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This volume is a collection of articles written by Frank A. Gardner, M. D., giving the organization and history of all the Massachusetts Regiments which took part in the war of the Revolution. They were published quarterly in The Massachusetts Magazine from 1908-1918. ...

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MAJOR GENERAL ARTEMAS WARD was born in Shrewsbury Nov. 26, 1727. He was the son of Col. Nahum & Martha (Howe) Ward. He graduated from Harvard in 1748. On Jan. 28, 1755, he was commissioned Captain of the First Company of militia of Shrewsbury and Major in the “3rd regiment of militia in the county of Middlesex and Worcester. . . whereof Abraham Williams, Esq. is Colonel.” Early in 1758 he was commissioned Major in the regiment of Col. Wm. Williams, raised “for the general invasion of Canada,” and took part in Abercrombie’s Ticonderoga campaign, being promoted to Lieut. Col. on July 3, 1758. On July 1, 1762 he became Colonel of the Third Regiment of militia of Middlesex and Worcester counties, continuing in its command until 1766. The episode of his removal is part of the political history of Massachusetts. It followed close upon his alignment against the prerogative party, in the political unrest fomented by the Stamp Act — and it was a summary action, put into effect without notice by the following communication delivered by a special mounted messenger: “Boston, June 30, 1766. To Artemas Ward, Esq. Sir— I am ordered ...

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Introduction: The Patriot Army at the Seige (sic) of Boston Chapter 1: Colonel John Glover’s Marblehead Regiment Chapter 2: Colonel William Prescott’s Regiment Chapter 3: Colonel Ephram Doolittle’s Regiment Chapter 4: Colonel Timothy Danielson’s Regiment Chapter 5: Colonel John Fellows’s Regiment Chapter 6: Colonel Ebenezer Bridge’s Regiment Chapter 7: Colonel Timothy Walker’s Regiment Chapter 8: Colonel Theophilus Cotton’s Regiment Chapter 9: Colonel James Frye’s Regiment Chapter 10: Colonel Ruggles Woodbridge’s Regiment Chapter 11: Colonel Thomas Gardner’s Regiment Chapter 12: Colonel Samuel Gerrish’s Regiment Chapter 13: General William Heath’s and Colonel John Greaton’s Regiments Chapter 14: Colonel Ebenezer Learned’s Regiment Chapter 15: Colonel Paul Dudley’s Regiment Chapter 16: Colonel John Mansfield’s Regiment Chapter 17: Colonel Asa Whitcomb’s Regiment Chapter 18: Colonel John Nixon’s Regiment Chapter 19: General John Thomas’s and Colonel John Bailey’s Regiments Chapter 20: Colonel John Paterson’s Regiment Chapter 21: General Artemas Ward’s and Colonel Jonathan Ward’s Regiments Chapter 22: Co...

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A charming and deeply spiritual book charting a journalist's search for stories of transformative encounters with the mysterious Green Lady, guardian of the forest. These heart-centred and soul-connected stories lead him to his own personal transformation, deep within the ancient, mystical forests of South Africa's Garden Route. Read this book... and be transported by magic and wonder....

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“Now I would like to guide you in your quest toward better understanding of the forest. I am well aware of the questions that you have been asking yourself in this regard and today I’m going to help you to find a few answers. Firstly, I want you to realise that when you walk in the forest you are actually engaged in a conversation with the forest on many different levels. On the chemical level, you are breathing in oxygen and a multitude of microscopic compounds produced by the plants, animals and micro-organisms that live in the forest and, in return, they are taking up the carbon dioxide that you breathe out, as well as obtaining vital information about you, your diet, your stresses, your attitudes and many, many other bits of information from the molecules that you breathe out. This chemical conversation changes both you and the forest. I think you’ve noticed how you become calmer and more relaxed when walking in the forest?” I nodded my assent and the Deva continued, “Of course you are also communicating on an emotional and spiritual level with the forest. Your feelings of love and gratitude literally feed the forest, as ...

