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Saving Hell now available as an ebook!
Hi everyone!
Just wanted to let you know that Saving Hell is finally available as an ebook! Yeah!
So if you’re into optimistic MC’s, witty banter, immature demons, and a surprisingly pleasant Hell – definitely come check it out!
And if you’re really, really nice, please remember – sharing is caring
So share! :D
https://www.guardbridgebooks.co.uk/books/SavingHell.html
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Saving Hell
"A supernatural jaunt through life, death, and beyond."
A comedic fantasy suited to readers who love a good comedy, plenty of verbal sparring, and an optimistic main character.
A Supernatural Jaunt Through Life, Death, and BeyondGrace O’Neill passes away peacefully after a long and eventful life. Denied at Heaven, she reluctantly heads the other way. But Hell is not that bad a place: barbecues, drinks with paper umbrellas, and concerts with dead rock stars — with all the truly bad souls exiled to the formless void of Limbo.But one such undesirable soul breaks out of…
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Going Live! + Poem
Going Live! + Poem
Our Kickstarter just officially went live, and it would absolutely mean the world to me if you checked it out and considered supporting us!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mariasjostrand/phantom-listeners-a-poetry-anthology-of-horror?ref=project_tweet
Also:
Two broken hearts,
One hidden, one revealed.
Only one had the man who broke it,
Also be the man who it healed.
What movie am I?
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Phantom Listeners
Hi guys!
I realise you haven’t heard from me in a while but I do have a good reason!
I recently got hired at a small publishing firm, which is just starting up. It’s super exciting but also a little scary.
Anyway, we’re coming out with our first book (yeah!), which is a Halloween poetry collection called Phantom Listeners.
We’re starting a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds and I wanted to…
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Erasure Poem 2
Hi guys! Another erasure poem here! This one is from Disciplines by Dawn Lundy Martin
If there is prayer, there is a mother kneeling, hands folded to a private sign. We recognize it. If there is a mother kneeling, hands a tent, she is praying or she is crying or crying and praying at the same time. Although it is recognized, the signals of it, it is private and no one knows, perhaps not even…
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Erasure Poem 1
Hi guys! Haven’t posted in a while, have I? Sorry about that!
Here’s an erasure poem created using the following four texts: Short Walk on Sleep Stones by Anne Carson, Harbour by Michael Ondaatje, the Orphan Lamb by Amy Hempel and the Deck by Yusef Komunyakaa.
Three of the chosen texts were pretty sad, so I wanted to subvert them and get something life-affirming out of them! Anyway, here’s the…
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The Levels of Liking a Book
The Levels of Liking a Book
For me there are eight levels of how much I like a book.
One. I can’t read it. I just can’t. I mean, I’ll tryif I really have to, but after reading the same paragraph half a dozen times, I’m just going to give up and google my way to a summary. It’s so extraordinary bad that I just can’t read it. My brain goes on a strike as soon as I try. It’s figuratively holding up a small sign saying “What do…
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A Great Character
A/N: Very light spoiler alert for Lucifer.
The Great Character is a character, who can save a show. It’s a character, who can take a book, a movie, or a TV-show and make it worth your while. You can, of course, argue that subjectivity plays a vital role in this – as it does in everything regarding the worlds of literature and media. Just because I find a show dull and a character entertaining,…
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Hating Great Books
There are some novels, which are celebrated worldwide.
These are the books that people generally just agree are great. Hell, some of them even has the word great in the title! Books such as Pride and Prejudice, the Great Gatsby, Romeo and Juliet.
These are the classics that are being remembered far beyond the death of their author. These are the immortal words.
And there´s some of them, that you…
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If I Were a Book...
If I Were a Book…
If I were a book, I don´t think I would be a particularly educating one.
I wouldn´t be able to teach someone how to speak Spanish or how to make the perfect crème brûlée. Hell, I wouldn´t even be able to teach someone how to bake chocolate chip cookies. I couldn´t teach them the difference between a congress man and a senator, or why North and South Korea doesn´t get along.
And I don´t think I…
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Irrationally Angry
Warning: Includes cursing.
Okay, do you guys have something that pisses you off way more than it should?
And I can´t be things where it´s perfectly reasonable to be angry. It can´t be how you hate it when people lie, or when someone calls you ugly names. It´s reasonable to be angry when this happens.
I´m thinking about something that pisses you off, even when it really, really shouldn´t.
For me,…
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Immortality
Immortality
And Why You Should Definitely Want It
“You don´t really want to live forever, do you?” she asks me, face horrified as if the mere thought of it was more than she could bear.
You´d think I´d told her I was suicidal. The face would be more appropriate if “live forever” had been replaced with “die”.
“Of course, I do,” I answer. “I would always want one more day.”
And I do. I want one…
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Choosing Blindly
If we go out from the assumption that there is one true religion, one true God, and one true life after death… then choosing our religion and our God is undoubtedly the most important choice we will ever make.
So how do we go about making it?
For most people, their choice is easy (but not very well thought out). They go with the same choice their parents went with.
This is undoubtedly very…
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People Are Odd
People are odd.
I mean, people are just really, undeniably incredibly odd.
Human beings are the odd-balls of the animal kingdom. I mean, it´s hard to argue against it when you look at the facts.
What other animal is going to say “ow” when they stump themselves, even if they´re not actually in pain? They just say in, just in case it might have hurt.
It´s adorable, but utterly pointless.
And no…
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Fanfiction
A/N: Spoiler alert on Gone With the Wind and How I Met Your Mother.
Maybe it starts out with nothing more than a thought.
You find a book, a movie, or a television show you love but the ending was… disappointing. So, inside your own head, you change it. Rhett doesn´t leave Scarlett. Barney and Robin doesn´t get a divorce.
You find that the idea inside your own head isn´t concrete enough, so…
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The Hundred-Year-Old Man
A/N: Light spoiler alert.
It can be hard to pick a favourite book. Is it the book that makes you laugh until your sides ache, or the book that makes you cry until snot is streaming down your face?
Is it the book full of nostalgia that reminds you of your childhood , or is it the book that taught you something so vital that it changed your entire perspective of life?
There are thousands of…
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The Fashion of Monsters
The Fashion of Monsters
Okay. Fashion. We can’t really avoid it. We can’t avoid the trends that go through society before they finally die out, only to be brought back to life later – fashion, as it turns out, is very Frankenstein.
The most obvious example is, of course, clothes, but even outside the world of designers and haute couture, we find that “fashion” or popular trends exist in everything. Hobbies. Ideologies.…
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