I don't think our world will ever be the same again.

 

I don't think our world will ever be the same again. Look at what's happened. Everywhere there's carnage. death, and devastating occurrences. A never-ending tragedy of all sorts. What's going to happen to our future? Will peace be in the shadows from now on, while we fight in the name of peace? How ironic is that? Wars and killings take place to attain peace. Couldn't it be done another way? Don't people talk till they find resolutions anymore? The Earth is reeling and fighting back to help nature survive. So it's not just you and him fighting; Earth has also joined the fray.

Who do we blame but ourselves? People have become hostile to each other, not caring even for the children. These days, staying alive is hard. There are so many out there who are willing to kill for money. When you question them, their reasons are shocking. They want money to better their lives, and so they kill people who are different - different faith, different dressing, different colour, different anything.

Why have we bred this intolerance into our children? They will carry them throughout their lives, becoming worse than their fathers or their father's father.

There's a reason why the blood that runs through our veins is the same colour. To show that we are all the same as humans. The diversity is there to show the beautiful colours of mankind. Their mother tongues carry their namesakes to the graves, so someday people will know that we share the same grave when our time is over. Different people who made a difference in our lives. They had different names and shared the same soil when buried.

I feel so much for what's happening around the world. Can't we save Earth in some way from the madness that has taken over people?

-shobana-

Weekend Reads.

On SHOBANA's Poetry Blog: Don't Look Back: https://www.shobanagomes.live/2026/06/dont-look-back.html

Here are some weekend reads you'll love: If you liked the stories, please press the heart-shaped like button on the left, and please write a review. The books are entered for contests, and I appreciate your support.

Falling in love with a North Indian will take you to the streets of Trivandrum and back to the shores of Malaysia. Come join me in this exhilarating love story. https://www.inkitt.com/stories/1733283

The Frenchman & His Lady: https://www.inkitt.com/stories/689705

Gods of the Digital Commune: An inspiring story about a man who was brave enough to make his vision a reality. Read about Stewart Brand and the first paper internet. https://www.inkitt.com/stories/1768939

The Faction Revolutionary Modules 1-3 is a great book to read and learn about the 'fact into fiction' storytelling method. The book comes with a free copy of Nature's Poems. Get it here: https://shobanagomesbookstore.blogspot.com. 

Thank you for reading. Have a great weekend - shobana.

The First Global Paper Treasury - The Whole Earth Catalog

 

About a hundred miles south of Menlo Park, perched on the wild, rugged cliffs of Big Sur, sits Gorda Mountain. The untamed beauty is set in a landscape defined by dramatic cliffs that drop steeply into crashing ocean waves, where the constant flow of water rushes to the shores in outlandish motion.

Here in Gorda Mountain, overlooking the expanse of the Pacific Ocean, anyone could settle. Stewart Brand did just that. He treated the muddy, off-grid commune as a live-in laboratory, researching how people survived away from traditional infrastructure.

Brand became a cultural architect, bridging the gap between the sixties counterculture and the looming digital age. Armed with little more than an X-Acto knife, a typewriter, and a shoestring budget, he began compiling a revolutionary paper treasury known as the Whole Earth Catalog.

The Whole Earth Catalog is a mind-blowing invention which paved the way for the first global communication on paper.

On the day he got his insight, young Stewart Brand was sitting on a Victorian rooftop in North Beach, San Francisco, in the spring of 1966, when he noticed something amiss about the infrastructure before him. At the time, glass skyscrapers hadn't dominated the city. The 19th-century Victorian buildings were weathered, their grey and brown paint fading in parts, and packed tightly together.

His mind was hazy, and his eyes were glazed from the after-effects of LSD. A brisk, cold and biting breeze blew in from the bay when he concluded that the buildings weren't parallel. From the low roof, covered in tar and gravel, he stared out across the skyline. As the buildings rose towards the skies, they diverged slightly. And suddenly, across the horizon, he felt the terrestrial arc move beneath him.

In that fuzzy state of awareness, the truth struck him that we live on a sphere, and yet have not actually seen our own home from the outside.

He asked himself a simple question: Why haven’t we seen a photograph of the whole Earth yet? He knew NASA would have a picture of the Earth, and yet it wasn't made public to the people who lived on the planet. Why?

The more he pondered the question, the more curious he became as to why an image of our planet wasn't accessible to us. He came up with a plan to have the question printed on twenty-five-cent buttons and mailed to NASA officials, Soviet scientists, and UN diplomats, which turned his plan into a movement. The movement connected us to the Whole Earth Catalog long before the internet. Brand built a paper universe, and decades later, Steve Jobs would perfectly capture its essence, calling it “Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along.”

Free to read on @Inkitt! Ever wondered what it takes to be a visionary? Read Stewart Brand's story. Dive into a legacy, a gift to our world and the world after us, 

and his monumental 10,000-year clock hidden deep inside a mountain. Vote for the story to be a winner by liking and sharing the biography. Thank you.

Gods of the Digital Commune:

https://www.inkitt.com/stories/1768939

"We are as Gods, and might as well get good at it." - Stewart Brand.

The opening line of the 1968 Whole Earth Catalog captures the back-to-land movement

and the personal computer revolution.

