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That’s right, folks! I was given the opportunity to be interviewed by Kelley Lindsey of Public Works magazine about my newest novel, The Wastewater Plant. I took that opportunity quicker than a buck jumping a doe! WOW! So exciting.

If you would like to read the interview, go HERE. And for Public Works magazine’s home page go HERE.

After reading the interview I hope that you’ll purchase a paperback version or an eBook version of The Wastewater Plant, read it, and then place a positive review at Amazon if you feel that I deserve it.

Please feel free to contact me at dodgewinston@yahoo(dot)com. I’d really like to hear from you. And if you think that you may have had an aspect of yourself featured in my novel, The Wastewater Plant, and you’re unhappy about it… well, welcome to the world of fiction, artistic expression, and NO it is not entirely you… it’s an interpretation under dire circumstances. It’s a science fiction-horror novel.

I’m working on my fifth novel now; a collection of short horror stories related to the field of public works. I hope to have it completed by December, 2013. Hope I can make the deadline I set for myself. It’s coming along. In the meantime, please enjoy all four of my other novels located HERE.

Thank you for your interest! And thanks, Kelley Lindsey! You are magnificent!

Dodge

A horror sci-fi tale that will make your heart seize with fear!

Scott’s determined to make it through a record shattering storm for his first day at the wastewater plant. What he thinks his new career will entail and what he finds are polar opposites – an outdated plant full of half-broke equipment and a motley crew of plant operators who can barely tolerate one another.

As personal politics explode during the worst storm in centuries, an ancient evil awakens. It’s hungry. It’s intelligent. And it’s focused on the wastewater plant.

Will the band of roughnecks wise up enough to work together and survive? Will there be any help from the outside world or will the creature have its way, transforming the plant and the staff’s reality into a cold nightmare?

Find out in Dodge Winston’s pulse-pounding, deeply disturbing book, THE WASTEWATER PLANT!

*Map of the plant included so readers can follow the suspense and action*

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The Wastewater Plant is my first standalone novel (no relation to my series of books). As of the writing of this book, I work at a wastewater treatment plant as an operator. I’ve worked with all kinds of equipment, technology, and styles of operating, but it’s the coworkers that make the job fun or not. Luckily for me, my career in the wastewater field has been filled with some great coworkers. Some might not be as bright as others, but that doesn’t take away the fact that they’ve made the job enjoyable for the most part. It’s the can-do spirit of operators, sometimes simply armed with Twist Ties and Duct Tape that make it all so exciting at times. Some of these folks could build a rocket out of nothing it would seem (a crappy rocket, but still a rocket). It’s an amazing, innovative group that keeps civilization safe from typhoid, cholera, etc., 24/7.

Besides operations, there are others in the ranks that play a vital part in the running of the typical plant; maintenance (the folks who fix equipment), laboratory staff (those who apprise operations of the makeup of the wastewater being treated), collections (the workers who keep city wastewater lines flowing and lift stations running), administration (the people who keep plant staff apprised of everything from public tours to agendas), and the engineers (the self-proclaimed brains who feel they need to stick their fingers into everything).

You all play key roles in this industry. If I’ve forgotten anyone, please feel free to file a grievance.

This book is my way of getting your hard work out to the world. You all deserve the kind of recognition firefighters, police officers, and health care staff get. You help keep civilization safe from the things no one can see or really ever want to see. High fives all around! A great reward awaits you in the afterlife for your wastewater sacrifices. I believe that.

As you should be aware by now, this book is a work of fiction. The characters are loosely based upon personalities I’ve come across in this constantly changing field. I’ve worked at a couple plants and have toured even more, so I’ve met some strange minds, rough personalities, cool folks, lazy bums and every other personality that one can imagine. Just like any other career, this one has all kinds of fish swimming in the pond – this just happens to be a wastewater pond.

So thanks for being you. I couldn’t have written this without your flare for the (you name it) and the creative algorithm of my mind. In the end, The Wastewater Plant came to fruition, a truly frightening concoction that includes a little piece of us all. I hope that you’ll support me, dear wastewater brothers and sisters. My wastewater wage just doesn’t cut it anymore.

Thanks for your dedication, the good times, and the never ending support.

Respect.

Dodge

This phone number is apparently a robot —> 317-559-5623

If you pick up the phone, you’ll be met with eerie robot silence. If you call it back, you’ll be prompted to be put on a “no call list”. This isn’t affiliated with the National Do Not Call Registry.

Robot has been drinking again.

Dodge

It’s getting crazy out in this world (mad world to be sure). How crazy? Let’s look at my healthcare premiums.

Blue Shield 2010 Premium, Monthly: $1341.06
Blue Shield 2013 Premium, Monthly: $1880.04

In a quick 4 years, the price has jumped by $538.98

In my current position, beginning 2013, a whopping $360 comes out of my monthly paycheck to cover my family’s medical insurance. This means that I must downgrade to a cheaper health plan that may not cover as much in regards to prescriptions, surgeries, specialists, etc.

Not only has my healthcare coverage taken a hit, but the payroll tax jumped back up by 2% this year. Remember that?

Retirement benefits have also increased in price, hence more cuts from my paycheck.

