Download or read book All Too Surreal written by Tim Waggoner and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2002-02-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Look at your reflection. The mirror is broken, the cracks spreading. Wider . . . deeper. Look between the cracks, and what do you see? Glimpses of dark, shadowy, twisted things that could only exist on the other side of a mirror. Eighteen stories. Eighteen cracks. The sound of shattering glass.

Download or read book Doctor Rat written by William Kotzwinkle and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This World Fantasy Award winner in the vein of Animal Farm delves into a lab worthy of a mad Nazi scientist—but run by a brilliantly sadistic rodent. In the annals of American literature, there has never been a character quite like Doctor Rat, PhD. From one of the most indispensable storytellers in speculative fiction, this biting satire introduces a narrator of learned charm and humor, and a twisted logic that is absolutely chilling. Doctor Rat is a credit to his species. A survivor of the most refined scientific experiments, now removed from the maze, he has become a valued and productive member of the academic community. When he must administer a lethal dose, he comforts his fellow rats with his compassionate slogan: “Death is freedom.” But everything changes when animals worldwide begin to rebel, refusing to accept their proper places in the natural order of things: as test subjects, pets, or food. And only Doctor Rat has the courage to defend mankind from the ungrateful animal kingdom. Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as “dazzlingly original” and “occasionally quite beautiful,” Doctor Rat is a sly and stylish indictment of fanaticism in mice and men. “A truly imaginative impresario . . . [Doctor Rat] teases your conscience with educated wit and versatile improvisation, not to mention the casual flick of the tail about to be cut off.” —Kirkus Reviews

Download or read book High School Memoirs a Journey in Surrealism written by Sean C. Cusack and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2007-11-14 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Synopsis High School Memoirs: A Journey in Surrealism is a tear-jerking, hilarious ride for a less-than-ordinary High School student who battles bullies and librarians to become King of the Classroom. Set in a small Catholic High School on the north side of Chicago, author Sean Cusack takes us on a surrealistic journey through four fun-filled years of triumph and tragedy in this unique epic. The journey begins with Sean Cusack entering St. Bernadin High School in August of 1995 as a very young and innocent Freshman student. He focuses on several life changing experiences in his infant days of High School that change him forever. Innocence Lost traces the steps Sean Cusack took that ultimately lead him on a path toward frequent battles with students and the school faculty and Administration. As a Sophomore, The Ride most certainly takes us on a ride through fights, vandalism, and verbal debacles that continued to steer the vengeful ship that Sean Cusack had been building since a Freshman. He now had become the ships Captain as it set sail. The Ride takes us through many strange and mysterious encounters that add more of a surrealist element to this budding melodrama and comedic satire. Sean Cusacks roses bud Junior Year in Forever Remembered, when he becomes a charismatic hero and leader of a rebellious group of students that pillage and plunder the school and faculty in wild and zany antics. Forever Remembered embodies the humorous and more imaginative side of Sean Cusack as the journey through High School becomes more surreal. Senior Year wraps up the trials and tribulations that Sean Cusack had endured thus far in his High School experience culminating into one person after years of battling the Defunct Administration. He is molded by evil as the rebellious youth becomes totally hellbent on crippling the school. In the end, he loses friends, respect from teachers, but most of all, he loses faith in his cause, yet ends his High School experience with a fantastical and triumphant bow. Sean Cusack proves that not all High School stories are the same in this turbulent and chaotic autobiography. High School Memoirs: A Journey in Surrealism chronicles a strange and unique history that is truly a step above the rest.

Download or read book Surrealism and the Art of Crime written by Jonathan Paul Eburne and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corpses mark surrealism's path through the twentieth century, providing material evidence of the violence in modern life. Though the shifting group of poets, artists, and critics who made up the surrealist movement were witness to total war, revolutionary violence, and mass killing, it was the tawdry reality of everyday crime that fascinated them. Jonathan P. Eburne shows us how this focus reveals the relationship between aesthetics and politics in the thought and artwork of the surrealists and establishes their movement as a useful platform for addressing the contemporary problem of violence, both individual and political. In a book strikingly illustrated with surrealist artworks and their sometimes gruesome source material, Eburne addresses key individual works by both better-known surrealist writers and artists (including André Breton, Louis Aragon, Aimé Césaire, Jacques Lacan, Georges Bataille, Max Ernst, and Salvador Dalí) and lesser-known figures (such as René Crevel, Simone Breton, Leonora Carrington, Benjamin Péret, and Jules Monnerot). For Eburne "the art of crime" denotes an array of cultural production including sensationalist journalism, detective mysteries, police blotters, crime scene photos, and documents of medical and legal opinion as well as the roman noir, in particular the first crime novel of the American Chester Himes. The surrealists collected and scrutinized such materials, using them as the inspiration for the outpouring of political tracts, pamphlets, and artworks through which they sought to expose the forms of violence perpetrated in the name of the state, its courts, and respectable bourgeois values. Concluding with the surrealists' quarrel with the existentialists and their bitter condemnation of France's anticolonial wars, Surrealism and the Art of Crime establishes surrealism as a vital element in the intellectual, political, and artistic history of the twentieth century.

