Just Being Here is a Black Comedy, suitable for 10+ cast stage play. Although many incidental parts can be doubled up for smaller casts. Modern Literature. Really Funny Adult Humour Set in a fictional but typical Northern-English town, plentiful in colour and character it is an emotional rollercoaster that brings out the sorrow and comedy of northern life. Gritty and funny. Just being here is centred around a mature couple who lost their child in a freak accident several years ago, coming to terms with the loss takes its toll, especially when Dave Morley the person responsible for their son's death returns to town. I promise you it's a comedy, but one with passion and emotions, this play will take your audience through a string of emotions, ups and downs like a Blackpool rollercoaster. Contains adult themes and language.

This short collection of poems and drawings is based on adventures from in between moments, the ones that sneak right by if you aren't looking. Each poem incorporates an experience connected to a specific animal, which offers a glimpse into the author's connection with a wilder side of life.

World-travelled chef Alfonso Vanucci must face the life he ran away from ten years ago. Called back to the family restaurant—Vanucci’s—sabotage and betrayal welcome the handsome and charming Alfonso home. Companionship wasn’t part of the plan, and love was an impossibility. But, Alfonso’s heart is smarter than his head when it comes to what he needs in life, and what he needs is Michael. Now, his greatest challenge is that of new love… one that demands he come out to his family. At only eighteen years old with a mom barely older than him, Michael Chellum knows a runner when he sees one. He’s lived with one all his life—and Alfonso Vanucci is a runner. Giving Alfonso his heart is a heartbreak waiting to happen. But, Michael’s mother is missing, and Michael’s on his own. He must learn to let others in and trust them with his vulnerabilities… or risk becoming an island of one, alone in the world without anyone to catch him if he falls. Alfonso never meant to fall in love with Michael, and Michael never meant to let himself rely on Alfonso. But, together, through reinvention, hard work, and love, Alfonso and Michael fight to save Vanucci’s and each other. To fail would mean losing everything…. This is a 67,000 word, M/M novel with a happily ever after. It includes genuine romance and explicit sex between two men.

About 10 years after Jake Band’s accident, an emergency room doctor told him that due to all of his post-accident accomplishments, he was one in a billion. The number of zeros increased upon every achievement. Since then, he has graduated college, gotten married, and much more. In addition to the things Band learned in rehab and in the “real world”, Being-Here also includes information he acquired from college, other survivors, and plenty of graduate school research in rehabilitation journals. Being-Here is about facing your new world and life after surviving your TBI. Nobody, outside of the circle of survivors, can possibly have a clue what your life is like now. Band explains the unique things he did to face his new world. This was not only done with the hope that it could help you face similar, but unique deficits, but Band’s purpose for writing Being-Here was to convince you not to give up, even if people, such as “rehabilitation professionals”, pre-accident “friends”, and even family members give up on you and/or your future. Being-Here is a place to go for encouragement, to hear or read some positive words, and to find some of the needed fuel for your life-long journey and discovery.

First published in France in 2016, Being Here Is So Much traces the short, obscure, and prolific life of the German expressionist painter Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876--1907). In a brief career, cut short by her death from an embolism at the age of thirty-one, shortly after she gave birth to a child, Modersohn-Becker trained in Germany, traveled often to Paris, developed close friendships with the sculptor Clara Westhoff and the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, and became one of her generation's preeminent artists, helping introduce modernity to the twentieth century alongside such other painters as Picasso and Matisse. Marie Darrieussecq's triumphant and illuminating biography at once revives Modersohn-Becker's reputation as a significant figure in modernism and sheds light on the extreme difficulty women have faced in attaining recognition and establishing artistic careers.

In On Being Here to Stay, Asch retells the story of Canada with a focus on the relationship between First Nations and settlers.

This collection of Poliakoff's plays from the 1970s includes his first major success, "Clever Soldiers", and "Hitting Town", "City Sugar", "Shout Across the River", "American Days" and "Strawberry Fields".

One Man's Folly by Cathy Gillen Thacker released on Jun 23, 1989 is available now for purchase.