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It’s that time of the year again where we get to go and participate in the Miami Book Fair, particularly during the Street Fair weekend happening this November 22-24 in Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus. The book fair, considered America’s finest literary festival, is a great opportunity for national and international authors to showcase and promote their works to hundreds of thousands of attendees and book enthusiasts. It’s also a chance for authors, exhibitors, booksellers, and other professionals from the publishing world to share and exchange ideas and discover current trends in the industry. In this issue, we got to talk with Dr. Frank Douglas, author of the engrossing memoir Defining Moments of a Free Man from a Black Stream. Douglas shares how he became a successful researcher, scientist, and published author despite the challenges and adversities. In “Kids Need to Know About Mom’s Breast Cancer Diagnosis,” author Diane Davies explains how one can have a truthful and honest conversation with children when someone in the family has been diagnosed with a serious illness. Shirley Andrews makes her case that extraterrestrial beings helped mankind with their prehistoric achievements in “Gods from the Sky to Earth in Prehistory.” We also offer a glimpse of Kay Whidbee Sherwood’s new book, News From the Holy Land III: The Messiah’s Kingdom. We continue to receive contributions from various talents and genius creators, and in this issue, we feature the works of Gloria Winkles, Ivor Kovac, Mounina Bouna Aly, Thomas Reischel, Dr. Frank L. Douglas, and Ted Torgersen. Finally, get to know more about the wonderful city of Miami and its attractions in our lifestyle feature “My Oh My Miami.” We all love stories that resonate with our own, especially those that bring us to greater heights in mood and in thought. We hope you’ll enjoy reading this issue as much as we enjoyed piecing it together.
It’s that time of the year again where we get to go and participate in the Miami Book Fair, particularly during the Street Fair weekend happening this November 22-24 in Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus. The book fair, considered America’s finest literary festival, is a great opportunity for national and international authors to showcase and promote their works to hundreds of thousands of attendees and book enthusiasts. It’s also a chance for authors, exhibitors, booksellers, and other professionals from the publishing world to share
and exchange ideas and discover current trends in the industry.
In this issue, we got to talk with Dr. Frank Douglas, author of the engrossing memoir
Defining Moments of a Free Man from a Black Stream. Douglas shares how he became a successful researcher, scientist, and published author despite the challenges and adversities.
In “Kids Need to Know About Mom’s Breast Cancer Diagnosis,” author Diane Davies
explains how one can have a truthful and honest conversation with children when someone in the family has been diagnosed with a serious illness.
Shirley Andrews makes her case that extraterrestrial beings helped mankind with their
prehistoric achievements in “Gods from the Sky to Earth in Prehistory.”
We also offer a glimpse of Kay Whidbee Sherwood’s new book, News From the Holy Land III: The Messiah’s Kingdom. We continue to receive contributions from various talents and genius creators, and in this issue, we feature the works of Gloria Winkles, Ivor Kovac, Mounina Bouna Aly, Thomas Reischel, Dr. Frank L. Douglas, and Ted Torgersen.
Finally, get to know more about the wonderful city of Miami and its attractions in our
lifestyle feature “My Oh My Miami.”
We all love stories that resonate with our own, especially those that bring us to greater
heights in mood and in thought. We hope you’ll enjoy reading this issue as much as we
enjoyed piecing it together.
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Ted Torgersen
Author of Out of Exile
Day of the Beast
It’s the day of the Beast,
don’t look to the East,
‘cause the sun ain’t a goin’ that way.
I think it’s still best
that it goes to the West,
like the songs that we know always say.
It’s the day of the Beast,
it just gives me the creeps,
the times, they won’t let you be.
So, far into the night,
consider everything twice,
and wonder if it’s really alright.
It’s the day of the Beast,
it’s the day we like least,
better not try to understand.
Everything after seems better and faster,
than things were before it all came.
We waited so long, but now that it’s gone,
it won’t ever be back here again.
It’s the day of the Beast,
and the sellout’s complete,
just march to your fate, never mind.
They like things this way,
and no matter what they say,
planned it like this all the time.
It’s the day of the Beast,
and whoever you meet,
has already decided your fate.
Though their words sound so strong,
things still come out wrong,
and the date says it’s already too late.
So we pull the blue string,
‘cause there’s still songs to sing,
they couldn’t quite stop us this time.
Tell them there’s no peace,
it’s the day of the Beast,
and we gonna keep speakin’ our minds.
Ted Torgersen, Out of Exile
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