Fire Mountain Books is proud to announce the publication of EMBRACING THE SPIDER. EMBRACING THE SPIDER is the dramatic conclusion of the Spider Series.
If you loved 365 Days and couldn’t put down the 50 Shades of Grey trilogy, we promise that you will also love Chasing the Spider, Stalking the Spider, and Embracing the Spider. Erotic Romance, Erotic Thriller, Billionaire Romance, Unbridled Passion, Provocative Thriller. Seduction guaranteed.
Things have been dark around here the last few posts, so I think its time to give ourselves permission to smile. First, the shellacking of Trump in last night’s multi-state elections gives me hope. At least 60% of the American voters disapprove of Trump and his activities. People are paying attention and they don’t like Trump’s lawless, blatant, corruption, DOGE, soldiers on our streets, masked ICE thugs disappearing people, tariffs, inflation, foreign policy, and they are sending a powerful message to Trump’s White House. Open the damn government. Continue SNAP; and on and on, and on.
So, folks, let’s lighten the mood and here are 25 things that always make me smile. How about you? Make your own list. Smiling with a grateful heart is an important part of happiness.
1.) Winning.
2.) Putting pennies in a jar, and watching it grow.
3.) Being smart.
4.) Acting stupid.
5.) Living in a vacation town, in the off-season.
6.) Blackened hot dogs. Yum. Yum.
7.) Slow dancing.
8.) Pyramids of tea sandwiches.
9.) Knowing when its time to work; and when its time to play.
10.) Extra Crunchy Peanut Butter.
11.) Edibles.
12.) Raindrops hitting a pond.
13.) Cookbooks with food stains on favored recipes.
14.) Front row seats.
15.) Rational thinking; easier said, than done.
16.) Following the Estate Sale signs.
17.) Giving.
18.) Sharing.
19.) Sharing childhood remembrances with a childhood friend.
20.) Order over chaos.
21.) Wild strawberries peeking up in the flowerbeds.
22.) Prime Days.
23.) Self-debates.
24.) Mail-in voting.
25.) Legalized cannabis.
Fire Mountain Books is proud to announce the publication of EMBRACING THE SPIDER. EMBRACING THE SPIDER is the dramatic conclusion of the Spider Series.
If you loved 365 Days and couldn’t put down the 50 Shades of Grey trilogy, we promise that you will also love Chasing the Spider, Stalking the Spider, and Embracing the Spider. Erotic Romance, Erotic Thriller, Billionaire Romance, Unbridled Passion, Provocative Thriller. Seduction guaranteed.
The story quickly seduces the reader into Sky Evenson’s world as an FBI’s 10 Most Wanted fugitive. It’s a roller coaster adventure as the reckless young heroine flees cops and killers. The Spider Series is a coming of age tale, played out in lakefront mansions, desert haciendas, medieval castles, and cheap hotels all while in the glare of a nationwide manhunt. The Spider Series is hot enough to keep you turning the pages, scary enough to make you want to cover your eyes, sexy enough to turn you on, and dangerous enough to send you on a 10,000-mile flight to avoid prosecution.
D.S. Mitchell, Author-Erotic Romance, Erotic Thriller, Romantic Thriller
Chasing the Spider was my first full length novel. Mostly thanks to time on my hands with the COVID-19 quarantine. I was excited to tell Sky’s story and the story of the men in her life. It soon became obvious that the story would take more than one book and quickly morphed into a three book series.
I had fun writing the Spider Series with all its provocative romance, thrilling suspense, and sensual, heart throbbing adventure. Books: (1) Chasing the Spider, (2) Stalking the Spider, and (3) Embracing the Spider. I promise you that each of the novels has an equal amount of romance, intrigue, head-spinning, and heart-twisting action. Someone I know called the series dark romance. If that sounds like fun, check it out. Take one, or all of them, with you to the beach, take them with you on the plane, but definitely not for the office. Sexually explicit.
A Bit About Me
I am a retired RN living on a beautiful lake in Southern Oregon with a dog named Lily, a Leopard Gecko named Herb, a blue Budgie named Rocky and my old best friend Dave. In addition to writing sexy suspense thrillers I am also editor and primary contributor to Calamity Politics.
www.chasingthespider.com
I know you’re busy, the holidays are coming, but please take a couple of minutes and check out https:www.chasingthespider.com where you will find the entire first book online. There are also several erotic short stories by me on the site and those of other writers. If you are interested in submitting an erotic story for that website, please query me at ditchawk@aol.com. No compensation offered, but you keep all your publication rights and can publish elsewhere at any time without obtaining permission.
Coming Soon!!!!
One last thing. My next book is with my son, Damen W. Mitchell. Our project; many years in the making, is a dark futuristic adventure series. Book One, Alt Control: Reclamation will be published sometime in early 2026. Be watching for it. It’s quite a ride. With Alt Control: Reclamation the target audience is 12 years plus. That’s right, 12 years plus. The book is filled with lot’s of manly adventure, meaning lots of violence and mayhem. These guys are too busy for sex but lots of time for other mischief.
Love and thanks to my Readers. DSM
Editor: New studies are shedding light on the effects of long time Cannabis use, and despite the images from pop culture of the lazy, foggy brained, and unmotivated stoner, stuck someplace between his last hit and his next one, is being dispelled by new science. Yes, folks it seems the “stoner brain” is mere myth.
By D.S. Mitchell
Introduction
My first introduction to pot was when I was 16 years old. I was invited to stop by a friend’s house and when I arrived I was directed to the basement party room. When I got to the bottom of the stairs I could smell something in the air, but I wasn’t sure what the stinky smell was. So…still on my own, I wandered into the party room looking for my friend and found her and at least 12 of our little crowd sitting in a gigantic circle. A space was made for me in the circle, next to Suzie, and I quickly settled cross legged onto the carpeted floor, curious as to what was up. There was significant giggling and laughter amongst the group.
Thai Stick
Suzie leaned close and whispered, “It’s Thai Stick. John (her older brother) smuggled it back from Thailand.” My only response, was “oh-h-h-h,” as I watched the doobie move around the circle on its way to me. “Holy fuck,” I whispered, mostly to myself. What was I going to do I worried. My parents would be horrified if they ever found out I’d been smoking pot, but I couldn’t say no, everyone in my network was there, I’d look like a “pussy,” if I refused to smoke the iconic weed. I took my turn at the doobie, trying to look as cool as I could manage, before I started to cough and giggle. Nearly 60 years later I’m still smoking and giggling.
Jail Time
That day in 1962, possession of marijuana in Oregon was a big time offense under the Uniform Narcotic Drug Act, with a mandatory minimum prison sentence of 2 t0 10 years for a first offense and a potential $20,000 fine. This was reflective of the intense War on Drugs policies of the era. Our little harmless party could have gotten us all in big trouble, not only with our parents but state law.
Times Change
A couple of my friends waiting for the riots to start, but we’ve got no riots here. What we have here, in Portland, Oregon, are concerned citizens, loving their country, speaking out against a lawless president and his gang of masked thugs.
My wonderful neighbor came over this morning and gave me two free car wash coupons. I thought how sweet-then after he left, I realized I hadn’t washed my car since last Christmas when I was designated to haul the carolers around town-aaaahhhhhhh, such a gentle way 0f saying, pleeeeeze wash your car. Love thy neighbor.
D.S. Mitchell
(Vajra Ma weeps for all they did not do together. Wolfgang tells her….)
when we loved
we knew what was to come
but hid it from ourselves
so that our love could surprise us
Life is like that:
surprises
that open like flowers
We knew what the bud will be:
a rose
but we love the bud as it is
knowing where it will go
We came here to be with each other this way
like buds who hold the secrets of the rose
we slowly unfold to each other
day by day
moment by moment
heartbreak by loving gesture
holding time between us
like a precious bud
unfolding
flowering
blossoming
until the petals curl back
and fall to earth.
This is how we love
and another bud grows
Well, let me tell ya. It’s hard being a radical leftist bloodthirsty murderous lunatic who hates America, God, and even apple pie. I’m telling ya, as Rodney Dangerfield would say, “I get no respect.” So, once they tarred and feathered me for too much space taken up by my tent in a designated enclosure, I just said enough is enough. All my friends, some of them homeless people, that’s right I admit it, anyway they all said….Phoenix, Arizona? Why would I want to go there? Well the answer was I just threw a dart at my USA wall map ‘n that’s where it stuck. So that was it.
When I hit Phoenix, I looked for a job at this organization that I must keep secret as my good reputation is on the line. I applied for the job of janitor. I was invited up to Personnel. There was a group of them when I walked in, a dozen or so, all sitting in a circle. There was an empty chair in the middle of the circle, that was for me. “Sit yourself down right here ‘ol timer,” says the one guy, standing tall. The others, all dudes, were seated. They were all young.
“So, you want to take out the trash and stuff like that, huh? says the tall guy. “Well tell me this then, do you believe in Jesus? Well, they all turned to me intently, as if everything, everything, depended on my answer to this, and so I told them, Yes, I do. He’s a good neighbor. His last name is Garcia, Jesus Garcia, a very good next door neighbor. Of course this was all just made up. I was just lying to see how far all this would take me. The circle seemed to find all this amusing. Tall guy then asks me, “Would you die for this Jesus Garcia?” Well, I said, I would, “of course,” and that my cat would too, and has in fact, only recently come back from the dead. “The dead, the dead, yeah I like that,” says Tall guy and proceeds to get a chant going, “The dead, the dead, yes we do, we love the dead, the dead, the dead, the dead, the dead….”
And boy I tell ya they got going with that one, sure did. This spontaneous levity in fact took a few moments to die back down, before calm was finally restored. Tall tells me, “you can empty trash buckets but first the Queen must give final approval,” and then in walks this gorgeous blonde who walks right up to me and tells me that first I better get a haircut, the ‘company cut’ it was called. The idea being complete similarity to all the rest.
And then I woke up. Wow, wicked dream. Hey, no more late night Fox News for me, brother. And so I got up, got dressed, ‘n saw the sun was shining. I knew I was late but I did not want to miss the Sunday service, where I wash the feet of the homeless.
By Vajra Ma (Author of From a Hidden Stream)
Charlie Kirk was lauded in his memorial as an exemplary Christian. White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles summed the three pillars of his work: Love God, your family, and your country. Just like Jesus said, love God. Just like Jesus said–oh, wait…
Jesus never said love your family. He never said love your country. Jesus said “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
“Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.” This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. (Matthew 22:40) Make no mistake, it was Ericka Kirk, the widow of Charlie Kirk, who evoked the actual spirit and teachings of Jesus when she called for forgiveness of the assassin, and with sincerity did herself forgive him.
Since when does following Jesus mean less than that? When did our neighbor get replaced with family and country? Who does that serve? Today’s Christian National politics most likely, certainly not a multi-ethnic, multi-religious, multi-skin toned country.
Who was the centerpiece of Charlie Kirk’s memorial? Who had the long, grand, sparkler dazzling, culminating musical entrance? Who had talk time four times longer than any other speaker? It was Donald Trump.
“Love your neighbor as yourself”. It seems that does not include Trump’s immigrants, or the Democrats he attacks as the “enemy within,” whose “rhetoric is causing me to be shot at, when I am the one who is going to save the country, and they are the ones that are destroying the country — both from the inside and out”? Does it include “The rhetoric, lies, as exemplified by the false statements made by Comrade Kamala Harris [which have…] taken politics in our Country to a whole new level of Hatred, Abuse, and Distrust”? Should it include Democrats who are “…Marxists and communists and fascists, and they’re sick. We have China, we have Russia, we have all these countries. If you have a smart president, they can all be handled. The more difficult are, you know, the Pelosis’ these people, they’re so sick and they’re so evil.”
Donald Trump, the man who spouts this heated rhetoric got top billing and speech time at Charlie Kirk’s memorial. Trump literally said in his euology that unlike Kirk, “I hate my opponents!” His open, unvarnished hatred was well received by the crowd. Trump is adored by Kirk’s followers. Those who praise Kirk praise Trump.
So much for love your neighbor.
"If puppies and kittens don't make you smile, you might consider therapy." D. S. Mitchell 2015.
Self-isolating has forced us to turn even more to telecommunication and social media.
The Major Cause Of Sex Trafficking Is Poverty
Many great charities, here are a couple that I support: Sierra Club, World Wildlife Fund, ACLU, and Planned Parenthood.