Stewart Brand created the first paper internet. A man of great foresight, he wanted the whole

world to see what the Earth looked like and created a button campaign to get NASA to release

images of the planet. Read about his vision to bring The Whole Earth Catalog to life.

The Catalog allowed a reader in a remote cabin to look up a tool, find a book on

solar energy, or connect with an organic farming collective.

It mapped out human knowledge exactly the way the World Wide Web does today.

Brand's genius wasn't just as a publisher, but as an information architect who

anticipated the digital age using nothing but paper and ink.

Other Free Books to Read by Shobana Gomes on @Inkitt:

The Frenchman and His Lady:

https://www.inkitt.com/stories/689705

Get a free copy of Shobana's Nature poems with every $0.99 purchase of The Faction Revolution Modules 1-3

https://shobanagomesbookstore.blogspot.com/2026/05/a-free-copy-of-nature-poems-with-every.html

On Shobana (Poetry) The FIFA World Cup Fever: https://www.shobanagomes.live/2026/06/the-fifa-world-cup-2026-fever.html

Happy Reading!

Shobana (https://shobanagomes.live)

Nature's talk is sublime.

 

Every day, thousands of writers and lovers of literature from all over the world gather here in these quiet corners of the digital space. You come looking for depth, structure, and a new way to look at the craft of storytelling.

If you are ready to stop merely observing and start mastering the craft, this month presents the perfect opportunity.

This June, when you invest in the complete system of The Faction Revolution Modules 1-3, for only $0.99, you will not just learn the foundational blueprints of combining absolute truth with narrative art. You will also receive an exclusive invitation to free your creative spirit. Nature poems will inspire and reconnect you with the beauty of life.

Which is why, with your purchase, we are gifting you a complimentary digital edition of the highly celebrated Earth Day 2026 Nature Poems, so you can capture the fragile, rhythmic heartbeat of our natural world through emotionally resonant and evocative verses. Turn the timeless poems into narrative arcs to still your mind, to encounter peace within nature's embrace.

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After the worldwide attention on the press releases for The Faction Revolution Modules 1-3, for June 2026, I am offering a free download of my Earth Day Nature Poems (usually sold at RM2.99) with every purchase of The Faction Revolution Modules 1-3, which are retailing at $0.99. I hope you will take advantage of this great offer. 

The Faction Revolution Module 1-3 is a must-read. In the module, I discuss how I reached Amazon's Best-Seller ranking with the faction storytelling method - an integration of facts into a fiction genre. I used my best-seller, The Children of the Sun, as a case study. The book has reached Amazon's best-seller ranks in the Historical, Fantasy, & Indigenous, Historical Literature, and Ancient Classical Literature categories. If you are interested, the book is available as an Audiobook, Kindle, and Paperback copies. It's free to read on Kindle Unlimited.

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Shobana Gomes Reveals the ‘Faction’ Formula Behind Her 

Best-Sellers with Launch of Faction Revolution Modules 1-3

Written by Joseph Wilson | Published on May 27, 2026

I am absolutely thrilled to share this news with my readers, fellow authors, and literary community worldwide. 

On May 27th, 2026, CB Herald News published a wonderful feature article on the success of my Amazon No. 1 bestseller, The Children of Sun: Incas of Ancient Peru, and the official launch of my new masterclass curriculum, The Faction Revolution Modules 1–3.

To read the full piece, you can check out the official article here: Shobana Gomes on CB Herald.

 https://cbherald.com/shobana-gomes-reveals-the-faction-formula-behind-her-best-sellers-with-launch-of-faction-revolution-modules-1-3.

Seeing my work recognised on an international media platform is deeply humbling, and it reinforces a core belief that drives everything I write: literacy is a human right. 

Bringing the "Faction" Formula to Creators Worldwide:

The Faction storytelling method has brought worldwide recognition, first by elevating my books to No. 1 best-seller ranking on Amazon, and now, with the launch of the module, to being published in reputable and prominent news magazines like CB Herald News. You can read the article here: https://cbherald.com/shobana-gomes-reveals-the-faction-formula-behind-her-best-sellers-with-launch-of-faction-revolution-modules-1-3.

I must say that I have learned about so many news magazines and literary newsletters from my recent press releases. The massive number of readers visiting my blogs has been very encouraging.

The CB Herald article also touches on a cause incredibly close to my heart: global literacy and the pursuit of children's contemporary literature. Reflecting on my recent experience serving as a guest panellist at the LACCS-Worldwide 26th Women’s Forum 2026, I am deeply passionate about expanding access to education, which is why I write my stories in the Faction genre. It reminds me that the words we write today truly shape tomorrow's thinkers and leaders. The engaging method teaches as it entertains.

The Faction Revolution Modules 1–3 are currently available at the launch price of just USD 0.99. Do get a copy to learn how the storytelling method took shape in my mind and became the successful method I created to tell my stories. You can get it at Shobana Gomes' Bookstore: https://shobanagomesbookstore.blogspot.com.

Thank you once again. Don't forget to read the published link on CB Herald:

https://cbherald.com/shobana-gomes-reveals-the-faction-formula-behind-her-best-sellers-with-launch-of-faction-revolution-modules-1-3/

 

- shobana-

Read my poetry here: https://shobanagomes.live