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Ard Righ: The Sword on the Stone                       (a Celtic Tale), DNA Press

“Whosoever takes the sword Caladfwlch from the Stone is the true born High King of Briton.”  With those words, Myrddin, incomparable counselor to kings, has fulfilled his vow to Ambrosius, the last Emperor of the West: the great sword Caladfwlch of the Hard Lightening would next be in the hands of the King of the Summerlands. Myrddin had prophesied a child born of a dark sin, a child who would grow into manhood in the fosterage of a noble family, a child who would be forged into the King of the Summerlands: Arthur.  Purchase this book now

Ard Righ: The Sword on the Stone, chronicles the early life of Arthur, the burgeoning King of Summer, following the legendary character from his much-anticipated birth, through his heroic ascension to the Sovereignty of Briton, culminating in his defense of Sovereignty itself against the treasonous renegade Lot.

The Kingdom of Summer (a Celtic Tale)                                                          publication pending (contact author (bio page) if interested)

Evil is loose in the kingdom— a malevolence so thoroughly corrupt that it has sickened the very land itself.  Arthur, the King of the Summer Lands, and his Knights of the Round Table are charged by God to seek out the legendary Holy Grail, the cup of Jesu the Christ, that it might once again bring its healing light into the world.  The quest will take the legendary knights on a journey across Briton, across the great western sea to the land of Er-Yr, the Land of the Eagles, and back to the very heart of Arthur’s kingdom: Caerleon, the City of the Legions, where a maelstrom of lies and deceit, rage and murder, invasion and siege come together, culminating in an astonishing confrontation that will leave the reader breathless in The Kingdom of Summer’s wake.

Reign of Fire (a Celtic Tale)                                                                                        publication pending (contact author (bio page) if interested)

Fresh off of his stay of execution from the atrocities he committed at the Siege of Caerleon, Mordred and his malevolent mother Morganna find themselves once again allied with Briton’s interminable enemies, the Saecsons.  This time, the diabolical duo seek to turn the Church from their support of Arthur by accusing Arthur and Myrddin of trying to bring back the Druid schools, teaching pagan ways to the youth of Briton!  Pope Gregory and native Briton Cardinal Dubrieius turn a deaf ear to their accusations when the pair pleads their case directly to the Holy Father in Rome.  Mordred and Morganna storm back to their Saecson allies, who have teamed with another antagonist of Briton, the Jutes, and the combined forces square off in a battle for the ages against Arthur’s forces in what history has told us was Arthur’s final and greatest battle: the Battle of Mount Baedon, from whose field came no victor.

Shadow of the Grail (a Celtic Tale)                                                                                   publication pending (contact author (bio page) if interested)

Cam Cennedi, “‘Grail’s” main character, is faced with the dire prospect of losing his lifelong friend, Chance McCormick, to a life-threatening virus.  Concurrently, a super-strain of this disease is created and released on an unsuspecting world, pushing it to the brink of extinction.  Realizing that only divine intervention can save the day, Cam and Chance embark on a quest to find the legendary Holy Grail— the Cup of Christ— and use it’s healing powers to stop the extermination of the human race.  Along the way, Cam and Chance encounter such heroic figures as King Arthur and the indefensible Caladfwlch (Excalibur); Myrddin (Merlin), the Archmage of Briton; the evil sorceress Morganna; and Arthur’s bastard son and nephew, Mordred, the evil behind the release of the super virus.  Held in check for over a thousand years, Arthur and Mordred once again resume their epic battle in what is now the modern day United States— a timeless battle between good and evil.

