The Torch is Passed: A Harding Family Story
Andrea Harding had gone to bed late in order to finish packing. Her graduation from Princeton, followed by a party with her family, had been two days ago, and she had put off packing long enough....
View ArticleStrangers in Another Country
A Day in the Life of Mr Charlie Cheddar London. Summer, in the late ’60s TODAY IS GOING to be an important day, so important that I wouldn’t be turning up for work, which is quite unusual for...
View ArticleAmerican for Sale: The Demise of ISIS
CHAPTER 1 {Three local Chinese males converse outside Terminal B’s Men’s restroom at China’s Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport} “給我你的一些啤酒。” (“Give me some of your beer, Feng.”) “沒有,讓你自己的。”...
View ArticleGhosts and Physics
“What are you getting?” Mick asked, still absorbed in the “entrees” section of the menu as well as the giant glass of iced tea he’d been sipping for the past several minutes. Katie dropped her own...
View ArticleA Heartwarming Holiday
“They’re back again.” Charlotte Powell stopped mid-sip of her second cup of morning coffee. Her long-time friend, former college roommate, and one-third business partner in Boxes and Boughs, Gavin...
View ArticleThe Pharm House: A Harding Family Story
On a cold, rainy Saturday night in Manhattan, now an early Sunday morning in January, the $2,000 a night suite at the Peninsula Hotel looked like a room whose occupants had gotten more than their...
View ArticleThe King’s Ransom: Young Knights of the Round Table
Gavin Gavin bounded down the keep steps, eager to discover the cause of the cacophony echoing through the tower. The snorting and whinnying of horses competed with the voices of knights calling to...
View ArticleThe Long White Cloud
‘Mom, see who has come,’ Nyree shouted in excitement as she stepped into her house with her boyfriend from the college. Helen didn’t share the same excitement as Nyree. She walked out slowly from...
View ArticleGeneration
Prologue ======= In 2001 the New Scientist reported that researchers had isolated a gene for regenerating damaged organs from the DNA of a South American flatworm. Within five years it had been...
View ArticleAhriman: The Spirit of Destruction
Tehran, Iran – May 28, 2018 “Is this Kasem Ismaili?” “Yes,” he said as he groggily rubbed his eyes. “Who is this?” “It’s Nurah Bahar. Do you remember me?” Kasem sat up abruptly and frowned. “Yes, of...
View ArticleThe Screaming
The day was gonna be piss-awful. As soon as Brandon P Marshall woke up, he could tell. For an eighteen-year-old male with hormones running rampant, that wasn’t exactly new, but this time, the...
View ArticleBeyond the Red Carpet
Chapter 1 July 20, 2015 – And So It Begins As she sat and stared out the window of her immaculately kept bedroom, Sophia Donovan studied each raindrop sliding down the glass against a dark sky....
View ArticleMy Natural Weight-loss Recipe
Introduction First of all I would like to mention that this book is not intended to diagnose or treat illnesses/diseases and must never take the place of professional advice. This is simply my own...
View ArticleSmartbrain
Chapter 1 “My feet are cold; it’s cold outside!” “No, it’s over seventy degrees outside, Dad. Your feet are cold because you put your shoes in the freezer again.” “Freezer? What on earth are you...
View ArticleEcho from Mount Royal
Chapter One Of all the events that happened in the months after I met Sol, the first I remember is the day he sent me twenty-five roses. The bouquet was the first gift I received from him – in...
View ArticleThe Seas Come Still
October 2015 Kuzaki, Japan Doctor Yumi Daikokuya kneels in the tidal shallows, in the shelter of the shima—the coastal rocks of the Kuzaki peninsula where she was born. Her head lies half in the...
View ArticleThe Land: Raiders
Richter looked up at the opening in the earth sixty feet above him. As his muscles ached, Sion shouted down at him to hold on, and he heard another sprite voice shout in the distance, “Your lord! I...
View ArticleThe Lost Heir
“All of the preparations are complete,” the sorcerer said after boldly striding into the cramped room. “Derran is securely established in the village and is waiting for your arrival. As we discussed,...
View ArticleThe Last Road Home
Maybe it wasn’t true. “Come on, Junebug, it’s all right, don’t be afraid.” Grandma took my hand. Inside the house, a late afternoon shadow stretched like a long rectangular arm across the living room...
View ArticleIn Your Face
Chapter One – What do we know about the face? When we look at a face, what do we see? We see the shape of the face and its features – eyes, ears, nose and mouth – and maybe an expression appearing...
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