This anthology of short stories written by Ray Pairan is dystopian, raw, and full of passionate humanity. Environmental destruction and unrestrained corporatism that leads to a world of pain and suffering are offset with tales that excite intellectually. Take the journey into the totally unexpected – travel into a not to distant future that each of us may already recognize. Ray Pairan has this truly unique and unusual ability to embed his readers directly into each story so they feel the pain, happiness, and horror in the numerious twists and turns of his dynamic imagination. Table of Contents Spaceship Earth Earth Dead Planet at the Edge of the Milky Way Fusing All Traces of a Mistake in Molten Rock A New Originator Wakes from Oblivion Our Crystal Clear Blue Sky Rebirth A Beautiful Day Awaits Your Presence Zalon Kingdom Recalls RAD War Justice Seemed Distant The Unbreakable Spirit Trip Back Home Observant Ancestors of Red Planet The Iovian Moon Base Moon Stuck Free the Sleeping Inhabitants from the Feeders Surviving after Capitulation The Short Reprieve The Alliance to Defeat Evil The Unquestioning Valley Dwellers The Empire and Its Outlands A Deteriorating Country Broadly Smiling The Brown Prairie Grass Awaits another Storm Our Survival Assured Talkers Offer Assurances Clear Blue Lights A Strand of Hope in the Future Elegant Power Night Attack Road from Destruction Passing upon the Rock Pleasure Blue Escape Waiting for the Last Tear Reality Creation Board Cheap Death Freedom’s Pulse A New Day in Autumn Freedom The Greedy Tyrants Playtime Crossing the Line Galactic CorpGov – Theft on Epsilon Five CorpGov Emphasizes Education The Magnificent Human Bone Grinder The Complacent Acceptors Tyranny Yawns at Daybreak Dirty Secrets Clog Everything I’m So Happy I Should Smile The Dangerous Blue Planet The Last Word of Freedom Leaving a Spark of Action One More Cry of Anguish from the Lost Citizens Production Camps Built Upon Tumor of Greed We Are All Walking Dead, Even Our Rulers Final Days of Humanity Staggering to the Six-By-Six Polluted Mega Corrupt Dying Planet Red Glow Economic and Environmental Struggle Ends Swiftly Once Beautiful Planet – Ecologically Dead

Winner of the Patrick White Literary Award, 1999. Introduction by Wayne Macauley. There is no book in Australian literature like The Plains. In the two decades since its first publication, this haunting novel has earned its status as a classic. A nameless young man arrives on the plains and begins to document the strange and rich culture of the plains families. As his story unfolds, the novel becomes, in the words of Murray Bail, ‘a mirage of landscape, memory, love and literature itself’. Gerald Murnane was born in Melbourne in 1939. He has been a primary teacher, an editor and a university lecturer. His debut novel, Tamarisk Row (1974), was followed by ten other works of fiction, including The Plains and most recently Border Districts. In 1999 Murnane won the Patrick White Award and in 2009 he won the Melbourne Prize for Literature. He lives in western Victoria. Wayne Macauley is the author of three novels, Blueprints for a Barbed-Wire Canoe (2004), Caravan Story (2007) and The Cook (2011), and the short fiction collection Other Stories (2010). He lives in Melbourne. ‘Murnane is quite simply one of the finest writers we have produced.’ Peter Craven ‘A distinguished, distinctive, unforgettable novel.’ Shirley Hazzard ‘Gerald Murnane is unquestionably one of the most original writers working in Australia today and The Plains is a fascinating and rewarding book...The writing is extraordinarily good, spare, austere, strong, often oddly moving.’ Australian ‘A piece of imaginative writing so remarkably sustained that it is a subject for meditation rather than a mere reading...In the depths and surfaces of this extraordinary fable you will see your inner self eerily reflected again and again.’ Sydney Morning Herald ‘The Plains has that peculiar singularity that can make literature great.’ Ed Wright, Australian, Best Books of 2015 ‘Murnane touches on foibles and philosophy, plays with the makings of a fable or allegory, and all the while toys with tone, moving easily from earnest to deadpan to lightly ironic, a meld of Buster Keaton, the Kafka of the short stories, and Swift in A Modest Proposal...A provocative, delightful, diverting must-reread.’ STARRED Review, Kirkus Reviews ‘Known for its sharp yet defamiliarizing take on the landscape and an aesthetic of purity historically associated with it, The Plains is uniformly described as a masterpiece of Australian literature. Look closer, though, and it's a haunting nineteenth-century novel of colonial violence captured inside the machine's test-pattern image—a distant, unassuming house on the plains.’ BOMB

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Striking and moving poems that are rooted deep in the earth The poems of Robert Bly are rooted deep in the earth. Snow and sunshine, barns and cornfields and cars on the empty nighttime roads, abandoned Minnesota lakes and the mood of America now—these are his materials. He sees and talks clearly: he uses no rhetoric nor mannered striving for effect, but instead the simple statement that in nine lines can embody a mood, reveal a profound truth, illuminate in an important way the inward and hidden life. This is a poet of the modern world, thoroughly aware of the complexities of the moment but equally mindful of the great stream of life—all life—of which mankind is only a part.

Ever since she was a child, Linda Joy Myers felt the power of the past. As the third daughter in her family to be abandoned or estranged by a mother, she observed the consequences of that heritage on the women she loved as well as herself. But thanks to the stories told to her by her great-grandmother, Myers received a gift that proved crucial in her life: the idea that everyone is a walking storybook, and that we all have within us the key to a deeper understanding of life—the secret stories that make themselves known even without words. Song of the Plains is a weaving of family history that starts in the Oklahoma plains and spans over forty years as Myers combs through dusty archives, family stories, and genealogy online. She discovers the secrets that help to explain the fractures in her family, and the ways in which her mother and grandmother found a way not only to survive the great challenges of their eras, but to thrive despite mental illness and abuse. She discovers how decisions made long ago broke her family apart—and she makes it her life's work to change her family story from one of abuse and loss to one of finding and creating a new story of hope, forgiveness, healing, and love.

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