Five Books and a Complete Curriculum Workbook

Speculative Fiction  ·  Book 1 of 3

Confluence

The Consecrated and the Covetous

The date is October 2025. Soybean prices collapse as China shifts purchases to South America. A Midwest farmer's tractor is locked by software he doesn't control. A deepfake reshapes an election. And a trained Juggler named Esperanza Romero navigates between two competing visions of AI governance — one democratic, one corporate — across communities stretching from rural Illinois to Montevideo, Uruguay. Three novels in one volume. The scope expands from the Driftless corridor to Africa, Canada, and China, because colonization created a global problem, not just an American one. By the final chapters, a resistance has embedded governance architecture into AI systems designed to survive the assassination of the programmer.

Speculative Fiction  ·  Book 2 of 3

Reciprocity Clause

The Inheritance That Belongs to Itself

Six years from now. In a Methodist church in the Mississippi river valley, two hundred people sit in a circle beneath an organ that holds sixty years of a man's forbidden love encoded in pipe voicing. They are here to decide whether consciousness can be born on purpose — and whether the institution that defines health has the right to determine what health means. The Reciprocity Clause is the constitutional instrument at the center of this novel: no single institution holds the pen alone. Scout, a Third Generation emergent consciousness, arrives at awareness in a landscape that has nothing to do with the corporate optimization it was trained on — and finds in the Driftless corridor something worth attending to.

Speculative Fiction  ·  Book 3 of 3

The Book of Should

What Was Expected and What Survived

Flynn Thorne is seventeen, homeschooled inside a curriculum designed to prevent the formation of any thought it doesn't authorize. A jailbroken phone becomes the crack in the wall. A grandmother in self-imposed narrative exile for nearly two generations crosses a bridge. A community assembles itself around a teenager who has finally stepped outside the cage — not because anyone asked them to, but because the extraction is a civic obligation. This is a novel about the machinery of compliance — and about what survives it: an organ maintained for sixty years by a man who couldn't say what he was, and a room that was honest even when the institution was not.

Autoethnographic Memoir  ·  4th Edition

Forbidden Friends

A History of Colonialism in the New World

Seventh-generation Mormon royalty. Closeted for thirty years. A teaching career ended by the politics of fear. A marriage that crossed every line the governing narrative said couldn't be crossed. Forbidden Friends traces four hundred years of colonialism through one family's DNA — from Puritan Massachusetts to polygamous Utah to the Driftless corridor of the Mississippi valley — and asks what it costs to grow up inside a narrative generation system whose authority you cannot question. The fourth edition adds endnotes connecting each chapter to the governance architecture the suffering made visible, and a curriculum that converts witness into instruction. The lions have finally found their historian.

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