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The story of what is means to become a man when dealing with the loss of the child within. With many years of conquest and desperation to discover the spirit within, I finally discover what it means to love, to stand up for, and deliver the confident spirit of man. This is the first in a series of stories outlining my life. "Volume I, In The Beginning" takes you on a journey of what it's like to come into this world with tragedy as your closest companion, always following closely behind. A life of overcoming struggles and challenges in order to be better prepared for the next one.

What the Page Remembered is a literary novella about memory, silence, and the moment creativity returns. When writer Alex Mercer arrives at Stillwater, a secluded residency for artists at the edge of creative collapse, he expects quiet. What he does not expect is a house that seems to listen — or objects that begin to surface memories he has long avoided. As Alex settles into the rhythms of Stillwater, fragments of the past emerge through subtle signs: a sentence that returns unbidden, a mark pressed into paper, a presence that feels both internal and unmistakably real.

When a group of middle-aged friends accidentally receives a city youth-sports grant, they do what any responsible adults would do—they spend it on go-karts and form a racing team called The Rusty Sprockets. What follows is a chaotic, heartfelt misadventure involving garage politics, spreadsheets taken far too seriously, social-media fame nobody asked for, suspicious municipal auditors, and a rival team that actually knows what they’re doing.