Literature

CHAPTER 32A Doctorate in Deception According to Pokey, at the time the white men came, there were seven sacred arrow bundles. Each had been made by four medicine men who…

CHAPTER 30Like Flies They heard the bikers before they saw them: raucous laughter and Lynyrd Skynyrd from a boom box. They followed the road around a long, gradual curve that…

CHAPTER 28Hope Is Bulletproof, Truth Just Hard to Hit As Minty Fresh drove back to Las Vegas he thought about what Sam had said: “You have a mother, don’t you?”…

CHAPTER 27Food, Gas, Enlightenment, Next Right King’s Lake, Nevada The exit sign said, King’s Lake, but when they pulled off and followed the ramp around the base of a mesa,…

CHAPTER 25Wheels, Deals, and the Persistance of Visions Las Vegas Calliope sat in her car shivering and watching. She was parked up the street from a Vegas Harley-Davidson shop where…

Part 3Quest CHAPTER 23 Pavlov’s Dogs and the Rhinestone Turd Las Vegas The only distractions from the noise of his own mind were desert-dried roadkills, thrown retreads, and road signs…

CHAPTER 22Sprinkling the Son of the Morning Star Santa Barbara After almost twenty years as a salesman, Sam found that when he was confused his head filled with homilies that…

CHAPTER 20Nevermore Santa Barbara When Sam walked into his office Gabriella met him with a cup of coffee. “Mr. Hunter, I’d like to apologize for my behavior yesterday. I don’t…

Abstract This paper presents a comparison of two therapeutic concepts, person-centred approach and cognitive behavioural therapy in terms of the role of counsellor and client. It specifically describes the role…

CHAPTER 16Live, Via the Spirit World Satellite Network Santa Barbara Lonnie Ray Inman was sitting in a worn leather easy chair listening for noises to sift down from upstairs. He…

CHAPTER 14Lies Have Lives of Their Own It took just six weeks for Samson Hunts Alone, the Crow Indian, to become Samuel Hunter, the shape-shifter. The transformation began with the…

CHAPTER 12Cruelly Turn the Steel-Belted Radials of Desire Crow Country – 1973 In the six years since his vision quest Samson had endured almost daily interpretations of the vision by…

Introduction Mental health now represents approximately 25% of the ill health burden and is also the single largest cause of disability in the United Kingdom (Hersen & Sturmey, 2012). Additionally,…

CHAPTER 10Over Easy, Politically Correct Santa Barbara Sam spent most of the night cleaning up the debris from Josh Spagnola’s shooting exhibition. Exhausted from the overall strangeness of his day,…

CHAPTER 8Meet the Muse, Mr. Lizard King Santa Barbara Calliope Kincaid waited on the steps of the Tangerine Tree Cafe thinking about the past lives of lizards. A small, brown…

CHAPTER 6A Malady of Medicine Santa Barbara “Look, Sam,” Aaron said. “I can see that you’re not thrilled about the buy-out. So be it. I understand that you’ve put a…

CHAPTER 3The Machines of Irony Bring Memory Santa Barbara After Sam’s secretary gave him the address of his appointment he hung up the cellular phone and punched the address into…

Part 1Epiphany CHAPTER 1 Life Will Find You Santa Barbara, California While magic powder was sprinkled on the sidewalk outside, Samuel Hunter moved around his office like a machine, firing…

36JENNY, ROBERT, RIVERA, AMANDA, TRAVIS, HOWARD, AND THE SPIDER Rivera drove Robert and Jennifer to their house. They sat in the back, holding each other the whole way, not saying…

35BAD GUYS, GOOD GUYS Rachel was drawing figures in the dirt of the cave floor with a dagger when she heard something flutter by her ear. “What was that?” “A…