A serial killer vlogs his exploits. A pensioner confesses in a product review. Users discuss the latest episode of a television drama. A picture holds the disturbing secret behind an ancient shrine.There's a story behind everything, and a thread that connects us to it.[threads] by Jivan Ward is a sparkling original short story collection focusing on stories and conversations uploaded onto the internet. These eighteen stories span genres, themes, and mediums. Delving into ho...

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Laurence McKeown almost died in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh/Maze Prison in the North of Ireland following 70 days on hunger strike in 1981. In later years he helped facilitate poetry workshops in the prison and co-founded a prisoners magazine. In this, his debut collection of poems, written both during his incarceration and in subsequent years, Laurence reflects upon his developing political consciousness, exploring themes of politics, family, comradeship, longing, desire, and love. They are...

Phoebe and Devin Strand are sisters looking to break into the fashion industry. While Devin finds immediate success as a model, her sister Phoebe struggles to break in as a designer. They both face issues with Devin's sudden success until the girls discover an alien fabric that changes their fortunes, challenges their relationship, and tries to take over the world!Read the graphic novel that Alex Ness of Poplitiko gives, "a special nod to the fact that in world of comics based ...

You thought your life was hell? Lexa just found out she's nothing more than a character from a book written by someone named Bryan Caron. Now she must spend her precious time finding a way to protect the pathetic schmuck from a monster created by a character she created who somehow found a way to jump from the pages of their novels. If you found that confusing, you are going to hate this book.Read At Your Own Risk: The contributors to this manuscript have purposefully made it their...

Sophie is growing old and it's time to tell her secret. She chooses to confide in Annie, a niece who may have chosen the wrong man to love. In 1918 Sophie went to Cannon Beach, on the Oregon Coast, to keep house for two bachelor brothers. Fascinated with the view from the cabin, she decides to "paint" it with fabric, to create a quilt that pictures what she sees through her kitchen window. A neighbor, an artist, becomes first her friend, then her lover. But David is not free. He has a wife...

It's a boring, hardscrabble life for three sisters growing up on a Michigan farm in the throes of the Great Depression. But, when young Nellie, digging for pirate treasure, discovers the tiny blue-black hand of a dead baby, rumors begin to fly. Narrated by Nellie and her two older sisters, the story follows the girls as they encounter a patchwork of threatening circumstances and take it upon themselves to solve the mystery.

Threads is an epic historical fiction that begins at a pivotal time in history. World War I has just ended. Germany is becoming a more difficult place to live and prosper. A young farmer, Fletcher makes the difficult decision to leave his homeland and seek new opportunities for his young family in America. German friends have come to Blacksburg, Virginia, and they talk of the coal mining jobs available and the natural beauty of the area. Fletcher frets about leaving his wife and two small ...

The threads of fate are tightening—and they may strangle her before the war begins.Amara has become a symbol of rebellion, a living legend whispered about in marketplaces and stitched into clandestine banners. But behind the name they chant lies a woman fraying at the seams. The strange bond with the Weaver of Bone threatens her mind and magic, yet she cannot sever it—not without unraveling herself in the process.Beside her stands Caedric, the former Unrave...

Some threads should never be pulled.Amara has spent her life hiding in plain sight hemming tunics, mending tears, and never letting anyone know that cloth speaks to her.When a soldier brings her a bloodstained cloak, Amara’s needle awakens a dead captain’s voice, revealing her ability. Now a Guild enforcer from the Hemlock Circle hunts her, determined to prove she’s a rogue weaver.But the Guild isn’t the only danger. Grieving nobles covet her power....

The threads of fate are tightening—and they may strangle her before the war begins.Amara has become a symbol of rebellion, a living legend whispered about in marketplaces and stitched into clandestine banners. But behind the name they chant lies a woman fraying at the seams. The strange bond with the Weaver of Bone threatens her mind and magic, yet she cannot sever it—not without unraveling herself in the process.Beside her stands Caedric, the former Unrave...

A royal betrothalA treasonous plotThe betrayal of a lifetimeAs two young royals prepare for their upcoming nuptials, dark forces are at work in the elven queendom of Ailiar. Towns along the Colosian border are being burned to the ground and the Queen seems to have nothing to say about it. Whispers of war are stirring, and the fragile peace that the royal marriage is intended to bring seems so very far out of reach.Meanwhile, in the Ea...