Synopsis for the stories of the novel

Winning Without Victory

 by Rolf A. F. Witzsche


The novel contains the following stories

(each story is available separately in PDF format)


Wreck Beach University

Earn the un-diploma.
Learn the un-knowledge.
See the un-seen.
Live the un-conventional.
Love the un-hidden.

Unity

Does unity mean getting together?
Or does it mean being one?
Does it need to be created?
Or does it need to be discovered?

 

The Incompetence of the King

A king story that touches on five vital issues that are often missed by society. 
Those might be more important issues than anyone may realize. 

Shadow in the Night 

The 10-minute missile is nuclear.
Can anyone see its shadow in the dark of night?
Who will catch it?
Who will even know?

 

Unto the Top of the World

The pinnacle is a lonely place.
Who will take the mission and do right?
Who knows what 'right' is?
Who can cross a sea of failures and win?

The Shockwave Effect

When air is not a fluid, but a barrier,
we enter the zone of supersonic flight.
When civilization is stopped by a wall,
we enter the Dark Age zone of death.
Can we break out?

 

Glass Sculptures

Glass Sculptures are sculptures of light,
as are the sculptures of our Love

Project Venice

Empires appear gentle and white -
a far-reaching force that ravishes all.
But how does one challenge a hurricane?
How does one replace the dark that appears white -
with a sun-filled world?

 

Perfidious Albion

The tectonics of empires are shifting.
Plates of power overlaying other powers.
Plates of force grinding down civilizations.
Plates of 'omnipotence' begging for society's compliance.

 

Lord of Darkness, Lord of the Rings 

War has matured: The game is nuclear terror.
Weapons have matured: The watchword is, Daisy Cutters.
Strategies have matured: The lie is cultural 'freedom.'
Objectives have matured: Empires flirting with genocide.

 

Drilling Holes into Sophistry

The sophist owns the thinking of society.
His song seems right, as if sung by angels.
His effect is the sword of war and the murder of millions.
But who can cut through the sophistry that still rules?

 

Clothed with the Sun


John saw an angel, a woman clothed with the sun.
He saw in her the native image of mankind.
He saw her not covered, hidden, or embellished.
He saw in her the sun crowned with stars of rejoicing.

 


The Supreme Being 

Is God the Supreme Being, or is it mankind?
Is the cross of God a cross of terror and genocide?
Or is the Supreme Cross, the Cross of Love?
Do we bow in pain, or stand tall as builders of worlds?

 

Resurrecting Carmen 

Does Bizet's Carmen foreshadow the fate of humanity?
She dies at the hand of her lover who failed to privatize her love.
Humanity became privatized at Christmas in 1913, and is dying.
The challenge before us is to reverse history, and resurrect Carmen.

 

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