Partial profits from the sale of this collection will benefit York's shelter for women escaping domestic violence and/or sexual assault. This collection contains poetry, spoken word, short stories and short memoir-style narratives. It serves to return the empowerment of voice to survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. It also serves to let women and men who have not yet discovered their voice know that they are not alone. We seek to educate, enlighten AND empower through the written word.

"Julie's poetry smashes in the face of wonderous stories while remaining intriguing and thought provoking, taking one's head to more places than one can imagine, while her artwork evokes imaginative individualism, setting down strokes of innovative passion - the combination of which works like symbiosis...," Danielz, T.Rextasy Band, www.trextasy.com "Delicate, provocative, bold and deep," Armen Ra, world-famous theremin player, www.armenra.com

"The feel of death was suffocating. The combination o' the heat and bad odors made me balk at going further into this pit o' hell, but one of the men shoved me onward. I gagged several times on the smell coming from all sides o' this room. The floor o' the hold was stained with a mixed palate of dark colors, and I shuddered when I considered their source. One sailor shoved me down to the deck of the hold and both men retreated back towards the entrance. One shut the prison-like door that led back up on deck and latched it with one o' the heavy bars, making a loud thump that made me jump...

Demons are abounding, and the fate of the world is cast into the hands of a chosen few. Knights from a holy order who are graced with skill and honor, are all that stand between a demonic horde and tyranny. Tracs is one of those gifted knights leading the charge to confront and destroy the Blood Knights; but he isn't alone in this endeavor. By his side are Tonles the Mighty and the fearsome warrior Konafar- a man inflected with a curse called Wraith that causes him to go berserk in battle. This heroic adventure backdrops the sadistic capture of Sybil by fearsome demons and a cataclysmic...