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One crappy day during the recession, an unnamed draftsman loses his job, and possibly his girlfriend. Set in Maryland and told from a first-person point of view, this short story offers a realistic mix of hope, disappointment, and humor.
On a quiet Thanksgiving night in their new home, a man and his cat are visited by the last owner's family. What ensues is something best describe as something out of a horror movie.
Rusty Barker is a gruff, no-nonsense guy, but someone who cares more about people than he lets on. The story takes place during the spring of 2005, a few months before he retires. The assistant principal asks him to chaperone the prom when another chaperone drops out. Rusty had never chaperoned anything before. The first "painful surprise" is how loud the music is, which he's not prepared for. Later, Rusty hurts his neck -- not seriously -- when he gets roped into dancing. It's
Tara, a nineteen year old girl, loves horses. She has never not lived without them. But when she gets thrown, its a different story...
Houses of Common (five-chapter sample) by Derick William Dalton (best book series to read .txt) π
Ranyk doesn't mind so much being attacked in space, but forty thousand colonists are waiting on him. Waiting for the haven of a newly terraformed planet. Ranyk is about to discover one starship of pirates is a mild beginning. The first of a trilogy, Houses of Common contains the scientific rigor of Kathy Reichs and deep characters and moral dilemmas of Orson Scott Card.
Take a journey into the strange and magical land known as the Mea Culpa Valley; an area with a long and proud history of profound weirdness and absolute lunacy. The residents of a small chunk of squalor known as Timbrook are visited by a precocious knight on a quest, and inadvertently become swept up in a hysterical adventure like none ever before witnessed. Magic, mystery, mayhem and intrigue abound as a powerful warlordβs plot to take over the entire region is slowly uncovered, also revealing
One crappy day during the recession, an unnamed draftsman loses his job, and possibly his girlfriend. Set in Maryland and told from a first-person point of view, this short story offers a realistic mix of hope, disappointment, and humor.
On a quiet Thanksgiving night in their new home, a man and his cat are visited by the last owner's family. What ensues is something best describe as something out of a horror movie.
Rusty Barker is a gruff, no-nonsense guy, but someone who cares more about people than he lets on. The story takes place during the spring of 2005, a few months before he retires. The assistant principal asks him to chaperone the prom when another chaperone drops out. Rusty had never chaperoned anything before. The first "painful surprise" is how loud the music is, which he's not prepared for. Later, Rusty hurts his neck -- not seriously -- when he gets roped into dancing. It's
Tara, a nineteen year old girl, loves horses. She has never not lived without them. But when she gets thrown, its a different story...
Houses of Common (five-chapter sample) by Derick William Dalton (best book series to read .txt) π
Ranyk doesn't mind so much being attacked in space, but forty thousand colonists are waiting on him. Waiting for the haven of a newly terraformed planet. Ranyk is about to discover one starship of pirates is a mild beginning. The first of a trilogy, Houses of Common contains the scientific rigor of Kathy Reichs and deep characters and moral dilemmas of Orson Scott Card.
Take a journey into the strange and magical land known as the Mea Culpa Valley; an area with a long and proud history of profound weirdness and absolute lunacy. The residents of a small chunk of squalor known as Timbrook are visited by a precocious knight on a quest, and inadvertently become swept up in a hysterical adventure like none ever before witnessed. Magic, mystery, mayhem and intrigue abound as a powerful warlordβs plot to take over the entire region is slowly uncovered, also revealing