Novella Express 4

Novella Express 4

Author: Ja' Licia Gainer

Publisher: Leamington Books

Published: 2023-05-18

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 1914090888

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Edition 4 of Novella Express Endless Publishing Possibilities featuring: • TWO LIVES by Ja' Licia Gainer • THE GROUND by Siné Kang • WHAT'S THE MOOSE, MUNTER? by Sean McNulty Three new novellas from North America, South Korea and Éire. CONTRIBUTING TO EDITION 4: Two Lives by Ja' Licia Gainer Joanna thought she would always struggle to trust men. From an unwell mother to a father battling addiction, Joanna was lost in a sea of panic, fear and worry. Dante believed he would never be able to open up to another person again, either. From an unwell mother to a father who battled with addiction, Dante had fallen into a world of dissociation and anger. But when these two lives collide, they find that through their love and time together, some wounds can heal. Overcoming their problems was never going to be easy. But through each other, Joanna and Dante will certainly try. The two lives of Joanna and Dante meet head on, both for better, and for worse. From Ja 'Licia Gainer, a writer based in Missouri, comes a tale of love, family and betrayal. The Ground by Siné Kang "To read is to perform. I have many names, however, that cannot be true. The title of this text has been changed many times, and these are the names I can still recall: 'Drinking milk', 'Look!', 'The Breath', and 'Sin'. I am afraid of making mistakes. It seems mistakes are omnipresent, and the phobia about making a mistake is never discontinued. I am afraid I am alone." So starts Sine Kang's existential tale of a mother and son. Sine's work delves into the ideas of hatred, knowledge, the world, perfection, and the concept of words themselves. With confidence in the written word, Sine's masterful work rouses the readers mind in concepts and thoughts that will preoccupy a mind long after the work has been completed. Through witnessing the discussion between a mother and son, a son's whose voice is ignored, and a mother whose ignorance is forced, we come to understand that the long discussions of Mother and Son on the page is merely an example of the discussions we wish to have with our friends, our loved ones, and ourselves. Siné is a poet and playwright in South Korea. She lives on an island called Namhae-gun. And she invites you to read along. What's the Moose Munter? by Sean McNulty? Munter lives for his dreams, but lately his dreams have been provoking him. Living out his days in the city of Dublin, forgotten and anonymous, he is haunted by an alcoholic past, the pigeon-faced girls of his life, and the ghost of a Japanese rock star. While investigating this ghost, Munter meets and befriends Nobuko, a bereaved woman with a fierce drinking problem of her own. Their adventures bring them to late cafes and pub quizzes, as they roam the streets with the pale and the pole-axed, with God, Chinese philosophy . . . and a moose – whatever that is. Could Nobuko be Munter's ticket out of exile? But when his new ally disappears one night under mysterious circumstances, Munter must face up to all the demons he left behind. What's the Moose, Munter? is a ghostly bittersweet tale of lonely souls... and their slime-green cans? Novella Express is a book series sharing literature's most vital form ― the novella. In Edition 4 find three new novellas, from North America, South Korea, and The Irish Republic.


