Daniel Shortell is a recent escapee of NYC currently marooned in a culture-free enclave of central New York. At university, he was fully indoctrinated with corporatism. The resulting pathology completely dismantled his psyche resulting in a 2009 exodus from the corporate world. His real education came from traveling, tinkering and reading the ideas of those ostracized by The System. When not writing, he enjoys building things and incubating the seeds of revolutionary ideology in the tender mind of his 5 year old. th!s is his second novel.