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Live on Amazon: Jezebel’s Island: A Psychological and Mystery Thriller and a #1 Amazon Bestseller in Japan-by Gabriela Marie Milton- Publisher Literary Revelations

Dear Friends, Readers, and True Lovers of Literature,

Jezebel’s Island: A Psychological and Mystery Thriller is now live on Amazon

A #1 Bestseller in Japan. Thank you Japan!

Both the Kindle edition and the paperback edition are fully synced, and you have the absolute first opportunity to step into the mist:

In honor of this core community and our shared commitment to the written word, I will not be taking any personal proceeds from this novel. Instead, 100% of the proceeds will go directly to Literary Revelations to fund the creation of our next haiku anthology, ensuring that we continue to nurture and preserve the art of traditional verse. Your support today directly shapes the future of our poetic community.

As I shared with you at the start of July, Jezebel’s Island is a psychological labyrinth built on cinematic flashes, abrupt transitions, and fragmented scenes. It is a defense of human consciousness against a sterile, automated existence—and today, the investigation begins.

When you open the first chapter, The Night the Silence Screamed, remember the secret I told you: the ending greets you at the very start.

Thank you for walking across this threshold with me. I cannot wait to hear your thoughts as you uncover the shifting legends and veils of the City.

Jezebel’s Island is available in all Amazon Markets.

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Gabriela Marie Milton
Author and Founder of Literary Revelations

Gabriela Marie Milton
Author and Founder of literary Revelations

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The Cabin by Christopher Moore – Flash Fiction

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Bio:

Christopher Moore is a Northern Irish writer, and a graduate of English from Queen’s University Belfast, as well as the MA in TV Fiction Writing at Glasgow Caledonian University. Alongside a number of playwriting achievements, including being longlisted for the Bruntwood Prize in 2019, and shortlisted for the Bread and Roses Playwriting Award in 2024, he has had a number of pieces of short fiction published in magazines and anthologies.

The Cabin by Christopher Moore

It’s the silence that gets to you.

Omnipresent and suffocating, it envelops the whole clearing like a fog, covering this corner of the woods in a cloak as thick as the ashen cloud above. The snow outside the cabin lies untouched, unspoiled, not so much as a single animal track to mark it, even though, in normal times, there ought to be a myriad different creatures in such a forest. Ice hangs jaggedly from the roof like a network of crystal cobwebs, betraying the abandonment within, the patient, forlorn wait for life to return through its doors. But the wait has been long, and the snow still lies unblemished, the eerie stillness interrupted only by the mist of your breath and the chattering of your teeth as you stare at the still, perfectly preserved scene before you.

You know the cabin belongs to someone, once meant something to someone, and you feel that if only you wait a little longer, something is bound to happen, someone is bound to come- surely nothing so picturesque can lie unclaimed forever.

But then you remember the reality of the world around you, something all too easy to forget in this remote, peaceful place seeped in memory. And you understand that the cabin is nothing but a monument to earlier times, a dignified, gentle defiance in the face of a broken world, but nothing more. There is no-one but you left to appreciate its serenity. The icicles hang in perfect, crystal formations, no sign of them ever thawing again, no subtle shifts in temperature, no quiet drips onto the snow beneath. You stare at this frozen museum in wonder, and you rue the selfishness of your own kind, all the petty concerns that once seemed to mean so much now distant, foolish irrelevances. Gone and forgotten.

The cabin sits as a last relic of something past. A retreat from a way of life long tipped into oblivion. And you realise, as you stare at it in longing, that it is doomed to remain unchanged, nothing but a frozen pocket of time in an empty world.

Coming Late October from Literary Revelations! 🌿

We are thrilled to announce our upcoming digital photography album by Andrei Marin, Playground of Colors: A Photographic Plea to Protect the Earth. Through Andrei’s extraordinary and vibrant photography, this album carries a powerful message: the vital importance of preserving our environment and protecting our planet for generations to come.

Stay tuned for release details!

