Chapter 12: Mogumbo and Fun With Alicia ***Friday, August 16, 2304 (still)*** To shake off the fear and kill time I walked out to pick up the morning paper. The headline was more or less the usual, 36,000 Savages Killed in Mongolia. It was the 22nd year of the war and we all knew our guys were super close to a final victory. Maybe now the Mongolese would s...
Long ago, when the pyramids were still young, Egyptian kings played A GAME of GREAT and TERRIBLE POWER. These SHADOW GAMES erupted into a war that threatened to DESTROY THE ENTIRE WORLD, until a BRAVE and POWERFUL PHARAOH locked the magic away, IMPRISONING it in the MYSTICAL MILLENIUM ITEMS. Now, FIVE THOUSAND YEARS LATER, a man named "YUGI" unlock...
Chapter 9: WGPD part 2 The Decision I don't think I need to tell you all much about how that night went. Virtually everyone in town over the age of 18 was there. Then everyone watched again later since reruns streamed non-stop. Some watched it again and again, one man reportedly 27 times. And there were all those home grown quantum videos and stills. The gi...
I regret the weeks it has taken me to post chapters in my "Sheila" series. I gather from certain E-mails, the loss of a significant number of votes, and being dropped from favorite authors lists that I have tried the patience of some readers and lost the attention of others. Of course, maybe the reason for the drop-off in interest is simply that the story su...
Ancient Egypt: How long was I in that cell? Nahanit looked around as the wagon trundled through the city. Memphis was still familiar, but it was obvious that much had changed. The forceful eviction from her cell would have been enough excitement for a long time. But the guard who had dragged her out had then shoved her onto the back of a line of fellow p...
Vanessa stood looking at the desiccated head of the mummy through the thick glass of the display case, staring through her own ghostly reflection at the grotesque face of a man who'd been dead for over four thousand years. The bandages had been carefully peeled back around the neck to expose his head, and that along with the thin grizzled neck gave him the a...
The heat was sweltering, and Akriel let out a heavy breath. She wondered if she was going to keel over. Shading her eyes, she squinted up into the sun and tried to peel her shirt away from her chest. The cotton wasn't being very cooperative. It seemed to think that being so soaked with sweat that it was now almost transparent meant that it should cling to he...
Chapter 11: A Gift From Stony. ***Thursday, August 15, 2304*** On Thursday afternoon Alicia texted that she would be in late Friday night, but not to pick her up since the committee had arranged for a limo service. It was the first good news I'd had since White Girl Pride Day and perfect timing coming into a three day weekend. Everyone had Friday off to co...
Bright sunshine burned into Prince Ramses II's eyes interrupting his deep sleep. "What's going on?" he asked testily. "Prince Ramses, it is time for you to get up. The Nile is flooding. Your eighteenth cycle has begun. This is an important day," his personal assistant Anen replied as he pushed aside the tapestries covering the windows. "The vizier Paser wil...
For those of you who have not had the benefit of being swaddled with Yiddish, here are some handy translations of words you will find in this chapter. Haggadah, a book that tells the story of Passover ranging from a small pamphlet designed to make it easy for young children to understand to a tome appropriate to a year-long course at the seminary Tsouris,...