Sean Dempsey

What happens when the world is broken but cynicism no longer feels like an answer? In this collection of stories and essays, I personally explore philosophy, politics, religion, technology, family, loss, moral courage, and the stubborn human need to believe that life can still mean something...

William Woods walked into a California bank to report that someone had stolen his identity. Before he left, he was in handcuffs, accused of impersonating the man who had stolen it.For decades, another man had been living under Woods’s name, constructing an entire life from licenses, jobs...

Ten-year-old Ava hates weirdness! Unfortunately, she is currently trapped inside a speeding polka-dotted minivan with a talking cat in a bowler hat, a pajama-wearing bear, an Egyptian mummy, and a knife-wielding killer doll. The police are chasing them. The cat is driving. And directly ahead is...

This is a collection of bad poems, short stories, rushed parables, and hastily-written diatribes written over the last 4 years. Shut in my home due to the government’s tyrannical response to COVID, I did a lot of reading, thinking, and reflection. During this time, I came to admit to myself a...

A children's tale about two brothers who choose different paths for their life. One chooses to live without risk--hiding away in a hut so as to avoid pain, suffering, heart-ache, disease, and sorrow. The other risks everything in order to LIVE and live well...

In a not-so-distant future, Professor Sean Dempsey and his beautiful family are heading on vacation. The means of transportation differ somewhere fifty years from now. Instead of relying on clumsy tools like airplanes or crude landcraft, humanity employs the Shunt—a novel new transporting...

FINANCIAL CHEAT CODES: How to Win the Game of Finance. In life, there exist certain shortcuts and “financial cheat codes.” These cheat codes can quickly catapult an investor out of mediocrity. They allow him or her to vacate the ‘Rat Race’, build Generational Wealth and gain Passive...

Ava is a small girl on a big island. After a storm comes, the adults on the island go a little crazy. They will do whatever they can think of to try to keep the storm from coming back and harming them again. But the things they want to try don't seem to make a lot of sense to Ava or really even...

The small town of Anslem stands as a microcosm of the human soul—steeped in sin, mercy, darkness, and the bloodthirsty urges of its people. Through the weary eyes of Sheriff Dunbar, a man burdened by the weight of duty, witness the harsh cruelties and fleeting joys of life in this rugged...

Trump AGAIN?!? How Could America Let This Happen? explores how the rise of "wokeness" in American culture—characterized by hyper-focus on identity politics, cancel culture, and perceived moral elitism—unintentionally fueled resentment among wide swaths of voters. By alienating middle America...

Are you Woke? The Right sees being “Woke” as the ULTIMATE EVIL and feels the word deserves to be eradicated from the Earth! The Progressive Left insists “Staying Woke” is an imperative to stave off cultural rot and discrimination. For who doesn't want to "wake up" to injustice and prejudice, right?

In the winter of 1972, esteemed French geologist and temporal theorist Dr. Michel Siffre descends alone into an uncharted cavern beneath the Pyrenees. His mission: to test the limits of human endurance and perception, cut off from all time, light, and life. Armed only with basic rations, a...

Gritty, emotional, and unflinching, this novel explores how far a parent will go when their child is in danger.