Gabriela Marie Milton
4X #1 Amazonbestseller Author an Founder Of Literary Revelations

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Literary Revelations presents: Abocaroid, Fine-art Japanese Photography

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Bio:

“Abocaroid is not merely a photographer; this artist is a visual poet and a guardian of atmosphere.”

Through a masterful lens, Abocaroid captures the deeply evocative heartbeat of Japan. This creator’s work exists at the magnificent intersection of timeless heritage and groundbreaking digital artistry.

Every photograph is an immersive experience. Whether documenting the sacred, synchronized energy of traditional performing arts like Yosakoi, framing the ethereal majesty of Japanese landscapes, or catching the quiet, enigmatic grace of cats basking in the sun, Abocaroid breathes life into every frame. The artist’s signature Picart creations elevate reality entirely, synthesizing raw photography with exquisite fine-art aesthetics to form dreamlike, surreal masterpieces that leave a lasting imprint on the soul. To view Abocaroid’s portfolio is to witness Japan’s natural splendor and cultural legacy reborn through a visionary eye.

Abocaroid- photography – Yosakoi – A Japanese Dance

Key Elements of Yosakoi

Naruko (Wooden Clappers): Dancers hold these traditional wooden clappers in both hands, shaking them to create a sharp rhythmic clicking sound. They were originally used by farmers to scare birds away from rice fields.
Music: Teams blend traditional local folk songs (like Kōchi’s “Yosakoi-bushi”) with modern genres like rock, pop, hip-hop, samba, or electronic music. Original Kōchi rules require every team’s song to incorporate a phrase from the classic “Yosakoi Naruko Dancing” track.
Costumes: Outfits are vivid, colorful, and diverse. They range from traditional happi coats and kimonos to modern, custom-designed theatrical costumes that match each team’s unique theme.
Jikatasha (Music Trucks): These are ornately decorated mobile sound trucks that lead each team down the parade route while blasting their customized music.
Choreography & Forward Movement: Unlike stationary dances, Yosakoi is traditionally performed as a forward-moving parade along a set street path, featuring synchronized, high-impact routines and call-and-response shouting.

Group of girls performing a traditional dance in colorful costumes, with vibrant fabrics and dynamic poses, in a festive outdoor setting.

A group of dancers in colorful, traditional costumes performing energetically during a street festival, with an audience enjoying the show in the background.

A lively group of performers in traditional attire celebrating with joyful expressions during a cultural festival.

A woman in a vibrant traditional costume smiles joyfully while dancing outdoors, surrounded by colorful flowers.

Two dancers performing energetically against a vibrant pink backdrop, one looking focused and determined while the other is joyfully expressing excitement.

Gabriela Marie Milton
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The 9th Basho-an International English Haiku Competition

Via our Artist in Residence, Hikari, Literary Revelations has been invited to share a wonderful opportunity from Mrs. Kakutani Masako, Director of the International Division at The Association of Haiku Poets.

Following the global reception of our poetry anthologies—including Haiku for Soulmates, which was recently shared with educators and poets at the English Haiku Program in Matsuyama—the Basho Memorial Museum has reached out to our press.

As the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Literary Revelations together with our Artist in Residence Hikari, we warmly invite you—our anthology contributors, readers, and global community of haiku poets —to submit your original work to this prestigious competition.

Submission Guidelines:

Language: English
Entry Fee: Free
Submission Limit: Up to 10 English haiku per participant
Eligibility: Open to poets worldwide
Organizer: Basho Memorial Museum / Koto City Culture Community Foundation

To learn more and submit your entries, please visit the official page:

Basho-an International English Haiku Competition Guidelines

芭蕉庵国際英語俳句大会　Basho-an International English Haiku Competition | 芭蕉記念館 | 公益財団法人江東区文化コミュニティ財団

Gabriela Marie Milton
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Flash Fiction by Brooke Johnpier (she/her/hers)

Bio

Brooke Johnpier is a student at St. Bonaventure University majoring in sports media with a goal to become a full-time motorsports/automotive journalist. When she’s not writing, you can find her curled up with a good book, playing video games, listening to music, or shooting her bow and arrow on her 50-acre farm.

