This is the exciting adventure of Greta Gecko and her friend Norman Nematode. It takes place on a small island in the South Pacific Ocean. Greta and Norman would like to solve the mystery of why the sun strangely disappears into the ocean at night, only to reappear on the eastern side of the island in the morning. With the help of Greta's father Professor Gecko, another mystery will need to be solved first. The adventure takes a cast of characters Crusty Crab, Professor Gecko, The Torch, a...

When concussions strike a young mind, life is spent in emotional management. It would be fourty-five years before a diagnosis could be made and the healing process could begin, but the mind started early. It was tired of the confluence of negative emotions and began the unification through poetry. One part was putting together the theme, another was putting it into words, and yet another was organizing the flow. The mind is an amazing place to wander about in, much more so these days than ...

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Imagination's Rain is filled with the special moments when calm over-ruled the emotional management of the PTSD that roiled within Severe(d) Anxiety. These works are from times when I could look at the world with admiration and put my love into words as my soul basked in the essence of peace.So, let me take you on a journey where nature creates a composition of sound and paints the world with light. Where the flavor of the seasons fills the eyes with tasty delights. A journey throu...

This short story is the first in the Greta Gecko mystery series. It introduces the main character Greta as well as her best friend Norman. The story begins with Greta and Norman deciding to visit Greta's father at Macamya Bay University. Things don't always go smoothly as planned.

A survey and history of contemporary classical painting and the role that the classical arts of the past played in shaping its development.

“Immediate, sensual, unrelentingly intense.” —NPRA breathtaking volume about the violence of desire and the peace of love from celebrated poet Li-Young Lee, The Undressing is a tonic for spiritual anemia; it attempts to uncover things hidden since the dawn of the world. Short of achieving that end, these mysterious, unassuming poems investigate the human violence and dispossession increasingly prevalent around the world, and the horrors the poet grew up wi...

The novel The Godfather (1969) and the movie of the same name (1972) entrenched the myth of the Mafiosi as valiant knights, men of honor, and defenders of the traditional concept of family. As a result of this movie and other popular portrayals, the image of mobsters as “men of honor and tradition” has become iconic throughout America. Yet the truth of the matter belies this more noble image. The Mafia is a ruthless organization. Their concept of family is a twisted one. But viewed through...

"... [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

In this part of the "My Body is a Forest", esp. "Elm/Left Arm", I have included poems of strength, courage, nature, manhood, and human kindness. It is with this "body part", we as humans lift ourselves above the daily troubles that strife us all, to something nobler: like human compassion, caring, empathy, and just plain working things out.This book, holds, so to speak, one half of the courageous poems, about divorce, hurt, and how to rise above those things. Some are hard poems, d...

The first collection of letters in English by one of the great writers of the twentieth centuryThis is the first collection in English of the extraordinary letters of one of the great writers of the twentieth century. Italy's most important postwar novelist, Italo Calvino (1923-1985) achieved worldwide fame with such books as Cosmicomics, Invisible Cities, and If on a Winter's Night a Traveler. But he was also an influential literary criti...

The book Mystical Twilight is a manifestation of different mazes of emotion. It fleshes out the human experience from the eyes of a poet that responds to every incident of joy, anguish, triumph & deliberation with a heart that spontaneously beats & breathes the pulse of life.The poet reflects on a plethora of experiences ranging from war, peace, hope, childhood, innocence, fear, frustration, friendship & love. In away the book is a mystical combination of everything that spells out...