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The Teacher

by Todd Mercer

The people on the beach when the great tsunami surged ashore in Banda Aceh Indonesia no longer need lessons on navigating through life. The rest of us who were at a safe distance or had a solid tree to cling to filed away a new piece of... Read More

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The 31st Man

by Todd Mercer

Korea in 1936 was an annexed and occupied land and had been since 1910 when Japan expanded and solidified their regional position in relation to rivals Russia and China. A group of thirty-one men attempted to declare Korea’s national... Read More

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Righting Time

by Todd Mercer

The eventful third book in the Honor Bound series "Righting Time" extends the adventures of Alexandre Dumas’ Three Musketeers into a future both strange and familiar. Time travel is controlled by refined psychically able people from... Read More

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Destination

by Todd Mercer

The Deutsche Democratic Republic during the Warsaw Pact era was a grey country steeped in mutual suspicion. As this book’s protagonist views it “East Germany seemed to stay stopped in time—her guess 1949.” A mind-boggling... Read More

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The Odyssey of Danny Helm

by Todd Mercer

It is the eve of the Civil War and Danny Helm’s life is pretty miserable. He slops pigs seven days a week on his father’s failing farm in the Ozarks between humiliating beatings from a sadistic older brother. His mother is dead from... Read More

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The End of America

by Todd Mercer

Suppose one individual had the power to make any citizen disappear indefinitely, could keep them from challenging their accusers, warehouse them without charges, torture or even kill them without repercussions. Then imagine that by... Read More

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Meditations of an Imperfect Mind

by Todd Mercer

This offering consists of thirteen poems two of them prose-shorts and six stories with floss-thin connections between them. Most poems are in the form of rhymed and near-rhymed couplets. The subjects are couplehood and the reflective... Read More

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