Novella Express #3

Novella Express #3

Author: Sonia Hadj Said

Publisher: Leamington Books

Published: 2023-03-02

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1914090586

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Edition #3 of Novella Express A New Dawn for the Novella featuring: • Bluebird by Sonia Hadj Said • Between the Virgin and the Sea by Cath Barton • Dear FIN by Andrea Layne Black Novella Express is a book series publishing novellas submitted from around the world. CONTRIBUTING TO EDITION #3: Bluebird starts on a morning that the protagonist believes to be the end of her life. An immigrant from Eastern Europe, the narrator has spent the last ten years thriving to be a writer or a journalist in London and failing on every front. In a bid to try and save herself, she takes a month off from her catering job and takes us down memory lane of experiences of being a young immigrant woman as well as a struggling artist. Minimum-wage jobs, unpaid internships, school certificates, rented rooms in dangerous-feeling areas, nightlife, rejections, family expectations: these are all entwined in her inner monologue as she fights for her own life before time runs out. Without sentimentality, Sonia Hadj Said's captivating novella records the casual cruelties of life and its fleeting moments of human connection and tenderness as an immigrant woman attempts to reconcile herself to the world around her. Cath Barton's melancholic novella Between The Virgin and the Sea is set in an unnamed city which has fallen off the map of the world, and is accessible now only by sea. Violence has broken out in the city and the people, fearing that the church is involved, pray instead at roadside shrines. The story tells the events of a day at the end of which the white statue of the Virgin which stands on a hill overlooking the city may ― or may not ― come to life to restore peace to its people. Central to the story and living in the barrios is a boy called Tag, the things of which he dreams and the maps he draws. Set in a surreal and changing city, in which pizza delivery is carried out by donkey, and nothing may be what it seems, Between the Virgin and the Sea explores themes of childhood and coming of age. A captivating blend of magical realism, tender comedy, and literary experimentation, Between the Virgin and the Sea is a captivating portrait of urban life quite unlike any other. Andrea Layne Black's LGBQT novella Dear FIN tells the story of Jack Wilson, a young man mourning his beloved dog, on the eve of his 17th birthday and the six-year anniversary of the tragic death of his parents, as he struggles with friends, family, sexuality, and his troubled feelings in the small coastal community of Old Riverdam. Dear FIN creates the dazzling, funny, and raw world of a troubled teenager; coming of age; coming out; coming to terms; and coming together with new friends and loves. The narrator Jack is an instant friend to the reader, too ― and Jack will make you look at life more differently than ever before. A book that dives deep into the pressures of how mental health and loss can take a toll on your life, Dear FIN is a fun heart-pounding novella that looks at coping with loss. To read Dear FIN is to step with Jack as he struggles with friends, family, sexuality, and his troubled feelings in the small coastal community of Old Riverdam. A funny and charismatic tale from Canada, Dear FIN is a satisfying and thoughtful novella, within which the reader can unusually participate. Published by Leamington Books, Edinburgh


The Broken Pane

The Broken Pane

Author: Charlie Roy

Publisher: Leamington Books

Published: 2021-10-01

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 1914090365

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The memories I had built exploded. As the debris landed, my mind grasped at the facts. The Broken Pane is about loss and family, when families are broken. Finding yourself in the pieces of memory. About a young woman and her search for answers. In her early twenties, Tam rushes to her childhood flat only to be confronted by a tragic discovery. Anchored by the weight of family lore, she struggles to come to terms with her loss. As her life spirals, she sets off to find the one person who may hold the answers: her mother. Tam's travels take her far from a home which was more broken than she had ever realised. Walking the line between reliable memory and unreliable narrator, Charlie Roy's debut novel invites you to consider whether you are shaped by your past ― or if you shape your past yourself?


Novella Express #1

Novella Express #1

Author: Laurence Klavan

Publisher: Leamington Books

Published: 2022-11-28

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 1914090527

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Edition #1 of Novella Express featuring: • Albertine by Laurence Klavan • Little Apples by Ricky Monahan Brown • Black Cat and the Japanese Umbrella by Lowri Larsen Novella Express is a hybrid book / periodical series publishing novellas submitted from around the world. CONTRIBUTING TO EDITION #1 Ricky Monahan Brown suffered a massive haemorrhagic stroke in 2012. Doctors gave him a one-in-twenty chance of a good outcome, where a 'good outcome' would be surviving in a non-vegetative, non-plegic state. The resulting survival memoir, Stroke: A 5% Chance of Survival, became one of The Scotsman's Scottish Nonfiction Books of 2019. Ricky's short fiction has been widely published, including in 404 Ink literary magazine and the Dublin Inquirer. The live literature and music series he co-founded, Interrobang?! won the Saboteur Award for the Best Regular Spoken Word Night in Britain for 2017. A stroke awareness ambassador for the British Heart Foundation, Ricky lives in Edinburgh with his wife and their son. Lowri Larsen is a writer based in Wales. She was awarded a first-class honours MA from University College Dublin. She was awarded a grant from Literature Wales to write this novella. The novella "Black Cat and The Japanese Umbrella" was longlisted for The Reflex Press Novella Award. Laurence Klavan wrote the story collection, "'The Family Unit' and Other Fantasies," published by Chizine. An Edgar Award-winner, he received two Drama Desk nominations for the book and lyrics of "Bed and Sofa," the musical produced by the Vineyard Theater in New York and the Finborough Theatre in London. His graphic novels, "Brain Camp" and "City of Spies," co-authored with Susan Kim, were published by Chizine, and their YA fiction series, "Wasteland," was published by Harper Collins. His Web site is laurenceklavan.com.