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Maps Chapter 1: The Genesis of the Book Chapter 2: The Lady Chapter 3: Expression of the Authentic Self Chapter 4: Listen To Your Heart Chapter 5: The Changeling Chapter 6: The Warning Chapter 7: Peak Experience Chapter 8: Who Are You Really? Chapter 9: Writing Her into the Story Chapter 10: The Water of Life Chapter 11: Forest Fun and Games Chapter 12: The Importance of Roots Chapter 13: The Purpose of Suffering Chapter 14: The Giant Grey Ghosts of Knysna Chapter 15: All Is One Epilogue About The Author Q&A With the Author Excerpt from the Story of the Green Lady ...

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Updated September 2015. A simple, easy to use therapy for self use at home. Nothing is taken. It's effective and safe having been developed over 20 years and it works on many conditions. The materials used are inexpensive, household items easily obtained. This book contains a free step-by-step guide showing how to use The Therapy. Many have tried it over the years and it's hoped you will as well....

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Key Features: * Effective. * Nothing taken. * Safe. * For any condition. *Developed over 20 years. *No special skill needed. *No side effects. *Simple step-by-step guide. * Inexpensive, easily obtained items used. * Not for use by people under 18 years old or pregnant women. * Only plastic bags come into skin contact. * Everything's reusable except the batteries - unless rechargeable are used. * Use in your own time. * It works! The Therapy is energy based in 3 easy to use parts: 1) Removing energy harmful to health from a person. 2) Transferring energy beneficial to health into a person. 3) Personal Development - new in Version 3. It's new and different, but hopefully you will give it a try and receive substantial benefit. Nothing can be promised but relief should start a few days after using The Therapy Part 1... Good luck, Richard Clark, January 2015, Bedford, UK. ...

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1) The Therapy Part 1: Removing Harmful Energy Part 2: Adding Health Supporting Energy Supplemental Materials: Silica Gel Serotonin Injury & Accident Part 3: Personal Development Introduction Sea Salt Sodium Bicarbonate (Baking Soda) Magnesium Sulphate (Epsom Salts) Potato Starch Yeast Vinegar Wheat Bran Corn or Maize Rice Millet Oats Soya or Soybeans Sugar More on Personal Development Afterword 2) The Problem of Illness A) The Burning of Fossil Fuels B) Insect Life, Material, Energy & Bites - Clear Fluid - Insect Material and Energy - Insect Life - The Used Energy Residue of Artificial Heat and Cold - Conditions that Start in the Womb - Cell Division - Rheumatoid Arthritis - Energy Packets - Cancer C) Bacteria D) The Energy of Fungal Infections Conditions Involving Fossil Fuel Energy and Insect Bites General Conditions Clear Fluid Vital Energy Harmful Electrical Energy The Bodies Electrical Energy Water in the Body Skin Conditions Other Conditions Viral, Bacterial and Fungal Infections Life Supporting Energy 3) The Problem of Health 4) How The Therapy works The Therapy, It...

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The continuation of Teachings Himalayan adept Djwhal Khul. An alternative to quantum mechanics. The basic laws of elementary particles.

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Anne en anderen die in het Achterhuis leven in Amsterdam, worden verraden en op vier augustus negentien vier en veertig gearresteerd. De familieleden worden naar verschillende concentratiekampen gestuurd. Anne en haar oudere zus Margot eindigen in het Bergen-Belsen kamp. Anne verwacht verschrikkelijke omstandigheden, maar wanneer ze betrokken raakt met de SS bewaker Adolfo, is er een kans dat haar situatie van een wanhopige naar een hoopvolle verandert. In dit tragisch verhaal ontdek je dat onmenselijk en moorddadig gedrag tijdens oorlog vaak extreme vormen kan aannemen. Door het alsmaar terugkeren van oorlogen moeten we ons dan ook afvragen of de mens ooit in staat zal zijn om een vredige en vrije gemeenschap te creëren? Waarschuwing: dit verhaal is niet aanbevolen voor kinderen jonger dan twaalf jaar oud, vanwege aanstootgevende of schokkende scenes en gebeurtenissen....

