Memoirs of Kitty Siam – The Priestess and The Monk. When dawn came and the first rays of sunlight slipped through the gaps in the wooden shutters and the sheer curtains that functioned more as mosquito netting than actual drapes, my housemates stirred to life. First Sneha and Palu attempted to continue where they left off the night before but a slightly dis...
Introduction In the late Middle Ages the Black Death, the greatest and most deadly outbreak of infectious disease in history, ravaged Europe, eventually killing between one third and a half of the population. The disease, which is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, was carried by fleas living on the rats that were found in ports and on board ships,...
The setting: Nippon, land of the gods. Known to the western world as Japan. The time: 1862, the second year of the American civil war. Act I; scene 1 City of Yokohama, Yoshihara district The city of Yokohama is a settlement that several western powers have established residents. England, France, Russia, Prussia and the United States all have representativ...
When he came to again, he noticed that they were no longer in the box, but this time in some kind of dusty room of some building. He looked around and quickly noted that he lay on the blanket again, and there was a single candle lit, about three feet away from where he lay, showing him that beneath the blanket was a concrete floor. To his right, a few large...
CHAPTER 1 The bitch, thought Freddie Johns. The young woman he'd banged overnight was no longer beside him. He felt the sheets and they were cold but then she'd been cold. She wasn't in the bathroom and he checked his pants thrown on the floor and sighed. His wallet had gone. God what's the chances of connecting to a woman these days that you could perhap...
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I dropped the letter like it burned me and sat in stunned silence, my brain whirling furiously. I picked it up and reread it twice. There was no signature, no return address, nothing to indicate who'd written it, but I knew and I wanted to kick him in his smug shins. I reread it again, hating every black stroke of ink which snaked confidently across the pag...
It was an early morning on the Irrawaddy, and the sun had not yet crossed the eastern horizon. U Tha slowly paddled his old aluminum canoe down the river. It was difficult work to make a living as a fishermen on the Irrawaddy these days, or anywhere else in Burma for that matter, but somehow U Tha managed, just as his father before him had. The trick, he al...
Haron was a land of many species that could only exist in its northern climate. Aside from the vampire, none was so unique than the Snow Elves. This came less from their culture and more from the fact they were the only known elves to man. If any other elven races existed, they had never revealed themselves to other races. Sailors told stories of Sea Elves t...
[Part 2] By the time O finished her shower and towelled herself dry, Joy had come back to their shared chamber. 'Where did you go?' O grinned. 'Er, I found myself in the pantry and there were two of those cute wine waiters there, so I...' 'Naughty! Good for you. You're settling in very quickly!' 'Just following rule one, satisfying my urges. And the Mis...