Like the Universe Gasping for Air
The word reality holds much different definitions for one individual as
it does for another. What one considers real is based on ones point of
view and their correlation to the world around them based in all of the
five senses. But, what if your perception of the world around you was
distorted? What would happen if you couldn’t rely on your own sense of
reality? John has just been in a near fatal car accident. He had
several seizures. John could be anyone. Everyman. He is suffering from
an illness that he seemingly cannot control which is deteriorating his
memory. As we travel within John’s illness, within his life, we try to
unravel what is the truth and what is a lie. There is also a great
correlation between John is experiencing and what their Australian
Shepard/ Border Collie is experiencing, as if she gave him these
seizures. We experience the illness of epilepsy in different ways and
through different realities throughout the book. Nestled within the
lives of these two individuals, Helen and John, we not only come to see
their relationship but to understand their individual points of view.
Touched by horror and fear, “Like the universe gasping for air,” is a
culmination of human endeavors, of what we allow to dictate our emotions
and in the end who we love.
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The Dark
Imagine a building encased in history. You are standing at its doors,
massive and stone. They open with a thick echo. Your feet support your
frame on the cold ground. You walk inside and instantly feel a certain
uncomfortable quiver in your stomach. You could swear that someone is
standing right behind you-right next to you-staring from above. You
turn and look to your left, right and towards the looming staircase in
front of you. Nothing. Everything in you says to leave, but common
sense gets in your way and you tell yourself to walk ahead. “The
Dark” is based upon a true story-slightly fictionalized. In 1832, The
Saint Francis of Assisi Orphanage opened as a hopeful and legitimate
resource for unwanted and orphaned children. The orphanage was
maintained and organized by the priests and nuns of the service.
Donations to the church outfitted the orphanage with its supplies plus
with its medical provisions. But, after five years the outpour of
orphans became overwhelming and so, the church had no choice but to open
up its facilities to the mentally impaired as well. The frustrated
and mostly rich families with mentally or psychologically challenged
relatives or children were only happy to fund the orphanage in exchange
for a place to drop off their unwanted problems and release themselves
from embarrassment. During a period of time, when mental illness was
an unknown factor-the orphanage became an unholy mixture of women,
children and men-without any separating walls. Soon, a doctor was
brought into the mix and experiments began to be conducted. But, in
1932 Sister Mary Catherine changed everything. She set the asylum on
fire and burned it to the ground. Sixty-eight of the eighty children
perished in the fire. Not many patients made it out alive and Sister
Mary set herself aflame without telling anyone her reasoning. Now,
almost eighty years later, all the secrets of the asylum are going to be
revealed and nothing will ever be the same again.
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Yours, Truly: A Mother's Son (Volume 1)
William James is a serial killer. But, he is not your basic killer. He
is the equivalent of a vampire for the next century, an individual that
suffers from Renfield’s Syndrome or the incurable need for human blood.
After he murders his fanatically religious mother, who has suppressed
him his entire life and who killed his pregnant girlfriend, William
begins an incestuous relationship with his half sister that will turn
him into an anti-hero by presenting him with the opportunity to redeem
himself. After leaving his hometown of Stonecliff, he will continue
searching for a balance between the illness and the newly evolved
anti-hero that he has become. For William is a Chinmera with two sets
of DNA and his male twin living inside of him who craves blood as well.
“Yours, Truly” is the story of the James family. A family set upon
with black magic and the supernatural. Throughout his search, William
meets a woman that accepts him and helps him to both adapt to and
understand himself. William is also a writer, and throughout the
graphic novel he begins to write his own novel about his life-a book
inside a collection of books. “Yours, Truly” incorporates legend, myth,
psychic abilities,telekinesis,witches, demons, angels, the devil,
genetic mutation, blood fetish, punk, Goth, music, Literature, Buddhism
and the question of the existence of God to tell the story of the James
family and of one man’s search for resolution within the aspect of
himself and his family.
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The Ever
William James is a serial killer. But, he is not your basic killer. He
is the equivalent of a vampire for the next century, an individual that
suffers from Renfield’s Syndrome or the incurable need for human blood.
After he murders his fanatically religious mother, who has suppressed
him his entire life and who killed his pregnant girlfriend, William
begins an incestuous relationship with his half sister that will turn
him into an anti-hero by presenting him with the opportunity to redeem
himself. After leaving his hometown of Stonecliff, he will continue
searching for a balance between the illness and the newly evolved
anti-hero that he has become. For William is a Chinmera with two sets
of DNA and his male twin living inside of him who craves blood as well.
“Yours, Truly” is the story of the James family. A family set upon
with black magic and the supernatural. Throughout his search, William
meets a woman that accepts him and helps him to both adapt to and
understand himself. William is also a writer, and throughout the
graphic novel he begins to write his own novel about his life-a book
inside a collection of books. “Yours, Truly” incorporates legend, myth,
psychic abilities,telekinesis,witches, demons, angels, the devil,
genetic mutation, blood fetish, punk, Goth, music, Literature, Buddhism
and the question of the existence of God to tell the story of the James
family and of one man’s search for resolution within the aspect of
himself and his family.
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