I am a practicing lawyer from Pune, State-Maharashtra, India. I always have had a keen interest in poetry and literature, for which language is no barrier. I prefer writing to be a "poetic act," which gives me more freedom of expression, rather than composing in a strict form of poetry.I sincerely think that one should be able to write on all possible subjects and plots, rather than restricting to certain emotions or themes. The discrepancies, dichotomies, and double standards that may found be in our relationships and other areas of our lives in modern society always disturbs me, attracts my …

Loki’s Resurrection is a beautiful and erotic love story that considers the tough problems that come up when divorced people find new mates that their children don’t like. Even so, the story has a happy ending. The novel is about the fantastic love affair of Loki and Sara, who seem to be destined to be together for the rest of their lives, until ... Loki’s Resurrection is the first book in the series The Amazing Life of Loki Fownis. The final cliffhanger of Loki’s Resurrection: An Erotic Story Based on a True Icelandic Saga begins with the first chapter of …

Jenny Thompson is a normal girl who unknowingly possesses powerful psychic abilities. Glade Overstride is a kinetically gifted psychopathic murderer with an evil, powerful split personality known as Rex. He wants what Jenny has and will stop at nothing to get it. Jenny eventually comes to better understand her abilities through the help of Floyd DeLane, a ghost freed by Jenny’s powers. Floyd helps Jenny channel her abilities and to escape from Overstride. Enter Detective William Scopeali, who is also looking for Jenny, as she is the one connection to his brother’s murderer from years before. Meanwhile, a deepening bond …

For the Golfer in All of UsIf you love golf, or even if you hate golf, you will have a "ball" reading Lost in Love Grass. Author Steve Rogers has been playing golf since he was 11 years old and, oh, the stories he can tell!What an absolutely fun read! The story unfolded beautifully and I'm thrilled Steve included me in the book. It’s a good thing he is a far better writer than a golfer!" says Mark van Eeghen, former football star with the Oakland Raiders and New England Patriots.The author’s lifetime love of golf inspired him to write …

James is the littlest bear of three bears in his family. He tends to tell stories to get attention, so no one believes anything he says. When he really does have an adventure with a naughty seagull, no one believes him until the seagull is injured. It is up to James to come to the rescue! This delightful children's book was written and illustrated by Lynne Pickering, who says, "We owned a childcare center for nine years and there were some children with behavioral problems. I often found if manners and examples of good Samaritan deeds were explained in a …

Double Spy is my autobiography as a double agent in East Germany and the Netherlands, from March 1967 to September 1970. While I visited a young woman in Chemnitz, two men approached her, wanting to see me. Soon after, we spoke and they recruited me as a spy for the HVA (intelligence service of the Ministry of State Security, the STASI). Back in the Netherlands, I immediately reported to the BVD, which "took me over." I was only 27 at the time. I had no formal education, and the officers in the HVA—"the People’s Army"—were high school graduates, having only …

Murray Reynolds, an engineer and mathematician who has turned his skills to earning an income from financial markets, retires to a rented cabin at Cedar Flat, a failed resort in what may once have been a cedar forest on the coast of New South Wales. His wife, Julia, keen to further her career, stays in the city, but encourages Murray to assume responsibility for their daughter, Pim, a sullen loner with few life skills. The two are befriended by their neighbour, Laura, to whom Pim looks for support in the face of the unsettling environment of her new home, and …

This book is a chilling paranormal romance for those who love a ghost story that sets the mind to wondering if this could really happen. Samantha Porter is on vacation and meets the ghost of Charles Mariner, a shrimp boat captain who disappeared in a violent storm at sea. Now a wandering spirit, Charles is haunting his old seaside home that after his death was sold and remodeled into an inn. Samantha rents a room there and wakes in the night to find the transparent figure of a man standing at the foot of her bed. When she demands to …

The poems in to linger on hot coals are like the babies who inspired them: small but profoundly significant, and imprinting those they touch with both delicious sweetness and heartbreaking pain. They will speak to those whose grief is new as well as to those whose losses have receded in time but not in memory, as well as to counselors, medical professionals, and allies of bereaved families. A breathtakingly beautiful collection. – Janel Atlas, editor, They Were Still Born: Personal Stories about Stillbirth "Most of the time, we consider grief ugly, and most of the time it is. But, sometimes …

During the cold war with the Soviet Union, an influential American in military intelligence rewarded Ian McGregor for saving his daughters. McGregor was enrolled in an exhausting training program to exploit his many attributes, and to further his benefactor’s career to the status of "general." The Expendable Man is a taut thriller loaded with spies and political intrigue. Old hardliners in the Kremlin form a clandestine group to oppose Gorbachev’s politics as being premature. To prove their point, they scheme with a drug cartel and other criminal gangs to undermine the American economy and make President Reagan’s idea of laying …

Ignis Fatuus: A mysterious light that tempts the weary traveler from the safe path and into peril.Bored with the ennui of everyday existence? The daily grind that propels you to a too little pension and aged decrepitude, which offers no blue-skied haven to enjoy the rewards of your labours?If you had the means to commit a crime with little or no chance of being found out, would you do it? Could such an opportunity exist? With meticulous planning and execution, total self-reliance and faith in your abilities, just such an opportunity could be engineered.But you have really got to want …