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After The Rain is a meditation via photography on nature and the environment. The journals contain stunning photography capturing seaside and riverside life.
After The Rain: Number 1
by Zarina Holmes
After The Rain: Number 1 is a meditation via photography on nature and the lesser-heard inner voices. It started as a diary to accompany Zarina Holmes’s photography pieces, which is her train of thoughts during a hectic life between London and her seaside home near Pangkor Island. After The Rain also alludes to the feeling of calm and relief after a storm. You could say it’s about a new beginning after a turbulent passage.
After The Rain: Number 2
by Zarina Holmes
After The Rain: Number 2 came three years after this journal made its debut. We’ve had a pandemic and a global supply chain crisis. In this edition, environmental calamity has a more profound co-starring role. It represents the consequences of the choices we make as humans. Darkness and light, life and death, and pastel and pop interlock with one another. But as this journal alludes, winter always turn to spring. And the rain will stop at some point.
The Constant Companion Tales by Salina Christmas. A collection of serialised short stories of post-colonial horror spanning three generations.
The Red-Haired Gurkhas
Part One: The Constant Companion Tales
by Salina Christmas
In 1981, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission exhumed the remains of soldiers they assumed to be Gurkhas at a military camp in Malaysia for reburial. Supernatural events ensued, testing the courage of soldiers already wary of Communist threats in the 1980s. Soon after, words spread amongst the soldiers of ghostly sightings of a World War 2 officer, and a grisly episode at the former British military camp. Told from the point of view of a child, the daughter of an army captain, this tale looks at the horror and dark arts unleashed by a brutal war – and the unwanted legacy that follows.
The Tiger-Man and His Constant Companion
Part Two: The Constant Companion Tales
by Salina Christmas
‘When you take revenge, dig two graves’. Year: 1942. Location: Malacca, Straits Settlement, British Malaya. Singapore falls. Terror rules for the next three years. A tragedy that strikes the Raden family sets a grisly precedent for retributions and dark arts. Can two wrongs make a right? One thing is certain: when you draw the sword, you know better to sheathe it afterwards. Or else. The second part of the series provides a glimpse into the family’s past, and the fate crossed with foreign soldiers and conscripts from all sides. Man-made terror is deplorable. Supernatural terror is incomprehensible.
The Night of the Flying Blades
Part Three: The Constant Companion Tales
by Salina Christmas
Treason comes from within. It’s easier to forgive an enemy. But a kith? A kin? This is the story of traitors, and what their own kins do to the enemy within. An ancient, senile ghostly servant – on his midnight cigarette break – accidentally reveals his horrific true form to the Raden family. The exorcism that follows introduces the Raden children to the flying blades, another ‘surprise’ from their secretive elders. Upon learning their great-grandmother’s past, the children discover that once, not long ago, after the war was over, the British were much exposed to the jungle terrorists. The bitter sacrifices and innocent lives brutally taken meant their kins had no choice but to summon the flying blades for a most calamitous goal.
The KEEPER OF MY KIN
Part One, Two & Three of The Constant Companion Tales
by Salina Christmas
Three separate incidents between World War 2 and the Malayan Emergency period connect the dots to reveal a sinister force haunting three generations of the Raden family. Now the three haunting stories of the Raden family are combined in a paperback.
THE RED-HAIRED GURKHAS
THE TIGER-MAN AND HIS CONSTANT COMPANION
THE NIGHT OF THE FLYING BLADES
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