The Sentinel Oak: A Short Story

Looking for a quick atmospheric escape where the lines between nature and reality start to blur? The Sentinel Oak is a powerful short story about the hidden forces lurking just below the surface of our everyday world. The old oak tree has deep roots, silent through generations. It is a threshold, where the unexplained bursts through, and a choice is made that cannot be reversed. This fast-paced speculative fiction read is moody, eerie, and steeped in raw tension as it explores what happens when human lives collide with an extraordinary, supernatural shift. A story of secret truths, of natural wonder, and of the quiet power it takes to choose change. Perfect for lovers of dark mystery, speculative short stories, and stories in which nature holds the ultimate secret, The Sentinel Oak will hit you hard and stay with you in one sitting.

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Can't Find My Way Home (Those Damned Yankees)

  

Can't Find My Way Home 

(Those Damned Yankees)

Can’t Find My Way Home Recreates the Chaos and Human Cost of the American Revolution The American Revolution is often remembered through its ideals. Former U.S. Naval Officer Ray Deptula wants readers to experience it through its uncertainty, exhaustion and human cost — the same way they would any other conflict. “Ironically, the British experience in the American Revolution was strikingly similar to our own in Vietnam and even more recently in Afghanistan, where a superpower took on a woefully inferior foe and where expectation and actions of the government, the military and the people were not necessarily aligned,” Deptula said. His website https://raydeptulaauthor.com/ In Can’t Find My Way Home, the second installment in his Those Damned Yankees series, Deptula combines meticulous historical research with emotionally charged storytelling to recreate the Revolutionary War as it was lived by ordinary people caught inside extraordinary events. Rather than using history as a backdrop, Deptula immerses readers in the actual sequence of Revolutionary War battles, troop movements and political upheaval that shaped America’s founding, all the while tracing the story of a common soldier embroiled in, and at the mercy of, a chaos that challenges his ability to survive.

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Can't Find My Way Home (Those Damned Yankees)

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Spread Game: The Federal Prison Cookbook:

100+ Microwave Masterpieces from the Commissary List

The realest cookbook ever written — because it had to be.

In 2013, Justin Smith was indicted on a federal drug conspiracy charge. He served five years. This book is what he built with them.

Inside a federal housing unit, the chow hall keeps you alive — but the microwave keeps you human. SPREAD GAME is the complete cuisine of the American federal prison system: 103 tested recipes made entirely from commissary items and a single microwave, compiled with real BOP commissary lists and organized the way a cook thinks, not the way the order form prints.

Inside you'll find:

• The master commissary list, decoded — the federal pantry by category with real prices, plus the $60 starter pantry

• Technique that changes everything — hot-water-bath cooking, the chip-bag cooker, micro-frying, the cookie-tray bakery, the mayo sear

• The Spread — the communal build-out meal, from The Standard to the eight-man Birthday Spread

• The legendary Mackerel Patty Sandwich — the exact recipe that fed all of B Unit, and the sandwich-business playbook that came with it

• No-oven desserts that defy belief — two full cheesecake builds, cookie-tray brownies, two-minute fudge, and the Visitation Cake

• A full-page photo for every single recipe — 103 dishes shot in the gritty, mouthwatering style of the yard

Written in a voice as real as the yard and clean enough to gift, SPREAD GAME is for currently and formerly incarcerated cooks, the families who fill their commissary accounts, true-crime readers, dorm-room chefs, and anyone who's ever had to make something from nothing.

You don't need an oven. You need a microwave, a list, and the game.

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Spread Game: The Federal Prison Cookbook

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The Bergman-Schuour Destiny

  

The Bergman-Schuour Destiny 

by Ralph L. Myers 

“Can hatred ever be truly dismantled by the bonds of shared humanity?”

Set against the sweeping backdrop of European history — from the muddy roads of 18th-century Ukraine to the shadow of the Holocaust. This ambitious work of historical fiction follows two families across generations, asking a question that feels as urgent today as it did a hundred years ago

The novel opens with a vivid, almost visceral image: Miriam and Aaron Giessel, Jewish peasants fleeing Ukraine under Catherine II's brutal Pale of Settlement decree, hauling a cart through torrential rain and deep mud, their worldly possessions balanced against an uncertain future. From that first page, Myers establishes his dual gift — a novelist's instinct for rich, grounded storytelling and a historian's fidelity to the documented reality of Jewish life in Europe. The early chapters move with the rhythm of displacement, tracing the Bergman family from Poland to Prussia, through riots and decrees, as each generation dares to hope they have finally found a country that will accept them.

