the rules of his mind. Eight-year-old Kit Landon is a project in progress. As the only son of the "Butcher," he is the subject of a cruel curriculum designed to forge a perfect ducal heir through pain and isolation. But when Kit’s mother dies, the Butcher’s need to keep up appearances dies with her. The honing ceases. The interest vanishes. Kit is left as a hollowed-out asset, abandoned in the wreckage of his own training. His only refuge is a reclusive mage, Cowl, a man with a dark history tied to the Landon bloodline. Cowl recognizes that Kit possesses a terrifyingly unique aptitude for splitting his mind. While most magi use this skill for simple focus, Kit’s psyche—already fractured by his father’s neglect—pushes the magic to a lethal extreme. He doesn't just partition his mind; he fractures his consciousness into sentient, semi-autonomous Vestiges. He offloads the agony of his isolation to an Emotional Vestige and delegates complex cognitive threads to Logical Vestiges. It is a desperate, mechanical adaptation to manage a life stripped of its purpose. But as political machinations turn the Landon manor into a slaughterhouse, the discarded son is caught in the crossfire. To survive the collapse of his world, Kit must rely on the managed ruin of his own mind—a power that keeps him functional, even as the Vestiges he created to survive his father begin to demand a life of their own. Perfect for fans of the systematic magic and intricate world-building in _Mother of Learning_ and the gut-wrenching character journey of Robin Hobb's _Farseer_ trilogy.📖 Available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4aViAU7 [https://amzn.to/4aViAU7]

From Innocence to Wisdom: Realizing the best version of yourself

An intensely personal self-help memoir chronicling one man’s profound transformation from a life defined by anger to one of genuine joy, connection, and wisdom. The author’s "Irish temperament" ultimately led to the life-shattering breakup of his 20-year marriage, and his childhood trauma of a "me-too moment" left him with an innate feeling of being "irrevocably broken.” The author embarks on a year of intense self-reflection, therapy, and reading. His breakthrough comes from a "mind trick" he devised: the intentional, sustained, and relentless practice of smiling. Drawing on concepts like the Facial Feedback Hypothesis and the power of the subconscious, he trains himself to smile even in the depths of his depression. The resulting change is astonishing, fundamentally altering his existence. The subtle, non-threatening smile makes him approachable, friendly, and eventually leads to a reconciliation with his ex-wife, and towards realizing the best version of himself. From Innocence to Wisdom is a powerful testament that a grown adult can fundamentally change, offering hope and practical strategies to anyone seeking to overcome their personal demons and live their best, most authentic life. 📖 Available on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4epIfoU [https://amzn.to/4epIfoU]