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- Physician, Heal Thyself
From ME/CFS (Part 3 of 3) Dear Reader, my apologies. Within the confines of my current prison, I have not yet completed the essays I promised you months ago, neither… Read more: Physician, Heal Thyself - Physician, Heal Thyself
Another metaphor of what my confusing disease feels like— a cold, painful, lonely prison with little hope for escape. - Physician, Heal Thyself
Thirty years ago, I fell into a high-walled Toxic River A, from which there seems to be no escape. - Isle Royale, Part 1: Into the Wilderness
A traveler may dare to enter the wilderness of Isle Royale in the heart of Lake Superior. If he survives his journey—the unforgiving rock, the sudden storms, the warring beasts, and the haunting isolation—he may exit the land and return to his former life. But a piece of him will remain. - Realm Makers 2025
At Realm Makers ’25, the annual convention for Christian sci-fi/fantasy writers, a young aspiring author approached me admiringly, her face red and her smile wide. “You’re Donald Maass, right?”
My First Novel
The Legend of Crumble’s End: Call to Journey
Two unlikely teenage heroes answer the Creator’s call to run, explore, and redeem a broken land. They are captured by wild beasts, then rescued by strange people; they are imprisoned, and they escape; they fulfill prophecies and bring deliverance. The opposer of the Creator’s plan delivers some hard blows; he gains a large following of Celestial host and even poisons the promised land. But the heroes lead their small nation, comprised of multiple peoples, on a desperate last march to a good land, free of the toxic air.
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