Desecrated Flesh

Desecrated Flesh PDF Author: C.A. Rene
Publisher: C.A. Rene
ISBN: 1778019188
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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All it took was one bad decision, A need to numb the pain that threatened to tear me apart. He was someone I trusted, And he made a decision that would forever ruin me. They used to be my best friends, But after that night, I never wanted to see them again. Now they hate me and will stop at nothing to watch me suffer. But what do they know about suffering? After what I’ve been through, Everything they throw at me is child’s play. One more year and I’ll be free of them, Never having to be reminded of that fateful night. A lot can happen in a year...

Desecrated Flesh

Desecrated Flesh PDF Author: C.A. Rene
Publisher: C.A. Rene
ISBN: 1778019188
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Book Description
All it took was one bad decision, A need to numb the pain that threatened to tear me apart. He was someone I trusted, And he made a decision that would forever ruin me. They used to be my best friends, But after that night, I never wanted to see them again. Now they hate me and will stop at nothing to watch me suffer. But what do they know about suffering? After what I’ve been through, Everything they throw at me is child’s play. One more year and I’ll be free of them, Never having to be reminded of that fateful night. A lot can happen in a year...

Into Darkness

Into Darkness PDF Author: C. A. Rene
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781638470014
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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It's coiled so tight.Wrapped around my very soul, the tendrils of hate burning incessantly as they burrow deeper. The darkness has claimed me for its own? and I refuse to disappoint it. The blood of my father has coated my hands along with a few others, but I won't stop now.This is only the beginning and I have a list of wrongs that I need to make right. I will do anything to protect the ones I love? even if it means more blood on my hands.

Desecrated Essence

Desecrated Essence PDF Author: C.A. Rene
Publisher: C.A. Rene
ISBN: 1778019196
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 205

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What happens when your only source of warmth and light leaves you? The dismal shadows once kept at bay, begin to seep back in and coat everything the light once touched. All feeling becomes saturated in their inky grasp and escape becomes impossible. She left me here in the dark, alone and awaiting the impending destruction. Who do you turn to when you feel all is lost? His presence isn’t welcomed, and his anger scorches my insides, but at least he never leaves. Now that I’m truly alone, his claws sink deep and trying to flee would be futile. We are one, him and I. There’s nothing I can do but watch the storm clouds roll in. How do I warn them if the warning is me? I can’t control him once he has something in his sights, his determination knows no bounds, and his wrath is an addiction I know too well. There’s no stopping the lightning if you don’t hear the thunder.

Failing Desire

Failing Desire PDF Author: Karmen MacKendrick
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 1438468911
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 222

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Draws on theology and queer theory to argue for the power of humiliating pleasures in a culture oriented very strongly to denying any enjoyment that is not about success. Luckily for human diversity, we are perfectly capable of desiring impossible things. Failing Desire explores a particular set of these impossibilities, those connected to humiliation. These include the failure of autonomy in submission, of inward privacy in confession, of visual modesty in exhibition, and of dignity in playing various roles. Historically, those who find pleasure in these failures range from ancient Cynics through early Christian monks to those now drawn by queer or perverse eroticism. As Judith Halberstam pointed out in The Queer Art of Failure, failure can actually be a mode of resistance to demands for what a culture defines as success. Karmen MacKendrick draws on this interest in queer refusals. To value, desire, or seek humiliation undercuts any striving for success, but it draws our attention particularly to the failures of knowledge as a form of power, whether that knowledge is of one body or of a population. How can we understand will that seeks not to govern itself, psychology that constructs inwardness by telling all, blushing shame that delights in exposure, or dignity that refuses its lofty position? Failing Desire suggests that the power of these desires and pleasures comes out of the very realization that this question can never quite be answered. “In Failing Desire, Karmen MacKendrick offers her readers something akin to a sequel to Counterpleasures. Pursuing the negative affects of failure, humiliation, and shame across authors that inform much of her work—Bataille, Blanchot, Augustine, Foucault, Kristeva, and Laure—MacKendrick effortlessly and breathlessly provides us with provocative new insights about the limitations of language, the pleasures of submission and obedience, and the wily unruliness of the flesh. For her devotees, the evocative prose and suggestive analysis will seem familiar, without being stale or repetitious; for novices, her style and acumen will seem assured and electrifying. MacKendrick breathes new life into authors, texts, and topics that have been at the forefront of critical engagements with embodiment, desire, and affect for the past several decades.” — Kent L. Brintnall, author of Ecce Homo: The Male-Body-in-Pain as Redemptive Figure

