Some dreams come true. Some books foretell a future. For 57-year-old Noah, his life was a misery. He desperately wanted to be a baby - nappies and all. But being single and alone made that an impossibility. The one thing a baby simply had to have was... a parent. Noah wanted a mummy. Recent PhD graduate, Lisa has been offered the chance to study regression along with the possibility of going even further and possibly reducing the physical size of an adult baby until they are an actual baby. Can she do it? And what part does a years-old amateur manuscript play in the drama that unfolds? A story of wishful thinking and the reality of infancy that comes back again. 64000 words
Some dreams come true. Some books foretell a future. For 57-year-old Noah, his life was a misery. He desperately wanted to be a baby - nappies and all. But being single and alone made that an impossibility. The one thing a baby simply had to have was... a parent. Noah wanted a mummy. Recent PhD graduate, Lisa has been offered the chance to study regression along with the possibility of going even further and perhaps reducing the physical size of an adult baby until they are an actual baby. Can she do it? And what part does a years-old amateur manuscript play in the drama that unfolds? A story of wishful thinking and the reality of infancy that comes back again.
Some dreams come true. Some books foretell a future. For 57-year-old Noah, his life was a misery. He desperately wanted to be a baby - nappies and all. But being single and alone made that an impossibility. The one thing a baby simply had to have was... a parent. Noah wanted a mummy.Recent PhD graduate, Lisa has been offered the chance to study regression along with the possibility of going even further and possibly reducing the physical size of an adult baby until they are an actual baby.Can she do it? And what part does a years-old amateur manuscript play in the drama that unfolds?A story of wishful thinking and the reality of infancy that comes back again.NOTE: This is the 'diaper version' of 'The Regression of Baby Noah'
It is arguably the most common theme in ABDL fiction – becoming a baby again, perhaps forever For many Adult Babies, the idea of being able to give into our wishes and desires completely and without restriction is a wonderful concept and one that grabs our attention. For the vast majority of adult babies, the expression of our inner infant is complicated by endless compromises and limits on what we can actually do. Infancy is entrancing to almost everyone, but for some, infancy is only a diaper-change away and stories of grownups reverting to babyhood is less fiction than an innate desire that we express on the pages of a book. Baby Solutions The Regression of Baby Noah Chosen
The Play's the Thing: The Theatrical Collaboration of Clark Bowlen and Kathleen Keena, 1988-2012 Kathleen Keena iUniverse, 187 pages, (paperback) $17.95, 978-1-4917-6151-9 (Reviewed: June 2015) The Play's the Thing is Kathleen Keena's theater diary starting at Manchester Community College in Connecticut, 1988, where she meets theater chair Clark Bowlen. They collaborate (and eventually marry) until Bowlen's death at age 70. We follow their productions from academia to community to independent theater, as Keena directs while Bowlen designs sets and lighting. Keenas narrative takes a close look at individual plays. Including such productions as The Glass Menagerie, The Taming of the Shrew, The Rainmaker, Desire Under the Elms, and Buried Child, she breaks her discussion of each into categories: Background, Synopsis, Challenges, Actors. The author is incisive, articulate, and effective as she examines the thought process behind each play. While exploring The Glass Menagerie, she notes: Tennessee Williams' works are infused with fragile Southern belles, crumbling plantations, inarticulate males, sexual ambiguity, and a lyrical quality with a remorseful tone. She goes on to explain her vision of the piece, Bowlen's ideas for the set, any obstacles to the success of the production, and techniques she uses to prepare her cast. Readers arent likely to find a more absorbing, compelling account of theatrical production. Keena and Bowlen always took chances, pushing boundaries and rethinking traditional parameters to facilitate access to the audience, whether it was making the family home of Buried Child transparent or moving The Importance of Being Earnest to America on the verge of The Great Depression. The author shares interesting details about bringing one's interpretation of the script to the stage, while intertwining her professional evolution with her husband's. The Play's the Thing offers pleasurable, dynamic reading for anybody who enjoys understanding how a show is built from the ground up. Also available as an ebook.
Poetics and Politics of Shame in Postcolonial Literature provides a new and wide-ranging appraisal of shame in colonial and postcolonial literature in English. Bringing together young and established voices in postcolonial studies, these essays tackle shame and racism, shame and agency, shame and ethical recognition, the problem of shamelessness, the shame of willed forgetfulness. Linked by a common thread of reflections on shame and literary writing, the essays consider specifically whether the aesthetic and ethical capacities of literature enable a measure of stability or recuperation in the presence of shame’s destructive potential. The obscenity of the in-human, both in the colonial setting and in aftermaths that show little sign of abating, entails the acute significance of shame as a subject for continuing and urgent critical attention.
The neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses are an extremely rare group of inherited neurodegenerative diseases that primarily affect children. Core symptoms of these conditions typically include epilepsy, cognitive decline and visual failure. These diseases are so rare that professionals who come into contact with them need a consultative reference work that enables them to become expert, or identify who to contact for more details. Fully updated and revised, this second edition continues to be the definitive volume on this devastating group of disorders. Written by an international collection of authorities in the field, it provides invaluable advice on their diagnosis, patient care, and new treatments that are available. This new edition of the definitive reference text on the neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses will prove useful for clinicians, family physicians, research scientists, diagnostic laboratories, families affected by the disease as well as by workers in industry planning translational research.
A brave and beautiful story that will make readers laugh, and break their hearts at the same time. Now with a special note from the author! Steven has a totally normal life (well, almost).He plays drums in the All-City Jazz Band (whose members call him the Peasant), has a crush on the hottest girl in school (who doesn't even know he's alive), and is constantly annoyed by his younger brother, Jeffrey (who is cuter than cute - which is also pretty annoying). But when Jeffrey gets sick, Steven's world is turned upside down, and he is forced to deal with his brother's illness, his parents' attempts to keep the family in one piece, his homework, the band, girls, and Dangerous Pie (yes, you'll have to read the book to find out what that is!).
