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SOFTBLOW This established poetry journal is based in Singapore. They have an astoundingly quick response time. Mediterranean Poetry A literary journal focusing on publishing poetry/prose inspired by the Mediterranean region in some way. The journal itself is based in Sweden. New Contrast New Contrast is focused mainly on publishing original work by South African writers. They are a print journal and have been around for over 60 years. Submissions are accepted in all 11 official South African languages, including English (see their  Submittable  page for details). QLRS: Quarterly Literary Review Singapore An electronic literary journal based in Singapore – “Our mission is to promote the literary arts in Singapore, to stimulate the feedback mechanisms in the literary scene, and to develop Singaporean writers to international standards.” QLRS accepts submissions from Singaporeans and non-Singaporeans alike. EgoPHobia [εγωφοβια] A Romanian journal focusing on literature and philos...

  The Last Text You Sent by Elise Fender is a heart breaker of a story. Not what     most would expect by reading the title.   Whit Walker is the ‘’star’’ of the show while his sister Avery Walker ‘’co-stars’’ in it. Their stories are intertwined as only sibling stories can be. Written in diary entry fashion the book opens up with Avery Walker going about her life like a normal teenager awaiting her first kiss at one of her brother’s games.   Tragedy strikes and Whit sustains a head injury that interrupts the romantic moment and later takes his life. His family struggle to get over his death showing that their lives practically revolved around Whit. Without him, they had lost direction and will to go on.   One day, one of the paramedics returns her brother’s phone and she discovers that her brother had a romantic relationship with someone he only saved in his phone as OCMC. The messages OCMC sends to Whit’s phone makes her realise that not on...

  Kalayla , a novel written by Jeannie Nicholas, is a story about three remarkable women. The story presents four major themes, love, racism, gender-based violence, and family. The novel has Kalayla, Maureen’s daughter, as the protagonist and catalyst that brings the three women together. The first encounter Lena has with Kalayla’s free-spirited nature is when she notices her down the street. Somehow, Kalayla always seems to be close by. It is not only the free spirited nature that Kalayla has that draws her attention but the sculpted features and mannerisms her two dead sons used to have growing up.   One day, she follows the girl to the building where she lives and discovers that she and Maureen are tenants there. In speaking to the little girl for the first time, Lena discovers that she has a smart mouth, a mouth that could get her in trouble if her mother did not get her off the streets she wandered every day. This made her start an "intervention," which made sure she...

  Bewitched is the first book by Kelly Moran in the Fated series. It is about a young witch named Kaida Galloway. She sets out to find her roots in the town of Six Fates. Raised and adopted within family, she always felt different. Different became worse when she came into her powers at 16 unable to control them. Her adoptive parents were suppose to fill her in on this other side of her but for some reason failed to so.   Nevertheless, her Aunt Mara had made sure she would find her way back to Six Fates someday. Things soon get weirder as she comes face to face with ‘’the man of her dreams’’ Brady Meath. She had been dreaming and meeting Brady in her dreams for as long as she could remember. She is told that she, her sister’s and the Meath brothers are part of a destiny that will help lift a curse put on both families by her mother. The curse stated that both families would find no true love and neither would it last until ‘’Three by Three shall walk this earth’’ complete...

  Everything is not as it seems in this sci fi supernatural thriller. Written by J.W Zarek,   The Devil Pulls The Strings   is a tale about an old curse that might come back to haunt the one who caused it along with the world if damage control is not taken at the earliest.   At the centre of it, is our hero and protagonist Boone Daniels. None the wiser he steps in for his best friend to play with his band The Village Idiots at the Ren Faire in New York. Things seem simple enough until Professor Stone, the person he was asked by his best friend Flynn to meet is thrown to his death beside him and his assistant Sapphire.   From here on out the two, embark on a musical journey to find Paganini’s music. Music that will help them summon the Devil and stop Sinti. A lot is riding on The Devil’s summoning which will grant them a wish to set everything right as Boone is caught in a difficult situation. The book gives off a Harry Potter and Chronicles of Narnia v...

  Sabine is a young witch with a past she would like to put behind her. She moves to Gloomvale to start afresh after being dumped by her boyfriend. All this happens after he exposed her for being a witch. Little did she know that along with Oliver her past would collide with her future leaving it in a mess. She manages to find a job at Bad Brews and gets acquainted with her new boss who is very unusual and peculiar.   She soon finds out that her boss, Tristan is a vampire and has fallen in love with her, but things are not so perfect that this will end up as a fairytale. Tristan instead of nurturing his feelings towards Sabine pushes her away fearing for her life. It   turns out that Tristan has a brother and they don’t see eye to eye on many things, which puts Sabine in the middle.     To top it all up Oliver and Tristan know each other and have bad blood and Sabine in common. As the story progresses one is confused as to where the direction of the ...

  Seeing with Fresh Eyes    is a bible commentary by John W. Bullock. It involves the reader and the bible and is for believers, non-believers, and people who are just starting out their journey through the Christian faith.   It is for Christians who despite being raised in a church are yet to understand the key components of being a Christian. How they were saved, what salvation is, and what it means to be a Christian. In a revelation, the author explains and highlights the dysfunctional relationship between God and his people after Adam and Eve’s fall from Grace.   He uses Adam and Eve’s sin as an example of how people submit to the kingdom of the ‘’self’’ instead of committing or submitting to the Kingdom of God. ‘’The Kingdom of the Self’’ is a beastly trait that they adopted soon after consuming the forbidden fruit that was off-limits for them but good for the beasts in the garden.   To quote a sentence from the book, ‘’Only Adam was rest...