In 1996, Herbert Muschamp, the architecture critic of the New York Times spoke at Cornell University's 125th anniversary of the College of Architecture bemoaning the lack of spiritual roots in the design and architecture of today. Muschamp concluded his speech by extolling the participants to rediscover the spiritual aspirations and sensual nature of design and to create a new spiritual form of design ideology. 'Site Divine - an alternative method of site analysis' is a response to that historic call to action. Current site analysis practiced by the majority of architects, landscape architects, and other designers, lacks the examination of the sensual or intuitive nature of the site. The divine, the sensuous, and the sublime characteristics of the site are often overlooked in our present reductionist site analyses. As a foundation to a new spiritual structure of design, 'Site Divine - an alternative method of site analysis' examines the search for the divine within the site.

Site Divine

Arts & Photography

Lanfranco, C

Architecture

Montag Press

It’s hard being a trans woman. Harder still in North Carolina. Sandy Pogue knows this first-hand. Along with her Cherokee boyfriend Yona Bridger, Sandy manages to eke out a simple but happy life until inevitable circumstances force them to pack up and skip town. What starts as a journey towards a new life together takes a drop into the seedy underbelly of an isolated South, where some of the old ways die hard. As they carve out a new life, Sandy and Yona find themselves in the clutches of a bizarre cult of kidnapped women and demonic children. What is Yona’s connection to this mysterious group of backwoods zealots, and can he help Sandy avoid a fate worse than death? More than just their two lives hang in the balance as they hack a bloody swath through the ancient countryside, trying to reach the safety of the light through the TREE BLACK. In Tree Black, De Bruler introduces the most amazing new heroine to blast onto the horror scene in ages. Swinging her hatchet through the heads of demon-possessed hillbillies, Sandy is a cross between Hedwig and Evil Dead’s Ash Williams. A fully realized and dynamic character instead of a boring clichéd archetype, Sandy strikes blow after brutal blow for outsiders everywhere. Check out Sandy (@poguesandy) and Yona (@yonawelds) on twitter as well as get a glimpse into the larger world behind Tree Black with a blog written by an outsider to the story, Erick Montes (ericktalks.wordpress.com).

Tree Black

Literature & Fiction

Bruler, Connor de

Genre Fiction

Fiction. In this fast-paced new novel, Gil A. Waters introduces us to an America warped by biological terrorism and a cast of characters scraping by on sex, drugs, and ammo. Rik was stuck in a dead- end office job, relying on copious amounts of weed to make it through each day. His affair with his boss was the only highlight in his otherwise miserable existence. Then a terrorist group released a vicious, highly contagious virus&#8212;and everything changed. When Rik becomes infected, he finds himself on the run from a government that ruthlessly hunts down anyone who might be sick. He soon learns that narcotics dull the symptoms, and that sex with another infected person gets him higher than he's ever been. He hooks up with a beautiful ex-government agent, Dez, who is also infected. Together, they seek sanctuary in a mysterious underground organization: NEUROVONT, INCORPORATED. What they find will blow their minds... Gil A. Waters' brisk and spare future perfect story imagines a world where getting infected means that you are chased by the government as bio terrorists, and the only people that can help do so through an underground network of sex- and drug-fueled safe houses. As a beacon of hope, NEUROVONT, INCORPORATED turns the cryptic anonymous corporation into a safe place where people in trouble can disappear to discover the true meaning of the infection that's sweeping America in the near future. The writing is light and cheery as Gil Waters keeps the sex, drugs, and jokes zinging faster than the five ball bonus on the best pinball game ever. What are people saying about it? "Constant sex, mind-blowing drugs, and the plague&#8212;who could ask for anything more?" "A sure-fire crowd pleaser for those who like their sex hookups hot and random and their drugs heavy." "The Matrix for the AIDS generation." "More sex than Cafe Flesh&#8212;more drugs than Naked Lunch&#8212;more killing than Natural Born Killers&#8212;NEUROVONT, INCORPORATED is f'ing awesome."

