Adam is the world's only (self declared)Office Ninja-skilled with the ancient art of Ninjutsu, and also using 6 copying machines concurrently. Can Graham, the manager from the office temp agency Office Lenders, teach Adam the Noble Way of the Office Temp, and more importantly- keep Adam from ruining his career?Graham, local manager from Office Lenders, has a problem that most Office Temp managers don't have to deal with at all. One of his workers thinks, in all sincerity, that he is a ninja. See, most people don't get reports on their desk from clients complaining of being hit with paper throwing-stars. They also don't hear that someone is breaking dress code at their job- not by wearing a Hawaiian shirt, but by wearing a black mask and frightening old ladies at a flower shop. But that's OK, Graham will make Adam into an ideal office worker,even if he has to trick him into it. After all, its what a ninja would do. Views: 659
The angel had promised her that her son would become ruler in Judea . . . but instead he became a traveling preacher. Now she feared that she was losing his love. This is a portrayal of the most famous mother and son relationship in history in a new but all too familiar light.An implacable family of criminals. A detective at the bottom of his career. An investigation that will lead him to unpredictable consequences. Silvana, the mistress of the mafia’s big boss, went to Vico pleading for help, but now she is dead. The most evident explanation is suicide, but detective Vico is not convinced. In the course of the investigation, Vico will end up in the grip of the Italian mafia, in a war against Chinese drug smugglers for the control of the power in the city. In a corrupted and violent world, where Vico can trust no one, will he be able to solve Silvana’s death? Will he survive in this fight against ruthless criminal organizations? Views: 659
When Ania moves from London to Swansea city in Wales she is hoping that her life will get a bit more exciting, after all she is running away from her controlling mother to taste more freedom and feel more independent. Everything seems to be going the way she wanted until she almost dies while taking a quiet walk around the beach in the late evening.When she opens her eyes, nothing seems the sameThe Whispers of the Sprite (book 1) available nowThe Dark Night Whispers (book 2) available now Her Secret Whispers (book 3 ) available March 2013My Last Whisper (book 4) available May 2013 When Ania moves from London to Swansea city in Wales she is hoping that her life will get a bit more exciting, after all she is running away from her controlling mother to taste more freedom and feel more independent. Everything seems to be going the way she wanted until she almost dies while taking a quiet walk around the beach in the late evening.When she opens her eyes, nothing seems the same...She starts seeing people that no one else is able to notice. An enchanting looking man keeps following her and Ania’s life seems to getting more exciting than she ever wished for. After the attack something changes inside her, she has been blessed with the new frightening gift of seeing and hearing sprites all around her... the magical creatures that only existed in folklore, myths and legends of Britain.Gabriel is attractive and handsome but no ... he is not a vampire. He keeps coming back and Ania feels an instant connection between them but this might get her into more trouble. Supernatural romance is not on her mind right now.Because he is forbidden to even touch her ... the line between the death and love has never been so thin and the sprites won’t stop whispering until ... she will choose to love or abandon Gabriel Views: 659
There was a legend about the sugar cane fields. Everybody knew not to go in there after dark, especially under the light of the harvest moon. Andrew's Uncle Joe disappeared in there. The only trace ever found of him was his partially smoked cigar.One October night, Andrew set out to discover what happened to Uncle Joe. He took his younger sister with him and went looking for his missing uncle.There was a legend about the sugar cane fields. Everybody knew not to go in there after dark, especially under the light of the harvest moon. Andrew's Uncle Joe disappeared in there. The only trace ever found of him was his partially smoked cigar.One October night, Andrew decided to find out what happened to Uncle Joe. He took his younger sister with him and went looking for his missing uncle.This story was originally published under the title "The Halloween Story". The Courier newspaper supplied the opening lines of a Halloween story and contestants had to continue it. My story won first place.1,784 words Views: 659
A weary traveler finds himself stranded on the doorstep of two proper Victorian ladies during a wild winter storm.When a winter storm forces his 1952 Buick Roadmaster into a ditch on Christmas Eve, Walter Spradlin seeks shelter at the home of Amanda Baldwin and her daughter Violet. Mistaking Spradlin for their awaited guest, the dashing young Hoyt Truitt, Amanda and Violet proceed to tell a tale of violent passions and dark family secrets guaranteed to make your blood run cold this holiday season.Inspired by radio mystery dramas of the mid-twentieth century and the lost tradition of telling ghost stories on Christmas Eve, Shelter from the Storm is a short story of approximately 5,000 words. Views: 659
Short fantasy story about a boy who disappears while sailing across a goldfish pond on an old barn door.How far would you have to be pushed to take another life? What is the cost of having to make such a decision, even if it is to defend yourself? A woman in an abusive relationship confronts these questions in a final act of defiance.A short sample - For some reason all she could hear was ringing in her ears. She could not understand why she smelled fireworks in the living room or why her arms were so heavy. Through a haze she could see him look at her with a look of shock, a growing stain spreading across the faded shirt she had given him for a birthday years ago. His lips formed two words before he fell face first on the floor. “I’m sorry.” As she looked at him on the floor she realized that the growing pool coming from under his body was his blood. She watched as the blood slowly spread across the floor like a lava flow threatening to burn all in its path. Reality seeped in further as she saw that a small pistol was in her hands even as she could not recall how it got there. A small voice in her head told her to leave and run but she could not. The world turned into shades of gray, everything in black and white. Everything but the crimson pool slowly spreading across the floor."A moving story that I enjoyed reading. I found it quite sad, but it mirrors countless real lives, so makes one sit back and think long and hard about the world we live in and our choices.""Was drawn in from beginning to end. I hate reading short stories for this reason, I WANTED MORE, wonderfully told. True gift he has with words.""Wonderful story. It's an age old tale retold in a fascinating and surprising way. The writer has a true gift for storytelling. I was spellbound from the beginning to the end.""I enjoyed reading I'm Sorry. A insightful yet emotional take of a young girl who fell onto an abusive relationship. Reading this short story was like viewing a abusive relationship right from the inside instead of hearing about one." Views: 659
