A transgender mother, Erika Tenglewood, raises two children in a post-apocalyptic world, and fosters their sense of purpose, and morals with stories of the pre-apocalyptic past. This story, told to inspire good conduct, outlines her experience as a graduate student at a religious university that had supernatural challenges of its own.For more information about the author, please visit http: //artificial-erika.com.Outline:1. The Pewter-leaf Steeple2. Satan's Ruse3. The Observatory4. The Blood of Damnation5. The New Chalupa and The Chimichangas6. Spin-the-Pistol7. Sanguinely Sanguinary8. The Cartel9. The Exorcists10. "Facemask!"11. Raguel by Another Name12. The Death of a Chimichanga13. Erika's ProsecutionThis book needs-but-one review: "Mr. R has written a novel about how feminists are saving the world from a haystack of reconstituted horse manure-and he wants to write another one. We cannot let that happen. Do not buy this book!" -Dr. Daniel Moriarty from the National Association for the Promotion of Hate Obsessed CrimesResolution: I intend to take you down the rarebit hole, and back out again-just to prove to you that I have planted nuclear bombs in the bedrock. Put down your writing instruments, grab your high-tech armaments, and-if nothing else-pitchforks, like a respectable militia, because a crag to hell is opening; and we are advancing the war to the city of Pandemonium, itself.Dedication: For my mother who is a pioneer; for my father who loved her anyway; for my twin-sister who has known me the best; and for the few who have both loved me, and hated me-especially the one who still cannot decide. I regret only the junctures when I have failed to live up to their standards of bravery, resilience, ingenuity, and empathy. There are many paths to Paradiso, and, one day, they shall all be paved with cobblestones of egalitarianism.Disclaimer: This book is fictional irrealism. In this genre, sympathy is granted to the outcasts. If any character in this book bears a resemblance to a real person, it is purely coincidental. Furthermore, extreme qualities are mixed, and shared between all characters in such a way that a person who happens to identify with one trait will witness an opposing trait in the same character. This is intended to be a humanist device through which we may all learn to feel empathy.Excerpt: There was a time when Erika believed it would be her purpose to settle down, and support a family-but that was all a messiah's life expectancy ago. Erika was once a dauntless Lieutenant Junior-Grade Officer in the US Navy when she was medically retired for developing schizoaffective disorder. She fought to stay in the Navy. Nevertheless, she recalls Medical Corps Captain Smellitelli telling her, at the medical review board, that they needed to involuntarily release her from active duty (IRAD) because the antipsychotics she now had to take for the rest of her life create elevated levels of prolactin in her endocrine system, i.e., "the US Navy cannot afford to have a loose cannon defending the Constitution of the United States with the emotional stability of a pregnant woman who could never possibly have any actual child of her own to protect."Over the course of five years after her medical retirement, Erika had developed gynecomastia, and gender dysphoria due to the side-effects of the antipsychotics. One day, mustering enough emotional strength for an unprecedented resolution-at least in her own life-she decided that instead of being some intermediate gender, she would get the rest of the hormone therapy required for gender conformity. With the metamorphosis complete after a year, she reached a juncture when she finally felt suitable to be called human in an imperfect world that celebrates the dichotomy of gender identity.