Author's e-books - coming of age. Page - 1
This is a story inspired by the my childhood memory. Most of my writing is inspired by how I grew up. I am Hmong American, living in Saint Paul, MN where I've lived most of my life. If you want to read a story about ethnic minority first generation immigrant struggles of trying to make it in America - or want to peer into the life of others, this story is for you. I always seek to provoke feelings with the reader or to inspire.
Is there a meaning to life? Or is that meaning a mere fantasy we chase insatiably only to be left devoid of all emotion and hope when our hunt is fruitless? These questions might be hard to answer for some, but he knew... He came to terms with his own twisted image of the reality, he suffered and rejoiced in love and tenderness and he both feared and challenged loss and desperation in a dance of madness. He dared to make... The jump.
William Cain. A young photographer with extreme promise in the advertising industry has taken an assignment deep in the swamps of Southeast Georgia. While dreaming of how he will one day become partner in his firm of Burgundy and Lace Publishing, William wants nothing but to keep his eight year-old son Rocco and the boy's well-being at the pinnacle of any success that may come William's way; even to the point of leaving everything he has ever known behind, just to ensure that Rocco will grow without the obstacles that William faced while living into his own potential.
The story is based on a Bangladeshi teenager boy named Aabrar who killed himself by taking sleeping pills. But the reason of his suicide remained unknown because his diary goes missing by an irresponsible police. The story reflected how Aabrar killed himself and how the things went so wrong when his parent knew it. And some people took the advantage of his death and so many interesting things.
He was a teenage super soldier.
There were certain questions that fourteen year old Neel Dervin had never thought to ask himself.
Like how much pain he could endure before passing out. Or how many times he could be shot and still keep running. Or how often he could lie to his friends and family without feeling remorse.
But then that one fateful day changed his life forever, and set him on a path towards immeasurable power as well as inconceivable terror.
Now the only people who can help him deal with the situation are complete strangers who are using him for their own ends. Trapped in circumstances beyond his control with abilities he barely understands, he must navigate a treacherous path mired in betrayals and difficult choices to take back control of his life.
The orks are a savage race who live short, hard lives. From the moment they are born to the day they die, life is a struggle for survival and honor. Tooth & Claw is about the coming of age ritual of a young ork boy who wants to become a brun. But to join the ranks of the adults, he must first prove his worth by taming the most dangerous creature in their world.
Lizzy had a wonderful life. Sure there had been problems, but they weren't as bad as when her mom, Jen, tried to get back with her Dad, Mark. Jen was a psycho. She tried to burn her children in their house, and was basically the worst mother ever. Literally. That was when mark took Lizzy and his children on a road trip. Jen wouldn't stop with that, though. Jen came up with a sad and pathetic sob story and sued Mark. That turned this happy getaway trip into a fugitive chase. FInally, LIzzy must confront her mother, father, and fix her broken family.
(Incomplete) “Adam” is a fictional story which shadows the life of an average nine-to-five mid-twenties man. Adam is an average guy with an average job, seemingly more distressed at the prospects of running out of opportunities and running out of years than anybody around him. He has followed the unwritten schedule to date of what is expected of a person in a modern day democracy. That’s just the problem. He is another drop in the ocean never to be remembered for anything. The irony of being considered ‘broken’ for wanting to live a life beyond the norm has not averted Adam. The culmination of his feelings, or lack thereof for that matter, is released on a co-worker which starts Adam on a journey to find something in life that could actually make him feel alive. With this revelation he begins to realise just how thinly layered the expected conducts and etiquette of modern-day society are layered. Clawing his way in no particular direction he is looking for something more. He doesn’t know what. He doesn’t know where. Nonetheless it has occurred to him;
Adam cannot remember the last time he was overwhelmed…….
Weary of Cold War politics, CIA operative Gabriel Haines can't wait to leave the Company life for a job on his friend's isolated Texas ranch. All he needs to do is go to Dallas and seal the deal. But when President John F. Kennedy is assassinated just yards from where Haines stands, the former agent finds himself in tighter crosshairs than ever before. Keeping a low profile on the ranch couldn't come at a better time.
Motherless preteen Ivy Jean Pritchard is a worrier, but she's trying hard not to be suspicious when her father sends her to spend the weekend on a ranch with family she's never met. And with her troublemaker teenaged cousin, high-society aunt, and her uncle's mistress on the scene, it promises to be more than the western adventure Ivy had anticipated.
Now, marksmen have tracked Haines to the ranch, getting the entire family involved in something very adult and very worrisome. When the weekend turns deadly, Haines and Ivy Jean are the first to learn that secrets, especially those devised and perpetuated "for the good of us all," can breakdown a family--or a nation--in the blink of an eye.
