The advice in this book was gleaned from four years of Writer's Digest articles, from 1998 to 2001. At that time I was incarcerated and, unable to keep the magazines with me, I took to condensing the advice onto notepaper.

What does one do with one's afterlife?

Where do you go after you die?

A collection of miscellaneous poetry spanning nearly half my life.

The forces that shape us can often have a power which far exceeds our life spans. The forces which shaped Dorothy O'hara began before her birth... with the death of her mother....

What would you do if you began changing into something hideous? What if the changes made you dangerous, not just to your neighbors but to the human race?

Conflict can lead to violence. For Allen Rose, an internal conflict led to multiple homicides and a sentence to a psychiatric hospital. That should have ended it....

Killers aren't born, they are made... though some killers are more easily made than others.

How did Man make the change from hunter/gatherer to farmer? What forces moved us to settle down and build cities? Read "Evolution" and find out.

The story of a man who takes his fortunes too seriously. After a couple come true, he comes to believe they are all true, and must be complied with.

A madman has destroyed the human race, leaving only a remnant alive to glorify him for until the end of time. Cavanaugh's Cure is the story of a boy becoming a man in the society which grew out of that destruction.

It's not unusual for a psychiatrist to be fooled by his patients. The doctors are only human, after all....