NeuroVont, Incorporated

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Waters, Gil A

Science Fiction

Fiction. The movies never prepared him for this, even the ones that ended badly. Jack "Colonel" Jones is suddenly alone in the world. After surviving a plague that decimates the U.S., and perhaps the entire human population, he is left in a junky's nightmare where hard drugs are the only remedy for an ongoing virus and dead bodies are his only companions. Sick and desperate, he meets a savior who goes by the name Jack Cruz. Jack Cruz is a hulking behemoth with a giant pistol and stockpile of post- apocalyptic supplies, but he also has a mysterious past and an increasingly disconcerting obsession with the death and decay that surrounds them. As Colonel's suspicions rise, and he begins to feel complicit in the wrongdoings of his post-apocalyptic roommate, Colonel must grapple new the questions: Can you be moral when there are only two people left on earth? Can there be sanity? And who decides? Is Colonel just paranoid, or are his fears justified? As the stakes heat up and the intensity flares, Colonel must find out the truth and decide&#8212;when your only companion in the world might be a murderer, and there is no one left to kill, is surviving worth it? THE END OF JACK CRUZ grabs readers as a plague memoir by a Renfield-like character, Jack "Colonel" Jones, who becomes the unwitting companion to a man on a mission from God to 'save' humanity's final moments. Through tormenting impotence, grinding doubt, and the weakest constitution, Colonel attempts to understand the sole survivor to whom he's become enslaved. An existential drama, much like Waiting for Godot, THE END OF JACK CRUZ is much more than just a story about two people locked into a battle of survival; it's the story about a man's final chance to awaken from life lived in the shadows.

The End of Jack Cruz

Garrison, A.A.

Fiction. When a soldier's body is found entombed in concrete, the truth about his murder lies with those closest to him... Joel is home from a tour of duty in the Middle East with a brutal secret. He tries to reconnect, to start anew, but menacing calls and texts say they know what he did. Stalking cars and lurking figures threaten worse. Soon he finds himself drawn into a world of dog- fighting, military drugs and cult abuse, leaving him engulfed in a paranoid rage. Ryan, his brother, is a quiet young man who feels his life is already mapped out: no money, no job, no future. And now with Joel home and threatening to destroy the only stability he has&mdash;his girlfriend, his mother, his home&mdash;Ryan realises he must act before it's too late. For Joel and Ryan, cruelty and betrayal become their only means of survival. HANGING FIELDS is the exhilarating story of one man trying to escape his fate and one man hurtling toward his.

Hanging Fields

Maxwell, Steven

"Once upon a hollowed out moon, my liver withers ..." The Bloodless girl is haunted by confusing memories of her cannibalistic worm mother. Did the Bloodless girl bury her worm mother in salt? Where have all the worm siblings gone? And how did the Bloodless girl end up on a curving rural road that leads to nowhere and everywhere? The Bloodless girl can't remember. All she knows is that dust fills her arteries and the worm mother is gone. Accompanied by a skeletal pumpkin and devil tree, the Bloodless girl journeys through the New Jersey backwoods in search of a hilltop slaughterhouse that is the key to regaining her blood and learning the truth about the worm mother's disappearance. ======== 'Hooks and Slaughterhouse: a novel' by Alana I. Capria ('Organ Meat, Killing Me' and '3 Pieces from The Bovine Uterus') is a groundbreaking work of experimental horror based on New Jersey’s urban legends. 
Illustrations by Rita Okusako. Production by Montag Press Transmedia Collective ======== FOLLOW THE BLOODLESS GIRL at www.hooksandslaughterhousebook.com. Visit the author at http://alanaicapria.com/. Visit the illustrator at http://ritaokusako.com/. Visit Montag Press at http://montagpress.com/.

