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This book is a compilation of short stories and metaphors: mind-changing short stories and metaphors and about moving forward. They are available as separate publications, but have now been brought together in one book to offer greater value. The stories are set out alphabetically by their titles. Metaphors have long given insights into the difficulties of people and have shown the ways in which we can escape or improve. 

This a purposefully short book that contains powerful messages. It is like having a good and genuine friend by your side. Written by a therapist with many, many years of practical experience in the resolution of problems such as these, what this book does is to turn sufferers into survivors and then those survivors into happy and fulfilled regular people. It shows how that wonderful, but fake, love affair is all about the narcissist and not you. They can only love themselves. That is narcissism, and it is a personality disorder.

When used in NLP and hypnotherapy, metaphors have long given insights into the difficulties of people and have shown the ways in which we can escape or improve. If the stories strike a chord with you, then they also show a way out. These short stories, metaphors, and interactive scripts will help you to eliminate negative thoughts and achieve your dreams by allowing you to relax while hearing stories that can bring about positive change. 

When a publisher was set the challenge of finding the identity of a person from a manuscript that he received, he was confused. Is the author a celebrity, businessman, politician or something else?

Metaphors are the paints that illuminate a black and white drawing. They are mirrors of the mind. The face you look at in the mirror is never the face others see, but when we look at ourselves from a different viewpoint then we can see the changes that will make us better. They are tools for change, they break the barriers of rigid thinking. They empower us to think in a lateral way, they illuminate the way forward to a better path. They help us to recognize the causes of our problems. Metaphors enable us to create new patterns of thought. 

We all like to know the distasteful secrets of others but it can be difficult to get them at first hand. Yet, something seemingly detached and innocent can be the receptacle and the exposer of those hidden truths about lies. Most of us will know that with other people we hear the stories they want to share but not the ones they want to forget. I do not know your story, but for others their tales are an open book for all to see. There are stories about criminals, cheats and lovers, and one about a man who tricked his way into a care home, fell in love and got thrown out.

The mirror is the narcissist's best friend because it reflects them. If it breaks, they are beaten. This is a set of short stories and metaphors about escaping from the narcissistic emotional and physical traps and clutches. Sometimes serious and at others lighthearted, they tell how narcissists got their just desserts. They, of course, will hate the stories, but anybody who has been the victim of those predators, male or female, will enjoy hearing about how the cravers of admiration and the abusers of power met their true destiny.

When a sandcastle is built, it looks good but soon the waves of nature and outside forces become bent on destroying it. So it was for a marriage that looked good from the outside. In an attempt to strengthen what was already crumbling, Godfrey and his wife, Miriam, embarked on a holiday to Venice to bolster their marriage. He became obsessed with religion and its negative effect on life, as well as admiring topless women on the beach, while she became more and more bored. The whole holiday became a disaster for both of them.

I am the fly on the wall, the butler looking through the keyhole, the silent witness who is now talking. I expose the truths that were hidden.

I am the book that reads its audiences. I am the fly on the wall, the butler looking through the keyhole, the silent witness who is now talking. I expose the truths that were hidden. 

I am the fly on the wall, the butler looking through the keyhole, the silent witness who is now talking. I expose the truths that were hidden about people who win and those who lose.  

The book is a rich cocktail of short stories that include macabre murders, fraud, love, self-improvement, hate, and laughter. These tongue-in-cheek tales have been created for enjoyment, entertainment, and pleasure.  

Avenging Serpents tells how two far-from-innocent men, who met by a freak coincidence, were inspired by an old myth to seek revenge on the perpetrators of ongoing abuses.

This is probably the most extraordinary book that you have ever read. Why? Because I can read the people who read me and that is very, very strange.

Created by an author with a track history of generating entertaining and fascinating stories, both from real life and imagination, these tales will captivate and entertain the listeners who are taken to situations and events which strike a chord with all of us.