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...Fantasy/Romance By Gracie C. McKeever Desert Dreams Desert Dreams by Gracie C. McKeever 2 Fictionwise www.Fictio... ...s displayed using 100% recycled electrons. Distributed by Fictionwise.com Desert Dreams by Gracie C. McKeever 3 PROLOGUE Bedouin Encampment Arabian P... ...hange her mind and spare him. Sahir shook her exquisitely-shaped head, jet-black curls dancing around her face. She arched her lush eyebrows as if she... ...atan. And she had trapped him. "You realize your mistake too late, Kane." Desert Dreams by Gracie C. McKeever 4 She uttered the words with such smoot... ...ese thought. And that was the worst part. There was no right and wrong, no black or white. Just them and their loss. "You can't hold me responsible fo... ...fallen asleep in short flannel pajamas. When did she put on the voluminous black cloak? When did such decidedly unusual garb sneak into her wardrobe? ... ...ve me where you want me..." Therese opened as she took a seat in the maple rocker adjacent the full-size platform bed. Her escort chuckled and took a ... ...ion. Kane knelt at her side, pulled her into his arms and she moaned as he rocked her against his chest. "Oh, my mawla ... " He pulled back to look at... ...ce of her voice raised in laughter and curiosity or, by Allah, even in ire rocked him to the core of his hungry nature. Kane looked forward to the few...

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.... Moonlight is its mortal enemy: conveniently for its predators, the squid casts a black and moving shadow. To fend off these risks, the squid emit... ...ed "quorum sensing". http://www.lifesci.ucsb.edu/~biolum/ http://www.biolum.org/ Black Death AIDS has infected hitherto 42 million people, of whi... ...fected hitherto 42 million people, of which perhaps 22 million have died. The "Black Death" - an epidemic of bubonic plague which ravaged both ... ... to Hitler's "Fuhrerprinzip"). But the self-anointed leader did not hesitate to desert his soldiers and leave them stranded after yet another of... ...Primary (or compression) and secondary (or shearing) body waves (that travel in the rocks under the surface of the Earth at speeds of up to 7 kilome... ...y Harold Brown with the active support of Thomas Edison. Carlos McDonald and A. P. Rockwell contributed to the engineering of the chair. But the pa... ... of a previously unknown segment of the Great Wall of China in the Ordos (Maowusu) Desert in the Hui Autonomous Region of Ningxia, about 700 km (43... ...twice (1922 and 1923), who was 5- foot-7 and weighed 140 pounds (c. 65 kg.). Norman Rockwell, the painter, was on the panel of judges in 1923. Ca... ...ped their skulls in raw camel hide. The prisoners were then left to shrivel in the desert's scorching sun, without food or water. As the caps shran...

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...fore your eyes are equally unknown, and you feel like the despicable traitor who deserts the destination marked out for him and seeks refuge in a ne... ...ent and disarming willingness typical of those who are not yet familiar with the black holes into which life sometimes plunges you. I quickly lost ... ...e it was in the early morning or on grey days with no sun. And it seemed like a desert, where life had stopped for centuries, a postcard where ever... ... of memory as to seem irretrievable and oblige us to believe them dead. It is a blackout of the senses that erects barriers around the individual a... ...happiness, light is always followed by darkness, and the brighter the light, the blacker it is. I experience thousands of privations, but I know I s... ...and glorious task that had been assigned to me. Before me I saw barren ground, a desert with neither people nor houses. Suddenly, white skyscrapers ... ...he himself has created? I felt the weight of my mistake acutely, as if it were a rock that crushed my soul and stopped my breath.” I see countless ...

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...ree-room house, located twenty-five yards from the railroad tracks in the black section of Tallahassee, flori­ da, happiness and prayers prevailed. A... ... best and hardest worker there was. The only non-farm work available to a black woman in the South who did not read or write was as a domestic serv... ... how good manners could contribute to good business. In just about every black community in the South, Friday night was traditionally set aside for... ...I was not going to be one of those guys who got a girl preg­ nant and then deserted her. My child would have my name and would not be born out of wed... ...ency's first-ever black talent agent. I became a founding member of a new rock and roll music division. This was a new challenge for all of us, sinc... ...ursued every woman who crossed my path as though I had been stranded on a desert island with no female company for ten years. The chase was always m... ...to. P. K. Thomajan hit the nail on the head by saying, "Living faith is a rock with roots." Success is based on experience. I have been shown innume... ... great job, we don't need you any­ more." He inferred that I had created a rock-solid brand name, and that they would still benefit from my continued...

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...ork had ended and he was free of the vending cart, and embraced within the black smog of busses. Then there was a reprieve from the gaseous smoke of ... ...ito waited; and the minute that they fell asleep its wings cut through the black air and time with the buzz of a monotonous chant. The mosquito carri... ... Deeper into its eyes he saw a starving child and a vulture awaiting on a rock, the fight for dominion of species and nations, and the sexual aggress... ...l solitude; but for him, with a mosquito staring him down with emotionless black eyes, there was no privacy. His masturbatory time was limited by his ... ... for a woman and being "in love" as something more spectacular than bottle rockets and Roman candles lit from the bridges over the Chao Phraya River i... ...kin. "At a distance," it said, "the brownness makes it look as solid as a rock. I forget that it is so tender. Your naivete also seems so obdurate ... ...every turn: memories that they couldn't free themselves from. Within this desert of cacti and brambles they poured destructive chemicals and suicidal... ...enlarge their brambly world. They were landscape artists of their personal deserts: hating, destroying, and replanting their cacti and brambles with e... ... assessing that his brothers are growing up. He wonders if they will soon desert this first family. He wonders if for the pleasure of women they'll j...

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...ar me with their beaks and talons. Dark looms the cloud bank through the black portals of the river. The fog holds the bleared eyes of the morning... ...nor's dar- ling; And when his body fell, scaling Quebec, Down the sheer rock it left a track of light Which sped in opposition towards the stars... ... But had he been a man, and sought reward, Had he been banged about this rocking world As I have, holding terror by the horns, Could he not ask a... ...f silence, ye will return to him. Bid him adieu without bitterness, thou rocky castle! For his punishment shall be within him- self day by day. [E... ...ng many. She divineth salvation out of hell; and bringeth water from the desert. Who l69l shall praise a woman save He that made her; save God wh... ... The stress of growing sons and straight- I ening means; Yet one great blackness passes from your life, Unshadowing you all. I see ye stand Saf...

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... of a Global ( economic and political ) Human Union is the only way out of Black Tower’s shadow. So, they, too, have already made their choice. Period... ...l of technologies (energy-, electronic-, bio-technologies) is so high that deserts are turned into gardens, water is turned into fuel for engines, oce... ... only great “spiritual” leader of the 20th century was the “drugs, sex and rock-n-roll” slogan ... On the other hand, in the 1930s, the most famous Am... ... will destroy human civilization. No terrible disease will kill us all. No desert will swallow the green-lands of Earth. No global famine will starve ... ...on amidst the soft silent silhouettes of the trees, along the moss-dressed rocks. Until his little guide took him out of the wood and into the open. A... ...eight. And so did the man. The man made a step more. The bridge moaned and rocked. And so did the man. The man made a step more, and more. The bridge ... ...; and huge fires raging at collapsing houses and panicked people; and ugly black faces he beheld and eyes in terror... And the wizard helped and helpe... ... chased Truth in their prayers. And at the fourth side there began a great desert; across it tradesmen led their caravans. This was how the village li... ...e the traitor’s temple. Out of the large hole in its top a column of thick black smoke was coming. Behind temple’s gates blazes were raging... And her...

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...boy,” she thundered, and then spoke quietly into her headset that nestled over her short, black hair to the director who sat over looking the studio ... ...to your desk.” Stone walked over and sat in his usual comfortable chair and slid a small black leather bag under the desk, but well within arms rea... ... during the Panama Invasion, the Island war of Grenada, and from the explosive cities and deserts of Iraq, Kuwait and Lebanon, not to mention that h... ...isappointed them. Tonight, he would not need the teleprompter. What he had to say would rock the nation. Stone possessed a unique quality; even wh... ...ds she had always used before the start of every show. The studio went silent and then to black, except for the - J.Cross/Stone 6 spotlights th... ...you going to hang on to your job like an aging lion by his toenails?” “So, I’m between a rock and a hard place. Damn! Working with you is a constant... ...room. “Is this a bad time, General?” Radcliff turned and sat himself down on a cushioned rocking chair, which automatically began rocking in slow m... ...tional Rehab Center. The hot Santa Ana winds’ were blistering in as he crossed the almost deserted parking lot to the entrance of the Center. The co... ... Kidd and Cummings began to feel a slight hostility growing between them. The hallway was deserted as they exited the elevator and entered their room...

