You can use all of your life experiences to create art. Why stop yourself ? The world is full of critics,so be an ally to yourself. Sometimes you just have to get on with things. It won't exist unless you make it so.Before Cell Wars is a short three chapter children's book to introduce a new character inside the human body. This fictional story is set inside the veins and arteries and we follow the main character Bands, a newly made white blood cell, on his adventures. Find out what a white blood cell's job is and how they help fight diseases and infections. This is an adventure story for 6-12 year olds combining fiction and scientific facts about the blood system (these have been verified by a medical practitioner). 'Cell Wars - In the Beginning' follows Bands in his adventures and was recently awarded a silver medal in The Wishing Shelf Independent Book Awards and was shortlisted in the Rubery Book Award 2014. Views: 858
Finding the one you're meant to be with can transform your life. Sometimes you don't realise how lonely you are,until you meet them. Awake or asleep,they're your soulmate.When Eric learns that the weather in Hollow has been acting strangely, he returns to the magical town to help his friends with the danger they might face soon.Eric and his friends have to understand what is wrong with the weather and why the boys are getting paler day by day. Could the truth be hidden in the dark depths of the cave? And what is hidden inside the fountain on the square?To solve the Fountain Riddle, Eric and his friends will have to fight the Pied Piper and his rats, visit a 19th century ball, and catch the boy in the painting. Views: 832
Alone and on the trail,what can you do but howl for those you miss ?To visit humans, there are rules. Many rules. But Rex and Auden have learned them all. There is nothing they like better than going to town. As soon as the sun sets, they leave to play hide-and-go seek, pull pranks, and sing their favorite songs. Find out what else they do during their Monster Nights.(For ages 3-6) Views: 744
You're full of ideas,and they've got to come out. But what if you get blocked ? Failed projects hang around forever,haunting you. Sometimes you just have to apply a little pressure to get results.This is the 4th of an ongoing series of stories inspired by the Cthulhu mythos and the writing of H.P. Lovecraft. This story is from the villain’s point of view. It chronicles Dulfor’s life from receiving his Masters of Divinity, finding a mentor in his blasphemous obsession, and recruiting Sorush Al-Helzra to help him translate forbidden texts held within the vaults of the St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary. The story ends with Dulfor’s profane ritual to release the Old One, Yelkat’hop, from the 1st story (The Second Coming) and the foreboding events that immediately followed. Views: 656
A young boy enters a graveyard at dawn with his dog. Both love the countryside and the wild-life they observe. Death is a part of the process of Life,but a surprise awaits them in the burial-ground.A thirteen year old boy and his dog enter the graveyard of the local church. It is a burial-ground that they are familiar with,a part of their regular walk at dawn. A fierce storm the night before has wrought changes on the landscape. The young naturalist fears little, and is not intimidated by the circle of life which always brings death to all of us. He has already had a close brush with the inevitable,saved by his dog,and has seen the torment of bereavement. The graveyard is more of a haven and refuge to some and he loves its sheltering atmosphere,but nonetheless he faces a strange discovery that serves as a reminder of his own mortality. Views: 633
Do you remember happiness ? I do,just - so why is sadness dogging my tracks ? I know how wrong I've been,but I just want to take off out of here.Oniria CityThe Alfa had appeared in the Oniria City after a long time. His absence turned the city in a dark place where passersby passed were no able to perceive, that today bears his real name, was where the Alpha was born.Oniria again become to be the promised city for the abstract concept that some call God, and others just simply want to mention like the promised city, where in the first hung a sign said: "Someone who valued itself always takes time to read, but have to be willing to bow to the ignorance." Views: 555
Three daughters organize their parents' 50th wedding anniversary celebration. The union has been a tempestuous one,but change is about to happen at the most unexpected of occasions.Bella,Bea and Bianca work hard to ensure that their parent's 50th wedding anniversary celebration goes with a swing. Timo and Bertha have weathered the storms of a difficult union,with too many secrets kept quiet for the sake of the family. There's a limit on how long a good man can do the right thing though,and freedom and joy look more attractive than servitude and misery. Someone is about to make their escape bid... Views: 541
A successful but lonely business-woman and author sits alone contemplating the full moon with her ragamuffin of a cat. Out in the darkness,mere yards away, a bachelor down on his luck,does what he can to survive.Clarissa owns a successful gift-shop,runs a holiday letting cottage and is a published author. But she's been single for two years,and her only company is a Maine Coon cat who is increasingly going his own way now that they live out in the country. Alone on the night of the harvest moon,she gazes at the equinox from the warm safety of her luxury home. Out in the darkness,Hugh an impoverished divorced man does what he can to better himself,resorting to age-old cunning to make what he can from those more fortunate than him. In some ways the two are ideal for one another,and even know of the other's existence. Will they ever meet ? Views: 504
