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Mother Speaks tells her life's story in poems filled with beautiful imagery of painful memories that will move the reader, I hope.

This collection of poetry and short prose pieces is not a flowery rhapsody about strolling through the wilderness. It is well-crafted and imaginative writing with a deep sense of place and strong attachment to the earth. Like the southern stories of Eudora Welty or the New England poems of Robert Frost, Lecomte's collection of poems and stories is regional literature at its finest, firmly rooted in the Alaskan soil.

Crimson Rice is a collection of Vietnam poems.

Perched on the Beloved's Shoulder is a book of poems inspired by Sufi philosophy and Persian poets like Rumi and Hafiz. They are of a spiritual nature meant to elevate the human heart, mind and soul.

The last of The Sourdoughs is a true Alaskan tale; well, true in the sense that it could have happened. I knew many characters just like the collection of misfits and dreamers who occupy the pages and run wild in the language of this Alaskan romance. Like medieval knights they wander in a land of wild beauty and harsh conditions, with all their faults exposed and a spirit of fearlessness guiding the way.

It's the spring of 1940 and Arthur Comte is headed home. He is nineteen and in full rebellion against the life he was raised to live, one in which men labor in the mines until they sweat coal dust. He plunges back into Binche in all its complexity-his family life with his mother, father, and siblings; the various women he has been involved with and who still love him; his ongoing fight with Lumi re, the village priest and an anti-Semite; his uncle and godfather Oscar who has more than a touch of the supernatural about him.What follows is a wild ride of a novel, rich with detail about life in Nazi-occupied Belgium yet filled with imaginative flights that take the reader into a dreamscape, a place where food is scarce, life is harsh, resistance fighters are hung, but which also has the coherence and logic of a fairy tale. Evading death at every turn, Arthur is tutored in the meaning of life. Filled with incident both dire and zany, populated by characters of unusual depth, complexity, and pathos, THE CASANOVA OF BINCHE has at its heart the great character of Arthur-fully alive, constantly on the move, always curious, a dreamer, a lover, a devil and a saint.

Arthur's Undoing is a sequel to The Casanova of Binche, the second part of a trilogy.It's War II, and nineteen-year-old Arthur Comte has sex on the brain; every woman he sees is a potential pleasure machine. In the small town of Binche, Belgium, he's a Lothario of epic proportions, and his uncle and godfather Oskar (emphasis on god) thinks he needs to learn a lesson about women and love. Shortly after being executed in the town square by a Nazi firing squad, Arthur is resurrected from nothing into something and finds himself hurtling through space. He comes fully awake as he crashes through the top of a railway car filled with "undesirables" on their way to the death camps.So begins Serge Lecomte's novel ARTHUR'S UNDOING, an alternately horrifying and bleakly comic account of a young man's education in the teeth of the Holocaust, an unholy cross between Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress and Sartre's No Exit.

Meet Byron Majmun-born in Sarajevo, named for the English poet and freedom fighter. He's a poet himself, though Bosnian-a nominal Muslim, a university teacher, husband, soon-to-be father. And an assassin.Now in his thirties, Byron lives with his wife Leila, both of them survivors of the siege of Sarajevo (1992-1996) and the larger Bosnian war. Both lost their families in the war and, as children, clung to one another. But while Leila, now a nurse, has managed to look forward, Byron can only look back. Bitter, cynical, and filled with rage, he dreams again and again of the day the Serbians came to murder his father, rape his sister, and kidnap his mother, sister, and brother, none of whom he has ever seen again. Obsessed with revenge, he has quit teaching and poetry and now works with an underground Bosnian force to hunt down, interrogate, and kill Serbian "Scorpions," war criminals who have been tried in Serbian courts and found not guilty.

Leo is The Guest come to Atlanta after not seeing his children for 20 years. He is a hypochondriac who has visited every doctor there is to check out all his organs. When the play opens he has been at his daughter Sylvia's and Michael her husband for almost a month. They have endured his non-stop talking about his imaginary ailments. Leo has managed to alienate everyone he has come in contact with. At this point Sylvia and Michael are plotting to get rid of him. They have enlisted Sylvia's brother's help. Samuel/Danielle is a gay female impersonator thinking about getting a sex change The Guest is about our human condition. It deals with compassion, love, and acceptance of others as well as our selves. Above all, it touches on our abilities to change or not change as others around us do.

Martin works for an insurance company and leads a boring existence with an unloving wife. In a world where different realities cross paths, he is searching for meaning in life as he finds the inner child within him. Followed by a guardian angel and plagued by his mother's phone calls from beyond the grave, Martin seeks out the son his dead wife tells him she bore, and discovering his son to be an artist who can draw alternate realities, begs him to recreate a childhood holiday. As he dies on this last journey, he is reborn into his favorite memory, six years old and on a beach with his parents, where everything is right with the world.

Yukio's Journey is a "fairy tale" about a young Japanese soldier who kills another like himself in WWII in the Pacific. The dead man, a Japanese-American, haunts Yukio's dreams once he is taken prisoner. The rest is a story of love and forgiveness.

Martin travaille pour une compagnie d'assurance et m ne une existence ennuyeuse avec une femme sans amour. Dans un monde o les diff rentes r alit s se croisent, il est en qu te de trouver l'enfant l'int rieur de lui. Suivi d'un ange gardien et menac par les appels t l phoniques de sa m re d'outre-tombe. Martin d couvre au tombeau de son ancienne femme qu'il a un fils. Celui-ci est artiste qui peut dessiner des r alit s alternatives. Martin le supplie de lui recr er un moment de son enfance sur la plage de ses t s passes. P re et fils prennent un train ensemble. Il rena t l' ge de six ans pieds nus dans la mer avec ses parents c t de lui quand le monde tait encore tout en couleur.

Struggling with self-conflict and her obsession with being thin, troubled teen Lauren resents her critical mother and fisherman father's untroubled acceptance of life. When deceased relatives tell her differing stories about her parents, Lauren embarks on a dream-like search to find her 'real' mother, win back her father's heart and to try to make sense of a world filled with contradictions and conflict.