Haunting stories that will linger long after the lights are turned out. This collection of spine-chilling short stories includes a mix of seasoned authors with emerging talent. You'll enjoy creepy tales set in underground rail stations, holiday travellers making fateful mistakes, lingering spirits from long ago, poltergeist possessions, horror homes, history revisting, beautiful memories, terrifying realisations and even a haunted pot plant. With the theme of book woven through each story,...

This collection of fantasy stories will transport you to magical destinations, each brimming with unique twists, from sword and sorcery to unearthly tales and legends. The anthology includes high fantasy, magical realism and even paranormal mystery. There's sure to be something for everyone.*Rainforest Writing Retreat is an annual event attended by up to seventy writers who enjoy three days of intense masterclasses presented by industry experts on top of a mountain in the beautiful...

my throat feels tightthe back of my headseems nasal(cough) . . .~2020 arrived like a gut punch.Australia burned all through that summer, and before the smoke had cleared a new disaster swept in — Covid 19. Masks became part of daily life, borders were closed, and Victoria entered the first of seven lockdowns. Movement, work, and connection with other people were suddenly uncertain.Frank Prem had already been journalling the wildfires. ...

there is a me shaped spaceright here where I standthere was nothing beforethere will be nothing when I leaveFrench philosopher Gaston Bachelard explored the philosophic and poetic values of space in his masterwork, The Poetics of Space.In A Choir of Whispers Frank Prem interprets Bachelard's explorations of the poetic quasi-element space, decanting the vivid imagery contained in the philosopher's work into new and accessible free verse poetic storytel...

. . . and at home we sayif it's yellowlet it mellowif it's brownflush it on down . . .~Two natural disasters, each on a massive scale, a decade and a half apart.One is the slow withering that desiccates the soul by increments, the other a raging series of fires burning half a continent in a mad rush of smoke and flame and wind.Two un-natural disasters, aided and abetted by the relentless destruction of the land we live in and ...

I don't knowwhat I knowfor sureI don't knowwhatI do not know~This poetry collection is the outcome of a week-long workshop retreat in 2024 - Cries From The Anthropocene - attended by creatives, academics, and researchers who came together in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, to discuss, consider and respond to what they understood and what they might do in response to the parlous state...

he countsas a year goes bymeasures the timein heartbeats. . .The Cielonaut is lost in the vastness of space.He is alone and his journey has only one direction, and no destination.He will travel between stars until he reaches an end that he cannot see, or imagine.The Cielonaut will travel forever, exploring the far reaches of a very personal emotional cosmos.. . .the gradualrearrangement of stars...

All day long I have been workingNow I am tired.I call: "Where are you?"But there is only the oak tree rustling in the wind . . .from Madonna of the Evening FlowersDrawing on the phrasing of the early 20th Century Amy Lowell poem Madonna of the Evening Flowers (above) Frank Prem has produced a collection of personal and interpersonal love poems written, as always, in the unique style that allows every reader to relate.Prem's interpretations breath...

when he turned the hourglassthe sand ran upas he knew it woulddeep contemplationso often turns lifeon its head~The French philosopher Gaston Bachelard explored the philosophic and poetic values of flame and fire in three books - The Psychoanalysis of Fire, The Flame of a Candle, and the unfinished Fragments of a Poetics of Fire.In A Cleansing Flame, Frank Prem interprets Bachelard's explorations...

Who is Ida Pender? Is she the elderly woman - Ida-Spider - rumoured to be resident in a 1970's Mental Asylum?Is she Squizzy Taylor's teenaged gangster moll of the roaring 1920's in Melbourne? The woman the police declared had shapely legs? She is Ida. The Jazz Baby.Frank Prem explores the story of Ida Pender, largely forgotten now, but once the notorious associate of a 1920s Melbourne gnagster. From the young girl sneaking out of her bedroom window to go dancing at the Pala...

PILGRIM is an illustrated collection of small wisdoms offered to illuminate the journey and to make sense, if possible, of the load that must be carried by all travellers.Seeking the balance between light and its many shades of opposition is an eternal quest.

swimdamn youbecomeof-the-sandyour appointed taskis to be huntedby meI demandyou swim~Ahab the mariner and Moby the white whale inhabit a desert ocean together. One of them is dying.Inspired by T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, Frank Prem takes readers on a spiritual voyage through uncharted oceans. A journey of the soul that can only end through transformation.~thisis the voice