A collection of four short pieces about what it was to be a woman. Not as in gender bending -- but as in life horrors. Told from different stages of life we are allowed to shadow She.

Weddings and Funerals is an exploration into the life of a young female from the South. It is set in the past and all of the chapters represent fragments of memories. These memories provide insight into what life is like for our heroine Maggie. She is unconventional and traditional when she needs to be for the sake of her family. Each chapter of Weddings and Funerals is told from a different point of view that offers a different perspective on what is wrong and what is right in Maggie's li...

This is a retelling of the folktale La Llorona. in this version one horrible evening a desperate mother murders a child so that her dead daughter may cross over to the other side. This telling also includes a traditional version in which a mother kills her children to take revenge on her cheating husband. I heard this story frequently as a young child and there are many versions ... all frightening and all meant to keep children away from the rivers at night.

A young girl lives in fear of her abusive father....A powerful short tale. Based on a true story.

The party has suffered crushing losses attempting to flee the Ironblood Kingdom. Kuzaku was cut down by Jumbo, and Setora was feasted upon by the orc’s great black eagle. No one had the power to prevent it. No one except the No-Life King, who has been sleeping inside of Merry. And with his awakening comes great upheaval.Now, the sekaishu has overrun Grimgar, eating away at the world. In this chaotic situation, the Frontier Army, the volunteer soldiers, the various races that populat...

When he returns to Texas from overseas, U.S. Marine Carter Wallace makes good on a promise. To tell a fallen soldier's wife that her husband loved her. But widowed Savannah Blackmore, pregnant and alone, shares a different story with Carter-one that tests everything he believes. He brings Savannah back to the Triple C ranch, where family secrets-and siblings he hadn't known about-await him. Now the marine who never needed anyone suddenly needs Savannah. Will opening his heart be the braves...

When a World’s Fair Guard and the woman doctor assigned to treat him square off in the White City, a storm is brewing…Hunter Scott is one of the elite. An 1893 Chicago World’s Fair guard specifically chosen for his height, physique, character, and ability to serve and protect. When he is overcome with debilitating abdominal pain, Hunter stumbles to the Fair’s infirmary only to discover the doctor is female—who ever heard of a female doctor? But even worse, she has ...

With nowhere to turn, penniless widow Grace Yoder travels with her young son to the Amish community of Seven Poplars. She hopes to reunite with the Plain father she never knew-and become part of the community. Though her father is deceased, his new family still welcomes her. Grace is overcome with gratitude. But when handsome family friend and Mennonite John Hartman offers her a job in his veterinarian office, Grace discovers a beautiful bridge between the two worlds. And prays John will a...

Rule Number One: Never date the boss.Given Alexa’s crash and burn history with office romances, it should be an easy rule to follow. Then again, her rules have never gone up against Cash Campbell.Her charming CEO boss has a way of looking at her that makes her feel as though she’s the center of his universe, and their constant flirting increases the heat whenever their eyes meet. His attention makes for an addictive, yet tricky situation.Bu...

From the Pulitzer Prize and T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry winner comes a beautifully realized collection of poems about childhood, love, marriage, children, and honoring the dead.Larry Lewis say, “The Dead and the Living is an unignorable book, something truly rare. The feeling behind it is painful, but exquisitely so. Pain made into art or what, in another time, people called ‘beauty.’” It is an achievement of a poet writing in the full measure of her powers.

『──秀吉が最も怖れた人物は言うまでもなく家康だ。その貫禄は天下万人の認めるところ、天下万人以上に秀吉自身が認めていたが、その次に黒田如水を怖れていた。──』　2014年大河ドラマの主人公「黒田官兵衛」　その官兵衛を、昭和の文豪「坂口安吾」が描きあげた傑作、「二流の人」。　官兵衛の主人、豊臣秀吉。　天下の恋敵、徳川家康。　明日の老練家、石田三成。　黒田如水（官兵衛）と、その時代を生きた男たちを描く時代小説。『──如水は律義であるけれども、天衣無縫の律義でなかった。律義という天然の砦がなければ支えることの不可能な身に余る野望の化け者だ。──』　戦国時代の終焉から、江戸時代の幕開けまで、如水の戦いに生きた、天下を傍目に見ていた時間を感じられる作品。　史実と言われる官兵衛と、安吾が描く如水、あなたはどちらを信じますか。坂口安吾：1931年に発表した、「風博士」で注目を集める。戦後、評論「堕落論」を発表し、時代の寵児となる。無頼派（...