The Messiah Helix (a suspense novel of the CuVer)                                                                                   publication pending (contact author (bio page) if interested)
The Sixth Pillar (a suspense novel of the CuVer)                                                                                   publication pending (contact author (bio page) if interested)


SHORT STORIES
  • The Eraser of God (horror)
  • Black Bugs Bleed Red Blood (horror)
  • Cecelia (non-fiction)
  • Diver (minimalist)
  • Excess Baggage (minimalist)
  • The Hitchhiker (an Urban Legends horror story)
  • Hometeam (horror)
  • Hookman (an Urban Legends horror story)
  • Mannequin (horror)
  • Oak Hill Cemetery Dance (an Urban Legends horror story)
  • Rats (horror)
  • Spacer (science fiction)
  • Uninformed Consent (an Urban Legends horror story)
  • Zelda’s Occult Shop (suspense)
  • Bus Ride (suspense)

ESSAYS

Columbine:  An American Tragedy
SEC: Five Years
A Philosophical Minute
I Am A Bulldog
Faith in Church Needs to be Restored
Football’s Golden Rule: The T.O. Saga
Garp Review
Adoption
Search Becomes a Journey of Discovery
Superman: The Man of Steel
One Moral Standard
Simple Concept Says it All
Maybe America Has Abused its Freedom of Speech
Media Priority
All About Variety
Starved for Entertainment
Sewage Puzzle Must Be Solved
Terror Tuesday
It Takes a Village
Wawa Wants Pumps Out
Wetland Problem for WDD Plan

POEMS
911 · Aching •  After I’m Dead •  Again to be Kissed •  Air is Pitched in Pronouns, The •  Alas Where Be My Inner Glow •  All I Can Do Is Ache •  All Is Done, Under the Sun •  All of the Good Lines Are Taken •  All Things Pass to Fall Behind •  Alone At Last •  Alone In A Crowd •  An Icy Patch of Pure Starlight •  And Here Am I •  And Make of Me Tranquility •  And So I Bid Adieu •  And There Was a Child •  And When the Wind Blows Through Your Hair •  And Yet I See You Going •  Angel’s Arms •  Another Layer Shown to Me •  Are You a Mirage •  As A Little Boy •  As I Am •  As it Should Be • Ascend the Abyss •  Ashes of My Soul, The •  Babbling of False Pretense, A •  Back To You •  Ballad of a Lonely Knight, The •  Battle Dream •  Be Better Alone •  Be Careful on Your Travels West •  Be You Alone •  Beacon of One Day, The •  Beat Fast My Heart •  Beauty Is In the Eye •  Becalm the Tide •  Beneath the Teaming Torrent •  Better Off Dead •  Beware the Light •  Beyond That Wall of Inches •  Black •  Blood in the Rain • Blue Jay on My Window Sill • Bound •  Boys, The •  Breached a Wall •  Breakup Poem, The •  Brighter of Ways, The •  Brothers in Death •  Cage is Open, The •  Can’t Go Back •  Can’t, Won’t •  Cantankerous Luckies •  Carnate Chain, The •  Cat •  Caught in the Middle • Celestial Love •  Cerebral Taps •  Children of Clay •  Children of Eve, The •  Children Playing Upon the Air We Be •  Christmas Poem, The •  Circle, The •  Closeted Confessions • Clouds of Whites and Grays • Cold As Life •  Color Me a Rainbow •  Color Relatively •  Colorful Eyes •  Come Lonely •  Come Slowly to Me • Come Suddenly •  Comes Man’s Greatest Strength •  Comfort Inn •  Coming of Rain and Joy, The •  Common Man, The •  Could It Really Be Only Yesterday •  Could There Be •  Crimson & Blue •  Cruel Bounds •  Crystal Tears •  Curious Delight •  Currents of Desire •  Curtain of Certain Strange, A •  Dare, The •  Darkness, The • Dazzling Optimism •  Dearest Dream •  Death Be A Pony Tonight •  Death Becomes a Faculty •  Deepest Shadows Lurking •  Déjà vu •  Destiny’s Child • Did I Say that Out Loud •  Did You Know •  Does Time Exist •  Don’t Try to Manipulate the Wind •  Drawn By Fate •  Dream Catcher •  Dream, The •  Dreams Less Fretful • Drip •  Drowned in Our Own Out •  Eagles Eulogy •  Eat A Peach •  Echo •  Echoes of a Better Self •  Effective Immediately •  Elegy for Dad Canticle Eight •  Elegy for Dad Canticle Five •  Elegy for Dad Canticle Four •  Elegy for Dad Canticle Nine •  Elegy for Dad Canticle One •  Elegy for Dad Canticle Seven •  Elegy for Dad Canticle Six •  Elegy for Dad Canticle Three •  Elegy for Dad Canticle Two •  Elegy for Dad Nine Canticles •  Emerald Stole My Ruby, The •  Empty the Soul •  Erectile Pest •  Ethereal Eyes •  Every Syllable Was Ray •  Exanimation •  Experience, Like a Child •  Eye of the Day • Face of Two People, The •  Fair Breath of Life •  Fair Breath of Springtime, The •  Falsely Starting •  Fantastic Start, A •  Feline Familiar •  Final Chase, The •  First Time, The •  Five Minutes of Yesterday’s Time •  Five Steps Back •  Five-Year Old •  Flaxen-Haired Goddess •  Fly Will Flee •  Footsteps •  For All the Time I’ve Known Your Name •  For Granted •  For I Have Met My Heart’s Desire •  For Just a Passing Moment •  For Sometimes Wishes Come To Pass •  For the Dream •  For the Goodness of the Many •  Forced To •  Forever Into Time • Fortune By Faith •  Fractallic Cacaphony •  Fragile •  Free Man •  Freeride •  Friendship is a Wild Wind •  From a Leaden Sky •  From the Darkest Be They Cast •  Frustrated •  Fuel for the Fire · Fullest Blush of Youth · Future, The · Get Up · Gift of Forgiveness, The · Gift, The · Given in to Giving · Glass is Full, The · God’s Questions · Goodbye to Sweetness · Gray Man · Great Puzzle, The · Greatest Treasure, The · Ground Is Off, The · Guenevere · Guilty as the Sun · Hallways of the Dead · Halo of the Saint, The· 

