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    Dead Ends
    Dead Ends
    Dead Ends
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    Dead Ends

    By Amanda M. Blake

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    Pardon me
    if I seem
    too morbid,
    but it's my own
    memento mori.
    Sometimes I
    tend the dead;
    other times I
    whistle past
    the cemetery.

    Amanda M. Blake tackles the morbid and macabre in this poetry collection about death and dying and what might come before, during, or after. Whether humorous or disturbing, natural or supernatural, Dead Ends promises a varied tasting plate of a subject most people find distasteful or uncomfortable, but which we all must confront...eventually.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAmanda M. Blake
    Release dateMay 7, 2023
    ISBN9798223082064
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      Dead Ends - Amanda M. Blake

      Dead Ends

      A DARK POETRY COLLECTION

      Amanda M. Blake

      Dead Ends: A Dark Poetry Collection

      ©Copyright Amanda M. Blake 2022

      No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by an information storage and retrieval system. The exception would be in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews and pages where permission is specifically granted by the author.

      These pieces are works of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

      Content Warnings: Morbidity, sexual violence, suicide, murder, grief, death, decay

      Cover Design: Rocking Book Covers

      Editors: Missed Period Editing Services, Sarah Smeaton of Lighthouse Content

      Other books by Amanda M. Blake

      NOCTURNE

      DEEP DOWN

      DRIFT

      The Thorns Series

      THORNS

      ROSE RED

      BLUEBIRDS

      For all the death workers who came before.

      And a special shout-out to Quill & Crow Publishing House #crowcalls,

      which inspired most of these poems.

      Contents

      1. THE CHASE

      2. HAUNT

      3. POSSESSED

      4. APPARITION

      5. GATED COMMUNITY

      6. RESURRECTION

      7. TRAGIC ACCIDENT

      8. THRILL OF THE HUNT

      9. INHABITANTS

      10. SHELTER

      11. NO SHELTER

      12. FEVER DREAMS

      13. POST-MORTEM PHOTOGRAPH

      14. REAPER

      15. CREMATION

      16. MAHOGANY

      17. MEMENTO MORI

      18. ASHES

      19. ERROR

      20. RESTING PLACE

      21. STONE ANGEL

      22. CATACOMBS

      23. SIX FEET UNDER

      24. VALLEY OF THE SHADOW

      25. SIN EATERS

      26. MEDIUMS

      27. FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS

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