Southern Literary Review

The strangest thing Lily Johnson encountered on social media was an ad asking for people to apply to be Roman Dalmain's wife. Kim Wilson was an underpaid model who knew the man behind the application review and had bribed him into ensuring she would be selected as Roman's wife. What happens when Mark accidentally sends an email to Lily? Two women showing up on the same day to be Roman's wife, will he fall in love with the boring looking, middle school math teacher or the model with a perfect face?

Tunnels deconstructs the individual’s Romantic fascination with ‘love’ or the grammaticality of beauty. Ideally, the ‘tunnels’ in the collection are subterranean love poems from the suburban imaginary. These seemingly syntactic tunnels travel through one’s literary imagination or heterotopic dreamscapes, and while αγάπη (Greek for ‘love’) inspires these rhizomic tunnels to navigate the abysmal ‘meta-spectacle’ of gesture, language or moment of poemness, the mind like the many-colored jeepneys of Manila, where driving past roast goose restaurants in Shek Kip Mei or spotting stilt houses in Kampong Kleang, attempt to explore the transgeneric textualities of the everyday, alongside the unstructurality of time and space, the littoral and the liminal.

Son of a wealthy southern plantation owner, Vince Hart, is a well known womanizer. When he is caught in a compromising position with his lover he is forced to make a choice- leave Vivian's reputation ruined or marry her. He chooses marriage, and for a while he and Vivian enjoy marital bliss, but dark clouds are gathering on the horizon as the Civil War is brewing. Called to serve, Vince goes off to war and adventure, leaving his wife and unborn child home alone. What will he return to, if anything?

The novel is mainly about the forgotten British poet/writer named C. J Richards who lived in Burma/Myanmar in colonial times and he believed himself as a Burmophile. He served as I.C.S (Indian Civil Servant) and when he retired from I.C.S service, he was a D.C (District Commissioner) and he left for England a year before Burma gained its independence in 1948. He came to Burma in 1920 to work in civil service after passing the hardest I.C.S examination. He wrote several books on Burma and contributed many monthly articles to Guardian Magazine published in Burma from 1953 to 1974 or 1975. Though he wrote several books which had much literary merit to both communities, Britain and Burma (Myanmar), people failed to recognize him. The story has two parts: one part is set in the contemporary Yangon (then called Rangoon) in 2016 context and a young literary enthusiast named “Lin” found out unexpectedly the forgotten writer’s poetry book and there is surely a good deal of time gap that led him into a quest to know more about the author’s life. The setting is quite different comparing to colonial Burma and independence Myanmar (Burma), early twentieth century and 2016 which is a transitional period in Myanmar. The writer’s life is fictionalized in the novel and most of the facts are taken from his personal stories and other reference books. It is a kind of historical novel with a twist and it has comparatively constructed the two different periods in Myanmar history to convince readers, locally and abroad more about history, authorship, humanity, colonialism, and transitional development in Myanmar today.

Anna Quinn is an adventurer who loves to travel to new places not only for the sake of adventure, but also to gather information for her novel. Her passion for literature has earned a lot of attention in her literary journey, where she also met her pen partner, Bien Fausto. Both of them are novelists who are dedicated to their craft, but everything changes when Anna discovers a paradise in Kauai and loses herself to a man named Jax. A messed-up situation that will change the way things were used to be. How will these unintentional events affect their lives? Will Anna be able to recover from her mistake, or is this the beginning of a new chapter in her life with another man?

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Saga of Pandora Interrupted continues with this story that follows her daughter Madeline. Madeline finds love in the most profound men. Being a vampire princess has never stopped her from exploring her sexuality but when one relationship gets foul she moves on to another. She never quite finds what she truly needs and desires. Travel through the life of a vampire princess as she matures and grows into the stunning queen she was destined to become alongside the man that she would also die for if it came to having to make that choice. (We hope it doesn't for literary sake) Sexual Content, foul language and some violence.

Becoming a lecturer with promising carreer, and everything seems to be smooth for Sudirman Wira Atmaja or Dirman. But, behind the profession that he holds, there always debt need to be fulfilled. No free lunch that's what they say from the other side of the world. Accepting offer to work for high class shopping center in southern Malang with attempting fee, and holds key to decide campus policies, very nice isn't it? But, there is something Dirman doesn't realize. Something that could drag him down to deepest regret slum.

Annette didn't expect to be captured by a gigantic black wolf, but what started as a night of dancing in the forest with her sister ended with her surrounded by werewolves. Lian is the Alpha leader of the Southern pack. One night, while returning from his hunt, he is captivated by a sweet scent that he recognizes as that of his Moon. The rough Alpha didn't expect his fate to be tied to that of a small human. What should have been the beginning of a love marked by destiny is overshadowed by the onset of a war.

Park Sebastian, the Mafia boss of the southern and Northern region of Korea. Rumored to be the "ruler of the underworld". Only his looks could make anyone have a nose bleed. His aura, his eyes, his demeanor, everything smelt "DANGER" An English girl, Ariel Parker. The sweetest soul you could ever find. Innocent and easy going. She is described as a petal that even at the slightest touch, she would fall. But don't take her softness for weakness!!. In a world where many rules were laid, could love prevail or would love for the things of the world prevail?