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Anne and the others living in the secret annex in Amsterdam, are betrayed and on the fourth of August nineteen forty four arrested. The members are sent to different concentration camps. Anne and her older sister Margot end up in the Bergen Belsen Camp. Anne is expecting terrible circumstances but when she gets involved with SS guard Adolfo, her situation might change from despair to hope. In this tragic and disturbing story you will discover that inhumane and murderous behaviour of people can reach extreme levels during war. Because of recurring wars we have to ask ourselves if humankind is ever capable of creating a peaceful and free society? Warning: this story is not recommended for children younger than twelve years old, because of confronting or graphic scenes and events....

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A young man already promising to grow to great size and athleticism, a budding warrior. Once he leaves the failing inn on the edge of the Wastes, he has to make his way in the world. But how? Becoming a mercenary soldier is a good first step, but does he want to follow orders his whole life? Or give them? When Bear meets the mysterious youth called Mouse, he realizes that the two of them together might be able to call their own shots, and live an independent life. He doesn't hesitate... What might their life be like? What might it be like to make a living in their world? Come see, as they find work in Solstice, in Blackwood, and all over their world....

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We trudged up to the border post in a steady drizzle. Nothing but a dry-stack stone hut beside the road, the post held a single guard, grizzled-looking but tough. She stepped up to the doorway, but not out into the wet. "Welcome to the Barony of Rain," she said. "State your business." She didn't just look tough, she was tough. One guard, facing me and Mouse? Especially when she's closer to Mouse's size than mine? Okay, Mouse doesn't look like much unless you've been around, but me plus anybody is enough to make most nervous. Especially ever since Mouse got me this idiot bearskin to wear. People get nervous. I look like I might go all grisly on them. "Got an invite," I said. "Your Captain Arturo sent for us." "Not my Captain Arturo," she grumbled. "Do I look like a palace guard?" "Look like a body who wants to stay away from all the spitting and polishing." "Hah," she said. "Got that one. So, you got an invite from the glorious Captain?" "Said we did." "Lemme see—" She caught herself. "It's not in writing. You can't read." "Hah," I said. "Got that one. Word came from a cloth merchant, name of Darak." "One ...

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Map Bear, in Youth Bear and Mouse, in Dogtown Bear and Mouse, in Solstice Bear and Mouse, in the Ground Bear and Mouse, in Blackwood Bear and Mouse, in Port Sinful Bear and Mouse, in Song Bear and Mouse, Entrapped Bear and Mouse, at the Fire Fountain Bear and Mouse, at the Top Bear and Mouse, Entombed Bear and Mouse, in Rain Bear and Mouse, Entangled Bear and Mouse, at Home Afterword and Appendices About the Author...

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Justin Willehelm works for a security company, getting along in an ordinary life, until suddenly changing course. His boss blames him for a failed assignment, simmering tensions erupt in his wife leaving, and he's left standing and staring at the Passage River. Running water has always fascinated him, and there's something about this particular river… Justin ends up in the river, and then literally out of the world he worked in. He meets extraordinary people like Una and Kherida and goes to extraordinary places—"Kang as watchang out for you"—the Gate of Winds—on his extraordinary journey, but perhaps most extraordinary is his personal journey, as he becomes someone very different from the man he was. A spooky story of parallel worlds and imaginative invention, this is the third novel in the Roads Between Worlds series, but it stands alone, with no need to read the previous books first....

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Some of the best bits: @2019 Kevin Wade Johnson Call me vile. Call me a villain. But I wasn't willing to be a victim. * * * I scuffed at the ground, kicking a dead leaf into the river. It swirled away, caught in the current. I wondered where it was going. I sighed. What I needed to do was stop wondering, and decide where I was going. "You're on your own, leaf," I murmured, but thinking more of myself. * * * I had to look out for her the way she had for me. One-way loyalty means exploitation. * * * Fists clenched, I was seething when we walked off. All the shots in my pistol wouldn't fight off more than half a barracks' worth of invaders on this base. I was powerless to stop this…base treatment. I followed her across the seemingly endless planks, into the seemingly endless rain, chill drops running down roofs and buildings like seemingly endless tears. Or maybe the most vital fluid, of some cold-blooded, cold-hearted creature. * * * We kept walking, coming after about twenty minutes to a fence. Black wrought-iron, ten feet high, with sharp points at the top, I thought, in the uncertain...

