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A graded reader for learners of English (EFL) Level 3 A2/B1 Intermediate (1) Word count: 11,004 Everyone likes parties! In this book, there are six stories about parties. Teresa is studying English in London. The school will have a welcome party for new students. Teresa is excited,...

Ashes of Time, by the internationally acclaimed director Wong Kar-wai, has been considered to be one of the most complex and self-reflexive of Hong Kong films. Loosely based on the stories by renowned martial arts novelist Jin Yong, Wong Kar-wai has created a very different kind of martial arts film,...

Part historical drama, part thriller, and part comedy, Tsui Hark’s Peking Opera Blues (1986) invites—if not demands—examinations from multiple perspectives. Tan See Kam rises to the challenge in this study by first situating Tsui in a Sinophone context. The diasporic director explores different...

At the core of Martial Arts Cinema and Hong Kong Modernity: Aesthetics, Representation, Circulation is a fascinating paradox: the martial arts film, long regarded as a vehicle of Chinese cultural nationalism, can also be understood as a mass cultural expression of Hong Kong’s modern urban-industrial...

New poems from Nathaniel S. Rounds, written while hugging the skirting of Fenwick Tower in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on the 26th floor, on a cold night in December.

My first clue into Rounds’ motivations came with some research into the title. The phrase “bread of tears” is taken from Psalm 80. The verses around it say the following:How long, Lord God Almighty, will your anger smolder against the prayers of your people? You have fed them with the bread...

Seven Deadly Sins, featuring poets and fiction writers from around the world is a no-holds barred selection of writing on the darker parts of human nature, which we mostly try to repress or at least keep hidden. Our contributors delve into lust and revenge, gluttony and hate with gusto, allowing the...

Art That Heals, Inc., presents Boundless 2015, the official anthology of the 8th Annual Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival (www.valleypoetryfest.org). Boundless is an eclectic collection of poetry from around the U.S. and including contributions by poets from the U.K., China, Turkey, and Mexico.

Volume 1, Issue 1 of Strangelet featuring: Cover art by (and interview with) Tory Hoke Comic: Saved by John Carvajal Bred to travel the stars, an explorer copes with the mysteries of a new world. Fiction: Delia by David Armstrong When we are near death, can we hear the dead? Can they help us? Small...

Peter Parker contineus to adjust to his ever-changing life of family, friends, and being the Super Hero wall-crawler known as the amazing Spider-Man. Since gaining great power and great responsibility, Spidey has fought crime all over the city day in and day out and it's taken its toll on Peter's...

Another collection of blood soaked, gory, horrific stories centred on that most evocative of nights, Halloween. Here are manic people and pumpkins, savage spooks and nastiness by the ton, as only the Thirteen O'clock Press authors can conjure from their fevered imaginations... enjoy!

Jack Dolan has spent almost thirty years solving homicides in Denver, his uncanny ability to speak to the dead learned from his aged mentor whom other cops refer to as Old Grim because of his incredible solve rate. For almost as long, Jack has repressed his sexuality, fearing discovery and likely...

This collection is brought to you by the writers of ShadowSpinners, a collective blog dedicated to exploring the darker side of fiction. Join us for a journey through the shadows. Wherever you end up, it is sure to be fascinating.Within these pages you'll discover a wide range of genres, from...

ONE HOT ROBOT!Sam’s a mechanical man who lives in the Big Apple and enjoys the friendship of Augie, a hapless ex-janitor and Doona, a gorgeous girl reporter—and boy do they have adventures! Or is that misadventures?SAUCY ROBOT STORIES offers up six terrific tales of the world’s...