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... THOUGHT BE A THOUGHT OF LOVE. It does not matter if it is a thought of a rock, a tree, an insect or a person; it must always be a loving thought. ... ... suppose, in the early '60s I could have llsettled for becoming the first Black agent at a major theatrical agency and left my life's achievements ... ...erday have shriveled in the past; tomorrow is an unopened bud that may be blackened by the frost or beautified by the sun of life. 45 THE POWER I... ... our lives is a direct result of the measure of our integrity. And it's a rock,solid prin' ciple available to all those who wish to put it to the t... ...egregation in the South, when maintaining self,respect and integrity for Black people proved as difficult a task as everyday survival, my mother wo... ...on its way to be~ coming a ghetto. But stuck in the middle of this urban desert was the oasis of St. Elmo Village. The driveway, a "U" through the ... ...y. They bought a fleet of baby,sized Austin cars with horns that played "Rock,A,Bye,Baby," for their salesmen. (As a pro' moter, I especially love ...

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...ten; and through their blindness it became to them ‘a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence.’ But think you that they stumbled in such a way as ... ...to them in that which hath been said. The first, “Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail ... ...n, and every bondman and every free man, hid themselves in t he dens and in the rocks of the mountains…from the face of him that sitteth on the thro... ...aspect of wrath, with which the prophet presents him, as coming to inflict their deserts upon his enemies. It appears now the time to deduce the ult... ...eturned, had established themselves throughout Judea, which they probably found deserted; for it is not said that the kings of Babylon sent any othe... ...rom destroying Babylon, far from reducing her and all Chaldea to a solitude and desert, did no other remarkable thing than place upon the throne of ... ...tirely hiding from us those celestial bodies, shall make them appear to us, now black, now pale, now bloody, producing on the surface of our earth a... ... Egypt. Now this is what is announced by Isaiah l. 3. “I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.” This is what is ann... ...Coming of Messiah Vol. 2 Part III. was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood.” Fourth c...

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...ental. ISBN: 1-4196-7552-4 First printing, August 2007 Copyright © 2007 by Angela Blacker and Minh Dong All rights reserved. Cover and i... ...or. Three other priests raced to the back of the temple to an inner sanctuary. Their long black hair was in tight braids, and they wore long, flowing... ...AY EGYPT “I don’t know if I will ever get used to working in the heat of the Egyptian desert. I honestly think I am about to pass out,” Alex moa... ... pants. “Later.” “Stubborn as ever…” he sighed. “My foot hit something solid.” “Like a rock?” he asked facetiously. “Here,” she pointed as she le... ...facetiously. “Here,” she pointed as she leaned over to brush some sand away. “This is no rock.” He knelt down beside her. She was right. It was def... ...Excited, they quickly established a small work area and set to clearing away the sand and rocks. A smooth, stone surface was revealed. Their eyes gr... ...me.” They resumed digging. Finally, the mysterious chest was freed from its long- hidden, desert-resting place. They fell back and sat in the sand, b... ...is old, worn Star Wars t-shirt. Bob was a rather messy, rotund sort, with thick, scraggly black hair. “Yeah, thanks anyways, looks like it was very ... ...is blessed with is called the Nile, but in this time, those names were not yet known. The desert sands that now blow in Egypt conceal, in their unto...

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...cused before Christ as wicked servants. Thus the holy fathers of old in the desert did not receive the sacrament in any form for many years at a tim... ...I Cor. 11[:23–26]. On them we must rest; on them we must build as on a firm rock, if we would not be carried about with every wind of doctrine [Eph.... ... we fell, and finding our way back to the promise then made to us, which we deserted when we sinned. For the truth of the promise once made remains ... ...133 in quascunque volent symplegadas. Luther is alluding to the Symplegades rocks at the entrance to the Black Sea, through which, according to Gree... ...plegadas. Luther is alluding to the Symplegades rocks at the entrance to the Black Sea, through which, according to Greek legend, Jason had to lead h... ...and drank the same supernatural drink. For they drank from the supernatural Rock which followed them, and the Rock was Christ.” Thus also in Heb. 11... ... remain unmarried; that is, those whose wives or husbands have run away and deserted them, to come back perhaps after ten years, perhaps never! This...