Download or read book The Whispered Heart Volume II written by Deborah Horton and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-05-28 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems of love and loss, life and death, screams and silence and through it all the heart whispers still.

Download or read book Photography and Surrealism written by David Bate and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-12 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Bate examines automatism and the photographic image, the Surrealist passion for insanity, ambivalent use of Orientalism, use of Sadean philosophy and the effect of fascism of the Surrealists. The book is illustrated wtih a wide range of surrealist photographs.

Download or read book Number and Numbers written by Alain Badiou and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-05-18 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The political regime of global capitalism reduces the world to an endless network of numbers within numbers, but how many of us really understand what numbers are? Without such an understanding, how can we challenge the regime of number? In Number and Numbers Alain Badiou offers an philosophically penetrating account with a powerful political subtext of the attempts that have been made over the last century to define the special status of number. Badiou argues that number cannot be defined by the multiform calculative uses to which numbers are put, nor is it exhausted by the various species described by number theory. Drawing on the mathematical theory of surreal numbers, he develops a unified theory of Number as a particular form of being, an infinite expanse to which our access remains limited. This understanding of Number as being harbours important philosophical truths about the structure of the world in which we live. In Badiou's view, only by rigorously thinking through Number can philosophy offer us some hope of breaking through the dense and apparently impenetrable capitalist fabric of numerical relations. For this will finally allow us to point to that which cannot be numbered: the possibility of an event that would deliver us from our unthinking subordination of number.

Download or read book The Edge of Surrealism written by Roger Caillois and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of newly translated writings by the French sociologist and surrealist.

Download or read book Mixed Signals written by Alyssa Cole and published by Carina Press. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This trilogy gets better with each book.” —Library Journal “Cole’s Off the Grid series succeeds because it captures the unsettling details of its dystopian setting beautifully, but also because its main characters are so very human and relatable.” —RT Book Reviews “This is friends-to-lovers romance…but it’s in the science-fiction story line where Cole really shines. The setup of Mixed Signals seems eerily plausible, and the entwined love story will satisfy sci-fi and romance readers alike.” —New York Times bestselling author Sarah MacLean Winner of the RT Reviewer’s Choice Best Futuristic Romance of 2015 A Washington Journal Best Romance of November 2015 Four years after the Flare, the world is finally starting to rebuild For Maggie Seong, that means leaving the safety of her family’s cabin for college. She won’t be alone, though—hunky former military cadet Edwin Hernandez, family friend and self-appointed Protector of Maggie’s Virtue, will be there. Maggie would much prefer that Edwin himself dispose of her “innocence,” but he’s already rejected her advances once, and a girl has her pride. Things look pretty bleak romance-wise until Maggie discovers that Devon, the pre-Flare internet boyfriend she’d assumed was dead, is not only alive but on campus. Despite the passage of time, their bond is strong, and they quickly pick up where they left off. Even as Devon aims for a chance at love IRL—everything Maggie thought she’d wanted—Edwin’s desire to protect her makes her question her heart. Maggie’s torn between the future she didn’t dare to hope for and the past she can’t let go of. And when a group of neo-Luddite terrorists threaten the campus, everyone’s loyalties will be tested. To ensure that the world doesn’t go back to the dark days following the Flare, Maggie might have to sacrifice it all. One-click with confidence. This title is part of the Carina Press Romance Promise: all the romance you’re looking for with an HEA/HFN. It’s a promise! This book is approximately 62,000 words Originally published in 2015

Download or read book The Flannelette Shirt written by Sarah Foote and published by Pasini Press Pty Ltd. This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book GABE written by Rose Middleton and published by Rose Middleton. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s the reunion former soldier Gabriel Jackson never thought possible, but now that he’s tracked down this soul mate, he needs to convince her she's in mortal danger. ​Losing everyone she loved to war, Kate Smith ran away. She’s worked hard to forget the ghosts of her past – until a man she’d thought was dead drops out of the sky and lands in her backyard. Finding her old flame wounded, and in need of rescue, proves Kate hasn’t run far enough. Hunted by a man they once both trusted, can Gabe and Kate survive long enough to figure out if they have future together?

