Living in the Eye: Life with Autism

Kevin Vasey experiences life as one lived in the eye of a tornado.

“Inside the eye of autism, I can never turn my brain off from colours, sounds, and a constant storm of thoughts and emotions difficult to express.

“And yet, within its whirling walls, the eye is the safest, calmest part of a tornado. It’s my refuge from the world beyond my private space – a world often visited by chaos, unpredictability and frustrations.

“It is my hope that, in the telling of my story, others may find inspiration and courage to dare challenge life in whatever form it is presented to them.”  Kevin Vasey

Prior to writing LIVING IN THE EYE: Life with Autism, Kevin co-authored THE ROAD TRIP: Life with Autism (Novalis, 2005). He has provided the voice and model for characters on the Autism spectrum in several of his mother’s books.

The Bells of Prosper Station

Timeriders boarding this midnight ghost train are transported to nineteenth-century oil town, Prosper Station. And if they dare, they might access the eerie dimension of Vapourlea, domain of psychic vampires, the Faefumes.

Dilly Witherton hopes to bring light to an unresolved ancestral murder while Dr. XT Barkley is a neurologist researching hypersensory abilities. Both are there to support Azur in her mission to rescue her sister, Hilma, from Vapourlea.      Red Apple Publishing Ltd. (2016)
OUT OF PRINT

Now included in THE HALLOWMAS TRAIN edition (2021)

The Hallowmas Train

BOOK 1: Prosper Station

With Hallowmas approaching, time travelers, Azur Moonstorey and companions, exit Providence Crossing library to board the midnight train bound for nineteenth-century Prosper Station. Their mission: to rescue Azur’s sister from the eerie dimension, Vapourlea.

BOOK 2: Black Springs Abbey

After her harrowing rescue from the Faefumes, Hilma Moonstorey is still beset by anxieties and insecurities. Encouraged to take a position at Black Springs Abbey by young police constable, Garth Mayfield, she soon discovers that the dilapidated abbey houses not only elderly nuns but ghosts and dark secrets.

Enigma Club

Seventeen-year-old Emman Mallory fears that his twin brother, Noel, may be involved not only in drugs, but in home invasions and a teacher’s death, all of which have jolted the tranquil town of Coltsfoot.

Although there are only eight students in Emman’s creative writing class, one of these is classically autistic and another has Asperger syndrome. Also present in the class is an undercover agent, one of three who enrolled at Coltsfoot District High at the beginning of the fall term.

Surprising secrets are revealed through journaling projects assigned to the diverse eight who call themselves Enigma Club.

Genre: literary, suspense

The Shushan Citadel

Situated along the Great Lakes, three subterranean cities designed to resist global terrorism survive a devastating planetary disaster: Shushan, corporate headquarters of an international communications network, Abbey Trádún, an island monastery, and DúndirkaNoka, an Aboriginal settlement.

After the Devastation, Shushan’s CEO builds a Citadel and arrogantly sets out to rule the land in the style of King Ahasuerus of the Book of Esther – harem and all.

Intelligence forces within the three cities plant a young Jewish woman in the Citadel to win the heart of the delusional dictator.

Genre: speculative fiction, suspense, espionage