When Jason compliments his wife, Heather, on the amazing dinner she made last year for Mother’s Day, he gets a response that surprises him – but really shouldn’t have. Soon, Jason, his cousin, Cole, and a few other ‘clueless’ husbands find themselves learning to cook from the Cook-Nazi at the local prison, of all places. After he learns his Mother’s Day lesson, Jason is off to his next fiasco. This short story is filled with wonderful life lessons woven together with a humor that is classic Jack Weyland. Views: 826
Smite Turner is renowned for his single-minded devotion to his duty as a magistrate. But behind his relentless focus lies not only a determination to do what is right, but the haunting secrets of his past—secrets that he is determined to hide, even if it means keeping everyone else at arm's length. Until the day an irresistible woman shows up as a witness in his courtroom.
Miranda Darling isn't in trouble—yet. But she's close enough that when Turner threatens her with imprisonment if she puts one foot wrong, she knows she should run in the other direction. And yet no matter how forbidding the man seems on the outside, she can't bring herself to leave. Instead, when he tries to push her away, she pushes right back—straight through his famous self-control, and into the heart of the passion that he has long hidden away. Views: 825
Ten short stories of boys in different eras - sailing under Lord Nelson as a powder boy, travelling the east coast of Australia with a dog, father and son interactions, disability, rabbiting in the Depression, refugees - from Afghanistan to Australia,Ireland in St Kevin's time, selling pots and pans to gold diggers in the 1850s, being a tennnis ball boy in 2020 in Monte Carlo.I arrived in this Universe a while back.Initially, you understand, just to sightsee. You know, glide around a little, take in the milky ways and the dusty swirls, all these stars large and small, all these planets green and brown and blue, some with purple plains and sandy deserts, some with gray black mountains draped in trees some and capped in white others, some neither. Many frantic oceans, too, and many placid seas. All very varied and quite pleasing, I must say. Sightseeing.Drifting in for a closer look at some of these planets, I saw roads and wagons and gates and guards and many people, he called them.Drifting in closer still, I saw steady hands under furrowed brows brighten white canvas with color and warmth to capture trees and mountains, painting he called it.I heard symmetry of sound from throats and hands on strings, music he called it.And I saw many feet move in delicate delicious rhythm, dance he called it, and they seemed to enjoy it, these what he called people.And drifting closer still, I heard laments by lovers wronged, I saw seductions soft, and stark betrayals, brutal slayings and happy resurrections.I saw brother helping brother, sister leaving sister, son trusting father, daughter hating mother, or at least that is how he explained these odd happenings to me, my escort. Though, to be honest, I could not see the truth of these events for they had no pattern to them, not like those of their music or dance, he called them.So I turned to him and I asked, “What’s the point, then? Without a pattern?”“It’s hard to explain,” he answered. “And almost impossible to understand without one of those,” indicating a long display of sparkling shapes that looked just like what he called people but that didn’t move. He brought me down and closer.“What are they?” I asked.“They are called bodies,” he said. “You should try one.”We slowly drifted down the line of these shapely shapes all in glistening skin (still drying and cooling, he told me), until we came to the very end of the display where hung a firm and strong male, he called it, cooled and comely in his long white robe. “Touch it,” he suggested.I looked at him. A question. I once heard of these things. I heard there can be danger.“Trust me,” he said.So, perhaps unwisely, I trusted him, and I brushed against the bare, strong arm.On contact there was a shock a jolt a rush and then a screaming wind furiously inhaling and then a brief blackness and then I found myself inside this what he called a male and many things happened all at the same time, too fast, too many, too soon:Every one thing I saw, every blade of grass, every bird, every tree, every pebble—until then simply small pattern-less somethings to me—was absorbed by this body and once inside it each of these almost countless things spawned a response—a sea of responses. Each and every thing. I felt like a weather system. Storm everywhere. Views: 825
A ship of explorers has crash-landed onto K24B, a planet full of vast plains and lush forests teaming with countless new species. The knowledge-hungry survivors soon discover that danger lurks in the shadows. People are taken in the night and some simply disappear without a trace – a heightened sense of desperation sets in with each person lost and every breath becomes a matter of survival.A ship of explorers has crash-landed onto K24B, a planet full of vast plains and lush forests teaming with countless new species. The knowledge-hungry survivors soon discover that danger lurks in the shadows. People are taken in the night and some simply disappear without a trace – a heightened sense of desperation sets in with each person lost. Every breath becomes a matter of survival for those that remain. “A Matter of Survival” is the second story in “The Extraterrestrial Anthology, Volume I: Temblar.” The anthology contains ten short stories to make you think and tremble. Views: 825
Jeanette Winterson's novels have established her as a major figure in world literature. She has written some of the most admired books of the past few decades, including her internationally bestselling first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, the story of a young girl adopted by Pentecostal parents that is now often required reading in contemporary fiction.