Download or read book Ten Days with an Angel written by Michael Combs and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ten Days with an Angel" is a personal account of a young, professional man whose shallow life is transformed after meeting an angel. While taking some time off from work, he is confronted by a man claiming to be an angel. Over the course of the next 10 days there are a series of bizarre "coincidences" with no logical explanation. Intrigued both by the days' events and the angel's uncanny insights and predictions, the author cannot help but follow along to see what's around the next corner. As the various events enfold, the angel shares his observations about mankind, causing the young man to question his own values and purpose in life. But the angel is full of profound answers and the incidents turn into a vehicle for change, not just for the man, but for all who experience the angel's unusual methods.

Download or read book The Gambler s Fallacy written by Philip Hennings and published by Philip Hennings. This book was released on 2023-10-14 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Gambler’s Fallacy, the author utilizes deep symbolism to reflect on today’s society. While partaking in a tradition with her friends Matilda uncovers a dark reality that she hopes is just a delusion. As she scours her memories she uncovers her own truth. A truth nobody would like to know, but cannot avoid.

Download or read book The House That Ate Bone written by Natasha Danzig and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-04-26 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a 15-year sentence in a maximum security facility, Chantal Rathbone is released on condition that she accept accommodation arranged by the prison's governing body. Elated to be free, she accepts custody of a glorious historical thatch house in the Irish countryside. But she is aware that nothing is free, being a seasoned criminal. The house comes with a gruesome history that challenges Chantal's psyche, her resilience and her fears, when she discovers human bones in the thatching of the house. Her abilities are tested when she is plummeted into a tangible world of intangible forces. Suddenly Chantal 'Bone' Rathbone is confronted by things beyond history, mythology and perception and she must decide whether she would elect to fight evil...or rule it.

Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Surrealism written by Kirsten Strom and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-08 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a conceptual and global overview of the field of Surrealist studies. Methodologically, the companion considers Surrealism’s many achievements, but also its historical shortcomings, to illuminate its connections to the historical and cultural moment(s) from which it originated and to assess both the ways in which it still shapes our world in inspiring ways and the ways in which it might appear problematic as we look back at it from a twenty-first-century vantage point. Contributions from experienced scholars will enable professors to teach the subject more broadly, by opening their eyes to aspects of the field that are on the margins of their expertise, and it will enable scholars to identify new areas of study in their own work, by indicating lines of research at a tangent to their own. The companion will reflect the interdisciplinarity of Surrealism by incorporating discussions pertaining to the visual arts, as well as literature, film, and political and intellectual history.

Download or read book Four Kings written by Karan K Anders and published by Andrea K Hösth. This book was released on 2022-12-27 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mika Niles always thought boyfriends way too much effort. Now she has three of them. While Mika has a habit of making life look easy, maintaining a balance between three boys who refuse to become rivals would be a challenge all on its own. Adding to the mix apparently infinite family drama, and the inevitable backlash brought by living with three extremely coveted young men, may be enough to threaten Mika's lifelong dream. When it's no longer a game, and not nearly enough of a secret, can Mika find a way to stay with her Kings?

Download or read book Shackleton s Whiskey written by Archer Kelly and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2023-11-23 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bottle of whiskey has been stolen. But it’s not just any bottle: it’s incredibly old and incredibly priceless. And its previous owner isn’t just any connoisseur: he’s a powerful tech mogul with black-market shopping habits. He’ll do anything—anything—to get that bottle back. Retired and enjoying the beach life, former Detroit police detective Oliver Savage is dragged back onto the job to find the thief and retrieve the bottle. Instead, he finds himself neck deep in a boozy pool of greed, betrayal, and murder that’s about way more than a little whiskey. Author Archer Kelly is exactly like the readers of Shackleton’s Whiskey: passionate about spy and crime novels. That commitment is obvious on every page of this story. Kelly had a lot of fun creating Savage, tough, intelligent, and elegant—Frank Sinatra if Old Blue Eyes had been a detective—as well as crafting the twisty, turning, thrilling plot. You’ll have just as much fun reading it.