My writing is what I have been created in this world to do. It is more than a passion for me. It is nothing short of my life. I've spent a good number of tumultuous and confusing years in search of that simple truth. Having, at last, reconciled myself to that, now...I write. An avid student of humanity in general, my influences run the gamut. I like to think that, to a great degree, my most significant influence is that shadowy abyss that Jung dubbed the Collective Unconscious. I endeavor to reach into that shadow, feel the metaphor that lives therein, and translate it to a more literal and more...