Recent Posts Tagged With 'venusreads'

• Dark City 2

  Posted on Tuesday July 29th, 2008 at 11:01 in book, fiction, short stories, venusreads, dark city 2

  When I first picked up the novel Dark City 2, I figured it was  simply a collection of horror stories. So it was an unexpected treat to find that it was anything but and everything more. This collection combines elements that are decidedly macabre (...

• Cats Always Come Back

  Posted on Tuesday July 29th, 2008 at 11:00 in pets, venusreads

  It’s sad truth that humans, even the ones we love, sometimes go away and never come back. They get killed, or kidnapped, or reassigned to a new home without telling us. Cats always return. They might be transported hundreds of miles from their ...

• The Kerosene Stove

  Posted on Sunday July 6th, 2008 at 11:03 in growing up, story, memories, venusreads

  Ladies (and Gentlemen), The story I am about to write is not fictional, it is a true story in which i have kept within myself for the longest time, the reason i have chosen to write my story now is because of this one special person in my life who br...

• 150205

  Posted on Sunday July 6th, 2008 at 11:00 in expression, lifevenus, venusreads

  Placed in a sacred tomb filled with myriad of hearts on floors soaked with dried blood; chained in a position where the whiplash of memories tend to overwhelm the body to sit still. As blood dripped onto the floor, it slithers down cracks and corners...

• Story Time

  Posted on Friday June 27th, 2008 at 11:00 in parentsvenus, venusreads

  The kids absolutely love story telling time don’t they? And then it gets tiring sometimes to read the same lines to them over and over again.   The lovely people at Berlitz, the language pros have set up a little storytelling session at Border...

• Writing The Book In You

  Posted on Tuesday May 20th, 2008 at 11:00 in writer, winner, novelist, first book, lifevenus, venusreads, clarissa tan, shiva naipaul memorial prize winner

  By Clarissa Tan  The Book in You is not the Holy Grail By this, I do not mean that your book is not sacred, or not worthy, or not edifying.  I simply mean that it is not unattainable.  The Book in You is not some kind of mythical goal that, barri...

• Get Spooked!

  Posted on Wednesday February 27th, 2008 at 17:20 in asia, horror, venusreads, get spooked

  If you love a good ghost story, enjoy the prickly sensation of your hair standing on end then the Get Spooked! books is a must have. This compendium of short stories is part of a global series where horror fans submit their stories to Marshall Cavend...