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a memoir about a life's work to find happiness. It's a book full of stories: about a girl locked out of her home, sitting on the doorstep all night; about a religious zealot disguised as a mother who has two sets of false teeth and a revolver in the dresser, waiting for Armageddon; about growing up in an north England industrial town now changed beyond recognition; about the Universe as Cosmic Dustbin.
It is the story of how a painful past that Jeanette thought she'd written over and repainted rose to haunt her, sending her on a journey into madness and out again, in search of her biological mother.
Witty, acute, fierce, and celebratory, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a tough-minded search for belonging--for love, identity, home, and a mother. Views: 825
For over half a century, Richard Matheson has enthralled and terrified readers with such timeless classics as I Am Legend, The Incredible Shrinking Man, Duel, Somewhere in Time, and What Dreams May Come. Now the Grand Master returns with a bewitching tale of erotic suspense and enchantment.…
A young American soldier, recently wounded in the Great War, Alex White comes to Gatford to escape his troubled past. The pastoral English village seems the perfect spot to heal his wounded body and soul. True, the neighboring woods are said to be haunted by capricious, even malevolent spirits, but surely those are just old wives’ tales.
Aren’t they?
A frightening encounter in the forest leads Alex into the arms of Magda Variel, an alluring red-haired widow rumored to be a witch. She warns him to steer clear of the wood and the perilous faerie kingdom it borders, but Alex cannot help himself. Drawn to its verdant mysteries, he finds love, danger…and wonders that will forever change his view of the world.
Other Kingdoms casts a magical spell, as conjured by a truly legendary storyteller. Views: 825
A war is coming... The Kingdom of Palensia has no idea a dark sorceress is planning its downfall. It's up to one man and his guardsmen to save everything they hold dear.A war is coming... The Kingdom of Palensia has no idea a dark sorceress is planning its downfall. It's up to one man and his guardsmen to save everything they hold dear. Join Clayton when the path of chaos begins. With Clayton changing himself, he sets out to work on discovering what is going on.Cover Artist - Katrina L Young Views: 824
He was her mirror image. Now the mirror has cracked.Celeste
and her twin brother, Noble, are as close as can be — until a tragic
accident takes Noble's life. It's a loss that pushes their mother, a
woman obsessed with New Age superstitions, over the edge....Desperate
to keep her son "alive," Celeste's mother forces her to cut her hair,
wear boys' clothes, and take on Noble's identity. Celeste has virtually
disappeared — until a handsome boy moves in next door, and Celeste will
risk her mother's wrath to let herself come back to life. Views: 824
This is the story of how an alcoholic lesbian woman created history by making Alcoholic Anonymous a household word. This is the nuts and bolts of how Alcoholics Anonymous gained recognition and support of the Medical Community. Mrs Marty Mann single handely elevated Alcoholism from bad behavior to a public health issue.Alcoholics and GLBT persons will want to read it.Mrs Mann, here after referred to as Marty, dramatizes the public image of an alcoholic. Born in wealth she drank up her fortune and ended up on charity in an insane asylum. Between her wealth and her poverty she hobnobbed with Europe's leading intellectuals in a loose knit group known as the Bloomberg Group. In England Marty socialized with men like William James, Karl Jung and Joseph Conrad, individuals that connected the dots from Einstein's Revolutionary theory of relativity,change is possible, and embraced by Dr Silkworth and passed on to the cofounder of AA, Bill Wilson.Marty embraced the 12 Step Program for recovery from alcoholish and promoted the idea that alcoholism is an overwhelming issue in public health, a disease.The story of Mrs Marty Man is absolutely essential understanding the revolutionary ideas found in Alcoholics Anonymous. Views: 824
On Lily Sanderson’s eighteenth birthday she’ll become just a girl—still a mergirl, true, but signing the renunciation will ink Princess Waterlily of Thalassinia out of existence. That leaves plain old Lily living on land, dating the boy she loves, and trying to master this being-human thing once and for all.