Hanging in the Air Like the Smoke From a Gun · Hard is But the Softest Part · Haven From Despair, A · He Lives on One More Day · He Sat · Heart Content, A · Heart’s A Flame · Helios · High Tide Emotion · Highland Whisper · Honesty · Honorable Death · Hope It Brings Eternal Light · Houses of the Healing, The · How Do You · I Am a Clod · I Am a Kite in the Wind · I Am An Oarless Dingy · I Am At My Strongest When I’m Standing Alone · I Am But a Small Waste · I Am Done With Being Sad · I Am More Fragile Than I Seem · I Am Renewed · I Am the Winter Moon · I Could Not Find the Glee · I Cried a Tear the Other Day · I Don’t Know Where My Head Is At · I Endeavor · I Feel the Cold · I Had to Say Your Name · I Have to Wonder at the Dawn · I Heard Your Voice · I Live So That I Love · I Need Counting On Sheep · I Need to Say I Love You · I Never Thought · I Pause to Open the Door · I See My Own Grave · I See the Sand on the Beach · I Sit Here Bored · I Suffer for Death · I Tell You I Love You · I Think By Link We Can Be Grand · I Thunder Down · I Touched Your Hair the Other Day · I Was Touched By Your Touch · I Will Coax Your Love From You · I Will Guard You Well · I Wish · I Wish There Was for You A Way · I Wonder · I Wonder at Your Name · I Wonder to Myself · I Wonder Where His Mind Is At · I Write at Night · I, In Each Other · I’m Not As Well As I Might Seem · I’m Only Gifted as a Poet · I’m Tired of Being Sad · I’ve Beauty Enough · I’ve Done a Lot of Bad at Times · I’ve Fallen · If A Song Is Sung · If Beauty Be Named in the Rose · Ill-Fated Shadow · Immortality · In A Child’s Hands · In a Time When Worry · In Company With Misery · In Search of the One · In Temperance Made · In Wonder, In Rhymes · In Your Eyes · In Your Sweet Embrace · Inspirational Burnout · Into the Dull Madness of Unfathomable Depression · It’s My Turn· 

It’s Not for Nothing That I Search · Journey, The · Just A Dream · Just As We Prefer It · Just Love, My Love · Just Words · Lady Jane · Lady of Dawn · Lament of the Dead · Ledge of My Soul, The · Lesser Harm, The · Let It Pass You Buy This Time · Let Us · Life Can Be a Reason · Life in a Cage · Life Is But A Standing Fence · Life Settles Hopeless Things · Life’s Illimitable Forest- A Sestina · Light of a New Day, The · Light of Love, The · Little Boy · Little Bud That Knew, The · Loneliness · Lonely Life is Not for Me · Long Ride to Another Day, A · Looking for the Muse · Lose the Crutch · Lost · Lost In Soulful Eyes · Lost · 

