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Authors' Cave Fantasy Edition E-zine

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Authors' Cave Sci-Fi Edition E-zine

Check out the latest E-zine releases from Authors' Cave. Here's the Sci-Fi Edition. Full of great authors - including yours truly! Read the bios, see the video trailers, and hear the audio excerpts. Good entertainment any way you look at it! Please share and help promote these talented author. Thanks!

AN AMERICAN NURSERY RHYME

If Noam Chomsky were 60 years younger and a poet, his name could be Manik, an anarchist of the generation that will (must) change the power structures that exist today.
Anarchy (modern definition):1. General lawlessness and disorder, esp when thought to result from an absence or failure of government 2. The absence or lack of government 3. The absence of any guiding or uniting principle ; disorder; chaos4. The theory or practice of political anarchism

Anarchy (original Greek):
~No Rulers~
AN AMERICAN NURSERY RHYME
- ManikSell your soul and play your role, get on the payroll and live in a systemic hole. 
Your morals are black as coal while you pretend your life is whole.
Work as hard as theydemand of you; forget all the things you wanted to do.
Distrust your friends that compete against you, but believe all that they say is true
Forget the shit on your shoe, think life is good and the sky’s always blue
Allow for theirmediations, acknowledging the existence of nations
The seeds of evil are social collusion’s that pay the “Sieg Heil” corporations.  
Don’t dare search for explanations, exist ‘til death never having lived autonomous.

The Path to Perdition

MANIK is a young, American poet whose generation will inherit our mistakes. Our approval through silence has allowed politicians to become puppets for their corporate handlers. Corporatism is on the horizon and it is far worse than any governmental or societal governing system ever demonstrated. MANIK highlights many of these problems in this, and other poems. He offers solutions, but for now these remain anathema to most Americans.


You see socialism as the degenerate bastard son of the devil himself
but wonder why the distribution doesn’t drop below the top shelf
Social inequities in extreme ranges all across the nation
luckily, you only face a generation dumbed down by television

You created a vacuum of political education
for us to heed and follow your elitist indoctrination
Mainstream media spread your lie
a generation, a country without asking why
The land which is ours doesn’t produce our needs
it is with poison that it feeds
Manipulated foods to control the population
this is no longer a problem of only our nation!

Fascism is spreading at a disturbing pace
if we can’t remember the past, we have forgotten our face
Marx predicted that history is repetition
and all we do is sign the next petition!

All across the globe we should take it to the streets
trample on the elitist heart until it no longer beats
For generations to come, we must find the ways
for we are looking at very dark days

Lennon’s words have lost their meaning
instead of imagining, we are dreaming
Of a time that once was and never again will be
this has been their ultimate plan, you see?

The systems which control us will always come and go
neo-liberalism is the peak of perversion and manipulative mojo
This is a fact that is for all to know
under these circumstances our society will cease to grow

We’ll be stuck in a process that isn’t completed
the future sees us defeated and resources depleted
A world where the few have the say
but for their atrocities we have to pay

Imagine a world where the wealth is equally spread
where everyone shares the same bed
Where our intellectuals will grow
and discover things we have yet to know

A world where we have fought
to live freely and expand our thoughts
Our society will continue its destined process
and everyone is granted the same access

We are stronger, we want change, we will fight!      
Fascism and the elite, we say good night!
America, no matter your beauty
Your leaders have betrayed us
Manik - Mannheim, Germany - 2014

WELCOME TO THE AUTHOR'S CAVE - HALLOWEEN BLOG TRAIN

 1. Include a picture or video of yourself in a Halloween costume! I don’t have any pictures of me in Halloween costume. I did…kinda-sorta…wear a costume when performing with my band. This was taken backstage, at an open air festival, as I was trying to get my in-ear monitor cable under the back of my shirt. Yes, it’s been a few years… ;o)