That country, eventually, is Germany — and Ralph renders the cruel irony of that choice with extraordinary care. German-Jewish communities-built lives, opened businesses, served in wars, and contributed to culture and commerce, only to find that belonging, in the end, would be revoked. Running parallel to the Bergman story is the Schuour family: aristocratic, Prussian, privileged — and, crucially, not indifferent. The intersection of these two worlds forms the novel's moral and emotional core.

What sets The Bergman-Schuour Destiny apart from more straightforward Holocaust narratives is its timeframe. By beginning in the 1700s, Ralph allows readers to understand the Holocaust not as a sudden eruption but as the culmination of centuries of expulsion, adaptation, and resilience. Readers witness history not as footnotes but as lived experience — arguments in Yiddish, letters written by candlelight, mothers praying for sons they may never see again.

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ZODIAC'S CAMERA by Axiom Atikos

  

 

ZODIAC'S CAMERA by Axiom Atikos

This book, via hard, direct evidence, reveals the identity of the Zodiac Serial Killer, the Black Dahlia Avenger, the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run, the Santa Rosa Hitchhiker Killer and others, who was the perpetrator (Gang of killers 1960's-'80's) & orchestrator of this 6 decade long killing spree (1930's-1980's) which resulted in anywhere from 250 and 400 murders. This photo was taken March, 1966 at Lake Temescal, Oakland, Ca. Neither of these girls have been ID'ed as of yet, however, the 2nd girl (see 2nd photo above) resembles Cheri Jo somewhat in hair style, and height. The Zodiac took 9 photos this day of the girl in the blue bikini. Cheri Jo visited the SF Bay Area, 1 week & 1 month before she was murdered. The clip on shades can be seen here, same as Bryan Hartnell reported at Lake Berryessa.

Chapter Summaries

There are no chapters as this investigation is presented chronologically, as Axiom uncovered new evidence as the story unfolded during a 2 year roller coaster ride with enough twists & turns to give even Regan (Exorcist) a neck ache. Here is the list of music venues the Zodiac Mastermind was at, Fillmore Auditorium, Fillmore West, Carousel Ballroom, Avalon Ballroom, Winterland, Longshoremen's Hall and the Family Dog aka, Friends & Relations Theatre. He was photographing there between 1966-1972, mostly at Fillmore West (posing as a "press" photographer, most likely) & the Zodiac would have been 58 in 1970 & his Hitman brother, 48 years old. The younger brother was the one seen on the wanted poster, as the surgeon was behind the scenes orchestrating this Hell on Earth for decades.

Author Bio

Axiom (a pen name) is an artist who specializes in a certain genre which cannot be revealed just yet. The author never intended originally to write this book, but was on a mission to prove the photographer was NOT the Zodiac, however once it was realized that the photographer matched the Zodiac's profile, that the photographer's handwriting matched the Zodiac's HW, that the photographer wrote in a secret code, that most of the pervy photos were taken secretly, that his car matched the one seen in Riverside 10-30-1966, that the ZOdiac made the mistake of admitting he had stalked  Cheri Jo Bates for "years prior" & corresponding photos of Cheri Jo were found in the years prior, 1963-1966, well, the game was on to smash the Zodiac's "crackproof" mythos to Smithereens.

Monikers

The general concept that not only has the Zodiac case been cracked, but that the Zodiac was also the Black Dahlia Avenger, Cleveland Torso Murderer, Lipstick Killer, Doodler & Santa Rosa Hitchhiker Killer, among other monikers, who was also responsible for the murder of SFPD Officer Richard Radetich, Donna Lass, Kym Morgan, Leona Roberts, Carola Hartog & hundreds of others (he confessed to murdering 100+ people), well, it's just too much for their (L.E. & MSMedia) inculcated, pre-psy-op'ed minds to comprehend. L.E. was informed of this evidence over 2 years ago (May 2023) and 50+ times in total, and they have universally been unresponsive, asleep at the wheel, not giving a damn about the cold case dead. Axiom contacted nearly 100 various reporters from the MSMedia, all to no avail as they apparently have more pressing matters than to report on possibly one of the biggest & best news stories of all time. Update, the person I purchased these photos from, just passed away in May, 2025. L.E. was a Day Late & a Dollar Short on that one. I am hoping other key pieces of this Z puzzle are not compromised due to negligence of certain agencies.

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http://zodiacscamera.com

Soon out on other Retailers