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INK of the PALIMPSEST
The Thurlow family has been having odd experiences. The oldest son Tom has a repeating nightmare which comes to life in one week of deadlines at his marketing job in Los Angeles. His brother Peter sees a strange man when he looks in the mirror. Their parents discover a mansion on a mountain near their home. This haunted place is a gateway to changing timelines and the Thurlows are mysteriously connected to it.
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The Thurlows' mishaps have attracted the notice of their alma mater, where a separate drama is unfolding. The prestigious Tawaney Institute has discovered the key to immortality. Unfortunately, scientists find that living forever makes people insane. The institute needs the genetic code for a consciousness which can survive prolonged human life spans. In the alumni database, some families seem to provide an organic answer ...
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In Ink of the Palimpsest, New Age cults and longevity research provide the backdrop to a much larger transformation of the world. This book is a prequel to Isis Chrysalis, which concerns that transformation.
ISIS CHRYSALIS
This novel-in-stories unveils the struggle of a dark matter goddess to make dark matter visible.
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This creature is known by many names, including that of the ancient Egyptian goddess, Isis. In fact, she is a nameless entity who guards the line between dark and light matter.
Seven stories set in the past, seven stories set in the present, and seven futuristic stories reveal this creature's impact on the visible world. The stories follow connected characters down the centuries as they glimpse signs of Isis' struggle.
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The book starts in the Stone Age as cave dwellers bury this powerful creature near a gate to the underworld. From then on, humans sense that part of reality has been suppressed. They begin to realize that our problems would make sense if we could see all of reality.
From Isis' origin myth in Central Asia, to the Manhattan Project, to the rainforests of South America, a grand picture unfolds. A research corporation, Centaur Assessments International, launches a plan to bear witness to this total vision of light and dark matter.
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The final story describes Isis' escape from her underground tomb. Her liberation makes dark matter visible and marks the cataclysmic start of a new age.
SHORT STORY CYCLES IN PROGRESS
NOVELS IN PROGRESS
NARCISSUS SHRUGGED
A novel about a movie star's secret victimization and crimes, and his global travels as he seeks public and private redemption.
SON of the LOST KINGDOM
A boy grows up in a trillionaire family, owners of a privately-held commodities trading house. In shocking revelations, his mother tells his father that her son is illegitimate, the product of an affair.
In a rage, the father expels the boy from the family, and the teenager goes on a search to find his real father. He discovers that his biological father is even more powerful, reclusive - and dangerous.
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This is a companion novel to Isis Chrysalis, concerning a curse haunting several generations of a noble Portuguese family, the Algarvas.
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FLASH FICTIONS IN PROGRESS
THE MILLENNIAL BOOK of DAYS
365 flash fictions span one year, inspired by the micro-hooks on Reddit, each page is one day on the calendar, a tiny novel in itself.
POETRY
IN PROGRESS
SPARROWS STILL SING in the MORNING
A collection of poems starts with a murdered girl, which unfurls a connected set of poems, set around the world. Real estate deals, Manhattan lunches, dead interns in Washington. Casinos, hotels, beachfront restaurants, tax havens, hurricanes, stranded tourists, and earthquakes.
GROWING LEMONS in the DESERT
This is the third in a trilogy of poetry chapbooks, which began with Dark Palace, followed by Sparrows Still Sing in the Morning. These poems return the reader back to the soil from which we grow. The poems describe our barren relationship with the environment, family karma, and the attempt to come back from the dead through a return to the land.
NON-FICTION
IN PROGRESS
INSIDE the POTEMKIN VILLAGE
A collection of creative non-fiction pieces, part memoir, part reflections on the world after eight years of blogging on the impact of technology on global societies, politics, and the economy.
OTHER PROJECTS
THE ARTIST'S TAROT
In a collaboration with artist Chris Dorosz, LC Douglass is writing the accompanying book for a TAROT DECK. The Artist's Tarot recasts the Fool's Path as the creative journey of the artist.
The book will feature quick reference pages, sample card spreads, and longer sections on card origins and meanings.
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SUMMARY:
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From 1500 to 2000, we have come full circle! Today, the early 16th century is synonymous with Leonardo da Vinci and other Renaissance greats who established what we consider now to be the western artistic canon.
For decades, the canon has been derided as clichéd, limited, and oppressive in its authoritative vision. It has been attacked and reevaluated. Changes to that canon involve preservation and obliteration.
The tarot was born in similar circumstances to our own. It is expresses the canon of symbols and archetypes.
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The format of the tarot card deck also reflects the state of creative technologies. Then as now, the Renaissance marked an explosion in communications. Gutenberg's press, active since the 1440s, accompanied advances in trade and technology.
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How does the artist create in a dynamic environment where some age-old truths survive, and some fall away? Evidently, da Vinci and his contemporaries used medieval themes to depict a powerful new vision of reality.
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In the Artist's Tarot, the artist sets forth again on the Fool's Journey, to travel our world and reconsider centuries-old archetypes in light of the iconic images we see on the news every day.
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In addition to the classic advice which is provided for each card, the book for the deck covers four aspects.
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First, the past: L.C. Douglass' book combines her scholarly background in history and many years' experience blogging about Millennial culture. She mentions the tarot as a product of the history of Renaissance Italy, especially printing and print-making. Although the tarot was initially confined to aristocrats, block printing made the tarot one of the first examples of mass-produced artwork and became the source for familiar and ubiquitous French playing card decks.
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Second, the present: early mass printing is considered in light of the rise of the Internet. 15th-16th century and 20th-21st century advances in technology and art production are paralleled in terms of their radical social impacts.
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Third, Dorosz and Douglass reappraise the occult history of the tarot. Renaissance magic breathed life into static symbols. Millennial virtual reality invites old archetypes to become radically dynamic. We are considering the development of a related NFT tarot deck.
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Fourth, Renaissance society clashes with our tech-mediated present. We draw from news items and social media to confirm that anyone in our world can become an archetype for a day.​