When a Leftist encountered a little-known Catholic Fiction author

I laugh when I look back between the years 2007 and 2011. Part of me longs to return to those days, when my biggest concern, for the most part, involved who was winning on NFL Sunday. Those were fun times and, now that I’m older and wiser, I would never trade them for anything.

Often, we’d spend the Sunday afternoons at my grandparents’ place in tiny Wintersville, Ohio. A village that looks like a Christmas card between December and February when there’s snow on the ground and the trees are bare. It’s a town that inspired Aurora Village, the primary setting in my to-be-released young adult libertarian fantasy, The Arcane Prophecy.

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And it’s also the location where my political views changed, or at least the seeds were sown for those changes. There used to be a grocery store smack-dab in the center of town called Riesbecks. It’s where I snagged my first real job in August 2011, and on my second day there, I met a self-published author for the first time.

This author stated he’d written some books. But I didn’t take him too seriously. There was just something off about the guy. He kind of slurred his words, remembered nobody’s name (I was often called Zach), and kept to himself, opting to collect carts rather than bag groceries.

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It wasn’t until maybe a week or two in when another worker, Ray, stated, “He’s kind of tough to understand.” At that point, Ray told me about this accident the guy had been involved in at some point before I started working there. Obviously, I was taken aback by this, but as it turned out, this author indeed wrote some books.

A Catholic Fiction author helped change my political views

During this time, I had several influences on why my views shifted from a far-left, basically democratically socialist mindset into one that embraced libertarianism a little more. One influence was a microeconomics teacher who introduced me to works by Ludwig von Mises, Ron Paul, and Murray N. Rothbard.

Another was a public speaking teacher whose class I had every Tuesday and Thursday during the fall semester at the now-defunct Eastern Gateway Community College in nearby uptown Steubenville.

Just for the record, uptown Steubenville was basically an extension of Wintersville, or vice versa. Head downtown and it’s like you drove into another dimension. No kidding. The valley casts an eerie shadow over downtown Steubenville that you don’t see when you’re uptown or in neighboring Wintersville, where you feel like you’re on top of the world.

That “on top of the world feeling in Wintersville.” Sorry if it’s a little grainy - cropped it from my phone!

Before I get too carried away, this teacher was a self-described libertarian. Someone who took up the philosophy “before it was cool to be a libertarian,” he’d say. But neither my micro teacher nor my public speaking teacher garnered the same effect as this particular author.

I’ll never be a Catholic, but it doesn’t mean there’s no value here

Ancient runes, the god Tyr, and Germanic/Norse religions are what I’ve been drawn to for years and that’ll never change in the foreseeable future. But it doesn’t mean I’m one to reject or disown the Catholic or Protestant faiths, especially when I see eye-to-eye with them on some issues.

But this author’s experience was the single aspect that shifted me more than anything else. Other than writing some awesome Catholic-inspired dystopian fiction which I wish he’d have in print these days, there was one book that he had on this order form in the back of In the Wake of Michael, entitled St. Anthony Over Kansas.

I’ve done a deep dive to see if I could locate this hidden gem and, alas, I’ve come up empty-handed. So at this point, I can only speculate what’s in the contents of this book. Anyway, when I got around to asking him about the books he’d written, he handed me a couple copies of In the Wake of Michael, and it’s how I discovered St. Anthony Over Kansas, if you want the quick rundown.

Unfortunately, I didn’t get around to learning about the book’s existence until I started reading In the Wake of Michael in the late summer of 2012, shortly after I left Riesbecks to begin a personal training position at Anytime Fitness in nearby Weirton, West Virginia.

It never crossed my mind that, when I’d see this author every now and again, to ask for a copy. But his description of the work always intrigued me. While I’d basically shifted my views to libertarian for the greater part by the time I read the description, that book description drove it home.

St. Anthony Over Kansas was based on bone-chilling true events

Before I get into the description itself, I want to give you a little rundown on what I’d been able to piece together about this author. I was recently reading PsyWar by Dr.s Robert and Jill Malone, and I remember them talking about how the Catholic Church is a natural enemy of the modern state - I’m paraphrasing here. Oh, and if you haven’t checked out Malone’s Substack, I highly recommend it.

Well, in his prime, this author was very, very outspoken against many of the federal departments we see in the U.S. today and international organizations like the U.N., just to throw one out there. I also know he had an active newsletter going on which I believed was called Yellowstone. If I had to pinpoint the letter’s time frame, it sounded like he contributed to this in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

I know a lot of us are outspoken against statism, the attempt for a globalist new world order, etc., but I have an inkling he took things even further. I don’t know how far, or whatever, but the synopsis of St. Anthony Over Kansas makes me think, well, he knew something.

Anyway, I’m finished chit-chatting. I’ll share the description below and since these things don’t exist unless there are pictures, I’ll attach a photo for visual proof. So, here goes nothing…

The Synopsis

In May of 2000, I was returning to Ohio from California where I had just purchased a Cessna T-201 airplane. I had been followed from Minneapolis to San Jose on that trip. At 17,500 feet, blazing across the night sky of Kansas at 220 mph, we lost our engine. We had an emergency power-off landing complete with fire trucks and rescue personnel in LIBERAL, KANSAS! (Author’s emphasis, not mine). The cause?: Vapor lock due to an exhaust leak onto the main fuel line. The exhaust system was brand new.

Coupled with the fact that I was followed, I believe the US Government tried to do away with me. Saint Anthony and Our Lady of the Rosary had other plans for me, however…I have turned this true story into a novel: St. Anthony Over Kansas. I hope that you’ll consider ordering this book too. Oh, and be sure to order the book that launched my career into exposing the coming One World Government - Rebuking the New World Order.

Something to remember is that these books were published long before Amazon KDP was even thought of. And as you can see, this was all mainly during the days of paper order forms with limited options of ordering online when these books were published. Naturally, very, very few of them exist and they’ve been out of print for going on roughly two and a half decades.

If anyone’s got a copy of St. Anthony Over Kansas…

I’m hoping to, someday, have the opportunity to read this book, review it here, and share it with you. Until I can locate a copy, it’s just not possible, and I can only speculate. But that description made a drastic and long-lasting impression on me.

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It’s a major reason why I once saw a crisis coming at some point in which so many people would demand that the government usurp their civil liberties to “keep them safe.” By the end of the decade, that crisis was no longer a product of my own imagination.

Late last year, Robert Malone was kind enough to share some of the U.N.’s Summit of the Future goals. I remember him saying in that article before taking the deep dive was, “Read and be afraid. Be very afraid.”

And given what this author I’ve been talking about had gone through in what had to be one of the most frightening moments of his life, plus what Malone’s gone through since the turn of the decade, the powers that be or, maybe for the time being, want to be, do their due diligence. And that’s one scary thought.