Introduction by Cosey Fanni Tutti, legendary performance artist and founding member of Throbbing Gristle ​ Nightmares never seem to make sense when we try to describe them. Neil's genius is that he's written a book in a way that puts you back in that mindset by tapping into the primeval in all of us as a kind of catalyst for the telling of this story. This is a story told in the way that we live out life changing events - it's full of movement. It steps us back, sideways, takes us into seeming irrelevance - maybe as a means of escapism, and all by unpunctuated expertly crafted emotionally evocative (and) beautiful sequences of words. It's akin to poetry, or song lyrics at times. Words are used rather like musical notes, arranged in a sensitive, sometimes aggressive ways, constructing and deconstructing, effectively facilitating your own unique 'nightmare reading' of this story. The words are a means to an end, elements which collectively create a composition, the purpose of which is intrinsic to its completeness.  You should approach this book by abandoning any established preconceptions of the role of narrative or role...

...  The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats though unseen among us,—visiting This various world with as inconstant wing As summer winds that creep from flower to flower —Percy Bysshe Shelley ​ it is dark all around listen I say can you hear that she is gone I hear Firefly move uncomfortably in his bed across the room no he says that’s the sound of knives I cannot say he doesn’t hear that it’s not what I hear  Firefly is sleeping that is falling in and out of sleep so many of the people we have known are dead we have not seen each other since I left I’ve ignored him while considering what to do about meeting them and before them a hundred other thems he is caught in a trembling he can’t ascend out of and he lies there cursing resting smelling of illness which is the smell of neglect calling someone every couple minutes to fix or adjust what is wrong in him or what he needs in him what consumes him is unnatural rebuke beg whimper like collecting into a tear that never fully falls as he settles again into a nauseated waiting a concentrated breathing and an occasional ironic chuckle after every stroke my dad threw ...

A Book of Nightmares About the Author Also from William Ralph Press

This story whirls around plot that opens up when two ex-classmates happen to meet inadvertently, one on his official duty, while the other on past-time, enjoying holiday touring alone. Their next meeting, brings a female classfellow of theirs at the hill-station to make them enjoy one another’s company. This re-union continues to grow further during the years that follow. The author portrays just an account of certain events taking shape in the social sectors of these persons, making, breaking or remaking a marriage based on the choice of the persons involved into matrimony. ...

Hemant's intention in going to the H.P.T.D.C. hotel was, at the moment, influenced by the desire to meet Mr. Manmeet Malhotra, the manager. He also wanted thereby to express his gratitude to Mr. Malhotra who had arranged accommodation for him last night. Hemant was already under obligation of Mr Malhotra for his kind and affectionate treatment of Hemant when three years ago Hemant happened to meet him at the H.P.T.D.C. hotel at Manali where Manmeet Malhotra was working as an Astt Manager, those days. They were seeing each other after almost a decade since their graduation as students of S.R.C.C., Delhi. …………………….. "Well, how is `Bhabhiji`?" Hemant asked. For a few moments Manmeet held up his tongue tightly and only stared at Hemant with a smile on his face. Hemant thought that he had made a mistake. Perhaps, Triplem is still a bachelor like him. "But when I met him in Manali, he had told me that he had got married only three months before.” But Manmeet was quick enough to read the signs of perplexity in his friend's face and lost no time in explaining his position. ……………. He was not interested in knowing more about Ma...

Αφηγήσεις πάλλουσες και σκοτεινές, όλες σε πρώτο πρόσωπο, χτίζουν μικρόκοσμους απωλειών και μετά τους γκρεμίζουν. Οι ήρωες των μικρών αυτών ιστοριών είναι ακροβάτες που παραπαίουν μεταξύ ευτράπελου και τραγικού, προκαλώντας έκπληξη και θυμηδία....

Φόβος Κανένας «Κι όταν ήρθε ο Πολύφημος στη σπηλιά, κάτσαμε δίπλα στη φωτιά και του διάβασα την Ιλιάδα»

Δεν βιάζομαι Επαρκώς ευσυνείδητος Σοκολάτα και γλαδιόλες Φόβος κανένας Το παραφάρμακο Κακό πράμα Ο συντελεστής τέσσερα Παραμύθι Το κατσαβίδι Όταν έμαθα στον Άτλαντα να καπνίζει Χειροβομβίδα στη μασχάλη Ο Ντίνος Υγεία Οκτώ παρά τέταρτο Κίτρινο και μαύρο Χθες βράδυ Το ντιμπέιτ Το όνειρο Ο Ζακ με το κοστούμι Στο μπαρ Χίλια ευρώ τον μήνα Μαύρο μανταρίνι Είκοσι δύο χρόνια χωρίς διακοπή Ο βάτραχος Απόγνωση Εγωστάσιο Ο υπαλληλόπουλος Μωβ Έφαγα τη μαμά...

