Some non-traditional poems for people in newly in love, still in love, or about to marry.

Win Szczedziwoj, a man known for photographing subjects in the rain, is on a vacation. Just him, his camera, his canoe, and a small, dark lake well away from civilization.That solitude comes to an end when his fishing line drags up a body from the lake. It looks like the usual canoeing accident, but the police suspect murder, and Win is suspect number one (I mean, what are the chances of actually snagging a body with a fishing line?)But Win wants to know why the dead guy was ...

Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it: and Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.Inspector Ian McFergus had not been satisfied; not in the least satisfied. He had inspected Marley's body using all the due processes and checklists upon which the polic...

Did you ever want to write a novel, or even a novella, but the generation of a viable plot and the creation of characters and motives seem like an insurmountable task? Well, this little set of instructions can be an invaluable start. It analyzes the basics of Agatha Christie's novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (her first Hercule Poirot novel, which now in public domain), and shows how you and amend, tweak, or change her characters, her overall plot, and the basic plot twist to create ...

"Things as they are," said poet Wallace Stevens in a poem called, "The Man With the Blue Guitar" (1937), "are changed upon the blue guitar." This is a book of changes. Changes to life, love, and our universe. Changes in war, religion, and truth. And in every one, a blue guitar is present, for the blue guitar is the symbol of changes. Good changes, bad changes, and just changes. Written in rhyme, the short poems in this book inspire both thought and laughter.

After uncounted decades of writing poems, Lenny has sifted out his ten best short ones, so that readers won't have to spend more than fifteen minutes reading them.

In 2005 and 2006 the author made and set up seven different temples dedicated to Bill Gates.These were erected at various places in southern Ontario, and each was devoted to a different aspect of the way computers have changed our lives.

Great if you're getting tired of telling people what you had for lunch and want to send something more profound. There are 193 limericks here, many adapted from famous and thought-provoking ideas and quotations. Others; not so much.

Here are eighteen odd poems about canoeing, including Jesus in a canoe and how, at a campfire at night, the trees seem to touch the stars.

This little guide tells you how colons and semicolons can be used and abused. It notes that "nobody's going to hang you for a comma splice." But it does drift into the part where the rules wander into that dark borderland between logic and outright silliness. And it includes a picture from a plastic privy in Maine.

Amundi, jester to Denmark's King Claudius, has a slew of problems. Just when tensions at their maximum because of an imminent threat of invasion by Norwegians, Prince Hamlet returns to Elsinore Castle, more than a little upset that his mother has married her brother-in-law. It's a rough time to be a jester. Worse yet, Amundi has his own problems, particularly a love affair that seems certain to land him in the torture room. In spite of that, he does his best to stay alive in a milieu in wh...

This is a basic guide to current proposals for reversing global warming and climate change using technology.It does not deal with reducing your carbon footprint or the consequences of global warming. Rather, it concentrates on ideas such as solar radiation management schemes and carbon sequestering.Both the benefits can hazards of each scheme are described.Updated to August of 2012.