The poems "How I Got Over" and "Unfucked" tell the story of the angst of love. There are no chocolates, roses, or cupids in these "love stories." These poems tell the bitter truth about love. Romance is for dreamers. In these poems, the candy has turned bitter and the roses have dried up.The narrator in "How I got Over" shares with us her unrequited with a man cool to her affections. She pushes through all of the pain until the bitter end where she visits his grave and delivers her own brand of sweet revenge.In "Unfucked" Maura comes home early to find her husband in the throes of passion with another man. Witnessing the act puts her at the crossroads of revenge or the release of her pent-up sexual desire.If you love language and how it's used to express raw emotion, you will love these poems.

Four short paranormal tales.The Archive of Lost Dreams: a little girl discovers the importance of dreams and wishes.Roses Are Red: Loren meets her guardian angel who is struggling with jealousy issues.Don’t Even Peep: Eight year old Susan investigates the secrets in her Victorian home.Round, Round The Fairy Ring: Seven year old Abigail’s new baby sister is replaced with a fairy changeling.THE ARCHIVE OF LOST DREAMS“What is this place?” I ask.“It is the Archive of Lost Dreams,” he tells me.“Why are the dreams lost?”“Some people have had to put a great many of their dreams away as they make sacrifices for those that they love.”“Where do they put them?”.“They are tucked away in a little bottle, where the dreamer can unravel and admire them at will. But sometimes the bottle is accidentally left to float away in the great ocean of life, and the dreams escape. The dreamers forget they ever existed. This is where they end up.”This paranormal short story is 2000 words.ROSES ARE REDWhen nineteen-year-old Loren starts to dream about a mysterious angel called Justice, he soon reveals himself as her own guardian angel. What’s worse: he’s fallen in love with her, and is incredibly jealous of her friendship with any young man, especially the street musician, Martin.This paranormal short story is 4500 words.DON'T EVEN PEEPWhy does eight-year-old Susan wakes up in front of a large covered-up frame hidden away in the attic every morning? Why does her grandmother keep her from peeping behind the luxurious velvet? When will Susan’s father come home? Secrets abound in this Victorian paranormal short story of 2000 words.ROUND, ROUND THE FAIRY RINGSeven-year-old Abigail hates her new baby sister, Celeste. But Celeste has changed from the premature and sick baby into a plump, healthy infant overnight. Then Abigail accidentally falls into a fairy ring and realises her sister has been replaced with a changeling. And no one but Abigail messes with her sister. This paranormal short story is 5500 words.

When tragedy strikes, life will never be the same for Kylan Turner. And when grief and anger converge with a taste of an uncontrollable immense power, the path he’s now chosen to journey may be one he can never return from.Inspired by a JA Konrath challenge to write, edit, create a cover, and publish a short story in eight hours or less. A Career Move - A crash-landed alien tries to find his career path but isn't having much luck...3072 word short story (teen+ appropriate)Capture At The Hive - The Evil Queen Mother has finally captured General Megatron, Defender of the Galaxy. 421 word flash fiction story (safe for children)

Judy and her husband Lace move from their countryside mansion (abounding in luxurious amenities) to a studio apartment with very few conveniences. Exhibiting a basic lifestyle, there are clues in the couple’s routine which suggest the story is set in a futuristic time period. Lace accommodates his wife’s requests during the arduous move, while Judy’s animosity poses difficulty and challenge.Updated version of the second book in the 'Old Balmain House' SeriesRaped and reduced to working in a brothel to keep her baby, unwed, teenage mother, Lizzie, forges a new life for herself and her child in the Kimberley region of Australia. But can she evade her persecutors and ultimately bring to them to justice?This is a story of a girl from inner Sydney. Her family is poor, her father dies when she is nine, life is hard. But her courage rises above adversity. It is story of her struggle to survive and make a life of her own, first as a prostitute, then with her child in a remote outback town.This is the second book in the series, "Old Balmain House" and begins in the same house as the first book and continues part of the story of Sophie, the girl who vanished half a century ago. Lizzie, aged eight, meets Sophie, the girl who lived in the same bedroom as a child. Sophie becomes her friend.When Lizzie turns fifteen Sophie tries to warn her not to go in a car with three older boys.Lizzie ignores her warning and is brutally raped by these three men. Lizzie becomes pregnant and is determined to keep her child. She leaves Sydney and goes to Melbourne, to have and keep her baby. Here, penniless and desperate, she become a prostitute the only way she can support herself. She is discovered and the authorities try to take her child.She flees to Broome, a small town in the furthest corner of of Australia. Here she assumes the role of widow with a small child and settles into this friendly town. Her life is good until a man from her former life finds her and threatens to expose her or harm her child.She runs again. On a remote desert road her car breaks down. Without water, with her six year old daughter beside her, they face death from thirst. Help comes in an unexpected way. She takes refuge in a local aboriginal community. Her school friend from Balmain, now a journalist, seeks retribution from the the men who raped Lizzie many years ago and have continued their ways with others. Now, as successful business men, they seek to use the law to deny justice.

