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Monkotopia
3 I expect that you’ve been lying awake at and night wondering, what is Monkotopia? It’s really quite simple. You’ve heard of utopia — a perfect world where everything seems designed to please You. Hence ‘You’ topia. It makes ‘You’ happy to live in this kind of world. Dystopia is the opposite. It’s when everything seems designed…
Read MoreOne Thousand Cranes
0 I wrote this song in memory of a Japanese Girl, Sadako Sasaki, who died as a result of the Hiroshima bombing. The paper crane has become an international symbol of peace in recent years as a result of its connection to the story of a young Japanese girl named Sadako Sasaki born in 1943.…
Read MoreInterview with Author of Real Dragons Don’t Cry
1 My comical fantasy novel, Real Dragons Don’t Cry, tells the story of an alien cephalopod visiting Earth in the 14th Century, on a mission to find the lost seed of the magical Microvita Tree. He has to deal with an evil wizard, and vegetarian dragon, and find the seed in the drowned kingdom of…
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