In the summer of 1972, Famagusta in Cyprus is the most desirable resort in the Mediterranean, a city bathed in the glow of good fortune. An ambitious couple are about to open the island's most spectacular hotel, where Greek and Turkish Cypriots work in harmony. Two neighbouring families, the Georgious and the Özkans, are among many who moved to Famagusta to escape the years of unrest and ethnic violence elsewhere on the island. But beneath the city's façade of glamour and success, tension is building.
When a Greek coup plunges the island into chaos, Cyprus faces a disastrous conflict. Turkey invades to protect the Turkish Cypriot minority, and Famagusta is shelled. Forty thousand people seize their most precious possessions and flee from the advancing soldiers. In the deserted city, just two families remain. This is their story. Views: 359
Sixfold.org is an all-writer-voted journal. All writers who upload their manuscripts vote to select the highest-voted $1000 prize-winning manuscripts and all the short stories and poetry published in each issue.Sixfold.org is an all-writer-voted journal. All writers who upload their manuscripts vote to select the highest-voted $1000 prize-winning manuscripts and all the short stories and poetry published in each issue. In Sixfold Fiction Summer 2014: Bill Pippin, Century; Chris Belden, The Finger; Amberle L. Husbands, Only Whistle Stops; Kyle A. Valenta, The Narrows; Robert Martin, Trepidation; Eileen Arthurs, Portrait of an Artist, After All; Gibson Monk, The Tenth Part of Desire; J. S. Simmons, Bodies In Motion and At Rest; Nancy Nguyen, Truck Stop; Melissa Ragsly, The Pigeons of Apartment 9C; KC Kirkley, Hydrangea; B. Yvette Yun, Fire in the Sky; Katharine O’Flynn, The Island; Brent DeLanoy, Ghosts; Daniel C. Bryant, Out County Road; John Mort, Red Rock Valley; Zac Hill, Conversations With Dakota Fanning; Haley Norris, The Last Day. Views: 359
Episode One of the two-part short story. At the Earth Consulate located by the border of the Andromeda Galaxy, the building is just closing down when a wounded female alien walks up inside the entrance and leaves a message in an unknown and unfamiliar language.Episode One of the two-part short story. At the Earth Consulate located by the border of the Andromeda Galaxy, the building is just closing down when a wounded female alien walks up inside the entrance and leaves a message in an unknown and unfamiliar language. The Consul is then called up when the alien was suddenly gone in a swift, not leaving a trace. Who is the woman, and what is the meaning of her message?About the Short Story:At the Earth Consulate located by the border of the Andromeda Galaxy, the building is just closing down when a wounded female alien walks up inside the entrance and leaves a message in an unknown and unfamiliar language. The Consul is then called up when the alien was suddenly gone in a swift, not leaving a trace. The only clue is a periwinkle-colored fluid by the side-road drain of the main space-highway. The whole Consulate is now down to its very core as the Consul and the staff rush to search for the female extraterrestrial, her identity, and the meaning her message - a message that not only concerns the Consulate, but home itself.It's the year 9917, when Earth has now become a unified republic planetary state, consisting of its different countries unified and governed by the United Nations as its central governing body, and when deep-space exploration has long been successful, being able to make contact and interact with extraterrestrial races, and establish interstellar and intergalactic colonies, city-states, and provinces across the whole Milky Way, Andromeda, and the whole Local Group Galaxies, and parts of deep-space Universe. Filled with hi-tech surveillance computers, facial-recognition software, image filters, modern optics, language translators, and high-end futuristic physics, with a mix of espionage and terrorism, "A Warning For Earth" is packed with deep-cosmic action."A Warning for Earth" is a two-part short story, totaling to 6,000 words. Views: 359
Passion and romance trump duty and obligation when a lordly escort chases his uncle's strong-willed ward across the countryside... Shipped from one guardian to another since birth, Sarah Sommers has had enough. Desperate to unite with the father she presumed was dead until recently, she escapes her escort, The Honorable Lord Montgomery Witmore. Monty may be charming and duty-bound, but nothing will stop Sarah from finally having a real home with a family who loves her. Monty's future has been arranged for him, complete with an imminent title and his mother's choice of dull bride. Delivering Sarah to her new home as ward to his aunt and uncle is an inconvenience, but he's gaining a fine carriage in return. He never dreamed he'd be chasing the strong-willed Sarah across the countryside. More troubling, he hadn't expected to find her so beautiful, and much in need of a friend after meeting her despicable father.Desperate to... Views: 359
After narrowly surviving a near-death experience in an effort to save Valek from yet another showdown with Aiden, Charlotte awakens inside the forsaken, crumbling walls of the Regime Palace. Though she finds herself surrounded by her closest friends, she is conflicted by her feelings of the sudden absence of her Vampire guardian.With Nikolai to console her, Charlotte cannot shake the undeniable chemistry she feels for this familiar stranger. But they are running out of time. Charlotte's peculiar ailment will return, and she will die.Charlotte, Nikolai, Sarah, and several others travel to the underbelly of Prague to search for Valek. But what they discover are the dark secrets the elder Vampires have been hiding for centuries. Charlotte must overcome her mortal limitations to win back the heart of the one she truly loves and escape the gates of Abelim with her throat intact in this enthralling, highly anticipated third installment of the Of Light and Darkness Series. Views: 359
Summary and analysisStudy on the play of Oedipus: Summary and analysisYou Oedipus the victim of Gods in Greek cultureHad seen light for a whileA love was doomed to be with a motherHorror darkness was the result of such tryHe fled the ones he thought to be his parentsAnd adulterer killer came to one those whom by got birthThey were found to bring the destiny of downfallIn every century family nature never helpBut keep an obstacle for human to tackle. We are part of such cruel world Where no one can find shelter but only in death.Fun joy lasts for seconds Tragedy pains always leave traces and scares On our soul and deep heart beneath the universe. Views: 359
