This book contains dark abstract poetry. It deals with emotions like pain, hurt, grief, hope, trust etc.This book contains assorted poems in various writing styles and techniques. It deals with emotions like pain, hurt, grief, hope, trust etc.The poems vary in topics and themes.

Robbie is the son of a preacher in small-town America in 1899. People are saying that the world's going to end at the turn of the century, so Robbie decides that he'd better make the most of his life and have as much fun as possible. But his outrageous behaviour does little to improve people's opinions of him, or his father.

MRS DANBY’S DESTINY by Liz Wainwright is an astrology themed comedy drama. Original BBC Radio Production was directed by: Marion Nancarrow for BBC Radio 4 Drama ‘Thirty Minute Theatre’ Broadcast November 1993. Running Time: 30m Cast: SUSAN: Pauline Yates, GREG: James Taylor, JULIA: Lynda BaronLiz's Drama Press Reviews'...dry and kindly observation ...with real passion.' The Guardian'... a good ear and understanding.' The Sunday Times'...with sharp characterisation....and a density of emotion...compelling entertainment.' The Stage'...a strong and realistic play.' The Times'... a dryly comic play....' Northern Star'An entertaining play... and a Dahl-like twist' The Independent on Sunday'...poignant depiction of budding friendships...could be appreciated by anyone' Theater Forum (USA)' ..best ... driven by urgent concerns with real people.' The Times Higher Educational Supplement

The Pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, one hundred and eighteen cardinals from all over the globe will cast their votes in the world’s most secretive election. They are holy men. But they have ambition. And they have rivals. Over the next seventy-two hours one of them will become the most powerful spiritual figure on earth.

Harry Potter for grown-ups!Everything you could ask for in Fantasy! Legendary monsters, magic, amazing weapons, a wisecracking gorilla and a dragon. All this and there's still room for a sexy succubus. Buffy fans will love this book!How would you feel about being hired away from a dismal office job, to work for a consortium of elder gods? Declan Aingeal wasn't sure how he felt either. One moment he is toiling away under endless stacks of paperwork and the next he is dealing with an army of killer clones and monsters of legend. It sounds like more than he bargained for, but how could he say no to the perks only gods can provide? Weapons forged by gods, the best sidekicks a guy could ask for and a sexually frustrated car to drive. As long as the girl he has a crush on doesn't eat him, things should work out just fine.Dive into the series that people are calling a Harry Potter series for the older readers.

Although beautiful and successful, Leah can't break from the bondage of her past. A past that has left her sexually and emotionally scarred...Until she begins an affair with Jacob Boyd, a man so powerful and ruthless, his secrets can destroy her. Yet, there is a tenderness in him that has awakened a sensuality in Leah she hadn't realized was there.Jacob...Obsession. How does it start? Is it a trick of the heart to counter hopelessness? I've tried not to want her but I can’t stop myself. She's gotten under my skin; I feel her rushing through my veins like adrenaline. My heart doesn't beat without her on my mind. Her taste, her smile, her eyes, her touch, the way she feels…every inch of her body is engraved in my soul. You can't understand. You don't know what it's like to hunger for someone for so long...then to finally have them this close. It's terrifying.Leah... Although beautiful and successful, Leah can't break from the bondage of her past. A past that has left her sexually and emotionally scarred...Until she begins an affair with Jacob Boyd, a man so powerful and ruthless, his secrets can destroy her. Yet, there is a tenderness in him that has awakened sensuality in Leah she hadn't realized was there. She is the only thing piecing Jacob together. Nothing in him can continue without her. He'll do whatever it takes to keep her.

