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A special guest comes to stay at Zoe's house!But Zoe has a secret. Zoe will learn the greatest of all secrets; "Love Is Forever." For anyone who believes that death is not, and will never be the end.
Fifty Miles is of addiction and alcoholism; recovery; grief; healing; the challenges of living with a son who is a substance abuser.
Zoe liked Bats. She had dreams in bat... flying wildly, chasing bugs in her dreams. She even asked her mother if she could have one for a pet. But the bats must have heard her, because one day...A BAT came to breakfast!
"A young woman's fear of the living thing in the walls of her apartment. An office-based streaker with an axe to grind. A malingerer attending a prayer meeting. Automatons that finally recognise their creator. The historically inaccurate account of a disgraced 13th century crusader. A terminally ill man resorting to hypnotism to quit smoking. A letter from a cursed man -who refused to buy a round of drinks at a wedding. The madness of an isolated couple infecting a lonesome estate agent. A human resources manager describes office conflict taken a step or three too far. An aged altar boy recalling his days on the pulpit. The couple who conceive an alarm clock and must deal with its constant alarmist nature. A brain-dying man recalls his last receding memories of a run-down funfair... In wattle & daub the world is a mysterious, menacing and peculiar place. Characters inhabit their individualized zones with a mixture of ignorance and apprehension, ever at the mercy of changes to their circumstances, or else striving to make sense of their own shortcomings and disappointments. Dragged forward by an ear-twisting narrative force, the stories in this debut collection meld and stretch into truly new directions. Unsettlingly funny/bleak backgrounds inform, wattle & daub and introduce singular oddball characters to a coldly unconcerned world. Every page is mined with humour, sympathy, and blistering language that mark Brian Coughlan as a unique fabricator of short tales."--]cProvided by publisher
American & European sensibility with a contemporary view of Eastern European culture, and the erotic playfulness of European literature.
In Etruscan's third Tribus, we present work by poets of three generations: William Heyen, H.L. Hix, and Dante Di Stefano. Lullaby with Incendiary Device is deeply immered in a soon-to-be-realized future, in which Di Stefano's daughter faces an array of 21st century challenges. For the last half-century, William Heyen's poetry has explored world history, from Nature, to Native Americans, to the Holocaust and the atom bomb, the Iraq Wars, to the British Royals. In this book, Heyen presents another entry into his Holocaust opus, The Nazi Patrol. H.L. Hix's work is also inextricably involved with global issues as seen in a recent collection, American Anger, which explores the psychology of rage underneath recent political turmoil, yet it also turns inward, creating new forms to join the world and the inner life. This theme is most prominent here, in How It Is That We.
Claire Bateman explores the odd too-muchness/not-enoughness of imaginative experience-is this the neighborhood we signed up for?
A magically real journey into the Pacific Coast rain forest of Colombia.
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