
mark ryan
kill 'em with kindness
To err is human… Forgiveness can be the most impossible. How many wrongs can twist inside a heart to make it a victim? How many grudges must we carry, pulling us down like gravity? A life led in ordinariness attracts its fair share of hurt and trauma. But to dwell in the oil will only make the soul dark and heavy.
To forgive, then, is what we must do. Here lie letters sent to those who can be forgiven, composed in all honesty. But it’s the forgetting which is the trickier part of healing. With a splattering of poetry to wash the wounds clean, these words hang like olive leaves on tough branches, soaked in blood from the scars that are still healing. Forgiving, though, of course, makes us divine.
everyday miracles
Every day, miracles unfold before us and the quiet wonder of life dances in our eyes. Light filters through the grey, illuminating visions we often overlook. What diamonds do we gather from our own path, and which blessings do we pluck from the vine of living? Everyday Miracles is a collection of poetry that explores radiance, devotion, and the divine abundance threaded through our waking hours.
Happiness becomes a constellation of joy, light, hope, and transformation. As we ascend the Tree of Life toward the crown, where all brilliance emanates, we dwell on what makes life worth holding, and we learn to honour the climb.
everyday nightmares
Every day we are confronted by the nightmares that seep into our lives, wearing many cloaks and stealing the light until only long shadows remain. It becomes harder to stumble through, weighed down by guilt, pain and love. Everyday Nightmares is a collection of poetry exploring the darker, more melancholic corners of human experience.
Threaded through these painful markers is the Suicider’s Tale, a narrative that follows what happens in the great beyond. This collection touches the void, brings the dark inside, and lingers in the places where horror, memory and emotion collide, revealing the fragile truths we carry through our borrowed time on earth.
seasons of a wandering heart
Seasons change like memories. Swelling on a yearly cosmic tide.Never free from change, we move like blood coursing through a body, pumped by a heart under the pressures of life and circumstance.Discover this photopoetry collection while you drift, snapshots in time across the seasons that wander into your eyeline.
From Spring to Winter, course your path across the yearly interval and meet visitors such as love, pain, wonder and friendship.Wander, and wonder with eyes and heart wide open.A Collaborative work with June Okochi.
dislocated
Horror comes in many forms. It can creep at the door, whisper through a truth, or settle deep within our bones. We run, we hide, we flee, yet some horrors never leave. Dislocated is a collection of 28 short stories exploring the instinct to escape and the terror of remaining. From ‘Folkroot’, where something ancient stirs beneath a hotel pond, to ‘Nemesis’, which carries us into another world still shadowed by darkness, these tales unravel the fragile threads between safety and fear.
Each story reveals a different fracture in the human heart, a place where dread lingers and memory bites. This collection shows you the road to freedom but warns with a cold hand that you may not travel that uncertain path alone.
nothing but i am
She left the earth as she wished, walking into the ocean while the stars above sparkled in their preciousness. She hoped to join them, to transform into something burning with a power far from here. Her departure may be sad, but it was her choosing, her way to change. Nothing but I Am follows the life of Eleanor through the journal she kept in her final days.
It moves through her hopes and dreams, her loves and despairs, and the disturbances that corroded her life. Her death imprints itself on a police officer trying to unpick meaning from her words. A hybrid of poetry and fiction, it marries journal entries with a story of departure.
black snow
The snow rarely falls and the coldness rarely touches the bones. Yet this is the quiet wish of one who lives on the equator, longing for that gentle white dusting. When it comes, it can be black or white, light or dark, little snowflakes created by circumstance. Too long has a black snow fallen, a shadowed frost that clung to her life, but now the real frozen landscape is coming.
Real snow is about to descend, carrying with it memory, wonder and the soft promise of renewal. In the falling she finds a truth she has waited for, a moment where the world turns still and her soul breathes again.
alchemy
Failures washed across his workbench, dripping down into the corners of his life. His quest to turn lead into gold had consumed him, shaking his soul and clouding the path he was meant to follow. When a mysterious little book enters his world, it realigns his fate and lets the true alchemy begin. Alchemy follows a man’s evolution at the end of his life, revealing that his worth lies not in the gold he creates, but in the transformations he conjures.
Interwoven with poems that drift from dreams to magic, and from prayers to quiet joy, the story moves through despair, adjustment, and wonder across surreal and luminous landscapes.
leviathan of the soul
Lurking deep within all of us, even those familiar with stormy seas, dwells the leviathan; the monster in the soul that rises when the sun burns out too easily. It brings darkness, chaos and nightmares, threatening the small raft of life cast into the world. This collection journeys across a sea of poetry and short stories that explore emotional tides, horror, grief, longing and the quiet ache of being human.
Yet on the horizon, a splinter of hope still breaks through the sky. Leviathan: Of the Soul is a visceral exploration of death, mental illness, suicide and redemption. Hold fast against its onslaught and let the waves speak.
the gospel of no one
Hidden beneath a statue of the Virgin Mary, a new priest at St. Sebastian’s discovers a tightly bound book, an unsettling relic filled with the confessions, visions and unravelling mind of the church’s former Father, Daniel Nikolas. What begins as curiosity becomes a descent into the spiritual fractures, private sins and haunted revelations of those who once sought salvation within these walls.
Blending fiction and poetry, The Gospel of No One explores faith, doubt, temptation and transcendence through a series of intimate testimonies. It is a meditation on the human soul; its shadows, its longing, and its fragile hope, inviting every reader to confront what they carry, and what they hide.
impermanence of things
Nothing truly lasts forever. We dance on the fingertips of the ephemeral, looking back at our footsteps in the sand. Along this journey we encounter the stories we build in our minds and the ones we dare to tell. This collection moves through time and emotion, from the sadness surrounding The Astronaut to the quiet evil of Anaxbly House in Souls in the Wind.
