Debra Davis Hinkle

Put your feet up and relax while your mind travels to real and imagined destinations. You will experience the diversity, humor, joy and sometimes sadness in this eclectic collection, while reading about nature-animals, flowers and families, friendships, love, and loss. This is a collection of poetry from two women poets with vastly different experiences and styles-descriptive imagery, rhyme, and meter vs. a narrative style-both styles take you on a journey. The writers live on the Central Coast of California enjoying the rural settings, picturesque views, and sunshine which nourish their poetic souls.

Four diverse voices and their multifaceted subjects (fiction, non-fiction, paranormal, psychic mysteries and short stories) come together creatively in a thought provoking manner. Filled with quirky women's poetry, nature poetry, women's fiction with gritty, strong female protagonists and women's non-fiction that shows the courage of survivors.Our male writer creates goosebumps in frightening, firsthand experiences, once with a tornado, and then with an infamous serial killer. His multiverse leaves you pondering this world and...All the writers are animal lovers, so this book has fur babies, be it cats or dogs. One mean rooster shows up as an antagonist in one of the stories.Great fiction, lyrical poetry, mystery, thriller, horror and detective stories along with poignant memoir and sci-fi. Indeed, something for everyone in this...volume. Don't miss it. Paul Alan Fahey, author of the memoir The Mother I Imagined, The Mom I Knew (Mindprints Literary Press).

Through short stories, poetry, journal entries and reflective narrative, Debra Davis Hinkle and Jim Leonard have created a rich and unique expression of the range of emotions, spiritual questions and insights, which accompany grief. Whether it is the death of a loved one, beloved pet or pre-death losses like Alzheimer's. Their writings show the capacity of the human spirit to resolve and evolve. They also illustrate how writing can be a source of comfort and inspiration.The authors movingly guide us through the diverse passages of grief and along the way tears turn to laughter. Keep it by your bedside.