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Chapter One: Let Me Go Chapter Two: A Forfeit Chapter Three: Fought for Life Chapter Four: O Obstinate River Chapter Five: An Unseen Impact Chapter Six: Like a Shark Chapter Seven: Cold as the River Chapter Eight: Watchang Out For You Chapter Nine: Impure Chapter Ten: They Moved Chapter Eleven: Following Through Falling Snow Chapter Twelve: Eye-Confusing Tangle Chapter Thirteen: Set the Boat on Fire Chapter Fourteen: Whispering Chapter Fifteen: White on Ivory Chapter Sixteen: Me a Few Feet from Me Chapter Seventeen: Where Does Infinity End Chapter Eighteen: Power over Others Chapter Nineteen: Freedom and Justice Chapter Twenty: Storm of a Thousand Worlds Chapter Twenty-One: Looming among the Stones Chapter Twenty-Two: Water Witch About the Author...

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I delight in wordplay and wittiness (with what wits I've got). So when the inspiration seized me to write eleven nonsense rhymes, with allusions ranging from Holmes to Vlad(s), some apt (I hope) coined words and a lot of puns and plays on words, I went with it. I've thrown in nine other poems either evocative or emotional (or maybe just fun), and I hope their slight contents provide some light entertainment....

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Would you play at wordplay If words would serve as toys? But if your words play you then Would you make only noise? If you would utter falsehoods Would wordplay play you false? If you then play as you would Then gentle life just halts If you would putter round with words Sputter them on out in herds If you would clutter truths with lies Your words—the kind that destroys Faith that words are more than ploys— Flutter off away like sighs Lasting long as butterflies...

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Nonsense Rhymes Have you seen that man from Flapdoodle? Holmes said—I heard—"The game's a foot" Daniel was the cats' meow A rose is a rose Unplugging a tank-ful squatter Vlad impales beef on silverware You only get out of it War is hell Slip-hippy girl with hair hangin' slank Would you play at wordplay Soot rhymes with put And a Handful of Poems Late at Night When You Lie in the Dark Time Across Space Crisis in Heaven Never Gonna Go With You, My Love I Miss You When You're Sleeping There's a Roo in My Zoo Snow—Not Sleet—Is Such a Treat...

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Shade mammoths, iron buffalo, and dodos; honeyberries, lightning pines, and mistle… It's 1840 in the United States, but a different country from the one we live in. Magic has been known for tens of thousands of years, and the only reason the colonies freed themselves from British domination is that Pennsylvania Rifles outrange the tyrannical power of Mastery. The colonies haven't gotten far into the interior yet; a different man from Thomas Jefferson was born in this different world, no one sent a Lewis or Clark to cross the continent, and any such expedition would have had to fight their way through undervines and dust wolves and more anyway. Zebulon Japheth Wright finds himself in a pivotal position. Even though he grew up just another hunter-farmer, he knows about yet another danger: society's suspicion of people who might be witches, especially slave liberators, gets those people attacked. What Wright will do with the power he finds he has, how he will use it in a society of individuals that distrusts individual power, and how his use of it will shape both him and his society, underlies a tale of magic, exploration...

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I stepped into a world o' gold, gold and yellow and orange and all the colors 'twixt 'em, with a hint o' red too. I didn't see no underbrush, nor the scrubbier trees, leavin' only the giants, 'cept they rose on up even higher here, no leaves or branches till hunnerds o' feet up. I could see the stream a mile or so t' the north, same as the world back home, the other burblin' along t' the east, and t' the south the ridge risin' slowly up, all reddish, till it topped out a hunnerd feet up. A native warrior sat astride a horse up there, silhouetted against the dawn-sky, impossibly stretched out tall, just like the Old One. He held a spear I knew he could throw a-fore I could move, could pin me to the yellow-orange sandy soil a-fore I could breathe. I raised a hand slow-like t' him, but he didn't move. I knew he was still poised t' throw that spear. And I could understand. Couldn't blame him, not really, though I didn't want him to, nohow. Aunt had told me 'bout our grandparents and great-grandparents, and hunnerds and thousands of others, all comin' t' these shores, all 'scapin' the trollin'—controllin'—tyranny wars in the Old...

