DAAN! is a collection of unpretentious poems about everyday life, love, and loss. About mental health, nature, cats, and much more.It shows the joys, the pain, the struggles, and the victories of a chronically ill wheelchair user.DAAN! shows us that poetry does not have to be stuffy, but can be anything from whimsical and vibrant to sad and profound.Whether it's free verse, a ghazal, pantoum, or triolet, an American cinquain, four and twenty, Keroua...

Night Song is a collection of 46 fantasy cinquins about gods, prophecies, and curses. About heroes, thieves, dragons, and other fantastical creatures. Love, sickness, death, and grief. And many other themes that are as relevant to real life as they are to fiction.First in the series Songs of Redemption.Companion to Night's Reign, Book One of Curse of the Fathers.

A floundering priest. A woman in a wheelchair. An ancient curse.On the run from a cursed king and his army of assassins, priest Niels Bosch seeks sanctuary in rural Briscona. What he gets is a barrage of intimate and unsettling questions from his new cantor, Beldenka Nadinov. Questions he can't risk answering.Accompanied by his friend and bodyguard Mikhandor, and Bel's protector Leks, the pair set out to challenge the mad king. But Bel has a dark secret of ...

"They tortured and humiliated me. They took my identity and everything I loved, and left me for dead at the gates of the Curridge Fermentry Enclave."In a world ruled by crime and political scheming, morality is a luxury for the weak. Nobody understands this truth better than Lord Torvik Kovkatim, grandson of the fearsome King Yilva Peronin.As a royal assassin, he takes pride in upholding the monarchy's ideals and protecting its citizens. But when he is ordered to t...

She was a grandmother. Now she's young again. And she hates it.Her last day at work ended in disaster, she missed her husband's most important concert of the year, and if that wasn't bad enough, now Alysia is stuck on a foreign World called Fer. A world where technology hasn't evolved past the 19th century, and people still believe in magic.Desperate to find her way back home, she ends up on a wild-goose chase to yet other worlds, where she discovers uncomf...

Lunch in Soho with a former lover - but Zanzotti's is under new management, and as the wine takes effect fond memories give way to something closer to the bone. A mock-elegy for the heady joys of old-time Soho, The Song of Lunch displays the full range of Christopher Reid's wit, craft and human sympathy.

"The Desecrator" is an original short story from the Draegaran Empire, by bestselling author Stephen Brust. This is a tale of the Hawklord Daymar, and of a particular Morganti blade. Vlad Taltos fans will enjoy new insight into Stephen Brust's fantasy series.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

"... [Annie Hwang's] poetry sings for every aching soul....talks about every loving heart....Speaks of the unflinching reality of life....Cries for the dreams that we all are craving for....." -Munia Khan

20 poems of lesbian love. I wrote these when I first came out for my then girlfriend.

A rabbi raises a terrifying ancient creature -- the golem -- to protect his congregation, but the results are far bloodier than he could ever have imagined. Now, Jaz and Vayl, the CIA's top assassins, must hunt down the golem and end its reign of terror. The events of this short story take place between Biting the Bullet and Bitten to Death, books 3 and 4 of the Jaz Parks series.

A finalist in the 2014 Indie Excellence Awards, this is a collection of prose poems on love, loss, longing and yearning, and on dealing with the vagaries of life. It is a small journey from the deepest emotions of love and loss to the sometimes overwhelming realisation of the beauty of life.

25 poems of love dedicated to my then girlfriend Gaynor. These are suitable whether you are straight or gay.