Bücher der Reihe Worlds to the Side

From an underground fort, Zoe enters another world to find her lost friend Tod. There, she finds help in the form of archetypal beings: a Sphere, a Rubbery Man and a Rock Man. Their journey ranges from down below where they find Ancient Ones made of stone, to an above world controlled by a mad scientist. Read this story to experience a Wizard-of-Oz-like tale, the first of a seven-part series that follows a couple through life.

Zoe and Tod meet Mac, a homeless person, who they knew as Rock Man from an otherworldly experience. They all try to help a runaway teenager, who has dissociated into a symbolic world. Things become even more complicated when their lives intersect with a doctor, in need of a human subject for a risky experimental procedure. In the end something uncanny happens, which show Zoe and Tod that their fantasy had some basis in reality. This story explores the meaning of symbolic worlds, the danger that others can pose in not understanding them, and how resolution and true healing can occur.

Zoe and Tod go vision questing on a mountain in Yosemite Park and find out that they have died. Transported to a Way-Station world, they are joined by a spirit being who serves as their guide. In the after world they experience colors, each producing an exotic experience which challenges their conception of being. In this in-between world, the couple encounter people, who still carry posessions from earth and have hurts they need to discard. The end holds a surprise for which you will have to answer. Read this book for a novel perspective on the immediate afterlife beyond death.

Zoe and Tod have been married for several years and have successful careers, but something is missing. Zoe has a dream that they should take a trip and that this will help them bring a child into their life. On a fisher boat they experience the Chesapeake with a crabber, and complications ensue. They discover a lost child, Tod becomes captive and Zoe becomes severely ill, but their real battle is with a ghost on the bay. The story ends with an unexpected resolution to their problem.