A Perfect Sunday

The black smoke pommeled across the sky, making the world dreary. It was a shame though, because the beautiful mountainous desert landscape was being desecrated by the pollution. And it was all because one man decided it would be funny to burn tires in a semi-circle.

The man, Jerry, was a little bit fucked-up in the head. The things he found amusing made other people shudder. Such as the feel of fresh, warm blood on his hands, or the scream of a newborn baby in pain. He loved weird things that most people would consider sadistic.

Because of this, Jerry got the urge to go steal some used tires from a tire shop, go to a part of I-15 that didn’t get a lot of traffic, arrange said tires in a semi-circle, douse them in E-85 gasoline, throw a match on them, and then set up a camping chair with a yellow, blue, and white umbrella hooked to it directly in the center of the circle one day. To him, this was entertainment. To him that was satisfaction. To him this was pleasure.

The smell of the burning rubber, the sounds of the flames crackling, and the view of nature being violated for his own benefit turned him on in a way that no-one, and nothing, should be.

Jerry had a hard-on from the smells and sights of horror, and he relished in the euphoria as the sun baked on the asphalt in front of him, creating a mirage of death to add to the scene. In front of Jerry, people were burning up in the flames, screaming for mercy, only to have their screams quelled as their vocal cords were melted into pink liquid.

The faint sound of wailing sirens brought Jerry back to reality, and he smiled. Time to go, he thought.

Jerry picked up his chair, folded up the umbrella, and ran away into the desolate landscape.

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Poetry by Lauren Marie

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Bio:

Lauren Marie is a writer from SC shedding light on the darkest moments of human fragility. Her poetry traces the course of pain through healing and all the mess in between. She tends to lean into duality and nature’s hushed truths.

Candle Burning

I left every light on
Wrestling with the night
Afraid of the dark

Defeated
I unhinged the latch to the cage
That confined my thoughts

Beneath the moon’s glow
Barefoot
I walked into the darkness

I carried sticks and stones
Of the words meant to break me

I arranged them
Like an altar
Then exhaled a raging fire

How often was I their lantern
Left cold, a coal of ash

I left the forest still weeping
A candle burning
I light now only for myself

After the Rain

I wilted like a flower kneeling for water

Only to reclaim my own roots

When the drought persisted
The ground beneath me
Became my refuge

My intuition, I had abandoned
Now a guarded, steady sooth

Whatever storm tries to tame me
Let the wind remove

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Cyclic Verse by Rick K. Reut – Poems

AUTHOR’S ANNOTATIONS

These are excerpts from the author’s manuscript Around a Word, which is a collection of cyclic verse that presupposes a poem having no beginning or end and working in both rhyme and prose.

BIOGRAPHY

Rick K. Reut was born in 1984. He studied philosophy at EHU in Minsk, Belarus, and Vilnius, Lithuania, and literature at SPSU in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Since graduating, he has worked mostly as a translator and a tutor of English as a foreign language.

(BEDROOM DOOR)

…left you in the past.

You lie on the floor.

Gathering dust,

the bedroom door

opens. But no

one wants to come in –

except a cold wind.

Someone you know…

(IN THE DISTANCE)

…while it changes like

a woman. Another rain-

coat hangs on the skyline,

dripping down the drain.

Colors seem to collide

in the distance between

two words you try to hide

from. Somebody is seen

coming in a long, dark

gown that covers the back

of what looks like a park

alley painted black

and blue. Red lanterns light

up the face of the night…

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Reading Books Is Cooler Than Scrolling: Explore the Literary Revelations New Collection

Reading Books Is Cooler Than Scrolling: Explore the Literary Revelations New Collection

In a world that constantly demands our attention—pulling us toward glowing screens, endless notifications, and the swift current of the digital age—choosing to pause, open a book, and immerse ourselves in a story is a quiet, profound act of grace.