Seeing someone that you fancy is only the first step. Try all that you can to make things work,but they may not - what then ?This short story follows certain days in the ordinary life Ann Marie Jensen’s, the daughter of a Marine Officer who heads out to fight in World War one. We watch as Ann Marie and her family move from their hometown, and start a new life without her father and her lover. A lot happens in these few important days of her ordinary life, including the death of loved ones and living in the times of both World Wars and the Great Depression. Anyone can relate to her life, especially those who lived through the times. Views: 490
When things aren't going right,as the unravelling begins - what to do next ? How to find a way out - or should you ?The world was perfect. A blue and green Earth spinning on its axis with a billion people wandering its surface and deep in its oceans. But then technology found a fix for what was broken with society. Bots. The sophisticated super-human robot designed to make life easier... But then imagine a rebellious group, filled with disdain for this new technological development and the laziness of the masses. Imagine how they create a virus and infect the bots... Introducing the Killer Bots, known to the remaining human population as KBs. They slowly but surely have begun to take over the planet, killing without hesitation any human seen to cross their paths. They simply load their machine guns and fire. The survivors do what they can to keep a grasp on life. Ryan is one such lone survivor. He makes his way from place to place. He scavenges supplies from old stores and left-behind homes. He walks and ventures and journeys, all the while staying alert for errant KBs. He won't hesitate if he comes across a robot... He'll simply shoot and kill. That is, until he stumbles across Ami. But Ami is like no other robot he's ever known... Views: 481
Growing up means learning lots of things - how to tell jokes,how to tie shoe-laces,the importance of telling the truth - but what is that,exactly ? Why can't I be a pirate instead ? And look at what my cat's licking now !Also check out books two and three, now available!Leroux has spent his life having everything handed to him – everything except the hand of the alluring Beauty, which he covets above all else. When Beauty is “kidnapped” by a Beast, Leroux sets out to reclaim what he feels is rightfully his from the frightful monster, but when the unexpected occurs, Leroux discovers that not all monsters take the form of a Beast. A fast-paced, reflective Fairy-Tale retelling, "The Beauty of the Beast" is a dark visit to the land of possibilities, and the first of the Beastly Tales.Read the other Beastly Tales to discover more about the story you thought you knew: A Beast of Beauty ~ Tale #2Beauty Beheld ~ Tale #3 Views: 444
What with the wind trying to blow me away,and the ghosts telling fibs,is it a surprise that I've been making up stories. I'd quite like to be an animal or a bird,but could I have some whiskers in the meantime ?A cynical wharf witch’s world is turned on end when her childhood sweetheart returns from the sea.Candle is a firelighter, selling fragments of her spirit to the hopeless and lost. It’s a rough livelihood, but she’s a survivor and allows herself few regrets. Then Tern shows up. The boy she once loved—who left so mysteriously—is now a gorgeous man who acts as if they’re friends. How can he act as if nothing ever happened? And how can she help him when she wants to tear him in two? Views: 405
We're surrounded by it,but forget how to see the creatures that we share the world with - from tiny insects to birds and flowers.Long ago Indian Deity Shiva fought the Demon Mahash high above the Earth until one of Shiva's knives found the Demon's heart and he fell to earth and landed deep in the South American jungle. The knife was found by a mortal man that used it's power to build and control the great empire of the Mayans until him and all his kind fell victim to it's power. Now the last of the Mayan Priests has journeyed to the Emerald City of So-Cal to reclaim the Shiv of Shiva, but when Masked Luchador Obscuro is hired to stop him everything takes a turn into pulse pounding insanity. Views: 375
A famed motorcycle traveller is sent to Mars to explore the red planet for colonization. Earth is doomed by pollution and over-exploitation of its resources. Can she find a new place for the human-race to live - and should she ?Jacqui explored the Earth on her venerable Royal Enfield 500cc motorbike in the early 21st century. One hundred and twenty years later her cryonically preserved body is thawed and she is flown to explore Mars as part of mankind's effort to find new worlds to colonize. Earth is doomed through over-population,decimation of its resources and choking pollution. She knows that she is being used as a symbol of the struggle to survive,and though anxious to do her best she is plagued with doubts that the human-race will inevitably ruin another planet. Riding her trusty steed Enfield,now powered by an electric motor,she surveys the landscape,coming across a promising plain. Pausing to take photographs,Jacqui falls into a reverie as she encounters an ancient Martian. Views: 349
There's always more than one way of doing things. Sometimes you have to apply a few filters to screen out what's holding you back. Sharing who you are with the world is what your art is about. Take flight and scan the horizon.We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. from Dead Poet's SocietyPaintings in Words is a book of poetry by Scottish artist and author, Jenni Munn, currently living in Western Australia. The poems are based on the authors observations of the world around her and have been created over the last 10 years, and compliled into this book. They capture some of the darkest, brightest, deepest and most passionate moments that life offers. The book offers poetry for both adults and children. All of the artwork in the book is original and has also been created by Jenni. Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry. ~W.B. Yeats Views: 341
