stories by J. Bradley: more information can be found at www.kuboapress.wordpress.comGattica Province died five years ago and sparked a war between the Earth Federation and the Epsilon Alliance. Cat Anders left E-Fed service after she learned the truth about the attacks on her home, defecting to the Alliance as a fighter pilot. She’s good at what she does, and she knows it.When she’s assigned to the Iron Vipers commando squadron as their dropship pilot, she figures that her job just got easier: no more dogfights, no more wingmen, no more personnel reassignments to destroy squadron morale and fighting trim. All she needs to do is shuttle a commando squad from point A to point B while there’s a war on. It’s a cake assignment for a fighter pilot like her, a ‘reward’ for faithful service.Life has a way of throwing curve balls when you’re not expecting them, and Cat’s about to catch one right in the stomach.She’s not the only one who survived the death of Gattica Province after all… Views: 478
Get under the covers and read late into the night from The Kindergarten Ghost, The Seven Caves, Knock Three Times, Not Tonight, One Great Love and Drive-Thru Death & Coffee. Tales you’ve never heard before, but ones that will haunt you forever. With bonus Excerpts from 13 on Halloween [Shadow Series #1] and Shadow Slayer [Shadow Series #2]. Sweet dreams.Three short stories on poignant life experiences. The opening story, Blood and Water begs the question: who really influences us in life? Dead Letter Room, the second story delves into the thought processes of a misfit at work. What made him that way? The final story, What Simon Knows is something hidden and mysterious. All three stories to fill spare moments. Collectively, 5.200 words.Also contains an excerpt from Falling Awake, a psychological thriller. Views: 478
2348 CE
In an over-populated, post-apocalyptic city on the brink of internal
collapse, Silver is a banished Hunter with a grudge.
Accused of crimes she didn't commit, branded a traitor and left for
dead, she's spent the last six years struggling to survive in a prison district
filled with murderers, thieves and rapists. Biding her time, reluctantly
earning a living for herself as an executioner, she finally seizes an
opportunity for redemption when a prolific serial killer evades capture.
She makes a deal with the Chief of Police, who promises her repatriation
if she can catch the elusive culprit before he strikes again—and she can't
afford to screw this up. Success means more than a long overdue reprieve. It's
a chance to take back the life she was so unfairly torn away from, and to
reclaim the love of a man who's possessed her heart for more than twenty years—Alexander
King. The only problem is: he thinks she's dead.
Determined to make good on her deal with the Police Division so that she
might salvage a future for them both, Silver prepares herself for the
unthinkable: to forge an alliance with the man responsible for her banishment—the
city's corrupt Governor, Phaeden Rist.
Yet, this was never about a run-of-the-mill criminal on a routine
killing spree. Misled from the very beginning, Silver stumbles into a
century-old conspiracy that threatens to destroy everything she thought she
knew about the genetic divide between humans and the monsters that prey upon
them—the grotesque, flesh-eating Chimera.
The first part of book two in The
SILVER Series.
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On January 3, 2011, exactly one month before his sixty-fourth birthday, Paul Auster sat down and wrote the first entry of Winter Journal, his unorthodox, beautifully wrought examination of his own life, as seen through the history of his body. Composed in the manner of a musical fugue, the journal advances from one autobiographical fragment to the next, jumping backward and forward in time as the various themes intersect, bounce off one another, and ultimately merge in a great chorus of multiple voices, of one voice multiplied into many. Writing in the second person, as if addressing himself as a stranger, which at the same time establishes an uncanny intimacy with the reader, Auster takes us from childhood to the brink of old age as he summons forth a universe of physical sensation, of pleasures and pains, moving from the awakening sexual desire as an adolescent to the ever deepening bonds of married love, from the shocks of violent accidents to an account of his mother's sudden death in 2002, from meditations on eating and sleeping to the "scalding, epiphanic moment of clarity" in 1978 that set him on a new course as a writer. Thirty years after the publication of The Invention of Solitude, his first book of prose, Paul Auster has now given us a second memoir of uncommon power and grace. Winter Journal is a book that looks straight into the heart of what it means to be alive. Views: 477
A runner pushes himself to edge of his own limits in the pursuit of the "thin line" of perfection. However, he ends up discovering there is also a thin line between sanity and success.This book contains six of the eighteen fairy tales from Andrew Lang's Blue Fairy Book (1889). The stories have been rewritten sentence by sentence to make them accessible to 21st century American children. The 6 stories include Toads and Diamonds, Beauty and the Beast, Snow-white and Rose-red, Why the Sea is Salty, Felicia and the Pot of Carnations, Hansel and Grettel.The great beauty of Andrew Lang’s Blue Fairy Book, originally published in 1889, is that it brought together many different fairy tale traditions. There are stories written by Charles Perrault and Mme d’Aulnoy, collected by the Grimm brothers and Asbjornsen and Moe, and translated from the Arabian Nights. It is a very rich collection of fairy tales.However, the stories are written in a language that is outdated and in places inaccessible to modern American children (and even their parents). To remedy this problem, I have thoroughly edited half of the stories contained in Lang`s book, keeping the stories as intact as possible, while revising every sentence so the stories can once again be read with pleasure by children. Views: 477
