A year after she won the battle for Septily, Clara feels trapped in Skycliff by the Allied Council. As the last pieces of information about the Healing Caves fall into place, Clara is attacked by an assassin. Covert Drinaii mercenaries and the Council aren't going to stop Clara from her quest to heal her broken blade. As Champion of Aramatir, she must act.Meanwhile, in the joint kingdoms of Rrysorria and Wylandria, the youngest and still cursed swan prince despairs of ever being whole again. In a moment of anger and desperation, Liam discovers a blood link between him and a dark sorceress.Clara won the battle for Septily, but her battle isn't over.Champion in Flight is the second book in The Champion Trilogy. Views: 469
InkStains is a random collection of stories – fiction and nonfiction of any genre – handwritten daily over the course of a year and published one month at a time.InkStains is a random collection of stories – fiction and nonfiction of any genre – handwritten daily over the course of a year.When John Urbancik started this project, he aimed to write a story every day for a year. By hand. He found an inexpensive yet fancy fountain pen, started with a Moleskine notepad, and on 1 January 2013 set to writing.He took one mandatory day off monthly. Stories did not have to be fiction. Nonfiction, essays, reviews, memoirs – all genres – everything was open, so long as they were complete.These are the results: failures and successes both. Everything is included.He cleaned up grammar and spelling, and spent months typing up the almost 250,000 handwritten words; he did my best to strengthen the writing where it was weak. The author is very happy with a lot of the stories, and disappointed with others, but some are fantastic. (I’m biased. You decide.) Views: 469
In this full length spoofy novel Jake Simon, a crude old-school private-eye that usually does divorce or lost dog work, describes a weird case. He doesn't believe in trolls, elves, magic or marriage, but that begins to change when he wakes up two-foot-six and not six-foot-two. He has a smart sexy partner and a super-rich client, but the client is missing and Jake is the number-one suspect.Jake Simon is a crude old-school noir-leaning soft-boiled New Jersey private investigator who wakes up to find that his brilliant receptionist/lover Elaine has apparently become giant sized. But it quickly becomes clear that instead it is Jake that has a small problem: he has been shrunken from six-foot-two inches to two-foot-six inches. The only lead is that on the previous night he became ill while meeting with his new billionaire client. Unfortunately, the client is missing, and Jake was the last person to visit him. Elaine helps Jake discover that two impossibly big, ugly, rotten smelling foreign chemists are involved somehow, but how and why? They wear white fedoras, so they couldn't really be so bad, right? Are reports of trolls, giants, elves, dwarves, dragons, and malicious magic related to the case somehow? How can Elaine's black mob cat can talk, the sneaky little bastard? Jake has a lot of things to work out in Jersey and Arizona in order to finally close out this case, though he'd rather be gambling at the race track or getting really chummy with Jack Daniels in his favorite bar. Fortunately besides booze Jake has anti-elf garlic and his P-I wisdom to fall back on: "Once you eliminate the possible, whatever truth remains is lame; that’s how these things work."A safe, fun, escapist adventure for mature readers. Crude language, alluded-to sex, and some violence, but no explicit erotica or gore. Some danger of mild enlightenment and smiley faces. Views: 469
I have enjoyed writing and creating my own Christmas / Holiday cards for many years. This booklet contains a collection of 22 of those observations or 1,834 words, prayers, wishes and thoughts on the Holidays. I hope that you enjoy them as much as I enjoy writing.William Shakespeare is back! According to ancient Mayan prophecies, 2012 is a portentous year for humanity. On the evening of 20th June, the hallowed midsummer night, William Shakespeare finds himself mysteriously transported from London in 1612 to London in 2012. Whilst exploring this shocking, strange new world, Shakespeare unwittingly becomes the only person who can prevent a cataclysmic disaster hitting the UK on the 21st December 2012, the day the Mayans predicted the end of time. Can the Bard save Britain ...?This is the second of five instalments. Views: 469
Dressmaker, Raye Dawkins, is obsessed with her neighbor, Eric Mandini, an international businessman. When they meet by chance, she later becomes his lover, his domestic goddess, his babysitter to his ten-year-old son, Enzo. Just when she believes their relationship is moving to the next level, he dumps her by email. Heartbroken, devastated, she wants to hurt him back and begins her vengeance.The drummer for the Cramping Violets, an up and coming grunge band, lies dead in his apartment. Nicholas Peltier knows about it. How does he know? The Devil just told him. After the death, the band becomes a national phenomenon. "Love Blender," a song that Nick wrote for them becomes number one. It's the worst song he ever wrote. It was supposed to be a filler for their album but now it haunts him just as much as Satan herself. After being sent across the country in search of a replacement drummer, he suddenly finds himself the prime suspect in the murder.Now, if he could only find himself... Views: 469
The past should never be forgotten. A foreign student studying in Japan becomes obsessed with the subject of a seventeenth century painting, awakening a dark curse.As a synonym for diamond, “blue rock,” promises marriage and an engagement ring. The phrase also evokes music, spanning both the blues and hard-driving rock. “Blue rock” also holds an element of fire, as in anthracite, or “hard coal,” as well as a fiery pounding, as happens with a ritual hammer-stone. Like the process of forming diamonds itself, these 80 love poems compress passion and betrayal, with results resembling fossilized ferns in bedrock as well as the protracted metamorphosis into crystalline jewels or flames. Views: 468
A Crazy Kind of Love
Meet Cimil. Yeah, she’s the Goddess of the Underworld, harbinger of all things evil and deadly, yadda, yadda . . . but she’s also crazy fun! While minding her own business in Giza, Egypt, around 3000 BC (give or take a few centuries), she spots the hottest mortal her immortal eyes have ever seen. And he’s not just any guy—he’s the strong, powerful pharaoh who’s fallen madly in love with her. But when he kills her pet unicorn, Cimil vows revenge, even if takes thousands of years to get even.