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Foreword: Different World, Different People Chapter One: Taken for a Witch, 1836 Chapter Two: Natura, 1840 Chapter Three: Magica Chapter Four: Diablerie Chapter Five: Charms Chapter Six: Shapeshifting Chapter Seven: Sorcery Chapter Eight: Mastery I Chapter Nine: Necromancy Chapter Ten: Fascination Chapter Eleven: Phylactery Chapter Twelve: Mastery II Chapter Thirteen: Liberation, 1840-1841 Chapter Fourteen: The Will of a Free People, 1841-1869 About the Author...

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Expanded from 3 stories to 65, almost 150,000 words, ranging from my first real effort at a story, to more recent works of humor, horror, fantasy, parallel worlds, time travel, science fiction on libertarian worlds, a superhero tale, a couple of young adult stories, and holiday tales too. These stories were written between 1982 and 2020, and in the course of them I wanted to try a lot of different things. So they range from the very violent You've Seen the Video, Now Read the Story to the spooky Half Seen to the minimalist Princess Katana to the uplifting The Enchanted Treehouse to the bleak Doctor. Which is to say, I think anyone can find some stories in here they'll love…but maybe no one will love every story....

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Goblin Hound This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this work are fictitious, and any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. @2015 Kevin Wade Johnson I got to say my hands were shaking a little bit when I put the leash on ol' Jonesie. "You gotta help me," I told my grampa's dog, "'cause we gotta go looking for the goblin hound." Jonesie just grinned up at me the way she always did, a smiling happy hound the way she was, except when she caught scent of a raccoon or heaven help us a skunk, and went haring off after 'em, flying over the ground like some jet airplane or race car. I was scared, I'm not afraid to tell you. I was pretty sure I knew what the goblin hound looked like, from nightmares I'd had, where this huge dark thing all cloudy-looking, cloudy like the worst storm ever, all gray and black and gunmetal blue like the farm shotgun over the back door. Red eyes it'd have, not red like blood, but red like the big ol' sunset I saw on my birthday last year, when I turned ten, a sunset all glowing hot and burning and searing, but red too like the sun's last momen...

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The Original Ice Cold - Ice Cold - Exile - Emptyville Libertarian Worlds - Glamour Angel - Numb - Run - Cinnamon Girl - Love? I Can Get It for You Wholesale - Unauthorized Intrusion - Body Guard - You've Seen the Video, Now Read the Story Parallel Worlds - The Only One in the World - Exit Ramp - A Friend in Need - Reflective Phase Time Travel - About Time - One More Time - Time Change Science Fiction - Warrior of Empire - Free! (Dark) - Free! - First Contact - The Alien Woman Fantasy - A World of Dream and Nightmare - Devil of a Storm - North Woods Werewolf - Princess Katana - Invincible Horror - Botnet - Half Seen - Surly Bonds - Vampire Country - If Psychic Powers Are Real, Where Are They? - Resistance - Doctor - A Door Closed - Hector Superheroes - Nightwatch: Dusk and Dawn The Environment - Knightside - Rising - Blinded by the— Humor - Another Friday Night in the Multiverse - Immortality at Last! - Roman in Time - Bugs - Suddenly Ninjas Came Through the Window - The Lost Heir of Generica - The Bureaucracy of the Rings Early Efforts - Not…Human - Dea...

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The storyline is divide as "A CURSED OLD FRIEND", "WILD FLOER; THE FIRST KEY", "SECOND KEY AND A BADGER'S FAMILY", THE DESOLATION OF QUINDELD".

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"the whole world thrives for love"

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"A CURSED OLD FRIEND" "WILD FLOER; THE FIRST KEY" "SECOND KEY AND A BADGER'S FAMILY" "THE DESOLATION OF QUINDELD".

