Current Authors
Luke J. Carver
Luke J. Carver is a political writer and critic who treats rhetoric like a crime scene and the public record as evidence. He hunts the slips, dog whistles, and manufactured outrage that pass for “common sense,” then strips them to the studs. Carver’s essays are cited for their sharp sourcing and sharper knives, cool-headed in method, unapologetic in judgment. He speaks widely on media manipulation and democratic backsliding, pushing audiences to question not just what was said, but what the saying was built to do. His publications include I.M.O C.K. and How Rhetoric Replaced Evidence: Power, Policy and the Price Paid by Alberta.
Atlas Wilder
Atlas Wilder is a fiction writer from Southern Alberta with a deep love for storytelling and creativity. He specializes in crafting bold, imaginative tales that blend fantasy, action, and science fiction. With a passion for building immersive worlds and unforgettable characters, Atlas invites readers on thrilling journeys beyond the ordinary. His works include Purity: The Future of Bloodlines and Between Breath and Shadow. His work also appears in Drift by Polar Expressions Publishing.
Purity
The Future of Bloodlines
He escaped prison. Now he must confront the truth.
When Hugo Matise is pulled from his cell and taken to a hidden basement lab, he uncovers the unthinkable—he’s not just an inmate. He’s a test subject. Marked for a secret experiment involving human “purity,” Hugo takes a desperate risk for freedom and disappears into the outside world.
But the real danger is only beginning.
Hunted by law enforcement and stalked by those who experimented on him, Hugo needs to discover why his blood is so vital—and what deadly secret it hides. With time running out and nowhere left to run, he must face the past to destroy what’s coming.
Fast-paced, gritty, and unflinching, Purity is a dystopian thriller about survival, sacrifice, and the dark side of science.
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Between Breath and Shadow
A Flash Fiction Anthology
Step into the unsettling world of Atlas Wilder's Between Breath and Shadow, where ordinary lives unravel in the quiet moments between breaths. This anthology of flash fiction invites readers to explore the eerie, the melancholic, and the mysterious, offering a glimpse into lives where memories collide, secrets fester, and shadows stretch into unexpected corners.
From a man reliving his anniversary dinner with a woman who no longer remembers him, to a daughter uncovering dark truths buried by her father, these stories examine how the past, regret, and the search for meaning shape the choices we make. With each tale, Wilder crafts a haunting reflection on the fragility of memory, the weight of silence, and the constant pull of the unknown.
In Between Breath and Shadow, the lines between reality and illusion blur, leaving you with questions that linger long after the last page is turned. Whether it's the disquieting loneliness of a man trapped in a haunting ritual or the crushing pressure of societal expectations, these stories will leave you wondering where the shadows end and reality begins.
Each story in this anthology reflects Wilder's deft ability to blend tension with deep emotional insight, making Between Breath and Shadow a compelling collection for fans of psychological horror, literary fiction, and the thrill of the unknown.
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How Rhetoric Replaced Evidence
Power, Policy and the Price Paid by Alberta
When political language stops describing reality and starts replacing it, the consequences are not rhetorical; they are lived.
In How Rhetoric Replaced Evidence, Luke J. Carver examines how public words harden into public policy and what happens when narrative, grievance, and personal belief displace professional judgment, constitutional restraint, and empirical evidence. Drawing exclusively on the public record, Carver traces a recurring pattern in Alberta’s recent political history: complex, evidence-rich issues reframed as matters of identity, outrage, or “common sense,” with predictable and uneven costs.
From Charter rights and public health to healthcare delivery, energy policy, Indigenous relations, and the information environment itself, this book shows how rhetoric does real work. Statements made at podiums and in interviews do not merely signal values; they shape institutional behaviour, authorize exceptional measures, and determine whose rights are treated as negotiable. The resulting harms—delayed care, weakened safeguards, eroded trust, and widened disparities—are not accidental. They are foreseeable outcomes of words taken seriously by systems built to act on them.
Clear-eyed, meticulously sourced, and unapologetically accountable, How Rhetoric Replaced Evidence examines governance under narrative pressure and challenges readers who refuse to accept performance in place of proof.
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I.M.O. C.K.
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In My Opinion: Charlie Kirk
I.M.O. C.K. by Luke J. Carver is a work of commentary and analysis that examines Charlie Kirk’s public rhetoric from 2021 to 2025 through a documented record of quotations, sources, and close reading. Organized across subjects such as race and civil rights, immigration, Islam, LGBTQ issues, elections and January 6, public health, political violence, Christian nationalism, media, authoritarian rhetoric, and higher education, the book argues that language is never just background noise. Repeated messages shape what a culture excuses, normalizes, and eventually acts upon.
Rather than offering a quick hot take or a cleaned-up retelling, Carver traces patterns over time: how grievance becomes ideology, how dog whistles turn into declarations, and how rhetoric can lay the groundwork for exclusion, cruelty, and the weakening of democracy. Based on publicly available material and written from a clearly anti-violence perspective, I.M.O. C.K. is both a documentary record and a warning. It encourages readers to examine the public record closely, face uncomfortable patterns honestly, and think about what happens when harmful speech is dismissed as mere provocation.