Dying, Tom sees the light at the end of the tunnel. He wonders which prophet will be waiting there. Will it be Jesus, Mohammed, Moses, Vishnu, Buddha or others? When he exits the tunnel, he is in a thick mist and is greeted by no one. In the distance he suddenly sees St. Peter at the world’s largest computer. They discuss Tom’s life and the saint decides that he should visit all the heavens to see in which one he wishes to spend eternity. Tom goes to the protestant, Catholic, Hebrew, Muslim and other heavens. He meets all the great …

In the prologue, the author reveals his fascination with his grandfather’s generation and explains how a study of the campaign against the denial of the Armenian Genocide cannot but include the assassinations carried out by Gourgen Yanikian in 1973. In Part I, he recounts the first phase of the genocide and covers the early period of Yanikian’s life, highlighting the horrific experiences he suffered as a result of the massacres. He describes Yanikian’s immigration to America after World War II and his desire to produce a vast documentary about the Armenian Holocaust, a project that consumes twenty years of his …

Sixty-year-old Maddy marries in haste, only to discover that her new husband is an abusive narcissist. He moves Maddy away from family and friends in Vancouver, British Columbia, to Victoria, Australia, where she must now cope in a foreign country, lacking personal support or finances to sustain her. Maddy reflects back on her childhood on Fireweed Island in the 1950s and 1960s, thinking of her older sister, Erin, her father, Gordon, and her troubled mother, Florence. Anger consumes Florence because Gordon becomes ill and is no longer able to provide her with a comfortable lifestyle. After his death, the whole …

As an adult, I knew I would have to visit India, the place of my birth. My father was a British Indian Army Officer and my mother, the daughter of a soldier, was brought to India when she was 20 months old. She left India in 1947, married and with her two children, making a hurried exit before the partition of India. I have always felt I had India in my blood. My first breath, sound, taste, touch, and sight were of India. In March 2012, in my 67th year, I set off on a return journey, not as a …

Death the Door, Music a Key is an invitation to join a journey that is not always easy, but might just alter the way you think about how you live your life. The journey begins in the fragile moments just before life ends, as we sit beside the deathbed and seek to understand this sacred process through the eyes of a harpist. This book of stories tells of ordinary people in the midst of extraordinary moments: people experiencing grief, loss and the anticipation of death. For the most part, however, it is the story of the author, who followed a …

For Those They Serve is an action-packed thriller about a plan to steal the Crown Jewels of Great Britain. Because of the world crises, Major Wilson’s rifle company has been involved in near continual combat situations, causing the Major to grow disillusioned and angry at the way his men have been killed and injured, due to the British Government’s foreign policy. One day the Major is sitting in the officer’s mess when one of his officers tells him he has heard of a hypothetical plan to steal the Crown Jewels while their battalion is on public duties in London. The …

Eons past, in the far reaches of the cosmos, planet Oriam experienced overpopulation so severe it became a threat to its survival. The leaders’ solution of mass sterilization proved only too effective and now the population faces a worse outcome: extinction. In a last ditch effort to save their race, Oriam sends a scientist to far off planet Earth. In the meantime, in Rio Claro, Brazil, the medical community faces a strange happening they cannot identify, good or evil. The appearance of a stranger in town, a pair of jealous sisters and a retired Air Force Colonel cause complications that …

The Day the Grid Went Down is a compelling novel about what could happen to the world should a truly catastrophic economic collapse occur. The book is largely based on the true-life experiences of author David J. Nicks and other real world events, such as the partial economic collapse of 2008. Using the 2012 elections as a point of departure, The Day the Grid Went Down spins off into a cautionary tale of fiction that draws persuasive parallels between where we might currently be heading and prophecies from the Bible. Fact and fiction interweave throughout the book as Nicks juxtaposes …

Mankind may be on the brink of extinction. This story begins with a family living in an underground bunker in the year 2052, while the world above is in total chaos. Nicholas and his family escaped their home in Denver and are now in New Mexico trying to survive an apocalyptic event caused by an approaching comet. The earth has been subject to natural and man-made disasters never before experienced by man. In the bunker, Nicholas reflects back on the past forty years of his life. He remembers the joyful times and the tragic events that changed everything. He relives …

I wanted to write and speak with the voice of a child, dream like a child dreams, and fantasize like only a child can. I wanted to search the world over and look for differences in the children’s stories. I wanted transient time and spaces and to traverse a world that only children understand. I wanted to speak the language of children in many different languages. And so I did it, with my stories. But in so doing, I too became a child; and like a child have learned. The lesson? Ho! Ever so simple: I learned that it is …