Notes on powerlessness, indifference, injustice, petty politics, poor educational standards, classism, sexism, revenge, and a decaying moral center amidst efforts to do better. Anomie is the ethos of our era. Ava Collopy is published in... Fiction: 'Adrift', 'Brilliant Flash Fiction', 'Sunlight in the Sanctuary', and others. Poetry: 'Poetry Pacific', 'Verse Virtual', 'Re/ Verse', and others. She's traveled through North America and Europe while doing various paid and volunteer jobs. She's a happily life-long non-mom with many friends, who's oft enjoyed being a single independent female, a fact she proudly promotes to remind people everyone's free to make the choices that are right for them. This and her other books-'Unending Horizons: Three Years of Advice for Writers', 'ALL VOICES Heard: the Project to Inspire NEW Ideas and Innovative Thinking about Social Issues' 'Surviving the Straight, White, Rich Man's Jungle, and their Women: Short Stories', 'Live Boldly, Fear Nothing: a Vigilante and a Painter, a Novel, 3rd ed.', '8 Days a Week: the Story of a Working Man, a Novel', 'Disarm: Poems & Songs', and others-are available as E-book or Paperback from Amazob, Barnes & Noble, Powell's Books, and elsewhere. Her website is: dreamscaperealitites.weebly.com. She has an Amazon Author Page and a few videos on YouTube to introduce you to her work.