Now that Lily and Quince are together, mer bond or not, she’s almost content to give up her place in the royal succession of Thalassinia. But just when she thinks she has everything figured out, the waves start to get rough. Lily’s father sends a certain whirlpool-stirring cousin to stay with her on land. What did Doe do to get herself exiled from Thalassinia and stuck in terraped form, when everyone knows how much she hates humans? And why why why is she batting her eyelashes at Lily’s former crush, Brody?
The seafoam on the raging surf comes when a merboy from Lily’s past shows up—Tellin asks Lily for something that clouds her view of the horizon. There’s a future with Quince on land, her loyalty to the kingdom in the sea, and Lily tossing on the waves in the middle. Will she find a way to reconcile her love, her duty, and her own dreams? Views: 824
A fast-moving thriller where Clay and Shali seek ancient documents hidden since the beginning of time. Using CIA parapsychology past life regression techniques, they locate the ancient knowledge after a harrowing journey around the world. They try to reveal the secrets but a dangerous and unknown force is trying to stop them. Your world may look different after this thought-provoking thriller.Description:In this fast-moving mystery/thriller, Clay Barton and Shali Faisal seek ancient documents hidden since the beginning of recorded time--documents that could forever change the course of human history. By using secret CIA parapsychology techniques for reincarnation based past life regression, they finally locate this treasure trove of ancient knowledge. But this is not before a harrowing journey that takes them around the world. Now is the time to reveal the secrets, but a dangerous and unknown force is trying to stop their efforts. This thought-provoking and suspenseful reincarnation thriller may make you think about the world and events in a new and perhaps disturbing way. > Book 2 of the Trilogy, The Eye's Revelation, is available on Amazon as an ebook or paperback. > Book 3 of the Trilogy, Mirror of the Eye, is available on Amazon as an ebook or paperback. > Book 3 Amatory Edition of Mirror of the Eye is a special edition of Book 3 for those readers who enjoyed Fifty Shades of Grey. Bob Frank teamed up with erotica writer E.B. LeDoux to integrate 14 spicy and adventuresome scenes in the story line. > Complete versions of the aggregated Trilogy (3 book in one) are available on Amazon in ebook format. Why Buy This Book: > 5 Star Reviews on 5 Continents > Thought provoking as well as action packed reading > Unique in merging multiple genres; mystery, thriller, suspense, literary, historical and religious.Is it Right for Me?A mystery/ thriller built on the principles of reincarnation and hypno-therapeutic regressions appeal to those of most Eastern philosophies because of their view toward those concepts. If you question or do not believe in the possibility of reincarnation, then simply read the Trilogy as an enjoyable book of science fiction, time-travel, zombies or Harry Potter.Either way, it is fiction, so please sit back, sip on a cup of tea and enjoy the adventure..Readers Compare Through the Third Eye to: > Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code & Angels and Demons > The Indiana Jones adventure series > The Torah Codes and the Bible Codes.Background on the Third Eye Trilogy:Nearly six years of research went into Book 1 of Third Eye Trilogy. Much of that was garnering details on the historical characters portrayed through the possibility of reincarnation. The author scoured documented historical details to make interconnections between historical figures across thousands of years. He also conducted extensive research on hypnotic regression techniques used by psychologists, psychiatrists and therapist in their practices. This laid a foundation for the techniques used by Clay and Shali to find their secrets. The author personally visited many of the geographical settings portrayed in the story to ensure a high degree of accuracy for the reader's benefit..Please get your copy today. Views: 824
