New American Poetry from Christopher Michael Carter, focusing on love, loss, and American life.2.0Give away all your possessionsCleanse yourselfAnd order moreCut yourself off from friendsAnd familyAnd search for replacements onlineToss out your beliefsAnd share someone else'sDon't speak to othersBut like their postsChange your nameCome up with something eye-catchingAnd controversialSto...

Acquitted Books welcomes its first volume of poetry, Gun Control for Polar Bears. This collection features 101 poems by Christopher Michael Carter.What is the coal that fuels us?The match that sparks our angerWe're a large locomotive with millions of carsThat love to derailThe heat, the passionFuels such a trainBe it hate, anger, bothIt pushes, it chugsA destination reachedBut we've lost m...

this collection of poems is residue from my encounters during the 20 years from (1964-1985). ok, 21.people, places, events seen sometimes wryly, sometimes metaphorically, sometimes playfully and sometimes darkly.

Deserted by her people at a kennel one dog longs to go home. Will someone choose her and take her to their home? Or is she meant to be alone with no human to call her own. This story is based on the life of a real dog but told by her.

Red is a story like that of the princess and the frog, but it's the boy and his frog. The man who lives through this fairy tale is telling the story. He grew up with two special friends, his dog, Puppy, and his frog, Red. He called the frog Red because he put a red line on its back so he could tell it apart from all the others. Red lived in the pond in the boys back yard. When the boy grows up and goes off to college he dreams about a beautiful woman with long red hair. He becomes obsessed...

A dark comedy short story about a man who adopts a stray cat that makes his life a living hell.

during the past thirty odd years with my love partner ive often pondered the meaning of love is it just electro chemical connections in the brain is loving a sibling more satisfying than loving a pet can loving a parent be the same as loving a spouse is love really more powerful than superman is love of a good wine comparable with the love of a good view will love really conquer all does love taste as nice as chocolate can love overcome hate just what the hell is love anyway im still as co...

Love. Such a small word with a huge meaning. How many different kinds of love are there? Each one with its own little world of emotion, actions, and dreams. Several twisted, some passionate, a few real. But out of all of them, everyone is simply trying to get to the same goal, reach the similar point of no return, and smother identical desires. It all comes down to one thingone wantto love. And be loved.

This collection of poems is about today, yesterday and tomorrow. They're about an unrelenting sun, and a moon that shows up just in time each and every night to ease our stresses. They're about shadows you never think too much about and past loves that still know how to make you remember a moment of happiness, even when you don't want to.

A book of poetry. A collection of 19 poems. From horror to sadness, these poems cover it all.

A town at the center of a broken universe, Newt Run was never meant to exist; it is a town of artists, drug dealers, miners and steam. There are holes here, gaps in the fabric of things, and some of them are wide enough for people to slip through. Rumours have been spreading about disappearances in the mines, and someone has been defacing the town's walls with rings of painted blood. Strangest of all are the tales of outsiders - mysterious visitors who can only be seen by users of the drug...

My wife wanted a dog. I was certain that I never wanted one. When our daughters came along, she insisted that a dog would fill out our family happily. I knew better, but lost the argument.This is the story of everything I did to delay their acquiring a dog and what happened when they finally succeeded against my wishes. It recounts many of the odd happenings that accompanied our divergent views on dog ownership, especially as the animal in question managed to live far longer than do...