When his best friend David abandons their weekly poker game, only to return reeking of swamp water and talking about changing careers, it is up to Mike Adams to find out what happened to him.When his best friend David abandons their weekly poker game, only to return reeking of swamp water and talking about changing careers, it is up to Mike Adams to find out what happened to him.This is a novelette that is one-part mystery, one-part drama, exploring the tension between unlikely friends during their topsy-turvy times at college. It is a companion story to the separately released collection entitled The Young Mike Adams. Views: 659
Sixteenth-century Highland laird Camden MacLeod wakes up in the modern world. Confused with his surroundings, he haphazardly throws on his kilt and goes in search of whoever has played such a foul trick on him. What he finds instead is beyond tempting...Valerie is thoroughly exploring the medieval Scottish castle she's rented for her best friend's bachelorette party. Not only does an oddly shaped stone in tower catch her fancy—it somehow brings her dream man to life. Views: 658
A girl tries to defeat the Destiny in the flesh...OPEN MIC Reflection of the Street is a poetry book which reads more along the lines of short stories. Each poem is filled with vivid imagery. It explores and reflects issues some face on a daily basis. The author successfully delves into issues, approaches and views that she may not necessarily agree with yet knows that some can and will relate to these stories even benefit from them. This book is its title and may provoke reflection, encouragement, inspiration or anger and was intended to do all of the above. You may not agree with everything in the book though you may gain a better understanding to why some behave in the manner they do. The pieces have more of an urban feel and setting, though these issues pertain to a wide range of individuals regardless of their economic status.The Verbal Artisan is not a one-sided viewer, she attempts to look at situations from multiple perspectives and reflects what she sees. Views: 658
Sophisticated, intelligent, impossible to put down, Maggie O'Farrell's beguiling novels - After You'd Gone, winner of a Betty Trask Award; The Distance Between Us, winner of a Somerset Maugham Award; The Hand That First Held Mine, winner of the Costa Novel Award; and her unforgettable bestseller The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox - blend richly textured psychological drama with page-turning suspense. Instructions for a Heatwave finds her at the top of her game, with a novel about a family crisis set during the legendary British heatwave of 1976.
Gretta Riordan wakes on a stultifying July morning to find that her husband of forty years has gone to get the paper and vanished, cleaning out his bank account along the way. Gretta's three grown children converge on their parents' home for the first time in years: Michael Francis, a history teacher whose marriage is failing; Monica, with two stepdaughters who despise her and a blighted past that has driven away the younger sister she once adored; and Aoife, the youngest, now living in Manhattan, a smart, immensely resourceful young woman who has arranged her entire life to conceal a devastating secret.
Maggie O'Farrell writes with exceptional grace and sensitivity about marriage, about the mysteries that inhere within families, and the fault lines over which we build our lives—the secrets we hide from the people who know and love us best. In a novel that stretches from the heart of London to New York City's Upper West Side to a remote village on the coast of Ireland, O'Farrell paints a bracing portrait of a family falling apart and coming together with hard-won, life-changing truths about who they really are. Views: 658
Christmas is canceled and it’s up to Johnny Johnson to save it. Meet the magical family behind Christmas and the ordinary guy they’re all counting on. In the Spirit is a holiday fable guaranteed to put a smile in your heart.A ship burns, sinking into the dark sea. There is only one survivor—a child hunted for the power of her song. Hidden away on an isolated island, Lilette buries her power deep, convinced it caused the deaths of those she loves.But she can’t run from who she is. And when her secret is revealed, the only thing that can save her is her song. It’s time to rise up and become what she was always meant to be: the most powerful witch ever born. Views: 658
Adam Rothstein's series of essays interviewing thinkers about what technology means for the future, the present, and for our understanding of history.There are two poems here, the first of which is The Reign of Drops: I am a memory of my birth, and the sea of my being yearns for union with others people's seas.The second poem is The Dynamics of Growth: Will we water one another's buds so that they may blossom, or will we withhold and wilt in the light of being?No adult-only content. Views: 658
Sherlock Holmes undertakes one of the strangest adventures of his career when he agrees to investigate the mysterious disappearance of Mr. James Phillimore, who stepped back into his house to get his umbrella and was never seen again. The great detective’s inquiries take him down a sometimes-false trail from a home in Surrey to a music hall in London and back again before he finds the astonishing answer to this puzzling problem. In “The Problem of Thor Bridge,” Dr. Watson lists this case as one of Holmes’s complete failures. Read “The Adventure of the Magic Umbrella” to find why Watson agreed to his readers with that false report, and what the umbrella had to do with it. This is another thoroughly authentic Holmes story from the author of the widely acclaimed “The Peculiar Persecution of John Vincent Harden,” also available as an e-story, as well as numerous mystery novels. Views: 658
