Download or read book Another 365 Days of Poetry written by C.M. Simpson and published by C.M. Simpson. This book was released on 2024-05-05 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 365 days more of poetry, with verse ranging from the future to the past, the spooky to the melancholic, classic forms to experimental. Whether it’s a lost colony ship, or vampires celebrating Christmas, this volume runs the gamut of science fiction through to horror and urban fantasy.
Download or read book 365 Days of Poetry written by C.M. Simpson and published by C.M. Simpson Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-21 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From dragons to starships to lost colonies and deadly mermaids, this collection of poetry wander through genres and setting and poetic forms with happy abandon. It explores worlds and settings and reflects on the way things might have been or might become.
Download or read book Another 365 Days of Flash Fiction written by C.M. Simpson and published by C.M. Simpson. This book was released on 2022-11-17 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 6-words to 1,000, and from werewolves to wizards, these pieces of flash range from an imagined past to an imagined future, exploring new heroes and old, and trying to understand where some of the traditions of today, might fit in a time when mankind explores other worlds among the stars.
Download or read book 366 Days of Poetry written by C.M. Simpson and published by C.M. Simpson. This book was released on 2024-05-05 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poem for every day of the leap year, drawn from the fantastical, the future and the fallout from real life—and written for dreamers everywhere. While most are set in worlds of imagination, there are a few whose roots are buried deep in the disappointments of the real. So, if trolls, fairies, dragons, recovering from workplace bullies, and flying with starships, or dealing with regrets and finding hope—always finding hope—are your thing, then welcome to the wanderings of my mind.
Download or read book 365 Days written by The 365 Days Poets and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-18 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back in 2015, James Benger decided to put a process into place to make his writing more consistent. He made a New Year's resolution to write a poem a day for a year. To help make the resolution stick, he established a closed Facebook group and asked some writers he knew if they were interested. Soon over 200 participants were involved. In 2016 the fruits of this effort were celebrated in the first volume of 365 Days: A Poetry Anthology, which the four editors put together from poems submitted by a small core group of members who wished to participate. Here we are at it again. We hope you enjoy the poems collected here. They are the result of The James Benger System of Consistent Writing, otherwise known as 365 Poems in 365 Days. In 365 Days, Volume 2: A Poetry Anthology 18 poets contribute 76 poems collected by editors Roy Beckemeyer, James Benger, Dan Pohl, and Diane Wahto. Jeanette Powers, author of Perfectly Good Muses, says of 365 Days Volume 2: "The 365 Days poetry project is an illustration of conviction and community coming together and creating something exquisite in both its ambition and content. This online group, writing daily, generates a tremendous amount of creative energy and this anthology displays the grand result. Occasionally infused with the group's comments, the reader is delighted to be included in the fun. Poems, pastoral, micro, narrative, absurd, and intimate, play over the pages in perfect concerto of how a year of one's own life passes: with highs and lows, sighs and bellows." Shawn Pavey, author of Nobody Steals Towels from a Motel 6, says of 365 Says Volume 2: ..".a delightful read full of great moments from established and emerging poets...among the many bright spots in this collection...Paul Koniecki ('Carry the sun in your arms to a safe house / and leave it in an unmade bed of pillows and down, other / minor ceelestial objects, and soft music from a turntable in the / corner of another room')."
Download or read book 365 Days written by The 365 Days Poets and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-07 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The 365 collections are remarkably consistent in delivering everything you can imagine. In fact, reading through 365 Days, Volume 3 is like lounging in a hammock, strawberry lemonade at hand, while the winds of poetic voice buoy you from heartache to bliss and back again. Every page is a refreshment. Hats off the editors, for compiling yet another top-shelf collection."-Jason Preu, author and cult leader"With their different styles and themes, these poems by twenty-three different authors are like a salad where vegetables, fruits, and seeds in a variety of colors, shapes and textures come together to create a whole that is larger than the sum of its parts. The poems muse about octopus dreams and bathrooms in paradise, compare artichokes and motherhood, tell stories, recall memories. One of the poems claims "Almost everything/in life could be shorter." Not this book."- Agnes Vojta, author of The Eden of Perhaps (Spartan Press 2020)
Download or read book 366 Days of Flash Fiction written by C.M. Simpson and published by C.M. Simpson. This book was released on 2024-05-05 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Want to read a short story for every day of the leap year? Here’s a collection that might help. Some of these pieces tell of the fantastic, others which take us to the stars and a myriad of other worlds, and still others that horrify with creeping tales of the undead. Every story is an exploration of something that might have been and never was, or something that might yet be. Take a break from the world that is, and explore other possibilities.
Download or read book 365 Days of Poetry written by C. Simpson and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-12-28 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to this gathering of poetry. It comes in a variety of styles and genres, and is arranged in no particular order save that there is one poem for each day. I have played with traditional forms such as the cinquain and englyn, and worked with free-form verse and rhyme. I have written about the world around me, and about worlds that probably don't exist. I have tried to write poetry from the perspective of someone in the distant future writing about a new world, and I have written poetry with fantasy themes. Welcome to the worlds in my head.
