SKULL KINGDOMS: AN IMAGINARY OMBINUS offers us an oblique collection of poetic games complete with explicit instructions on how each piece should be read. A series of meditations on imagining, pretending, unsleeping, dreaming, and, ultimately, escaping by waking unto new selves, Skull Kingdoms is in communion with the vicious, big tent circus that is growing up.

Prose poems by Matthew Burnside, for anyone who's ever felt small.

On the 17th of May 1825, the Regulus sailed from the Cove of Cork, carrying 24 men, 25 women and 108 children from some of the most distressed districts in the south of Ireland. These people were transported, at Government expense, as part of an experimental emigration that settled over 2000 Irish paupers in the backwoods of Upper Canada. Responsibility for the success of this enterprise fell to Peter Robinson (1785 – 1838), who had conducted a similar experiment on a smaller scale in 1823. R...

Inflammatory bowel disease, namely Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, can devastate your life. At one end, it leaves you with embarrassingly frequent trips to the bathroom, leaving long trips, the commute to work and just about any social situation awkward. When severe, prolonged hospital stays, long courses of steroids, dangerous and expensive immune suppressing drugs and surgery to remove portions of your gut can and do occur.It doesn't have to be this way. There are answers...

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.

Today we are urged from all sides to slim down and shape up, to shed a few pounds or lose life-threatening stones. The media's relentless obsession with size may be perceived as a twenty-first-century phenomenon, but as award-winning historian Louise Foxcroft shows, we have been struggling with what to eat, when and how much, ever since the Greeks and the Romans first pinched an inch.Meticulously researched, surprising and sometimes shocking, Calories and Corsets tells the...

A young bridge painter is awakened from the hum of daily routine by a face-to-face encounter with a woman in free fall."The Bridge" is a story from Daniel Orozco's critically acclaimed collection Orientation, which leads the reader through the hidden lives and moral philosophies of bridge painters, men housebound by obesity, office temps, and warehouse workers. He reveals the secret pleasures of late-night supermarket trips for cookie binges, exceptional data entry, and an...

Charlotte died to shore up her master's house. Her bones grew into the foundation and pushed up through the walls, feeding his power and continuing the cycle. As time passes and the ones she loved fade away, the house and the master remain, and she yearns ever more deeply for vengeance.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

This ebook is aimed at all those who are planning to for the weight loss surgery. There are do's and dont's that you need to be aware of and adhere to.This will help you answer all your questions and will also make sure that you are fully prepared for the surgery - both mentally and physically.

On the 21st of May 1825, the Elizabeth sailed from the Cove of Cork, carrying 45 men, 31 women and 134 children from some of the most distressed districts in the south of Ireland. These people were transported, at Government expense, as part of an experimental emigration that settled over 2000 Irish paupers in the backwoods of Upper Canada. Responsibility for the success of this enterprise fell to Peter Robinson (1785 – 1838), who had conducted a similar experiment on a smaller scale in 1823....

In your hands is a poetry journal written by an undead poet, recounting his firsthand experience during the zombie plague. Little is known about the author before he turned into a zombie, but thanks to his continued writings in this journal - even after his death - you can accompany him from infection to demise. Through the intimate poetry of haiku, the zombie chronicles his epic journey through deserted streets and barricaded doors. Each three-line poem, structured in the classic 5-7-5 sy...

Richard Damon is a painter suffering for his art. Now it’s time to make someone else do the suffering.