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At home and abroad, solitary travelers embark on journeys that take them where they never expected to go. A woman in Istanbul hooks up with a Kurdish rug dealer and learns a lesson about family life. A visitor to California—the elderly Tanaka—must shape up his daughter before she alienates the bridegroom. With a marriage at risk, Leslie and her Indian mother-in-law nearly come to blows over a shared kitchen. Walter, self-conscious about his disfiguring birthmark, finds himself stranded on a beach in Thailand, but for the first time in his life, he is not alone. Whether young or old, male or female, parents or children, the people in these stories stand at crossroads. Life places obsta ...

A book filled with poetry and short stories, crafted to make you long for the night, deserted streets, neon lights, unknown shadows, and the night air with less concentration of volatile compounds. Chocolate Mint Nite Drives offers obscure sorrows that wander in the abyss of negative reflection. Ruminate through kenopsia as a man and woman sit on bench and look around their empty city. Explore the apartments of sonder, ellipsism, lachesism, adronitis, and occhiolism. Victoria invites you on a night drive where she unveils the despondency wrapped in her heart. You both head where the other nightly people go. Perhaps an ice cream cone is purchased. Perhaps it is mint chocolate chip. You'll ...

All around us, people are struggling with their Identity. Emotional, physical, sexual, relational, spiritual – whatever its source, the struggle and pain are all the same. Elisha St. James who was a victim of major identity theft is intimately familiar with both not understanding his identity and having his identity stolen as a child. Elisha reveals the poignant unvarnished truth from the stages of brokenness to breakthrough. It’s a compelling story that will excite cognitive dissonance, enlighten, anger and will not be forgotten.

Love, as the hoary cliché holds, is a many-splendored thing: many-splendored, and multifaceted; a periapt to some, an Orloff Diamond to others. Within this volume, we assay to present this ubiquitous—-this most basic—-but most subtle and nuanced, of human emotions as we would any sacrosanct, dangerous relic. Follow us then into the world of nine authors, three men; six women, as they tingle and bleed for love.

Once a passive greeter with speech impediments to brash pulpit speaker with smooth colloquialisms on how to keep her. The picture you see is the mental of me. Fall 2017, tiny one bedroom sitting on the balcony writing my way out of a mental cell. Jobless and hungry feeling like I failed, fighting off decisions that could land me in jail. Three nights his legacy lays where I stay, stressed now more than ever I hope he didn’t get my negative traits. Generational trends he passed our way, created this manual to navigate through innate sins daily. 15 months of writing to pull back 35 years of laughter and tears. I've found myself to be healed of things past and more composed with the challen ...

Eleven short stories loosely tied together by theme, "High Strangeness in Psychic Spaces" takes the reader on a journey into realms of magick, mystery, myth, and synchronicity. Based in the reality of everyday life, each fiction casts a circumference wide enough to encompass the factual and the imaginal, the light and the dark, the transcendent and the mundane. Drawing upon influences such as Neil Gaiman, Haruki Murakami, Carl Jung, and Aleister Crowley, Jason Matthew Turner investigates Esoterica through a post-modern, existential philosophical worldview in this complex and challenging collection.

Candace rekindles an old flame. Lena is trying to keep her family together. Harriet is personally targeted by an unknown follower, as Desi scores big on a new business venture. There are those who are trying to stay alive in a violent town, while others have given up. Women who are defined by their circumstances are left to collect the pieces of their lives, pressing forward. But for those who cannot have to find themselves another way for survival.

Read All Day & All Day Production, LLC brings to you, a tale of three skits that involve relationship discussions between couples. The first skit titled: I Pay Attention: This is when a man notices a beautiful woman. His next move as a man, is to figure out how he can get her, to notice him. The next skit is titled: Chivalry: "Where have all the good men gone?" This is a conversation between a couple, who (the woman in this relationship) has dealt with so many different (Mr. wrong) men and now she wants to put her new love interest, through a rigorous trial of questions. The last skit titled: "What about me?" "Did I ever matter?" This is when a woman who is in an abusive relatio ...