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Love is a universal term. Love is a universal language. Love conquers all. Love is a feeling. Love is the way. It is the only way. This is a poetry collection that looks at all forms of love and how it affects our lives.

Throughout the 1920s, America's public figures considered a prosperous stock market to be a sign of a prosperous nation. While unemployment slowly rose and production dropped, leaders assured everyone that they should have faith in the economy. Then came the Great Crash on Wall Street. The loss of faith in public institutions devastated Americans ideologically just as it devastated the national economy - the US would never be the same again. This brief introduction paints the picture of life in America on the precipice of the Great Depression.

I'm Bella Shade, and I live in New York, a city terrorized by the teenage vampires of the Red Claws gang. Those evil monsters have allegedly murdered dozens of people here in Manhattan, including my mom. So far, the NYPD has no clue. Except for the fact that all their victims have been found with bite marks on their neck, no blood left in their bodies, and with their vital organs surgically removed. I never expected that I'd be next in line.... Hunted by vampires and forced to take part in a paranormal war I never wanted a part of, I might be the only one who can stop them.

What if life was a punishment? The Persistence of Reality is a short story that examines the individual's relationship with the persisting collective reality.