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Written and read for Community Radio By Richard Nicholls Every week I would Write a selection of Poems or a short story. The Items would be alternated or mixed. This Item was known as Poems on the Couch. Watch this space for BAND NEW CONTENT COMING SOON!! https://patreon.com/richardrmnstoryteller

The Park An African Story produced for Community Radio. Written and read By Richard Mark Nicholls The storyteller concept developed for the music show on the Beat. In South Africa Pietermaritzburg Kwa-Zulu Natal for KZN Capital. Where I was head of the production and the producer, the man behind the control desk. I have had an interest in sound from a very young age, and my love for Radio and Music goes as far back as when I Could not pronounce the word Radio.

Following on the success of his first published novel, The Innocents Abroad, Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) published two short stories. With his farcical "burlesque autobiography", he describes a series of disreputable characters all of whom he claims were his ancestors. The second story, A Medieval First Romance, satirizes romance novels with a yarn about the cross-dressing daughter of a duke who thanks to her disguise is in line to inherit male privilege.

Short stories with bittersweet themes that suggest horror, despair, and uncomfortable emotions. Featuring: Essel Pratt, Catt Dahman, Mark Woods, Brian Woods, Tabitha Baumander, D. A. Roberts, Amanda Lyons, TL Decay, Sharon Higa (editor’s choice award), Dona Fox, Michael Kanuckel, Nick Hatfield, Sam Reese, Shaun Meeks, Edward P. Cardillo, Richard Ramsey, Roy C. Booth, Axel Kohagen, Christina Engela, Justin Hunter, and Kerry Lipp.

This DNA Study Guide, written by Mark Richards, a chief examiner for one of the leading UK exam boards, provides all the insights and analysis of this dramatic play of a group of students who do something very bad indeed. As well as providing individual tutorials on the context, the language and style, the setting, the structure and the themes, it goes through each part of the play, highlighting all you need to know. Furthermore, there are tutorials on how best to answer exam questions and a tutorial highlighting some of the key quotations.

The Cold War sent shivers down the spines of ordinary people, with the world holding its breath and confronting the spectre of nuclear armageddon. Throughout this A level series, students will learn about all the core aspects of the Cold War in Europe. Written by Dr Mark Hurst, an honorary fellow at the University of Kent and Cold War specialist and Richard McFarlane, a senior OCR examiner and Head of Humanities at Nottingham Girls High School.

From early zeppelins, to the Luftwaffe and the Enola Gay, to the unmanned aerial vehicles of today, air power has long been regarded as an invaluable instrument of war. However, nations have employed aircraft for many other purposes as well; they provide security and surveillance, and they are vital to myriad diplomatic and humanitarian efforts.

An adaptation of the prose & poetry of author Raymond Carver and his wife, Tess Gallagher. The story chronicles the final year of Carver's life, when he was struggling to finish his final book. This two-person play is a coproduction with Chicago's City Lit Theater.

These stories represent decades of collaboration between author David Niall Wilson and a wide array of talented authors. All have been professionally published - some have been reprinted and collected. All are the result of two muses meeting on paper. Meet a modern day Don Quixote, fighting Y2K bug nightmares, and striving to save the woman of his dreams. Learn how Edgar Allen Poe might have found his tales. Face off on a lonely mountaintop with Lovecraftian nightmares.

No one likes to diet, but this book will encourage and inspire listeners with its positive, practical, and purposeful stories of dieting and fitness. You'll find hope, help, and hints on getting fit and staying healthy in these stories from those who have been there, done that, and maintained it. Stories about wake-up calls and realizations, moving more and eating better, self-esteem and support, will motivate any listener looking to start fresh or needing a boost.

In Punk Marketing, Laermer and Simmons take an irreverent, penetrating look at the seismic change in the relationship between people who sell stuff (products, services, entertainment) and those who purchase it. They demonstrate that to survive in business, a revolutionary approach is needed - one they have branded (you got it) "Punk Marketing". It's one we all need to understand, for the traditional divisions among commerce, content and consumers are continuing to blur ever more rapidly.

This is a free-flowing conversation between two authors who are intimate with their subject. These guys banter, argue, throw things, and joke about the current state of marketing and an obvious need for a manifesto to REALLY shake things up! In a lively two-hour exchange, the boys of Punk Marketing go at it with verve, gusto, and glee, as they talk through the 15 articles of the manifesto that bolsters their revolution - it's hilarious, irreverent, and timely!

No one likes to diet, but this book will encourage and inspire listeners with its positive, practical, and purposeful stories of dieting and fitness. You'll find hope, help, and hints on getting fit and staying healthy in these stories from those who have been there, done that, and maintained it. Stories about wake-up calls and realizations, moving more and eating better, self-esteem and support, will motivate any listener looking to start fresh or needing a boost.

Living with someone who has a narcissistic personality disorder or even just having someone in your life who has it is a massive and continual challenge. At times, it can seem like there is now way that you can reason with them or have any sort of meaningful conversation that doesn’t revolve around them. It is hard, but there are answers.

An oral history of Dr. Evelyn Antonetty, Kingsbridge Vignettes, Allerton in the 1940s and 1950s, and more!

Looking for a fun and feisty place that takes on all the hottest issues, current events, politics, the financial world, and more? I'm Richard Marks and I have a Face For Radio, and now...so do you! Each episode the amazing Phil Hersh and I will bring you lively discussion and debate, humor, satirical comedy, outrageous opinions, and a big dose of some unique personalities. Special guests, biting commentary, some of South Florida's most dynamic thinkers, and a whole lotta laughs. Come along for the ride! This is A Face For Radio, follow us now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you enjoy ...

From the quickening pulse of that first glance to the gut-twisting pull of space given, but not asked for, Richards chronicles the emotional journey of love, tension, and heartbreak with honest sincerity. His beaten and battered heart was served on a silver platter—still beating—for the world to digest in morbid relatability. From one hopelessly openhearted fool to another.

What many people strive for today is a healthy life balance, the ability to both excel in their careers and enjoy their personal life. They seek to manage the personal experiences that can negatively impact their professional life, as well as minimize work stress that can bear down on their personal lives.

A poverty-stricken girl develops a strange ability that makes her family rich, but at a terrible price. A grieving attorney teams up with a terrifying mythological force to prove that justice reaches beyond the grave. And a police officer discovers that a quiet little antique store is ground zero for an invasion of horrific creatures, hiding in plain sight….

Atheist with a Prayer is a collection of poems by Mark Richards that catalogs his journey of faith from a life of atheism to finding God in dark places. The poems take you through a journey of his deepest, darkest, and most intimate thoughts, and the transformation he went through on every level when he found faith.