The poems of Jeff Weddle's new collection, A Puncher's Chance, are alive with all the mystery, beauty, love, loss, and heartbreak we are surrounded by every day in this world of ours. Weddle shows off his range in this book with an array of poems from the lushly lyrical to the cut-the-crap, straight-talking conversational. In here, there are dream-like visions, laments of rejection, celebrations of redemption, and rallying incitements to his fellow artists to keep up the good fight of creation and imagination. How else can we survive in this world gone at least half-mad? One of the poems in this collection claims, "It is time for us to be good to one another." Indeed, it is. The strong voice in Jeff Weddle's poems is one of honest devotion to his craft and committed resistance to corruption and lies. It's just what we need right now. Scott Silsbe, author of Muskrat Friday Dinner
It's 2011 and an elderly man living alone in Massachusetts finds a box while organizing his vast boxing memorabilia collection. The contents take his fading memory back fifty years to a gym he once operated called A Puncher's Chance and its storied past, including World Champion Salvador Jimenez. When a friend happens by, the old man takes the opportunity to retell his story. Over the next several days his surprisingly vivid recollection of the champ enthralls his friend, as he switches from past to present and back again. A tragedy occurs before the surprise ending that really packs a punch. About the Author Edwin Ayala is an aspiring new author who lives in southern Massachusetts with his wife and family. After being stricken with an extremely rare neurological condition, choreoacanthocytosis (or CA), after ten years he was forced to retire in 2008 from UPS after nineteen years of service. At age forty-three, he decided to pursue his dream of becoming an author despite the limitations of CA. The condition is so rare that little information on this disease is available, but here is a brief synopsis: CA has no cure and its cause is not definitively known. Difficult to diagnose, its symptoms include fatigue, loss of speech, loss of weight due to involuntary biting of the cheeks and tongue, difficulty in swallowing, and involuntary muscle movement. To learn more about this progressive disease, visit http: //www.rareconnect.org. Publisher's website: http: //www.sbpra.com/EdwinAyala
The alien General is poised to strike. He's never been beaten but something about the planet Earth has him on edge. The first wave should have cleaved through the Earthlings easily yet it was thwarted. Cautiously, he decides to wait in orbit and watch what happens before launching the second wave. Jack and Melanie defeated the Grey aliens last month but that doesn't mean their troubles are over. When the world discovers that they have extraordinary abilities, their lives are turned upside down. They're brought in to a military bunker tucked deep inside the mountains in Wyoming for testing. When a large metallic sphere identical to the one that gave them their powers is discovered and trucked to their location, things take a turn for the worse. Others become infected with the same alien mist that transformed them, and no one knows if they can be trusted with their new powers. Keywords: superhero, alien contact, first contact, genetic modification, super powers, colonization, alien invasion
My 2013 Trafford Award Winner Book tells the absolute truth on the above mentioned subjects but wikipedia "encyclopedia" (and wikimedia foundation associated projects & sites) has nothing to do with the absolute truth and all of their articles are incorrect and/or are missing important, pertinent information!!! Why wikipedia aka wiki-PEDO-ia's wiki-OCCULT-ism can never ever be trusted? Why leftist, stoic, too liberal wikicrapia is full of wikihomopedoidiots lifetime rejects? Why wiki-PEDO-ia must never, ever be supported or sponsored in any way, shape or form!? http://archive.is/Y0BB wiki-PEDO-ia accusing innocent old people of killing heads of state (this is just a drop in an ocean of utmost wikistupidity, wikihypocrisy, wikignorance, wikiarrogance, wikicontradictions of cold, indifferent editors, especially by its utmost pathetic, rude as hell bureaucrats, administrators and stewards) http://archive.is/k1iQk wiki-PEE-doia info with many true comments by different editors from all walks of life!?! https://archive.is/8Cm8E additional wiki-PEE-doia info, why never, ever trust it or support it in any shape, way or form!?! Why there is no privac y at all on wikicrapia? Once you are banned, wikimedia foundation will treat you worse than garbage, you are no longer human being to them. Why not donate to wikirefuse? http://xahlee.info/w/do_not_donate_to_Wikipedia.html https://archive.is/2NgXW Jimmy Donal 'Jimbo' Wales strongly discourages use of his wiki-PEDO-ia (IN ANY LANGUAGE) as a source in any school or for any project: https://archive.is/tNKVr Wiki-PEE-dia has long, long, long unresolved history of all sorts of problems: https://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/articles/wikipedia-has-a-long-history-of-problems/ Check out J.P.L. Lubek's original (or updated) theories on Cosmological Constant and my other original (or updated) theories on/about the universe (physics of the universe): https://archive.is/QWT2W
About the Book Legends & Jinns: The Blessed Journey is an extraordinary story that balances the classic confrontation of good and evil throughout every page! It has been over a thousand years since the death of the universe, and with a new species developing in its wake, The Legends unremittingly fight to restore peace back to the earth while The Jinns unceasingly continue to cause chaos and confusion! L & J is an action-thriller drama that takes you on a journey of love, heartbreak, and hope. It will engage you from start to finish. About the Author A.B. The Wise was born in Chicago, Illinois. He currently resides in Las Vegas, Nevada. He has three siblings and a passion for spending time with his family and friends.
These stories are based on a real person and different experiences of the main character. The fortunate thing is, the author is one of the few people who can converse with the person behind the premier character and in his native language. There is not any interest on his part to put his experiences in print, but he is fine with me doing so. There is still his strong belief in old-fashioned traditions of passing down stories by oral means alone. Neither one has the desire to present any of his heroes in a negative or embarrassing light while still getting the story across. Meanings and interpretations can be made any way the reader would like. That is up to you.
When army special forces hero Paul Cable is critically injured during a covert operation in Afghanistan, he slumps in to the depths of a deep coma. From his hospital bed he discovers himself barely alive in 'The Waiting State'. Joined by a surprise ally he is taken on a torturous journey of the past: one he had tried to bury. One of dark times in an unforgiving place, during the harshest of circumstances. Only Paul Cable can decide whether he should live or die. 'This Lonely Incubus' is an incredible story through 1970's-80's childhood, 1990's coming of age, until present day. A trip from timid child, via awkward youth, to highly respected trained killer.
The Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument is the site of one of America’s most famous armed struggles, but the events surrounding Custer’s defeat there in 1876 are only the beginning of the story. As park custodians, American Indians, and others have contested how the site should be preserved and interpreted for posterity, the Little Bighorn has turned into a battlefield in more ways than one. In Stricken Field, one of America’s foremost military historians offers the first comprehensive history of the site and its administration in more than half a century. Jerome A. Greene has produced a compelling account of one of the West’s most hallowed and controversial attractions, beginning with the battle itself and ending with the establishment of an American Indian memorial early in the twenty-first century. Chronicling successive efforts of the War Department and the National Park Service to oversee the site, Greene describes the principal issues that have confounded its managers, from battle observances and memorials to ongoing maintenance, visitor access, and public use. Stricken Field is a cautionary tale. Greene elucidates the conflict between the Park Service’s dual mission to provide public access while preserving the integrity of a historical resource. He also traces the complex events surrounding the site, including Indian protests in the 1970s and 1980s that ultimately contributed to the 2003 dedication of a monument finally recognizing the Lakotas, Northern Cheyennes, and other American Indians who fought there.
