Bøger udgivet af Life Rattle Press

I spent ten days as a psychiatric inpatient during a mental health breakdown at age twenty one.I filled nearly a hundred pages of a journal in the hospital with stories, rants, anecdotes and confessions about the chaotic road back to stability.I transcribed those journal entries into stories for two years following my departure from the hospital. Those stories now comprise this book. They recount Ward 2D as I experienced it, from admission to discharge.Home isn't a place-it's a feeling. I felt it in compassionate nurses after arguments with my doctor. I felt it in group therapy sessions and in admiring beech trees through tempered glass windows. I felt it in jigsaw puzzles and inlukewarm tea shared with copatients. I felt it more in Ward 2D than I had for years beforehand.We are all walking home. This is a travel log.

An old journal, found in the depths of an old mine shaft tell the story of a dwarf's unlikely life. Shail, a young dwarf, gets a job at the best mining company known to his race. It is better than he ever imagined, until his group breaks into a cavern. Gems dot the walls, floor to ceiling, but one dwarf's attention is caught by something in the shadows. He swears he sees a magical, fabled creature, known as a Mezmur. And, not long after, the mine closes, trapping Shail and his team inside, alone... or are they?

SULTAN AMEERALI, born in Toronto to Sri Lankan parents, chronicles the hilarious and shocking absurdities of the "brown man" making do in white Canada through bottom-feeder jobs and heartless relationships.JENNIFER LEE, produces wry, low-key tales about living across cultural boundaries, first in southern Ontario, then during a year in China, her parents' homeland.KWAI LI, takes us to the tiny marginalized community of Chinese in Tangra, a suburb of post-colonial Calcutta, where as a six-year-old she stood watch for the cops as her mother turned a tannery by day into a moonshine operation by night.ROSA VELTRI, the daughter of Italian-born parents in Toronto's west end, writes sparkling and heartbreaking stories of immigrants who struggle for dignity and a living in a hellish suburban fruit market.

Cheaters, liars, lovers and friends. A collection of short stories about real life dating and everything in between.

Trevor Coltrain has finished first year University and sees the summer months ahead as an opportunity to achieve something meaningful. With the support of a long time girlfriend, Carolina, and a love of rock and roll music, Trevor follows the advice of his musician best friend, Thom, and decides to record an album- "the most rock and roll record since Dig Lazarus Dig"- despite not even knowing how to play an instrument. I'm Not There" is Trevor's subjective perspective of his attempt to create his own perfect summer, never realizing that the future can't be planned. It is an introduction to the Coltrain saga, a world to be built upon in future writings.

Keep Grandma Off the Streets is a collection of 25 interconnected short stories documenting the author's experiences working at a bingo hall. Some are funny, some are bizarre; but none are what you expect.

Showing the Story collects nonfiction by new writers: clear voices, fresh content, engaging storytelling. This collection shows what people new to writing, given opportunity and support and guidance, can accomplish. These new authors write with economy, grace, precision, courage. Their stories pull us into spaces unfamiliar to us, and yet in the things that happen in those spaces, things we may not have known about, we recognize pieces of ourselves.

Through narrative, poetry and images, this life history account reclaims the silenced voices and life histories of both our aging farmers and aging rural architectures. Laura Lush seeks out the significance and meaning of her father's life spent on a farm, and his emotional response to the razing of his two bank barns.

Beverley Public School is an enhanced learning environment in downtown Toronto where children with special needs thrive through acceptance and understanding. Beverley: The Stories and Artwork of an Exceptional School celebrates the students of Beverley Public School and their families, through prose, poetry, photographs and artwork. This collection is a tribute to those whose stories often go untold. The voices are strong and shout out to inclusion, community and resilience when the needs of one become the mission of many. Open your mind, laugh with your heart, and enjoy this collection of brave and hopeful voices.

The perfect childhood dream broke when a political situation swallowed the ancient Indian empire in 1947. India was split into two parts: the Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan. Amidst this chaos, Zahida Begum a seventeen-year-old Muslim girl living in India's golden city of Jabalpur found herself ripped of her home, family, and wealth as she was forced to journey through the scorching deserts, leaving her Indian identity forever to immigrate to Pakistan. The Custard Apple Tree is true story based on real events. Zahida is just one amongst the millions that were affected by this tragic historical event.

ISABELLE LOFFLIN lived an ordinary life until her mom mysteriously died four months ago. Now, with the help of her boyfriend, Jeremy, Isabelle is forced to take care of her younger sister, Brett. When Isabelle arranges to have Brett meet a psychic in the hopes of reuniting with their mother, everything goes wrong. The round-trip turns one-way when the train drives further from Feathercoe. Separated from her family, Isabelle discovers the train has only one stop: a secluded camp that excels in teaching lessons of good and evil. What she doesn't expect to find is a daring redhead, a spunky Hispanic and a pair of captivating eyes that are too black to pass as brown. Isabelle must decide which fight is more important-finding her sister or achieving moral balance to stay alive.