The pub thinks my stories are getting longer. This one certainly bites the bit. I just wanted it to be magical, but I keep plotting the dip. Melancholy, depressionlet's profess them today. Let's get the grim reaper into fast gear and sail away to Led Zeppelin on his cloud sledge. This isn't a suicide note. I would be clear on that. This one is happy ending; the skeleton smiles are all in the day clouds. Its always testing you apart, looking for some magic answer to question how selfish is ...

If I can put in words how I didn’t think I didn’t feel but you cleared my void and took me somewhere I didn’t know I could and I felt beautiful and I felt but never will again, and I forgot myself and my mind stopped anxiety didn’t exist, thoughts evaporated into mist, into your oblivion, into your circle of safety and I forgot who I was or who I had to be and I allowed you in. And that was not sex, it was just being with you, a lady who made me feel like a woman. Words fail me.

My third book Cardigan Street is imaginative, impossible and fun. I struggle with obsessive compulsive disorder (intrusive unwanted thoughts) and writing stories helps me concentrate the train of thoughts in my brain and get to sleep. I have so many people to acknowledge and say thank you to but you always miss someone out so I will choose one. Thank you Daisaku Ikeda.

Enlightened Business offers a clear roadmap of strategies and tools that address day-to-day challenges in the workplace today. With varied examples and exercises it shows how timeless spiritual principles are key differentiators in creating high-perform.

Something in me stirred and only shook me awake when I got home that I miss you from nowhere you came, from my heart you have flown. Over distant realms, petals, planes, and bottle shells. Perfect punctuation and petals and pubs and please no alliteration. Tears and spilt remains serpents rise and win again. Booze seeks no gain mystery wretches at lifes most beautiful deadline reversed ragtime burst whisper vanilla handkerchiefs and lots of vinegar. My weary shell, I dont farewell. Miss a ...

Elpsis Boo is part one of an ongoing series of 'Erogements' being written by Michael J Rowland. Through literary experimentation and Dadaist word play, Michael is telling the eternal story of man in search of a soul and a soul mate. Elpsis Boo was written in Prague over a period of three years and incorporates many local scenes which helped inspire the creation of the book. For Michael there is a strong mystical element to the novel as well as one of profound logic. The obscurity of meanin...

In the mid-seventies at an all-boys Catholic school in Melbourne, Timothy Conigrave fell wildly and sweetly in love with the captain of the football team. So began a relationship that was to last for fifteen years, a love affair that weathered disapproval, separation and, ultimately, death.With honesty and insight, Conigrave's bestselling memoir explores the highs and lows of any partnership: the intimacy, constraints and temptations. And the strength of heart both men had to find ...

For every Terry Pratchett fan, an absolute must-have, giftable book—favorite quotations from his beloved Discworld canon.Gleaned from more than two decades' worth of Discworld tales, here is an essential compendium of insightful musings, witty commentary, and sagacious observations by New York Times bestselling author Terry Pratchett, compiled by Pratchett expert Stephen Briggs.• In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hol...

My mate told me that I just don't understand irony.Which was ironic because we were at a bus stop at the time.A dyslexic man walks into a bra.An onion just told me a joke.I don't know whether to laugh or cry.A priest, a rabbi and a blind man walk into a bar and the bartender says, 'What is this, some kind of joke?'I got chatting to a lumberjack in a pub.He seemed like a decent feller.I'll never forget what my granddad said to ...

The celebrated author of Fairyland, Space Opera, and much more, Catherynne M. Valente is also known for her stunning prose and captivating worldbuilding. From life on Mars to the zombified streets of Augusta, Maine, she has taken readers on unforgettable journeys for two decades.Subterranean Press is proud to present: The Best of Catherynne M. Valente, Volume One, the first comprehensive collection of Valente’s short fiction, soaring through eighteen year...

'A beautiful and clever book about being human' Russell BrandCOMEDY. TRAGEDY. THERAPY.Simon Amstell did his first stand-up gig at the age of thirteen. His parents had just divorced and puberty was confusing. Trying to be funny solved everything.HELP is the hilarious and heartbreaking account of Simon’s ongoing compulsion to reveal his entire self on stage. To tell the truth so it can’t hurt him any more. Loneliness, anxiety, depress...

BackgroundAllan Sweeney studied creative writing in a University of Kent Diploma course, and mustered merits without bluster or bribes (he exudes ethical codes).GeneralHere is a harmony of human existence, a making and breaking of the caring and sharing cake of life. Be prepared for laughter, tears, and deep thought as you recall emotions. Really, as the title suggests, 'Life is a Load of Bananas'!StructureEleven sections contain seven poems each (appro...