Sally
Michelle Jackson
I have had two poems published in anthologies by Eber & Wein Publishing. The Land of Misfit Toys was published in Where The Mind Dwells and What Makes A Lifetime? in The Best Poets of 2015. Both were recorded by a professional narrator with a musical background on two of their Editor's Choice CDs.
The Darkness Survives completed in October of 2014 is a continuation of my adventures as I now have really taken over the family business and become an actual paranormal Investagator. The plan was to get married and enjoy a quiet honeymoon in New Orleans but plans are always subject to change. A few incidents and the team is called to join us. The honeymoon I had planned did not include playing a dangerous sort of chess game with a madman, his henchmen and a murderous swamp creature. Swamp tours could be fun but not under those conditions, unless you're like me and cannot leave a mystery unsolved. Honeymoons traditionally are for two but in this case the group is actuially growing in numbers.
I can't wait to get back to the relative calm of Manhattan.
Darkness In The Afternoon completed in April of 2015 joins Hank Heilsing and his team who have completed two major cases and have returned to his New York Apartment building. For some of his team members and his new bride it is the first time to his building but as usual for them, the unusual events begin to take place rather quickly and they are off to save the world again.
Interesting developments along the way lead to changes that will have profound effects of the team's dynamics in the future but will there even be a future facing a threat of this nature?
The Darkness That Waits completed in March of 2016 has follows Hank Heilsing and his ever expanding team back from New Orleans to New York. It doesn't take too long before strange things begin to happen, including investigations by multiple Federal Agnecies and even House of Representatives Investigation in the nation's capital. They are forced to make a trip to New Orleans on a medical matter and it becomes obvious that someone or something does not want the team to continue its work.
A Darker Side Of The Light is my latest novel - completed in July of 2014. I have long wondered why there always seems to be a lot of evil in the world, there is good as well but what is the need for evil? I am not sure if there is an answer to that question because it seems that almost every culture has depictions of both. A balance is what we are supposed to be trying to achieve rather than the complete elimination of one or the other. But why? Sometime about 450 to 500 years ago, I'm not really sure because a lot of the family records were burned in a major fire, a pact was made within my family to maintain the balance of good and evil but after the fire I had no idea as to why. I wasn't even sure that there ever was a reason but I am sure that my father passed away without telling me what exactly the evil was. I was charged with maintaining a balance between two sides for which I had no clear definitions. The only things in my favor are my intellect, if only I would apply it and my family's inexhaustible wealth. I made my way through life playing at being a Paranormal Investigator, I inherited the family business. Going from place to place, seeming to look into things and then telling the client that everything would be alright. My friend calls me a conman, I should really look into getting a new friend.
My life was rather pleasant, basically doing nothing and having people thank me for doing it until that one night when I found myself investigating a real case.
"This collection of my poems is an attempt to convey the emotional part of a Transsexual's journey of self-discovery and transitioning, which we generally refer to as "The Roller Coaster." I have experienced some of the lowest lows and written some of the poems right on the threshold of trying to take my own life and some of the most exhilarating highs upon discovering that I was no longer alone and the "Gender Gifted Community", as I like to call it, has some of the most intelligent, caring and loving people that you will find anywhere. Reading the poems of my emotions might just help you to see that we are different and yet so very much the same. All written while working to the ultimate goal of becoming myself and living as I know I was meant to be."