Love and Tender Kisses · Love Holds Rule · Love is But a Dream · Love That Warms Me Now · Love Too New, A · Love Would Have Known · Love’s Alluring Stare · Lust on a Drop of Love · Magic Fills the Air · Majesty of Your Dawn, The · Man Who Was Blinded by Fate, The · Matthew Sleeps · Matthew Tinkle Tinkle in a Jar · Matthew Vibhu · Me and You, Part Two · Meadowland is So Green- A Villanelle · Memories From the Past · Memories Get Me By · Merry Christmas · Mirror Cracks, the · Money · Morning Fog, The · Mother · Mother 2 · Mother’s Promise, A · Muse · Must the Noise · My Actions Will Prove Just · My Birthday · My Eyes See the Blue Once Again · My Heart Beats · My Inspiration · My Lacking Intuition · My Legacy · My Love · My Love She Rests · My Own Skin · My Power · My Shield · My Soul · My Soul Be In Profound Twilight · My Soul Dies · My Soul From Loving You · My Soul- The Proposal · Name of Freedom, The · Neat Little Rhyme · Never Comes in Stealth · Never Me · New Beginnings · New Rhythm, A · Niagara · Night on the Cut, A · Nightmare · No Enemy Mine · No Matter How the Days Go By · No More · No More the Light Shine · No One Else · No Regret Have I · No Room For Me · No Trivial Thought Be Your Heart · Noble Quest for Scholarship, The · Nor Can I Imagine · Not Meant to Live in Summer · Nothing is Easy, Nothing is Free · Nothing Outward Brings Us Ease · Now We Drink A Bitter Cup · Of Finer Things · Oh Please Be Hornier Than the Rest · Oh What You Do To Me · On Celebrating Fifty Years · On Driest Ground · On Such A Cloudy Day As This · On the Breeze 