Download or read book A Collection of Battle and Its Aftermath written by C.M. Simpson and published by C.M. Simpson. This book was released on 2023-04-20 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the personal to the impersonal, from times of kings, to the modern era, battle, its causes, and attempts to make peace has been a major part of human history…and so have those who’ve lived it, survived it, and tried to come to terms with living beyond it. These stories and poems shift from commemoration to reflection to exploration of causes and prevention, and bringing peace.
Download or read book A Collection of Death and the Undead written by C.M. Simpson and published by C.M. Simpson. This book was released on 2022-10-05 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not everything goes bump in the night. Some glide sorrowfully through castle halls and others stalk the dark, looking for prey. From monsters who died long ago and still walk our world, to creatures who herald death, to those mourning the loss of a king, or grieving a loved one, the short pieces in this collection are themed around death, loss and the undead. NOTE: This collection draws together short pieces from the flash fiction and poetry collections in this series, but includes a number of short stories that can only be found within its covers.
Download or read book A Collection of Lost Ships and Colonies written by C.M. Simpson and published by C.M. Simpson. This book was released on 2022-09-14 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From ships lost to accidents in warp, space pirates and plague, to colonies facing unexpected rivals, and new lifeforms on the ground, this collection draws on some of the what-ifs and maybes surrounding humanity’s future among the stars. From flash fiction to novelette-length short stories to verse, the speculation runs from the idea of corporate takeovers of colony worlds, to unusual critter incursions, to the simplicity of plague, and how our future selves might cope when facing the gamut of human emotion on an extra-terrestrial stage.
Download or read book The Book of More Delights written by Ross Gay and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From bestselling author of The Book of Delights and award-winning poet, a book of lyrical mini-essays celebrating the everyday that will inspire readers to rediscover the joys in the world around us. In Ross Gay’s new collection of small, daily wonders, again written over the course of a year, one of America’s most original voices continues his ongoing investigation of delight. For Gay, what delights us is what connects us, what gives us meaning, from the joy of hearing a nostalgic song blasting from a passing car to the pleasure of refusing the “nefarious” scannable QR code menus, from the tiny dog he fell hard for to his mother baking a dozen kinds of cookies for her grandchildren. As always, Gay revels in the natural world—sweet potatoes being harvested, a hummingbird carousing in the beebalm, a sunflower growing out of a wall around the cemetery, the shared bounty from a neighbor’s fig tree—and the trillion mysterious ways this glorious earth delights us. The Book of (More) Delights is a volume to savor and share.
Download or read book Jalaya written by C.M. Simpson and published by C.M. Simpson. This book was released on 2024-01-07 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A yearly tradition. A dance not forgotten. A planet torn by a long-running war. Hunted by an implacable, and driven into the ruins of a town he once called home, Mark Leader, Michael, must try to save his people against savage odds. And try, too, to save the woman he loves. Will the secrets of their past save or doom their future?
Download or read book A Planet s Bounty written by C.M. Simpson and published by C.M. Simpson Publishing. This book was released on 2022-12-18 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Governing a colony isn’t easy. I mean, I should be in my last year of school, stressing over exams and annoying my parents, not on some distant planet as a ransom for my world’s good behavior. Instead, I’m running a colony of five, while doing classes on planetary development, so when a strange spacecraft goes overhead, flying fast and low, toward a group of colonists I haven’t met yet? Well, even my Keepers think we have to move fast, or risk losing friends we’ve never met. And here I was thinking they’d dealt with the Heritage threat.
Download or read book Everything Has its Price written by C.M. Simpson and published by C.M. Simpson Publishing. This book was released on 2024-04-10 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fantasy short story containing: A place by the fire in exchange for a story, the tale of a blind bard and a dragon, a knight and his squire. Sharing stories for a place at a fire. It’s a highlight of the road—but the tale of a blind bard and a dragon, and how things used to be? Maybe it wasn’t my best choice.
Download or read book Harper s Choice written by C.M. Simpson and published by C.M. Simpson Publishing. This book was released on 2024-02-14 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An urban fantasy science fiction short story. Rescued by an elf. Approved of by the pixies. Protected by the unicorns. Harper returns to the world of man, to find it greatly changed. Fate has drawn her dance card, and rudely changed the tune. Will she surrender to its whims? Or find the courage to choose the next few dance steps for herself?
Download or read book A Planet s Price written by C.M. Simpson and published by C.M. Simpson Publishing. This book was released on 2023-03-19 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Missing colonists found. Check. Treaties signed. Check. Request for assistance received. Che—What? With New Haven missing two colonists in suspicious circumstances, it’s up to Mitch and I to find them. Something about the Heritage and us having done this kind of thing before and can we find them pretty please. Ugh. With details light on the ground, we’re only sure of one thing: That whatever we’re about to get ourselves into? It’s going to be a lot more complicated than anyone can expect. The only question is: Can we survive this, too? Or will the Heritage finally gain the advantage they need to take us down for good?