Three Radical Women Writers

Three Radical Women Writers PDF Author: Nora Ruth Roberts
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135023336
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 222

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Combining biography, history, and literary theory, this work looks at three of the most significant women writers to emerge from American radicalism of the 1930s. Le Sueur, Olsen, and Herbst were influenced by the Communist movement of the time, but each also forged an independent vision of feminist socialist literary milieu. Drawing on Marxist and post-Marxist theory, and addressing the challenge of such new feminist theorists as Jean Bethke Elshtain, Roberts takes a theoretical approach that encompasses the social vision and feminist practice of the writers and places them in their historical, cultural, and social contexts. The study covers their lives from the turn of the century to the 1970s, with an emphasis on the 1930s; examines their views of the Cold War; links the three to the Progressive tradition; and analyzes their key literary works. Resources for analysis include historical and contemporary theory; excerpts from the radical press of the 1920s and 1930s; and primary materials from the writers themselves, including journals, notes, and unpublished archival materials.

Red Zone

Red Zone PDF Author: C.A. Rene
Publisher: C.A. Rene
ISBN: 1990675239
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Life can be fickle and it can be rough. One minute you’re riding the high of an impossible win and the next your hands are wrapped around the bars of a cell. No matter your life’s accomplishments, once you hit rock bottom, you’re forgotten. If you’re no longer useful, you’re discarded. I ran my body and mind into the ground, pushed myself to greatness, and all for a game I would ultimately lose. What happens when you finally face your fears and jump into the abyss, only to find out you’re completely alone? The one person you’ve come to depend on disappears and your heart longs for the hunger only he can satisfy. There are no right answers and time doesn’t heal all wounds. How can love survive if it’s surrounded by hate?

Finding the Light

Finding the Light PDF Author: C.A. Rene
Publisher: C.A. Rene
ISBN: 1990675875
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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Travis Greene has lived most of his life shrouded in fear and shadows. Fear of a father’s wrath, a mother’s disdain, and a coach’s attention. Love and intimacy came hand in hand with pain and disappointment, but he hid all of it deep inside the shadows of his damaged heart. Adrianna Hinton was the one bright light in his pitiful childhood, the sunshine to his cloudy days. She stood by him, endured his moods, until one terrible day when his life took a tragic turn. He pushed her away, felt like he didn’t deserve her love, and has been suffering the consequences ever since. Then Ember Craven forced her way into his life and heart, giving him the chance to have a real family, one that loves unconditionally. His heart began to heal, sealing up old wounds, and he found himself opening up to the idea of true love. But how do you choose between two people whose souls seem threaded together? Is it possible to have more than one soulmate? Emmett Torres and Adrianna Hinton are willing to give him the world, but each of them provides something different. When life throws Travis one last curveball, all of his newly formed bonds are tested. He hits rock bottom and sees no way to claw his way up from the pit he finds himself in. Just when he thinks he couldn’t sink any lower, he realizes… There’s always worse.

Northwoods Deep

Northwoods Deep PDF Author: Joel Arnold
Publisher: Studio City
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 374

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Deep in the north woods, two sisters become lost; one stalked by a murderous ex-husband, the other unable to rid herself of the leeches that appear mysteriously on her skin. All are drawn to an old, dilapidated cabin. Inside lives an old man with awful urges, accompanied by a Rottweiler possessed by something…unnatural. But it’s what resides beneath the cabin that they should really be worried about. Please join award-winning author Joel Arnold on a ride over the river and through the woods straight into terror in his newest novel, Northwoods Deep. Topics: horror, canoeing, stalker, Minnesota, cabin, forest, woods, sisters, alcoholism

