An unemployed man has to make a mortgage payment at an Automated Teller Machine (ATM). On a whim he scribbles a message on the input card and soon receives a communication from the computer. The man and the ATM develop a ‘relationship’ which solves his financial worries, gives him important information about the bank, and leads to employment - with the bank. But can the relationship last?An unemployed man has to make a mortgage payment outside his bank using an early model Automated Teller Machine (ATM). On a whim he scribbles a message on the input card and soon receives a communication from the computer. The man and the ATM develop a ‘relationship’ which solves his financial worries, gives him important information about the bank, and leads to executive employment – with the bank. But, as can happen, it is difficult to maintain a relationship indefinitely. The story was published in 1983 and also broadcast as a radio story. Although the story is set in the ‘historical’ context of an earlier generation of bank computing, the plot is still plausible as it involves the moral values of Big Banking as they were to be revealed over the decades. Views: 668
A young boy discovers he's able to take the splendors of his dreams into the real world. One night he finds a mysterious young girl laying with him.Sixteen-year old Confucius Clementine is a dreamer devoid of a social life and engulfed in the world of fantastical video games. But after suffering a concussion he discovers that he's been granted an unthinkable power... the ability to bring anything he so desires from his dreams into the real world. He creates a new persona called the dream savior to heroically transform the world, but upon awakening one night, he finds in his bed with him a mysterious girl, Rosewielder, the Fair Elf Princess. Confucius and Rosewielder learn that they're part of a magical but perilous world of vampires, elves, dragons, all the things of folklore and legend, veiled just beneath the commonplace. Rosewielder struggles to adapt to suburbia, slicing televisions in half with her sword and destroying giant serpents, whereas Confucius is mesmerized by the fair elf's radiant beauty, all the while, dark spirits forcing them to take up their arms as warriors to protect each other and the world. Views: 668
Every unit of the FBI has those cases that just make an agent think, make them feel, and make them wonder why people treat others the way they do. PAVAD--the Prevention & Analysis of Violent Acts Division of the FBI--was no different. This was one of those cases. An Ohio family had waited fifteen months for answers about the deaths of their loved ones. Only Mick and Mal Brockman, working together for the first time, could find the answers and the killer before he struck again. Case File #0003 is the third release in a series of mystery novellas featuring characters from the PAVAD: FBI Romantic Suspense series. These novellas feature complete suspense stories and can be read in any order. This Case File features a mix of PAVAD characters and a whole host of changes for the CCU! Views: 668
A myth describing the origin of the land crab found in the southern slopes of the Khasi and Jaintia Hills in Meghalaya, India. Retold in a humorous vein for increased pleasure of the readers.A folk tale and myth which explains the origin of the land crab found in Khasi and Jaintia Hills of Meghalaya, India. It is retold in a lighter vein to enhance readers' experience. The story revolves around a Jackal, a Crow and the uncommon Land Crab. This story is part of folklore and mytholology of the Khasi ethnic race which include the Khynriam, Pnar, Vaar, Bhooi, Maharam and Lyngngam ethnic groups. Views: 668
Step into your high heels and listen to astronaut Charlie Brick confess his sins in this supernatural tragedy.A complete Novella, no part-two or cliffhanger ending. You can read this for free and know that you will see the whole story.Step into your high heels and listen to astronaut Charlie Brick confess his sins in this supernatural tragedy. Throughout the course of this novella, Brick will deal with feelings of loathing, hate, and loneliness, but what happens when his darkest desires are fulfilled, seemingly by random chance? Will he be able to live with himself after such a supernatural tragedy? Will his failed journey into space continue to haunt him with PTSD-like intesity? Decide for yourself at the end of this drama.A complete Novella, no part-two or cliffhanger ending. You can read this for free and know that you will see the whole story. Also, don't expect any explicit sex or drug use in this story, consider it a PG-13 rating. Views: 668
Human Perfect: A Terran Crescent Story
In the android business, the best of the best are Human Perfect.
Includes bonus story "Ugrade This!" Views: 668
The mountain town of Stove has a secret - that each winter its teenagers are racked with a sickness - fever, anguish, manic behaviour. It is the job of the town’s Special Deputies to contain these wild, hurting youngsters.Toby is one such Special Deputy. He survived the Winter Sickness as a boy, and now returns each year to help the current sufferers. But at what cost to himself?The mountain town of Stove has a secret - that each winter its teenagers are racked with a sickness - fever, anguish, manic behaviour. It is the job of the town’s Special Deputies to contain these wild, hurting youngsters, often at great cost to both.Toby is one such Special Deputy. He survived the Winter Sickness as a boy, and now returns each year to help the current sufferers. Like the rest of his town though, he keeps the secret to avoid them being stigmatised, to save their children from a lifetime of being thought “mad”.And yet, can even such a dedicated team contain the children's pain any longer? And deep down, do they even want to? The only thing they can be sure of is that any ending will not be smooth or sudden. Views: 668
Finding out you're in the wrong time? Scary. Discovering that you've broken some cosmic law and a gang of time police are after you? Even worse. Learning that these time police are bent on sending you back to your original time, which also happens to be certain death? 17 year old Julia is not having a good year.