"A captivating series!" –Jennifer A. Nielsen, New York Times bestselling authorThe only shepherd in a family of warriors, Otec returns to his clan to find all the men gone to war. They didn’t bother to tell him, let alone ask him to fight beside them. When his mother sends him on a trifling errand in the high mountains, he looks back to find his village burning and his people taken captive. Cut off from the help of the other clans and dodging raiders, he must become the warrior he was never meant to be. By his side is a foreign woman stalked by a dark, mysterious magic. Together, they race to save his family from a life of slavery. Worse, what he thought was a mere raid is actually a full-scale invasion. In the end, he must choose between saving his family or his kingdom. Views: 359
Raised in a little fishing town, Cairo Goodridge instead opts for a bigger brighter future in the concrete jungle, New York City. Success surrounds him, but all good things have to come to an end. After the cruel hand of mother nature brings destruction and desolation to his new home. He is forced to survive in the new untamed twisted city, were being human just doesn't cut it any more!Jack Stone just wants a quiet life. He's done his time. He's out of the Regiment. He doesn't want to fight any more. All he wants to do is go home, but going home means facing his demons and he's not ready to do that. Not yet. And given the choice he never would be. But when a friend turns to him for help, Jack's got no choice but to go back to the estates of his youth and the crime families he thought he'd escaped for good. Because one thing you don't do if you are Jack Stone is turn your back on a friend, even if it means cleansing the streets with fire. Views: 359
Jack Clayton, the Frontier G-man is back, soaring to new heights in adventure facing counterfeiters, outlaws, border bandits, and a fast brewing range war. Jack Clayton faces challenges that will alter the destiny of the Frontier G-Man forever.Jack Clayton is back, soaring to new heights of adventure. While investigating a slick counterfeit ring in the southwest,,government agent Jack Clayton is distracted by a gang of bad boys who have robbed and pillaged the entire area, leaving death and destruction in their wake, leading the Frontier G-Man on wild chase that leads him into a fast brewing range war, treachery, deceit and border bandits. With the strong willed Marci Matson and the mysterious stranger, Andy Fane,, Jack Clayton faces challenges that will alter the destiny of the Frontier G-Man forever. Views: 359
If you knew you only had a short time left to live on this planet, really live. What would you do with that precious time? A dark, sexy, black humorous tale of sex, violence, the male psyche, and an unstoppable whirlwind adventure of finding love in the most least likely location.
FULL COMBINED eBOOK (Parts 1 and 2 combined)
(This novel contains some Scottish dialect/slang, strong violence and language in parts and a couple of graphic sex scenes.)
If you knew you only had a short time left to live on this planet, what would you do with that precious time?
A man with terminal cancer gives up everything so that he can live out his wildest fantasies. But when he finds love and a new lease of life along the way, even that fails to curb his crazy antics from spiraling into an unstoppable train wreck of carnage.
Liam, is a working-class man from Edinburgh, with no ambition or lust for life. When he is given the devastating news that he has terminal Cancer he decides to refuse any kind of treatment or help. Instead, he uses his terminal illness as a kind of destructive superpower to give him the fearless confidence he so clearly lacks, in order to pull off some of the crazy things he always wished to do in life.
Liam takes baby steps at first from chatting up beautiful girls, racing through rush hour traffic, jumping red lights, squaring up to jerk-off neighbors, to even assaulting arrogant traffic wardens and sexist bar-flys. Soon he is withdrawing all of his life savings and walking away from his job and home, to embark upon the final, stunning, sunset chapter of his life. Which will either lead him to ultimate salvation or ultimate destruction.
But then Liam meets Celine, his silver lining, a gorgeous young French woman with a mysterious lifestyle in the city, who gives his crazy and erratic new ways some hope, meaning and stability after they embark upon a wild few days together.
The third act sees Liam finally gathering the courage to square up to one particular and niggling, long time buried, but not forgotten demon from his past - a childhood abuser. Now he must choose between love and revenge. Yet even that decision comes at a heavy price as the seedy side of Edinburgh's underworld finally catch up to both him and Celine for one explosive finale.
'Think Trainspotting meets Taxi Driver'
A dark and sexy, blackly humorous tale of sex, violence and the male psyche. An unstoppable whirlwind adventure of finding love and life where you'd least expect it. Views: 358
This is a true short story that will raise the hairs on your neck and put a tingle down your spine. One night when driving all alone in a borrowed van through a remote wooded landscape I felt the sting of breath on the back of my neck.This is a true short story that will raise the hairs on your neck and put a tingle down your spine. One night when driving all alone in a borrowed van through a remote wooded landscape I felt the sting of breath on the back of my neck. For the next twenty minutes I had to drive to the nearest habitation afraid of what would happen and terrified that I would not make it.Find out what happened in this true short story by horror author Caroline Gebbie. Views: 358
Young Lance is his father's son when it comes to the daring needed for gaining honors in the war councils of the plains Sioux. Even greater is his seeing medicine. With eyes growing sharper, he watches the warring between tribes, the buffalo hunting, the daily routine—and shows it all in pictures drawn in the dust or on skins with charcoal and color sticks. But catching the story of Sioux society in the 1840s is not for an impetuous and unseasoned youth. Many adventures, sorrows, and hardships must pass before the village sings Lance's new name: Story Catcher, recorder of the history of his people.Rooted in legend, history, and empathetic understanding, The Story Catcher, Sandoz's last novel, won the Levi Strauss Golden Saddleman Award and the Western Writers of America Spur Award. Views: 358