I had benefits. Now I have very expensive benefits. I can only imagine what it’s like for those of you who don’t make a decent wage. Many working folks out there have no medical coverage or any kind of retirement what so ever. That’s horrible.

Personally, I think this country is being steered by power hungry government, corporate giants, and global elitists with a specific agenda. The agenda isn’t to create a wonderful nation that is fair, just, and follows the U.S. Constitution. They are squeezing The People in order to create division, disharmony, class warfare and it’s being propagated by the manipulation of markets, deceptive healthcare practices, biased news reporting, finger pointing, and the lie of what’s best for us (you and I). They know what’s best, right? They make lots of money. They must know what’s best for us. We should really listen to them. They’re so smart. They got degrees… Blah! Blah! Blah!

Take a look around. Don’t look through the eyes of a Democrat or a Republican. Forget those deceivers. I want you, the free you to look at our nation right now. Do you see us improving in any way? I don’t. I see a country that is being destroyed by the largest consumer in the world – the United States Government.

- Our healthcare system is breaking down by design in order to usher in a more consolidated type of healthcare. Don’t worry, you’ll be consolidated as well.

- I see our education system bloated with know-nothing bureaucrats and social engineers. Our kids have suffered enormously by our broken public school system of which politicians and corporate masters won’t even send their own kids to attend.

- The military is being whittled down via the globalists plan to break the Middle East. We have more soldiers committing suicide than being killed by enemy combatants.

- We have cities filing for bankruptcy. BANKRUPTCY! Can you believe that?! Now we have states; such as California (once an economic machine and envy of the world) in major debt. California could file for bankruptcy. Are you kidding!!!

- America, once the greatest, most innovative nation on the planet is now under a mountain of debt. Our government, by plot and design, has borrowed so much money that we can’t even pay it back. The only way we could get out of this economic noose is by declaring war on the debt holders (mainly China as Japan is more of an ally) and then say we won’t pay it back due to the war. What a dangerous web our “elected” officials have woven. Stuck like a pig is what we are… bleeding profusely.

Those are only a few items. There’s more. A lot more. I just don’t have the desire to address everything. But be certain, the Democrats nor the Republicans are your friends. They are friends of corporations and the globalists. They could care less about you, your kids, or this great nation. Believe that. See it. Breathe it.

I don’t know what the answer is. Well I should say that I don’t know what the safe answer is. Deep down, I think every politician and lawyer in Washington DC, and those in the state capitols, should be tarred and feathered and then deported to some far away country, never allowed to return again. We NEED smart people in charge. A round table of scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and blue collar, common sense folks to reinvent American government with the foundation of the US Constitution as the guiding principal. If we keep the current people in office, we are doomed. I guarantee that.

Since we know that nothing is going to change anytime soon, I recommend that you learn how to hunt, fish, garden, cook over fire, and survive. Life is about to get more expensive. People will get unruly. Budgets will continue to be cut. And the feds will still siphon as much money from you and I as possible. Damn the Internal Revenue Service and God Bless America!

Dodge

The following video is about INDECT. I found it through a tweet by Anonymous. If you believe in freedom and liberty over government sanctioned “safety” then you MUST watch. The ideas the globalists have for us are morphing into a noose.

Dodge

Dr. Carson is an amazing speaker who comes from a family who made no excuses. Put this guy in the Oval Office. His words are like water for both the American soul and the human spirit wrapped in one.

Carson Scholars Fund

Dodge

Ever hear of Gematria? Me neither until I was watching some YouTube videos about it and its uses for names.

According to Peter’s Gematria Site – The Oxford English Dictionary defines gematria as, “A cabbalistic method of interpreting the Hebrew Scriptures by interchanging words whose letters have the same numerical value when added.” This is actually a rather restrictive definition because gematria was every bit as important to other peoples in antiquity, and examples of its use are more common in the culture of classical Greece than in Judaism.

Gematria works on the premise that the letters of the alphabet can also be used as numbers, and therefore words and phrases acquire distinctive numerical values. A well known example is that of God, whose name spelt in Hebrew, is IHVH (IHVHgif). The values of these four letters are 10 – 5 – 6 – 5, thus the ‘number of His name’ is 26. It follows from this, by means of numerical equivalence, that God is identifiable with AHBH and AChD – Love and Unity – because the letter values of these two words sum as 1 + 5 + 2 + 5 and 1 + 8 + 4 = 26.

I found some of the comparisons to people’s names with their numerical meaning fascinating. I also placed my name in a Gematria calculator and then looked up my numbers on numerology sites. Those were intriguing too. I’ve always believed that we live up to our name. That our given birth name bestows a certain destiny upon us as individuals. Gematria can either reinforce that notion or detract from it. I won’t comment. I will just keep playing.

Check out the links in this post. You’ll be quite entertained with this cabbalistic mysticism.

Dodge

I have been working EVERY single day for 2 weeks on my shower remodel project. I’ve barely had any time or the energy to get my loose strings tied up for the release of The Wastewater Plant, my newest horror novel. I anticipated a January 27th release, but have moved it to February 27th.

My apologies to all my reading fans. I’m working really hard on too much. But duty calls. And the shower needed help.

Thanks!

Dodge