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WASPS & SCORPIONS: Luv Pomes and Other Lies by Barbara Scott Emmett

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WASPS & SCORPIONS: Luv Pomes and Other Lies (Kindle Edition)
This review is from: C. Somerville

I enjoyed these poems. A mix of styles and written with a sense of humour.
The poet has an excellent vocabulary and uses this well to get the message across or to make an amusing play on words. If you enjoy poetry, this is worth reading.

This is a delightful book that adults will enjoy reading:

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In the 21st Century West Country spirits have moved on from Ouija boards and séances, the dead now travel by broadband, hidden in the Bandwidth. They inhabit the chat rooms, plying their trade online, ever hungry for contact with the living.

Inspired to rediscover his roots and family history, computer programmer, Michael, soon learns that the past is sometimes best left undisturbed: for lurking in the history of his bloodline, is a twisted killer, Devlin Mallard. A man dispatched from this earth in 1929 at the end of a hangman's noose.

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Re-awakened in Cyberspace, Devlin wreaks havoc. People begin to die and the trail of horrific deaths, winds its way towards Michael, Heather and the children.

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Four books available right now and tomorrow the 26th Dec.

You will find my work to be polished with a great deal of thought put into its creation; the one constant it receives is about its 'refreshing originality'. I hope you enjoy.

Prickly Scots (Part One - The Characters) (an indulgent sit back and enjoy laugh out loud epic, rich in description - "Talking flowers, an invisible space faring castle, new breeds of aliens and an array of finely nuanced characters living in a normal world in three time periods, each with their own agenda as they get caught up in the time travelling, inter-dimensional adventure of one family's ancient curse, Prickly Scots is a highly unlikely tale like no other, well researched, this out of the box incredibly imaginative and intelligent story is a long overdue feast for brains of all ages.")

Warped Mirrors. This is a witty, light-hearted and easily enjoyed paranormal comedy presented in fifteen scenes that see political incorrectness and teenage hormones running rampant throughout.

Encumbered all the while by a femme fatale and a 'boner' that just won't go away, a teenage boy is presented with a dire ultimatum when he comes face to face with a man who claims to be his older self at a Scottish country estate; he must either sacrifice his soul, or be responsible for the death and destruction of his 'two families'.

Enamoured by the higher echelon connection of his best friend's parents, and one day hoping to climb the socioeconomic ladder by his own merit, Julian Abercrombie finds himself to be a very special guest of honour indeed in an elegant country mansion. But with candid flashback comparisons to the impoverished existence of his working class roots, the weekend getaway at the regency era mansion proves to be much more than the upper crust experience Julian bargained for as he teeters on a tightrope between the two classes. What he didn't expect, was to be at the mercy of his sinister hosts; putty in the hands of one, Julian's hormones go into overdrive as he falls in lust with an older woman at the same time as trying to deal with the ominous purpose her boyfriend has for inviting him there in the first instance.

Overnight, with the help of a peculiar housekeeper, Julian must decipher the complexity of a strange Mayan globe originating from an alternate universe, together with an ancient, mysterious board game that manipulates time, dimension and weather - the key to conquering the threat made to his very existence, and to the lives of his Headmaster's oddball family that he ingratiated himself into in order to seek respite from his everyday reality.

Oddity - Short Stories Six short stories that are ... well ... just a little bit odd.
1. A Gastronomic Disaster.
Hours after lifting off the Earth, an astronaut embarking on a one-way mission to Mars, witnesses the total annihilation and subsequent transformation of his planet due to the quantum vacuum having collapsed the sun.
Endeared to the world by a quip; stating his intention to spend his life on the red planet writing, and joking that the only way he'd ever get published would be by sending his works halfway across the universe, he comes to realise that his debut effort will be the only literature in existence, and no one left to judge it. He therefore decides to fulfil his latent dream of becoming an author, by hastily recording the events surrounding the end of the world with artistic prose; describing the devastation and rebirth of the globe, as if it were all due to a celestial dinner party held by the gods.
With time running out before he has to retreat to a cryogenic chamber which he must set adrift, the only hope lies in perhaps being discovered by some alien race; Earth's existence, as it once was, depending on it.

2. Colour of Bleak.
Jacob had never seen colour before, except for what he'd been told about his eyes and the colour of blood. Snatched at birth, the day finally comes when he is able to escape the bleak mountain environment he's been brought up in. But after decades of waiting, his timing couldn't have been worse.

3. Tin to Gold.
Distracted in writing his memoirs by the inglorious blare of 'Welfare Wednesday', a downtown Vancouver author reflects how he reshuffled the cards of fate to become the successful person he is as opposed to what his life might have been. Hampered also by a latent revulsion for a severely abused and impoverished childhood in Scotland, he ponders the outrageous travesty that he turned out instead - one written from the perspective of a misplaced suicidal baby in possession of an arrogant, and not so new, soul.

4. Nasty Old B!tch.
Just for fun, come visit old Myrtle Soppingbottom's House at Halloween and find out what she intends her legacy to be.

5. Family Reunion.
The first of two macabre Christmas stories where a family get together every year at the invitation of their mentally retarded brother.

6. Mrs Claus' Christmas Bauble.
Magic really does happen at Christmastime, but everyone likes to speculate about who Santa Claus really is. What about Mrs Claus? I say. is she but a mere mortal not worth writing about. Find out the truth here when her magic Christmas bauble goes into action. But careful what you wish for little girlie....

Wanna Go For a Walk? - (thirteen short short stories (for the most part, one or two longer) imagination is rife in these real and imagined introspective and humorous scenarios)

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The Spanish Helmet

Historical Fiction / Conspiracy Thriller set in NZ and Switzerland.

Two men, separated by centuries
Two adventures, destined to rewrite a nation's history

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On-topic addition:

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`Graphic adult Boys Own Adventure.'
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Emails from the Edge: When Friendship Spans the Distance.
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Emails from the Edge defies today's world of political correctness where every word is carefully censored so as not to offend anyone. Kristie Leigh Maguire is open, honest, and sometimes over-the-top funny in her email correspondence with her friend back in the States with whom she shares her thoughts and feelings while living overseas as an expatriate wife during the decade of the 90s. Emails from the Edge, gives the reader the feeling of being a voyeur, pulling back the curtain of friendship, and finding out they are not just talking about milk and cookies.

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