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  STORIES FROM THE EDGE OF...

  Christopher Graham PhD CCHT

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  This is not a traditional book of stories. 
  It’s a collection of fragments — short, lyrical reflections that invite you to slow down, breathe deeply, and recognize yourself between the lines. Each page pulses with memory, metaphor, and quiet insight. Some pieces offer comfort. Others stir something ancient and unspeakable. All of them honor the idea that healing doesn’t happen in perfect paragraphs — it happens in pulses. 
  Written in a unique style designed for nonlinear thinkers, sensitive souls, and those navigating complex emotional histories, this book uses: 
  Fragments instead of long chapters — easy to dip into and out of. 
  Metaphors & symbolism to speak to your inner world, not just your mind. 
  Poetic rhythm & repetition that calms, awakens, and gently disrupts. 
  Image-based storytelling that feels more like dreaming than reading. 
  If you’ve ever felt like conventional prose moves too fast or speaks too loudly, this is a book that waits for you. It doesn’t explain your experience — it echoes it. 
  For the seeker, the feeler, the quiet witness… Welcome to the edge. Everything speaks here.

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  Good Want

  Domenica Martinello

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  What if poetry and prayer are the same: intimate and inconclusive, hopeful and useless, a private communion that hooks you to the thrashing, imperfect world? 
  Good Want entertains the notion that perhaps virtue is a myth that’s outgrown its uses. Exploring the value and shame ascribed to our desires both silly and serious – artistic, superficial, spiritual, relational – these poems grapple with deeply rooted questions: How can there be a relationship between goodness and godliness, if god is a character with shifting allegiances and priorities? Is clarity worth the pain of redefining your experience of the world? Is privacy the same as secrecy the same as deceit? Each caveat becomes a prayer, ritual, invocation, dream, or confession, requiring a blind faith that feels increasingly more impossible to sustain. Good Want looks inward, at once both sincere and tongue-in-cheek, to confront the hum of class and intergenerational trauma. Playing with and deconstructing received notions of ‘good,’ ‘bad,’ and ‘god,’ these poems open up a series of further possibilities: empathy for difficult people, acceptance of our difficult selves, and joy in every difficult thing. 
  "These are lush, provocative poems that luxuriate in unexpected detail while examining how economic precarity shapes both shame and desire. Firmly rooted in the working class, Martinello explores the hunger we inherit from our ancestors, what it means to indulge from a position of bottomless want, and to 'Waste not your wanting.' With impressive range, a sense of humor, and entrancing musicality, Good Want is a celebration of the gluttony of girlhood, the paradoxes of faith, and everyday pleasures of a “small, specific life.”
    – Cassidy McFadzean, author of Crying Dress 
  "Good Want is a baroque painting of Dutch aristocracy, but all the subjects’ garments are secretly from Walmart. I mean this in the best way. Each poem cracks me open and out shines a never-before-seen shade of light." – Shy Watson, author of Cheap Yellow 
  "Sometimes the confessor reckons with the confessional. In Good Want, it's a wracking and lucky sometimes, full of piss and vinegar, and one that finds Domenica Martinello performing the wonderment, the depth and push and pull, between what there is to reveal and what each revelation ruptures or binds. Happily, sadly, the poet scours a life lived and unearths inheritances, burdens, and selves destined for and not for the telling. And tells them brilliantly as she pleases."  – D.M. Bradford, author of Bottom Rail on Top

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  Speed

  Mohamed-Zain Dada

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  'I don't get angry, people get angry at me. In fact, I've only ever sworn once in a car… in English.'
  In a hotel basement somewhere in Birmingham, three people – a nurse, a delivery driver and an entrepreneur – are attending a speed-awareness course to address their aggressive driving.
  Abz, a leading expert on road safety and the most in-demand course facilitator north of the M25, presents them with a choice: change your ways, or lose your licence. But the training course quickly veers into a tumultuous group-therapy session as they are forced to confront the real question: why are we all so angry?
  Mohamed-Zain Dada's play Speed is a breakneck journey through the daily annoyances and deep-buried secrets that leave us spinning. Wickedly comic and darkly thrilling, it was first performed at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2025, directed by Milli Bhatia.

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  Summerfolk

  Maxim Gorky

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  'I feel like, soon, the day after tomorrow, some other people are going to come, a strong, bold race, and sweep us off the face of the earth like litter.'
  It's a hot, beautiful summer in 1905, and Russia's elite retreats to the countryside to swim, sip champagne and start affairs. 
  When you're having this much fun, why care about anything else? But Vavara can't shake the feeling that they're living on stolen time. How long can they go on ignoring the storm that's gathering on the horizon?
  A razor-sharp portrait of class, privilege and denial, Summerfolk was written by Maxim Gorky in 1904. This adaptation by Nina Raine and Moses Raine premiered at the National Theatre, London, in 2026, directed by Robert Hastie.

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  Open A Eye - Advanced Sex Robots

  Mike Blake

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  Open A Eye: Advanced Sex Robots : 
  (AI Sci-Fa-Fi Book 1) 
  Well; what can one say, about the sexy robots on display. 
  They wont replace real women hooray. 
  But, was that their intention ~~ whose to say. 
  More seriously.. 
  Its a poem written about the oncoming  
  onslaught of the latest AI Robots that are now entering the sex industry. 
  It is a fanciful look into the probing of the mind of a Guy who engages with  
  his fantasy into a robot reality. 
  It opens his mind and his eye, to the thrills of his female quarry and the 
  wink with an 'Aye' sigh, into his forming relationship.  
  It is a fantasy poem which is now quickly becoming a possibility in reality ! 
  Ironically ~ *NO A.I. has been used in the creation of this Poem.* 
  As for all the Authors poems & Short Stories.* 
  Instagram: wild_poetrys / wild.poetry.webs 
  Youtube:  https://www.youtube.com/@Wild_Poetrys

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  Short Story Press Presents...

  Short Story Press, Jessie Qu

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  Love can happen, at any place, any time, with any given person. Many people dream of having a rendezvous with a foreigner in a foreign country and have the romance of a lifetime. And that’s exactly what Sophie got when she traveled to Firenze for a short vacation while work-studying abroad. 
  In the outskirts of Tuscany, a fuse sparked, leaving behind the entrails of an undesirable fire, slowly burning away the remains of those left behind. The love between Sophie and Alessandro seemed shallow and childish at best. From their initial confrontations to their constant arguments and differences, the gap between their relationships continued to push them further apart. Left with nothing more than a surreal dream with lingering desires, what will Sophie and Alessandro do when the reality of life finally takes over the world of fancy and dreams? Are the trips to Trieste, Paris, and Slovenia merely a desire for sexual deviance or a sign of true love? With an engagement ring and a lifetime promise, can Sophie really risk having something more than just a measly fling with Alessandro? As each encounter became more complicated, the initial accident turned into constant expectations with no ends. 
  Short Story Press publishes short stories written by everyday writers.

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