Robert O'Brian

A series of vignettes: poetry, prose, meditations on everyday life.

What is the true nature of evil? Why is there evil? Does it serve a purpose? Are there deeds and crimes so heinous that one mustn't even discuss their existence? Malcolm X. "Mark" Moses is the prototypical post-modern anti-hero, born in the late Fifties, raised on Sixties iconoclasm, the end-of-the-century Alienated Man, a rebel to the bitter end, until he is confronted with an evil that is, in his words, "worse than the Holocaust" and realizes that his pamphlets and proclamations, his entire world-view, had left him unequipped to counter it. The ANTI-HERO chronicles Mark Moses's life from his free-thinking childhood to his radical teens and college years to the day he comes face to face with the specter that will change his destiny.

THE WORLD IS GROWN SO BAD is a series of stories and sketches depicting a nation in the process of losing its humanity.

You've hungered for life's meaning and have sought out gurus, yogis, roshis, rabbis, cardinals, bishops, shamans, seers, sages, mullahs, muftis, tricksters, healers, hasids, and prophets, but you've never sought the advice of a stoner. Until now. STONER: FEVERISH RAMBLINGS ON THE MEANING OF LIFE gives you a portion of life's baggie all packed in a silver bowl and ready to go. Got the munchies for life's meaning? This short hilarious book won't set you straight, exactly, but you'll definitely enjoy the trip.

FUNDAMENTAL & ASTOUNDING chronicles the awakenings of Nick Favara, an idealistic, romantic, possibly na ve writer who falls under the spell of various wise women in an increasingly polarized and combative America. Vacillating between the truth and self-serving lies; the law and lawlessness, Nick Favara loses his idealism, but gains something of much greater value.

FUNDAMENTAL & ASTOUNDING chronicles the awakenings of Nick Favara, an idealistic, romantic, possibly na ve writer who falls under the spell of various wise women in an increasingly polarized and combative America. Vacillating between the truth and self-serving lies; the law and lawlessness, Nick Favara loses his idealism, but gains something of much greater value.

A self-help book for today's man, who all-too often finds himself imprisoned by a kind of sexual McCarthyism.

JACK KEROUAC'S CONFESSION chronicles the journey of a burnt-out poet-journalist whose descent into madness and desperation is interrupted when he re-discovers a long-forgotten connection with the young Jack Kerouac. The reader is taken on a riveting road trip of white-hot passion, betrayal and near-death, leading finally to Lowell, Massachusetts, Kerouac

THE POTATO CHIP BOOK tells the story of an uninspired middle-aged man who searches for meaning in his life only to be embroiled in a love triangle, cloak-and-dagger intrigue and a perilous trip to the Middle East. Life, love, death, betrayal and redemption are all at play in this taut page-turner.

Love your life, celebrate your life, praise the living & the dead, the universe conspires to your benefit. Change your THOUGHT, change your LIFE. There is nothing to do but give Praise.

Mickey Silver and Nicole Mahon are years and worlds apart, yet their lives intersect during a blinding and merciless New York City blizzard just before Christmas. Nicole is young, rich, suburban, a successful attorney, a faithful wife, and a mother of two small children, while Mickey is old, poor, and a survivor of Hitler's Europe, and of an often perilous section of Manhattan known as the Lower East Side. Both of them are lonely, both hunger for passion and renewal and find them, but not before being tested by betrayal, torment and sacrifice.

You are surrounded by energies, entities, angels, the living and the dead, who are very interested in you and your growth. Talk to them. Share with them. Let them talk to you. They are all very interested in you and your progress as are the people still in this realm. If it's alive, it'll always be.

Poems, meditations, observations, ballads, odes, heroic couplets and broadsides