All that surrounds me is my own deep blue scent of fear. Once this would have roused my hunger, the instinctive urge of the rahksa, the Crescent Reavers, to hunt, to kill. Now, though, the fear is all mine. The hunter has become the hunted. I am in a blackness unlike any other. The velvety […]
Month: March 2016
Book Review- Ash and Silver by Carol Berg
****This book was reviewed for the San Francisco Book Review**** “You are not a murderer. The curious fact had been served to me that morning like cold fish on a platter, to be digested as I took my daily run.” ~Ash and Dust, Carol Berg With this masterful opening, we are introduced […]
From Forensics to Fiction Author: How Turning Down a Buckle Changed My Life Path
Sometimes, in losing something, you gain far more, even when it is such an intimate loss as an arm or a leg. Or an eye. Like redwood forests that need the cleansing destruction of Wildfire to burn out strangling undergrowth in order to properly flourish, so might the human spirit need a similar destruction to […]
Dinner with Lucifer
Dinner with Lucifer ©Aislynn d’Merricksson, 2015 Dedicated to Mark and Tracy Pellegrino, and to the other four wonderful dinner companions that night. We are a motley group, the five of us, come together to dine with the Prince of Hell and his lovely lady. What a noble cause it is that has brought us […]
Book Review- Divergent and Philosophy: The Factions of Life edited by Courtland Lewis
This book was reviewed for the San Francisco Book Review I absolutely love the pop culture and philosophy books! I find them a great way to make philosophic concepts far more accessible to the everyday person, and to open minds to different ways of thinking. This book, focusing on Veronica Roth’s haunting dystopic […]
Book Review- Unsung Heroes by Ian Rupe
***This book was reviewed for Reader’s Favourite.**** Honesty- this is another book that I almost stopped during the first two chapters. I’m really glad I didn’t. Rupe’s Unsung Heroes really drew me in once I reached the dialogue. It was the cover that first caught my attention. A real oooh, shiny! moment. Prologue […]
Book Review- The Murder of Sherlock Holmes by David Fable
This book was reviewed for Readers’ Favourite. I am a big Sherlock fan (no, not because of the BBC Sherlock, though I do love that incarnation as well. Sherlock Holmes is one of the few characters I can think of who have become archetypal figures in their own right, and in doing so, pulled […]