Across Let the River Decide, The Lost World of Mythoamphibia, Return to the Source, and Ancient Bloodlines: Love Between Species, one truth remains: survival is never guaranteed. These stories unravel the raw, untamed forces of nature, where beings—divine, human, or amphibian—grapple with shifting worlds, fates they cannot control, and the unrelenting pressure to evolve or be erased.
In Let the River Decide, the North stands at a tipping point. Clear rivers turn milky with algae as survey stakes grid the Mackenzie Delta under Ottawa’s One Canada, One Economy Act. For the Tłekeh Dene and neighboring Nations, livelihoods shrink—fish camps idle, smokehouses go quiet, traplines drown, and burial grounds are moved as methylmercury climbs the food chain. Microclimates warp around artificial lakes; moose, caribou, and waterfowl routes fracture; salmon runs shrink to rumor. Grounded in the losses—clean water, intact fish runs, and the right to decide—this book shows how when policy treats watersheds as conduits, the land itself answers with floods, permafrost slumps, and long silences.
In The Lost World of Mythoamphibia, the battle shifts to amphibians, the last bastions of nature fighting to exist in a poisoned world. Kingdom Lake becomes not sanctuary but graveyard, where frogs, newts, and salamanders teeter on the brink of extinction—their only hope a desperate adaptation, or an uneasy alliance with those once sworn as enemies.
In Return to the Source, gods bear witness to the downfall of their creation, lamenting the destruction wrought by Homo sapiens, whose rise comes not through wisdom but conquest. Neanderthals, once stewards of nature, vanish beneath the relentless march of an insatiable species. Earth groans—fractured, bleeding, and bowed under the weight of ambition, greed, and neglect.
And in Ancient Bloodlines: Love Between Species, Newton, a rough-skinned newt, and Rana, a Columbia spotted frog, form an improbable bond that defies instinct and millennia of enmity. Newton, adapted for both land and water, carries a toxin that marks him as untouchable. Rana, bound to clean habitats now poisoned by human waste, faces extinction. Together, in waters thick with predators and tainted by decay, they must choose: cling to tradition, or risk everything for a future neither was meant to share.
Each story is a reckoning, a prophecy, a mirror. Gods, amphibians, and ancient beings face the same truth: adapt or vanish. These are not only tales of survival—they are warnings of what happens when memory is ignored and balance is betrayed. The struggle is eternal, and in the end, no one—not even the divine—escapes the reckoning.