A story of a young girl that had a traumatic childhood, how she was able to over come it and give herself some self worth. The choices and secrets she was forced to keep for her abuser. Forced secrets by: Sabrina Glame

No More Tomorrows is a touching love story of two men—one HIV positive, one HIV negative—and the impact of living and loving in the age of AIDS.After awaking from a restless sleep that has plagued him for weeks, Mark Jones awakes to the realization it is his last physical day on earth. Twenty years after he was diagnosed with the disease that would change the rest of his life, Mark begins to reflect on his love for his HIV negative partner...

Addict Chick: Sex, Drugs & Rock ‘N’ Roll is brutally honest, sexually graphic, and completely real. At 34, Amanda Meredith had it all - A successful career, a home, a child, and everything that should have made her happy. She was also crazy in love; his name was Cage, and their love would become her first addiction—but not her last. Some would say that love destroyed her, but what she let ravage her mind, body, and soul had nothing to do with love and everything to do with a deep-seated ne...

This is a short horror tale. It works upon the psyche of suburban safety. All of us rely upon a certain feeling of certainty and security that can quickly become an illusion. Read on, and beware this House for Sale.

Life is like an airplane that goes really fast. We are only allowed to go forward; we can never turn back. Time makes us old, and love make us sore. Theres a lot of happiness in our lives, but theres also much sorrow. That is life! That is what makes life so wonderful: happiness sometimes, and sadness other times! Some people might think sadness is not a wonderful thing to keep, and thats true. But if we only had happiness without any sadness, our lives wouldnt be that fun anymore. I know ...

From the critically-acclaimed The Beggar’s Garden, “Emergency Contact” is the darkly comic tale of an emotionally isolated woman searching for human contact and love.The Beggar’s Garden follows a diverse group of characters, from a bank manager to a drug addict to a retired Samaritan, a web designer, and a car thief, as they drift through each other’s lives in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Michael Christie’s debut collection, it won the Vancouver Book Award, was ...

Every parent knows that moment of recognition—and relief—that only another parent can provide when sharing confessions of parenting guilt. In this book, more than thirty mothers share their stories of all the things they might regret doing—and the happy knowledge that their kid turned out fine anyway!

Meet William, a devout underachiever. He enters life as the firstborn of identical twin boys. It is the last time he will beat his overachieving brother Clive, or anyone else for that matter, at anything.This is William’s manifesto for the underachiever. It is the chronicle of a lifetime of failure–part diary and part handbook for self-defeat. At once corrosively funny and surprisingly tender, An Underachiever’s Diary is a classic tale of perverse perseverance.

Life lessons of life will get us every time. A teenage girl, filled with dreams of being happy for ever and hope. A dream of having the white picket fence 2.5 kids, a husband, a good job, friends and family. Until sudden life changing events take place in her life. As she tries to figure out why things happen to the best of us, she is faced with challenges and determination. The question is will she ever Make It Through the Hard Times that life will take us all through? Will she be able to...

You cant pick your family thats fact. If it were a choice as to the family I would choose, I knew no different than the hand that was dealt to me. What happens to you in the past is in the past and does not have to predict the future or define who you become. There was abuse, brutality, control, anger, and MORE importantly alcohol, was the name of the game for my stepfather, or at least thats what he thinks.As my Mother lay in her casket, I take comfort in knowing that she is in a ...

This is a book about how children describes the world around them with witticism.

I grew up in the 1980s in the idyllic suburban town of Amherst, New York, adjacent to the city of Buffalo. It was Middle America. The main cultural phenomena were Little League games and block parties.But we had legends.There were horrors that lurked in undeveloped plots of wooded land. There were stories born from the looming scare of chemical plants in nearby Niagara Falls, where a residential development called Love Canal made national news."Mike's Pond" is a ver...