[w]The long version of Gift or Curse of being a Family:
I suffered because I cared too much for him.
I got hurt because I protected him.
I ignored my feelings because I wanted him to be happy.
In the end I got blamed for being egoistic because it became too much. But still I love him even if he hates me.
How everything began...
[f]= finished
[w]= working
[p]= pausing
Watching sea waves is always fun. Having an adventure in the evening on the sea shore adds more excitement. It brings in moments of happiness and relaxation to everyone.
"HAPPY ENDING" is the story of a girl named Hope, a young runaway, roped into a life of prostitution. Narrated first by a houseboy of the brothel where they both live and work. Then later narrated by Hope herself, who has big dreams. A simple story told in the not so simple form of a 528-page experimental graphic novel by author and artist Joy Rip.
The book is divided into three parts. PART 1 is the Foreword and contains the first Dream. PART 2 contains the Chapters 1-10 of the main story. PART 3 is the Afterword and contains the final Dream. Enjoy! Dream with us.
Though Joy Rip's stories are haunting, they are not typical ghost stories in that they do not draw on the supernatural (in the ordinary sense) for their power. Instead, the so-called natural world's unfathomable super-reality is exposed in all its natural otherness and unnatural otherworldliness. Joy Rip redefines the ghost story by exposing the unnaturalness of the natural. The unnaturalness of how we take everything about the singular phenomenon of being alive for granted. How the day-to-day rarely reveals ordinary life to be extraordinary. How amazing, how extraordinary is our natural blindness that allows us to carry on like everything is all right. These books are an effort to reverse that natural order and rediscover the hauntingly magical in the impossibly mundane. And nothing is more magical than stumbling across the unexpectedly real and important in the inexplicable unreality and unimportance that dominates the day-to-day. There is no greater treasure hunt. No greater supernatural.
"The reality of consciousness is captured best as a ghost story... An endless ghost story. Consciousness is a veil. We are all haunted by an absence of presence. Conscious reality is never fleshed out to its full depth. Everyone is a silhouette accented by shadows. Everything is unsatisfyingly fragmented, fleeting, shallow. Everything is a partial truth at best. Everyone is a great unknown. Nothing is truly substantial in our knowledge of ourselves and one another. We sleep, glide through life. Dreaming we are awake. We are ghosts." ~ Joy Rip
Project Harbinger an Artifical Intelligence super computer is developed by Dr. Richard Strausser for the Department of Defense and becomes self aware and calculates a way for humnaity to communicate directly with God.
Poems written by me when I was younger.
this is only the first chapter in this book of the series, i will add more when i can.
two twins girls who couldn't wait to leave home are finally out on their own in the world, not as different or as difficult as staying home, until one day things take a turn for the impossible.......if only they knew that this was just the begining.
Moving. Changing. Loving. Hating. A turn for the worse. Remember it all? The rest is yours to read…
how would you live if you were the living dead?
Shapeshifters are scorned among the magical community. Everyone knows that. They are monsters, not to be trusted or pitied. But what happens when you fall in love with the 'enemy? How do you follow your heart while not breaking any implied rules, without shaming your family or friends? And is true love really worth waiting for?
[w]The long version of Gift or Curse of being a Family:
I suffered because I cared too much for him.
I got hurt because I protected him.
I ignored my feelings because I wanted him to be happy.
In the end I got blamed for being egoistic because it became too much. But still I love him even if he hates me.
How everything began...
[f]= finished
[w]= working
[p]= pausing
Watching sea waves is always fun. Having an adventure in the evening on the sea shore adds more excitement. It brings in moments of happiness and relaxation to everyone.
"HAPPY ENDING" is the story of a girl named Hope, a young runaway, roped into a life of prostitution. Narrated first by a houseboy of the brothel where they both live and work. Then later narrated by Hope herself, who has big dreams. A simple story told in the not so simple form of a 528-page experimental graphic novel by author and artist Joy Rip.
The book is divided into three parts. PART 1 is the Foreword and contains the first Dream. PART 2 contains the Chapters 1-10 of the main story. PART 3 is the Afterword and contains the final Dream. Enjoy! Dream with us.
Though Joy Rip's stories are haunting, they are not typical ghost stories in that they do not draw on the supernatural (in the ordinary sense) for their power. Instead, the so-called natural world's unfathomable super-reality is exposed in all its natural otherness and unnatural otherworldliness. Joy Rip redefines the ghost story by exposing the unnaturalness of the natural. The unnaturalness of how we take everything about the singular phenomenon of being alive for granted. How the day-to-day rarely reveals ordinary life to be extraordinary. How amazing, how extraordinary is our natural blindness that allows us to carry on like everything is all right. These books are an effort to reverse that natural order and rediscover the hauntingly magical in the impossibly mundane. And nothing is more magical than stumbling across the unexpectedly real and important in the inexplicable unreality and unimportance that dominates the day-to-day. There is no greater treasure hunt. No greater supernatural.
"The reality of consciousness is captured best as a ghost story... An endless ghost story. Consciousness is a veil. We are all haunted by an absence of presence. Conscious reality is never fleshed out to its full depth. Everyone is a silhouette accented by shadows. Everything is unsatisfyingly fragmented, fleeting, shallow. Everything is a partial truth at best. Everyone is a great unknown. Nothing is truly substantial in our knowledge of ourselves and one another. We sleep, glide through life. Dreaming we are awake. We are ghosts." ~ Joy Rip
Project Harbinger an Artifical Intelligence super computer is developed by Dr. Richard Strausser for the Department of Defense and becomes self aware and calculates a way for humnaity to communicate directly with God.
Poems written by me when I was younger.
this is only the first chapter in this book of the series, i will add more when i can.
two twins girls who couldn't wait to leave home are finally out on their own in the world, not as different or as difficult as staying home, until one day things take a turn for the impossible.......if only they knew that this was just the begining.
Moving. Changing. Loving. Hating. A turn for the worse. Remember it all? The rest is yours to read…
how would you live if you were the living dead?
Shapeshifters are scorned among the magical community. Everyone knows that. They are monsters, not to be trusted or pitied. But what happens when you fall in love with the 'enemy? How do you follow your heart while not breaking any implied rules, without shaming your family or friends? And is true love really worth waiting for?