JD McLerran Your ability to create such rich, nuanced characters is absolutely astounding.

"You’re like Garfield, you know that? Always thinking with your stomach.” “I don’t eat to get full," my cat replies. "I eat because I love it.” —Can’t argue with that logic! From p.106 of Primitive Gods, now on Amazon amazon.com/Primitive-Gods… #PrimitiveGods #Garfield #CatLogic

“Our greatest enemy is apathy—and you can only put your own face on that.” The philosophy of Primitive Gods (from p.73) — Nominated for the 2025 Kindle Storyteller Award. Read FREE with Kindle Unlimited on Amazon: amazon.com/Primitive-Gods… #PrimitiveGods #OurGreatestEnemy #Apathy

"A tingling sensation began to make its way down my spine from the base of my neck and I knew it as adventure’s call." —p.79 of Primitive Gods Read FREE with Kindle Unlimited Nominated: 2025 Kindle Storyteller Award amazon.com/Primitive-Gods… #PrimitiveGods #Adventure #NewBook

"I’d felt adventure's call before, when exploring a newly discovered pocket in the wilderness or sailing the many coasts of Maine." —p.79 of Primitive Gods FREE w/Kindle Unlimited Nominated 2025 Kindle Storyteller Award amazon.com/Primitive-Gods… #PrimitiveGods #Sailing #Maine

"The call of adventure is an electric sense of the impossible becoming possible, of the infinite being something within reach." —p.79 of Primitive Gods FREE with Kindle Unlimited Nominated 2025 Kindle Storyteller Award amazon.com/Primitive-Gods… #PrimitiveGods #Adventure #Manifest

"At this point, you could probably hear my eyes blink, if we hadn’t been surrounded by the noises of a sailboat underway."—p.82, Primitive Gods Read FREE w/ Kindle Unlimited Nominated 2025 Kindle Storyteller Award amazon.com/Primitive-Gods… #PrimitiveGods #KindleUnlimited #Sailing

“Infinity is a difficult concept to understand when thinking linearly. At some point or another, we all have to face the inevitability of our place within the infinite.”—p.82, Primitive Gods Read FREE w/ Kindle Unlimited amazon.com/Primitive-Gods… #PrimitiveGods #Infinity #Physics

“So, you will teach them to fail?” I ask. “Yes,” he replies, “& it is through that failure wherein they may discover their success.”—p.348 of Primitive Gods FREE w/Kindle Unlimited Nominated 2025 Kindle Storyteller Award amazon.com/Primitive-Gods… #PrimitiveGods #Failure #Success

It's Father's Day again! Have you watched Daddy Day Camp yet?

"I was awash in this new sadness, & I let its cold embrace envelop me in the length of that extended moment, giving it its time & place within me"—p.40, Primitive Gods Nominated for Kindle Storyteller Award FREE w/#KindleUnlimited amazon.com/Primitive-Gods… #PrimitiveGods #Sadness

"This new sadness, all full of broken promises, intense confusion, & the infinitely awkward loneliness of a boy abandoned by his parents"—p.40, Primitive Gods Nominated Kindle Storyteller Award FREE w/#KindleUnlimited amazon.com/Primitive-Gods… #PrimitiveGods #Loneliness #Sadness

"I let its cold embrace envelop me in the infinitely awkward loneliness of a boy abandoned by his parents, not ready yet to become a man."—p.40, Primitive Gods Nominated 2025 Kindle Storyteller Award Now on Amazon: amazon.com/Primitive-Gods… #PrimitiveGods #Loneliness #ComingofAge

"One thing being a sailor has taught me is, take a moment when you have one, but never take a moment more when confronted by what you can't change"—p.40, Primitive Gods Nominated Kindle Storyteller Award Now on Amazon: amazon.com/Primitive-Gods… #PrimitiveGods #GetOverIt #Sailing

Just showed my wife a reading tool I bought for our 2yr-old. She says, "I'd rather have him illiterate for a little while longer, while we can still reason with him." 😂 oops...

"When confronted by that which I could not change, I took a deep breath & let all my sadness & self-pity go with a single sigh."—p.40, Primitive Gods Nominated 2025 Kindle Storyteller Award Read FREE w/#KindleUnlimited amazon.com/Primitive-Gods… #PrimitiveGods #GetOverIt #Breathe

I took a deep breath & let all my sadness & self-pity go with a single sigh. “Let’s focus on what we’ve got, Al,” I encouraged myself. —p.40, Primitive Gods Nominated for Kindle Storyteller Award FREE w/#KindleUnlimited amazon.com/Primitive-Gods… #PrimitiveGods #Breathe #Gratitude

“We’ve got a friggin’ Bermuda Triangle pyramid that isn’t supposed to be here on an island that shouldn’t exist.” Excitement was beginning to return. —p.40, Primitive Gods Nominated Kindle Storyteller, on Amazon: amazon.com/Primitive-Gods… #PrimitiveGods #BermudaTriangle #Pyramids

"Excitement was beginning to return to me, more powerful & real than any delve into the morose could be. I smiled & got to work."—p.40, Primitive Gods Nominated Kindle Storyteller Award FREE w/#KindleUnlimited amazon.com/Primitive-Gods… #PrimitiveGods #GetOverIt #Focus #Gratitude