The setting of this novel is Nicaragua in the 1970's, a Central American country impoverished by a cruel dictatorship and a devastating earthquake that destroyed Managua, the capital city. A young teenager, whose parents perished during the earthquake, moves to a rural community to rebuild her life, helping a Christian peasant community....

The most interesting and important event for the boys of the old, already semi-derelict school of the small town was going to the movies and the following discussion of the new film. But most had rarely the opportunity to go to the cinema and everyone who was lucky to see a new film retold for days again and again the contents until all the others knew the whole movie by heart without seeing it themselves. Especially the younger pupils lacked the money, but even the older ones had often not enough to by a ticket. Because for a ticket one had to pay twenty kopeks, otherwise one could not enter the cinema....

In 1999 in Valentina, California, a young man named Will Herrera, whose inability to control his methamphetamine use leads him to join a recovery program, there befriends Rodney Toth, an older recovering addict with a similar history. When Will and Rodney learn that Keiko Tsuhara, a young woman with whom Will is infatuated, is being battered by her boyfriend, their well-intended plot to avenge her goes awfully wrong. In five chapters, the novel explores the minds and histories of the characters, particularly Will’s, as they seek to understand how to know, and do, what is right....

Join us for Volume 1 of Pillbug. In this book Warren R. Smith trundles down the path of flash fiction and short stories. Among other anecdotal excursions, you’ll find within; the story of a Taxi driver who must come to terms with the truth depth of his daughter’s independence. Read the Speckled Egg, magic realism wherein two children, in saving their lives, must change shape. In Jack-O’-Lantern and old woman invites herself to be haunted. In Pillbug, the story is about the risks of day labor. In Purple Hippo, a Hippo decides it's time to shake the world up. Jack and the Magpies is written in defense of a worthy appetite. Contemporary mainstream and humorously literary, you’ll find this collection chock-full of five-minute wisdoms and imagination....

Yes, it was a crazy season for rabbits. Everywhere they hopped and nibbled — even in the office. Daily I had to sweep them off the desk before I could get a thing done — and I leaned into the task with the whole of my arm and an imprecating grunt because sometimes that’s all there was....

Introduction The Red Paint Flaking English As A 2nd Language Like Caffeine Sweet Nothings Individually Wrapped The Speckled Egg Troder of the Mish'dee Orb Dotting Tigers Jack-O'-Lantern Candy-Corn Angel On Religion Pillbug A Walking Tour Paused Purple Hippo No Man Left Behind Laundromat The Last Thing A Memory Without Name The Girl With the Sheep Animal Magic Jack and the Magpies About The Author...

The book keeper of the hospital of a small provincial town came one day home very tired. He had not the least desire to have dinner and so he decided to lay down at once and to sleep. In recent years it often happened, that he, after coming home in the evening, had dinner and immediately went to bed without a word to his already grown up children or his wife. She became more and more grumpy in view of his seclusion. He only wanted to sleep, to sleep soundly till daybreak of the next and probably again undesirably day which he always impatiently anticipated, only to immerse again in his coma. For any reason he remembered this evening his childhood in a state between vigil and slumber....

Two bank employees, one married male and the other unmarried female happened to mark affinity for self in the other. This unmarried person was the boss of the other one. In view of the mutual affinity, this boss visited the other’s residence for delivering in person the `invite` on the occasion of her marriage with an NRI doctor. In a couple of years, the marriage of both these persons reached the stage of irretrievable breakdown, as both were feeling suffocated with the behaviour and attitude of their spouses. By the by, they happen to divulge to each other the emotional injuries suffered at the hands of their respective callous spouses. However, they happen to be neighbours by virtue of the flat allotted to them by their bank under the self-financing scheme for its employees envisaged to reach them a surprise bonanza in a unique `no profit, no loss` basis. The events at the inlaws family in the case of both of them brought them physically closer, with the blessings of their parents. Thus, they happen to be `a circumstantially evolved couple`. ...

“It appears to me that almost every religion tends to circumscribe the reasoning potentials of its followers. The self-styled custodian of the religious beliefs would not take it upon himself as a duty to seek the explanations of the `deviating folk`, unless an explosive situation emerges,” Nidhi expresses her opinion in the presence of the lone listener … She says, “Even at this moment, some kuchcha structure is visible. A notice board is also clearly visible from here. I think, let’s move towards that hut, to check, if that hermit is still using that hutment even after a period of fifty five years has gone by.” He looks undecided, but his wife almost drags him towards that sign-board. It reads the same contents. The door seems to have been bolted from inside. They move away awfully, lest they disturb the hermit’s peace. …. Nidhi often happens to recall her days when she had once heard from Anirudh that Smriti’s father is a doctor in a government dispensary and has been living an ostentatious type of life. It had resulted in his daughter always complaining of the total absence of modern amenities for leading `a moderately c...

