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Flint and Kiffy by Phito Panayiotou begins with a conversation between Adrienne Kiff and her ex-boyfriend Jonas, about how Adrienne had met her partner, Flint. The meeting involved a train journey, make-up and train etiquette. The story goes on to describe the early part of the relationship between Kiffy, a French and Spanish teacher at Westminster School and Flint, a lawyer. They are an unlikely couple, if for no other reason than the age difference and the fact that they seemingly have nothing in common, other than the early morning training commute to work. However, things seem to be progressing along nicely.The reader is told about the very early stages of Flint and Kiffy''s relationship and is left to decide whether it will blossom into something so much more. Is it a one-sided relationship or are both Flint and Kiffy as invested as each other?Flint and Kiffy is a love story which includes all sorts of emotions from humour, to love, to sarcasm, to heartbreak, to eroticism and beyond.

Invisible Truth is a story of love, loss, healing and belief. The young prince never expected to become so deeply intwined within himself and learn so much from a wise monkey, of all beings. After having a torturous upbringing that led him to resent his father, the prince went searching for something, although he did not know what it was he was looking for.The prince was able to experience a life of excitement and beauty, but that didn''t come without heart wrenching pain and grief. Despite having to experience darker emotions, the prince was able to find purpose, strength and faith.''There is no wound that cannot be healed.'' This is an important message and reminder to all of us who may not see where else we can turn at times. There will always be brighter days and new experiences to be had, and you never know who may be waiting for you underneath the willow tree...

Jackson Penn''s complex upbringing prepares him for a range of experiences for which the description ''character-building'' would not do justice. Growing up in Hannibal, Missouri in the mid-nineteenth century with an abusive, habitually drunk father who failed to exploit the wealth he unexpectedly acquired, he is forced to establish his own path unguided and discover his own sexual identity. Intimate friendships with both sexes including with Dan, his friend''s negro slave, are pursued across a background of racial and political tension as the abolitionist cause gains momentum and civil war looms. Jackson is forced to confront his native American roots as circumstances lead him to remain on the move. His journey brings him into contact with an eccentric militant preacher and an emerging literary figure while all the time the unpredictable, unfathomable, glacial qualities of this boy are evolving.

The trip of a lifetime beckons as seventeen-year-old Dylan Bardell leaves a 1970s England to embark on an American road trip. After the shock of New York, he seeks adventure and salvation by bussing, sleeping rough and hitchhiking across the continent trying to make sense of his life. Processing his encounters through the lens of his childhood experiences and the many curious characters he meets, he winds his way across Canada, the mid-west, the Pacific coast and down past LA. Yet in all the carefree rhythms of life on the road there is a shadow of personal tragedy that causes his trip to be dominated by a revenge mission that leads inexorably to a day of reckoning in Texas.

This is the third saga in the lives of the dysfunctional Zonk family. The Zonk Farm of The Warped Noodle is prospering, with the addition of many wonderfully unhinged murderers. However, the Zonk Estate and The Truck Stop become the target of demonic attacks. Can they track down where these attacks are coming from, and why? They are ably assisted by Damn David, a large modified bat, whose mission is to ingest Republican conservatives who want to rid the planet of Zonks. And the residents of The Warped Noodle may yet have a role in their salvation...

Medicine for the soul is the best way to describe the collection of poems in The Lotus Dance. These brilliantly constructed poems weave a remarkable portrait of the joy and suffering we experience in the delicate dance of relationships, our effort to find our life''s purpose by looking to spirituality and the stressors social challenges cause us. Alex Andrews cleverly weaves African American, Native American, European and East Asian perspectives on finding love, embracing compassion and fighting injustice.

Do you know, when clouds make merry shapes, they are actually telling tales to each other? It's true! There is nothing they like better. Cloud spotters, like me, love to catch these stories as they float by.There is only one problem; as clouds have a habit of drifting off, their tales just trail away, before the story is finished.Perhaps you can invent an ending for each of these tales.What can be done about a Welsh dragon with a huge appetite for sheep?How can Duggie Dog teach thieving Thelma a lesson?Can you find a happily ever after for Marshmallow Madam?And just how far will Hilda and Heidi go to claim the crown 'King of the Mountain'?You decide!

Enter a vibrant world of magic and mayhem with this wonderful collection of stories, and follow the brave wizard, Walterwitz, on a dazzling series of adventures as he battles dragons, explores new worlds, and strives to protect all good creatures, great and small. But will his talent, strength, and wit be enough to outsmart his enemies and keep the town from disaster?

Chinyere Amaechi has by no means had an easy life. From an incredibly young age, she was faced with unfathomable traumatic experiences, and life did not seem to get any easier. When these traumas resurface at bedtime, in the form of terrifying nightmares, Chinyere finally agrees it is time to seek help. In this powerful story, when recounting her life to her therapist, Chinyere relives some of the toughest and scarring times of her life. Chinyere demonstrates in this empowering survivor story, the importance of never giving up.

Rebecca Rizell thinks of herself as an independent woman. She is self-assured and knows what she wants in life. She loathes not being allowed to make her own decisions. She is also strikingly beautiful yet finds intimate relationships elusive and remains a virgin at twenty-one.Her life takes on a sinister turn as she is abruptly abducted and transported to the Underworld. Two sons of the Devil, Seven and Julien, vie for her hand in marriage and the prospect of fathering a very special and cosmically significant child.Thoughts of escape are brushed away as she is made aware of a prophecy to be fulfilled and a painful and dangerous ritual to undergo. An intense battle of wills across diverse spiritual dimensions looms large and Rebecca's apparently ordinary mortal heritage is not all it seems.

Before returning to Earth, the spaceship remains in orbit to be quarantined. It is examined by the health team, which decides how long the crew will remain in orbit. But this time, a tourist spacecraft appeared in orbit, which had been absent for a hundred and fifty-six years. The usual remote copy of the ship's databases has been blocked. And it wasn't easy even to get up there. After the "wormhole" where the spaceship had fallen, the principle of optimality stabilized the life systems aboard. The appearance of a new living being, even an embryo, causes the death of another. And passengers begin to recover the lost physical conditions - appendicitis, virginity. Among the passengers is the author of the theory of optimality, who unknowingly creates a dramatic love triangle between himself, Miss Century of a bygone era, and the head of Health Team, the protagonist of this story.