The Saint of Sins is a project I started working on in 2013. Using individual poems, I hope to tell a story that I feel many people can relate to, whether abstractly or in a literal way.
It all begins with a poem entitled "Confessions," where our unnamed protagonist begins telling his woes to a priest. For the first two parts of the book, he pours out his heart and soul to this mysterious priest, showing progressively his downward spiral from personal spiritual issues, depression, and eventually sin-addiction.The priest waits quietly through the first two parts of the book, as our protagonist explains his encounters with destructive, Pharisaical Christians, and his misconceptions that led him into the arms of the Enemy. By the end of the second part, he is crying out in pain and fear for all his confusion and finally the priest speaks.
The last part of the book is the answers of the priest, as he attempts to address all the issues while at the same time clarifying that no human can heal a broken soul: only the Healer can, and that is the direction the priest attempts to point him.
Using poetry gives me an opportunity to address many levels of brokenness, for some will be reading metaphorical fiction, while for others who are more broken it will resonate as non-fiction literature. My prayer is not for the success of this book, but for those who can relate personally with it, that it can be a light out of a place so dark many "Christians" dare not enter.
Though the content is grisly and dark, it is also unwaveringly truthful and real. I pray that by entering this dark place in which so many suffer, I may show them Hope.
Although much of this story is still being put together, the plot, characters, and central theme are largely intact. Even though it is more a fantasy story, it deals with topics we are all familiar with: hardships, discrimination, death, war, mystery, betrayal, loyalty, trust, and the power of love.
Set in a realm known as Yim during a time of inner-turmoil, our story begins with a young ceiffaur (a race of men with eagle-like wings) named Cellefear who wanders into a part of the forest he is not supposed to go, where he encounters a faerie and saves her life. Although the story jumps ahead to his early adulthood, the friendship made between them is never broken.He joins a warrior sect known as the King's Patrol, where he trains with the Great King's personal army, and works his way upward in ranks until they get into a skirmish with some ever-growing rebels from the west, and he is separated from his unit and left to die.
Crippled and on his own, he comes across a young ranger named Sii Mon, a wrongly-accused outcast from the forest of Fullniem in the south. Accused of murdering his best friend, Sii Mon is both fleeing his adversaries and looking for clues to find the murderer to clear his name and find vengeance.
With evil, twisted men from the west continuing their rebellion under the hand of an unknown commander, the Faeries begin to be hunted and driven out of their sacred forests, kings and princes are turned to the evil side or murdered, and many wonder how they can defeat an enemy that does not actually exist. Cellefear remembers his friendship with the faerie he saved, and fears for her safety. Pulled into the ever-growing violence and uprisings from the west, the pair is forced to make several hard decisions that will test their loyalty to one another and to the King. When they meet a Mage of the King, their lives are changed forever, and they know there could be no turning back from the choices they must make:
Sii Mon is forced to choose between vengeance or forgiveness, and Cellefear must decide if he will risk everything to save his childhood friend. Both will learn the value of friendship, the horror of hatred, and the power of sacrificial love.
- Z:A mad scientist tinkers with ethics, morals, and the human body to create superhuman beings. Using them to cause war, distress, and destruction, the scientist tests their strength and ability to begin and end controversy: something that will come in handy for his more elaborate plans...
The scientist, Professor Daniel Rubin, does not foresee any of his machines breaking free of his control, so when the machine-man N27 does, and begins turning the other remaining experiments against him, he is forced to go back to the drawing board and design something better.
The protagonist, the final project called Z, wakes up on the operating table. The scientist begins filling his fresh mind with lies and twisted truth about N27, how he betrayed him, started wars, killed innocent people, and is on the run. He tells Z that he must stop N27 before it is too late.Z is equipped with a computer system in his brain, and is eager to test his new-found abilities, so he does not even question the veracity of Rubin's story - until he is captured by N27 and told the truth.
Unsure of what to think, angry with all the deceit, and not ready to decide, Z runs to Rubin, hoping that he will have answers for him. Rubin coaxes him onto the table, where he quickly deletes Z's memories of the conversation with N27. He wakes Z up again, and feeds him the same lies as the first time, and sends him out again to kill N27, but this time with greater urgency. When he completes his task, Rubin says he has more traitors like N27 to eliminate.
Z's human brain and computer brain war against each other, and he begins to remember little scraps of his past, but nothing ever adds up or makes any sense. With the lives of so many in his powerful hands, Z must overcome the lies, mental-confinement, and deception of Professor Rubin before he can discover who he really is and what it means to be human.
- The Book of Hell:What if Satan had a holy book? What if those whom he contaminated had a bible? What if Evil penned the words, explicitly admitting its many plans - past, present, and future? What if Saul of Tarsus wrote letters to the Corinthians before his conversion? What if abusers defended themselves; what if Evil confessed?
Evil shows up everywhere, in the most innocent of places. It is a plague, a poison, invisible to the eye, and all the more deadly because of it. In compiling a bible of wickedness, we can study the Enemy, to better prepare for its schemes. Reader discretion is advised.
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