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In a realm cloaked in darkness, a colossal castle looms, swallowing a once-sacred mountain whole. Within its shadows, an absent king reigns over a fractured kingdom. Amidst this desolation, a man finds himself at the lowest echelons, surrounded by ruins and despair. Driven by an insatiable desire for redemption and revenge, he grapples with a fateful choice: to end an age by taking the king's life or to embark on an enigmatic quest for the elusive Thunderbolt—the key to his true identity.

An American Aeneid, “Cerberus Slept” is the first step of a three-legged journey into eternity. Virtue is tested, time and meaning are questioned, and power, fate and purpose all are challenged through impossible conflict and deep dialogue. This is an epic for those royal few ready to leave the herd and ascend into the fires of a new tomorrow. Awaken and ascend! Having fallen along with his precious Constantinople, the brave soldier Rangabes awakens in the darkness of death—in Tartarus no less. From the yawning maw of the underworld, he is thrust into the center of an epic struggle ...

Part original myth. Part philosophy. Part madness. The hound barks. Will the herd listen?

“In the beginning was God and the abyss." Neither Moth nor Rust is a Southern Gothic in the vein of Faulkner and O’Connor, with a splash of Dostoevsky inspired spiritual musings, and a Mishima-like description of beauty and the importance of it in action.

Rangabes, rechristened Samuel, journeys through the land of the living and dream. What is the meaning of a name? With his wife and Cerberus beside him, many mysteries are uncovered, and many monsters seek to stop him from reaching his promised land. An odyssey across the ocean, helped by none other than the great explorer Amerigo Vespucci, the Age of Exploration is at hand. The epic continues!

A boy and his spider.

The omnibus edition of the first two books in the Summit of the Sun. Cerberus Slept is an epic through the mythologies of old in the lands of the dead. Samuel Awoke is an odyssey across an ocean filled with unknown lands, beasts, and mysteries. Both tales tell of great trials, suffering, and explorations of concepts like time, reality, being, peace, and meaning. Join Rangabes, and then Samuel, along with his faithful hound Cerberus on this epic journey.

A book about boredom, singular will, beauty, and relating to the good in a world of seeming ugliness and mundanity, all through various connected essays and short stories.