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Spiders. Cancer. Civil war in Syria. Frankly, there are a lot of awful things out there in the world, and most of them aren't fair. But life is so much more than its disasters and grief...and everyone knows that poetry is a balm. These Are a Few of My Least Favorite Things is an account of everything we tend to hate, a deeply personal reflection on trauma and mental illness and the evil clowns who haunt our dreams. It is also an exploration of what we can do with the circumstances we are given; it is a search for gratitude in spite of the pain. By illustrating the many kinds of darkness, this collection ultimately strives to find true sources of light...because for every one of our least favorite things, there is an equal and opposite favorite to love.Praise for These Are a Few of My Least Favorite Things These Are a Few of My Least Favorite Things is a book that begins--literally--with "a spark" that Shannon Frost Greenstein breathes into a fire that's half hearth, half inferno, and always illuminating. Unflinching and authentic, whether interrogating a history of personal trauma or the poisons of capitalism, Greenstein's poems show us how being a witness to suffering is to become an accessory to suffering, that the pain we internalize becomes what we know foremost about ourselves. "I inhabit -- flawlessly and with surprise -- the character of my own body" Greenstein writes, and it's true: how flawlessly we inhabit our flaws. But then--as Greenstein shows over and over--how wonderful to rise from the wreckage of ourselves and know goodness, beauty, and righteousness. "Today, / I lived and / tomorrow / I will live again." Todd Dillard, author of Ways We Vanish, finalist for the 2021 Balcones Poetry Award¿In These Are A Few Of My Least Favorite Things, Shannon Frost Greenstein sings the body pharmacologic. This is a poetic ode to the soul at struggle with maladies, mental illness and the sometimes malevolence of mankind. It is a masterful medicinal release in verse of the toxins that taint mortality. Kristin Garth, author of The Stakes and other books

In the year 2175, the world will end, maybe, but not for everyone She's destined for greatness.So her mother tried to kill her.She's insidiously evil and a menace to society.She'll kill everyone.All these things are true but ...Mandalyn and the other enhanced are in a race to discover why the Collaborators and HAI want them - dead or alive. Not knowing who to trust is a problem but they know they can depend on each other. Until enemies, posing as friends, start to expose themselves and implicate some of the enhanced in their treachery. Can Andi trust all of her new family? Can she even trust her feelings for Will? Beneath all the uncertainty of who to trust lies the fundamental problem: everyone is going to die. How can they stop them? And can they save themselves without becoming the enemy, too?