SURVIVING ROCK BOTTOMA Contemporary Poetry StoryMy mother is always striving for perfection.Always pushing me too far.At six I was a pageant girl.At seven I was a pageant winner.At eight I was a ballerina.At eight my mother became my enemy.At nine my mother told me I was too fat.At ten my mother told me I was too fat.At eleven my mother told me I was too ...

Never go to the other side of the bridge, she’d said.Never trust a shinigami, she’d said.Never take a kuro yun from a shinigami, she’d said.I’d already done two of those things, and eight years later, I’m to be sent to Mount Naku-san, for a day and night, unless I want to be left for dead in a rose garden somewhere.chapter: ichíflower inviteThis mountain has seen much blood and loss...

$0.99 sale price. For a limited time!The Manor is beautiful.The Meadows surrounding the manor are magical.The Mosaic jeweled walkway to the manor is enchanting.I’d been in town mere hours, when a small piece of paper, with an advertisement for a quiet place to sleep, floats in on the wind, into my hand. No one in town can see what is written on the paper, except ...

CRASH AND QUIETContemporary PoetryTIMEWearebutlivingcreatures,involvedwitheachother,byacrackintime....

Macaria is the princess of the underworld, and her father, Hades, would do anything for her. When something happens at the gate into Hades, when Macaria meets Adam, things turn for the unexpected, and no one could have guessed what happens next, least of all Adam and Macaria.

Until now the life of James H. Rion (1828-1886) has been known only in fragments. Many in South Carolina know of him only through the legend, told in countless variations throughout the 20th century, that he was the son of a Montréal dauphin and thus the grandson of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette; others recognize him as one who spent much of his youth with the Calhoun family at Fort Hill and who later became Thomas G. Clemson's lawyer; while still others are acquainted w...

Frank and Celeste met many years ago during their freshman year in college. The attraction was instant, strong, and mutual. But racial differences compounded Frank's shy demeanor, insecurities and social inexperience. Bad timing and Frank's acute tunnel vision combined to cause a life-changing humiliation for Celeste when she went out on a limb for him.Now the two of them meet again through their friends Miles and Shauna, and the attraction is stronger than ever. Only Frank isn't s...

Two young lovers, driven apart, meet again years later, dragging all the baggage that so many adults accumulate--bad decisions, failed marriages and unexpected career changes. Only the heaviest baggage is from their own breakup a lifetime ago. They might now be mature enough to handle what seemed insurmountable when they were teenagers, but is it worth the risk? When you love as deeply as they once loved, you can be hurt as deeply as they once were...and in some ways, still are.

Her parents were killed when the Germans invaded France, leaving her all alone to care for a sickly aristocrat. As she grew into young womanhood, she found purpose in helping the French Resistance. She lives under constant threat of disappearing in the dark of night, never to be seen again, like so many others during the Nazi occupation. Now, on the night of June 5, 1944, she is totally unprepared for what comes floating down from the sky into her life.He was a young cowboy from Mo...

A survey of the last 100 years of science fiction, with representative stories and illuminating essays by the top writers, poets, and scholars, from Edgar Rice Burroughs and Samuel Butler to Robert A. Heinlein and and Jack Vance, from E.E. "Doc" Smith and Clifford D. Simak to Ted Chiang and Charles Stross-- and everyone in between. More than one million words of classic fiction and essays!

FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING & AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR SELENA KITT ~ OVER TWO MILLION BOOKS SOLD!------------------WANT MORE SELENA KITT?website: www.selenakitt.comfacebook: www.facebook.com/selenakittfanpagetwitter: @selenakittblog: selenakitt.com/blogGet ALL SIX of Selena Kitt’s FREE READSby joining her mailing list! bit.ly/SKMLnews------------------Steve “Doc” Baumgartner--alone, naked, face flushed with pleasur...

FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING & AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR SELENA KITT ~ OVER TWO MILLION BOOKS SOLD!------------------WANT MORE SELENA KITT?website: www.selenakitt.comfacebook: www.facebook.com/selenakittfanpagetwitter: @selenakittblog: selenakitt.com/blogGet ALL SIX of Selena Kitt’s FREE READSby joining her mailing list! bit.ly/SKMLnews