Hooks and Slaughterhouse

Alana I. Capria

RAISED IN A RETAIL SUPERCENTER and tasked with playing war games on the Siege Arena video console, corporate sponsored Buy-All associate G.E. Westinghouse may just be the most well-trained recruit to come out of the Buy-All Virtual Training Corps - but his methodological precision in battle is often criticized as cowardly, if not somewhat apathetic. He lives in a quiet, uppershelf compartment on Aisle 17 with his young sister Nestle, an aspiring painter beholden by her imaginative renderings of outer space. Here, order is maintained by instilling a sense of fear in the resident associates that their capitalistic livelihood depends on victory in a war waged against the ideology of “Schwagism” on the distant planet Pepsicon. Upon discovering a strange blueprint and suspecting there may be more to his universe than meets the eye, G.E. ventures to the abandoned aisles of the Supercenter, where a band of insurgents refuse employment and call themselves the United Associates Cooperative. Led by one of the Supercenter’s only adults, the UAC seeks to undermine the authority of Management and plans to sabotage the minds of Supercenter Associates. As the Supercenter begins to descend into chaos, G.E. suffers from terrifying dreams that compel him to ﬁnd a way, any way, beyond the walls of Supercenter #1501
 "Jason Rizos’ ﬁrst novel, Supercenter, is a wildly imaginative work of science ﬁction with a strong allegorical dimension, like Stanislaw Lem’s Solaris. Set in a sealed Supercenter, it portrays a world in itself, as enclosed as a space ship, where children are raised without knowing anything about the outside world. Their ultimate purpose is hidden from them, even as their education consists of violent video games. The reader reels at the strange familiarity of the place, and the mountain of lies it is built on. The writing is exceptionally vivid and compelling, as is the best science ﬁction, and full of surprises. No reader will ever enter a supercenter again without being haunted by this hallucinatory vision."
 Howard Schwartz, author of Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism

Supercenter

Rizos, Jason

Fiction. Life as a middle school principal can be humdrum, and so was the case for Suzanne Clay. Everyday it was the same thing, filling out detention slips and dealing with fist fights between boys and the cliquishness among prepubescent girls. Everything changed when she met the Children of Lot and got caught up in their strange prophecy. Along with Suzanne, the special education teacher and a handful of students find themselves locked in a potentially deadly and mind-altering encounter with the Children of Lot. It is an encounter that will test everything within Suzanne just to survive and get her students out of harm's way. At every step, a new danger rears its horrible head, and she battles wits with the sly and crafty leader of the cult, who will stop at nothing to make sure God smiles on his people.

Children of Lot

Kerry, Vic

Self-proclaimed outsider, Arthur Sonntag, has proudly placed himself on the fringes of a contemptible society. But now, after desperately trying to follow in his literary heroes' footsteps and write something immortal, he finds himself struggling to write. Piece by piece, crippled by his mediocrity and consumed by his lust for success, Arthur's mind starts to unravel... A wave of political unrest sweeps through the city. Protests. Kidnappings. Suicides. Every event documented by the all-seeing eye of the newswire, Metropolis. Now the newswire is recruiting... On the edge of despair, Arthur desperately wants in. Anywhere. Meanwhile, in his high window, a shadowy insider dreams of just the opposite. To save what remains of his sanity, the insider wants out. Once a paragon of the Metropolis elite, now he hides himself away, to escape the waking death of his working life. Alone, he starts to write. But through his window he notices bizarre scenes in the building across. Steadily, he drifts into obsession. Steadily, he drifts into madness. *** By turns a paranoid mystery, existential thriller, and postmodern satire, M Against M is a timely and harrowing look at modern media, and the professionals who run them.

M Against M

Tan, Declan

Contemporary

SEAL Mitch Grace was among the ﬁrst humans to see the aliens when they landed at the naval base where he was stationed, but like the rest of humanity, he was powerless to stop them. Five years later, Mitch awakens from a coma under the care of an alien physician to ﬁnd that aliens control the planet. Starting alone, as a one man army, he rallies the surviving humans to build a resistance movement to take the planet back from the alien conquerors. After his capture by the aliens, Mitch is forced into intergalactic slavery to become a gladiator, ﬁghting as the sole representative of the human species. Against all odds, and far from home, he lays the plans for the reconquest of his homeland.   "Anybody can end the world, but few can do it with the blend of action, suspense,romance and even humor that Alves mixes up in this fantastic novel. A blast for anyone who enjoys a good tale, even those who rarely venture into science ﬁction. Highly recommended."  Brett J. Talley, Bram Stoker Award Nominated Author of The Void and That Which Should Not Be.  "A riotous mix of Independence Day and Red Dawn with a taste of the Thunderdome. The apocalypse has never been more fun."  Tim Marquitz, author of the Demon Squad series.

Reconquest: Mother Earth

Alves, Carl

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