There was discrimination. People who had masks and who didn't. People with second houses in the country to escape and those without. Akemi faced special problems, real peril, because she might be mistaken for Chinese- of course China was where the virus originated. She personally hadn't experienced any hostility, but she'd heard stories. For distraction an...
REWRITTEN AND EXTENDED VERSION The story so far: Lisbeth Somerset is a 36-year old English workaholic who teaches human rights at a university in an Arab country. She is caught handing a bomb to the assassin who had plans to kill the children of the local ruler and of other dignitaries. That ruler, Sheikh Fouad, consumed with rage, considers the death pena...
I came across an interesting article while reading through my local newspaper the other day. With all the attention on the Presidential Campaign I wondered what other important campaigns or issues might be appearing on some upcoming ballots. On a page reserved for election news I saw the headline: Prostitution on ballot for San Francisco. Certainly,...
I was working in the fields when I saw a trail of dust being picked up. And it was going for my home. I dropped everything and rushed for my family and house. 'Please not the Saintricked. Please not the Saintricked. Oh please for the love God please not the Saitricked' I keep telling myself. They are a bunch of slave traders that go around to different count...
As he returned with a towel to dry off her rain-soaked body, she set down her waterproof pack and surveyed the RV. "Nice ride," she commented, mentally approving of the style and décor he'd utilized to make the motor home feel like...well, home. She suddenly realized that he was staring at her, and she flushed hotly, realizing that she must look like a drown...
I'll never forget what it was like living in Baghdad. Back in the early days of the U.S. invasion, the whole country was in chaos. For those of us living in the shantytowns and slums, it was a time of great danger... and great opportunity. Sure, we had to worry about mobs, looting and stray artillery, but with so many citizens fleeing the city, even fleeing...
Import/export is a very lucrative business. One can make huge profits from getting goods abroad and into the country. I am one such. The goods I am talking about may be called "testacles." You see, I am a highly educated married woman, in the music industry; I coach young and old in various instruments and voice. Lately I have been involved in internet mark...
I am a huge country music fan. I was raised with it as the only radio station in town played country music only. My parents listened to it all the time so I got to love it. Not that I don't like some of the old rock and roll, but country music has always been my first love. Being in my late thirties, I have had my chance to see my fair share of concerts. An...
Magic. That's how it began. Usually such a statement brings nothing but foreboding, and I would like to make a statement right now that I have not written this book to make people fear. I have written this treatise for the exact opposite reason, if truth be told. Nine and a quarter centuries ago humans had truly conquered Earth. Of course, the price had be...
Svetlen grew up in Moscow. A pretty girl, at 18 she won first prize in the Miss Moscow beauty pageant. Olga also had won a beauty contest. Both had been hired as secretaries to work in an underground bunker. While exchanging notes with another secretary there, they discovered that she too had won first place in a beauty contest. The girls typed up endless...