After living in care most of her life, 15 year-old Jennifer finds herself being easy prey for a local paedophile group. When the police start to investigate potential abuse against Jennifer she doesn’t want to co-operate. However, when she meets Jack, a new carer, she decides to speak out. Not for herself, but for the other girls who have been victims and are too afraid to come forward.Cheap White Meat is the intriguing and very topical story about a police investigation into allegations of sexual abuse against young girls who live in care. 15 year-old Jennifer lives in a specialist care home for teenagers with mental health issues and at the start of the novel she refuses to communicate with anyone in authority. However, when she is introduced to Jack, a new carer, she slowly opens up to reveal the abuse that she’s been subjected to and agrees to tell her story in order to help create awareness about the situation which has been happening to numerous girls undetected for years.Even though Jennifer opens up and starts co-operating with the police, she soon finds out that perhaps the police and social workers are trying to cover up the fact that Jennifer, and other girls, have been abused by a particular type of men in the interests of political correctness. This becomes more apparent when it is revealed that Jack is close friends with another girl, Lucy, who was abused by the same gang and has links to a notorious far-right protest group. Lucy first reported her allegations two years earlier, but her case was dropped. The official reason given by the police was that they felt a jury wouldn’t have seen Lucy as a credible witness, however, Jack, and others, feel that the case was dropped as part of a cover-up because the police didn’t want to risk breaking political correctness and exposing the activities of a particular community.Despite the obstacles in place, Jennifer insists that she wants to tell her story to create awareness about what a group of men have been allowed to get away with and to make sure that justice is brought against the men who abused her. When Jennifer is introduced to a new Key Worker, Sandra, she finally starts to turn her mental state around. Jennifer’s condition improves so much that she resumes contact with her mum shortly after her 16th birthday.Jennifer’s mum is the reason why she’s had to live care for the past seven years as she has been serving a prison sentence for the manslaughter of her ex-partner’s, a policeman, daughter. Without any other family available to care for her, Jennifer has found herself passed between various foster carers and children’s home, slowly getting lost in the system.Even though she should have been under 24 hour supervision, Jennifer was still able to leave her home for up to 12 hours at a time without her Key Worker knowing where she was and who she was spending her time with. It was during this time that Jennifer met Adam, a man who worked as a delivery driver for a takeaway that she spent a lot of her time at. Adam befriended Jennifer and over time their relationship became sexual. Once he had managed to gain her trust, Adam introduced Jennifer to some of his friends who she also had a sexual relationship with, this time for money.Like many victims of rape, initially Jennifer thinks that she is to blame for being abused. It is only when other people help her understand what has been going on that she changes her stance towards Adam and sees what he’s done to her. It is because of this understanding that Jennifer is able to rebuild her relationship with her mum who has just been released from prison. Therefore, as the trial starts, Jennifer is on the verge of enrolling in a college and moving in with her mum.

The Boxcar children decide to help restore a historic firehouse when the town council starts thinking about demolishing it. Soon enough they realize that someone is hindering their efforts.

Set in the near future, police technician Ethan Pollard crosses paths with a beautiful Human Analog Bio-robotic. She’s on the run and has a head full of fragmented memories of a life she’s never lived. Only H.A.Bs don’t run away and they certainly don’t have some stranger’s memories.A Sci-Fi short story that presents an open-ended dilemma.Set in the near future, police technician Ethan Pollard crosses paths with a beautiful Human Analog Bio-robotic. She’s on the run and has a head full of fragmented memories of a life she’s never lived. Only H.A.Bs don’t run away and they certainly don’t have some stranger’s memories."Sarah" is about 7,300 words and is more about raising ethical questions than answering them. I’d call it PG-13.

There is a lot of hay in this collection of short stories, hay to cut,rake, bale, store and feed. And there is a lot of rusted machinery sitting in sheds and barns. But these bittersweet stories are about the people who are largely overlooked, people living with powerful memories,illness, telling their stories, discovering some small revelation about the meaning of existence and their own lives.A former hospice and hospital chaplain and pastor or rural congregations, Brian Backstrand has witnessed first hand some of the slow unraveling of the social and economic fabric of small town and rural America. He and his wife, Marilee, spent the first year of their married life in rural eastern Kansas in the 1960s. Twenty years later, after spending some time in Alaska and New Hampshire, their family settled in the ridge and valley region of western Wisconsin where they currently farm. Coming out of a parsonage in a small town in Kansas one day, and looking at a neighbor, a man in his eighties, half under his jacked up Pontiac fixing the brakes, Backstrand remembers thinking “who will remember him and the rest of these people? Who is going to remember that they were ever here?” Memories, healing, distruptive, nurturing, sometimes denied, play an important role in the stories collected here. Backstrand’s intention is to lift up ordinary people from rural contexts and place them squarely before his contempory and often urban readers. The stories in Little Bluestem come as an invitation, asking its readers to get to know and remember their rural counterparts.

Tempus Fugit is an independent investigator who finds himself attending to the masses in a remote English village.They want proof of spectral hauntings in the remains of a historical stately manor. He wants to rain the light of reason and rationale upon them.Ultimately the answer may be something altogether unexpected!Tempus Fugit is an independent investigator of curious conundrums who was attempting to navigate his way through the 21st century, only to find himself attending to the fears and uncertainties in the remote English village of Greyfield.What they wanted was proof of spectral hauntings in the remains of a historical stately manor. What he sought was to rain the light of reason and rationale upon their panicked senses.The answer, however, may be neither of the two and something altogether unexpected!

A retired Enchanter battles a powerful magician to keep a dangerous spell book from falling into the wrong hands.A charm hidden in a shipping box brings Tredan’s disgraceful past to his door.Retired Enchanter Tredan and his wife Lanith, magical curio merchants in the seaside town of Isor, have been model citizens for years. But Tredan has harbored a terrible secret. As the victim of a Church-induced spell, he created a journal with spells to enslave the Enchanters’ magical essence to the Church.Enchanters generate the essence powering everything in Tredan’s world. The Church has long resented the Enchanters’ exclusive control over essence. The head Church magician, His Divine, is determined to acquire Tredan’s journal and take the Enchanters’ power for his own.With Lanith out on an errand for the morning, Tredan opens the box containing an Enforcer’s compulsion charm. This Church magician will stop at nothing to collect Tredan’s journal for His Divine. The ensnared Tredan must battle the Enforcer’s superior magic and keep the journal safe. Tredan must also find a way, even if he must enlist the help of the dead, to warn an unsuspecting Lanith before she returns home and falls prey to His Divine’s wrath.Wrath, Prequel to Tredan's Bane -- Honorable Mention Winner, Fiction-Short Story Category, 2014 Readers' Favorite International Book Award Contest

