If alarms didn’t exist, I’m afraid I would never wake up.Performance captures moments of despair, insecurity, and wisdom through poems, songs, and drawings. In her debut collection, Jul pulls back the curtain and invites the reader on her path of growth, sharing intimate experiences of grief, jealousy, anger, and heartbreak. Inside these pages, readers will delve into how we all put on a performance when we feel like we can’t act as our most authentic selves, highlighting ...

If alarms didn't exist, I'm afraid I would never wake up.Performance captures moments of despair, insecurity, and wisdom through poems, songs, and drawings. In her debut collection, Jul pulls back the curtain and invites the reader on her path of growth, sharing intimate experiences of grief, jealousy, anger, and heartbreak. Inside these pages, readers will delve into how we all put on a performance when we feel like we can't act as our most authentic selves, high...

These stories are short and true. Allow your mind to wrap around each separate story.These are very fast reads, but each story will give you hours of entertainment trying to figure them out.The titles are my best fit, but other explanations may be possible.I would like to do a follow up version of Super Short Stories that contain your short true stories. Stories where a simple explanation does not fit what happened to you. Post your stories in the comment area where...

Arriving in Cattle Gulch, Lucky Luke runs into an unexpected scene: an apparent crackpot called Ovid Byrde is about to get lynched. The man’s revolutionary opinions – animal welfare and the sanctity of life – aren’t particularly well-received in this town full of ranchers and cowboys! After Luke intervenes, though, the locals simply ignore Byrde … until he suddenly finds gold, and a pack of unscrupulous bandits take advantage of the poor idealist to establish a vegetarian dictatorship!

Violent Extremism: A Nordic Outlook illuminates the global issue of violent extremism, with a particular focus on Sweden and the Nordic countries. This concise volume leverages empirical research to uncover the mechanisms and dynamics driving violent extremism, setting itself apart in a field often criticized for a lack of data-driven analysis. The contributors employ unique Nordic data to offer insights on violent extremism, examining its organization, the evolution of extremist ...

Constructive resistance occurs when people start to build the society they desire independently of and in opposition to the dominant structures already in place. Through case studies and illustrative examples from around the world, this book explores how people working for a more just, sustainable and peaceful future combine construction and resistance. The book provides students and practitioners of resistance with tools to detect, critically discuss and evaluate cases of constructive res...

"Ukrainian Woman in the USA with a Mission: From Tragedies and War to Millions of Hearts" is an honest and profound story of a young woman who went from a small Ukrainian town to a new life in America, where her voice has become a source of strength for hundreds of thousands of people.This book contains no made-up plots or fairy tales. It's reality: a childhood in a post-Soviet country, the first steps toward a dream, failures and victories, war, moving abroad, losing loved ones, a...

Travelling to the northern state of Wisconsin, Lucky Luke finds a population deeply depressed by a beer shortage that has caused all saloons in the area to close. Desperate, the inhabitants of New München beg Luke to talk to the brewers of Milwaukee. But the cause of the shortage is a strike, and the cowboy is more used to chasing outlaws in the Great Plains than to forcing negotiations between unions and bosses in a city where the first skyscrapers are already sprouting …

A lost soul embarks on a transformative quest—facing fears, embracing vulnerability, and unlocking inner strength. Through poetic wisdom and raw encounters, this inspirational tale reveals that true confidence isn't found in the world, but in the quiet courage of self-acceptance. A luminous call to rise.

Alive AgainI remember my last birth life. I remember America, Terra and her wonders.I do not remember anything after that death, or after these last twenty deaths.And yet I remember the lives.The memories are not present, just like in a normal life; memories grow dim and fade away.And yet, it seems I can fairly easily recall a memory that I need, it doesn’t seem to matter if the memory is from ten years ago or 5,000 years ago.With each of my ...

"Turning Doubt Into Destiny" follows Lila Voss, a self-sabotaging architect who discovers a cryptic manuscript, The 7 Mental Locks, promising to rewrite destiny. Guided by the enigmatic Professor Crane, she undergoes brutal psychological trials—confronting perfectionism, buried trauma, and corporate exploitation. As Lila unlocks each mental prison, she uncovers a dark truth about her past and must choose: remain shackled by fear or embrace a future of radical freedom. A transformative jour...

I am not in a good mood.This mutilated body I walked into is a trial to live in. Morg watches me constantly for the brains to slip.His constant surveillance doesn’t help my confidence any.And then there is this working in the labs…Surrounded by sec intel… They make my skin crawl.When Loran had presented her plan to me I was all for it.What could be simpler?Just tell my story through data back transfer.Do NOT say time travel…th...