This book (a story written through haiku and senryu format) is a work of fiction. People, places, and events are products of the author's imagination, or they are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to a real event, place, or person, alive or dead, is a coincidence.

"The Ten Plagues of Egypt" appeared in Margins (Academic Exchange Extra [University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO], 2005), and "The River Does Stink" appeared in "The Vision That Isaiah the Son of Amoz Saw" (LukivPress, Quesnel, BC, 2015).

The author

Dan Lukiv, published in 19 countries, is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer, and independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). As a creative writer, he apprenticed with Canada's Professor Robert Harlow (recipient of the George Woodcock Achievement award for an outstanding literary career), the USA's Paul Bagdon (Spur Award finalist for Best Original Paperback), and England's D. M. Thomas (recipient of the Cheltenham Prize for Literature, Orwell Prize [biography], Los Angeles Fiction Prize, and Cholmondeley award for poetry). He attended The University of British Columbia (creative writing department), the acclaimed Humber School for Writers (poetry writing program), and Writer's Digest University (novel writing program).