87 is alone with their thoughts. The plague doctor collects the dead each night for burning. With only the company of the dead, and two criminals sat at the back, it's hardly social hours. On a beautiful clear summer evening, it's time to get down to the ghastly business.

The concept of time is mind-bending, fascinating, liberating, terrifying and inevitable. In astronomy, time is also distance. Everything we see is already an image of the past, and the further we look, the older the images. In this poetry collection, time gives us fascinating insights into the past. The capability for temporal evolution, for change, is liberating. Our limited supply of time is terrifying. Yet time is inevitable - an ultimate law of nature that we all must obey.

Step into a whirlwind of emotions, reflections, and observations with 'People Around Me', a positively chaotic collection of poetry that touches on various topics, such as mental health struggles, diverse thoughts and human connections. The author allows you to judge the individuals who have impacted her life, while also showing you who they are because of these people and what goes on in their mind the rest of the time.

1990: Saint Mary ́s School for Girls An elite school for girls, with strict rules and high expectations. But not everything is ever truly as it seems. Four girls, one place, four fates

The Cure is Murder is a novella in flash inspired by a stay at an Austria health spa and recent Austrian politics. Part 1 contains Chapters 1 to 12; Part 2 contains chapters 13 to 24. Wikipedia entries are included in chapters 23 and 24 for reference purposes.

From the USA TODAY bestselling author of Sweet Thing and Nowhere But Here comes a love story about a Craigslist “missed connection” post that gives two people a second chance at love fifteen years after they were separated in New York City. To the Green-eyed Lovebird: We met fifteen years ago, almost to the day, when I moved my stuff into the NYU dorm room next to yours at Senior House. You called us fast friends. I like to think it was more. We lived on nothing but the excitement of finding ourselves through music (you were obsessed with Jeff Buckley), photography (I couldn’t stop taking pictures of you), hanging out in Washington Square Park, and all the weird things we did to make money. I learned more about myself that year than any other. Yet, somehow, it all fell apart. We lost touch the summer after graduation when I went to South America to work for National Geographic. When I came back, you were gone. A part of me still wonders if I pushed you too hard after the wedding… I didn’t see you again until a month ago. It was a Wednesday. You were rocking back on your heels, balancing on that thick yellow line that runs along the subway platform, waiting for the F train. I didn’t know it was you until it was too late, and then you were gone. Again. You said my name; I saw it on your lips. I tried to will the train to stop, just so I could say hello. After seeing you, all of the youthful feelings and memories came flooding back to me, and now I’ve spent the better part of a month wondering what your life is like. I might be totally out of my mind, but would you like to get a drink with me and catch up on the last decade and a half? M

Being born with an unusual scent surely is challenging. People think of her as a saviour, someone who is not only attractive from her scent and appearance, but also pretty with her words and full of charity. Which is why Iona works in a suicide prevention call centre, so she can help people in life-support situation with serenity. Yet, why did Jonas hate her so much when everyone was grateful for her presence? Why did he hurt her so badly when everyone longed for her scent? From Jonas, with regret, to Iona.