Clyde and Theresa. Living their shattered lives in a small town. Sad, desperate, lonely, heart broken. Working crappy jobs, having lascivious sexual encounters with perfect strangers, wandering through graveyards, drinking cough syrup in night clubs, playing with strange chemical compositions, praying in flophouses, and striving for the forbidden in every possible way. What else could they do? Not much. Lurking within this southern gothic antinovel is an entire universe of abnormality, with emotional contraptions situated between the text and reader for maximum sensory enhancement.

Rich Ruthless Bastards, Book One A past shrouded in secrets. Memories tainted by lies. One look and Ford Hammersmith was mesmerized, Haunted by amethyst eyes. Obsessed with a woman he doesn't remember... yet can't forget. The mysterious Callie Rose holds the secrets to his past, The key to his future happiness. His soul ravaged by the echo of love lost, The heartless bastard will stop at nothing to reclaim her heart. A cruel twist of fate brought them back together, Will a decade of pain and betrayal keep them apart?

What would you do if the man you married hated your kids? In Heartless Bastard, Aliyyah Porter is a black woman who marries a white man named Jordan Gibbs. Aliyyah craved a perfect family but when her children ended up in the hospital with stitches to the face and another almost choked to death; they would all soon learn that the perfect family came at a costly price. Aliyyah came into the marriage with four kids: Caleb, Shane, Tre, and Kristen while Jordan had only one son, Jessie. Aliyyah’s love was unconditional, even though they suffered mentally, physically, and verbally at Jordan’s hands. Because of her love, she refused to leave her husband. In the end, Aliyyah was torn between loving her husband and protecting her kids. Jordan hated the kids including his son, but not as much as they hated him. Holding her family together was a living hell, but the drama she faced with her other baby daddies was a nightmare. Jordan wanted a life alone with Aliyyah. He stated, “Either your kids die alone or we all die together.

JookBoxFury is the story of a chaotic jukebox song pickers’ game show as it takes to the road to launch the psychedelic alcopop, Jook – the drink that turns everything green for go-go. Like a cross between Seinfeld and a beat generation Top of the Pops special, JookBoxFury is a celebration and an epitaph of rock and pop music. All rock ‘n’ roll is here, from its art and glories to its mythical stories.

The essays collected in this volume form a multifaceted discourse on religious, philosophical, historical, ethnocultural and sociocultural, literary and linguistic issues. A multicultural approach to the problem of the soul allows the presentation of it on a microscale, focused on national and regional specificity, as well as on the macroscale, oriented toward universal values which can be observed in the cultures of peoples distant from each other in both time and space. The book consists of 28 chapters, addressing the fundamental themes of human existence, which find expression in cultural texts in both colloquial and artistic language, and which have a prominent place in anthropological, psychological, metaphysical and theological debates.

Beau Remington has built a good life for himself. He's worked hard to make his real estate company a success. He owns one of the nicest houses in town and comes from one of the most well-respected families in Paradise Valley. It's not that he isn't close to his family, it's just that he's never felt he quite belonged in the same way his brothers do. Over the last few months he's enjoyed seeing his brothers meet some amazing women and settle down. He believes he'll do the same, some day. He just hasn't met the right woman yet. What he isn't expecting is that a chance encounter in the wine store will bring that someday a lot sooner--or that the right woman will have a five-year-old daughter in tow! Corinne Watson has accepted a job at the Remington Guest Ranch. It's a chance for her and her daughter Ruby to make a new start in life. She's not looking for a man--dating can be too complicated for a single mom. She's certainly attracted to Beau Remington, but how could she go out with a guy who doesn't like kids, and especially her daughter? Beau has a lot to learn about family, and with a little help from Ruby he's about to learn fast. This book is intended for adult readers aged 18+ *************************************** Each Remington Ranch Romance can be read as a standalone. No cliffhangers here! Each book contains one couple's story. Mason Shane Carter Beau