Solitary Eyes On Fire And Other Stories PDF Download

Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download Solitary Eyes On Fire And Other Stories PDF full book. Access full book title Solitary Eyes On Fire And Other Stories.

Solitary Eyes on Fire and Other Stories

Solitary Eyes on Fire and Other Stories
Author: John David Wells
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2018-03-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1532044615

Download Solitary Eyes on Fire and Other Stories Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle

"Dark, edgy and riveting, the stories by John David Wells are white knuckles for the mind, capturing the incomprehensible depths of madness, cruelty and despair in modern society. Written from the gut these stories rise up from the same lyrical dark well as Bukowski, Shelby Jr.. and Burroughs." Robert T. Allen A narcissistic, confused college student is brutally raped and murdered; a "bony-headed psychopath" makes his two step-sons clear out rats in the basement; a traveling American finds horror in a Casablanca opium den; a young man is driven insane by the voice of English writer Daniel Defoe; three college students have a drug-fueled menage 'a trios in the back of a Range Rover with disastrous results, and a drummer in a rock band hallucinates the Apostle John from the Book of Revelation flashing out of an MTV video. Reading Solitary Eyes on Fire and Other Stories is like having a veil lifted from your eyes, revealing a world more intense, terrifying, and imaginary than you ever knew. Traveling through the book, we meet a vivid unforgettable cast of characters driven to all sorts of depravitydrugs, sex, murder, madnessas they hurl ninety-miles-an hour down dangerous dead-end streets. Solitary Eyes on Fire and Other Stories reveals in stark detail the omnipresence of the grotesque in everyday life. Mired in dystopia, these characters have lost their their fragile hold on sanity, entering a world where reality is up for grabs, bizarre, and repulsively ugly. Often they innocent victims torn between the heartless demands of society and the desire to maintain their sense of identity and freedom.


Glitteration in the Night and Other Stories

Glitteration in the Night and Other Stories
Author: John David Wells
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2018-08-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1546256849

Download Glitteration in the Night and Other Stories Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle

A “bony-headed psychopath” makes his two step-sons clear out rats in the basement; a traveling American finds horror in a Casablanca opium den; a young man is driven insane by the voice of English writer Daniel Defoe; a former black player in the Negro Leagues tells the awful truth about why he quit playing; a grieving family tries to understand why a loved one committed suicide; and a drummer in a rock band hallucinates the Apostle John from the Book of Revelation flashing out of an MTV video. Reading Glitteration in the Night and Other Stories is like having a veil lifted from your eyes, revealing a world more intense, terrifying, and imaginary than you ever thought possible. Traveling through the book we meet an unforgettable cast of characters driven to all sorts of depravity---drugs---sex---suicide---madness---as they hurl ninety miles an hour down dangerous dead-end streets. Glitteration in the Night and Other Stories reveals in stark detail the omnipresence of the grotesque in everyday life. Mired in dystopia, these people have lost their fragile hold on sanity, entering a world where reality is up for grabs, bizarre and brutally ugly. Often they are innocent victims torn between the heartless demands of society and the desire to maintain their sense of identity and freedom.


Solitary

Solitary
Author: Albert Woodfox
Publisher: Grove Press
Total Pages: 481
Release: 2019-03-12
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0802146902

Download Solitary Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle

“An uncommonly powerful memoir about four decades in confinement . . . A profound book about friendship [and] solitary confinement in the United States.” —New York Times Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award Solitary is the unforgettable life story of a man who served more than four decades in solitary confinement—in a 6-foot by 9-foot cell, twenty-three hours a day, in Louisiana’s notorious Angola prison—all for a crime he did not commit. That Albert Woodfox survived at all was a feat of extraordinary endurance. That he emerged whole from his odyssey within America’s prison and judicial systems is a triumph of the human spirit. While behind bars in his early twenties, Albert was inspired to join the Black Panther Party because of its social commitment and code of living. He was serving a fifty-year sentence in Angola for armed robbery when, on April 17, 1972, a white guard was killed. Albert and another member of the Panthers were accused of the crime and immediately put in solitary confinement. Without a shred of evidence against them, their trial was a sham of justice. Decades passed before Albert was finally released in February 2016. Sustained by the solidarity of two fellow Panthers, Albert turned his anger into activism and resistance. The Angola 3, as they became known, resolved never to be broken by the corruption that effectively held them for decades as political prisoners. Solitary is a clarion call to reform the inhumanity of solitary confinement in the United States and around the world.


Solitary

Solitary
Author: Travis Thrasher
Publisher: David C Cook
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2010
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1434764214

Download Solitary Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle

The first book in the Solitary Tales suspense series will remind you what it means to believe in what you cannot see.


Hell Is a Very Small Place

Hell Is a Very Small Place
Author: Jean Casella
Publisher: New Press, The
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2014-11-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1620971380

Download Hell Is a Very Small Place Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle

“An unforgettable look at the peculiar horrors and humiliations involved in solitary confinement” from the prisoners who have survived it (New York Review of Books). On any given day, the United States holds more than eighty-thousand people in solitary confinement, a punishment that—beyond fifteen days—has been denounced as a form of cruel and degrading treatment by the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture. Now, in a book that will add a startling new dimension to the debates around human rights and prison reform, former and current prisoners describe the devastating effects of isolation on their minds and bodies, the solidarity expressed between individuals who live side by side for years without ever meeting one another face to face, the ever-present specters of madness and suicide, and the struggle to maintain hope and humanity. As Chelsea Manning wrote from her own solitary confinement cell, “The personal accounts by prisoners are some of the most disturbing that I have ever read.” These firsthand accounts are supplemented by the writing of noted experts, exploring the psychological, legal, ethical, and political dimensions of solitary confinement. “Do we really think it makes sense to lock so many people alone in tiny cells for twenty-three hours a day, for months, sometimes for years at a time? That is not going to make us safer. That’s not going to make us stronger.” —President Barack Obama “Elegant but harrowing.” —San Francisco Chronicle “A potent cry of anguish from men and women buried way down in the hole.” —Kirkus Reviews


Six by Ten

Six by Ten
Author: Mateo Hoke
Publisher:
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2018-10-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781608469567

Download Six by Ten Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle

A collection of intimate portraits told directly by people whose lives have been devastated by solitary confinement in America.


Short Story Writing

Short Story Writing
Author: Charles Raymond Barrett
Publisher:
Total Pages: 94
Release: 1898
Genre: Short story
ISBN:

Download Short Story Writing Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle


The Lonely Poet and Other Stories

The Lonely Poet and Other Stories
Author: Branka Cubrilo
Publisher: Speaking Volumes
Total Pages: 232
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1628153512

Download The Lonely Poet and Other Stories Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle


Steffan's Angel, and Other Stories

Steffan's Angel, and Other Stories
Author: Mary Elizabeth Townsend
Publisher:
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1880
Genre: Short stories, English
ISBN:

Download Steffan's Angel, and Other Stories Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle