Lynn Taylor
The beauty about writing is that it gives you a safe place to escape reality. The added bonus is that you can share your escape with others. The reason I write is for myself but the reason I publish is to hopefully help others see different parts of the world around them or simply just escape.
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I may hit topics that are not discussed openly anymore and I in no way want to purposely hurt anyone. But these topics are still very real, even if we don't want to admit it. Being aware of these topics, and how they can affect your life, can help save so many people. With that being said, all of my works are a reflection of how I see these topics, and the world, because of how they have affected me.
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I hope you enjoy my published works and hopefully you too can use them as your escape!
Hint: Read the title of the book upside down!
Psychological Thriller, Suspense, Intense Situations
When a horrific event takes place at a public school, several teens are left wondering...why? Why did the shooter do what they did? Why did they feel the need to go to such lengths and for what? Were there red flags before the incident happened? The fallen are mourned, the survivors are healing and the killer is forever guilty. Who could it be and why did they do it?
Mental Growth, Self-Love, Traumas
Heather is a 23-year-old New Yorker stuck in a bumpy rut in life. Between her overbearing boss in a unsatisfying corporate job and a sense of romantic failure after the loss of true love from self-sabatoge, Heather has virtually given up on happiness. When her neighbor entices her with a new up and coming drug that promises vibrant, lucid dreaming, Heather thinks she has found an easy, chemical relief from her day to day existence. What starts off as innocent dreaming of the perfect life quickly shifts into the realm of supernatural. Taking ever increasing doses of this unknown substance, Heather forces herself deeper into her dreamscape trying to escape her woes of reality. When she becomes imprisoned within her mind, she is guided by her conscience to the realization that to successfully shed her mental chains of confinement, Heather will have to battle all her internal demons that have been created from her external trauma, including herself.
Hint: you can color in the illustrations to make your own unique poem book experience.
Mental Growth, Self-Love, Traumas, Poems, Illustration
Illustrated by Hannah Chibnall
Lynn Taylor takes her faithful readers on a poetic journey through lifetime experiences. Some happy, some sad, a few poems reflecting spurts of overwhelming euphoria while others showcase heartache or even crippling bouts of depression. Every experience was transformative, nevertheless. These same experiences are relatable to people from all walks of life. As all of us step through the various milestones of life, we experience personal traumas and successes that mold our malleable souls into the person we will eventually become. Take a stroll in our authors shoes as she details her own growing pains.
Hundreds of years in the future, the world hangs in a precarious balance between the last three cities on Earth: the upper city, the lower city, and the fallen city. Each location serves a purpose for the continuation of the human species as they fight a scourge of vicious man-eaters that has driven humans to near extinction. The populace within the cities have a dedicated job in protecting the last oasis of human life. Ellie, a resident of the lower city, faces the challenge every immune child must make as they reach adulthood, a decision that will change the outcome of their entire existence. Their life path has only two options: training to become a street-head, a protector of the city, or the illustrious job of transforming themselves into an elite brain-dead. The latter has the most important job of all: tempting death outside the defensive walls that encompass the cities to gather the most valuable object in this post-apocalyptic future: the cure to the virus. Will Ellie pick the common choice of becoming a street-head, allowing her to stay inside the relatively safe city walls? Or will she risk everything, including almost certain death, to become a brain-dead in exchange for a priceless prize?
Ellie’s escape from the fallen city puts her on a path to the place she’s only heard unsubstantiated stories about: the upper city. As her journey takes her across new lands, she discovers the shocking truth behind the inequitable city she was born into. As she and her companion fight through crowds of infected man-eaters, Ellie’s understanding of the virus and the cure she risked her life to get grows into a stomach-churning realization. Her perception of right and wrong is put to the test after the deceitful veil of lies slowly evaporates, shaking the foundations of her entire reality. Will the revelations she uncovers force her to fight for her fellow man, or will they devolve her into a husk of her former self, causing the destruction of everything and, ultimately, the human species?
No amount of training could prepare Ellie for the Earth-shattering discovery of a group of survivors that have been living outside the city walls for generations. Their secret to success is just as staggering: the ability to control the raging virus within them and use it to their advantage to avoid the man-eaters that plague the land. Ellie is skeptical of their claims, even when seeing the proof firsthand. She can’t shake the feeling that there are even more secrets to be uncovered in the origins of this mysterious group. Ellie’s moral compass is put to the test once again as a monumental choice is given to the last people on Earth: collaborate with this new group and evolve into the next stage of human development, or be left behind biologically and fade into extinction. Will Ellie make the right decision when she is given the reigns of fate for humanity? Her last and only options are to be the infamous curse that destroys the world or become the cure people desperately need.
Faith, Motherhood, Struggles of Life
Sage is a single mother who is struggling to make ends meet and provide a fruitful life for her small family. Seemingly trapped between every curveball life launches in her direction and an underwhelming career that barely allows her to scrape by, she constantly battles the chaos within her mind. Every day is a fight to wear a brave face around everyone she refuses to allow into her life in a desperate attempt to shroud the depression that sits on the periphery of her consciousness. When another disastrous pitfall arises, a kindhearted woman enters Sage’s life, turning everything upside down and challenging her mindset of isolationism. Sage begins to question who she is and what she believes in as her reservations about others, and life in general, begins to crumble. Sage is forced to examine her past hardships that drove her into her current existence and if she has the willpower to shift her outlook. Can Sage incorporate these lessons into her daily paradigm, or will life’s everyday challenges prove insurmountable, crushing her determination, and ultimately becoming consumed by the constant barrage of modern day life?