Legend has it that our world was once ruled by a race of reptilians. During this age, the world looked very different than today. Atlantis was a flourishing and corrupt city. Mermaids swam in the seas; the sasquatch and minotaurs roamed the forests, and giants squelched human opposition. Later on, a catastrophic event occurred. A flood wiped out everyone on Earth except for a few people who were miraculously saved by God, and civilization started over. For every intelligent design there must be an intelligent designer. Though the age of the reptilians was washed away, the evidence was not. Our paranormal slave masters built monuments to themselves that are a testament to their legacy. Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, England. The smallest stone is 20 feet tall. The largest stone is about 25 feet tall! A long time ago, giants carried these stones to this location. Human beings may have quarried them, but it is certain that giants carried them. Today, professors at many universities teach us that hybrid creatures like the minotaurs, mermaids, giants, and sasquatch never existed. They say people like you and I built these monuments. They laugh at anyone who believes in paranormal activity. However, a growing number of people all over the world now know the truth. They believe in an alternate history. Many enlightened people believe that the reptilian race is still alive and has built underground cities! The cities are burrowed deep underground and are hidden. They are secretly mating with our species Homo sapiens and are producing hybrid creatures-creatures that look human but are not. Others say these "off-worlders" have already infiltrated the human race. What is a paranormal citizen? A paranormal citizen is a creature that looks like a human being but is not human. I probably don't need to tell you about the rumor that some CNN television reporters have faces that morph. Some of them have sharp teeth. Could they be paranormal citizens? Not too long ago, while in the Los Angeles area, I met a reptilian face-to-face. The reptilian was tall and surprisingly friendly. When I looked into her eyes I immediately saw her alligator-slit pupils. We were both in a well-lit room when I stared into her eyes for a long time. I looked into her eyes twice just to make sure I wasn't seeing things. As an amateur oil painter, I have an eye for detail. When I tell you she had long slits in her eyes, I am telling you the truth. We had a short conversation. I don't even remember what we talked about. She went her way, and I went my way. I didn't sense any malice coming from her toward me. Whatever it was, the thing treated me decently. But I will never forget the passing terror I felt when I looked into the creature's eyes. UFOs and other paranormal things are real, aren't they? Or am I falling for yet another conspiracy theory? Before you answer those questions, take a trip to the underwater pyramids. Tell me what you see. Then you can tell me I am just falling for another conspiracy theory. There must be some truth to the myths and legends of yesteryear. Surely not everything that academia, the government, and mainstream media is telling us is true. We must look at all of the evidence objectively before making up our minds. Maybe God is trying to warn us that something is not right. Maybe something very bad is already happening. Do you know your neighbors well? Do you trust them? Watch out! One of your neighbors might be a paranormal citizen. In this book I have woven shape-shifters, aliens, UFOs, and weather machines (which many believe are being built by the shapeshifters) into the following poems in order to entertain but also to cast light upon the scary possibility that paranormal citizens are living among us and that more than ever we must be vigilant. Cory
About the Author: Cory Lee Markert was born in Santa Monica, California, in 1976, the son of Louis and Diana Markert. Parts of his childhood were spent in Los Angeles while his father attended graduate school at UCLA, and in Chadron, Nebraska, after his father was hired as a college professor at Chadron State University. Cory recalls the fear he felt after his father told him they would need to go into the basement because a tornado was nearby. He still remembers watching his father lift the wooden doors and point to the concrete steps that led into the basement while wind howled through the trees. He also recalls seeing the body of a frozen moose in the snow in his neighbor's backyard, preserved for eating time. One winter, Cory helped his family build a snowman in the front yard. The snowman had charcoal eyes, a carrot nose and a scarf around his neck! Two years later, his father moved the family to Fresno. The baking hot climate in Fresno served as a stark contrast to the cool, open land of northern Nebraska. When Cory was ten, his parents divorced. He recalls, shortly before their divorce, a family trip to Hawaii. The warm water and tropical winds were delightsome. It quickly became his favorite place in the world. When Cory was seventeen, his father disappeared for several days and returned to inform him he had become addicted to crack. In 2005, Cory's mother remarried. In 2008, his sister, Devon, died of brain cancer, after a year and a half of chemotherapy and several bad brain operations. Cory's father died in 2012, but not before overcoming his addiction to crack and working in cooperation with UCLA to start a program for addicts. His father's desire to study and overcome crack and his mother's long career as a kindergarten teacher set a positive example for Cory. Cory attended elementary school in Clovis, California, and graduated from Buchanan High School (also in Clovis) in 1995. He wrote poetry sporadically while in high school and college. He has fond memories of living in Fresno. In December 1999, Cory moved to Stockton, California. He graduated from California State University, Stanislaus, in 2005 with a BA in liberal studies. While attending college, Cory worked part time delivering pizzas and helping the physically and sometimes psychologically challenged. He received a master's degree in elementary education from the University of Phoenix in 2009. He is currently working on his anthology, Strange American Tales, second edition.