Counterculture Stories

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In late-1960s Australia, thirteen-year-old orphan Madeline "Maddie" Piedmont is sent to live with her mother's sister and steps into a family still poisoned by old wounds. Behind the polite faces and carefully guarded secrets lies a scandal that once destroyed a young woman, tore a family apart, and left Maddie's own parents disowned and despised. As shy cousin Simon fights to silence a lifelong stutter and sharp-tongued Edith sheds her "Didiot" ways, Maddie begins to find a fragile place among them. But her grandmother has never forgiven the Piedmont name. Quietly, deliberately, she sets a predator on Maddie's trail: Jason Sturrock, the charming, amoral son of a corrupt politician. Warned never to be alone with him, Maddie and her cousins keep careful watch for years. Then one day, after a glittering awards show and a bitter argument, the careful circle breaks for the first time. Jason seizes his chance. Stripped of safety, vulnerable and alone, Maddie follows a strange, flickering light into the bush...and into the path of a kind artist named Bill Shakespeare. Under the rising psychedelic sky of a new age, among market stalls, painted vans, and the approaching Aquarius Festival, she begins the long process of healing. Yet the man who tried to break her is still free, and the past is not finished with any of them. Will love, found in the most unexpected place, be strong enough to cast out the shadows or will everything unravel like a dream with the new dawn?

A short fanfic about a 21 year old photographer named Sadie who lives and works in Greenwich Village in the early 1960s. She happens to bump into pre Monkees fame Peter Tork, who lived and worked as a folkie musician during that time.

Afterthoughts. Not Ex Machina, just Tabula Rasa.

New poems about how it was and still might be. Hate the hippies? Sorry. You may leave now.

In a future where silence is forbidden and every thought is drowned in noise, one man hears something he was never meant to. Ernst Keller, a weary audio archivist, discovers a rogue signal that invites him into a world beneath the static. As he dares to unplug, the overwhelming weight of true quiet nearly breaks him-and then begins to remake him. Hunted for his heresy, Ernst becomes the first "blank" in generations to listen for truth between the sounds. Echo Logic is the beginning of a whispered rebellion, where silence isn't empty-it's alive.

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In the 1970s, Troy joined the wave of hippies and draft dodgers going back to the land to enjoy the "simple life." When his attempts at homesteading fail as miserably as his attempts at love, Troy devotes his time instead to building life-size dinosaur replicas from the broken farm machinery that litters the Ontario countryside. The simple life indeed, until a young woman claiming to be his daughter knocks on his cabin door, and Troy is finally forced to admit that, far from simplifying his life, he had complicated it more than he ever realized. "Old Bones" won the Canadian Authors Association prize for best short story and was first published in the journal "Existere." Praise for The Wolves of St. Peter's: “This is the third novel by the Canadian team of Buonaguro and Kirk, and it’s the best so far. The setting is Rome, 1508, and Michelangelo is hard at work on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The master’s houseboy and dogsbody is Francesco Angeli and it’s Angeli who spots a body floating in the Tiber. It wasn’t such an unusual sight in those days, but when the corpse is dragged in, Angeli is astonished to find that he knows the dead woman. The writers are adept at plotting and they make great use of the grand artists who were in Rome at the time, along with the streets, smells and the brothels they attended. There are also floods on the rise to add to the suspense as Angeli hunts for a killer and attends to genius.” --Globe & Mail

The man just wanted to go to sleep that night, but because of his age and gender, he wasn't allowed to.

Marcus, aka "w1n5t0n," is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works - and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high school's intrusive but clumsy surveillance systems. His whole world changes when, having skipped school, he and his friends find themselves caught in the aftermath of a terrorist attack on San Francisco. In the wrong place at the wrong time, Marcus and his crew are apprehended by the Department of Homeland Security and whisked away to a secret prison where they're mercilessly interrogated for days. When the DHS finally releases them, Marcus discovers that his city has become a police state where every citizen is treated like a potential terrorist. He knows that no one will believe his story, which leaves him only one option: to take down the DHS himself. Can one teenage hacker fight back against a government out of control? Maybe, but only if he's really careful...and very, very smart.

A insomniac blogger telling some corny thoughts after Californication's Season 2 Finale

"It May Be the Devil" extrapolates to the not-so-far future of human-machine interaction. Technology is progressively getting better and better at predicting our needs and wants, making life easier and easier. However, as machines are learning to adapt to us, we are adapting to the machines. Convenience comes at a cost: to the individuality that makes us human. "It May Be The Devil" introduces the unlikely alliance between an individualistic subculture and the machine intelligence that they rebelled against...

For Tammy Rynn, being a student in 1967 is both dangerous and exciting. The Culterculture movement is at its all time high, and everything seems like an adventure. LSD, sexual freedom, the Beatles, anti-vietnam war, youth rebellion, it is a thrilling time to be in college. That is, of course, until Tammy is snatched away right in the middle of her campus. Next thing she knows, she is on the run from the mob and the FBI, accompanied by a mysterious individual only known as The Predator, an ex-villain, along with three other kids. When everything she knows and believes comes into question, a shocking secret from her past will change her life in a way she never expected and isn't prepared for.

An excerpt from Almost A Hippie, a novel set at the ragged edge of the late 1960s. A young man leaves New England with no real plan-just the road. What begins as a kind of freedom moves slowly toward something less certain.

In the fictional nation of Phaldrom Island, a young traveler, Brianna Lars, becomes apart of an Andy Warhol inspired art collective known as The Factory, during a time of political and societal controversy that threatens to change lives of the next generation. ** Photo I used for the cover, I do not own!

A short story I wrote and kind of rushed but it's fine with me. Not really my style of writing either so... I don't know, hope you like it.

beat-inspired-poetry collection. i blossomed through the mud, like the lotus flower, and so i met my way toward Death again. copyright © 2017 poems by @akahanadaniela.