2. What is your favorite scary movie? That would have to be “The Shining.” Arguably the best movie ever made from one of Stephen King’s novels. “Carrie” was great, too; but not especially scary.
3. What scene from a book or movie scared you more than any other? As much as I love horror movies and books, there’s not much that really and truly “scare” me. However, there are several that have shocked me or that I found extremely disturbing. Again, The Shining hits the mark!
4. If all of Stephen King's bad guys were after each other, who would win and why? Hands down...Randall Flagg. This guy is truly a nasty villain. He appeared in seven of Stephen King’s novels, including several of the Dark Tower series books as Walter o’Dim. He is also King’s self-described "best villain."
5. Give a Treat! I loved these as a kid! Caramel Popcorn Balls.
   6. Provide an elevator pitch for one of your book!  The Imagine Trilogy #1 No Heaven - #2 No Hell - #3 No Religion   Thirty years ago, scientists found extra letters in the human genome of a skeleton estimated to be four thousand years old. The letters were considered to be "junk."
Recently, a man calling himself Eloah interrupted Easter Mass at Germany's famous Kölner Dom by announcing that he had visited our world before and that during his previous visit, he had called himself Yeshua ben Josef (aka Jesus). He displayed paranormal abilities that couldn't be explained or ignored until an FBI forensics team discovered that the DNA "junk" discovered thirty years earlier and Eloah's matched. These additional letters could be the basis for his otherworldly intelligence, psychic abilities and extended lifespan.

Eloah offers the world a peaceful and abundant life for all, free from fear and oppression that has nothing to do with an omniscient god, and everything to do with humanity's innate moral and ethical principles. While a religiously incited nuclear war is on the horizon, global political, religious and corporate leaders eager to maintain the status-quo want Eloah stopped at all costs; and they are not alone!



7. Blog Train Halloween Story! Members of the train will follow in the order of their cars to complete the following Halloween story. Follow the train to see how the story goes and to get to know some new authors!
Buried Alive?
WHOA! If you are just starting the story train, click here to go to Train Car #1 for the beginning. http://gingergelsheimer.blogspot.com/2014/10/authors-cave-halloween-blog-train.html



"Good morning, Miss Wade. I'm Doctor Moore. I'm a psychologist and..."

It's been over a week since I woke up in this new body, apparently three hundred years into the future and this lovely, young woman wasn't making any more sense to me than all the others who have spoken about this so-called Past Life Transplant. "I'm sorry, what did you say you were?"

"Oh, please excuse me; I imagine you've never heard of psychology? Well, what I want to do is determine your mental health and to help you work through any issues that may arise as you adjust to your new body and circumstances that could affect your psychic well-being."
"I'm quite sure, Doctor Moore that I haven't a smidgen of an idea what you are talking about."

"Well...let's just say..."

"Let's just say it's bloody crowded in here!" Another voice burst across my consciousness and past my lips. It was a man's voice with a strange accent. I was caught completely unawares and sat as speechless as the good Doctor Moore appeared shocked and alarmed.

Several seconds had passed before the doctor leaned forward, gazed intently into my eyes and asked in a surprised and trembling voice, "Who...who are you?"

I sensed the man's pride and personal affront as, once again, his words passed through my mouth. "I am Lord Hampshire, and I demand to know what sort of black magic this is that put me into a woman's body?"

Doctor Moore pushed a red button on a box atop her desk and within a minute, two more doctors, neither of whom I recognized, burst into the office. "We have a problem," said Doctor Moore. "It seems more than one spirit has been drawn into this body's vortex."

Internally, I felt someone grab me by the back of the head. My hair was pulled sharply back and a new essence moved in front of me. "Ahem...if I may be so bold; make it three spirits inside this body. As the good Lord Hampshire has already stated, it is bloody crowded. What, if anything, do you intend to do about this abominable situation?"

I was and am still a lady; I couldn't, however, stop myself. From behind this third presence, I kicked him soundly between the spot where I imagined his legs to be and pushed him to the side. "Excuse me, gentlemen. Surely, it is obvious to the both of you that I was here first; that this is a woman's body! Kindly remove yourselves, forthwith!"

"Not so damned fast, Miss Wade! You an' me got us some scores to settle up...bitch!"

Click here to continue on to Celia M. Kennedy's train car and the next part of the story!

SATAN CRIES, "FOUL!"