This is a story inspired by the my childhood memory. Most of my writing is inspired by how I grew up. I am Hmong American, living in Saint Paul, MN where I've lived most of my life. If you want to read a story about ethnic minority first generation immigrant struggles of trying to make it in America - or want to peer into the life of others, this story is for you. I always seek to provoke feelings with the reader or to inspire.
Is there a meaning to life? Or is that meaning a mere fantasy we chase insatiably only to be left devoid of all emotion and hope when our hunt is fruitless? These questions might be hard to answer for some, but he knew... He came to terms with his own twisted image of the reality, he suffered and rejoiced in love and tenderness and he both feared and challenged loss and desperation in a dance of madness. He dared to make... The jump.
William Cain. A young photographer with extreme promise in the advertising industry has taken an assignment deep in the swamps of Southeast Georgia. While dreaming of how he will one day become partner in his firm of Burgundy and Lace Publishing, William wants nothing but to keep his eight year-old son Rocco and the boy's well-being at the pinnacle of any success that may come William's way; even to the point of leaving everything he has ever known behind, just to ensure that Rocco will grow without the obstacles that William faced while living into his own potential.
The story is based on a Bangladeshi teenager boy named Aabrar who killed himself by taking sleeping pills. But the reason of his suicide remained unknown because his diary goes missing by an irresponsible police. The story reflected how Aabrar killed himself and how the things went so wrong when his parent knew it. And some people took the advantage of his death and so many interesting things.
He was a teenage super soldier.
There were certain questions that fourteen year old Neel Dervin had never thought to ask himself.
Like how much pain he could endure before passing out. Or how many times he could be shot and still keep running. Or how often he could lie to his friends and family without feeling remorse.
But then that one fateful day changed his life forever, and set him on a path towards immeasurable power as well as inconceivable terror.
Now the only people who can help him deal with the situation are complete strangers who are using him for their own ends. Trapped in circumstances beyond his control with abilities he barely understands, he must navigate a treacherous path mired in betrayals and difficult choices to take back control of his life.
The orks are a savage race who live short, hard lives. From the moment they are born to the day they die, life is a struggle for survival and honor. Tooth & Claw is about the coming of age ritual of a young ork boy who wants to become a brun. But to join the ranks of the adults, he must first prove his worth by taming the most dangerous creature in their world.
Lizzy had a wonderful life. Sure there had been problems, but they weren't as bad as when her mom, Jen, tried to get back with her Dad, Mark. Jen was a psycho. She tried to burn her children in their house, and was basically the worst mother ever. Literally. That was when mark took Lizzy and his children on a road trip. Jen wouldn't stop with that, though. Jen came up with a sad and pathetic sob story and sued Mark. That turned this happy getaway trip into a fugitive chase. FInally, LIzzy must confront her mother, father, and fix her broken family.
(Incomplete) “Adam” is a fictional story which shadows the life of an average nine-to-five mid-twenties man. Adam is an average guy with an average job, seemingly more distressed at the prospects of running out of opportunities and running out of years than anybody around him. He has followed the unwritten schedule to date of what is expected of a person in a modern day democracy. That’s just the problem. He is another drop in the ocean never to be remembered for anything. The irony of being considered ‘broken’ for wanting to live a life beyond the norm has not averted Adam. The culmination of his feelings, or lack thereof for that matter, is released on a co-worker which starts Adam on a journey to find something in life that could actually make him feel alive. With this revelation he begins to realise just how thinly layered the expected conducts and etiquette of modern-day society are layered. Clawing his way in no particular direction he is looking for something more. He doesn’t know what. He doesn’t know where. Nonetheless it has occurred to him;
Adam cannot remember the last time he was overwhelmed…….
Weary of Cold War politics, CIA operative Gabriel Haines can't wait to leave the Company life for a job on his friend's isolated Texas ranch. All he needs to do is go to Dallas and seal the deal. But when President John F. Kennedy is assassinated just yards from where Haines stands, the former agent finds himself in tighter crosshairs than ever before. Keeping a low profile on the ranch couldn't come at a better time.
Motherless preteen Ivy Jean Pritchard is a worrier, but she's trying hard not to be suspicious when her father sends her to spend the weekend on a ranch with family she's never met. And with her troublemaker teenaged cousin, high-society aunt, and her uncle's mistress on the scene, it promises to be more than the western adventure Ivy had anticipated.
Now, marksmen have tracked Haines to the ranch, getting the entire family involved in something very adult and very worrisome. When the weekend turns deadly, Haines and Ivy Jean are the first to learn that secrets, especially those devised and perpetuated "for the good of us all," can breakdown a family--or a nation--in the blink of an eye.