This book is selection of my work as an author since the time I quit my tenured position as a university professor to become an independent writer. The selection includes both fictional books and a lone nonfiction piece, which is about the remarkable achievements of a friend who has maintained a menagerie of turtles for half a century. All these animals are conversant with the English language; some even write poetry. Many will read the nonfictional work as fictional. As an author, I have no control over how this piece is read, though I recommend that before reading it, the reader would do well to view a 33-minute documentary found on YouTube and entitled "Rosemary's Turtles." But note: though it may seem that in the double-blind test we once put one of them through, he failed, a close inspection of the doc shows that he was merely resisting the process, claiming that he should be the one controlling the test. When Rosemary asked him if he were ready for the test, he nosed the space between her thumb and forefinger (thumb indicating Yes, forefinger No), indicating ambiguity.