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This collection of poetry charts the arc of a marriage, from the formation of the relationship and building a dreamed-of life together, through cycles and years of emotional abuse, and then into and through divorce and its healing aftermath. It grapples unflinchingly with deception, loss, love, heartbreak, and ultimately finding a path to wholeness and healing.

Dawn Hollins' life shattered into pieces. It was never easy living with dissociative identity disorder in the first place, especially since each personality got magical powers while she was left picking up after them. When one of her personalities got her in trouble with the world's "magical police," the Servants of the Twice Born, things went to hell and it wasn't even her fault. Now some of her personalities won't talk to Dawn, she's forced to work for a Servant who would rather decapitate her than talk to her, and something is off with her foster mother, Grace Wilson. Not to mention she still has research to do and a psychiatry residency to complete.Dawn doesn't have time for vampire racketeers, a besotted werewolf, and necromantic artefacts made of grave dirt. Can Dawn and her alters pull it together long enough to solve the mystery of growing spiritual activity in the city and figure out how to put her life - and potentially her sanity - back together?

Beginning in the jungles of the heart, The Gatekeeper Wears Acrylics takes the reader on journey through the shadows of loss, trauma and growth as the narrator finds their way clear. With gut-punch imagery and wit, poems like "Tiger/Heart" lay the groundwork for the narrator's travels. The reader is guaranteed an ending of self-realization, but to lighten the load, they will meet plenty of helpful characters along the way- including a wishful mouse, a wise white rabbit, unfortunate butterflies, a grumpy feline and a super insistant "dragon-lady" from the title poem. The Gatekeeper Wears Acrylics is a transition from powerlessness to embodiment in bursts of color sure to ground the reader into the earth, as well as leave a taste of hope behind.

The year is 2102, the earth is in crisis, and Trina, a gutsy young woman from a poor family, is forced to sell herself into slavery to pay off her family's debt. To her surprise, she ends up being sent into space to help colonize a star. Her future seems bright until crisis strikes the colony -- leaving Trina the only human being left alive on Planet Johannes. Another spaceship is slated to arrive in a decade, but how will Trina survive alone for ten years? And even if she does, how can she keep the next colony from meeting the same fate?The answers to these questions show up in the form of "friends with wings." Once Trina meets the Eeriv, nothing will ever be the same.