Prologue It seems the current corona virus outbreak disproportionately affects males. Mortality rates for infected males are almost double that for women in some countries. In Hong Kong, for example the mortality rate for men is 21.9% compared with 13.2% for women. Of course, there could be many reasons for this, associated with lifestyle and other factors....
Chapter 6 – Sheyda, Sophie and Jessica With the rest of the staff working over at the hospital to get the Taubett up and running, Cassie and Julie had the department to themselves. Eve spent most days working at her apartment, and only came into the uni for meetings. Stefan began sending Julie data from the scanner in the USA by the end of that first week....
Something clinks as Poison Ivy tries to move her wrists. What feels like cold metal encases them. And she can't see, pitch black wrapped over her head. Nostrils flare as she tries to take in the scent of her surroundings but all she gets is cloth covering antiseptic and metal. She's comfortable at least, lying down on something soft. She sits up, slowly, lis...
Z'mbutu's World: A Brief Primer of the world of Etlaus My interest in the Sword and Sorcery genre began in college, back before people started calling it Fantasy, or even worse, Magical Realism. But, I digress. It began with Robert E. Howard, that flaming racist and ultimately tragic mama's boy, from East Texas. Although a frightened and small-minded man i...
I was fucked if I went to court on my charges. There was no throwing the dice, no begging for the mercy of the judge, or no hoping for the best. Raina would make good on her threat and pull all the strings at her malicious command. If I went to jail, I lost my child. Period. End of story. No happy ending for me. At this moment I'm staring at the ceiling, wi...
Several hours passed when I recognized something was wrong. I jumped awake, took in my surroundings and suddenly recalled that Riley and I had somehow managed to spend the night in each other's arms. I lifted my head and turned to check on her. "You're awake." I said, surprised. "How could I possibly sleep while holding an angel in my arms? Believe me... I'...
All characters in sexual situations are over the age of 18. * Prologue Within a year after they met each other at Brown University, Joey and Mairwen knew that they wanted to do good for the world's disadvantaged. Resolved and courageous, the winter after their graduation from Brown they joined the Peace Corps, and received their first-choice assignment,...
** Greetings :D ** THANKYOU WindySwimming for editing and helping me out. ** please comment and rate xoxo * Lisa walked hurried towards Skyline, a seventeenth floor building that had some of the most expensive apartments in the city. She checked her watch again. She was ten minutes late. It would take another five minutes to get to the tenth floor. Her hee...
This guide contains all of the information that you will need to survive a zombie apocalypse. We all know it's not a matter of if zombies take over the earth, it's a matter of when and if you are going to be one of the survivors. If you don't want to be one of the survivors then you can stop reading right now. This is for the people who are going to stand up...
Prologue Piper was nineteen years old. She had been abducted, cataloged and confined in the largest Zyd mothership in the galaxy and placed in cryogenic sleep for over two hundred and fifty years. The Zyd had been defeated in a slave uprising and those who had been placed in cryogenic sleep awoke for the shock of their lives. The coordinates for Earth were...