Retired Fil-Am Army Officer Debuts as Novelist

CEBU, Philippines - "The drugs now suppress the nightmares and my therapist is slowly helping me erase my incubus. Should I really care how my nightmares disappeared or why the boy is fading from my mind? Are sins forgiven if you cannot remember them? My psychiatric medications are my redemption, a poly-pharmaceutical approach to exculpation of my sins. Talk therapy is my weekly confessional."

Retired US Army Lieutenant Colonel Prospero "Perry" Donan debuts his first literary war novella "All Things Visible and Invisible." Donan currently works as a part-time operating room nurse and a part-time licensed practical nurse lab instructor. It took him eight months to finish his novella. Writing was the easiest part, according to Donan. The hardest part was the rewrites. The original novella was 160 pages. By the time he was finished, the book was reduced to 113 pages. The book was professionally edited before it was published.

 Set primarily in Olympia, Washington, and Afghanistan, "All Things Visible and Invisible" is the story of Lieutenant Nick Bayan who meets Julie Earharth at a party and instantly falls in love with her. A few months later, they marry and she gets pregnant. He deploys to Afghanistan where things did not go so well during his first mission: he kills a child. Somehow, he is able to suppress his emotions. But, when he goes home for the birth of his child, his nightmare begins. When he returns to Afghanistan to finish his deployment, he begins to fall apart, consumed, and haunted by what he has done. He comes home a physically and emotionally broken man, searching for salvation, redemption, and love. It is a soldier's search for all things visible and invisible.

 Prospero Donan Jr. graduated from UP College Cebu High School in 1984. He holds a BS in Nursing from Hardin-Simmons University, Abilene, Texas, and a Masters in Public Administration from Bowie State University, Maryland.

His book is available through Amazon, B&N, Apple, The Copia, Kobobooks, Scribd, PagePusher, and other online booksellers. It is sold as an ebook and paperback. (FREEMAN)