As author Warren Bluhm's wife lay dying, he read passages from the Bible to her as she had requested. After she passed, he saw that the last words he had spoken to her were from the gospel of Matthew: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."From that moment Bluhm beg...

They are mostly silent friends and companions, my dogs, and so it was quite a surprise the morning they began to speak.That in itself was uncanny, but it wasn't long after that before the three of us were drawn into an adventure that involved dragons, elfin beings, talking animals, and — what else? — an existential threat to all that is.Dejah & Sumer in the Time of Magic could be described as a madcap romp for anyone who loves stories about good versus evil, life and death,...

A collision at a store entrance reverberates for 70 romantic years.Fleeing from danger, a man meets an old friend with a secret.A dragon settles in the backyard, vigilant and watching for - what?A cow, a moose and a gnome meet on a shelf and become fast friends.A man absent-mindedly crosses into a colorful, whimsical world.The author of Ebenezer, Myke Phoenix, Dejah & Summer in the Time of Magic and The Imaginary Bom...

"Life is better lived when you search for the light and not the dark."Here are 101 encouragements for when you’re about to embark on a new adventure, when you’re wrestling with doubt, when you could use a gentle push, or all of the above. From the author of Refuse to be Afraid and A Scream of Consciousness.

"My God, I'm full of words," cries Warren Bluhm, the author of Gladness is Infectious, How to Play a Blue Guitar, A Bridge at Crosswords, and now Full: Rockets, Bells & Poetry."The dance of the pen across the page is a deer prancing in the snow, kids racing through the grass, a performance car zipping across the flats so fast the videographer struggles to keep the machine in the frame."Here are notes, aphorisms and poems in three mini-collections: "The Cre...

Scientists have harnessed the power of the imagination as a source of energy. Of course, whenever a new power source is discovered, some idiot finds a way to weaponize it.Bob Whelan and Pete Wong are independent interstellar truckers caught in the middle when their freighter, the Betsy Ross, is commandeered to transfer a small, mysterious object and then hijacked by masked terrorists led by a small, mysterious woman who seems eerily familiar to Bob.With the help of...

We grow accustomed to our surroundings, to our world, to our quotidian, so much so that we stop seeing it, and in doing so we rob ourselves of life itself. We are meant to see the world — every part of it, every second — and to drink it in, and savor it, and change what we can and accept what we can't, but to see it all.Author Warren Bluhm resolves to "See the World!""I'm not planning to reallocate my resources so I can go explore ruins or exotic islands and rain forests an...

There's an old Buick Riviera under a tarp in Guinevere Thompson's garage — but don't call her Guinevere. On her deathbed, Jeep's mother tells her it's really a vehicle called the Traveler that travels through space, time and dimensions. A mysterious woman appears at Mom's funeral and promises to unveil all its secrets — but instead she shows up with a small army to try to seize the car.Jeep's narrow escape is the beginning of an epic adventure that will take her to Venus and beyond...

The people of Sirius 4 tried to overcome tyranny the old-fashioned way: by force. It turned out to be an imaginary revolution, replacing one violent regime with another. Raymond Douglas Kaliber suggested another way: that free people living by a spirit of non-aggression could live in peace and prosperity with one another. Before he could launch that bold experiment, however, he had to defeat the greatest tyrant of them all: his best friend ... Set in the same universe as the interplanetary...

The Zero Aggression Principle states, “No one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human being for any reason whatever; nor should anyone advocate the initiation of force, or delegate it to anyone else.”This quirky little book contains two dozen poems, short stories, prose poems and aphorisms around the theme of finding a way to live and let live in peace — to co-exist without forcing a way of life on people.Because “The way you play a b...

Edmund Filliput is a successful businessman, but he is living a dreary life on a dreary Christmas Eve. Then he meets a happy stranger who keeps Christmas in his heart year-round. Over a cup of coffee and a bowl of beef stew, the stranger offers to send three friends to Edmund who will show him the meaning of Christmas. Will the "friends" convince Edmund in time to salvage this Christmas and rescue his life?People who are grumpy at Christmastime are often chided with, "Oh, don't be ...

"When this wonderful little book by Warren Bluhm first dropped into my hands a decade ago, I thought it was important. Today, I think it’s particularly vital," Wally Conger writes in the preface to the Tenth Anniversary Edition of Refuse to be Afraid.As Bluhm writes:"You are the boss of you. It’s your life; you have to live with the choices you make; make sure those choices are actually yours."The first step is controlling your fear. Not 'Don’t be scared' —...