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Michael J. Krym
Books Upon Books
The Whispers of Sanity
ISBN-13: 9781495237324
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A compilation of short-stories and novellas that take a look at some of the harsher truths that linger in the background of our rapidly changing world. Whether it regards the true place of heroes, where the villains are rewarded, and champions are alone left in the gutter. Or whether it is the nature of love and loss witnessed through innocent eyes of a boy hopelessly searching across the Arabian Desert for the most beautiful woman he has ever seen, the simplest truths are never as simple as we believe them to be. The Whispers of Sanity takes a plunge into the darker underbelly of human society to find whether spiders and snakes make betters than people, or whether there is any hope for us at all.
The House of Saints
ISBN-13: 9781495238369
Young up and coming professor Matthew Daygh has everything he could have wished for, a notable name at a prestigious university, a good career, and a woman who may be his final hope for finding love. But to Daygh this world is overshadowed by a darkness that has followed him throughout his life pushing him further down between a bottle and his misfortunes. It is here that Daygh finds his way into the House of Saints, a world whose moral compass is as twisted as its boundaries.
Amidst the drugs, sex and debauchery, Daygh finds the one man who may hold the fate of his soul, Tomas Knight, a mysterious figure with a mysterious fortune. As Daygh plunges deeper into the shrouded shadows of the House of Saints, the boundaries between right and wrong start to sway. It will be between the two lives he is forced to balance where Matthew Daygh will determine not only the course of his own life, but the lives of countless others. It is in the House that Daygh learns not all fates are destined for the light.
Oscillate
ISBN-13: 978-1494973650
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Meet Rose, yet another soul lost and confused between two chapters of her life. Having only ever done what was expected of her, going to school for her parents, committing to a long distance relationship for her boyfriend, and learning that which society had told her was worth knowing in the first place. But just as with all lives and all peoples, it is only when we believe our lives have finally stopped long enough for us to enjoy what we have that the world shifts. Trapped between moments of the mundane, driven in by the relentless cold of the snow clad city, Rose allows herself to finally let go. But in a single moment of passion everything she has ever known is about to change.....
In the Tree of Life
Isbn-13: 978-1494983079
Penelope awakens at the bottom of a great. Lost, alone, scared, she quivers in the receding as the world begins to gain clarity. Upon the floor of the great forest that harbours the great tree there are no others like Penelope, there are only creatures, beings that frighten more than comfort her. It is from amongst these peculiar creatures that Penelope finds her first friend, Arach the Spider, who promises to take her back home to her people who reside at the top of the great tree. Along the way, Penelope learns the lessons we all may learn climbing through the tree of life. That those we call heroes are often the most villainous of all and that no thing should be judging by just what it appears as from the outside. Finally, there is the greatest lesson of all, that home, love, a place to belong, these things are not so easily defined as the world would have us believe.
Eidos: A Search for Home
ISBN-13: 978-1496068835
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Harmonia is a fourteen year old girl growing up on the planet of Sky, one of three planets that circle their sun. All of her life, the Corporations of Sky have owned the planet. Throughout the years they have taken the food, water, and resources of the planet for themselves. It was not long before they soon started claiming ownership over the people of Sky, soon all of the grown-ups had all but disappeared, which included Harmonia's parents.
Raised alone, with nothing but her dying grandfather as a caretaker, she struggles to find her place on a planet run by the children left behind. Harmonia is lost in a silly world she cannot seem to understand at all. Until one day, her grandfather reveals a secret that few have heard before. That on the far side of their sun, sits a place, a secret planet, that knows only peace and equality, a place called Eidos.
Driven by a series of unfortunate events, an unexpected horizon awaits Harmonia as she begins her journey to find the distant planet of Eidos, in hopes that her parents may already be waiting for her. What little she knows is that the greatest adventure of her life waits just ahead. Wooden ships that traverse the emptiness of space moved by unseen solar winds, the fractured remains of a planet broken by a senseless feud, and countless other odd adventures await Harmonia across the distant seas of space.
The only certainty is that her journey, Harmonia's search for a place called home, will reach far beyond the boundaries of the imagination....
Love & Garbage
ISBN-13: 978-1500417192
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In a not so distant future, and in a place not too far away, nestled between the hills of the Opes Valley, there rests the small town of Caelum. Yet it is beyond the pines and the poplars where the most unlikely of stories unfolds. Within a hidden refuge made of what some would call mere trash, where one person's waste quickly becomes another's mortar or walls, a place called Garbage City is brought to life. It is here amidst the garbage bag drapery, and plastic bottle bird feeders, that three wayward souls who would have never met any other way find themselves learning all about the power of perspective.
Timothy Standing is a hundred and three, living alone in the woods with only his dog Sir Chester Barksalot, an isolate lonely man too far removed from society. Alexandra North is twenty three, a girl who is looking for love in all the wrong places, and whose father just happens to be one of the wealthiest people in all of Caelum. James Storey is thirty three, a reporter for the Daily Times in the Big City who just can't quite seem to follow the rules, and not to mention has a bad habit of telling the truth.
It is in the forests of the Opes Valley, in that place known as Garbage City, that these three souls learn all about looking at not only garbage in a whole new light, but more importantly, what it means to truly love. This is the story of how each came to learn something new about Love & Garbage.