The Wandering Soul
He was so young,
When he left home.
Forced to work,
And forever roam.
From town to town,
The young man Lived,
Never to discover,
What he did.
He lives in a world,
That is all his own,
No one may enter,
He likes it alone.
On a rainy night,
He lost his life,
A fellow traveler,
Used a blunted knife.
Forever free now,
His sprit does comb,
Looking for love,
And warm place to call home.
©Cleve Sylcox
Truth is a Blur
©Cleve Sylcox
Sometimes I wonder,
What life’s about,
Sometimes I shudder,
I can’t figure it out.
Insanity and Mayhem,
Prejudice and greed,
These are a few,
Of the uncertainties.
I watch the news,
And read the paper,
Find more death,
Than in a movie caper.
If there is one thing,
I know for sure,
Life will change,
Truth is a blur.
Cleve Sylcox (Author), Dara Ratner Rochlin (Editor), Mark Oliver (Illustrator)
As Confederate and Union forces clash in and around the Missouri community of St. Charles, Constance McAdams fights a war of her own. Her mind has been fractured, her heart ravaged, and her soul nearly torn from its very existence. Her husband, Gavin, threatened by a corrupt sheriff and judge, is the binding that holds her together. With a blessing from an old Choctaw woman as her only weapon, she spirals into a maddening world of crows and spirits as she fights the forces pressing in around her.
Desiree Scott (Author), Kerry E.B. Black (Author), Joi Miner (Author), D.K. Cassidy (Author), Joanne Eskreis (Author), Michelle Boske (Author), Cleve Sylcox (Author), Dara Ratner Rochlin (Editor)
Everyone thinks they know the real story behind the characters in fairy tales— But did you ever wonder what happened when the story ended and you closed the book? Come along and in this new anthology, you’ll find your favorite and some new favorite faery-tale characters on the psychiatrists couch as they work through their trauma.
Curl up and read about : Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, The Big Bad Wolf, The Wolf from Red Riding Hood, Baba Yaga, Goldilocks, Snow White, The Gingerbread Man, Rapunzel, The Kings’ Man from Humpty Dumpty, The Dish & Spoon, Cinderella’s evil stepmother, Dorothy from Oz, including the Wicked Witch from Oz, All the Jacks (be nimble, beanstalk, hanging with Jill), Sandman, Old Mother Hubbard, Alice from Wonderland, The Princess and the Pea, and the tale told from the Pea’s perspective, the Caterpillar from Alice in Wonderland, and what about all those beastly bridegrooms that get dumped at the altar ?
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Contents:
The Faery Tale Prompt that Started it All
Twelve Step Tales – A Poem by Carina Bissett
Mother of Fairy Tales by Kerry E.B. Black
Zuri by Joi Miner
Heel Toe by D.K. Cassidy
Cindy’s Deep Hidden Trauma by Joanne Eskreis
Iced by Michelle Boske
Snow White and the Psychologist by Cleve Sylcox
Old Sleepman by Kerry E. B. Black
The Princess, the Prince, the Queen, the King and the Pea by T.D Harvey
A Pea’s Lot in Life by T.D. Harvey
Glutton for Punishment by Rebekah Dodson
Unhinged by Matt Lovell
Red’s Wolf by Desiree L. Scott
Blow Your House Down by Michael Mill
The Tragedy at the Castle by C.H. Kelly
Off the Wall by Debbie Manber Kupfer
Benjamin Hubbard by Jason Derr
Hey Diddle Diddle by Debbie Manber Kupfer
Baba Yaga No More by Laura K. Cowan
OZ by Shannon McLoud
Chatterpillar by Matt Lovell
We’re All Mad Down Here by Rebekah Dodson
Beastly Bridegrooms Anonymous by Carina Bissett
To Hell with Cinderella – A Poem by Joi Miner
AUTHOR NOTE: This anthology is NOT for children. It’s a novella of twisted tales that begins and ends in therapy.
Please enjoy! ALL proceeds go to the Izzy Foundation, an organization that provides services and support to those families with children who have debilitating diseases, based in Providence, Rhode Island.
Chasity Nicole (Author), Debbie Manber Kupfer (Author), Sunila Vig (Author), Matt Lovell (Author), Kerry Black (Author), Laura Cowan (Author), Don Miskel (Author), N.M. Scuri (Author), Kristin Roahrig (Author), J. Kendall (Author)
Sins of the Past is a collection of seventeen historical horror short stories. Each story occurs within a different time period and is based off of factual events that have occurred in the past, only with a few changes to what actually happened.
Dreaming... 