Maybe I was too young to understand love, and that's ok.I just didn't know how to express how broken I was.I couldnt cry, it suffocated things even more.I was just a shattered girl. Deprived of love, Begging for more...... --. -..- -... --- -

[Re]Awakenings are the starting points for life-changing experiences; a new plane of existence, an alternate reality or cyber-reality. This genre-spanning anthology of new speculative fiction explores that theme with a spectrum of tales, from science fiction to fantasy to paranormal; in styles from clinically serious to joyfully silly. As you read through them all, and you must read all of them, you will discover along the way that stereo-typical distinctions between the genres within spec...

Science fiction loves strangeness. It relishes oddities, even when it piles on fear and dystopian loathing. The technical term for a fascination with the strange and alien is xenophilia, just as the term for a terror of the strange is xenophobia. At its core, then, science fiction is...Xeno Fiction. So science fiction seeks out the strange, roams far from home in space and time, looks with avid eagerness upon the ways of the Others, human or alien. It participates, in brilliantly lighted i...

This book is made up of twenty-three stories, each from a different author from across the globe. All belong to one world, united in their diversity and ethnicity. And together they have one aim: to involve and move the reader.The range of authors takes in such literary greats as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Jhumpa Lahiri, and emerging authors such as Elaine Chiew, Petina Gappah, and Henrietta Rose-Innes.The members of the collective are:Elaine Chiew (Malaysia)

Communication is key. This is the number one rule of all relationships. For Abbie and Ryder, this key unlocks many doors that should have stayed locked. Breaking Free is a tale of love and pain, woven together through the use of short interludes and free verse poetry.

Riley has to do something. He can't sit by any longer. He's in a car, he has a gun. He can't believe what he's about to do.He must take action, despite the cost. He must do it...it's right, and she's worth it.

In Vigil: Notes from a Hospice Life, A.J. Land reflects upon her work as a hospice social worker, caring for people who are ill and dying. This is the type of daily work that fosters endless introspection and floods of emotions. Poetry is the form that allows these very human realities to find voice and shape. At once personal and poignant, Vigil recognizes the universal nature of death and loss; A.J. Land hopes to provide words of comfort for others at the time they just...

Poetry is emotion at it's rawest. When it's first felt, that jolt in your back when you love, lose and are betrayed. Through the Eyes of a Teenager is just a glimpse of what was and what has made me.

Strength is a thing we are made of We women carry it on our shoulders And in our minds. The struggle comes in never wanting to quit Never giving up envelops the strength Holding us together. I am STRENGTH I am HEART We are STRONG We play our part. --from I Am, I Have

In Idiom Language: This book is a drop in the bucket when it comes to idioms. I got down to brass tacks when writing this book. I was hoping to give you field day and make you crack up. So lend me your ear to read something doozy. Make no bones about the method to my madness. Its time to read all the mumbo jumbo. In Plain English: This book is a very small part when it comes to idioms. I became serious about writing this book. I was hoping to give you an enjoyable day and to make you laugh. S...

These writings are from a young woman who has had to face obsticles no person should have to. She has put her feelings into her writings for people going through similar experiences. Silent War gives readers an insight into Haleys life and and what she has been through. Pieces about teenage love, heartbreak, medical journeys, losing someone and much more these writings are all from the heart.

mudpits & saviours was written with one thought in mind: we are all in need of a saviour. Deep down, you know it and I know it. We all need help sometimes. When it feels like we’re stuck in the mud-pit of life with no hope of ever getting out, when there’s nowhere else to turn and we feel like we’re surrounded and sunk in the mud-pits of life, there is help. Whatever your ‘mud-pit’ is, whether it’s a bad week at work, a destructive lifestyle that has surrounded you, a bad attitude that...