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Cabrera ha escrito unos cuentos que nos ponen frente al dilema de saber si habla de la realidad social o de los fantasmas propios. Son cuentos que tratan de temas como la familia, las relaciones entre seres humanos, la soledad, los recuerdos, la locura, la maternidad, la ansiedad, los deseos, el caos emocional. La autora sabe cómo dosificar con virtuosismo las tensiones y los quiebres que muchas veces viven las personas. Pero no se trata de relatos...
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Love is the strongest emotion on earth. It can inspire and devastate us while changing our lives forever. Without experiencing the beauty and pain of love, you can never say you truly lived. This collection of poetry explores the warmth of love and the heartbreak of losing it.
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What is your idea of the trip of a lifetime? Is it flying off to parts unknown? Traveling through parts of Europe? Lounging on a sandy Caribbean beach? Or do you prefer to stay closer to home and travel through your imagination? Sometimes the trip of a lifetime can be the one you never expected to take. And sometimes a trip becomes quite memorable for the wrong reasons.In this collection of short stories, poetry, and non-fiction, you will find our...
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#SalíDeCasa es la continuación nacida, casi sin planearlo, de #QuedateEnCasa, el primer volumen de cuentos surgido de un juego-torneo literario entre amigos durante la pandemia de covid-19 que estalló en 2020. Poco imaginábamos entonces que doce meses más tarde seguiríamos abocados a los nuevos rituales impuestos por un virus no deseado pero bien instalado, que las discusiones en torno al lavado de manos se trasladarían a la ardua cuestión...
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Felicity Sidnell Reid brings a precise, tender, and playful attention to the natural world, familyand strangers, the living and the dead. These vivid, beautifully crafted poems honour moments ofconnection, unearth long buried secrets and explore time. As the past brushes up against thepresent, losses accumulate, but so do opportunities for curiosity and delight. ─ Kim Aubrey, author of What We Hold in Our Hands Felicity's poetry invites...
8) Broken Soul
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Enter a century-long journey of love and pain as an old log cabin shares its memories in . . . Broken Soul.Meet Aca Wayne Duran III as he narrates the many-faceted stories of the house he calls home. An elderly man who thought he might be crazy as the visions were revealed to him through vapors and smoke.From beginning to ending, the stories within will captivate you while you struggle with the realization of human impact upon a wooden structure.Is...
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New and exclusive short stories and poems inspired by bad mothers from some of today' s fiercest women in horror. Featuring Rachel Harrison, Gwendolyn Kiste, Kristi DeMeester, and Kelsea Yu, edited by Lindy Ryan with a foreword by Sadie " Mother Horror" Hartmann.
From mama trauma to smother mother, this all-new women in horror anthology features stories about the scariest monster of them all- our mothers....
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A powerful, lyrical collection of essays from the award-winning author of Following the River, exploring the pivotal moments in her life, and how art and nature have shaped her. How does a woman compose a life? The Old Moon in Her Arms is a hybrid book of fragments, pivotal moments and images in the phases of a woman's life, turning points rendered in Lorri Neilsen Glenn's lyrical prose.
Like the shifting images in a kaleidoscope, these glimpses into...
11) Ties
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Ties, strings made up with screams (Apollinaire). At the striking of midnight into the new millenium, a new threat comes from the darkness. A baby was rescued but now a young boy is in danger. Three women are fighting. Nobody is safe. The year 1000 is no more. The year 2000 and Death. An engaging novel that blends thriller ,suspense and esothericism. A novel about strong connections between past and present New Year's Eve 1999. Guglielmo has an apparently...
12) The Other Me
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The other me The one that few know The one in which I take refuge, between paper and ink. The one that many shy away from, whose deep, probing gaze digs into you, with verses and silences. Poems for Eight Seasons Two years of words in verse that have accompanied the author and her readers, week after week, in the years 2021 and 2022, published in the Aci Castello Wordpress weekly online magazine in the "UN MARE DI PAROLE" column.
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Issue #3 of Eric Flint's 1632 & Beyond, available 1 January 2024.The Magdeburg Messenger(1632 Fiction)This issue's cover story is "Cassini Rounds Third." Robert Waters continues the saga of Giovanni Cassini. Up-time, he was a famous astronomer. Down-time, he's a kid who wants to play ball. He might get to stay in Grantville, but is it really for the love of the game?Next is Bethanne Kim's "A Fitting Tribute." The Ugolinis make memorial stones and...
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How to Do the Greased Wombat Slide will dance poetry lovers away to places you never knew poems could go. This fifth collection from Chicago poet Pamela Miller (author of Recipe for Disaster and Miss Unthinkable) is a constantly surprising jamboree of surreal situations ("She has teeth inside her teeth inside her teeth"), wildly inventive wordplay ("We're the muck-it-up bungle-thumbs failure brigade"), and zany humor ("When the going gets tough, the...
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Through the persona of Cora Fry, a wife and mother living in a small New Hampshire town, Rosellen Brown explores the ambivalent ties of love, loyalty, marriage, and family in a series of related poems. This volume includes the entire text of Cora Fry (1977), a kind of dramatic monologue, written in spare, simple lines, which describes the young woman's daily life and troubled marriage. A sequel of newer poems, Cora Fry's Pillow Book (1994), confronts...
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In She Who Lies Above, Beatriz Hausner brings Hypatia of Alexandria, the fourth-century Byzantine mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher, to life. She does so through layered ventriloquism: publishing amorous correspondence from the feminist icon's friend and former student, Synesius of Cyrene, and scribing Hypatia's replies in turn.
These letters are "discovered" by Bettina Ungaro, a librarian and archivist by day and poet by night. She, in...
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Embark on a provocative journey into the labyrinth of desires, where passion and poetry entwine to create an intoxicating symphony of sensations. This collection of sensuous verses will enthrall your senses and ignite your imagination, sweeping you away to a realm where words become tantalizing caresses. Explore the depths of love's most primal urges, as each page invites you to surrender to a tapestry of emotions. From the delicate dance of a first...
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Heartbreak is a difficult experience to navigate. You always hear of ways to manage grief or loss through different step programs, but never heartbreak. But that doesn't mean a five-step program for heartbreak doesn't exist.
A personal take on "the 5 stages of grief" as seen through the lens of heartbreak. Following the sequential order of the healing process, denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance, each section of the book explores...
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In this personal and heartfelt memoir, accomplished mother, professional, and immigrant Judith shares her extraordinary existence in poems, stories, and images that will entertain, intrigue, and challenge readers' perspectives on life.
Written as a memoir and a conversation, Judith Bullen invites her readers to explore the many experiences, choices, and losses she endured to establish her career and family. Readers will glean more than just entertainment...