About
I'm a bit of an enigma, I suppose. I am a U.S. Marine (no longer in uniform). I am a disabled Vietnam Vet. I have worked as a janitor a hospital orderly, pulled chain on a survey crew, oiled on draglines, dug ditches, poured concrete for sea walls, sold cemetary lots, sold insurance, sold lumber products, sold real estate, been an actor, been an insurance investigator, been a CPA, a forensic accountant, a university lecturer. I have a Master of Accountancy, have been published in profesional journals and write poetry and fiction.
Description
<p><strong><em>Have you ever awoken from a vivid dream and wondered which side of waking was real?</em></strong></p><p>Burt Higgins' retirement is not going well. His children have grown, and his wife has gone off to earn a late-life degree, leaving him alone in his sprawling suburban home. With too much time on his hands, he broods on the state of the world, obsessively following the worst of cable news and the Internet. Increasingly angry at the state of affairs, he nurtures a fantasy that a dark lord from another realm has foisted these problems on humankind. If only he could transport to that world, he'd confront the demon and use the magic found there to defeat the beast and end despair forever.</p><p>On a particularly bad news day, while housebound in the midst of a snowstorm, he retreats to his study to shut out the world and immerse himself in his books. When, on a whim, he lights a candle purchased in an obscure Prague curiosity shop, a magical guide appears and offers to take him on whatever quest he chooses. When he asks to become a hero in a fantasy realm, he discovers a more complex world than he expected, and battling evil with magic turns out to be far from his greatest challenge.</p><p><strong>EVOLVED PUBLISHING PRESENTS</strong> a specualtive fantasy adventure sure not just to entertain you, but to make you consider your life, your dreams, your goals. [DRM-Free]</p><h2><strong>Books by David Litwack:</strong></h2><ul><li><em>Along the Watchtower</em></li><li><em>The Daughter of the Sea and the Sky</em></li><li><em>The Time That's Given</em></li><li><em>The Children of Darkness</em> (The Seekers - Book 1)</li><li><em>The Stuff of Stars</em> (The Seekers - Book 2)</li><li><em>The Light of Reason</em> (The Seekers - Book 3)</li></ul><h2><strong>More Great Fantasy Fiction from Evolved Publishing:</strong></h2><ul><li><em>The Awakening of David Rose</em> (David Rose #1) by Daryl Rothman</li><li><em>Shadow Swarm</em> by D. Robert Pease</li><li><em>Kingdom in Chains</em> by J.W. Zulauf</li><li>The "Grims' Truth" Series by Isu Yin & Fae Yang</li></ul><p> </p>
Story Behind The Book
This is a book of poetry.
But it is more than just that.
It is a very personal, no holds barred, exploration of the life I find surrounding me and within me. It is my search for and about what I view as being reality and illusion as I personally view these concepts. It is about life and death, pain and pleasure, sadness and laughter, falling in love with what we call “words”, being captured by them, picked up and tossed roughly about by them, caressed gently by them, and then slowly being set free by them to awakening from a drowsy drunken sleep to find myself having been somehow changed by the brief encounter with them, enchanted by how they tumble about to create sentences which tell tales and it is about my desire to share with others what I feel, see, laugh about, cry over, hate, love, fear, desire and am intrigued by that which I find surrounds me daily.
