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A young teenage boy discovers the truth about WWII, his grandfather’s part in that war, and learns about tolerance, the importance of each individual and both the strength and frailty of humans. Another in Savant/Aignos new "screenplay-novel" series ready to read and enjoy, or use as a script for a play or screenplay.
Stories told become the reality of the future. Vaks is a StoryTeller chronicling human experience throughout the universe. Humanity, he finds, is slowly facing total, malevolent genocide from within, and he seeks vengeance. In the process, a sentience evolved from advanced human consciousness begins to torment him, eventually leading to the unexpected discovery of a possible way to save the universe from itself.
A teenage cartoonist uses a magic pen to bring a superhero to life to help him find his father, who has mysteriously disappeared. In doing so, he unwittingly unleashes a grotesque supervillain and his Dark Legion, challenging him to find a way to save his father while preventing the Dark Legion from taking over the world. Another in Savant/Aignos new "screenplay-novel" series ready to read and enjoy, or use as a script for a play or movie.
Derek Fisher is a teenage vagrant with a troubled past. The Scotts are a well-to-do suburban family. Their worlds couldn't seem any further apart, but when Derek takes refuge from the streets and secretly moves into the crawl space under the Scotts' home their paths are set on an explosive predestined collision course.
Phenomenology is about recording and sharing authentic personal experiences in order to preserve truthful knowledge of past and present. In Hawaii's culture, it's called "talking story." The challenge with "talking story" is to uncover from within the significant and meaningful. CRITICAL WRITING: STORIES AS PHENOMENA is a practical guide to recording and sharing human experience, as well as conducting and evaluating phenomenological research. It incorporates practical suggestions and tools of interest to authors and phenomenologists, as well as writers, journalists and pre- and post-dissertation students interested in separating the truth from "fake news." The chapters provide a snapshot of ...
“Follow the piano tuner’s wife as she accompanies the tuner into the homes of some of Hawai‘i’s families. Listen to her interaction with clients: mothers and fathers, aquarium lovers and hoarders, healers and would-be cosmologists. See where imagination can take you, when you encounter the ordinary: an ant condo, a doggie treasure trove. Think about going through the eye of a camel. Dream about being a writer.”
In a two-part work (novel and screenplay), medieval Princess Aqualine the Wise and modern-day Princess Allison the Benevolent defy logic but not magic to communicate through their dreams. Aqualine inks proclamations and Allison holds webcasts, inspiring their loyal subjects and solving problems through ideas and influence gained from each other’s world. Together they will face their problems, and find a solution over time and space.
Teens Palomma Rossi and Doug Halecki are certain about two things: their interest in and their cluelessness about the opposite sex. Growing up in rural southern New Jersey in the late 1970s, Palomma’s dream of pure love found in her favorite romance novels is cruelly crushed by misogyny and betrayal in real life. The only thing Doug manages to attract are bullies and a local pedophile but certainly not his crush, Christine. The strangest of circumstances at school bring Palomma and Doug together where their laughter and trust in each other help them overcome a world that doesn’t seem to want them. A world where they eventually find a way to live, laugh and like.
When her infant daughter Sarah unexpectedly dies, Claire, feeling blame, reinvents herself as a landscape gardener in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, Claire imagines Sarah still alive, marking her birthdays, Christmas, first day of school—as if Sarah never died. Remarrying, Claire acquires a step-daughter, eight-year-old Mandy—about the age Sarah would be had she lived. Part vamp, part jealous, bossy and troubled, Mandy is nothing like Sarah, who still lives on in Claire's imagination. As Claire lives two lives—one real, one imagined—the clash between the two daughters threatens to destroy her, releasing the demons she has managed, so far, to hold at bay. As the story hurtles towards its har...
Caught in a nightmare odyssey after his cousin Jack is busted in Panama for coke trafficking, Remy Karras’ world is turned upside down trying to keep Jack safe while walking the thin line of morality in love, his own criminality and the violence generated by all the people he encounters.