New Releases by John Light

On a humidly hot day, Joshua and Pip are geared up and ready for a great day of fishing. On the way to Ogeechee Lake, they see a sign that challenges them to catch Calvin the Catfish. Pip is ready and willing to accept the challenge. However, Pip and Joshua soon find out that catching any fish, let alone the great CALVIN THE CATFISH, takes lots of patience and a little luck.

This book represents a selection of poems of John Light spanning the years from 1999 to 2018 and covering a range of topics. They have been organized here by subject, which can be an arbitrary decision. Many poems can fall into multiple categories.I had no intent to have these ever published. Yet, at the start of 2020, the world has witnessed a pandemic that I sense is changing the world forever. Millions have been affected by the pandemic. As I write this preface, over 4.7M total confirmed cases have been recorded, and over 315K have died. Where this pandemic ends up is anyone''s guess at this point. If any of these poems can provide comfort, hope, or light, then they have served their purpose.All poems are original works and copyrighted by the Author John Light. They may be used with permission and with acknowledgment of the author.I can be reach via twitter @light_poet

Excerpt:Huge British battleships glided along the Thames, their cannon swiveling to cover an oddly shaped object that had struck near London''s outskirts, just inland from the famous waters by only a few yards. The shape glowed red hot as it sputtered there from water that had struck it from its impact and corresponding explosion of dirt and buildings, causing some of the Thames to wash over it momentarily.The scream of sirens, air raid sirens.Men and women, dressed in black with emergency arm bands on, scattered to hustle civilians to safety, fearing the Germans had struck with some fancy new kind of deadly weapon.But they were wrong.They were all wrong.It wasn''t the Germans at all.It wasn''t a super bomb.It was an attack from Mars.And it was the 2nd one!

In THE ENIGMAS OF HUGO LACKLAN, Alexander Dunkley relates some of the puzzling anecdotes of his social anthropologist friend. Though quite unacademic, these questions, and others, intrigue Hugo. In THE VANISHING PUNK, how did the punk thief vanish after his crimes? And we can only wonder what the reason was for the odd behaviour of the FIVE ELDERLY GENTLEMEN. Then, in THE EXPENSIVE DAUB, why were hideous daubs selling for such high prices from a London gallery?

A driver education teacher shares stories from his career experiences.

''Light''s List'' contains names, addresses, price, page count, frequency and a brief note of interests of over 1500 UK, US, Canadian, Australian, European, African and Asian small press magazines publishing creative writing and artwork in English.

Brigg lives in a small, grey room in a large, grey city. When he finds a book in the library labelled ''Do Not Read'', he cannot resist borrowing it. In it, he comes upon pictures of bright, vibrant objects called flowers. A deceptively simple and haunting story, beautifully and mysteriously illustrated, set in a bleak future metropolis.

In the sequel to No Space in Time, The Unfathomable manipulates the awakened Melgor Erdin in an effort to undo the damage done to the omnicontinuum by his previous experiments. Transported from world to world, Melgor Erdin follows the consequences of his actions down the time-lines and loops of disparate worlds towards the end of the universe.

Poems and drawings for children of miscellaneous ages.

Trancular Tronsum Triangle sets out to rid his land of the fierce and greedy Terrible Triangle but gets lost. He meets Silly Circle, Secret Circle, Super Square and Lord Allshapes before finding his way home.

A holiday afloat - can Dad keep everyone from falling in the water?

The 2nd edition of a short collection of early poems by John Light, (first published by Carmina Publishing, 1989) including a long science fantasy poem and others not in the more substantial University of Salzburg collection of his poetry.

John Light makes children want to read. Supported by his own endearingly naive illustrations, these light-hearted observations of family life are true, witty, unexpected and fun to share, and expressed in language which is both simple and natural. Katherine, Roger, and Mark find many ways to play alone or together, with a multitude of toys and activities.

John Light makes children want to read. Supported by his own endearingly naive illustrations, these light-hearted observations of family life are true, witty, unexpected and fun to share, and expressed in language which is both simple and natural. Uncle Richard photographs the amusing antics of Mum, Dad, and the kids on their visit to a castle.

John Light makes children want to read. Supported by his own endearingly naive illustrations, these light-hearted observations of family life are true, witty, unexpected and fun to share, and expressed in language which is both simple and natural. On the weekend Dad is a diligent but incompetent handyman around the house, to the vast entertainment of the children.

Linus line notices some very strange things about his friends Lionel and Caroline, not to mention the dots.

John Light is a scientist, painter, novelist, and poet. In this first substantial collection of his verse all these interests find expression. Some of the poems deal with immense themes but the writing itself is always clear and direct, never obscure. He tries simply to communicate truth as he perceives it. With an appreciation by John Francis Haines.

Beneath the orange skies and blue sun of Lavandrel an unadventurous people have farmed the red landscape for millennia. Into this placid world an alien presence brings a grey blight threatening destruction of all its life forms. Lured towards the source of the pollution by visions and troubled by ominous dreams, Prince Alorn faces desolation and death through a perilous quest to save his planet. In a craft from the remote past he searches for his beloved Annalor, abducted by the intruder, far beyond his native world, beyond even the known Universe. Swept into the depths of a black hole, gateway to another Cosmos of mysterious phenomena, Alorn finds the meaning of his dreams revealed in a final bitter struggle.

There was no government and no police force on the planet Dorado, so when Bizman Edlin Borrowitch was murdered, his insurers paid City Investigators to find the culprit and they plumped for Accountant Ros Kernwell. She hired Tec Sarn Denson to clear her and he found plenty of suspects among the family and associates of the Bizman. All he needed to do to save his client was to find enough evidence to reduce the Legal Company computer''s calculation of her guilt probability to below the conviction threshold. Unfortunately Tec Denson was troubled by ideas of his own about that abstract and irrelevant concept, justice, and distracted by the assistance of the beautiful Seelya Koto.

The Parsons family came from Goldalming, a small wool town in the County of Surrey. The earliest known ancestor was John Parsons who married a ldy named Mary. They were the parents of John Parsons (b.1772) who in turn married Jane. They were the parents of several children including John (b.1796) who married Sarah who was the father of two sons, Thomas and William. Descendants live in Hertford, Essex and England.