I want my survival to be an act of resistance ~ the darkness cant have me yet This book is a deeply intimate poetry collection that explores the mind of an author and her struggles with mental health. It touches on themes like abusive relationships and their aftermath, trauma and depression but also healing and finding a way forward.
"ysmrtye" is an anagram for mystery. "ysmrtye" consists of 8 short stories of different kinds, from fantasy to horror. This book is a debut short story book from the author. Each story takes you to different corners of the author's imagination.
When I was ten, I met someone, in a cold forest, not far outside my town. He told me he was an unicorn, and that he could show me paradise. Looking back he mightve been the snake in my garden eden, slithering out of the bushes and leading me towards temptation, but I was nine and so I believed him. When I was ten, someone told me that paradise, was not something to be found, sitting stiffly in the garden, no matter how pretentiously pretty it was. She gave me wings and told me to fly over the garden wall, to find paradise outside it. I was ten, so I believed her. When I was eleven, someone showed me my blood and made me admire the red of it. A year later, I drowned them in it. Considering everything I was, am and have been (naive, cruel, nothing), I suppose my story went about as great as I could have expected. They gave me an apple and I ate it. They told me it would bring about paradise and I believed them. They left me to die and I did. I just wish I could regret it.
After weeks away, she returns home, where she is greeted by emptiness and despair. Feeling alien in her apartment, and her own life, she tries to battle her depression, and the monotony of her day-to-day life throughout the winter months. She will survive this, too... right?
A little polar bear called Browny is unexpectedly granted immigrant status, when he begins to wonder, What is home? Papa Bear and little Browny have an exciting fishing day planned. Tragically, due to the melting of the Arctic Circle ice, they accidentally become trapped on a block of ice, which violently transports them to an unknown land. Separated from Mama Bear and surrounded by an unfamiliar language, they experience the pain of being different. While little Browny struggles to adjust to his new reality, Papa Bear is busy with trying to reunite his polar bear family. Despite Papa Bears best efforts, Little Browny misses home. So when the fairy Aurora offers to grant Browny one wish, Little Browny immediately asked to go back home to the Arctic Circle. And this is when the story takes an unexpected turn. Join Little Browny on his journey in search of his true home, and find out what happens.
My suitcase was packed the day before I left. Adventures ahead and absolutely no plan what was awaiting me. Now I am living in the US and living my personal dream - selling the best chocolate in the world to worlds largest retailers. On the way I met so many great people for whom I am infinitely thankful. Meeting new people usually means answering the same questions all the time. What is your name? How are you? Where are you from? Where do you work? Living abroad shifts those questions slightly and I collected 12 questions that I get frequently asked and decided to write down my thoughts of them. I don't want to give the answer "Fine, how are you?". I want to dive deeper and explain. All those things that don't fit in the thirty second answer.
She is alone in a new city until she becomes friends with a mysterious girl named Veronika. As they get closer Veronika`s dark secret is unveiled. A secret that she has to die for.
Have you ever considered how many dramas unfold while someone is slicing potatoes or beets to add to their Borscht? Have you thought about the women who, possessing nothing but a kitchen table, pour their souls out during the long winter nights? What troubles them? What personal dramas, too daunting to share even with their husbands, weigh on them? Are we all so similar that kitchens have replaced therapists' offices, where we create a safe space for ourselves? It's said that a writer's task is not to tell but to show you life. I invite you to kitchen-table discussions where women and men open up, revealing their most intimate fears and reflecting on their lives while seated in their kitchens.
Sam and her friends Violett, Jil, Ima and Jack are in their early twenties and very close friends. They share everything with each other, but one day their friendship is put to the test and they need to figure out how to move on. Are they able to forgive each other and to grow together while their lives are going through major changes? This story is a about navigating life in your early twenties or at least trying to and how friendships change was we change.
There are moments in life we all wish we could forget. Moments too embarrassing, too painful, or too complicated. Cora used to long for this kind of oblivion, convinced she couldn't bear the weight of her memories. But when her wish was unexpectedly granted, she found herself in a relentless search for the person she once was. As an immigrant who doesn't even remember that she left her homeland, Cora is haunted by questions. Is it truly better to forget when the pain is overwhelming, leaving others to piece together the fragments of your story? Can you really escape the past when you no longer remember it? Are you still yourself without the memories that shaped you? And do the stories of our lives repeat when we're oblivious to them? Cora's journey reveals that the essence of who we are is deeply tied to our past and how we navigate the present.