          PETITIONS UNIVERSAL COURT
In an unprecedented legal move today, Satan filed grievances against God for infringement of rules governing the tactical use of minions. In his suit, Satan contends that God has changed tactics and use of his own “God-fearing adherents” to commit atrocities while reaping the profits, without any credit or soul transfer to Satan. “He’s been stealing souls under false pretenses, basically,” said Satan Chief of Staff, Adolph Hitler. “Satan is fed up and demands compensation from the highest court.”
Efforts by Satan and his strongest followers to change the tide of corruption and murder by people claiming allegiance to God have apparently failed. “He’s using our tactics! How do you combat evil with evil?” Hitler moans.
Satan’s Secretary of State, Jim Jones, former leader of the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project. “Look, I used a similar tactic when I was on Earth. I lured people to me in the name of that fucker, God and then helped them kill themselves, but that’s not the same thing.”  Why now, though? Throughout the history of mankind, man’s inhumanity to man was often generated by religion or dictatorial leaders claiming divine guidance.
“Not the same scale,” says Hitler. “Sure, I had the Catholic Pope’s blessing when I murdered those fucking Jews, and yeah, I claimed God as my benefactor. But, that’s all pennies compared to the megabucks atrocities occurring now.”
When asked what was happening now that had changed the status quo and upset Satan enough to take legal action, Hitler was straight to the point. “Look, you’ve got men and women in the US Congress that claim to be devout followers of God passing laws based upon His best-selling novel…a work of pure fiction, for Satan’s sake! Religious leaders, while claiming to do otherwise, are fomenting their followers against each other.
“The global pharmaceutical industry is killing people by the millions with their lies and cover-ups. Can you believe that they are injecting new diseases in third world countries in order to reap the profits selling their “cures” to those who can afford it?
“There are corporate CEO’s and bankers out there wreaking havoc with peoples’ lives, driving them into debt, poverty, and finally, crime. The military industrial complex is instigating random wars over Earth’s resources, but the real reason is simply to sell more weapons; the oil industry doesn’t care, they’re all under one hat anyway.”  Prior to storming off in disgust, Hitler added, “Bottom line is this. God is cheating and illegally increasing his profits in souls. Just because HE has become a source of evil in the world, we can’t follow his underhanded tactics and switch to being good, now can we? No, legal action is our only remaining recourse.”

As of this report, neither God nor anyone from his staff was available for comment.

5 Great Reason's to Support Anarchy!

It's been a while since we had a good ol' revolution. I mean, 1789? Really? Come on that's far too long. It's time to get with the program, my friends! Here are the top 5 reasons to support a 21st Century American Revolution:                 
 Get Back Our Dignity!  We are Americans for Christ's sake! We waged a full-on war against overpaying taxes on our tea, yet we allowed our "Democratic" government to pass the Patriot Act without so much as a good old-fashioned sit-in? When did we become such wusses?
We Have the Resources!  Thanks to the NRA, the drug runners and other, assorted criminal elements, automatic weapons complete with armor piercing ammunition are abundant. 
We also have large supplies of war fighting equipment, everything from Flak Jackets to Night Vision Goggles readily available for every revolutionary soldier.

We Have a Mandate! The Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution provides for private citizens to keep and bear arms in order to form militias to stop government from running rampant.  Rampant defines the Judicial, Legislative and Executive branches of our current government to a “T”.
The French Revolution provided a ‘Do-It-Yourself’ template.  Equality for all! We can start by dragging local, state and federal government authorities into our large Arena’s. Once the TV commercials have run, all of the disposed officials will be publicly executed with automatic weapons fire...no, let's go whole hog and brush off the guillotines! Become a Revolutionary - Become Infamous!  After you are executed - martyred, if you prefer - by the "fill-in-the adjective" reigning government, you'll go down in the history books as the "Last Anarchist". You'll be the envy of all your wannabe revolutionist neighbors and despised by modern-day "Tories" as a treasonous dissident and felon.
Unless of course, you win the rebellion, in which case, the new Revolutionary regime's puppet leader will discredit your sacrifices, execute you under questionable circumstances, and revise the history books to exclude you. You will, however, be immortalized on expensive t-shirts made by Chinese penny-wage workers and worn by ironic counter-culture hipsters a la Che Guevera.

 

A German's View of Islam

This is one of the best explanations of the global terrorist situation I have ever read. His references to past history are accurate and clear. Not long, easy to understand, and well worth the read. The author of the quoted portions below is Dr. Emanuel Tanya, a well-known and well-respected psychiatrist. A man whose family was German aristocracy prior to World War II, who owned a number of large industries and estates. When asked how many German people were true Nazis, the answers he gave can be used to guide our attitude toward fanaticism.

