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Sapphire & the Atlantians

  Sapphire & The Atlantians The Sapphire Series of Novels This second edition includes eleven new pages and is completely rewritten.  In the colorful heart of Atlantia on the island of Atlantis lives a scrawny teenage girl unaware that she will soon become a hero.   For now, Sapphire lives a secluded life in The Elders’ Compound with old, boring seers.    Her only respite is visiting her grandmother in the forests of Iolite twice a year and when Jasper, her only friend, visits the compound.   For the most part, these last fifteen years have been one boring lesson after another learning the mysteries of science, math, history and the ways of humans.   Little does she know of the gifts she will soon receive for her upcoming sixteenth birthday nor the battle she will fight to save the human world. Children's Fiction Save the Jellywonkers: Help Keep The Oceans Clean Beware the Blackness, A Jellywonker Adventure A Tale of a Bear & Pon...

Evolution of the Cyborg

  Evolution of the Cyborg Evolution of the Cyborg , with its meandering timelines interspersed with science fact and fiction, is finished and published. I take the reader on a journey of the health and climate issues humans face—including food shortages and pandemics—leading to the necessity of bionic modifications.  It’s a world we are creating today.  Read to learn if the human race survived the  Evolution of the Cyborg .  Find it here . Peek into the first two paragraphs and follow along as our protagonist researches a forbidden subject: Humans. “Humans were biologically inefficient beings compared to most known organisms of Earth.  Specifically, they were exceptionally slow to evolve as a swiftly changing environment overtook them.  Their organs, especially the brain, required a significant amount of nutrients for proper functionality.  With a limited food supply caused by ozone depletion, pollutants, and climate chang...

Excerpt of War in Atlantis

Sapphire and The Atlantians: War in Atlantis Chapter 17 What follows is an exceptionally dark excerpt from book two in the Sapphire and The Atlantians Series of Novels: War in Atlantis. This scene is extremely dark, so please stop reading if it is too violent for you.  The darkness is necessary to foreshadow a few elements at the end of this book and the beginning of the next.  Backstory First, a little backstory.  Atlantians have gifts: empathy (more than simple telepathy), telekinesis, seeing (future and past), and healing.  Sapphire is surprisingly gifted (you'll have to read the books to learn more about her gifts).  Arion, an extremely gifted empath, can alter thoughts and memories.  Moreover, he can alter a person's reality.  In a nutshell, he is evil—deliciously evil. In the following, scene for this book, Sapphire, our female protagonist, is weary after many days of no sleep.  Consequently, she stu...