There is a river of metaphor running in the unconscious mind of each of us that holds all the insight into our life's meaning we will ever need. This collection of slightly fictionalized vignettes, these clippings stored in the envelope of Ilana Haley's memory, is this river flowing within Ilana. And it is the significance of this that lends this book so much energy, so much punch when we read through these pages of her life. Each character in this...

The following poetry book written by Tom Cintula is a series of free verse poems and spoken word works that have been written to express the wonder and curiosity envisioned internally in which no one else can see more clearly than he. He discusses personal demons and existential dread that he has gone through over the course of his life in his dwelling on the downtrodden and dreariness. He also explores its reasoning and upside in the adversity shared...

Jocelyn Diaz's multiple trial-and-error forays inspired this beautiful and heartfelt collection of poems and true-life stories into love from 2016 until today. In her writings, she shares the genuine and raw emotions she experienced. Some of the poems and stories are about when she was on the brink of falling in love, most poems speak on her experience with heartbreak and then healing and letting go. Jocelyn wants readers to see the beauty in falling...

Have you ever gone through a traumatic experience that you mentally didn't know how to process what happened after it was over? Did the experience make you bitter or better? So many of us have remained broken on the inside from our traumatic experiences and it's time to change that by healing what's broken on the inside of us. You will need to forgive, exhale, acknowledge your feelings and emotions, learn to love yourself all over again from scratch...

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Talmage was born on Nov. 11, 1976. Do you know why this day was special? It was Veteran's Day of the Bicentennial year of our country's independence. Besides being born on a special day, Talmage was a special kid. He was a gutsy 5-year-old, who liked to ride his big wheel down the sidewalk by taking off the seat, kneeling on the big wheel and pushing with his foot. That way he could go faster. We called him "a bull in a china cupboard." We were sledding...

No Regrets bends genre, combining elements of poetry, memoir, and fiction to create insight into the most fundamental aspects of life: sex, grief, love, joy, and pain. Readily accessible and compelling, you will have no regrets for taking this journey.

Spanning a life from the 1950s to the present, this memoir begins with very South Australian roots, German and Cornish. It shines a light on some key events that helped shape the social consciousness of many Baby Boomers. A rigid school system, Bob Dylan, hippies, drugs and protest. But, it also reflects on a life challenged by family mental illness.

It may be that his rural and small-town NC roots leak out in the poetry of Doug Jennette. Certainly, his attention to subtle aspects of nature, contradictions inherent in human relationships, the tender connections possible among men who search for deeper meaning in life, and the grief that is part of life's natural cycles are all present in his poetry. Doug's decision to write a "preamble" for each of his poems places them in a context of time, place...

NELLE is an annual publication open to submissions, from any female-identifying writer. We publish poetry, memoirs, and stories from across the globe. This issue features works by Lauren Camp, Ann Fisher-Wirth, Rachel Hall, and many others. NELLE is, edited by Lauren Slaughter.