86,320 words. While exploring another realm, Joe discovers a planet, which dwarfs the Earth. They name it Other World. Over time, Joe explores Other World and many of its wonders. He finds trees as big as mountains and animals bigger than entire cities. After a while, vampires and demons make it to this world. Joe and the Society find themselves defending Other World.

*Shortlisted for the 2021 Queensland Literary Awards: Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection*These awards-listed, interlinked stories vividly capture the small, rarely spoken moments of our lives that reverberate with meaning, with darkness and with light. An adolescent son and his parents on their annual holiday at a Bournemouth guesthouse become intrigued with the glamour and otherness of an American family from Boston. A...

(Total word count–38,741) In Communicating through time, while surveying a planet for possible colonization an astronaut encounters a creature that he thinks is hostile, but can’t be sure. In Healthclub, the crew members of a spaceship relate their stories to a new crew member. In Captives of Benevolence, the crew of the EBA, Lancelot find these little creatures and study them. The creatures turn out to be far smarter than the Lancelot crew gives them credit for. In Courtroom, a local reve...

"Our shared experience, the sheer grace and beauty of the sport we loved, immersed in the joy of competition cast a mythical transcendence which is difficult to describe, other than to simply feel it. We gave it our all."Streaksburg is best-selling author Barry Lee Swanson's intimate memoir of a boyhood transformed by a game-and the small, Midwestern city that lived for it. The author weaves a nostalgic tale of heroes and their formidable opponent...

It’s 1957 and Barry has been sent to stay with Nan and Pop during the school holidays while his mum waits for the new baby. Barry is six and-three-quarters and 22 Miller Street - the last house Pop built on the West Preston street - proves full of novel experiences: there’s going shopping across the Hump at dawn with Nan (‘good isn’t it, height,’ she says, advising him ‘you can look at the stars for nothing’); keeping Pop company in the shed, where he goes for his smoko; sharing a bed with...

"A fascinating literary and historical document, the most insightful look at the Beat Generation." —Dan Wakefield, author of New York in the Fifties and Going All the WayFirst published in 1978, Jack's Book gives us an intimate look into the life and times of the "King of the Beats." Through the words of the close friends, lovers, artists, and drinking buddies who survived him, writers Barry Gifford and Lawrence Lee recount Jack Kerouac's story, from his ...

When Lisa Marie and her step-brother Vernon pop into town to get their dad a birthday present, they discover the Create-a-Ted shop is offering free Halloween bears! Making two grisly bears for themselves and choosing an Elvis bear named Bearvis for Dad, they head home. That night the shopkeeper brings the bears to life for nefarious purposes … but Vernon's bear, Grizz, doesn't want to be a slave to humans – he wants to rule the world! Converting the shopkeeper's Stuff-U-Lator into a machin...

This Halloween season discover a new action-comedy series about two kids battling an army of evil teddy bears! What a nightmare! Can they save the day before bedtime?After Lisa-Marie and her big brother, Vernon, visit a Create-A-Ted store, the unexpected happens.Their teddy bears come to life!But it turns out they aren't the only ones. All kinds of teddy bears--zombies, ghosts, aliens and more--are suddenly alive and creating mayhem . . . and soon t...

How social networks, the personalized Internet, and always-on mobile connectivity are transforming—and expanding—social life.Daily life is connected life, its rhythms driven by endless email pings and responses, the chimes and beeps of continually arriving text messages, tweets and retweets, Facebook updates, pictures and videos to post and discuss. Our perpetual connectedness gives us endless opportunities to be part of the give-and-take of networking.Some...

Since it was founded in 1982, The Wire magazine has covered a vast range of alternative, experimental, underground and non-mainstream music. Now some of that knowledge has been distilled into The Wire Primers: a comprehensive guide to the core recordings of some of the most visionary and inspiring, subversive and radical musicians on the planet, past and present. Each chapter surveys the musical universe of a particular artist, group or genre by way of a contextualizing i...

This is a simple keto recipe book which contains 5 breakfast recipes, 5 lunch recipes and 5 dinner recipes which helped me lose 77 lbs of weight in 1 year

Philip Zumwalt is an accomplished musician, poet, and idealist-a dreamer. Fresh out of college in 1940, he takes a job as a music teacher in a small, rural Illinois town. His plan is to teach for a few years hoping to save enough money to finance his dreams: go to Chicago to become a professional musician and get his pilot's license. These dreams dominate his thoughts until one summer night when he meets Elinor Robinson.Philip and Elinor's forbidden romance-and the specter of war h...