Miscreations

Miscreations are things that should not exist, but do. An event happens that transforms an entity into something so amazingly good or so horribly evil that you can't help but be fascinated by its existence. Scribings, Vol 4: Miscreations contains twelve stories from the Greater Portland Scribists that explore these oddities. Errors in evolution. Discoveries in supposedly clean rooms. Extreme memory loss. Appliances that are a little too smart. Mythical beasts reborn. And one joke that went way too far.

Winner of the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts & Letters Award and the Cuffer Prize for Fiction Miscreations, the second collection by Grant Loveys, mulls over the metaphorical concept of miscreation — how people, objects, and relationships are imperfectly designed by their various creators — through the use of direct, visceral language, and frank, sometimes shocking, imagery. Unconcerned with aesthetic imperfections, Miscreations focuses instead on how people and situations can be created from unstable, often opposing, elements and examines how these people and situations manage to survive. This is poetry that looks beyond a misprinted shirt and deep into the person wearing it . . . beyond empty memes and Instagram platitudes and into the complicated, flawed and searching human readers who navigate a world that is often at odds with itself.

In 1726, an illiterate woman from Surrey named Mary Toft announced that she had given birth to 17 rabbits. This study recreates the story of this incident and shows how it illuminates 18th-century beliefs about the power of imagination and the problems of personal identity.

""You are cordially invited to the beheading of your worthy friend, Edina Bleake, for the crimes of incitement, conspiracy and treason. Your fellow dignitary's last exit shall take place this Wednesday at two in the afternoon in the market square. Thereafter, her corpse and head shall be paraded through the streets in her honour."" Bleake Rebellion is a captivating fantasy roleplaying game where you create a band of rebels seeking to overthrow the corrupt authorities that rule their beloved city. With its unique system for resolving challenges and building stories, Bleake Rebellion is the must have game for anyone who wants a fair, even-handed and emotionally fulfilling roleplaying experience. This book contains essential rules to get you started on your first story, advanced rules for when you have become an expert and a guide to life in the rebels' city. For 3 to 6 players aged 16 or older. (Customers who buy this product will receive a free PDF version of the game).

What happens when we make monsters? What happens when we make monsters of ourselves? Grotesque beings lurch from our darkest dreams. Vicious beasts stalk our twisted pasts. Lost souls haunt our deepest regrets. They are the blood on our hands. They are the obsessions in our heads. They are the vengeance in our hearts. They are Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities & Other Horrors. Edited by Bram Stoker Award-winning editors Doug Murano and Michael Bailey. Featuring a foreword by Alma Katsu, and illustrations throughout by HagCult.

Meet Natalia, the girl with the golden-brown eyes and a predisposition for science and music. She discovers the choice to follow her father comes at a cost.Meanwhile, her mother's hiding a genetic timebomb that's just about to go off.Then there's the underground cadre that wants to expose the government secrets of the Genome Age.But the question is: what do you do with Miscreations-the genetic experiments gone wrong? Especially when they have powers you don't understand...(POD version)

A ship with a motley crew of monster hunters. A scholar mage searching for the secrets of Wyld Magic. Can they overcome their differences to capture dangerous monsters? Captain Mynta and the crew of the Miscreation have fallen on hard times. To save her ship, she agrees to escort Mage Ameyron and his team of researchers to capture Seirenia’s deadliest monsters. They have to work together—but everyone on board has something to hide, and one has a secret that could doom them all. When the mage insists on catching his subjects alive, the monster-killing crew is forced to go against years of experience. Tensions rise as the passengers clash with the captain. And the monsters hold their own surprises. As the missions get more dangerous, the seafaring group can’t get distracted by personal relationships. But Mynta can’t hide her love for a certain woman forever, and the close quarters of the ship spark new romances between passengers and crew. The bonds they forge may be the thing that saves them—or tears them apart. One mistake and the monsters win. The Voyage of the Miscreation is an episodic novel in six parts, spinning off the main storyline from the Wyld Magic series. A character-driven epic fantasy adventure romance with an ensemble cast, featuring gay and straight relationships as well as gender nonconforming characters. If you like magic, monsters, and browncoat-wearing captains, then you’ll enjoy this tale on the high seas.

The physician-patient bond is a significant relationship, intended to effect healing in our patient -- but is it the patient alone who benefits? We are all patients at some point. As a patient, how well do we know our self, how clearly do we communicate what troubles us to our doctor, to others? Even when we are feeling healthy, we remain aware of some aspects of our lives that need healing. For many of us, it is our relationships that need healing. This book is an essential exploration into the challenges inherent in the physician-patient dynamic and extends the findings to other important encounters. The reason it is appropriate for everyone, physician or not, is because the principles adhered to in its writing are universal in reach and eternally relevant. Its sole purpose is to promote healing in our world, individually and collectively. Whatever our vocation we are each called to be an essential effective healer in some way that is natural to us, our gift to the world. Here we are reminded that when we promote conditions for healing in our relationships we manifest miracles naturally.