Bøger udgivet af Atmosphere Press

What happens in the aftermath of a life, a town, or a love? These are the Lovely Dregs. What remains. What is never the same, except that it, oddly, is. Poems sprung up from the cracks, living at the bottom of the potato chip bag at midnight those savory / iambic iotas / sliding from / a fingers tweeze counting both / as sustenance / and sinHere are family matters, the great questions of existence, the meaning of life, and a keeper recipe for chicken all between two high fiber covers all in the savory aftermath.

A Synonym For Home is a collection of interweaving poems highlighting the inner complications of finding comfort where trauma once grew. While addressing such subjects as the memories of childhood abuse, an eating disorder, heartbreak, and new love, the reader watches as the speaker explores trauma, dismantles it, and grows beyond what once held her back.

"I have given up my search for truth and am now looking for a good fantasy," is the slogan on a t-shirt. Fantasy is imagination cut loose from truth and it has its own place in the scheme of things. But what if imagination is used in the service of truth, such as in poetry that expresses inner longings we bring to the light and grounding of reality.The spirit of truth doesn''t speak to us in easy soundbites, but in whispers and cries and groans that call us to inner awareness and move us to deep engagement with nature, with God and with people. The spirit of truth doesn''t give us easy satisfactions but opens our eyes to new awareness of how things are and gives us glimpses of how they could be.  This book looks at faith in different seasons of our spiritual journey, the seasons of Emergence, Loss, Renewal, and Celebration that spiral us through our days.

"Lucid Malware takes readers on an existential tumble through the darkness, and DylanSonderman's words are like a net that catches us, as if there's a true seer guiding us through themathematic problem of self and reality."- Chad W. Lutz, author of For the Time Being.Viruses aren't classified as living things, at least, not by the definitions used by most scientists. They are like glitches in the cosmic code of DNA, spreading and replicating to bring terrifying sickness and fear to a world already teetering in the vacuum of nihilistic materialism and senseless suffering. And like the malicious plague that sent our world into a global pandemic in 2020, computer viruses operate in much the same way.Now imagine if there was a computer virus that, instead of causing destruction, the purpose of its code was to bring about a subtle illumination in the user, or in this case, the reader. Imagine, if you will, that it replicated and spread to increase the love and cheerfulness on earth, to bring hope amidst the pain of mental illness and existential angst, to help humans smile again.To quote the great martial artist and philosopher Bruce Lee: "If there is always light, you don't experience light anymore. You have to have the rhythm of light and darkness." This poetry is an attempt to balance the scale, an attempt to stimulate and liberate us within this ever-changing rhythm. Lucid_Malware.zip is an attempt to shine a light in your living darkness.

Max and his friends have always enjoyed a six-pack of beer in the woods.They all had high hopes and dreams of doing what they loved, including Max Pricer, the attractive and talented aspiring actor who didn''t exactly know what he wanted out of life, other than hanging out with friends, dating girls and sipping scotch. Told through Max''s friend Wallace''s eyes, the story bounces around from Pittsburgh, State College, and Los Angeles, following Max''s path to the movies with his friends and romantic relationships.Drawing from older literary influences, Stuck and Drunk in Shadyside tries to relate to past young adult writers, while also continuing to be new and original to the genre. Connecting with movies and music influences, the novel acts in a cinematic nature, with back-and-forth dialogue and visually apparent, musically involving chapters to give sound to the words. This young adult dramedy connects with concepts like confusion, loneliness, love and success, to drive the coming-of-age nature of the story.

Caterpillar dreams of one day soaring through the sky. She doesn''t know how or when, but she knows it''s coming. That is... if she makes it out of Spider''s web. J.P. Hostetler, (Jake) is an explorer of the worlds, big and small. He is fascinated most by unanswerable questions, undiscovered words, and the overlooked extra-ordinaries of the every day. A native of the USA, Jake currently resides in Europe, where he writes, travels, and plays music. "The Sky Belongs to the Dreamers" is his first illustrated fiction story. You can find out more of his other and upcoming publications at jphostetler.com

Do your pets like the local Animal Control officer more than they like you? Ever wonder why the farmer down the road has boarded up his barn windows? Or why he gets so nervous the day of the full moon? Or where his cows go at night? Do you know about the old man who ended up in Riverview Psychiatric Hospital when he was caught licking police cruisers? Do you like eggnog? No, I mean do you really like eggnog? This is the story of a cow, a doctor, an Animal Control officer, and a guy who likes eggnog, maybe just a little too much.