Mark was exhausted from the red-eye flight into Iceland. It was only eight in the morning and he was now enjoying the lovely warm water of the Blue Lagoon- one of the country's top tourist attractions. It was winter and plumes of steam swirled about the outdoor pool. The silica rich water was as opaque as milk. He slowly submerged his hand, testing, and saw...
Brent swallowed back pain as he watched Lauren slumber. He had spent the last half an hour reliving a lifetime of memories with this woman. Bouncing between silent laughter and burning tears. Only one common thread...how had they come to this? It certainly was not from lack of love. Not just on his part either. Even seven years after the divorce, he did no...
Lauren Masters came awake suddenly. She gripped something warm, soft and firm in her left hand. She felt the roll and lurch of a plane as it shifted direction. For a moment, her mind was clouded and confused. Where was she? Then it came crashing back to her like the first wave of a tsunami. She was on a plane with her crazy ex-husband, her daughters and...
After having spent Christmas in Denmark with some distant relatives, who had contacted Isis some months earlier about a heritage from a grandmother's unknown brother, Isis was ready to fly back to Goddessville, not very rich but still much of than when she arrived in Denmark. Finn had checked in on the same flight for a business trip to the US and they wer...
I'm a member of what used to be called the 1%. Why "used to be"? You've seen "Surviving The Game", right? Remember Mason's line, "Never underestimate a man who has nothing to lose"? As conditions got worse and worse for the 99%, they became more and more uncaring of their own lives, feeling that dying while fighting to change things was better than "liv...
You really should take the city tour of Reykjavik when you go to Iceland. The young guides are compensated by tips alone, so only the amusing survive. You'll learn that Iceland is a high-trust society where you can leave your baby in a stroller on the sidewalk while you shop. The streets are antiseptically clean. There's only one jail for the whole country;...
"So Dr. Bjornsen, do you think this year's excavations in Newfoundland will lead to any more evidence of pre-Columbian Viking settlement?" "Yes, Ms. Flanaghan, I'm very confident it will. In a year or two, we will have enough physical evidence to have a clear enough picture of the Norse settlement of Vinland to re-write the history books." "Thank you, Dr....
I looked it up: "Our earliest substantiated evidence for elf-beliefs comes from Anglo-Saxon England, medieval Iceland, and the German-speaking world of the time. Some general themes are apparent in the texts: elves were human-like; were once pagan divinities of some kind; and were so dangerous they could cause harm to people or livestock and might seduce peo...
Chapter 1 Rodin Moon arrived in New Zealand from New York half a world away after two-day stopovers at LA and Honolulu, dispirited and disoriented. It was 5:30 am in a different time zone. Thank goodness, the officials at Auckland International Airport spoke English, at least a version of it, she thought, standing patiently. The 'aliens' like herself, mo...
It's July in London when you arrive, the warm air gives off a scent of the coming rain...and the easy prey. You emerge from the cruise ship walking the docks at night taking an alternative route to the rest of the passengers, you know your goal, you know what you're looking for, and a pleasure cruise isn't it. You remember the artifact you found when chasi...