High on the balcony of an ultra-modern apartment above a riverside cityscape on New Year's Eve and the fringe of a new decade, ten friends gathered. With six hours to pass until the midnight hour, Lillian invites her guests to share tales of extraordinary, mystical, and inexplicable events that have occurred in their lives. These are tales that nobody would ever believe but are true. Haunted by the 11:11 numeric configuration, bestowed a life mission, and visited by ethereal beings not of this earthy world, Lotus Laughing will speak to the depths of your inner self and challenge you to probe your long-forgotten past. Perhaps you, too, may have memories of an extraordinary life that needs telling.

A journal keeper, a researcher, a lover of writing and the aesthetic, an author, and an English teacher. Marie-Celine Sinclair is no stranger to the written word telling a tale from the factual to the mystical. An adventurous person and seeker if knowledge and wisdom, Marie- fully endorses the importance of asking questions and seeking answers to life's mysteries. Believing the mystery of the self to be the most prescient of them all.