Gregory J. McKenzie

This is comparison of the Great Recession of 2008-12 with the pandemic global recession of 2020. The Global Financial Crisis can be seen to pale in comparison. The world now faces the most serious disruption to capitalism since the Great Depression (1929-39). Now many pundits are predicting an end to capitalism or rather a consumer driven capitalism. Some are sounding the death knell of consumerism. Some say we will have a government sheltered form of capitalism. Sort of like capitalism on...

This is a fast story about something that may or may not exist outside our galaxy.

This is the early years in a story about a most remarkable female. Peacemaker at birth she goes on to bind an extended family in times of enormous upheaval. There are many problems for Rosie to overcome. Her birth mother dies when she is two so this infant is raised by her grandmothers. Her two brother fight continually with Rosie often having to seperate them. Once Rosie goes to school she is targeted by trolls. Then she has to watch her best friend attempt suicide. \\\but everything works out...

I started writing poetry to honor my dead mother who loved poetry. Poetic verses grew inside my mind as I watered them with my own observations. By settling on writing only short poems I give time poor readers a chance to get a quick 'bite" of reality. This is why I call them 'fast poems'. In this time of global crisis our own emotions are exposed to great stress. My fast poems attempt to expose futile attempts to master stress but also to praise the brave ones.

This is a prequel to my first book SNIPERS! It tells a Christmas story about the birth of the youngest character in the first two books of the SNIPER series. There is a young woman, well young in Twenty-First Century terms, an older man but not too much older and a fractious family. The power figure appears to be the patriarch of this family. Abraham Feelgood is a hard man who is the richest man in Australia. He wants to marry off his eldest daughter Hera to increase his political influence....

When Elmo comes back from his holiday early he finds that his whole immediate family had just died in a house fire. Never forgiving himself for not being there to save the people he loved Elmo retreats into his emotional shell. Not coping well with all the stages of mourning Elmo leaves the country of his birth. He ties to leave his early life behind. Getting a job in Florida he is hiding in a clerical position. Elmo avoids promotion opportunities for ten years. Then he is thrust back into the...

The pandemic that haunted our world over most of 2020 and into 2021, will change all our lives. The word coronavirus will become infamous. A once in a hundred year health disaster that has scarred and changed all our personal and social outcomes. These short poems, whilst not ignoring this reality, try to help people cope with this brutal change of normal practices. The scarring will not go away but it can be managed. Stay safe.