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...ere were no safe ports for ships, no bays, there were only sharp crags and rocks and cliffs. ... “Woe is me, Zeus has let me glimpse the land I’... ...rough this abyss 410 but I see no way out of the frothy sea only sharp rocks protrude with waves all around that scream and roar and only one na... ...ad blue-eyed Athena not whispered in his heart: and leaping he grabbed the rock with two hands, and he clung to it moaning, until the enormous wave... ...amples of self-creation. We can see them in the stars, the galaxies and in black holes; in Pangea that gave rise to the various continents; in the p... ...eciding to break my ties with everything I loved, facing emptiness and the desert, solitude and other people’s disdain. I also had to give up my ...

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...the stealthy shadows of vengeance which he knew must come. His eyes looked up at the Goddess, her blackness towered above him, her bulging eyes glar... ... THE CURSE OF KALI 1 Chapter 1 India-1851 Gavin studied the woman who lay asleep: her blue-black hair spread on the pillow, her long lashes f... ...the open window, he observed that she was stark naked, her pupils pinpoints in her dark eyes, her black hair wild about her shoulders and her finger... ...eaks towering above the city, on which stood the British fort. Its granite walls hewn out of the rocky massif, the fort dominated the valley below. ... ...ructive if things went wrong and Rosita suddenly feared for her lovely girl who had to walk this rocky road of marriage with such a man as Gavin Fre... ...drey Blankenhagen 90 your own country, but you will need courage and determination, for I see a rocky road ahead.’ ‘So, I will return to England s... ... what he had seen in her palm, perhaps even to hear him say that Gavin loved her. The temple was deserted except for a young woman performing some ... ...in,’ and Helen took the Scotman’s arm with an air of relief. ‘That drunken oaf will get his just deserts one of these days. It is only because I di... ... allowed to succeed him. The first was poisoned and the other died on a THE CURSE OF KALI 149 desert battlefield. These are the deaths honoured b...

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...ment you’re born, you’re born into a system: a system of right and wrong, black and white, a citadel of society’s expectations… and like all systems,... ...ssed their neighbors. It’s not up to them to make a difference: you don’t rock the boat when you’re in it… Human life is so fragile, so brief: and th... ... life is a spark of infinite possibility: EVERY LIFE. In the vast unending blackness that is the universe, out of nowhere bursts a red-gold spark. It... ... not been misled, in the old world: not led to believe that everything is black and white, that we were "good" and "machines were bad", and that tha... ...ars, or a hundred days... and then people would be killing each other with rocks and sticks, if that’s all they had, once they had come again to that... .... They forget -- they laugh, they dance, they fuck, they live. Why bother rocking the boat? they say. We're not in it anymore. Inside their own litt... ..... and you don't even know it. Pretty nifty... huh? You don't even need a Desert Eagle .50AE. If an Agent can become an exile, if an Agent can speak ...

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...ately reawakened to the work. It is like a person who wants to break a big rock. He takes a big hammer and hammers many times all day long, but they ... ...s all day long, but they are weak. In other words, he does not hammer the rock in one swing but brings the big hammer down slowly. After that he co... ...ammer down slowly. After that he complains that this work of breaking the rock is not for him, that it must take a hero to have the ability to break... ...s of Gershon: Libni and Shimei.” 4. The words of the Holy Zohar: “Yod is a black point that has no white in it.” 5. Malchut of the Upper becomes Kete... ... the letter Yod in the name HaVaYaH, which is the first letter, called “a black point that has no white in it,” meaning it is all darkness and conce... ...t when one comes to a state where one has no support, one’s state becomes black, which is the lowest discernment in the Upper World, and that become... ...ll the people, friends, his kin, all his possessions, and retires to the desert where there is nothing but wild beasts, without anyone knowing of h... ...d they were immediately salvaged. And afterwards, when they walked in the desert and came to a state of Katnut (smallness), Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag (...

