Listen to a clip from the audiobook edition of Confidence by Denise Mina, read by Jonathan Keeble, Rona Morison and Tom Hill. 

When Lisa Lee, a vulnerable young woman, vanishes from a pretty Scottish seaside town Anna and Fin find themselves at the centre of an internet frenzy to find her.
 
But Lisa may not be the hapless victim her father thinks. She had an unsuccessful YouTube channel and her last film showed her breaking into an abandoned French Chateau with other UrbExers and stumbling across a priceless Roman silver casket. One day after Lisa vanishes that casket gets listed for auction in Paris, reserve price fifty million euro and a catalogue entry that could challenge the fundamental principles of a major world religion.

On a thrilling chase across Europe, Anna and Fin are caught up in a world of international art smuggling, billionaire con artists and religious zealotry.

Confidence by Denise Mina, read by Jonathan Keeble, Rona Morison and Tom Hill

[Content warning: suicide]

There are suicide flowers along the Hamilton-Brantford Rail Trail tonight: a
lattice of pastel pinks and yellows encircling the sidebars of the bridge
overlooking the highway.

How strange, lifeless flowers tasked with protecting the living.

My first thought is who would try jumping from this height in the first
place. I know enough about falling to know that this distance won't quite
cut it — but then of course I know enough about falling to understand that
sometimes you try anyway — and so my second thought is

why.

There are pastel blue post-it notes scattered around the flowers, their paper
shells glossed with plastic tape to stave off the rain that has seeped through
the cracks and dissolved their writings anyway: half-washed out helpline
numbers, sharpie hearts smeared from the wet sorrow of a lonesome sky. I
can barely read most of them —

and my third thought is of how many people have stood on this ledge,
watching two rivers of white and red stream towards and away and felt a
longing so complete it swallows the heart, or if it is only me, perched on this
windswept steel ribbon of night, hands gripping the flowering metal in fear
of losing my balance while the part of me that is tired whispers

what if you did

and there is one blue sticky note that has not yet fallen prey to the rain. In
letters as deep as the night:

not a bad life, just a bad day.

What a small, feeble attempt. Petals fighting asphalt. Plastic fighting rain. A
single railing decorated in a highway of metal and night — and my last
thought is if it would make a difference. To the lonesome heart, unfurling
itself along the bridge at twilight, and to that I reply

yes, yes it would, yes.

————————————–

Lisa Shen called us from Toronto, CA.

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"Walking The Hamilton-Brantford Rail Trail" by Lisa Shen

Listen to an excerpt of Erika T. Wurth's WHITE HORSE, read by Tonantzin Carmelo.

Some people are haunted in more ways than one.

Kari James, Urban Native, is a fan of heavy metal, ripped jeans, Stephen King novels, and dive bars. She spends most of her time at her favorite spot in Denver, the White Horse. When her cousin Debby finds an old family bracelet that once belonged to Kari’s mother, it inadvertently calls up both her mother’s ghost and a monstrous entity, and her willful ignorance about her past is no longer sustainable…

Haunted by visions of her mother and hunted by this mysterious creature, Kari must search for what happened to her mother all those years ago. Her father, permanently disabled from a car crash, can’t help her. Her Auntie Squeaker seems to know something but isn’t eager to give it all up at once. Debby’s anxious to help, but her controlling husband keeps getting in the way. Kari’s journey toward a truth long denied by both her family and law enforcement forces her to confront her dysfunctional relationships, thoughts about a friend she lost in childhood, and her desire for the one thing she’s always wanted but could never have.

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White Horse by Erika T. Wurth, audiobook excerpt

Mosaic Garden EP

Sunset Mosaic

This is part of an old collection of material from my days near the train station in Pisa, the city of the leaning tower. 

There were some afternoons when I did not know what to do. Then I walked around the city looking for interesting places and faces.

I walked around like a stubborn butterfly. Sometimes I found some odd place, something out of place. This song is dedicated to those places, and to those butterflies.

<a href='https://theartistunion.com/tracks/c85988'>Download for free on The Artist Union</a>

Farfalle Testarde

Robert Lewandowski spricht im Trainingslager über Krafttraining, technische Fähigkeiten bei Stürmern und sein Geheimnis guter Ernährung.

So bereitet sich Robert Lewandowski auf die Rückrunde vor

FOREVER

Hall Of The Slain

Drum & bass from the good old days, before it went mainstream.  Liquid funk, hard-step, intelligent dnb.  Not the most technically brilliant mixing, but a good listen still.

Rollin'

Empire -The Bridge (Educated Audio)

Second of two Concerts (first in Tilburg) with the project of the Consevatoriums of Maastricht and Tilburg with Jan Cober

Maslanka 4th Symphony (Maastricht-Tilburg Wind Band)

Welcome To My Official Soundcloud Account.

FOREVER

KatDeluna