The Zombie Bible

The Zombie Bible PDF Author: Stant Litore
Publisher: Westmarch Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1431

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Biblical tales retold as episodes in humanity's battle with the ravenous dead. Now, get five novels in a single volume: Death Has Come up into Our Windows What Our Eyes Have Witnessed Strangers in the Land No Lasting Burial I Will Hold My Death Close (and an exclusive excerpt from By a Slender Thread) DEATH HAS COME UP INTO OUR WINDOWS (Book 1) It is 587 BC. A vast army lies encamped about Yirmiyahu’s city, and a rebellious king has closed the city gates, locking in the living and the dead together. Now, the things Yirmiyahu sees and the things he must do will call into question every promise he has made, every duty he has sworn -- to his wife, his God, and his city. WHAT OUR EYES HAVE WITNESSED (Book 2) Regina endures a death-in-life as a sex slave in the Subura, the ancient world's most terrible ghetto -- until a strange man sees her suffering and gives her a coat, a new name, and a new life. The man is Polycarp, and he has the Gift of gazing into the eyes of the hungry dead and granting them rest -- a Gift that comes at a terrible cost. And ancient Rome may burn him for it. STRANGERS IN THE LAND (Book 3) Four must stand against the dead: The aging prophetess Devora. Hurriya, the slave girl. Zadok, a legend among warriors. And the widower Barak, who has sworn to defend his homeland from a migration of walking corpses greater than has ever been seen. In this retelling of a tale from Judges, the strangers in the land must stand together if they are to rid the land of its blight. NO LASTING BURIAL (Book 4) A man wanders out of the desert one day and finds a village in ruins after a night of the walking dead. The survivors have thrown the snarling corpses into the Sea of Galilee, only to starve as the ghoul-haunted sea yields no fish. Will the stranger's coming bring back the fish, or the hungry dead? I WILL HOLD MY DEATH CLOSE (Book 5) Marked for sacrifice by her own father.... A young woman must rely on only her wits and troubled memories of her mother’s faith to survive. Jepthah's daughter flees to the hills, knowing her father and his stone blade may appear at any time to claim her -- while the unburied dead of her people also hunt her in the low ravines. The centuries to come will not remember her name. But generations of young women will climb those hills to remember her. "Heartbreaking and wonderful." - Conflictium "Stant Litore has been doing fascinating phantasmagorical things with zombies in biblical times." - Jeff Vandermeer, author of Annihilation "I find myself riveted to Stant's prose, not only because I'm eager to find out the characters' fate but because his words are so beautiful. The story has stayed with me days after reading it. I highly recommend." - Denise Grover Swank, author of The Curse Keepers "The Zombie Bible is philosophy played out in bleak landscapes. It's psychology set to the harsh strains of Prokofiev. Litore's prose is lean and hungry; his characters are faceted all-round like various colored stones; his scenes pulse with blood and life, ring with metal or reek of sweat and undeath." - Marc McDermott "Litore’s vibrant writing rips the lid off of the King James version and reveals to us a world of intense human hopes, dreams and pathos. You’ve never seen anything like this before." - Richard Ellis Preston, Jr., author of Romulus Buckle and the City of the Founders "To say I loved this book would be an understatement. I could not put it down." - The Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Tritan Evolution

Tritan Evolution PDF Author: Myra Danvers
Publisher: Myra Danvers
ISBN: 1989472397
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 540

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All three books in Myra Danvers' Tritan Evolution Series are available together for the first time in this beautiful ebook edition! Follow Mila Tannovic through Ravenous Innocence, Insatiable Corruption, and Lavish Destruction as she battles the infamous and elite Captain Asher Rawlings of the Caledonian Special Forces. Hers is a journey to discover the truth of the power she was born to wield. One of luxury and seduction, of dark magic and submission to a man she hates—a man whose power is a perfect reflection of her own rare magic. Relentless. Obsessed. Asher is a dog of the state. Mila the last free priestess of a conquered nation. A rare and dangerous thing Asher covets above all else. One taste of her lips is enough. He knows. And now, he will never stop. Not until her knees are sullied, her skin stained with his mark—and every last drop of her limitless power belongs to him.