    “Very few people were true Nazis,” he said, “but many enjoyed the return of German pride and many more were too busy to care. I was one of those who just thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools. So, the majority just sat back and let it all happen. Then, before we knew it, they owned us, and we had lost control, and the end of the world had come. My family lost everything. I ended up in a concentration camp and the Allies destroyed my factories.
“We are told again and again by 'experts' and 'talking heads' that Islam is a religion of peace and that the vast majority of Muslims just want to live in peace. Although this unqualified assertion may be true, it is entirely irrelevant. It is meaningless fluff meant to make us feel better, and meant to somehow diminish the specter of fanatics rampaging across the globe in the name of Islam.

    “The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history. It is the fanatics who march. It is the fanatics who wage any one of 50-shooting wars worldwide. It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa and are gradually taking over the entire continent in an Islamic wave. It is the fanatics who bomb, behead, murder, or honor-kill. It is the fanatics who take over mosque after mosque. It is the fanatics who zealously spread the stoning and hanging of rape victims and homosexuals. It is the fanatics who teach their young to kill and to become suicide bombers.

    “The hard, quantifiable fact is that the peaceful majority, the silent majority, is cowed and extraneous. Communist Russia was comprised of Russians who just wanted to live in peace, yet the Russian Communists were responsible for the murder of about 20 million people. The peaceful majority were irrelevant. China's huge population was peaceful as well, but Chinese Communists managed to kill a staggering 70 million people.

    “The average Japanese individual prior to World War II was not a warmongering sadist. Yet, Japan murdered and slaughtered its way across South East Asia in an orgy of killing that included the systematic murder of 12 million Chinese civilians; most killed by sword, shovel and bayonet. And who can forget Rwanda, which collapsed into butchery? Could it not be said that the majority of Rwandans were 'peace loving'?

    “History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt, yet for all our powers of reason, we often miss the most basic and uncomplicated of points; peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their silence. Peace-loving Muslims will become our enemy if they don't speak up because like my friend from Germany, they will awaken one day and find that the fanatics own them, and the end of their world will have begun. Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans, Serbs, Afghans, Iraqis, Palestinians, Somalis, Nigerians, Algerians, and many others have died because the peaceful majority did not speak up until it was too late.”
 This wave of murder by the minority fanatics claims to be religion based but neither Islam, nor Christianity, nor Judaism…or any other religious sect encourages this type of behavior. Certainly, the Old Testament, The Torah and the Qur'an speak of a vengeful and often merciless god; but these are centuries old books of fiction that the majority of modern day people do not take literally. Only the fanatical, fundamentalist minorityexploits these passages to justify their insanity. It happens because the minority fanatics make it so, while the majority…the large, silent majority is too afraid, distracted or disinterested to speak up and stop the atrocities.
“In Australia, and indeed in many countries around the world, much of the most commonly consumed food items have the halal emblem on them. Just look at the back of some of the most popular chocolate bars, and at other food items in your local supermarket. Food on commercial aircraft carries the halal symbol merely to appease the privileged, fanatical minority who are now rapidly expanding within the nation's shores.

    “In the U.K, and several European Union countries, the Muslim communities refuse to integrate and there are now dozens of "no-go" zones within major cities across the country that the police force dare not intrude upon. Sharia law prevails there, because the Muslim communities, in those areas, refuse to acknowledge British or the host nation’s laws.” Again, these are not members of the majority…they are individuals banned together in compliance with the fanatical minority.
    As for us who watch it all unfold, we must pay attention to the only group that counts - the fanatics, the minority, who threaten our way of life. Anyone who doubts that the issue is serious is contributing to the passiveness that allows the problems to expand. Extend yourself a bit and send this on. Let us hope that thousands world-wide read this, think about it, and send it on before it's too late, and we, the silent majority, are silenced because we were…SILENT!

Contrast Dogma - Something to Fear?

