Robby is seeing ghosts, and he’s not the only one. There are few people left in the world—many of them are thinking about how things might have been. They’re seeing ghosts of a life that was nearly reality. This new war that descends on them is more insidious than the last. This time, they’re battling their own desire, and fighting to stay alive, as individuals. They’re fighting to remain Distinct. Views: 390
For the first time in thirty years, all the signs have returned to the waters off The Shores. Signs of a presumed gone, possibly legendary giant cod. A photograph is the only evidence the big one ever existed. The Shores's mysterious Abel Mack almost landed the most giant of the giant cod the last time they appeared. At all costs, two powerful men with competing interests are after the biggest cod. They are closing in on The Shores – but the fisherman is missing. Ninety-year-old Abel Mack has disappeared. At the best of times, Abel is there one minute, gone the next. His best friends and family are not sure they would recognize him if they found him. Is he dead, by foul play or misadventure, or dead of exposure, as Mountie Jane Jamieson suspects? Or is he alive and sure to return, as his wife Gus Mack insists? Does the never-at-home Abel even exist outside Gus's memory or imagination, Hy McAllister wonders? Or has he been kidnapped for what he knows about the codfish? In this sixth Shores mystery by Hilary MacLeod, everyone is after the one that got away. But does anything — or anyone — who is attached to The Shores ever actually get away… alive? Cod only knows. Views: 389
In Up the Garden Path, Rosa, a young Barbadian seamstress, offers to pose as her brother to go to the Niagara Region in Ontario to work. There, she meets an aspiring actress obsessed with Joan of Arc, the ghost of a black Loyalist soldier who wants to die and a boss who can't keep the starlings away from his failing vineyard. Finding it impossible to ignore their demands, but not wanting to be found out and sent home, Rosa has to stop and figure out what she really wants instead of what everyone around her needs. Based on Bernard Shaw's short story, The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God follows a black girl who is abandoned by a white missionary for asking too many questions. Taking matters into her own hands, the Black Girl sets off to find out who or what God really is. Along the way she meets a number of characters who have very different views on God, but the Black Girl's unrelenting questions create conflict, and in the end she's forced to make her own... Views: 389
The Price and Prize of Victory is the process of acquiring spiritual growth and development for rewarding and sustainable life. The process is simple, the total submission to the will of God in everything you do, and the strong faith in God, that he who is in you is more powerful than all circumstances and situations of your life.Brother Michael Aboyi OgarMustard Seed Prayer GroupChrist the KMost people often think that they can never become anything reasonable in the society; they believe that God creates some special people to be successful in life. This is a big deception that is authored by the devil and manipulated through human weaknesses in affecting our mentality to act negatively. That we can never become what we ought to be in life according to God’s deposited potential talents that he laid within us.God is not partial to make some people great and others small but has given all men equal opportunity to become the best in their field of interest.The response by different individual makes the difference. This is responsible for the difference in the achievement people make in life. So we are all given equal chances to become what we want to be in life. There is no need for operating under your potentials, as deposited by God. It may interest you to know that you can also be a victor despite the various challenges that tend to frustrate your God-given dream and vision and be recognized in life as a great achiever, it is possible to become what you believe, if you do not relent your effort. Resoluteness is the screw that drives your vision or dream into fulfillment; it motivates your God-given potential talents in you to be effectives and efficient enough in your performance in life. This book is meant to encourage you to rise up to the challenges of life with greater expectation than ever before. Also to help you realize that you are much more than what you think you are in the moment.Your present circumstances or situations do not define your overall destiny in life. It is a temporal working process leading you to your victory, after which you will receive you prize. Never get confused because of your present circumstances, which may end up frustrating and terminating your God-given vision. No matter the battle of life around you, always hold on to your dreams with courage, and victory will be yours, there is a victor inside you. Views: 389
GhostI knew the moment I laid eyes on her there was something special about her. I pulled her out of a situation that was of her parents’ making. The day we showed up to save Lil’ bit from her maternal grandfather was the day my life changed forever. He had plans on trading Lil’ bit for Bristol, I can’t even imagine the fear those two were feeling. When we found them, they were hiding underneath a table. I never planned on settling down or finding someone who got my defective heart beating again. My brothers, my club – they were all that has ever mattered to me. Is it really possible for me to put them second to this beautiful, broken woman?BristolI always knew growing up that my life was doomed from the second I drew my first breath. My parents always used me for their gain, whether it be with business associates or as the victim of my father’s heavy hand. I never knew the joys of life, I lived day by day, moment by moment... Views: 389
A compilation of kept thoughts and sentiments of pain while being in the process and discovering the Art of Moving On and letting go. Resonate with your sentiments in this book and learn to fix the shattered pieces while reading these poems.Sharing my creative writing is something that makes me extremely content to be able to do. In this small poem book i would like to share with you many aspects of life.My process is simple, i sit down in my room or outside in a park or even on my travels and have note book that i carry just to write them down so i don't forget my thoughts. My hope in writing these is for you to take something from them. Thank you for your valuable time in reading my work.In my creative writing i hope to make people smile, think and find inspiration from would they read of my work. I don't pretend to be a amazing writer but i think all that matters is that you share with people what you feel in your heart and mind, put it out there if it feel right and then let the love and imagination of people take it and do as they will with it. I write about many different things including love, people, life, artistry, death & nature. I hope you enjoy my work. Views: 389
Happily ever after is possible. It's getting there that's hard. For no one is this more true than high school senior, Michelle "Elle" Conner. Elle is a simple, hard working girl from a small town in the middle of East Jesus Nowhere. Cast as a secondary character in her own life, Elle lives in the constant shadow of her annoying twin sisters. Her mother's cold shoulder coupled with her father's absence leaves Elle feeling isolated in her own home. Her one escape is waitressing at the local pie shop, Hap-PIE-ly Ever After. Despite her hardships, a surprising accident during senior year turns everything on its ear. Once upon a time she was nobody, but perhaps her fairytale is closer than she thinks. Views: 389
