Dear Diary: I ran out of paper in my notebook, so I must sacrifice a page for my history notes. -Great Britain, at the height of the East India Company's power, truly conquered all of Europe and Asia. There was the Great War between the Americas and the British Empire, and that was fought to a standstill. -The weapons and technology developed over two deca...
The Toad backed up his material to the Cloud - all his investigation files and his recordings of subsequent encounters, then he checked his cameras for the third time, eagerly anticipating the arrival of his next "guest". Even though he knew, he consulted his diary to see who was coming to visit tonight then prepared her impromptu stage. He cleared...
In the city of New York we found a fine jumble of buildings and people all, supposedly, under the control of a Scot who called himself Lord Sterling. Lord Chaos would have been better. By the time the British fleet arrived, probably half the city's population had fled and most of those who remained, other than the hundreds of harlots, certainly did not favor...
Angel jumped back to Steve's kitchen, whilst he was else-when sorting out Bruce's problems. She was in a pensive mood for a change, although a genius as were all of the British Aristocracy, she wasn't one for deep self-analysis. This business of Steve and pregnancy had shaken her badly, and despite her words to Alison she felt a sense of loss that her 26t...
The room for my second semester British Literature class was not the large lecture hall I imagined. This being my first day of classes of the year, I had high hopes. However, my vision of a packed lecture hall with a cranky but enthusiastic old English-accented professor scrawling unintelligibly on the chalkboard was dashed the moment I found the classroom d...
"Rupert, my dude, you worry too damn much, I don't care if the boss catches us, I simply love danger," Malik Brown said, and the tall, burly, dark-skinned, ruggedly handsome African American stud grabbed the tall, slender, red-haired and green-eyed British nerd and kissed him passionately. As far as first kisses went, this one definitely took the cake... Al...
Cultural relativity is a difficult concept for most people to understand. Men consider women to be strange. Well, women consider themselves normal and see men as the strange ones. Men everywhere laugh when hearing this because they see themselves as truly uncomplicated. The same goes for people of different religious, races and ethnicities. To the Westerner,...
Pt. VII: Cowgirls & Indians Brett and Caitlin chatted incessantly on the return flight to Cleveland where they left their cars. Mostly he wanted to talk about the case and she wanted to talk about Jack Davis. "Brett, please tell me more about Jack. I know some of the story. Forty-something. Navy Seal and then the C.I.A. One of the most respected P.I.'s in...
The week passed quickly, and Jovita and Hanna were soon enjoying their Saturday together. After a festive Shabbat lunch, they walked hand in hand from Hanna's Greenwich Village apartment to the National Museum of the American Indian in the Finance District, exchanging pleasantries along the way. Hanna was excited about looking up the indigenous aspect of Jov...
Frightened and trembling, when I reached on the door of Ms. Jane's Flat, She was standing there waiting for me with her mobile in her hand. It took me about an hour to cover that small distance. I pleaded with another excuse that my parents are here and I have told them that I have met you and they have sent me to invite you personally to visit them for mee...