It’s important to know what contrast dogmais before making that all important “fight or flight” decision. The phrase, however, is not easily defined and when defined, not always understood.By definition, contrast is to compare in order to show unlikenessor differences;note the opposite natures,purposes, etc.,of whatever the subject might be. Dogma is a specific tenet or doctrine authoritatively passeddown, as by a church. So, contrast dogma would be a comparison of differences in the doctrine of the church and alternative doctrine or concepts. The question that begs an answer is; should we fear contrast dogma?


The answer, like the definition, is not easily interpreted. For more than two thousand years, people all across the globe have been dominated by the dogma of the Catholic Church; that of the omniscient and vengeful God. A God who, throughout the stories of the Bible’s Old Testament, incited war, famine, genocide, incest and an innumerable amount of iniquities upon his own creations. Not only is such a God worthy of complete and paralyzing fear; the Catholic Church dogma demands that He be feared!By contrast, Jesus as portrayed in all three novels of the Imagine Trilogy is a soft spoken, kind young man (mostly like the Catholic version). He performs miracles that help people in need (like the Catholic version). He has come to save humanity from oppression (sort of like the Catholic version). He has returned to save the world (a tiny bit like the Catholic version). He has returned to teach the people of the world The Way to happiness and immortality (not anything like the Catholic version). This Jesus…Eloah…comes from a parallel universe (not the womb of a virgin). He says that an omniscient God does not exist, nor is there a place called Heaven and another called Hell. He claims that the spiritual energy of all people is immortal. In addition, this energy instills morality and ethical behavior and is genetically passed along to every human and mammalian physical life.Eloah (Jesus) is a human being from a society that is technologically and sociologically advanced. His sole purpose is to do good deeds and to teach others how to live harmoniously throughout all of the multiverses. Eloah and all that he represents are the walking, talking contrast dogma to the Catholic Church and all other monotheist religions. Would you be afraid of a man like Eloah… of contrast dogma? Not likely. On the other hand, the omniscient God that dominates the religious beliefs of Christians, Islamists and Jews has often been characterized as a fractious God. He has been described as loving and gentle one moment, and extremely vicious the next. If He existed, I would be very afraid of this God, wouldn’t you? Although I’ve no proof, it is said that Stephen King appointed himself the Master of Horror. So, it is that a close associate to a professional partner of mine, after reading the first novel in the Imagine Trilogy, labeled me, Master of Contrast Dogma. I like it, although most people simply scratch their heads and walk away whenever I try to explain it to them. That’s okay… not every new idea or phrase becomes an overnight success; sometimes it takes a week, a few months or even years. Whether or not contrast dogma ever becomes a household phrase or even a new fiction book genre, is not a question. The original question was should we be afraid of contrast dogma? You tell me.

Operation Anarchy Repel

“What’s the latest on OAR?”
The Director of the NSA crossed his right leg over the left; this was a subject he was very comfortable discussing. “Mr. President, we’re far ahead in that game. Eighty percent of the police forces in populations below a hundred thousand are fully equipped. We’re approaching sixty percent in cities up to five-hundred K, and 35% in the larger metropolises. 
“Excellent. I saw in this morning’s Early Bird that there are protests at San Diego University and some asshole in Ferguson shot a cop?”
“Well, sir, the protests aren’t serious enough to bother with right now, but at some point we’ll have to withdraw that privilege…”
The President laughed. “Fascinating how, from administration to administration, we’ve been able to maintain the façade that citizens have the “right” to protest, when in fact, we’ve simply allowed them.”


 “Yessir, and that shooting in Ferguson comes about at just the right time. I’ve got the media spinning the story. We’ve organized several more attacks on police across the country over the next several weeks. Each of these will demonstrate better organization by the rebels. They’ll be larger and more deadly for the cops. If we can stick to the plan, we’ll be able to declare Martial Law in all Class C cities by early summer next year.
“Indeed. It’s good that we were able to nip the bud on this growing rebellion nonsense. DoD's  Excess Property Program, Plan 1033 I believe was an absolute genius idea." He laughed and added, "I understand the Governor of Texas has requested M1 tanks?”
The Director grinned. “Yessir. We’ve scheduled an incremental shipment…forty-five tanks over a six-month period.”
“Amazing!”  
The Director nodded before heading for the door. He waved his hand without turning as the President called out, “Good Job! See you this afternoon. Don't forget, Tee-time is 1700.”