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A LONG TIME COMING is a collection of lyrics and poems by singer and songwriter Emily McSherry. The collection covers works written over a twenty year span and includes some of her earliest and most recent songs and poetry. The foreword to the book is written by music and culture journalist, Vincent Harris.

Sonya Busby's light signature collection of soul stirring eclectic prose give you her personal moments of joy and pain... two snaps up along with a glass of wine and chocolates... ENJOY!!

Two sisters take a trip to the moon and find something unexpected...

“This isn’t it at all— N-No.” Not all last words become famous Not everyone Thinks & re-thinks the gulping in their throat, Sees an exaggerating scene, experiences different outcomes, Absurd flashback hopes But there are some that do, This is my explanation for those actions Moments left unchecked, wordless, & unprotected Mostly, though, this is just a subjective narrative of my time with the person on the other end of that line— Adwin Dolan

The Banished is a novel that tells the story of fifteen women who, for similar reasons, were forced to leave their homeland and immigrate to the United States.The Banished, in discovering that they currently find themselves living through similar experiences and frustrations, turn: their tears into laughter, pain into comfort, uneasiness into temporary peacefulness, sense of power into weakness, and excitement into depression. The Banished consciously become aware of their bodies being in a state of weightlessness, floating and wandering in an environment that neither allows them to fly nor to be dropped.

Conversations With A Hypoxic Dog is a collection of essays, stories, and poems from gv simoni's later work. The book explores the nuances of both the physical and the metaphysical. Prose, poetry, and poetic prose offer up insight into life's little indigestions.

“Distant Survivors is quintessential Heyen poetry; incendiary, intransigent, challenging and provocative.” Joyce Carol Oates “Heyen is himself an American. But he is an American who is the son of a German of the generation which produced the Nazis and the nephew of a Nazi flyer shot down over Russia, and the question, What is man?, becomes for him the more agonizing question, What am I?” Archibald MacLeish “Bill Heyen’s poetry is important for people to hear, especially for college students who are ready to grapple with the same issues as he does in his poetry.” Abby Johnson, Education Chair, Vassar Jewish Union Board Religious and Spiritual Life, Vassar College, NY “The gift ...

Kristie Raburn is an on-line writer and editor for several web article sites, such as Yahoo, Textbroker, Bukisa, HubPages and FireHow.com. Born in Maryland, her parents moved back to California when she was two years old. Living most of her adult life in San Diego, the ocean is a favorite source of inspiration for her poetry. Her love of writing began early, writing her first story at age ten. After high school, she joined the Army and was stationed in Louisiana, the inspiration for her poem, “Army Days”. She later held jobs as a technical writer, legal writer and copyeditor. It was while working as a copyeditor, a friend told her about on-line writing, where Kristie discovered a fondnes ...

We are sitting upon the wall waiting as the world has taken its downward spiral. The Self has become deemed more worthy than the collective being, and we await from the sidelines for the whole show to crash and burn. This manuscript is two shorter chapbooks combined into this one collection. Ghost in the Reflection-Letters to Erin began originally as a series on Channillo.com titled simply Ghost in the Reflection. It was a collection in the works that addressed the decline of kindness and morality in modern society. As the series began to take shape and grow it began to ring similiar to a second collection that poet James F. Miller II had sitting in the files of his desktop computer. ...