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Having spent decades developing counter arguments to the conservative religious values he was brought up with, in PAN SAY E. Q. Manson he opens fire on superstition, blind obedience, original sin, faux morality, patriarchy, privilege deniers, scapegoating the “Deep State”, the Pro-life movement , and people who think pre-1990s television realistically depicts an America we can make great again. He shows how media censorship has backfired, technological progress has made it harder to maintain healthy habits, and how perceptions of privilege have been inadvertently perverted by well-meaning actors. With candid personal revelations he shows how women's MeToo stories can be more compassionately felt by men. Manson maintains anyone can believe in anything they want (resurrections, virgin births, talking donkeys, a 6000-year-old universe, or for that matter astrology, reincarnation, the Force, the One Ring of Power, Bigfoot, “aliens built the pyramids”, a flat earth, or the inefficacy of vaccinations) the minute anyone starts trying to convert others to unsupported-by-evidence worldviews, they cross over from belief to behavior, in so doing bringing about issues of morality and politics.

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 A religious urban fantasy. A middle aged Christian woman from Ohio dies, expects to see heaven but instead is in Brooklyn. She has been granted the powers of an guardian angel but finds herself tasked with tempting people away from their faith. Her boss? A master tempter from the time of Shakespeare. Her partner? A juvenile delinquent who keeps getting himself and her into trouble. The story of her struggle with her situation plays against the background of a teenage boy and girl she has been assigned to “procure”, and their wisecracking friends.

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Quill Magnuson is a freshman at a Virginia university with a trombone he can't play and a succession of roommates he can't control, drinking beer faster than he can brew it. What he really needs is a daily dose of Lithium to treat his manic-depression, which will not be diagnosed for many years. In the meantime he makes do, trying his best to be cool. Cool on the marching fields…cool with the abundant unreachable campus "chicks"…but hot at the piano as he strives to produce the perfect band composition. 

In this short autobiographical novel, E. Q. Manson  provides material from his own early struggles with sanity and creativity, providing a story filled with memorable characters and funny, thought-provoking episodes. 

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A passage in Acts of the Apostles harkens back to Greek philosophy of the afterlife. This historical fiction speculates on what actually transpired, was recorded, transmitted, and distorted over centuries. Featuring memorable characters and situations, it reflects realities of ancient, medieval, and 19th century Mediterranean life: how people lived, worked, and loved each other. It showcases the timeless struggles between the literate and the powerful, leading up to a Gulf War encounter in Germany where truth is revealed.

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