![]() ![]() “The rain fluctuates between drizzle and torrential. The sky shatters and rains shards of glass.” – TabloĤ2. ![]() ![]() “It didn’t rain for you, maybe, but it always rains for me. What is it that the clouds ponder? Will I write something tonight? But I don’t want to miss the thunder!” – Avijeet DasĤ1. “There is a way of walking through rain without getting hit by a single drop – you just have to find what it is.” – Stewart Staffordģ8. “Rain knows the earth and loves it well, for rain is the passion of the earth.” – Estela Portillo Trambleyģ7. It makes me feel better to know other things in nature can shatter.” -Lone Alaskan Gypsyġ00 Of The Best Inspirational Quotes And Sayings Of All Timeĥ0 Of The Best Growth Mindset Quotes For Kids And Teachersģ6. It makes me feel good to know I’m not the only thing that falls apart. All rain is, is a cloud falling apart, and pouring its shattered pieces down on top of you. ![]() “Eyes so young, so full of pain … Two lonely drops of winter rain … And no tear could these eyes sustain … For too much had they seen.” – Shaun Hickģ5. The rain has the power to hypnotize.” – Haruki Murakamiģ4. “Look at the rain long enough, with no thoughts in your head, and you gradually feel your body falling loose, shaking free of the world of reality. ![]()
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We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. ![]() We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]() ![]() But my very first creepy story experience, the one that really made me fall in love with reading about things that go bump in the night, was The Ghost Next Door by Wylly Folk St. During my young adult years, I devoured books by Daphne du Maurier, Shirley Jackson, Lois Duncan, and Stephen King. When I write, I get to be the playwright, set designer, costume designer, lighting and sound designer, and director all rolled into one.Īs a reader, I've always been drawn to the strange and the spooky. I didn't really learn to love writing until I realized how similar it is. I promise.) I have a degree in theatre and I've spent most of my career up to this point teaching acting as well as directing plays and musicals. When I was a kid, I spent a lot of time creating characters and plots for my little brother and sister to act out. ![]() ![]() Although I come from a line of writers, my first love has always been the theatre. ![]() ![]() “Hans Holzer is a marvelous ghost hunter, who has added countless discoveries to the paranormal fields.” INCLUDES DOZENS OF HAUNTING PHOTOS AND A FOREWORD BY SECOND GENERATION GHOSTHUNTER ALEXANDRA HOLZER Marks-in-the-Bowery and the Merchant’s House in New York City Where the Ghosts Are explores both famous and little-known sites such as: That’s when the idea of my film Ghostbusters was born."Ĭomplete with photos and details about each spectral phenomenon as he has researched and discovered it as well as the stories of the ghosts themselves, this book tells who they were and why they are found in each location. “I became obsessed by Hans Holzer, the greatest ghost hunter ever. ![]() It is his business to investigate hauntings.” ![]() “Hans Holzer understands the rules of ghostly behavior perhaps better than anyone else. He recounts his personal investigations of the ghosts as a renowned parapsychologist in eerily fascinating stories that will haunt readers long after they have finished. Father of Paranormal Investigation and inspiration for The Holzer Files and Ghostbusters takes his readers through more than fifty famously haunted and chilling locations in the U.S., Canada, and Great Britain. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you want them to spend a long time on your site, it makes sense to appeal to lizard-brain emotions, like fear and outrage. ![]() If you have a real-time feedback loop, what do you get to do? First, you use notifications and like buttons and stuff like that to appeal to everyone’s innate need for rewards and get them coming back. No, it’s there to manipulate your attention. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the House Energy and Commerce Committee. I don’t have answers, I mostly have questions. My role is facilitating this conversation. We’re in this place where things we love have unintended consequences. It’s really hard to run businesses like this. ![]() There is so much to admire about both of them, so much good they create, but a combination of the Valley’s culture and the business models that took them to scale, at which they amassed political power for which they were unprepared that is currently unregulated and unaccountable, and it’s been super hard for people running these companies to separate issues of politics from the issues of their business.īy the way, I’m sympathetic to that. Facebook and Google were two of the best executed startups in humanity. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She ends up having struggles with herself, because she’s never had a family, and this conflicts with the identity she is stealing. She pretends to be part of a family that she has never known. The main character, Tessa, later pretending to be Madison, is always really nervous to be taking the place of a dead girl. The details put into what the character was feeling when she was drowning made the book interesting right away.ĭescription in this book creates a feeling of nervousness. Everyone running around, screaming for someone to help, and the person drowning was the start of all the action. With someone drowning and having a lot of chaos happen at one time is the first attention grabbing technique used. In Impostor the author is great at starting out with something really catchy. If you are looking forward to reading a book full of action and vividly painted pictures, I recommend Impostor by Susanne Winnacker. The way the book is written makes you want to keep reading and never put the book down. This is the book that will let you go into the life of the characters. Impostor is full of description and detail. ![]() ![]() ![]() Kristen was raised in a house with a large and multi-generational family. Her posse is loopy (to say the least) but loopy is good when you want to write. Thus she has been blessed to have friends and family around the globe. Kristen grew up in Brownsburg, Indiana but has lived in Denver, Colorado and the West Country of England. ![]() She nearly killed her mother and herself making it into the world, seeing as she had the umbilical cord wrapped around her neck (already attempting to accessorise and she hadn’t taken her first breath!). ![]() Kristen Ashley was born in Gary, Indiana, USA. We love compelling voices and character-driven stories that take us away from the tedium of our lives and this month’s featured author is an expert at doing just that. Welcome, LitStackers, to our December Featured Author segment. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It has my name written all over it, and I’m kicking myself for having not read it sooner. It seems shocking, as a huge fan of Greek mythology, that I didn’t pick up Neon Gods the second it was released. In my experience, her erotica has been well-paced and full of many of my favorite tropes and kinks. She’s a prolific writer, and I’ve by no means worked my way through her entire catalog, but the thought has certainly crossed my mind.įrom what little I’ve read of her, Katee’s writing seems vibrant, tight, exciting, and sexy as hell. I’ve read a few of Katee Robert’s other stories, and I’ve loved every single one of them. Neon Gods came out June 1, 2021, and while I’ve been seeing it virtually everywhere for the last nine months, my reading schedule made it impossible to find room for it.īut then it’s sequel, Electric Idol came out in February, and I finally had an excuse to buckle down and read this one. ![]() I’ll admit I’m a little late to the game here. This Neon Gods book review discusses Katee Robert’s first book in her Dark Olympus series, which focuses on Hades and Persephone. ![]() ![]() I lived on Jones & Abercorn for 14 years, and Jack Leigh’s studio & home was at the corner of Oglethorpe & Abercorn Street. With the recent passing of another friend and recent burial in Bonaventure, I was reminded of this writing and wanted to share it. You become a vessel for such spiritual feeling and its personal but more than that too. I think this is the role of story teller at times. I think it adds to the storytelling and is fitting of his memory to show people how he was admired and loved. I’m sure I’ll cry again there some night. I didn’t see it coming but it was like I could process his loss doing that there. In fact the first time I read this, a group of 30 people basically saw me cry, pause and then cry some more. I avoided telling his story grave side because it was too emotional. Its fitting he’s buried near the entrance of the place that his photograph immortalized for the rest of time. ![]() This writing is a little something I’ve read at Jack’s grave during my tours of Bonaventure. ![]() |