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... inner Torah. The Book of Zohar breaks new paths, makes a highway in the desert. The Zohar and all its yield are ready to open the doors of redempt... ...following words: “There is an allegory about friends who were lost in the desert, hungry and thirsty. one of them had found a settlement filled abun... ...y delight. “So is the matter before us: we have been lost in the terrible desert along with all mankind, and now we have found a great, abundant tre... ...urpose of c reation lies on the shoulders of the whole of the human race, black, white or yellow, without any essential difference” (Baal HaSulam, “... ...at there is a kind of “dark energy,” that there are all kinds of white or black spots in the universe, that there are other dimensions that we cann... ...s a point in the heart, which is a shining spark. Sometimes, it is only a black point and does not shine. That spark must always be awakened ... for... ...ine, the green shell of the nut. The second is Bohu, moist stones, strong rocks, from which the authors of the Mishnah sentenced several sentences, ... ...d. It is written about that time, “And men shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of the Lor... ... whom the creator desires, as it is written, “To You my heart said.” “The rock of my heart.” “And a good heart.” “And heart was merry.” All were sai...

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...da. Question—the sensation of lack of the Light of Hochma in Malchut. Sela—rock or truth. The name of Malchut. Shechina—Divinity—the sensation (appear... ...as Bina, and not Malchut. Therefore, although Malchut herself is merely a black point (egoistic creature), as a result of her ascent, she becomes Bi... ... white – the basis of all colors red – most prominent green – most perfect black – cannot be changed by any other color - - - - - 129 THE LETTERS OF ... ... Such a form testifies to the absence of Light in the Kli; it is merely a black dot, as the law of restriction rules over it. The Sefira Hod is an i... ...ies to “bestow,” the popu- lated place – Malchut—no Zivug can be made; the deserted place The thing is that there is no GAR in AA, for the Supernal Ma... ...ned corporeal and spiritual Temples, where there is no connection between rocks and spiritual objects. It is also unclear to the uninitiated why alt... ... in it. And with this staff Moshe sinned by striking it twice against the rock. The Creator said to him: “Moshe, it is not for this purpose that I h... ... is comely” (Shir HaShirim, 4:3). This is because the Hebrew word Midbar (desert/wasteland) is derived from Dibur (speech). It is written of the mig... ...and then over a cup of wine, these forces flee thence and fly away to the desert. May the Merciful One save us from them and from the evil side. Her...

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...s the kind they use at the beach. Who cares? The words ‘Have a nice day’ together with a sketch of a round yellow head with two black dots for eyes ... ...der equality crap on the radio. Now, during ‘this time of the month’, our breakfast consist of cooked sweet potatoes and black tea. On a good... ...other. You should see Chimwemwe’s mother, mama. Her face is always painted with stuff and her lips are always red like blood or black like charcoal.... ...sease itself. And she was disappointed too, especially with Maggie, her former best friend. Maggie, of all people! How could she desert her at a tim... ...he should have. Instead, she was somewhere feeling ashamed and miserable. She knew Maggie was feeling miserable. If it were her deserting Maggie, sh... ... in Maggie’s shoes. She tried imagining what came over her. She couldn’t understand it. As far as her beliefs went, she’d never desert Maggie. Not e... ...loser to the four corners of the earth; corners erected by the Head Creator. Some days, especially Sundays, we’d sit on a big rock that was below ...

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...IC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S Short Fiction A Beheaded Cart Language of Black and Red On the Bus to Town The Butterflies are Laug... ...he wooden compartments with various snacks and trinkets, at pains to separate them neatly. Black sunflower seeds, white pumpkin seeds, the salted a... ...phalted, children turn adults, bringing their off-spring to buy from him a stick of bitter black chewing gum. Lone by his cart, he bid the dead far... ...ntegrating pushcart, the rain-drenched figure of his loved one, the whizzing torment of the desert winds, the sound of the crackling paper bags in ... ..., shreds, all full of blood…" – She pauses – "Why do you treat me this way?" Her Hebrew is rocky but sufficient to provoke a heated debate with sup... ... he can rise. I hold him under hairy, damp armpits. I confront him, seated on my grandma's rocking chair, a cushion clad in Moroccan equine embroide... ... my face is uncontrived and smiling. When I am serious, I am told, I am like a battered and deserted child and this provokes in you an ancient cuddl... ...ansive brow that most impressed me as a child. A swathe, pulsating in venous green, a milky desert, crisscrossed with brittle capillaries and strewn... ...in venous green, a milky desert, crisscrossed with brittle capillaries and strewn with bony rocks. Beneath this tract was Janusz: his wondering eyes...