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Marilyn Messik

1950s London, England. A baby girl was born - that was me. My parents had no inkling I was different, of course neither did I. It was a while before it dawned on me not everyone saw and heard as I did.

My first proper memories are starting school, struggling to sift through what people thought, said, and actually meant - often 3 completely different things. And all that other stuff in people’s heads, tunes, repetitive phrases, emotions and sensations - happy, sad, cold, hot, sore throat, hungry. Emotions are the things that seep out most, and they become tangled with those seeping out from others. Not surprising I got a lot of headaches. 

One person is noisy, several make a dreadful din, and output from a crowd is mind-aching. I had to learn, and I did, taught myself to automatically tune out, barrier-build, and compensated by mimicking the reactions of others. The trickiest thing was knowing what I should be hearing and understanding as opposed to what I shouldn't. Seeking guidance often got me even deeper into hot water. 

Luckily my family were on the paranoid side, and as they came to understand more about what I was and what I could do, paranoid proved politic. Taking everything into account I think we all managed rather well, and it wasn’t really anybody’s fault things took a turn for the dangerous, and then the life-threatening. You have to learn to take the rough with the smooth. 

“Love this series, a mix of genres beautifully written. ” M A Comley, NYT & USA Today Bestseller

“Pitch perfect humour, beautiful sentences and a deadpan, matter of fact narration. A real, rare treat of a read. ” S. E. Lynes, Amazon #1 Author

“As if a John Wyndham character strayed into a McDermid novel. ” Promoting Crime Fiction 

“Like Stephen King but funnier. ” Amazon Reader

Satin Publishing

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Relatively Strange: A Roller-Coaster of a Psi-Fi Thriller

Editors of Portable Press

More like Hollyweird, right? Unearth fun facts from Bryan Cranston’s body hair double to the Martha Stewart vs. Gwyneth Paltrow Goop feud, and much more.

 Hollywood stars may be accustomed to the limelight, but there are some things they may wish had never seen the light of day. Scandals, stunts gone wrong, off-camera feuds, eccentric lifestyles, it’s all here in Strange Hollywood. Dozens of entertaining articles about the world of showbiz will amuse you and make you realize that being a celebrity isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

You’ll get a behind-the-scenes look at:

· Celebrity gaffes, online and off

· Diva demands

· Jeopardy’s most annoying contestants

· Rotten reviews

· Star Trek tidbits

· Spooky set locations

· Showbiz slang
 And more

Portable Press

Strange Hollywood: Amazing and Intriguing Stories From Tinseltown and Beyond

From dognappings to Munchausen by proxy to early forensics and hot felons, these unbelievable true crime stories will blow your mind.

 2019 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award Silver Winner in Humor
Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Winner—2018 BRONZE Winner for Humor (Adult Nonfiction)

 Loaded with dozens of entertaining and amusing articles about actual crimes, this latest book from Portable Press will definitely leave you scratching your head. Dumb crooks, celebrities gone bad, unsolved mysteries, odd laws, and more, Strange Crime has plenty of stories that will make you ask yourself, “What could they possibly have been thinking?” This easily portable ebook is ideal for readers on the go. Take it to school, to work, to jury duty!

Strange Crime delves into such weirdness as . . .

· The Dexter influence

· Eerie similarities in the trials of Lizzie Bordon and O. J. Simpson

· Bird testimony—parrots as witnesses

· Cases of instant justice

· Celebrities’ days in court

· Mediocre masterminds

· Terrible twins

· Night Stalker strangeness
 And more

Strange Crime: Oddball Crimes, Capers, Plots, Laws, and More

This entertaining compendium of bite-sized articles reveals the stranger-than-sci-fi world of strange science.
 
 From the oddest theories to the most astounding discoveries to the biggest blunders, Strange Science has all the facts your professors didn't teach you in science class. It's packed with earth-shattering eurekas, outlandish inventions, silly “scientific” studies, and the stories behind the weirdos who made it all happen. Put on your lab coat and get ready to discover . . . • One dentist's quest to clone John Lennon
 • How to hypnotize a chicken
 • Real-life time travelers (or so they claim)
 • The seven-year-long study that found earthquakes are
 not • caused by catfish waving their tails . . . and other breakthrough findings
 Plus you’ll discover unbelievable inventions; the freakiest franken-foods scientists have created; some of Hollywood’s worst on-screen science blunders; and more! This amazing volume from the Bathroom Readers’ Institute contains the strangest short science articles from dozens of Bathroom Readers, along with fifty all-new pages.</

Strange Series

Strange Series

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