America's greatest hero lies dead, murdered in his home by an old enemy--but did his knowledge of Project Recall die with him? Meanwhile, in a city of corruption and excess, CB uncovers a strange series of killings the police are trying desperately to keep hidden.What is Project Recall?Great. Another novel of dystopian freaking fiction?Not really...In a moving tale about a world trying to regain its humanity, master storytellers Dan McNeill and Kevin Morton tell the story of a band of misfits out to save the world. River's Rising is the thrilling first episode of the four part World Down series - the series that proves not all dystopian fiction needs to be entirely dystopian.Three years after a decimating virus has left mankind on the brink of extinction, two brothers must move past their hatred of each in order to survive. But in this new world, surviving means having a little faith - faith in each other, faith in themselves and faith in what can't be seen. Perhaps most importantly of all, faith means being able to follow their third brother. Their older brother. The one with Down syndrome. Their brother Po has a gift.When they realize what that gift is, it will lead them into a journey of discovery where the stakes couldn't be higher. On one side are the Elected - five god-like beings with super-human powers whose plans for global dominion seem next to certain. Opposing them is suicide.On the other side are the mythical 19 - travelers with their own powers who haven't been seen in years. Tales of their exploits during the dark early days of the outbreak are told in whispers. Hope that the 19 will ever be found is growing dim.But Po and his gift may turn that all around.World Down: Episode 1 - River's Rising. Finally, dystopian fiction without dour characters or kids with crossbows. Finally, dystopian fiction that's fun.

Dana Roberts, using the name, Sally Brown, has gone undercover and is living in a flat in Bondi. She is trying to find out what has happened to three missing women, who have been connected to the rich and handsome, Peter Ruslen, who lives in a castle-like, iceberg house, in Rose bay; a house where Dana has scored a job as a party hostess.Dana Roberts, using the name, Sally Brown, has gone undercover and is living in a flat in Bondi. She is trying to find out what has happened to three missing women, who have been connected to the rich and handsome, Peter Ruslen, who lives in a castle-like, iceberg house, in Rose bay; a house where Dana has scored a job as a party hostess.Her colleague, Harry de Groot, meanwhile, is working to find evidence on Ruslen’s suspected property flipping, money laundering and drug business. However, the trail he is following keeps disappearing and Harry feels out foxed and out classed……while at the same time, Harry is battling women trouble.

The Brane Skip device may allow a spaceship to skip between layers of reality, bypass normal space, and avoid the universal speed limit—the speed of light. Lisa Chang, mission commander for its first crewed test, doesn't trust it. It seems like magic to her, and she doesn't believe in magic, not even after the ship skips to a fantasy version of Earth, complete with dragons, orcs, and wizards.The Brane Skip device designed in the twenty-second century is intended to move a spaceship between the membranes of reality in order to get around the universal speed limit: 'Thou shall not go faster than light'. The theory behind the device is unproven, the technology experimental, but if there are side paths through the universe of normal space, there should be short cuts where speed limits simply don't apply.The unmanned tests of the Brane Skip are inconclusive. The probes wink out and then back into existence, but all they record in between is a mysterious gray haze. No one knows where they go. But they must go somewhere. The automated systems can't say. It's time to send volunteers.The Brane Skip seems like magic to Lisa Chang, the young engineer in command the first crewed test flight, and Chang doesn't believe in magic. But she does believe in the mission. Humanity must explore space in order to survive and prosper, and she feels honored to be among the first to go where no one has gone before. She does not know what will happen when the Brane Skip device engages. She thinks it will do nothing. She fears it will explode. What she does not expect is popping out adrift in space and on a collision course with a fantasy version of Earth, complete with dragons, orcs, and wizards.Unfortunately, this is exactly what happens.

