Two For Eternity - Hispaniola 1492

I get deeply offended every October when Columbus Day rolls around. It sickens me that people would actually celebrate a day for one of the greatest mass murderers in the history of our world. There’s no other way to put it other than Christopher Columbus was a thug, scumbag and a murderer of the highest magnitude. For one thing, despite the assertions of my grade school teachers, neither Columbus nor any other European discovered America. Newsflash, there were people living in this continent for hundreds of years before Columbus ever step foot here. To intimate such a thing is to say that the natives who lived were somehow less than human. Secondly, the vikings were the first Europeans to set foot in the Americas, some five hundred years before Columbus.

When I first came up with the idea of writing this novel, I knew that Columbus would be involved. My antagonist Vrag is an evil bastard, so naturally I would want him to be one of the greatest villains our world has ever seen. The part that is covered in Two For Eternity is the genocide that Columbus committed against the Taino tribe in the island of Hispaniola some six hundred years ago. Columbus succeeded in wiping out an entire people off the face of this planet. I guess that is worthy of a holiday after all. How many other people can say that they have accomplished such a thing. My main source for this part of the book was the diary of Christopher Columbus’ brother, who accompanied him on the voyage. Read about it and learn, and perhaps you will hesitate celebrating Columbus Day again.