When Roberto meets Cimil, the king knows she’s his soul mate. It isn’t just her beautiful eyes or gorgeous body, but the godly power he feels simmering just beneath her fun-loving surface. They were the perfect couple . . . until the dead unicorn thing. Now after four thousand years, Roberto crosses paths with Cimil again, and his love for her is stronger than ever. But can he prove that he can once again be trusted with her heart? Views: 468
Bismillah“Salmon, trout or tuna?”He looks at the cat. It sits at the bowls and stares at him with a vacant expression.“None of that, hu? You want some turkey instead?” He winks at the cat.“Turkey it is then. Milk with that or some of Mamaw’s pumpkin eggnog?” The cat purrs more and meows softly. It runs back to the bowls.“Eggnog. Sweet choice.”InshaAllahBismillahHappy Birthday.It’s more than that, homie. It’s for St Jude’s Orphanage too. If tonight is a success, they’ll probably not shut it down as they planned. Those kids will still have homes. You forget.InshaAllah Views: 468
Ellie is a soldier in a world without governments. A generation ago, a series of financial crises caused most of the world’s governments to collapse, and left many of the people in those countries in terrible personal debt. Since then, the worst debtor nations have been under military occupation by the troops of the debt-recovery corporations, and the worst debtor of all is Měi-guó, the old United States. Ellie is serving in the Afghan Police Action when she receives bad news from home. She is told the daughter she hasn’t seen in years has died. She flies home, upset, to take care of the funeral and whatever else needs to be done, but once there she finds all is not as it seems. Ellie’s daughter is alive and unhurt. She is being held hostage by one of the many debt-recovery corporations. By the corporation which, indirectly, Ellie works for. Held, for leverage, to make Ellie do the corporation a favour. Ellie’s daughter will be returned unharmed if Ellie does as they wish. The son of a company director is lost somewhere in the wilderness of post-debt-restructuring America, and hasn't been seen for three days. The company wants Ellie to go and find the kid, but Ellie doesn't know if she can. She has always had one absolute rule all her working life, never go to America. Now she might have to. She will have to, if she wants to save the daughter she hasn't seen in years. Views: 468
Dan Sherman goes from a History Teacher to a Space Guardian in one day. He is transformed into one of the most powerful beings in the Multiverse.Dan Sherman had to take early retirement through bereavement. He started to have lucid dreams about a tall man who was beckoning him go to a certain place. He soon realized that this wasn't an everyday event. It was to be the start of a once in a lifetime chance to be a Space Guardian. How will he cope with powerful entities who will try to destroy him at turn? Views: 468
A romantic alien first contact and encounter set in Paris, the city of loveIt was not like looking for a needle in a hay-stack. It was like feeling for a needle in a hay barn wearing gloves and a blindfold, that’s what Steven told me. He was talking about the Search for Extra Terrestrial Life, an impossible pursuit until two aliens, yes two, landed in Paris. A young police woman is seconded toA short but amusing tale of an alien visit to our world. Shows up our politicians for what they are. Five star review by Ricardo on Amazon. A short story, stylised and tongue-in-cheek... Five star review by J C M on GoodReads. It wasn’t like looking for a needle in a hay-stack. It was like feeling for a needle in a hay barn wearing gloves and a blindfold – that’s what Steven told me. He was talking about the Search for Extra Terrestrial Life, an impossible pursuit until two aliens, yes two, landed in Paris. When a young police woman is seconded to Paris and the French metropolitan police, she thought she faced 6 months of gauloises and anti-anglo-saxon humour. In fact, she lived the greatest adventure of her life, when Aliens land in Paris. This is an alien romance story, that should appeal to those who enjoy tales of: Alien Encounters First Contact Alien Abduction, and... Falling in love with an Alien! Why not? This novel is also based in real life and a Google Map exists of all the locations within this novel, so it is possible to undertake a walking tour of this story. Read more here: https://www.sally-ann-melia.com/aliens-paris-google-map/ This is a story written for mobile or kindle It is short story. However... It is perfect for a 10-minute commute or a quiet moment. Lose yourself in the adventure and romance of Aliens in Paris and, ................................................ discover a new voice in Science Fiction Sally Ann Melia. Views: 468
A Sci-fi vs Fantasy tale where an alien plague takes out most of the worlds population and magic tries to right itself as the dominant science.Treyson McAlister on a dream vacation amongst castles and lochs in Scotland searches for and finds a sword hidden long ago by his grandfather. All seemed well on his get-away from a job he hated until the planet’s population is devastated by an alien plague leaving him without communication or air flight home to his very pregnant wife.Unbeknownst to him the world experiences what is known as a Renewal which occurs every ten to fifteen millennia. It also ushers in an age-old battle not between good and evil, but between magic and technology. Being heir to the ancient sword Treyson is chosen to lead the fight to restore magic to the dominant force of science. But he first decides to find a way home, to determine the fate of his wife and unborn son. Views: 468