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A train, stopped on the western plains. A man rides up, on a horse he'd better relinquish. A struggle on board the train; a woman of surprising, even superhuman abilities, and an unconscious man. Who is this woman, named Aimee? For that matter, who is the man who comes to her rescue, named Phineas? How is it her train can travel to parallel worlds? Who are the people who attacked her train? "Beware of false friends, and false enemies." A world called "Aryan Trans-Atlantic." "Sumer is icumen in." Join a voyage of discovery, of who Aimee and Phineas are, not to mention Ammendina, Colonel Malcontent, and the Vicereine's husband. Discover where the overwhelming red dawns and the TONE take them. Discover what lies...across the worlds with Aimee and Phineas....

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I ordered staples and stores without any trouble, and went back outside to find a florid fellow questioning the wagon driver. The slave put his deed back in a pocket, and his questioner nodded and strolled over to me. "New in town," he observed. "Passin' through," I replied, pushing my hat back off my forehead. "Come in on that there train?" he said, lifting his chin to point. "Yep," I said. "Right nice," he observed. "Yep," I agreed. "Buyin' food?" "Yep." Why change a winning response? "Got any slaves aboard?" "Dunno," I said. "You don't know?" He seemed incredulous. "Nope." I grinned at him. "Don't go 'round askin' folks for deeds." "You gettin' smart with me, boy?" "Nope," I said equably. "Ma allus said, I ever get smart, that'll be a first." He stared at me awhile, then finally said, "Your ma was right." "Gen'rally so," I agreed. He stood with me while bags and barrels got brought out and loaded onto the wagon. "Quite a load," he said. "Yep," I said. "You ain't seen the half of it." "Gettin' more?" "Yep," I said. "This is 'bout half." "For a body as dumb as you, boy, you sure walk the edge o' smart....

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Chapter One: Aimee Chapter Two: Go West Chapter Three: Relations Chapter Four: Mounting Up Chapter Five: "Take Me Too" Chapter Six: Taking Advantage Chapter Seven: "Joined Her" Chapter Eight: "Mate with Me" Chapter Nine: Taking Liberties Chapter Ten: The Smell of Passion Chapter Eleven: Unforeseen Afterword About the Author...

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They were left to the study of academics, relegated to the realm of literary criticism. They were dismissed as creations of a poet, remnants of an ancient literary tradition. But they were more than that, far more. Grendel and his mother were living creatures. And they were more than relics. We know, because their descendants live today. We just don't think of them as Grendels anymore. We lump them in with serial killers. And we dismiss any hint of supernatural ability. Department G was formed at a British professor's insistence, as an American parallel to Britain's MI-G. The department's Team One has a proud tradition of protection…and an increasingly impossible task of providing Americans that protection, without causing too much risk, or panic. Impossible means lethal. *** This is a near-future science fiction novel, in a world that isn't ours but only differs in the detail of Grendels. Those serial-killing creatures make it horror as well, comparable I think in frightfulness to Patricia Cornwell's early Scarpetta novels. (If it's comparable in any other way I am blessed indeed.) I just don't want ho...

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…one, accursed, in man’s guise trod the misery-track of exile, though huger than human bulk. -Gummere, 1351-1354 "This heat is horrid," Butch muttered. I eyed her. We were crouched under camo cloths between a couple of half-dead acacia bushes in an arid, sandy plain, half a mile from a dusty ranch house, the sun beating down on us all. Half an hour ago, my phone had put the West Texas heat at well over 100 degrees. Nothing moved but a loose shutter on the house ahead. No breath of wind stirred anything, no sound could be heard except distance. Butch cursed under her breath. I said nothing. I kept watching the house, sweat trickling beneath my neular body armor. Butch was watching our one-eighty, make sure no one snuck up behind. "Is it always like this?" she asked. "If we don't see signs of life soon, you and I get to go in," I said. She cursed again. Silently, so did I. I didn't blame her. She was six-five and muscular, and probably never met a man she couldn't hammer down till she got into SOC. Maybe not even then, not till she was assigned to the department. Department G is the US governme...

