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Ashley Lloyd Smith

    The Measure of Sorrow
    Pizza with Jimbob and Twoforks
    Strategic Play: The Creative Facilitator's Guide
    • This collection of duck activities has a strong fun element, however, we do not want it to sound like it is all just fun. There is, in fact, a wealth of solid theory that forms the basis of why we developed this stream of uses for six bricks in business and learning environments. The idea of using playful methods for a range of purposes to generate innovative thinking is not new. For centuries, people have used artifacts like totems and puppets to tell stories and share information, beliefs, and knowledge. We also know that many facilitators and trainers are using tools such as design thinking and agile methodologies where prototyping and games play an important role in the processes of thinking and creating. Whatever your goal, using 3D models is a great facilitation tool. It allows you to lead people through a process where they are able to examine their inside world and relate these lessons to their work environment. These insights then lead to opportunities for further exploration and discovery and ultimately, more productive and effective communication.

      Strategic Play: The Creative Facilitator's Guide
    • If only she'd told him about her hot date with the hot waiter. She didn't and CC (that's Central Character) had no choice but to push his swinger wife off The Bridge it's only murder, right But, as if the guilt, the dreams and the endless puking wasn't bad enough, CC finds himself mixed up with the Skype Psychologist ('You murdered your wife Had exactly the same thing with a gentleman last week.'), Controversial Kate (the world's first Gay, Irish Republican, Cross-Dressing Comedian), Beardy (who only wants to stop people jumping from The Bridge and fails miserably), the beautiful Nail Girl, and not to mention the cool, the mysterious and very, very frightening Danny ... but we said not to mention Danny. It's all enough to put you off your beer and cheesychips. Transgressive, bizarre, hilarious and suffused with delirious bad taste and an utter disregard for what everyone else laughingly calls 'reality', Pizza with Jimbob & Twoforks is a riotous debut novel in the anti-tradition of William S. Burroughs and Hunter S. Thompson.

      Pizza with Jimbob and Twoforks
    • Shirley Jackson Award-winning author J. Ashley-Smith's first collection, The Measure of Sorrow, draws together ten new and previously acclaimed stories of dark speculative fiction. In these pages a black reef holds the secret to an interminable coastal limbo; a father struggles to relate to his estranged children in a post-bushfire wilderness; an artist records her last days in conversation with her unborn child; a brother and sister are abandoned to the manifestations of their uncle's insanity; a suburban neighbourhood succumbs to an indescribable malaise; teenage ravers fall in with an eldritch crowd; a sensitive New Age guy commits a terminal act of passive-aggression; a plane crash opens the door to the Garden of Eden; the new boy in the village falls victim to a fatal ruse; and a husband's unexpressed grief is embodied in the shadows of a crumbling country barn. Intelligent and emotionally complex, the stories in The Measure of Sorrow elude easy classification, lifting the veil on the wonder and horror of a world just out of true.

      The Measure of Sorrow