When Jack fell into a canal when he was four years old and unable to swim, he tried to move towards the sun, and when that didn’t work, he thought, “Never mind, Jack, let it go. Life is a bitch.” But then he’s rescued, and when he gets home his stepfather beats him up. As usual.

Swallowing a jar of red ink before you go to sleep is not the most successful way to commit suicide, Jack finds out, but when it comes down to it, Jack doesn’t want to die. He just wants to stop living.

At...

Note to you:

You are the author of your own life, so make sure you write a f*cking novel!

Dear Mark Tuan, I know that life is difficult and only those who decide to face it really get something out of it. For you, life is an adventure, and you accept every challenge your life gives you with full passion and determination and came out victorious… making a mark for yourself. You might be an inspiration for many, but for me you are my guide. Because whenever I look up at the sky in search of answers; the first face that I see, is yours, and think to myself if you were at my place;...

In times of darkness and adversity, you never faltered. You fought against physical pain and limitations, but your spirit remained unbroken. Your determination to keep fighting and your love for our family found their way to my heart.Eduardo carried the heavy burden of his own pain while I also cared for our children. His smile, even in the midst of the most difficult moments, gave me courage. He has shown me that despite the ruins of life, there is always hope.

Thanks to your unconditional l...

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Bob Maram (1931, Chicago) made his career as a banker who transformed nightly into an avant-garde actor in downtown Chicago. When retired he joined his wife Ineke in Ghana where she worked as a tropical doctor.

Bob is an critical reader of history and American literature and delights in music and acting. In Ghana his writing started with his play (2007), followed by essays, book reviews and loose notes left here and there in drawers, his diary.

In his work, like in a del...

Never knew she had no clue who she really was. What did she really want for her life. At the age of thirty three Charlene was forced to stop and reorganize her life. After being intermittently unwell for nine months with various vague complaints, she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. A proactive, creative person with many goals and ambitions. This was very hard for her to fathom. The doctors, specialist and other professionals saw no hope for positive changes. Her lifestyle had to be ada...

The beautiful city of Kiev also has some downsides. Because of its low wages and poor economy, a veritable industry has developed there in which extremely attractive decoy women have specialised in completely financially undressing unsuspecting men from the West. Not infrequently, the lover turns out to be a professional con artist working with criminal accomplices to empty the pockets of tourists and fortune seekers. Frank Libertas takes the reader into the buzzing nightlife of Kiev where, a...

It is a truth rarely acknowledged that a middle-aged English man, disinterested and diminished by life on the small island, could do worse than run away and marry an Amsterdam drag queen. There is, of course, much more to the story.

A memoir of kept promises, marriage, identity, thwarted ambition, euthanasia, grief and always show tunes in the face of adversity.

‘A memoir to die for.’

Dorothy DeMoore

This book is my story, as it is lived. At the end you may feel unsatisfied, but that is not of my concern. I am not here to satisfy anyone or any feeling. I wrote this book, so I could leave the streets out of love for a girl. This is not going to happen, but I continue to publish it, because I feel like this story, my story, needs to be told. It is a story about a young man that decides to do that one thing that every man has had the idea of doing, at least once in his life. And some women a...

Everyone has setbacks in life, but only few have childhoods as nightmarish as Gurjot Kaur's. Growing up in two different cultures, she faced mental and sexual abuse, cultural taboos, an unsafe home environment, and a family that abandoned her and eventually cast her out.

This book is about her life thus far and the harmful generational patterns she has experienced—and broken. Gurjot now has the freedom to live life her way. Despite the trauma she has endured, she is strong and headed straig...