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caligula97236
on Sep 14, 2017
Novels and Novellas
Chapter Eighteen – Lower Danubia
News of the Duchy's victory in Hórkustk Ris did not reach the Kingdom of the Moon immediately. A few survivors from the Kingdom's rout did manage to sneak past the Grand Duke's Royal Guards and slip across the border into the Kingdom. However, the Kingdom of the Moon survivors, who could not have numbered more than a few doz...
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Scheherazade88
on Sep 15, 2017
Novels and Novellas
Note to Reader: This story centers on mother and daughter, the daughter name is Asya and the mother name is Funda. The story is told primarily after the First World War during the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and rise of the Turkish Republic. Both women are beautiful in their own right, Funda with her blonde hair and hazel eyes and Asya with her black hair...
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caligula97236
on Sep 14, 2017
Novels and Novellas
Postscript 2 - Notes on the History of the Grand Duchy of Upper Danubia
(more stuff that didn't make it into the novel)
King Vladik and the Judicial Reforms of 1524
Prior to the rule of King Vladik the Defender in the early 16th Century, an offender was convicted of a crime by his local village council, collared by the village blacksmith, and then became...
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SlaveNano
on Dec 16, 2017
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Lady Sally spent most of the night in the gondola watching the descent of the airship through the storm, taking time out only to release the slaves from their bondage and send them back to their quarters. It wasn't until the early hours of the morning, after they had left the storm behind, that she retired.
Thanks to Captain Wyndham's skill and determinati...
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misterminute
on Nov 25, 2017
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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Ancient legends abound in stories of automata, machines animated by divine or human genius. Since antiquity, the various civilizations of the world experimented during their Golden Ages with mechanically-driven devices to perform a variety of tasks, of which the only surviving examples are clocks and simple ma...
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Case21
on Nov 15, 2017
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
I shall never forget the moment Constantinople appeared before us.
The sun was just rising as we drew near to the city, and even at a distance I could see the graceful spires and domes of palaces and minarets piercing the morning fog that lay on the Bosphorous like a blanket of down. The city seemed an ancient sage on the verge of awakening, mysterious and...
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al_Ussa
on Sep 16, 2017
Reviews & Essays
"East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet," or so wrote the illustrious Rudyard Kipling in his 'Ballad of East and West.' With all due respect to Kipling, however, the two have indeed met, and have been dancing a complicated exchange of goods, ideas and even people for many centuries now. And this cultural exchange applies to almost all...
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caligula97236
on Sep 14, 2017
Novels and Novellas
Postscript 3 - The Danubian Church and its impact on Danubian society
(even more stuff that did not make it into the main part of the novel)
The Danubian concept of the Supreme Being
The Danubians have a monotheistic religion, which they refer to as the "Danubian Church" or the "Faith of the Ancients". Although in theory the Danubians are Christian, by th...
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Scheherazade88
on Sep 15, 2017
Novels and Novellas
Note to Reader: It's 1532 and the main character, Leyla Khanom, is a Harem girl of Turkish Anatolian origin. A raven beauty with dark hair and eyes with light skin, she is a woman of great intellect, culture and possess artistic and musical qualities. A great conversationalist who can hold discussions on Greek Philosophy, Astronomy, Theology, Political strat...
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Case21
on Oct 14, 2017
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
We sailed throughout our first day over the wrinkled and foam-flecked expanse of the North Atlantic. Once Eva was sufficiently recovered from her earlier...shall we say, exertions, we made an inventory of the provisions and supplies on our borrowed craft. To our considerable relief, the Vimana was equipped for a voyage at least as long as ours -perhaps even...
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