About these Stories and the Liar behind Them I decided at the age of nineteen to forgo a traditional lifestyle, and pursue my passion of becoming a Renaissance man: An adventurer, lover, soldier, scholar and poet, beholden to no-one nor thing. Although now broke and alone, I arguably succeeded. Each short-story is a novel within itself, written ostensibly for entertainment, but primarily to incite thought. Collectively, these stories chronical my...