History books and classes are such faint memories that they feel like something I came up with in a dream. The world changed so suddenly that we seemed to collectively forget about all the little things we did everyday. All of our routines, our celebrations, our passions were swallowed up in an effort to resist fate. But fate has a habit of getting what it w...
My thanks and appreciation to my very skilled editor, Erik Thread, who has patiently worked with me to make this story cohesive and readable. Any errors are mine. Nina Novak was the older of two sisters, brought up in a modest home in the Bronx. Her mother, Ursola, and father, Janos, were the children of refugees from the 1956 Hungarian uprising. Their p...
Part 11: Payton – English; Village of the Warrior ~*~*~*~*~*~*~ If there was ever a time that Dominic wanted to take back everything he had said, now was definitely the time. He struggled to open his eyes, disillusioned with the fog of confusion in his brain. What had happened? One moment he had been screaming at Will, and then the next he was lying face...
All characters are over 18 years of age. *** Nora and her family had been considering for some time whether it was time to leave war-ravaged Aleppo in Syria. They had been preparing to leave if things got much worse. Unfortunately the decision was taken out of their hands. Nora and her parents had been on their way to the market when the alarm sounded. Her...
Chapter 2 Prince Damien, acting Commander of the Anderran armed forces, stormed through the palace gates dressed in full military attire, troubled. In accordance with royal protocol, he was flanked by two palace guards. They matched his brisk pace as the sun set behind them. Vios, the only other country in the world outside of Anderra where magic users res...
Chapter One Hundred Fifty-Five: Post-Awakening Solona and I got some strange, concerned looks from Avanna as we left my office, but I ignored them. I asked Avanna to accompany Solona to her new quarters after they dropped me off at mine, and she agreed politely enough. Two guards who I vaguely recognised stood attentively outside my suite, and I shut the d...
CHAPTER 4 Wizards At War BY SW MO HERMIT THANKS TO ANNE N. MOUSE FOR BETA READING AND EDITING. THIS INVALUABLE HELP MADE MY EFFORTS MUCH MORE READABLE. Warren's children were doing well in the school. The two older children were already Journeyman Wizards and the younger two would be soon. His oldest child Warren JR was only 9 years old but already knew...
A Wider Sky: Beyond Eclipse Series by Talyis Bagley Ellison Copyright first edition 2013, 2015 Chapter 2 My mouth was filled with cotton from the arid air. My eyes burned from the harsh sunlight that bounced brightly off the unnatural sleek earth. Even though there was nothing as far as my eyes could see in front of me and behind be and to my right and l...
"So, where are you from, Sharifa?" said Kirsten Fontaine, the tall, forty-something, blonde-haired White woman with the frosty smile as she looked at Sharifa Fetieh with all the affection one typically shows to a scurrying cockroach spotted when the kitchen light comes on. This one doesn't like me, Sharifa thought as Kirsten looked at her Hijab, and sighed....
When Zainab Dudayev moved to the City of Miami, Florida, from her hometown of Gudermes, Nation of Chechnya, she definitely expected a culture clash. After all, she was moving to a completely different country, one whose cultures and ways contrasted sharply with her own. The young woman braced herself for these changes, but wasn't one hundred percent sure wha...