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Prologue Chapter One: "A Lonely Place for Living" Chapter Two: "Knocked Our SOCs Off" Chapter Three: "Please Kill Me" Chapter Four: "Hire the Best" Chapter Five: "She's Gone!" Chapter Six: "Look Out" Chapter Seven: "Try Me" Chapter Eight: "Get Out!" Chapter Nine: "Time's Up" Chapter Ten: "You Win" About the Author...

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John Stephen Gray suffers sleepless nights from the memories of mistakes he's made, mistakes he can't forgive himself for. Or, at least, that he's never learned to forgive himself for. But neither he nor his daughter Janna have time to brood when invaders attack his home. In a world of visionaries who have invented such wonders as regeneration tanks, cloned hardwoods and advanced weaponry, they have to find a way to deal with their attackers, and more importantly the nature of their attackers; but they also need to discover their own abilities, the nature of those abilities, their world, so like and yet unlike our own, and its nature as well. Not to mention other worlds parallel to theirs. For all the visionary inventions of their worlds, their attackers use equipment strange to them. Where have the attackers come from? Where did they get, or make, their equipment? And why are they attacking in the first place? The Roads Between Worlds series, of which this is the second, deals with perception and understanding, along with parallel worlds, and parallel versions of humanity. Which is to say, along with the adventure...

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She ran out of the smoke straight to me. Gunshots and explosions boomed somewhere behind her. Fires flared. Dark-haired, dirty, and dressed drab, same as everyone else here in Bethlehem. Three years old? Four? I wasn't that good with kids then. I was slow. She'd grabbed onto my one leg, choking back sobs, before I could shoot her. Look, sorry, but too many kids were being used in this filthy little "uprising." Some had frag's or incendiaries taped onto them, under their clothes. I kept one hand on my M-7's trigger while I reached down with the other. Put my hand on her head. Gently. I'd always been good at sizing people up, once I could spend a moment, anyway. Always had a weak spot for kids. Or I'm just plain stupid. My heart turned over as the little girl cried against my body armor. "Hey," I said. "Don't worry, sweetheart. We'll track down your Mom and Dad. Your family. We'll get you back to them." She just cried harder. Never did find any relatives of hers in that inhumane mess. Never even found anyone who knew her, or could say what her name was. Worst day of her life, I bet, although she denies it. I...

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His own mother hasn't been willing to look at him since he was five years old. He and his twin sister have a connection that seems almost psychic. He realizes that close physical contact can let him know what others are thinking as well. His sister's different from most. He's different. But how? And why? He and his sister never knew their father, and their mother won't talk about the man. What they first learn only deepens the mystery. Could that have anything to do with how they're different? Maybe. But how? And why? They live in a more bureaucratic world. Mandatory service. Rules. Licenses. Their world is different. Could the difference be connected with theirs? Seems tenuous, but possible. Is so...how? And why? Trooper McInnes finds his talents lend themselves well to soldiering. Investigator McInnes becomes so good at detection that he gets a reputation for being practically telepathic. But he has to overcome the doubts his mother unwittingly saddled him with. He has to overcome the mystery that surrounds his and his sister's birth. He has to overcome the obstacles the world puts in his way. An...

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Gary McInnes gets his nickname of T-Man not from being transgender (although he meets and befriends a transwoman), but because of uncanny abilities he shows. How are they connected with this very different United States? Or the fact that his mother turns from him? He'll find out......

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Chapter One: School's Out Chapter Two: Back to Basics Chapter Three: G-Man Chapter Four: T-Man Chapter Five: Private Matters Chapter Six: The Visitors Chapter Seven: Points on the Plot Chapter Eight: Unraveling...

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Parallel worlds touch where two places are so similar that one leads to the other. Only people more perceptive than the norm can sense them, though. Einar follows the much more "knowing" Agnethe from one world to the next, each seeking their destiny....

