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My poetry, fiction and non fiction on Wattpad

You can check out and vote on my latest posts of poetry, complete short stories and even some non-fiction on Wattpad here: https://www.wattpad.com/search/victordlopezhttps://www.wattpad.com/search/victordlopez.

Links to My Poetry -- Free Readings, Trailers, and Print Excerpts

Below you will find a few links to selected excerpts from my poetry, as well as book trailers with various poetry readings. The Kindle version of the book itself is free for one dat Monday, July 10. Just click on the cover below on Monday to download a copy from Amazon.



Poetry readings/book trailers:

Six sonnets read by me with accompanying printed text: Click here (YouTube)
Unsung Heroes #5 -- Felipe (unpublished poem on my dad's passing): Click here (YouTube)
Unsung Heroes #3 -- Remedios:...

Free book of poetry -- One day only (Monday, July 10, 2017)

My book of poems, Of Pain and Ecstasy is available for free download for one-day only under Amazon's KDP Select program Monday, July 10. If you would like to download a copy free of charge for your Kindle reader or to read on any PC, you can click on the book's cover below. If poetry is not your cup of tea, please forward it to anyone you think may be interested.
Please note that the books will be free only on Monday, July 10. At other times, you will only be able to access the regul...

My Research and Publications

Here are some relevant links:
Personal Web PageBlogsAmazon Author's Page Smashwords Author's PageMindscapes Audible LinkGoodreads Author ProfileLibrarything Author ProfileHofstra University Faculty ProfileHofstra Accounting, Taxation & Legal Studies in Business Faculty AccomplishmentsCurrent Textbooks in Print (Textbook Media Press)YouTube Videos 1YouTube Videos 2Avvo Attorney ProfileTwitter: @VictorDLopez

SF Short Story Preview: "Mergs -- Or Why Godot Can't Come" [Originally Posted March 2017]

As a reader, I have very broad and eclectic tastes and read a lot of both non fiction and fiction. Over the past week, I finished a book on quantum mechanics, a shorter one on seven physics lessons, and am now reading (listening to on my commute, actually) a book on the singularity--the quickly approaching time when machine intelligence will not only equal but far exceed human intelligence. Maybe I'll tackle a good sword and sorcery book next, or perhaps a back title from Dean Koontz,  S...

FREE (Extended Through July 10) Two Science Fiction Short Stories from my Mindscapes Short Story Collection

(C) 2011, 2015 Victor D. Lopez all rights reservedThe two shortest stories from my Mindscapes: Ten Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction Short Stories collection free through July 10 only. You can download them in your choice of eBook format only from Smashwords. This giveaway is NOT restricted to the U.S. Click on the following link (Click here) or on the cover below and scroll down on my author's page to download the eBook version free of charge as my gift.

Happy Birthday, USA!

Fly our flag today if you are proud of our country--wherever you were born, whatever your primary language, no matter your religion or lack of same. Fly our flag today in memory of the men and women in uniform who have paid in blood for our privilege of freedom which is never given but earned and paid for in blood and treasure. Fly our flag today with pride for our cultural, historical, racial, religious, ideological and philosophical diversity that are the seminal ingredients of our greatest...

July Giveaway #2 -- SF Short Story "End of Days"

Please click on the following link to enter my second May science fiction short story giveaway for one of ten short stories from my Mindscapes short story collection:
https://giveaway.amazon.com/p/7e0776048e0f694b

I am reprinting an excerpt from this short story below where you will also find links to the Amazon version of the book and also the Mindscapes collection. You can click on the Mindscapes cover for a link to the Amazon book's page where a preview of "Eternal Quest" is also a...

Amazon July giveaway #1 -- SF short story "The Day the Dolphins Vanished" plus extended preview

Amazon July Giveaway #1: The Day the Dolphins Vanished (SF Short Story)To enter my July Amazon Giveaway #1 for a chance to win a copy of the complete short story for your Kindle, please click on this link: https://giveaway.amazon.com/p/1e1646dff28b39bf. 
You can sample a preview of the story below before entering the giveaway.
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The Day the Dolphins Vanished - SF Short Story Preview
THE DAY THE DOLPHINS VANISHED(C) 2010,2017 Victor D. LópezThe following story exc...

Venezuela Crisis: The tragic, predictable result of yet another Marxist-inspired "people's utopia"

This is always the tragic result of "people's revolutions". The Venezuelan people deserve better. Wishful thinking is not a philosophy. Planned economies do not work. And thugs will be thugs--when manipulating the Constitution to achieve their ends fails and people revolt, they throw away even the pretense of democracy and call for achieving by force what the people will no longer support at the ballot box. That is what Maduro is doing and what every Marxist dictator (by any other label) has...