At Literary Revelations, our heart has always been anchored in preservation, artistic integrity, and the deep emotional resonance of real literature. We believe that what we feed our minds shapes who we are.

That is why we created something special for our community: our new ‘Reading books is cooler than scrolling’ collection. Whether it is a mug for your quiet morning reading ritual or apparel that carries our shared philosophy out into the world, every piece is designed with the bibliophile in mind.

More than anything, this collection is a way to sustain our independent press. Every contribution directly supports Literary Revelations, ensuring we can continue championing authentic voices, poetry, and stories that outlast fleeting digital trends.

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Thank you for keeping real literature alive, for reading deeply, and for walking this literary path with us.

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Short Prose by Kelly Keener & an Important Announcement

Bio:

Kelly Keener is a freelance proofreader and editor with a deep love for 19th-century literature. In her spare time, she writes poetry, transcribes obscure works for her blog, The Literary Maiden, and dedicates herself the recovery of forgotten voices. Her anthology, Tales, Sketches, Poems of Charles Fenno Hoffman, is her absolute pride and joy.

Byzantium

The resplendent warmth of ages past spilled upon the alabaster tile. Corinthian columns, fluted and weatherworn, nearly hugged their prodigious forms to the wall, the traces of uneven plaster creating an invisible thread towards an unprecedented immensity. Darkness greeted at the end of the seemingly infinite trail, the labyrinthian structure mutely insinuating a misleading nature. Nightshade, which had been lilting its drowsy head from within the cracks below, reawakened to experience the grandeur of the silvery, starry spray upon the marble edifice, exhaling a perfumed mist that intermingled with the nightly air. The aforementioned resplendent peace proceeded to plume, invisibly enwrapping the expanse with an illuminated, albeit smoky guise, reminiscent of those nocturnal melodies our nightly creatures whisper into the wind. Between two columns, a memory reclaimed the empty space, conceiving of itself. Eclipsing verdant cliffs clothed in ruinous debris; mosaics formed by the stars which pityingly wept over the ruin; the Aegean sea the only distant call of remembrance: Byzantium, once an imposing, ancient, suspended splendor, now a dim, vague glint of humanity passing through.

Announcement

Jezebel’s Island: A Psychological and Mystery Thriller by Gabriela Marie Milton is now live on Amazon!

While specific details are currently under discussion, this forthcoming collection is set to be a seminal work—an extraordinarily ambitious project that aims remarkably high. To help bring this vision to life, a valued member of our Literary Revelations team has also generously offered to contribute funding.

Your support for Jezebel’s Island today directly fuels this landmark effort and shapes the future of our poetic community, ensuring we continue to nurture and preserve the art of traditional verse.

Gabriela Marie Milton
Author and Founder of Literary Revelations

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Coming July 11 – Jezebel’s Island: A Psychological and Mystery Thriller by Gabriela Marie Milton

Coming July 11 – Jezebel’s Island: A Psychological and Mystery Thriller by Gabriela Marie Milton

When you open this book on Saturday, forget everything you know about reading a novel. Watch the details.

Watch the swans. Watch what Armand does—not just what he says. Pay absolute attention to the old symbols hidden in plain sight, and look closely at the bridge game; every move matters.

Examine the men—specifically, the buttons on their shirts. Yes. In my world, nothing is an accident. Track every word from Jezebel and Lady Swarling, and watch for the children. They are the ghosts of this narrative.

Someone asked me: “Is this just another bad Jezebel?”

Think bigger. Don’t bring your biblical biases to this island. It is more like Anastasia standing in front of a mirror that Jezebel created. What will she do when she looks into it? Remember: the name Anastasia means resurrection in Greek.

Listen closely to Jezebel’s monologues to find the truth behind her name.

The countdown to July 11th is on. The pieces are all there. Are you ready to step into the mist?

Honoring our community

Jezebel’s Island will be featured on September in Times Square, New York.

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Jezebel’s Island by Gabriela Marie Milton

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Dear Friends, Readers, and True Lovers of Literature,

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A Perfect Sunday

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Byzantium

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