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 Excerpt from my novel FATE                                                              “Memento Mori”                                 “What does it mean in how to die … Well, I will tell you, mind you, it’s just my own viewpoint from where I am standing … We mortals are a world of contradictions within ourselves … Quakers deny death through the absence of a death ritual, while Christians embrace it to the point of glorifying death through ritual … such is life when mankind becomes blind in seeing an unseen God who glorifies in the act of death … Well, it leaves very little to deny when it’s written down … when it’s written down in the Good Books … it only gives me something to run with.”        The Wail made it ba...

 Excerpt from my novel FATE.                                                            Hard to Be a Woman                                       As for the women in the village, they saw the mood changes taking place in their menfolk when they could not go to sea. Women, often with limited influence both within and beyond their cottages, would turn to prayer for solace and comfort, allowing them to voice their hopes, fears, and desires. It was where they felt they had their say, and besides, it was what they did best at times, when prayer served as a vital outlet for their emotions and aspirations.        Praying for the interven...