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Drums Rum-Tumming is an American story from World War I through World War II, featuring times of the Andersen family during the struggles of the Red Scare, the Spanish Flu, the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, and the Second World War.

ESSENCE OF SENSES

Blossoms drift from yonder trees
And clouds pass by as wannabees,
Visage appears, if look with soul
Often changing to faces of troll.

A stream nearby with tranquil laugh
Transports life amidst the chaff,
Clean and cool, for now at least
Changing course from west to east.

Time slips by and always will
Treasure moments till life is still,
Seek your chance and even more
Dance the dance, then leave the shore

Joanne and the Cannibals is a novella reminiscent to the 1914 melodrama, The Perils of Pauline. Set in the 1860s, the story follows Joanne, a recent graduate of Anthropology from a highly respected Massachusetts university. Her first assignment is a misadventure with wild cannibal headhunters in the Brazilian highlands. After a narrow escape, she helps maneuver a clipper ship below the stormy Straits of Magellan, eventually becoming an Indian maharani and condemned to burning on her husband’s funeral pyre. Another close escape finds her sailing on another clipper through the Pacific, only to be captured by wild Fijians, this time to be the specialty on their menu.