This story is the serialisation of a partly biographical fantasy that has been many years in the writing and is a prequel to an evolutionary story based in the distant future. I had planned to publish it as a completed novel, but having discovered Wattpad and the flexibility it offers the writer I have chosen to release it part by part. If you read it and like it please vote and comment, it will encourage me to release new parts more frequently. In the eyes of my friends and family, I have lived what on the face of it, is a fairly, normal life. However, I've experienced a far different life to the one perceived by those who believe they know me. There have been many times when I've found myself for want of a more apt description, transported to what you might call an alternative reality. These transportations have always occurred at significant waypoints in my life and may be circumstantial or traumatic, but one question always remains unanswered. Are these transportation's a figment of an emotionally induced psychosis, or are they really occurring in some alternate reality that interacts with ours? I cherish the later and choose to believe it to be true.

Is life what you had hoped it would be? Maybe you had envisioned going out in glory? Through poetry I will try to explain that it's not too late to go out all guns blazing..! These poem's will tackle life and conflict. Both the Glory and the Defeats.. If you like what you see please let me know by leaving a comment and a vote! "Life and Conflict" is currently ranked #55 in the poetry genre! The cover was made by http://my.w.tt/UiNb/1dCaamTHRB Copyright © 2016- by RetroSM9 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.

Against the backdrop of the First World War, a young soldier tries to forget his past and survive each day. Back in England, a young woman who has made a terrible mistake tries to forget that he ever existed. Memories of happy summers long past mock the brutality of the world they now live in and each day; both on the front line and at home is a struggle to survive. But somehow, in the flare of bombs and the ashes of the battlefield... A youthful love simply refuses to die. And the repercussions of a buried, forbidden passion haunts them both. ~~~~ First place winner in 'Sad Story Category' in the Victoria Approved awards

This is derived from an earlier short story 'Rising Damp', written as a tribute to my siblings, a reflection of guilt I felt for not spending enough time in their company as a child. I'd been burdened with more responsibility than a child should be and as consequence sought my escape where and whenever possible. The story primarily focuses on the eldest of my siblings Colin, it interweaves a father and daughter with his past and their present. The two timelines are linked by the spirit of the father's deceased sibling Colin, his daughters 'Invisible Fried' who enables him to release them both from purgatory.

The Lost World is a novel released in 1912 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle concerning an expedition to a plateau in the Amazon basin of South America where prehistoric animals (dinosaurs and other extinct creatures) still survive. It was originally published serially in the popular Strand Magazine and illustrated by New-Zealand-born artist Harry Rountree during the months of April-November 1912. The character of Professor Challenger was introduced in this book. The novel also describes a war between indigenous people and a vicious tribe of ape-like creatures. Cover by the lovely @FaithMurri.