Shattered Chronicles: Tales of Loss, Redemption, and Sacrifice is a collection of short stories across multiple genres. From the sweet taste of love to the bitterness of betrayal. It's a journey of the mind, body, and soul."Curse of Revenge" follows Kamau, scarred by his parents' murder. Seeking vengeance, he undergoes intensive training to confront the killer. However, the quest for retribution consumes him, leading to a pivotal moment that challenges his beliefs, leading him to q...

Passages of Me was never intended to be a poetry collection book. It started out as just one poem, the first poem in the book. I submitted that poem to the American Library of Poetry. After that poem was selected, I began getting really good feedback. This incited me to continue writing poems. After I finished around the first thirty, I would joke around, saying, Fifty poems, and I will be published. This made me change my approach to poetry. Instead of rhythms that make you smile, it shou...

Wiccans view the calendar year as a wheel. This wheel progresses from one season to another and back again in a cyclical fashion.There are eight solar holidays in the Wiccan calendar. These holidays are called the Sabbats.There are thirteen moons in a Wiccan lunar year. Each of these moons emphasize the different energies through which both you and the earth are progressing.

From the beginning of time the seasons of the year have affected our planet and the life forms on it.As human kind became less nomadic and more hunter/gathers we began to learn and work with the seasons. We planted in the early Spring, tended our crops through Summer, reaped our crops in the Autumn, and struggled to survive the Winter. We called upon the Gods throughout the growing season to help us to have a bountiful harvest. We called upon them again in the Winter to guide us th...

The mythos of Innana has enchanted readers for decades. After dreaming of the elusive sky goddess one evening, I found myself writing of her polarities, her anger, her grief, and wondering at what sort of voice is hiding in texts that are undoubtedly, like all religious scriptures, ensconced in a certain gendered ideology. "Inanna" is a chapbook filled with explorations of identity among sexual, spiritual, cosmic, and social axes. When the radiant goddess of the sky goes down to meet her c...

"A poetry collection that marries wit and wisdom more brilliantly than any I know" by the Pulitzer Prize–winning former US Poet Laureate (Jane Hirshfield, author of Come, Thief).Filled with wry logic and a magical, unpredictable musicality, Kay Ryan's poems continue to generate excitement with their frequent appearances in The New Yorker and other leading periodicals. Say Uncle, Ryan's fifth collection, is filled with the same hidden conn...

"Clear and lucid" poems from a US Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner who "journeys through the landscape of memory, consciousness, loss, and love" ( The Washington Post).Kay Ryan is acclaimed for her highly relatable, deeply insightful poems. Erratic Facts is her first new collection since the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Best of It, and it is animated with her signature swift, clearheaded, lyrical style.At once witty and melan...

At the age of fifty-seven the author took three years off from life to learn to listen to her heart and nature. We are not taught to listen. We often do not have someone who will really listen. This book offers meditations offered during her silence so others will know they do not journey alone.

Perfect for beginners to witchcraft, or as a simple reference guide for intermediate practitioners. Informative, concise, and current this book is the perfect addition to any witchcraft reference collection.This book explores the topic of cord and knot magic, focusing on how to get started with simple spells, and ways to make your spells more effective.learn how to enhance your spells using colours, moon phases and days of the week.There are also some short and simp...

The face and the body with a reflection,but to life no one is there.A beating pulse,a heart of visceral emotions,warm tears to cry,a mind of relative thoughts.As real as an image but unviable to touch,it must be a human,it must be a hologram.Eve Lauren Chilicas invites others to take a cosmic journey into the metaphysics of the mind and soul while she explores the unknown, truths, and phenomena through lyrical verse.

We begin our journey in the fifth millennia BC, when the very mention of the word “Sumerian” struck terror in the hearts of their Semitic neighbors in southern Mesopotamia. For it was then that these settlers with their strange language and culture were believed to be fierce invaders from the north.   The Sumerians called themselves “the black-headed people,” and claimed that their civilization had been brought, fully formed, to the city of Erid...

Love Song is meant for the seeker and the lover. It is designed to ignite the heart. This book draws you in and reminds you of a way of being that most of us dont opt for consistently anymore. The words invoke an experience of ecstatic love and oneness through honest introspection and vulnerability that is intimate and delicate and rich with imagery. Open it to any page and see for yourself.