9 hours ago by Corri

If only we could change some of the things that happened in the past, some of the things we did or did not do, then life would be different / better… If only. Science fiction uses this idea of moving back and forth in the fourth dimension – all it needs is a time machine or some kind of magic entran ...

51stories - 51stories.wordpress.com · 58 references

1 day ago by Superfast Reader

Synopsis: As the dragons and their keepers grow restless and hungry, only the promise of flight and the ancient secrets of a dead city can save them from enemies without and within. Review: I really should have reread Dragon Keeper and Dragon Haven before reading Dragon City, because I forgot so muc ...

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3 days ago by Indigo Montoya

IT'S THE GREAT GATSBY VALENTINE'S DAY QUIZ!!! You're Jay Gatsby, an American soldier in Europe during WWI. You're crazy in love with a beautiful girl called Daisy and she's promised to wait for you...but then you discover that she's got married to some rich dude called Tom Buchanan back home! What i ...

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4 days ago by hector

These are the first pages of a story I’ve been working on for quite some time. The larger working title is THE DOUBLE HELIX. The first third is called BENDING. The second and third parts are titled TWISTING and COMPRESSION . Please feel free to comment. Your comments will definitely help me. Where d ...

The Uncanny - hectorvila.com · 1 reference

5 days ago by M

DURING the year 1831, up to the twenty-third of August, the Virginia newspapers were absorbed in the momentous problems which then occupied the minds of intelligent American citizens: -- What General Jackson should do with the scolds, and what with the disreputables, -- Should South Carolina be allo ...

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5 days ago by Rebecca Reid

In Jessie Redmon Fauset’s second published novel, Plum Bun: A Novel without a Moral (published 1928), one woman struggles to finding her own identity racially and sexually in New York City during the vibrant years of the Harlem Renaissance. Artist Angela Murray is a light-skinned “coloured” woman in ...

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7 days ago by Lu

One day last week, while riding the subway home from work, I finished Moby Dick. I wanted to turn to the stranger next to me and say, “Look! I finished this book! I read it!” I was proud and excited and, if I’m honest, a little relieved. What a strange thing to be so pleased that a book is finished. ...

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7 days ago by Mr. Philoctetes Digressius

Be forewarned regarding today's post. There will be digressions upon digressions . . . Peter Meinke came to Belmont University sometime around 1993 or so. I am unsure of the exact date, though I could probably look it up had I the time and inclination. But soon my workaday world will start, and that ...

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8 days ago by Mr. Philoctetes Digressius

Lately, I've had a predisposition toward buying old books, the older the better. And I don't do this with any eye toward collectible value. I'm looking for knowledge, definitely not resale value. I stopped that long ago when I sold Sherman Alexie's Water Flowing Home for a pittance so that I could a ...

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9 days ago by Superfast Reader

Synopsis: Nina Oberon doesn’t want to turn 16, when she’ll be tattooed and expected to become sexually active, but a family tragedy puts her in touch with an underground movement to reform society at any cost. Review: XVI raises a lot of really fascinating issues with identity, coming of age, the ex ...

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