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In the Throes Featured on BookDNA.com
My book, In the Throes, was recently featured on Shepherd.com, now BookDNA, a book recommendation website. I shared 5 books that inspired me when writing In the Throes, in the hopes that readers will find my book, and others with similar themes that they’ll enjoy. Titled “The best books to awaken your mind to spiritual and psychological awareness,” this article explores what “awareness” means to me, and how to learn from the great teachers of old. Read the article on Shepherd.com to learn more about how the following books share similarities to In the Throes: Think on These Things by…
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The Spark of Life – A Self-reminiscence on my 84th Birthday – Essay 5
By Mathias Freese Thoreau said it best, “to live deliberately,” probably the best use of anadverb in the English language. Yet, how do we go about livingmoment to moment? The answer is written on the wind. As my humanmechanism deliberately falls prey to aging, I see less clearly at nightat the wheel, my driving skills are diminishing and my musculaturecreaks more than ever. Being overweight makes me wheeze as Iengage my shoelaces. I am experiencing a slow landslide. However, that caged soul of mine, my elan vital, is a sprite within anold body. I will myself to rage, rage against…
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In the Throes: 5 Star Review from Readers’ Favorite
Reviewed by Pikasho Deka for Readers’ Favorite Set in a brutal apocalyptic world with two suns, Mathias B. Freese’s In The Throes follows the story of a creature that unexpectedly attains awareness. The only thing Gruff’s undeveloped mind could fathom as he opened his eyes to the world was that the Close One’s slashes didn’t incite pain. He went to the Park for his first kill and hunted keet. Abandoned by the Close One, Gruff set out on his own, fighting a brutal battle for survival one day at a time, until he found Man Youth and bonded with him.…
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I Chisel my Petroglyphs – Essay 4
By Mathias Freese In 1974 an editor, without my knowledge, submitted my story, “Herbie,”to Martha Foley, editor of the prestigious annual anthology, The BestAmerican Short Stories of 1974. In a section called “Distinctive ShortStories of 1974.” I was listed, unfortunately, with the wrong author’sname. That is another story. I was notified that Foley, who had edited Ernest Hemingway, hadincluded my story. I was 34. As I excitedly scanned the other chosen, Isaw names unknown to me at the time — Joyce Carol Oates; IsaacBashevis Singer, et al. Realizing I was a mere baby elephant amid a herd of mammoths, itdid…