Where to begin a tale filled with closely guarded secrets of demons, gods and men that has for the Ages been hidden from all searching eyes… This our Quest…a long and twisting road to Destiny drawing us into the past, then flinging us into an uncertain future, opening a door to a mystical world…Dare you take this dangerous journey of discovery to uncover the truth of all matters...?Where to begin a tale filled with closely guarded secrets of demons, gods and men that has for the Ages been hidden from all searching eyes…so troubling and damning that the very faith of mortals will be shaken to its core… Greatest of Ancients, the wisest of sages, beckons with a teasing riddle…“To reach the beginning, you must start in the middle.And to attain the finish, you must comprehend all things.Time goes ever forward, but knowledge learns always from the past.”…the middle - a time when the existence of all life hinges upon one thread, one decision, one choice…as men of clay selfishly pursue wealth, glory, and pleasures while others far beyond the stars fight to return to an unending life of bliss and self-indulgence. Here begins our Quest…a long and twisting road to Destiny drawing us into a distant and sordid past, then flinging us wildly toward an uncertain future, opening a door to a mystical world…Dare you take this dangerous journey of discovery to uncover the truth of all matters and meet the people who have given everything for us to gain what the future holds…? Views: 824
This book holds Christmas stories and legends from all through the years. Stories of birth, happiness, and tears. These stories we will treasure forever and always. As for all of you, Happy Holidays!Worst Day Ever is book one of Jackson Little-Light's Big Adventures. Jackson had a great week at summer Bible Camp and decides to follow Jesus just like his counselor does and just like his Mosom and Kokum do. They are the three people he admires most in the world and he really wants to be like them. However, life keeps taking unexpected twist and turns that prevent Jackson from living up to his expectations. The more he tries to succeed in life the more he seems to land up in trouble . . . big trouble! Life on a Cree First Nation challenges Jackson to discover what it truly means to become a warrior as he valiantly battles a variety of situations that threaten to destroy his friendships, his family and his faith. One thing leads to another until Jackson ends up in a life threatening situation that all begins on his Worst Day Ever. Views: 824
Mythik Imagination #1 is a collection of three sci-fi short stories in the spirit of the old pulp magazines of the 30s and 40s, but with a modern twist.- A new inmate in an ancient prison discovers an incredible secret in "Yesterday's Eye's."- See what it is like to face "The Figment of Doom."- A zombie, a ghost and a phantom are not what they seem in "Ghosts of the Future."Mythik Imagination #1 is a collection of three sci-fi short stories from the mythik imagination of Jon Mac. "Mythik" tales are sci-fi and fantasy stories in the spirit of the old pulp magazines of the 30s and 40s, but with a modern twist. So sit back, relax, and enjoy some astounding tales beyond belief:"Yesterday's Eyes"A new inmate discovers an incredible secret in an ancient prison. But something about this prisoner is different. Find out what happens to those who see with Yesterday's Eyes."The Figment of Doom"What would you do if you woke up in an unknown city and encountered a mysterious stranger who claimed to hold the key to your existence? See what it is like to face The Figment of Doom."Ghosts of the Future"A zombie, a ghost, and a phantom are on board the midnight flight of a B-17 bomber as it streaks over World War II France. But things are seldom what they seem when you are dealing with the Ghosts of the Future.Approximately 15,000 words (about 50-60 pages)About the author:Jon Mac writes SF/Fantasy with a pulp spirit, something he calls "Mythik" fiction. He's had jobs picking raspberries, babysitting Coyote pups, working in a recycling plant, directing live TV newscasts, and encoding HD video for Blu-Ray discs. He likes dancing and shopping. No, that's not really true. He's still waiting for flying cars and videophones to become popular. He lives in Los Angeles with his lovely wife and their wonder dog, Baxter. Views: 823
Two people learn how to love as they are thrown together by fate on an Island in the South Pacific.Resentments take it's toll on their relationship when their boss decides to take action, but the plan backfires when his privately own Leer jet crashes in the sea.**Please review this book. Thanks**It's Christmas time and snow is falling over Red Forest. Isobel is nine years old, she is running with her father and sister, trying to escape the gunfire tearing through the trees. Civil war is erupting and the family are right in the middle of the battlefield. With nowhere else to go they have to somehow make it our of the forest, but can they all make it out alive?Safe Haven is a short companion piece to the novel The Running Game. Set two decades earlier this is the story of where the Reacher girls came from. Views: 823
