Personal Introduction
For people that matured in the early to mid 90’s, you may recollect how life through the period, variation was taking place in Europe and the internet was preliminary and beginning to cultivate. During that period, I wrote about occurrences and people that impacted the world. This book is a collection of those works, some are personal and some are not. No matter the motivation, I am arranging my personal thoughts for everyone to examine.
The book became this edition, updated in early March of 2020 as to complement my first novel published in early July of 2020. The new edition provides insight regarding the reason and logic behind each of the works.
The project spanned nearly 20 years and encapsulates many of the emotions that we as human beings deal with and the consequences of life and the struggles in our lives daily. Sometimes obscure and other times light tempered, however the emotion of this work is and was real.
This work originally created between the years of 1991 and 1994 inspired by my youthful views of the world around me. Please let me explain a few of the elements that you may encounter and question through reading “The Chair.” First off, the Chair itself represents the place I write, my stand in front of the world. The 316 represents the number of times I will fail to finish the book as obviously the book had not finalized until 2016 and a full edit professionally did not occur until 2020.
The book may seem dark and disturbing to many who will read it. The reader must understand that during this time, I was far-removed from home; learning and inventing the man I would later in life become. The constant talk of pain and sorrow, or hate reflects what we see in the world every day. Little of the media provides hopeful or inspiration and as a young man in Washington D.C. at the time I was a casualty of the world around me. Many of the works talk of God and religion, as a Christian I found my solace in faith to help me get through the times of hardship.
The book inspired by my faith as well; God has a certain strong place in my heart. Some may see this work as a blasphemy against the Lord but I believe that every person has their own personal relationship with the Lord and I will let him judge me for the work.
Acknowledgements
Thank you for taking the time to read this, as it is personal, but important as it represents a period in my life that impacted so much of my future. To my dear friend who understands the meaning of these words the most. I thank you for always being with me, even when we were miles apart. You have been the sun that shines on my face, the wind, gently at my back. My love for you will always endure and my soul will always be yours. Tamani, I love you. These words dedicated to you and our memory.
The Chair
By Stuart Lee Williams
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A personal reflection on religion and life as accounted by a young man far from home and the ones he loved. Stuart Lee Williams Author Published and edited in the United States by Stuart Lee Williams, in 2016. Copy Right Pending 2016. All rights reserved. All photographs courtesy of ‘Google Free photos.’ ISBN 978-0-692-62511-8
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About the Author
Stuart Lee Williams is the author of the forth-coming book Longinus, Revelations, and previously released The Chair; he focuses on an unconventional view of the world and appeals to the multiple segments of the reader. A graduate of Trident University where he obtained a Master’s in Business Administration Stuart affords the reader an intelligent but artistic view using his text. Stuart makes logical reasoning clash with a belief system and allows the reader to make assumptions giving the reader’s imagination the ability reach its full potential.
Originally, from a small town in Colorado, Stuart enjoyed a career in the military before focusing his energy on authoring books. Stuart is a husband, father, and active in his community. In the future Stuart plans to work on Into the Dust, a book designed to prequel Revelations.
Sometimes violent and edgy his writing style can be described as temperamental with a character and belief system that borders the conservative libertarian. Mature audiences should consume the substance and content of his work, as the text does decorate the depiction of a violent society and not a utopia.