Once Again · One Day Less to Share With You · One Final Time · One Love, Perfect · One Remembers, The · One Summer’s Lament · One Too Many Times · Only In My Imagination · Open Hearted Beauty · Operations · Paraskevidekatriaphobia · Pardon Me My Passion · Parity and Birth of Emotion, The · Passions Run as Deeply · Past is Gone (Reprise), The · Past is Gone, The · Pedestal · Pen of the Poet, The · Perfect Accent · Plan for the Twice-Gone, A · Poet’s Fire, A · Poopiegizmorexfangray · Postcard From the Edge, A · Praise for the Shower · Present’s Wings, The · Pressure is Intense, The · Promise of Today, The · Push Into the Wind · Pyre and Ice · Queen of Fey · Quest Divine, The · Quite So · Rabbit is Quite Caught, The · Rain Falling on My Head · Raindrops Magnify · Raise a Glass · Reconcilliation · Return to Me · Rhythm of My Mind · River of Despair, The · Romance · Rose Behind the Glass, The · Roses Bloom in Praise, The · Sacred Love · Sad the Time · Salvage · Sandcastles in the Tide · Saturating Symphony · Scenic Whisper · Scent of You, The · Schizoparatonia · Season’s Changing · Seasonal Change · Seize the Moment · Sense’s Voice · Seppuku · Shackball · Shaft of Life, A · Shafts from a Stale Moon, The · Share the Sky · She · She Comes in Colors · Show Us the Colors of Your Heart · Shuddering, I Reset Myself to You · Sighing Sounds of the Wind, The · Silly Little You · Simple Thing, A · Simplest of Pleasures, The · Simply Nothing Appears Perfect · Sit In Angel’s Flight · Six More Feet · Sky Blue Patches · Sleeper’s Prayer · Smile of Pain, A · So Are You To Me A Dream · So Well Devine · Sodden Tide, A ·  Something Thus and Such · Sometimes · Somewhere Along the Way · Song of Life · Song That Rings Most True, The · Sonnet for a Watery Grave · Sonnet for Gloucester · Sonnet for Love’s Angel · Sonnet for the Passing Time · Sonnet for Three Years · Sonnet on Beauty · Sonnet on Cold Sleep · Sonnet on Croissants Served with Thyme · Sonnet to an Unclean Spirit · Sonnet to the Sleeper’s Prayer · Sonnet: This Life As Sweet As Wine · Sonnet: Time is Not My Friend · Soothing Balm, A · Sound of Noise, The · Sound of Nothing, The · Sour Stomach · Spawned in Season · Spell for Curse Away · Spell for Dream Banishing · Spell for Money · Spirit of It, The · Stain, A · Stairwells of Eternity · Star of Wonder · Star Shines Tonight, A · Star-Crossed Lovers · Starlight · Still I Am Denied · Stout Hearts · Stroking the Winds · Summer Daydreams · Summer Wish, A · Summertime · Sun and You Went West, The · Sun is Always Shining, The · Sun Shines, The · Sun’s Blessing, A ·  Sunny, Bright, & Blue · Sweet Song · Sweet the Irony · Sweet the Rain · Talespinner · Tame Me a Lion · Tear You Shed, A · Technicolor Day, A · Than the Ease · Thank You · Thanksgiving · That Was the Past · That Which is to Come · Then Knowledge Showed Its Face · There Have I Seen the Better Life · There I’ve Said it · There is a Compromise · There Would Be You · These Colors Won’t Run · Thinking of You · This Is What Love Is · This Multi-Sensuality · Those Wee Little Beasties · Thought About Today · Thought of Losing You, The · Thought of Thee (Reprise 3), A · Thought of You (Reprise 2), A · Thought of You (Reprise), A ·  Thought of You Crosses y Mind, The · Thought of You, A · Thoughts of Time · Through the Leaden Rain · Tide, The · Tides and Brows · Tighter Grip, The · Time Between Times, The · Time Slide · Time Was Lent · To Be A Fly · To Be A Rustle · To Each Dog His Day · To Find a Tailor · To Live · To Love I Go · To Marry Such A Friend · To My Sheer and Utter Delight · To Speak of Parts Within My Soul · To Think Just As You think You Do · To Wind In Death · Today is a New Day · Touch of a Peer, The · Trembling in the Wind · Trip Notes · Trip of Life, The · Tune Without the Might of a Melody, A · Two Hundred Twenty-Six Days · Two People Can Only Lie · Uncle Thumb and the Birthday Wish · Uncle Thumb and the Blackened Night · Uncle Thumb and the Endless Good · Uncle Thumb and the Lonely Tumble · Uncle Thumb and the Sad Affair · Uncle Thumb and the Thin Flame of Power · Under a Blanket of White · Unlock Me · Unseen Intuitions · Untapped Excellence · Upon A Starry Night I See · Upon the Hill · Validation of Love, A · Vile Life · Violets Are Blue · Water is Lapping Upon My Bow (Reprise), The · Water is Lapping Upon My Brow, The · Way, The · We Close the Door · We Even Begin to Die · We Love · We Two Are One · Welcomed Death · What Does It Take · What Does the Future Hold · What Lurks There · What Passions Compel a Man · What Runs Through Your Head · What Sacrifice · What Time Is It · What Tomorrow Has Bought · When Hearts Are of a Kind · When the Landlord Comes · When You Look at Me · Where Heart’s A Wont To Go · Where You Once Were · Which of These Are Opened Doors · While We Sleep · Who Are You · Wind Stirs Your Hair (cont’d), The · Wind Stirs Your Hair, The · Wind, Early in the Morning, The · Winter Stalling · Winter’s Night, A · Wish, The · Without the Benefits of You · Woody · Word Is Dry, The · World Becomes a Brighter Place, The · Years and Dust · You · You All Abuse · You Already Have My Heart · You Are My Religion · You Are Not a Picnic Love · You Are the Best · You Rest · You Smile · You’ve Opened Up your Heart to Me · Your Very First Flight · Zero Crosses the Line




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