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The "coming of age" novel, Frog in the Pot,is now available! 

If life is not a test, then what is it?

That’s what Alvin Taylor, a 27-year-old alcoholic janitor, tries to figure out over his winter vacation with help from a mocking, yet conscientious, “voice,” but after a belligerent night in Canada with his friend, Alvin decides to sober up and give back to society—by becoming a crossing guard at an elementary school.

“Somewhere along the line, between the idealisms of youth and the realities of adulthood, we become pacified by our jobs; we tolerate how we hurt the world so that we can sustain our lives. At some point, blurred in the past, we traded the greater good for ourselves.”

—From Frog in the Pot

Frog in the Pot is a meditation on loneliness, its desperation, loss, and rejection. The narrative is a mixture of introspection, opinion, and drunken nonsense; but there is a larger theme that underscores this prose, something reticent in those of us caught between generations, or a quarter-life crisis. This novel is an entertaining blend of cynicism, sarcasm, and desolation, though at its heart is a thread of hope.

This is the crucial moment; and where, where will it manifest? Right here...a realm crux.

Copyright 2012 Richard Beckham II

How did Lemuria vanish?

The imaginative Mythic Fiction/Fantasy novel, The Tale of Mu, is now available on Amazon!

What if the Garden of Eden were on a sunken continent? What if our world was once sustained by human emotion, particularly the love of the first two human souls? If they were reincarnated, how important would it be to reunite them? But in this primeval, yet advanced world, not everyone walks in the light...what of the children of those first two souls?

Atlantis is a grand civilization of temples and sun-worshipers. Its people value gold and logic and are ruled by a childish emperor. Seth, a highly-regarded lieutenant of Atlantis, hates his homeland, its tediousness, its government, and all its people. He journeys with a group of revolutionaries to Mu, where he battles his own demons and looks for the greatest means to power. In Lemuria, Aset meditates in the jungle and discovers that she can manifest her emotions into crystals, which affect others that are nearby. With only faith and love in her heart she leaves her native village to fulfill her destiny. But since the beginning of time, two sprites search across both continents in haste for the first two human souls and reunite them; for only their love can maintain balance in the world...The Tale of Mu is the tale of our humanity--at its core, its roots, its beginning.

Copyright 2012 Richard Beckham II

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