Shattered at the Gate is a raw and unflinching work of creative nonfiction that traces the moment a life fractures and the long, disorienting aftermath that follows.What begins as a long anticipated trip overseas turns into a cascade of quiet warnings, bureaucratic cruelty, and sudden abandonment. At a foreign airport, the author is forced through customs alone when her partner is detained without explanation. Disoriented, exhausted, and emotionally unraveling, she is push...

My brother Peter killed himself on May 13th, 2010 sometime between noon and 5pm. My world lurched on its axis and will never recover.There is nothing I can do to bring Peter back home to us, but I can tell you that if you are worried about a loved one or a friend, you need to intervene and help lead your loved one to some relief. Do not worry about "butting in" or being "nosey". Get them to a doctor for a diagnosis. Walk with them. Call them. Follow up on whether they are taking th...

I like to be high performance. I like to create new things, work hard and see the results. The journey on the road can, however, be quite rough. It looks like, my brain ghosts want to take over. My conscious doesn't always want to give me cred for the results. I usually get thoughts that now I was lucky or soon my colleague will discover the bluff. What I have accomplished is not my merit. What if it's true?

When a man receives a seemingly innocuous painting from a recently deceased colleague, he finds himself being pulled inexorably down into the dark depths of insanity.

A group of good friends become increasingly worried when one of them becomes terribly sick from a dangerous virus. Although there is nothing the friends can do now she's got it, the worrying fact is, will it spread? Also if that wasn't problem enough, that lowly trickster p is wanting to know what's going on as well! As if it's any of his business!

As a young girl, Deborah Jiang-Stein discovered a shattering secret—she was born in prison and her birth mother, a heroin addict, kept her inside for the first year of her life. This book is the story of how Jiang-Stein came to terms with these traumatic facts and eventually began to dedicate herself to working with women in prisons. By enabling readers to hear the voices of the women she met, she hopes to “shed light on a universal truth: that if we look at someone long enough, we discove...

Lose me is a poetry book about a toxic relationship written by Melissa Da Silva.Good read for fans of RH.Sin, Rupi Kaur and Atticus.

About This Book: Studying shadow men causes them to appear. Writing about them does, too. Some creepy things have happened to me since I first decided to publish about shadow men. They're not happy that I wrote about them. Here's my story explaining.About this series: This is not just a horror novel or a true life story, it's also a game. I wanted to write out my real life supernatural experiences, but I also wanted to remain anonymous, so I disguise my identity b...

After 35 in the Program of Alcoholics Anonymous, I am still in awe of the miracles I see. People who are so messed up when they first come into this program and totally change into a rational, even thinking human beings. This happens not by just going to meetings, that won't do it. It is only by fully immersing yourself into the 12 Steps that an incredible metamorphosis happens.Trembling despairing people turn into people you would be pleased to know. Even to call them a friend, wh...

After 35 in the Program of Alcoholics Anonymous, I am still in awe of the miracles I see. People who are so messed up when they first come into this program and totally change into a rational, even thinking human beings. This happens not by just going to meetings, that won't do it. It is only by fully immersing yourself into the 12 Steps that an incredible metamorphosis happens.Trembling despairing people turn into people you would be pleased to know. Even to call them a friend, wh...

Clouded by the highs of falling in love or the lows of being alone, these moments in life are so intense it becomes near impossible to appreciate or explore the beauty and romance in even the most tragic of events. Kyle Stockill stepped back from such moments to reflect upon them and add them to this collection. Whether it be love lost or found, moments of passion and regret, a persons internal conflict, or the desire to self-destruct, each poem is written in such vivid detail it pulls you...

This is purposely written to bring joy and understand to every lady. It is written such that we might be able to find a way of attracting our men and also make him stay.The popular saying is that when you educate a woman, you have change a generation and such it is written to enlighten every lady in other for us to enjoy our relationship.