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If Joy Williams and Raymond Carver had a love child that was often left in the care of Lydia Davis it might grow up to be Jayne Martin. Martin's writing evokes the literary DNA of those who have influenced her most, while in a style and voice that is uniquely her own. In these 38 tiny tales, everyday people do their best to manage the wounds life inflicts on all of us: A six-year-old beauty pageant contestant strives to please her demanding mo...

After a bloody stint abroad, onetime spy Amir Duran, has returned home to the British colony of Granada, Spain, to do what he does best: police work. But it's a bad time to be a cop in Granada. Climate change has ravaged the colony's all-powerful agricultural industry and its unscrupulous plantation owners have resorted to farming the most lucrative-and addictive-crop their hothouses can produce. With half the city hooked on plantation dope, c...

Gleah Powers began her adult life at age 14, not as a runaway, but as a "send away" in 1962.Known as Linda in those days, her strong-willed grandmother put her on a greyhound bus to travel alone, cross-country, with no firm plans for a return. It was understood between them that Linda, a young artist, was strong enough. By her early teens she was already the jaded veteran of her mother's first three divorces. She felt ready for the world, all ...

A woman sacrifices her children to save herself in an act of desperation. A political prisoner succumbs to his worst fears in a struggle to survive. A politician disappears in the midst of a reelection campaign only to be replaced by a cockroach who has assumed his likeness.Letters from Inside is a collection of stories that defy logic and yet tap into unrecognized truths about modern society: a twenty-first century vision of existential dysph...

You already know a lot more about poetry than you think. Ever recited nursery rhymes? How about sung lyrics or jingles for products? There's a bit of poetry in all of these and in much of your everyday life.This book was written to ignite the many stages of your poetry-writing journey, from the first spark of an idea through the editing and publication process.Chock-full of real-world advice, poetry examples, and prompts-here's inspiration to ...

As for who reads this bookAnd who follows its spellsI know your nameYou will not die after your deathIn WalmartYou will not perish foreverFor I know your nameSo begins this darkly comic incantation on the gods and scourges of the 21st century. The Walmart Book of the Dead was inspired by the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, funerary texts with accompanying illustrations containing spells to preserve the spirit of the deceased in the afterlif...

GIFT QUALITY NOTEBOOKS: The VLP Classic Notebook features an edgy, yet sophisticated and sleek design, and is easily portable and suitable for writers, students, artists, professionals and travelers.EVERYDAY USE: Suitable for everyday use, such as a daily journal, inspiration journal, morning journal, writing journal, dream journal, and poetry journal, lists, ideas, gratitude, or your next book. It is also ideal for brainstorming, note taking ...

GIFT QUALITY NOTEBOOKS: The VLP Classic Notebook features an edgy, yet sophisticated and sleek design, and is easily portable and suitable for writers, students, artists, professionals and travelers.EVERYDAY USE: Suitable for everyday use, such as a daily journal, inspiration journal, morning journal, writing journal, dream journal, and poetry journal, lists, ideas, gratitude, or your next book. It is also ideal for brainstorming, note taking ...

Welcome to a genre that has zoomed into public notice with the Internet age and yet has a rich history. Flashes in both fiction and nonfiction are highly sought after by editors and publishers across a wide array of publications. This practical guide covers a diverse range of topics from the first spark of an idea through to the writing, editing, and submission/publication process, offering real-world advice each step of the way from a teacher...

Revised 2019 EditionIn Polish Your Fiction: A Quick & Easy Self-Editing Guide, writer, editor, and publisher, Jessica Bell, offers her tried and tested advice on the quickest and easiest ways to polish different areas of writing style, consistency of prose, grammar, punctuation, typography, and layout. Each section is armed with a numbered checklist for moments when writers need that "at-a-glance" reminder and nifty Microsoft Word tricks that ...

Revised 2019 EditionIn Self-Publish Your Book: A Quick & Easy Step-by-Step Guide, writer, editor, and publisher, Jessica Bell, does not overwhelm your with all information available-she explains exactly what one needs to know, without the faff, by following a foolproof, cost-efficient, time-efficient, extremely easy-to-follow, step-by-step, self-publishing method. By following this method, a writer can have their book go from manuscript to pub...

Special Agent Amir Duran can't wrap his head around any of it. First, his boss tells him about the boy down in Zanzibar. He's immune, she says-immune to the Red Death. A potential cure for the most catastrophic disease in human history? If that weren't enough to blow Amir's mind, she lets him know who the brass back in London have chosen to chase the kid down. And, quick-the Russians and Japanese are after the boy too. None of it computes. Jus...

Detective Amir Omar Duran was just a boy when the British invaded his beloved Granada. Now-after two decades of colonial rule-the ancient city of winding alleys and iconic architecture is a smoldering caldron of corruption, poverty and strife.On the eve of a political summit between the city's wrangling factions, Amir is dispatched to Granada's torrid outskirts to investigate the unusual death of an African migrant. When the investigation puts...

After three decades of living in the sandy beach suburbs of Huntington Beach, Jon Vreeland's heroin addiction has finally destroyed his once promising music career, and estranged himself from his wife and his two daughters. Now Vreeland broods his daughter's absence while living in his old tour van that is broken down and parked on Atlanta Avenue, on the brink of downtown Huntington Beach. He and his brand new lover and longtime junkie, Zooey ...

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When a terrifying gang goes on a rampage at a packed subway station, Professor Jeremy Withers is severely beaten and left for dead. When he regains consciousness, he continues his journey to campus, only to find his office empty: His life as an academic for 30 years has been completely erased. A surprise visit from two mysterious inspectors complicates matters further. Do they want information about his attack? Who are they working for? Where ...

In 'You. I. Us.' Annalisa Crawford captures everyday people during poignant defining moments in their lives: An artist puts his heart into his latest sketch, an elderly couple endures scrutiny by a fellow diner, an ex-student attempts to make amends with a girl she bullied at school, a teenager holds vigil at his friend's hospital bedside, long distance lovers promise complete devotion, a broken-hearted widow stares into the sea from the edge ...

***The Zipper Club won the American Journal of Nursing's 2016 Book of the Year award in the category of Creative Works.*** For years Thomas Mannella observed the intrigue of people who believed him when he said the scars across his chest were from an alley knifing. This was a lie, but the more scarred by surgeries he felt, the greater his denial. He detached himself from the deteriorating valve in his heart, which he hoped would make him feel ...

*Includes fifteen BONUS! writing exercises that you will not find in the original series. In "Bird by Bird", Anne Lamott says a writer needs to focus on short assignments to avoid feeling overwhelmed. She refers to the one-inch picture frame on her desk and how it reminds her to focus on bite-sized pieces of the whole story. If you focus on one small thing at a time, the story will eventually come together to create a whole. The same applie...

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