If you want to think about religion in a critical manner, this is a book that will put you on that path. I’ve never been real good at the faith thing. I’ve always questioned the precepts of religion, especially Christianity, because it’s been in my face my entire life. I’m not certain about all the…
Hi Everyone, Gene here musing on my April 6, 2021 release day of novel #2: Sweet Paradise. This one is very different from novel #1 (Dark Paradise) in that there’s no food, drink or friends gathering at my home to celebrate. There’s also the bittersweet feeling of doing something the second time, which while notable,…
I sat on the dock jutting into Lindberg Bay. The churning ocean swirled beneath me like a hungry tiger awaiting her zookeeper. I loved the ocean, but was terrified of being in the water. I had been an army guy. No water there. You would think that an island boy with a drunken sea captain…
He told her she was drunk. He told her he was foodless. His stepfather was already asleep; chuffing like a tiger on the Barcalounger, while eddies of dust swirled around his form from the recent plop of his butt on the thick cushion. If not for the stench of stale alcohol and unfiltered Camels, he…
I never understood why they called it a green room. A spider plant stood in one corner, that was it for green. Sprawled in the middle of the brown carpet lay Frank, the dead director of Island Zombies in Paradise. The faint smell of urine hung in the humid island heat. A ceiling fan slowly…
The bar had no sign. Cheryl said, “This place is, like, Tinsel Town or Tinsel Bar.” The basement stairs swelled out into a mucky alley. Keisha held her breath as they descended. At the bottom a hallway, two bathrooms, followed by neon signs with flashing arrows above two rooms: one said “drinks”, the other said…
Author Interview with Gene Desrochers.
Stacey seeks her place.
This book takes a lot of patience and slow reading. It’s not easily grasped, so I knocked off one star simply because people often tell me they stop reading because the stories are sometimes difficult to understand, too poetic, not clear enough. I stuck with it and like some science fiction books, accepted that much…
Monahan tells the true and inspirational tale of exactly what the title claims: how she shed her baggage and learned to live free. Who hasn’t considered, nay longed to do exactly that? Well, this book shows how one brave person changed the way she lived and created a life of adventure as well as spiritual…