It circles back to the beautifully damaged truth of Imperfect, Impermanent and Incomplete, where acceptance becomes a quiet liberation. Twenty-one short stories form this composed and compressed novel, each one exploring the fragile, shifting nature of being human.

echoes in space
North of the North Pole, the Pisces rise and break the horizon like the eye of God. Constellations speak in strange prophecy, drawing us closer to the end. The black hole within each of us threatens to devour and scatter us across another time. Echoes in Space is a journey through creation, collapse and the quiet drift between worlds. These poems move through the big bang of love, the bright ache of living, the shadows of loss and the final soft pull of disappearance. Tracing the constellations within us and the stars we become when everything else falls away, this collection invites you to wander the universe within and beyond.
keep it together
In the summer of 1977, three invitations draw the scattered Van-Black family back to Nova Manor for an Independence Day gathering that promises more than celebration. Christine Mason has spent years holding her life together while keeping her distance from the family that shaped her. Her sister Diane faces her own quiet battles as she tries to balance love, work and a body that is beginning to betray her.
When the family reunites, old wounds rise to the surface, strange events unsettle the house and long buried secrets begin to stir. Keep it Together is a story of pressure, privilege, quiet crime and the fragile ties that bind a family even as something darker watches from the edges.
graffitied heart
Twenty‑six poems. Twenty‑six shadows. One alphabet of beautifully twisted tales. From domestic ghosts to vengeful mothers, lonely trees to vegetarian foxes, this collection turns the alphabet into a series of dark fables and adult nursery rhymes. Each poem stands alone, yet together they form a strange, rhythmic journey through love, violence, innocence, grief and the small horrors that quietly shape us. Lyrical, unsettling and unexpectedly tender, Graffitied Heart invites readers into a world where childhood meets cruelty and beauty hides beneath the bruises. A book of rhymes for anyone who prefers their poetry with teeth and their tales slightly haunted.
drifting in and out of sleep
Where does it begin; the unravelling, the awakening, the dream? Caught between sleep and consciousness, the narrator moves through snow‑covered forests, sacred spaces, and the shifting terrain of a love that both saves and destroys.
Drifting in and Out of Sleep is a haunting blend of prose and poetry exploring love, grief, anger, memory, and the vast loneliness of the cosmos. Moving from earthly heartbreak to mythic revelation, it traces the emotional journey from dependence to dissolution, from darkness to a strange, luminous clarity.
A book about the moments that change us, the ghosts that follow us, and the selves we shed along the way.
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push/pull
A love that once felt certain unravels across years of tenderness and distance. Through poems of longing, fracture and quiet revelation, two lives pull together then drift apart. This collection traces the ache of holding on and the courage of letting go as the heart learns what remains after the storm.
hope is irresistible
A little book of hope, a small slice of light to guide your potato toward the illumination it needs to grow. Within these pages, tiny sparks rise to lift the spirit, soften the dark and remind you that even the quietest seed can still reach toward something bright.
ghosts by proxy
Ghosts by Proxy is a vivid journey through the extremes of human feeling, blending the surreal, the intimate and the absurd. These poems unravel love, anger, sorrow and self‑mythology, revealing how emotion haunts, shapes and distorts us. A lyrical exploration of connection and collapse, it captures the fragile truths we carry through life.
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the hawthorne project
The neighborhood of west Hawthorne Drive in quiet Greenfield Wisconsin is filled with dark stories and darker rumors. There's the haunting by a faceless creature. They've all seen it. They've all experienced its presence. On the one hand, it seems to desire the life of mortals, on the other, it befriends a small boy. It both mocks and assists. Runs away and stands face-to-faceless face. But in the days leading up to Halloween, events take a more sinister turn, including strange visitations, an eerie violet haze in the sky, attempting murder, breaking-and-entering, and multiple police check-ins... until not one of the residents can deny: something or someone is here to stay.
static dreams vol I & II
Shadows twist over our night terrors, bringing with them more tales of haunted pasts, hidden futures, broken promises, and the blood necessary to hold it all together. Where a plot of land seeks to have its grisly appetite sated in return for rich rewards. Where a faceless man stands watching helplessly as the lives of those around him slip past through the years, ever-repeating, always connected yet separate. And where a pair of boys come face to face with the dark secrets of their sleepy seaside town, their own initiation rite now unavoidable. Light the candles and say your prayers, this night may just smother you.
creation and the cosmos
Discover nature’s revelation transformed into poetry, rhyme, digital photographic art, painting, photography, and more. Throughout these pages, thirty-two artists and writers from all over the world express their emotions and thoughts as seen through the wide-open eyes of nature. From stars and moon, birds in flight, the raging storm, a deer’s quiet passing, the salty depths of the sea, rolling hills and towering mountains: there is art in all creation.
the poet's symphony
Tune in to just a few lines from a song and one can easily be pulled back into a single moment in time, memories rising unbidden. New moments to be discovered, music weaves through our lives tying them all together. Lovingly composed by thirty-one artists and writers from around the world, The Poets Symphony delivers the seduction of music in the form of poetry, lyrics, rhyme, digital art, photography and more. From inspiration to nostalgic memory, love affairs to the musician himself, place the needle on the record and allow the music of life to flow through your soul.


















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