It was everything I had imagined. The water was crystal clear. The sand was fine and tinted pink. There was not a cloud in the sky. It was perfect. I was in Greece! Finally, after all the years of pinching pennies, I was here. I have studied Greek since I was a child. I went to Greek school and have practiced the language since I was eight years old. Now,...
I was a freshman at Harvard University. No, not that Harvard. Mine was a small liberal arts college in Eastern Oregon, near the Washington border. It's mission was to "Further Education Through Education." Whatever that meant. Truth was, the only people who went there had no place better to be. As for me, I was supposed to go to the actual Harvard...
Whenever I read, I keep a pencil handy and I underline words that I don’t know and dog ear the page so that I can go back and look them up in the dictionary. I have always been interested in etymology and even took Latin for three years. I hope that these words can help all of us in our writings. Be sure to check out your dictionary for additional usages of...
I was on my way to the beach to meet up with friends near Tampa, when my car got a flat tire. Groaning inwardly I got out and realized it was pitch black outside but I was sure I took off in the afternoon and I had only been on the road for 45 minutes. It wasn’t dark when I was driving either. Something was certainly amiss. When I get out to look at the tire...
The year is 2027, many years ago in the year 1918 the first publicly known Superpowered human came to be his name was Tom Decker he served in World War 2 as "The Strong Man" after ww2 lacking Nazis or Soviets to fight Tom wandered, fighting the rampant crime in the streets of the city formerly known as Lowell city. Soon more Superpowered beings sta...
Hey buddy. Good for you to join me now. Don't mind the dim lights and the smokey air. And the small but raucous crowd here, normally they are good-natured, normally. Here, I saved you a front row seat. The fight's not finished, but my girl Monika isn't doing too well. The slender redhead, the one in golden bikini, that's her. No, she is not my lover, but my...
I first met Soula seven years ago whilst on my way to do archaeological fieldwork at Akrotiri on Santorini. I had caught the Blue Star ferry from Piraeus (Athens Port) via the Greek islands to Santorini. The whole trip takes about 17 hours and goes via some beautiful islands - Parros, Naxos, & Ios - but takes so long there is not much to do. As the sun set...
Part Two- The Dance August 23- Belarus, Greece While Professor Chase cleaned herself up in the Cairo Airport restroom, I opened the scroll case we had liberated from the Egyptian Arms Dealers. The scroll, thought to be an ancient text documenting the first commands of Osiris to the King of Egypt, was actually written in a tale written in Latin about King D...
The existence of my kind has baffled some of the world's greatest thinkers for untold millennia. Are there such things as gods? How many are there? What are they and why do they do what they do? What do they want from mankind? Well, folks, today you're going to get all the answers. Right out of the horse's mouth, so to speak. My name is Pahle (pronounced Par...
It is a bitterly cold winter evening in the Swiss Alps; the wind howls through the nearby trees as the snow sweeps across the slopes. In one of the ski chalets a group of men sit telling stories in front of a blazing log fire. The group leader announces, "Wayne, it's your turn to tell a story." "Well then, let me introduce you to some characters." -----...