Πρόκειται για μία νουβέλα της Ιταλίδας συγγραφέως Ματίλντε Σεράο (1856-1927). It's a novel by the Italian author Matilde Serao (1856-1927), with the title "Giovannino or Death"....

Πρόκειται για μία σύντομη συγκριτική μελέτη μεταξύ του ιταλικού και ρωσικού λογοτεχνικού φουτουρισμού καθώς και μία συγκριτική ανάλυση ενός ποιήματος του Μαρινέτι και ενός του Μαγιακόβσκι. This is a brief comparative study on Ιtalian and Russian literary futurism as well as a comparative analysis of a Marinetti's poem and of a Mayakovsky's one....

-Εισαγωγή (Intoduction) -Οι ευρωπαϊκές πρωτοπορίες στην αρχή του 20ου αιώνα (The European avant-gardes at the beginning of 20th sentury) -Ο ιταλικός φουτουρισμός (Italian futurism) -O ρωσικός φουτουρισμός (Russian futurism) -Σύγκριση ανάμεσα στους δύο φουτουρισμούς (A comparison between both futurisms) -Δύο εξεγερμένοι φουτουριστές ποιητές (Two revolting futurist poets) -Συμπέρασμα (Conclusion) -Παράρτημα (Annex) ...

An intriguing short story about solving the mystery of the cosmos and the metaphorical identity of Kafka's and Shakespeare's mistress.

In the cold grip of death and high alert, stands the silent land of the Lost Winds. Moral degradation has triggered a mass exodus. Those who were at great risk and in imminent danger have fled the atrocities of the regime by a boat called the Blue Moon to seek protection in a new land. Battling over the high seas through many violent tempests, their sea unworthy vessel, Blue Moon sailed for days until one evening it was spotted under the roaming beam of the light house on murky waters. The boat has finally reached the shores of Draviland. In the meantime, unfathomable pondering rage in Nalia’s head in Lost Winds, as she explores the chaotic, dark fate of her mates. Unpredictable times have created such people, deemed as riders of the howling seas....

"The presence of the paradoxical absence of the ONE, and His selective random process as to who won and who didn’t was one of those many unresolved puzzles. However, His existence was as immutable as the law of gravity to the faithful. P. 131."...

Red Tempests Ash Woodlands Black Streams Orange Soils White Vines Purple Waves Gold Foliage Turquoise Roots Emerald Luminosities Sapphire Skies Crimson Fields Pink Honeycombs...

Twenty-eight year-old Jesse Caldwell is painfully shy, lives at home and hates his moronic life. Miranda Huffington suffers from a gimpy leg and equally stunted personality. This is not your standard Harlequin romance....

Marie Augustin, an Haitian nurses aide, is blindsided when one of her elderly clients, Peter Marsoubian, asks her to accompany him on a trip to hear the Boston Symphony Orchestra perform in Tanglewood. Does the green-card immigrant, who witnessed first hand the endemic violence in her native country, follow agency protocol or bend rules to accommodate the absurd whim of a dying man?...

Νουβέλα της Ιταλίδας συγγραφέως Ματίλντε Σεράο (1856-1927). Μετάφραση από τα ιταλικά Χρίστος Αλεξανδρίδης. "Checchinas's virtue" is a novel wtitten by the Italian verist author Matilde Serao (1856-1927). The translation into Greek is made by Christos Alexandridis....

Ripe with literary and current-culture allusions, this book combines elements of world history, science fiction, political science, and satire. It's at once a brutally-serious and bitingly-humorous novel that, as one early reviewer noted: "Demands a lot from the reader, is a wonderfully-wild ride, and is well worth the time and energy invested."...

Jake's Diner Saturday, July 13, 2024 Even though it was only 8:15, the intense Minnesota morning sun dumped waves of shimmering heat upon the thirsty wilted corn...unquenched by expensive center-pivot irrigation systems. A loosely-organized row of aggressive-looking pickup trucks--drearily-colored, indeterminate in age, manfully backed into position, and universally-equipped with locking tool boxes giving purpose to otherwise empty beds--had formed a defensive line on the torrid gravel in front of Jake's. By day a respectable diner and by night a bar that promised totally exotic dancing--whatever that meant, since no local dared investigate--Jake's was the social epicenter of Blue Earth...an ever-diminishing farming town that might as well have been located in Iowa for all the difference the unrelentingly-flat, hot, and wind-ravaged prairie landscape made. Although it had been decades since smoking had been banned in public places--with the exception of those wastefully-expensive new mobile home parks--the lingering smell of tobacco still clung to the tables, chairs, and walls…adding to Jake's unfinished-plywood, grease-en...

