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A wonderfully warped journey into one man’s unravelling psyche, and a joyous celebration of the necessity of story. – James Bradley, author of Ghost Species A phantasmagoric, avant-garde story set in a lost New York, Richard James Allen’s More Lies both entertains

With less ahead than behind she begins to select what will fill this old house past her tenure & what will be left behind for clearance, burning or salvage precise distillation of spirit in the cauldron of words better to prepare

it came again    the vertigo       in blackness on the pillow    pinball eyes a head  on gimbals        stillness            cut loose  from shadow    this rackety slalom of nothings  

I remember the dream on that Midnight. A train passed into my room. Inside my house. Many came in and out, a bunch of Sheets with inks, some blood. Some carried golden pens and Letters. Train named “Dead Poets”, received me that

I came in listening to oak and snow and walking in them. I was closest to having them tell me their names when I was three. Then school started and interrupted me. Made me articulate and write names for things like days

The Afghans Did not rape her or slit her breasts You did Still, you blame the Afghans And the Afghans Did not with iron rods, impale her You did Still, you blame the Afghans The Afghans did not push stones

The flight had landed ten minutes ahead of schedule. Mobile phones came on, and a cacophony of conversation began. No one heeded the requests from the crew about waiting to open the overhead lockers storing the luggage. As passengers on a

The full moon Drags the tides The waves dance To and fro I feel I could drown in a Puddle Or I feel like I could dance In a crescent moon Life is like that At times The fish swim

Title:   What’s Wrong with us Kali Women? Author: Anita Nahal   Page: 94 ISBN: 978-1-954353-88-6 (Paperback) Edition: (2021) Published by Kelsay Books. 502 South 1040 East, A-119. American Fork, Utah, 84003. Reviewed by: Dr Sutanuka Ghosh Roy         The history of Indian