Jordan wants to be a professional mountain climber—have an agent, be sponsored, maybe even get on the New York Times best climber’s list. But from where he is, the top seems a long way off. After many falls he’s all but ready to give up until he meets a mentor who, if she doesn’t kill him, just might help him see there’s more than one way to reach the cloudsJordan has a dream, he wants to be a professional mountain climber—have an agent, be sponsored by one of the big climbing houses; maybe even get on the New York Times best climber’s list. But from where he is, the top seems a long way off. Heck, on most days, through the mist and snow and fog, he can’t even see it. After years of trying, and many bad falls, he’s all but ready to give it up for good until he meets a mentor who, if she doesn’t kill him, just might help him to see that there’s more than one way to reach the clouds. Through a fictional climb, author, Robert F Thompson, buckles hasps, cinches loops, and splices lines up the side of a mountain called the big dream. A metaphor for the climb every dreamer faces, and every adventurer dares. Robert’s first novel was published in 2001.

Real love story with the Indian family values a story of two friends and their lives and the role of loveReal love story with the Indian family values a story of two friends and their lives and the role of love which changes them

On Christmas Eve, two strangers, fit only for one another's company, meet in a bar. A chance meeting? Maybe not. But one thing's for certain. They both need someone to help them make it through the night.There were days of sorrow were my Bianca would evaporate to fade for days. The voids she left entrapped my broken heart, when misery and distress would try to fill those spaces around. Our later blend and bond would then fade the sufferings of the past and bring joys of the present… dreams of the future.

Everyone wants to find it?a treasure so rich it makes even a hard-boiled detective like Garrett nervous. It's the legendary Book of Shadows, made of brass and holding secrets no mortal was ever meant to master?and Garrett must make sure no one ever has the chance to work its spells on an unsuspecting and unprotected world.

This is a collection of easy to read story poems that weave tales of fantasy, war and humor.For years, hundreds of alien vessels hover over major population centres about the globe. Eventually these "Godships" become objects of worship.There are no lifeforms on board; the ships are sentient automatons.When they leave, they abduct several humans, including Gordon Blend.Gordon describes their journeys through the galaxy, debates the purpose of the Godships and the role, if any, of God.Eventually, they return to planet Earth. Because of space-time anomalies and time dilation, the planet has changed dramatically.

It's just the introduction to Vengeance & Remission. If you wish to read more, please buy the complete book.Every year, magic counselor Mr. Kent dreads the inventory of his enchanted objects. While he loves playing with the hula hoop that can turn back time and the jump rope that makes you invisible, the item in Cabinet 11 always escapes, and this time, it will be during school hours! It will take the teamwork of the Troubled Tweens to help Mr. Kent get the magical mayhem returned to its cabinet in his colorful Wall of Wonders.This 4000-word story from the world of the Troubled Tweens is the perfect introduction to D.D. Roy's book series that begins with Jinnie Wishmaker and continues with Marcus Mender.**Includes the first chapter to Jinnie Wishmaker and Marcus Mender.**

[Updated] Along with certain friends and family, Brody and Kate strive to move forward with their lives. Likewise, a few specific fae have progressive plans as well, and are sure to cause disruption. As a war party assembles to invade - unknowingly under the guise of righteousness - Brody and his loved ones struggle to understand the storm coming their way.[Updated version - dialogue revisions made, spacing and syntax modified] Along with certain friends and family, Brody and Kate strive to move forward with their lives. Likewise, a few specific fae have progressive plans as well, and are sure to cause disruption - violence is sworn against the 'rebellious' Other Crowd that holds Ballaghadaere dear. As a war party assembles to invade - unknowingly under the guise of righteousness - Brody and his loved ones struggle to understand the storm coming their way.

Tess Mercury and her posse are the best damn bounty hunters in the west. This is the story of how Lightning Hazel Harley with her arsenal of death rays, stun guns, incendiary devices, explosives and irradiated lizard spit joined the gang and helped them capture the infamous Chicago loan shark, Rudy the Roll Ricone.Jackson never thought buying a yacht could be so dangerous. A deadly attack at sea leaves Jackson wet and bewildered, fighting for his life.

Christian devotional poems without (I hope) any taint of religion....Starfire lives in a wold where dragons and dragonriders are everywhere. She ran away from home when she was little, due to bad living situations and she lost her dragon when she was nine. She was then cursed for eternity. And then a boy shows up, and he appears to be her dragonrider. She doesn't even know if that's possible, because of the fact that she used to be human. Ride along over the clouds with Starfire as she tries to reverse the curse, running through labyrinths to get to the cure.. . .