Author: Collyn Richards Publisher: Writers Republic LLC ISBN: Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 52
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I rarely find myself in the present moment due to the workings of my mind. I can speak and act as to appear present. I've gotten damn good at it. The fact remains that my mind is somewhere else. It is sometimes stuck on a frivolous conversation I had months ago with what's-his-nuts or other times it is dreaming of the future where I am in control. I've found that writing is one of few outlets that allows me to clear my mind of these distractions. The following pieces you will read had a great impact in clearing my mind and discovering myself. I thought it was only right to share, enjoy.
Author: Bridgitte Lesley Publisher: XinXii ISBN: 3986464298 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 265
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Paige Carter had problems from day one. Her pupils were difficult, headstrong and obstinate. After a week she felt the repercussions. She had taken verbal abuse from many of the parents and it had reached a crescendo. Blake Rogers went to go and see Miss Carter. Donald, his son, had described her as an ogre. The moment he met her everything changed. She was not what he had expected. He no longer had control of his emotions and erupted. Everything spiralled out of control. Paige took matters in to her own hands. Leaving the pupils and parents shell shocked and stunned. They knew she meant business. Blake had fallen head over heels in love. Even the enormous age gap wouldn’t stand in his way.
Author: Garry Crystal Publisher: Garry Crystal ISBN: 1502459736 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 185
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These stories are for anyone who has ever felt they were an outsider, marching to the beat of their own drum and trying to discover some reality hidden within the cliché of modern life, love and work. From the author of Leaving London For mature readers. Includes The Paris Quartet: Short Stories For the End of the World This is your life and you may just recognize yourself within these seventeen short stories and six plays. If you’ve ever been in a less than perfect relationship, been trapped in a meaningless job, have found yourself drunk, lost and alone in a new city on Christmas Eve or have simply spent years trying to escape from a situation of your own making then you may just find some comfort within these pages. Contemporary stories of doomed love affairs, cheating spouses and new beginnings in cities such as Paris, New York and London. A family dinner party where the elephant in the room threatens to reveal itself, girlfriends who leave, boyfriends who can’t commit and a reclusive anti-hero fighting a corporate giant all make an appearance within this collection of gritty and darkly humorous short stories. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reviews This is a wonderful collection of short stories (and plays) which mine deeply emotional and personal territory, which is one of Crystal’s major strengths as a writer. All of these stories are deeply relatable and hyper-realistic – you either know these characters or perhaps you have found yourself in these very same situations. Each of them leaves the reader with much more than what is on the surface – ala Ernest Hemingway and/or Raymond Carver – and will have you thinking about them long after you finish reading them. - Julian Gallo, author of Breathe Garry Crystal's title for his collection of short stories and one scene plays aptly summarizes a dominant theme at the same time that it seems to dismiss the content as near meaningless. Most of these narratives depict the all too common scene for thirty-something people in the big city; struggles at recovery from ruined relationships, lapses into sloth, alcohol, drugs, casual, sometimes barely civil, sexual encounters and, of course, depression that blankets these scenes of urban discontent like a grey, palpable fog. For all this, I could not dismiss as dreary cliche' this highly entertaining and thought provoking collection. It was fun to read and at some points, downright intriguing. Dark humor and a conversational first person narrator style preserve the several stories of an alienated young urban male from triteness. Situations that, if our jaded narrator did not so masterfully depict them, might be all too familiar for interest. In "The Conversationalists", for example, he endures a mercifully short relationship with the beautiful, but totally self-absorbed Serena. It's the artful recreation of a scene that this reader and, I'm sure, many others have encountered in real life. The difference being that most of us do not in our suffering of a "me personality" interlocutor turn the encounter into a lively and entertaining short story. There are women characters who in dialogue express cogent insights as they relentlessly pursue an evasive and emotionally remote male incapable of authentic commitment. I would think that many women readers would find strong female characters like these quite satisfying. This collection has much to offer to readers from a broad band of tastes who enjoy good story telling. Those who enjoy nuanced meaning and dark ambiguities delivered by way of succinct narration and lively dialogue, these stories are the right stuff. - Online Book Club
Author: Farmie Dee Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1503507599 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 119
Book Description
Intimacy in Inconsequential Moments is a selected anthology spanning twenty years of writing. It is an expression of thoughts and feelings via poetry and short words of art, a yearning to create a connection of shared empathy that binds the author and reader intimately in moments of love, tragedy and hope, sadness and joy, solitude and reflection, and the search to give them voice.
Author: Knock Knock Staff Publisher: Books & Other Words ISBN: 9781601064868 Category : Decision making Languages : en Pages : 0
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Should I change the channel? Can I eat food off the floor? Our lives are composed of stupid decisions--one after the other, day after day. Use this book's handy flowcharts to make your next irrelevant choice with pseudoscientific confidence!
Author: Rodolfo Peña Publisher: Untreed Reads ISBN: 1452435723 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 180
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When the decapitated body of a student is found on the train tracks in Monterrey, Mexico, Captain Guillermo Lombardo finds his investigation taking him into the world of the Mexican drug cartels. As everyone from the university Dean to the Governor himself fails to cooperate with the investigation, Lombardo soon discovers that the body is just the tip of the iceberg of a much larger situation.
Author: Anthony Martino Publisher: ISBN: 9780988679177 Category : Languages : en Pages : 130
Book Description
The Inconsequential Child is an intimate memoir of one man's journey overcoming childhood emotional neglect through mindfulness and Jungian analysis. The book is written in the form of a letter where each chapter conveys one of the lessons the author has learned during his journey toward emotional well-being, love and hope. The book centers around a series of memories which were the basis of the author's personal psychoanalysis. The memories are written as he remembers them; in his voice, often in first-person, present tense. The author also offers both real-time and post analysis of the memories and feelings that have guided him through his journey.
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