The Crux

The Crux

Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2020-07-21

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 375233097X

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Reproduction of the original: The Crux by Charlotte Perkins Gilman


A Working Class State of Mind

A Working Class State of Mind

Author: Colin Burnett

Publisher: Leamington Books

Published: 2021-06-18

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1914090225

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Written entirely in East coast Scots A Working Class State of Mind, the debut book by Colin Burnett, brings the everyday reality and language of life in Scotland to the surface. Colin's fiction takes themes in the social sciences and animates them in vivid ethnographic portrayals of what it means to be working class in Scotland today. Delving into the tragic exploits of Aldo as well as his long time suffering best friends Dougie and Craig, the book follows these and other characters as they make their way in a city more divided along class lines than ever before.


The Ground

The Ground

Author: Siné Kang

Publisher: Leamington Books

Published: 2023-05-18

Total Pages: 83

ISBN-13: 191409090X

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"To read is to perform. I have many names, however, that cannot be true. The title of this text has been changed many times, and these are the names I can still recall: 'Drinking milk', 'Look!', 'The Breath', and 'Sin'. I am afraid of making mistakes. It seems mistakes are omnipresent, and the phobia about making a mistake is never discontinued. I am afraid I am alone." So starts Sine Kang's existential tale of a mother and son. Sine's work delves into the ideas of hatred, knowledge, the world, perfection, and the concept of words themselves. With confidence in the written word, Sine's masterful work rouses the readers mind in concepts and thoughts that will preoccupy a mind long after the work has been completed. Through witnessing the discussion between a mother and son, a son's whose voice is ignored, and a mother whose ignorance is forced, we come to understand that the long discussions of Mother and Son on the page is merely an example of the discussions we wish to have with our friends, our loved ones, and ourselves. Siné is a poet and playwright in South Korea. She lives on an island called Namhae-gun. And she invites you to read along.


What's the Moose, Munter?

What's the Moose, Munter?

Author: Sean McNulty

Publisher: Leamington Books

Published: 2023-05-18

Total Pages: 157

ISBN-13: 1914090918

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Munter lives for his dreams, but lately his dreams have been provoking him. Living out his days in the city of Dublin, forgotten and anonymous, he is haunted by an alcoholic past, the pigeon-faced girls of his life, and the ghost of a Japanese rock star. While investigating this ghost, Munter meets and befriends Nobuko, a bereaved woman with a fierce drinking problem of her own. Their adventures bring them to late cafes and pub quizzes, as they roam the streets with the pale and the pole-axed, with God, Chinese philosophy . . . and a moose – whatever that is. Could Nobuko be Munter's ticket out of exile? But when his new ally disappears one night under mysterious circumstances, Munter must face up to all the demons he left behind. What's the Moose, Munter? is a ghostly bittersweet tale of lonely souls... and their slime-green cans?


The Black Vampyre

The Black Vampyre

Author: Uriah Derick D'Arcy

Publisher: Leamington Books

Published: 2020-10-31

Total Pages: 83

ISBN-13: 1914090063

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WARNING! Contains moderate bloody violence against slavers and plantation owners!This pioneer vampire tale from 1819 spills revenge-cold blood as its narrator leads us through high gothic terror to radical outrage on the subject of slavery, reaching a blood-soaked conclusion dripping with 'biting' polemic vilifying the bankers who caused the economic recession of that same year.An anti-capitalist horror fable from 200 years ago, The Black Vampyre vilified the worst financial predation the capitalist world would ever see, decades before Karl Marx ― the enslavement of Africans in the New World.One dead man said no! And this is his story.The Black Vampyre; A Legend of St. Domingo tells the affrighting tale of a slave who is resurrected as a vampire after being killed by his owner; the slave seeks revenge by stealing the owner's son and marrying the owner's wife. The anonymous writer D'Arcy sets the story against the conditions that led to the Haitian Revolution.First published in chapbook form in New York in 1819, this emancipatory tale from literary New York in the 1810s arguably dates the birth of horror as know it!This edition features a new introduction as well as extensive notes and a guide to literary allusions.


Two Lives

Two Lives

Author: Ja' Licia Gainer

Publisher: Leamington Books

Published: 2023-05-18

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 1914090896

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Joanna thought she would always struggle to trust men. From an unwell mother to a father battling addiction, Joanna was lost in a sea of panic, fear and worry. Dante believed he would never be able to open up to another person again, either. From an unwell mother to a father who battled with addiction, Dante had fallen into a world of dissociation and anger. But when these two lives collide, they find that through their love and time together, some wounds can heal. Overcoming their problems was never going to be easy. But through each other, Joanna and Dante will certainly try. The two lives of Joanna and Dante meet head on, both for better, and for worse. From Ja 'Licia Gainer, a writer based in Missouri, comes Two Lives, a tale of love, family and betrayal.