Surrounded by wild lands and death machines, the last city relies on the riggers to carry water and vital supplies. Flint, driver of the toughest rig, loves the freedom of the open way, and hates the cruel customs of the city, but when the President's daughter tries to run in his rig, he must dare terrors without and treachery within to protect her, even if it means running through fire.When the mysterious murder of a rival company's security guard stirs the curiosity of New York City billionaire Abram Guy, he dons his goggles and grabs his Skeleton Key to investigate as the Innovator in the dead of night. However, upon his investigation, the only thing he finds to be right about the investigation is that there was more to it than met the eye.And how right he was...Aided by both his personal assistant Duke Costello and a persistent, yet unwelcome guest, the Innovator follows the breadcrumb of clues left at the scene of the murder, only to stumble upon a discovery that could change the very progression of mankind. But how can the goggled guardian hope to protect such a discovery, when its very threat is humanity itself?

The ebook contains 1 long screenplay and 2 shorts.The Jeweler's Loupe tells of a Jewish jeweler from Iran living in Damascus who is suspected of spying and subversion.E-45 is a short start of a road trip series on the E-45 highway from southern Sicily to the Finnish border.Faces to Let is a short about an aging actor who wants to right past failures using his skills and assumed identities.Episode 2: Welcome to the Hotel CaliforniaThe decision made in Episode 1 leads Ryan to the strangest place he has ever been to--and makes him question his choice. It could be heaven, it could be hell, or it could be anything in-between.EDEN CAN WAITA young Boston reporter Ryan West finds himself in a strange world of a mysterious scientific experiment conducted by a secretive organization. Hired to play an odd character 24x7, Ryan doesn’t know that he is about to discover one of the most daring experiments ever conducted—and the chilling truth behind it.

The second volume of A Hundred Thoughts, this is a collection of notes and phrases written here and there, in between voices and images in my head, among lost moments and undefined events, in the here and now.The second volume of A Hundred Thoughts, this is a collection of notes and phrases written here and there, in between voices and images in my head, among lost moments and undefined events, in the here and now. Jump in if you want to get lost in a mess words that may resonate the deepest rhythms of your heard and the unseen thoughts of your mind. It doesn't always have to make sense, as long as it makes you feel something deep down inside.

From the author of Voice of the Blood comes a terrifyingly funny new tale of Michael Squire, twenty-three, nerdy as hell, and losing his mind in the face of a hilariously hostile world. Fortunately he's got his favorite Eighties music close at hand...Meet Squire. He's your average music-obsessed twenty-three-year-old Portlander, juggling a job as an internet support technician, an indie comics gig, and a long-simmering crush on his best friend, Lise. He smokes too much weed, drinks too many cocktails, and watches too much Star Trek. And when his co-workers, baristas, and friends begin to turn on him one by one, his good-natured paranoia expands into a chilling, terrifying certainty about the end of the world. A darkly comic novel about a young man who slowly but surely loses his grip on reality, but never on his taste in music.

Tor Maddox's first summer job offers minimum wage and lousy hours. Who knew saving lives could be one of the benefits? This short prequel story by the internationally best-selling author of Pretty Girl-13 will introduce readers to Tor Maddox, a heroine for our times. Tor's adventures continue in the full-length novels TM1: Unleashed, TM2: Embedded, and TM3: Mistaken. Includes bonus material.Tor Maddox's first summer job offers minimum wage and lousy hours. Who knew saving lives could be one of the benefits?This short prequel story by the internationally best-selling author of Pretty Girl-13 will introduce readers to Tor Maddox, a heroine for our times. Tor's adventures continue in the full-length novels TM1: Unleashed, TM2: Embedded, and TM3: Mistaken. Includes bonus material from the series.

Dr. Tatum and Seth begin their journey to Three Rivers, California, only to find themselves stranded in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Crush and Pound have not returned from their adventure at Scalus Mountain, and with the reluctant help of an agent of the nemesis organization, STUN, Dr. Tatum and Seth must find a way to survive the deadly wilderness of western California.When best friends Valerie and Samantha discover a magic mirror in Val’s 100-year-old barn in southern Minnesota, they eagerly go through it. Immediately they run into the young Snow White, who has just escaped the huntsman. The girls vow to help her find her father, knowing the dangers that await. On their journey, the fun-loving double-trouble duo quickly discovers they are caught up in the middle of their favorite fairy tales. Having the knowledge of the stories as their only weapon, Val and Sam help two other princesses, make a surprising friend and discover they have a fairy godmother of their very own.