This book is written in a diary format without chapters. Author's Foreword Dedication Text Appendix Image Attributions

Six novels by Guy De Maupassant translated into Greek.

Ο μπαμπάς του Σιμόν (Le papa de Simon) Φεγγαρόφωτο (Claire de lune) Μεταμέλεια (Regret) Το σημάδι (Le signe) Στο δάσος (Au bois) Ο αλήτης (Le vagabond)...

Swimseye is a mostly lighthearted story centred around a group of five swimmers as they endeavour to meet their potential.

مقدمة اللجنة العلمية باتت القصيدة العربية - بعد واقعة الطف - تشهد انفتاحاً على أغراض شعرية لم يسبق لها من قبل، واستطاعت هذه الواقعة أن «تحرّض» قابلية الإيداع لدى الشاعر بطريقة ترشيدية ليبتكر لوناً جديداً من ألوان الرثاء، أطلق عليه غرض الاستنهاض، أي استنهاض الإمام الحجة  وبمعنى آخر استصراخه واستنجاده آخذاً بثأر جده الحسين عليه السلام، فإن الشاعر يبحث عن طرقٍ مختلفةٍ ينطلق منها في بيان هواجسه وأحزانه معبّراً عن عمق المأساة التي أحدثته هذه الفاجعة، وهو بقدر ما يبحث عن أغراضٍ جديدة للرثاء، فانه يتوج هذا الرثاء بالإصرار على الانتصار للشهيد المظلوم الذي سفك دمه ودماء آله بمشاهد من القسوة مروعة أقضت مضجع الشاعر فأحالتها إلى صرخاتٍ يستنجد من خلال قصائده الإمام الحجة ويدعوه إلى الثأر من سفكة دماء الشهيد المظلوم لا لأجل شيء، بل لأجل رفض هؤلاء الإصلاح وإقامة دين الله تعالى... هذه هي مبررات الشاعر الذي جعل من قصيدته متنفساً يُبيح ما تعتلجه نفسه الغضبى من فواجع أحداث الطف، ولم يجد الشاعر سوى أمل الثأر المأخوذ ولو بعد حين على يد الإمام الحجة، فهو إذ يستنهضه للثار لا يعني أن الإمام بعيدٌ عن مجريات الأحداث، فنفسه الشريفة تتحرق لما جرى على جدّه الحسين في مشاهد خفيت حتى على الشاعر. ولم يجد الإمام الحجة سبيلاً للرد على هذا الاجراء الأموي في استباحة ...

المحتويات الإهداء 6 مقدمة اللجنة العلمية 7 المقدمة 9 التمهيد 13 لمحة تاريخية عن حقبة الدراسة 15 سقوط المماليك ونشوء الاطماع البريطانية 16 الاستنهاض لغة 19 وأما لفظة الحجَّة لغة 25 وإذا عرجنا على معنى الحجّة في الأديان والمذاهب 28 وأما الإمام الحجّة في الفكر الإسلامي 31 تطور قصيدة الاستنهاض بالإمام الحجّة  33 توطئة 33 شخصية الإمام الحجّة  بين البعد التاريخي والعقدي وبين الاستعمال الشعري 57 الباب الأول قصيدة الاستنهاض بالإمام الحجّة  دراسة في البناء والاتجاهات والوظائف الفصل الأول: البناء الفني لقصيدة الاستنهاض 71 البناء الفني 73 أولاً: القصيدة الاستنهاضية المكتملة 76 1. المقدمة 76 2. المقدمة الغزلية 77 3. مقدمة الحكمة 81 4. المقدمة الطللية 83 5. مقدمة الحماسة والفروسية 85 6. مقدمة الشكوى وذم الدهر 87 7. المقدمة العقدية 89 التخلص 91 1. التخلص بالأداة 92 2. التخلص من دون أداة 93 3. الخاتمة 94 ثانياً: القصائد الاستنهاضية الخالية من المقدمات 97 الفصل الثاني: الاتجاهات العامة لقصيدة الاستنهاض 101 أولاً: الاتجاهات العامة 103 توطئة 103 الاتجاه التقليدي 106 التجديدي 112 ثانياً: المحاور الموضوعية لشعر الاستنهاض بالإمام الحجّة  121 المحور الأول: الإمام الحجّة  122 الجانب الأول: مدح الإمام الحجة  ...