This is a collection of short stories set in the roaring twenties and the great depression in Australia.Every year thousands of lives are lost when people do battle with Japanese cartoons unprepared. Don't become a statistic! Read this quick, handy guide to the unique laws that govern anime combat, and victory can be yours. Free, but potentially priceless. Views: 477
Middle–aged hipster Hammerhead Hirsch, The Pugilist Poet and Boardwalk Balladeer of limited Beat Era fame, struggles to raise his kid Scrap on his own. Ten years in the life of father, son, and dogs. First appeared in New South.In this epistolary tale, middle–aged hipster Hammerhead Hirsch, The Pugilist Poet and Boardwalk Balladeer of limited Beat Era fame, struggles to raise his kid Scrap on his own. Ten years in the life of a father, son, and dogs. First appeared in New South. Views: 477
Razor-edge suspense in this original eBook short story from "one of the most versatile voices in thriller fiction today" (The Providence Journal) It should have been a night to remember, but Maura Isles can't recall a thing. Maura is longing to ditch a ritzy cocktail party, along with her four-inch heels, when a handsome, charming stranger appears. But somewhere between sipping a fresh glass of champagne and waking up the next day on her sofa lies a black hole of forgotten time. As Boston's medical examiner, Maura regularly teams up with police detective Jane Rizzoli on homicide investigations, and Jane's latest case makes Maura's blood run cold. A brutally murdered man has been found in a city park with Maura's address tucked in his pocket. Maura IDs the victim as the charmer she met at the party. Her alarm turns to terror when she learns the murdered man was a predator with victims of his own. Fearing she may be guilty of a lethal... Views: 477
From the author of Wildflower Hill, this breathtaking novel travels more than a century between two love stories set in the Australian seaside town of Lighthouse Bay.FROM THE AUTHOR OF WILDFLOWER HILL, THIS BREATHTAKING NOVEL TRAVELS MORE THAN A CENTURY BETWEEN TWO LOVE STORIES SET IN THE AUSTRALIAN SEASIDE TOWN OF LIGHTHOUSE BAY. In 1901, a ship sinks off the coast of Lighthouse Bay in Australia. The only survivor is Isabella Winterbourne—escaping her loveless marriage and the devastating loss of her son—who clutches a priceless gift meant for the Australian Parliament. Suddenly, this gift could be her ticket to a new life, free from the bonds of her husband and his overbearing family. One hundred years later, Libby Slater leaves her life in Paris to return to her hometown of Lighthouse Bay. Living in the cottage that was purchased by her recently passed lover, she hopes to heal her broken heart and reconcile with her sister,... Views: 477
Following his two classics, Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay and The Horse in the Furrow, renowned oral historian George Ewart Evans continues his study of the vanishing customs, working habits and rich language of the farming communities of East Anglia with The Pattern Under the Plough (Faber, 1966). Although based on East Anglia, this book was and remains of wider interest, for - as the author pointed out at the time - similar changes were occurring in North America, and also happening with remarkable speed in Africa. In chronicling the old culture George Ewart Evans has taken its two chief aspects, the home and the farm. He describes the house with its fascinating constructional details, the magic invoked for its protection, the mystique of the hearth, the link of the bees with the people of the house, and some of their fears and pre-occupations. Among the chapters on the farm is one of Evans's most original pieces of research: the description of the secret horse societies.... Views: 477
Gracie Jones was little more than a child when the Earth was invaded by an alien species. Escaping into the subway tunnels of New York City, she hid in fear of being captured. Discovered by four men who became her protectors, she fought alongside them and they became known as the Freedom Five. At seventeen, she made a decision that turned the tide on the war between Earth and the Alluthans but in exchange she gave up all that she knew.
Kordon Jefe is a Zion Warrior and commanding officer in charge of the Confederation of Planets military. When an unknown species begins attacking some of their outer settlements, he is assigned to discover who they are and stop them…at any cost.
Gracie unknowingly finds herself stranded millions of light years and hundreds of years in the future in a distant galaxy on an undeveloped moon. When an old enemy threatens once more, she does not hesitant to use her knowledge to try to stop them once again. Only this time, it is not just Earth she will be saving but the Confederation itself.
When their two worlds are thrown together, Kordon is unsure what to do with the strange, delicate creature that fights and behaves unlike anything he has ever encountered before. One thing he does know, he plans to keep her. Views: 477
This is the script for a short film, with one male and two female characters. Although it deals with the subject of pedophilia, it is not a work of erotica. There are no fees for production of this film-script, as long as the author is correctly attributed, no major changes are made without permission from the author and the author is informed of the film's public screening/s.This is the script for a short film, with one male and two female characters. Although it deals with the subject of pedophilia, it is not a work of erotica, rather the genre could be described as religious black comedy/horror.There are no fees for production of this film-script, as long as the author is correctly attributed, no major changes are made without permission from the author and the author is informed of the film's public screening/s. Views: 477