A moving love story with elements of sci-fi and humor and an epigraph from Nietzsche. A meditation on time and timelessness, memory and forgetting. A drama of an immortal man falling for a mortal woman. Read it if you want to learn what it is like to be immortal living amidst mortals, and whether love can truly be eternal in a world where everything is transient and fleeting...A moving love story with elements of sci-fi and humor and an epigraph from Nietzsche. A meditation on time and timelessness, memory and forgetting. A drama of an immortal man falling for a mortal woman. Read it if you want to learn what it is like to be immortal living amidst mortals and whether love can truly be eternal in the world where everything is transient and fleeting...A beautiful young woman in a university town meets a man at a bus stop. She doesn't realize that he is much older than he looks, because he doesn't age. A whirlwind romance follows, and they settle in a small single-story house, their future home of many decades and the only house she will ever own. Eventually the man moves to New York City and resurrects her in his memory in a truly astonishing way.The author created a web site dedicated to this story, eternallove.love, with a few extras including a detailed floor plan and furniture layout of the dwelling of its heroes.

Ud was a human who died many thousands of years ago. And now, he is the only being he knows of to climb up all of the worlds of the Way Down to the top layer of reality and turn from a Ghoul into a mortal again. His first encounter with the humans at the top of the Worlds didn't go as planned, but he has vital news for his (now) fellow mortals.Ud was once a man, but then he died and then tumbled down the lower dead realms called the Way Down, until he ended up as a skeleton creature in Fourth World, three layers beneath ours. He became a wight (skeleton) slave to the ruling elite there, known to Ud as the Ereshkagali, from his name for the god of the underworld when he was a human in the far past.Over the course of millennia, he achieved what no one else had ever done, climbing from the bone dust lands of Fourth World, up to the Ghast swamps of Third World, through the Ghoul forests of Second World, and finally up to First World, the world of mortals.And, after his initial elation at being able to feel as he once did the wates and clean air, free of rot and parasites the size of dogs passed, he began to realize a few truths.-His mind was now in four parts, one for Ud the Wight (skeleton), Ud the Ghast, Ud the Ghoul and the newly minted Ud the Mortal.-Fragmented memories meant that he only remembered pieces of his selves at a time.-One of those fragments of memory brings with it a warning that all mortals should fear regarding the future of the Way Down.**Note-It's worth pointing out that the words and backstory of Ud when he was alive are related to a people that really existed, as well as a real language.

This Book which has 50 differently titled Poems , is actually volume 3 of the Book titled - 1 God ( 522 pages ) .A ramification of the innumerable Omnipotent fragrances of life that I , Nikhil Parekh , have smelt by the grace of God - I'm grateful to him for enlightening me about his chapters of invincible creation and considering me worthy enough to describe his unparalleled splendor , in a few words and in the shape of this book . A salient tribute to his undefeated power . The compilation of poems depicts the Omniscient Creator in his infinite unconquerable shapes and forms . Goes to irrefutably prove that there is just one Creator , you choose to call him by whatever name - and for everyone one of us till the time we live . This book is a perpetual dedication to Almighty Lord . It quintessentially portrays the splendor of the Almighty Creator in his infinite forms . Goes to victoriously prove at every step , that no matter how hard the devil tries to annihilate the planet - an inconspicuous tap of the Lord's finger makes him crumble to his very last non - existent frigid roots . Poems depicting the ' Omnipotent ' glory of the Creator in an infinite forms that the poet could ever conceive . Natural and uninhibited outpourings of the heart these poems transport the reader into a world of spirituality and magnificence of Godhead . Every poetic piece shows Parekh's unparalleled love for the Almighty and immortalizes the Omnipresent aura of the Lord in a boundless ways and shapes . This spiritually enriched compendium of poems is for all those who've timelessly admired the miraculous prowesses and powers of God at each stage of their lives . Those who've lived each instant of their lives worshipping his Omniscient grace irrespective of the most murderous hell descending around . The poetic imagery brilliantly transcends over every inhibition of caste , creed , color and religion and goes to perpetually prove that all living beings are one and blessed in his fathomless sacrosanct light of truth . The poems depict Parekh's oneness in mind , body and spirit with the Creator .

The first English]'language biography of Astrid Lindgren provides a moving and revealing portrait of the beloved Scandinavian literary icon whose adventures of Pippi Longstocking have influenced generations of young readers all over the world. Lindgren's sometimes turbulent life as an unwed teenage mother, outspoken advocate for the rights of women and children, and celebrated editor and author is chronicled in fascinating detail by Jens Andersen, one of Denmark's most popular biographers. Based on extensive research and access to primary sources and letters, this highly readable account describes Lindgren's battles with depression and her personal struggles through war, poverty, motherhood, and fame. Andersen examines the writer's oeuvre as well to uncover the secrets to the books' universal appeal and why they have resonated so strongly with young readers for more than seventy years.