R.W. Van Sant's Blog, page 7
September 13, 2021
The Dragon is Coming
The Dragon is Coming
A Fantasy in Rhyme
Look for it Cyber Monday in digital and paperback.
September 6, 2021
Kelly Loves Reading
A KDP picture book with fantasy artwork to inspire a struggling reader.
https://www.redbubble.com/i/mask/Side-Eye-Mistrusting-Halloween-Jack-o-Lantern-Pumpkin-by-tackytiethings/87227486.6BSL1?asc=u&fbclid=IwAR34AKAjOkNdAeyyUhz0zOop3HIpixBcsBu1vFUBbKQedaHWVEkmcLfVdWI
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09D8WYKJF
September 3, 2021
Fear
Why do we fear what lies below the waves, when we know there are more terrors above them?
August 28, 2021
The Alphabet of Darkness paperback is out
The Alphabet of Darkness paperback is out
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09DMR7BRD
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09DMR7BRD
August 27, 2021
The iFactor - Chapter 4
The iFactor – Chapter 4
by
R.W. Van Sant
Matt slid into a realm of metaphors, unspoken desires, and long forgotten memories. He dreamed of beaches, summer heat and tranquil waves, swimming among the fish. Lying on the warm sand, feeling the heat of the sun as it caressed the bronzed backs of the women lounging next to him on the sand.
Then one of them started to chant a childlike song. The melody grew until the whole…
August 26, 2021
The Alphabet of Darkness
The Alphabet of Darkness
its out. a truly monstrous rhyming ABCs picture book. Not exactly for young children.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09DDGHTT6
August 20, 2021
The iFactor- Chapter 3
The iFactor- Chapter 3
by
R.W. Van Sant
Matt’s apartment door slid silently open. It was a universal reality that, in the dome colonies, everything operated well—in the beginning. The colony was well planned, funded, and less than a decade old. There simply hadn’t been time for entropy to work its necromancy on the equipment. Matt found it disconcerting that the colony was so new. Humanity was making a new history on…
August 13, 2021
The iFactor - Chapter 2
The iFactor – Chapter 2
by R.W. Van Sant
Once free of the congested compartment, Matt felt the air move more easily into his lungs. The warehouse had been an ordeal. Inside the enormous hall, the cacophony of noise and motion overwhelmed his senses. There were just too many people. They moved in and out, between and around the labyrinthine walls of crates. The effort of keeping track of each one, even subconsciously,…
August 6, 2021
The i Factor Chapter One
The i Factor Chapter One
by R.W. Van Sant
Crate after crate rolled briskly along the expansive cargo receiving ramp that ended somewhere within the bowels of the ship. Shining with the lead coating that protected their contents from the radiation of deep space, the line of shipping containers blurred in his tired gaze, morphing into a long silvery apparition writhing and twisting its way free from the starship just…
July 30, 2021
Reality beyond the speed of light
Reality beyond the speed of light
the ifactor
If faster than light travel will ever be possible, what would the experience be like? Years ago I decided to perform the special relativity equation for twice the speed of light and beyond. Time, space and distance all took on the square route of -1 as a factor, this number is referred to in math as an imaginary number and represented with the symbol i. The number is impossible but…
