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    Digital Smiles
    Digital Smiles
    Digital Smiles
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    Digital Smiles

    By E. Hughes

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    E. Hughes releases her final book of poetry, Digital Smiles (February 2024). Digital Smiles is written in both rhyme and free verse. The themes in Digital Smiles offers observations and sometimes criticism of society, how human beings engage each other on social media, the importance of ti

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLove-LovePublishing
    Release dateFeb 15, 2024
    ISBN9781961823167
    Digital Smiles
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    E. Hughes

    E. Hughes (1974) is the author of Time and Multi-Universe: A philosophy of time and time travel (2022) and Sixth Iteration, a science-fiction novel (2021). E. Hughes is a novelist and writer of more than twenty-five years and has over twenty published works in multiple genres from fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and children's books to date. Her latest offering is Digital Smiles, a chapbook released in February 2024, to be followed by her final work of poetry, Time, Space, and Loneliness, to be released in October 2024. Hughes is also scheduled to release Reality Unbound, a nonfiction, in November 2024. In addition to Sixth Iteration and Time and the Multi-Universe, Hughes is also the author of Starting Your First Patio Garden: A Coffee Table Book, the Penelope children's books series, Disappear, Love, A Mediterranean Romance, Business as Usual, Infatuation, The Sapphire Chronicles, Hello (a screenplay), Beyond the Plain, Pearls..., and other works (not including pseudonymous works). E. Hughes is a metaphysics philosopher, avid gardener, painter, and hobbyist jewelry designer. She is also an observer of cultural and societal idiosyncrasies.

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      Digital Smiles - E. Hughes

      Digital Smiles

      E. Hughes

      Copyright © 2024 E. Hughes

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

      Love-LovePublishing—Madison, WI

      Paperback ISBN: 978-1-961823-15-0

      eBook ISBN: 978-1-961823-16-7

      Title: Digital Smiles

      Author: E. Hughes

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      Introduction

      When I wrote Digital Smiles, I was going through a period of disillusionment with the world and humankind. I was saddened because of the wars, especially the loss of life that included children. I was disillusioned with American society and the toxic use of social media and how it has led to a breakdown of civility and society. I was disappointed by rampant disinformation. So many people are caught in the grip and addiction of social media.

      There are very few spaces where I choose to offer an opinion. I am of the belief that opinions don’t change outcomes, our actions do, and it begins with changing ourselves, rather than through the expectations

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