Right On Time is a contemporary literary novella following the journey of an unnamed narrator from homeless childhood in the 1990s through entrepreneurship and personal awakening in 2025.

In his early years, he lives in shelters and cars with his chronically ill single mother and two siblings. She teaches him survival, dignity, and the power of persistence. A school librarian hands him The Richest Man in Babylon, sparking his obsession with financial literacy.

As a teen, he lies about his age to work at a gas station, absorbing wisdom from a local hustler. He flips phones, shovels snow, and sells candy—building his first “Babylon fund.” After a stint in community college and a debt spiral, he drops out and starts a phone repair business. A Craigslist deal leads him to vending machines, launching his first LLC: Efficient Hustle Enterprises.

Burnout and a health scare force him to reevaluate. He scales back, automates, and learns to delegate. A surprise IRS audit nearly ruins him—but a retired accountant named Elaine helps him restructure and rebuild with clarity. Soon after, his mother passes, leaving behind a letter and a stack of journals urging him to stop chasing ghosts and begin truly living.

He pivots to digital work—building websites and systems for small businesses during the pandemic—and finds financial success. But at 30, he realizes success alone isn’t enough. He begins mentoring others, funding education, and reconnecting with family. Through quiet acts of giving, journaling, and community, he redefines success as presence and peace.

In the final chapter, he returns to his old neighborhood, hands a struggling mother a quiet gift, and acknowledges: “I made it. Not just out—but home.” The epilogue is a prayer from his mother’s journal: her final wish for his freedom and peace fulfilled.

Ori was born in Wyril, a quiet village nestled between two eternal winds—one that whispered of desire and ambition, and another that beckoned with stillness and surrender. When a dream stirs a mysterious ache within him, Ori leaves his home in search of meaning, walking into a valley no map remembers and no traveler returns the same.

His journey unfolds across allegorical landscapes: a river that carries only those who let go, a tower ruled by an unseen king, a feast of empty plates, a garden of forgotten selves, and a market where voices are traded like currency. Along the way, Ori meets enigmatic figures—a merchant of moments, a weaver of regret, a boy who mirrors his past—each encounter peeling back the illusions of freedom, time, and identity.

As the valley shifts with every step, Ori must choose not between right and wrong, but between the winds themselves: the promise of becoming and the peace of being. With poetic resonance and quiet power, The Valley of the Two Winds is a spiritual allegory for readers of The Little Prince and The Alchemist, asking one of life’s oldest questions:
Can we ever be truly free if we still long to become something more?

In the smoke-choked alleys of 1891 St. Louis, where steam and soot power the rise of an industrial empire, Aidan Shea lives in a world that rarely listens—and never hears. Born deaf in a time when silence is mistaken for weakness, Aidan survives on the fringes: a gifted machinist, an outsider, and the secret builder of a machine no one else dares imagine.

His creation, the Water Clock, does not measure time as others do. It measures presence—a delicate calibration of water, breath, and willpower that ticks only when its keeper is truly alive. To Aidan, it is both a rebellion and a prayer: proof that the soul has rhythm, even in silence.

But in a city driven by greed and fear, whispers of his invention have begun to spread. When a brutal enforcer warns him of men in top hats asking questions—men who crush what they cannot control—Aidan realizes his work is no longer secret, and perhaps never was.

As shadowy forces close in and old alliances fray, Aidan must decide whether the Water Clock is a miracle to be protected, a weapon to be wielded, or a truth too dangerous for the world to hold. With only his wit, his tools, and a lifetime of listening to a world that never spoke his language, Aidan faces the most difficult task of all:

To be heard.