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All Things Visible and Invisible

 

A beautiful love story of a young officer, Lieutenant Nick Bayan and Julie Earharth, set in the Pacific Northwest. After a short courtship, they marry and she gets pregnant. He deploys to Afghanistan where things did not go so well during his first mission: he kills a child. Somehow, he was able to suppress his emotions. But, when he goes home for the birth of his child, his nightmare begins. When he returns to Afghanistan to finish his deployment, he begins to fall apart, consumed, and haunted by what he did. He comes home a physically and emotionally broken man, searching for salvation, redemption, and love. It is a soldier’s search for all things visible and invisible. 

"When passages of pain are best forgotten, but could not be, you, my dear future wife, will keep me from being unglued."

 

"You can do things in the fog that no one else can see except for yourself and your God, if you believe in one. If you don't, the vapors are a mute witness of life and death. The vapors only support life. They do not cast judgment against you nor do they provide salvation."

 

"The drugs now suppress the nightmares and my therapist is slowly helping me erase my incubus. Should I really care how my nightmares disappeared or why the boy is fading from my mind? Are sins forgiven if you cannot remember them? My psychiatric medications are my redemption, a poly-pharmaceutical approach to exculpation of my sins. Talk therapy is my weekly confessional."

MY UPCOMING BOOK

Reading from All Things Visible and Invisible

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