After showing up on her foster mom's doorstep with no memory, Julia's last year has been nothing but confusion. Well, she does remember one thing--falling through the night with a mysterious boy who screams her name. Her only other clue to her past is her inability to use things like smartphones and computers. That hasn't exactly made her fit in at school, so she's shocked when Frank, the hottest guy ever, invites her to the dance. The problem? It turns out Frank's Timeless, an immortal member of the time police, and he's just dropped a bomb: to protect the flow of time, Julia has to go back to her real past...to die.
But Julia doesn't care about the flow of the universe. She just wants to learn who she is and where she's from so she can avoid her fate. But fate won't be so easy on her. The boy from her falling memory is next to show up at school, and when that happens, Julia must get close to him, and her past, to stay alive.
2:20 is the first book of the Timeless Trilogy. It is a teen time travel fantasy romance. Views: 668
Five children discover their destiny; they must find a way to save the world. Guided by their uncle, trapped in a doll, they explore a vast dream world where they have special powers. In it, the Dream Fighters must stop Sarlak and the Gorgons' plan in order to protect the real world and the people they love.Read the tantalizing tale that started it all. The origin story of The Dream Fighters. The fantasy adventure loved by children and adults alike.Five cousins make a shocking discovery. They share a dream, and in it, they have special powers. Only hours before they were just normal kids playing video games in the basement. Now they wield the same powers they used in those games, only there are no save points or restarts. This time, everything counts and there are no second chances. Haley can leap across the room, Braden can move objects with his mind, Jack moves at super speed, and Jillian can make anything she wants appear before her eyes. Dazzled by this finding, they go on to realize they belong to an age-old order, The Dream Fighters, and it is their turn to save the world. In order to protect the real world, they must stop an invasion by the evil Sarlak and his army of Gorgons. With only their uncle, himself trapped in Jillian's doll, as a guide, they must master their new found powers and stop this attack before it starts.Along the way, they will discover their specific powers and understand how to use them, as well as control their fear and learn to work together, even when they really don't want to. Sarlak will use sinister traps and trickery to defeat them. The Dream Fighters must somehow find a way to save the day. Whose power will lead them to victory? Which one of them will fall under Sarlak's spell? This first book in the Dream Fighter Chronicles tells the story of how it all began for these future heroes.Discovery! is an action-packed and entertaining adventure for children from 8 to 88, offering readers young and old a chance to imagine the endless possibilities in the dream world. Intended to read like a video game, it will capture the imagination of all readers, pulling them into its magical world and leaving them on the edge of their seat. Views: 668
On the afternoon of 18 August 1966, just five kilometres from the main Australian Task Force base at Nui Dat, a group of Viet Cong soldiers walked into the right flank of Delta Company, 6 RAR. Under a blanket of mist and heavy monsoon rain, amid the mud and shattered rubber trees, a dispersed Company of 108 men held its ground with courage and grim determination against a three-sided attack from a force of 2,500 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army troops. When the battle subsided, 18 Australian soldiers lay dead and 24 had been wounded. Battlefield clearance revealed 245 enemy bodies with captured documents later confirming the count at over 500 enemy killed and 800 wounded. These men were led by a gruff and gusty perfectionist, Major Harry Smith. Now, some 47 years after the battle, Harry tells his story for the first time. But Long Tan is more than just an account of a historic battle. Harry Smith takes his readers on an extraordinary journey - one that ultimately reveals a... Views: 667
Unspoken truths will be revealed—and they will change everything—in this dazzling final chapter of the Shadow Falls: After Dark trilogy!
Della Tsang is facing the toughest fight of her life—and the most personal. In her new role as an elite paranormal investigator, she’s assigned a twenty-year-old murder case…and the accused killer is none other than her own father.
Making matters worse, since she was reborn, she’s been bound to the mysterious and infuriatingly gorgeous Chase Tallman—a vampire with his own hidden agenda. Della still feels betrayed by all the secrets he’s kept from her, but she’ll need his help to find out the truth about her father. But what about Steve, the hunky shape-shifter who she can’t seem to forget?
The quest for answers will lead them into the darkest, ugliest supernatural gangs in town…and into the scariest reaches of their hearts. Views: 667