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Snow was falling by the time the sun set, and I soon found myself in the monotonous state I'd been in last night. The frozen crust crumpling just a bit, the sharp wind, feathery with snow, icy against our eyes. No other skin was exposed, but it was once again too dark for the goggles. Winter nights have a certain, stark beauty. This far north, the nights last for hour upon hour; on a clear night, the stars glitter brilliantly. This clouded night, with the snow falling, the world instead became tiny, fading into pale shadows just meters away. The air seemed crystalline, the ground smoothed out by the drifts. Nothing moved, and I could almost believe the least impact would fracture the world. And that's exactly what happened. I fell to my knees, shouting wordlessly. My eyes had gone blind, my ears echoed with a vast soundless noise that swallowed my shouts into silence. My head was stuffed with cotton, or maybe guncotton, the way my skull felt blown to pieces. I moaned without hearing myself, pounded at the snow without feeling it. Then, for a little time, I felt nothing at all....

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Fifteen chapters and a prologue

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A science fiction novella with a political undertone, looking at what virtually unlimited power does, and how it might have been used over the years from 1934 into the 2010s...

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"[I]f the scientists are correct, the worlds out there are parallel to ours. Well, not parallel, but branches from the same tree, from the same history. … "Worlds where Tesla never heard about Yellowstone while visiting Colorado in 1903, never had his imagination fired by descriptions of 'Coulter's Hell,' never had the fundamental inspiration for the Tesla Field."...

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Like a Ghost Duel in a Ghostly Place The Senator's Ghosts Bay of Ghosts Ghost Watchers Ghost in Exile Gone Rogue Discovery Series Death in a Warehouse...

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A woman whose great loves in life are talking, taking her nieces on vacations to interesting places, and taking in strays, has unlikely experiences, becoming a hero? How unlikely is that? She, her young nieces, and various strays save the family, the space program, the world, the solar system, and, heck, even the universe? And they all become heroes? How unlikely is that? From Yellowstone to the National Hall of Statuary…cascarones…Old McDonald…sitcoms…"xanthic shores"…fending off blockers…bullies…Rosa Parks…ocher…"That was English?"…"'Erry Co'o!" Join Aunt Gabby and the girls as they use the most unlikely elements to save themselves and all the rest of us too from the wildest, weirdest, and wonkiest troublemakers ever seen on one world! Or even solar system. Heck, universe! "Aunt Gabby, things like this always happen on vacations with you!"...

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The three of them had stood at their places, along with all the senators and representatives, waiting for the new president to arrive. They'd stood. And stood. Graciella whispered, "Aunt Gabby, can't we sit down yet?" "We have to wait for the President." "Why?" "It's a sign of respect." "Oh. My feet hurt." After a moment, Graciella added, "Would Rosa Parks have done this?" "I think she would have, dear." But a few moments later, the President swept in, thanked their hosts, and sat down. Aunt Gabby and the nieces followed suit. After salads were brought out, and they chose forks, little ones in honor of Rosa Parks, they started eating. Aunt Gabby didn't even have to whisper anything about healthy eating. Just then, someone in a suit strode in and went to the President. A few whispered words, and the President stood up. Everyone else stood up. "I'm sorry," said the President. "I'll just be a moment. Please return to the wonderful food." The President stepped out with the suited aide, and everyone sat down. The President came back in. They all stood up. The President apologized with a sligh...

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Aunt Gabby Saves the Family Aunt Gabby Saves the Space Program Aunt Gabby Saves the World Aunt Gabby Saves the Solar System Aunt Gabby Saves the Universe...

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When they grew up, Radha and Vinod moved so closely that Radha's mother Bindu had to warn them. Even if from too younger days, together a boy and girl lived moving very closely, once they turn adolescent the girl shall not believe the boy as for as bodily contact is concerned. Radha actively participates in the conference. Delegates from all over the world are present. They discuss how even from the time Man came into existence, the female sex had been treated as subordinate to the male, in home, in religion, in society, in public, in government, in politics and so on. Vinod cheats Radha. Radha avenges. Justice prevails. ...

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The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) lists various forms of violence against women: rape and sexual harassment, child marriage, wife beating, prostitution, female genital cutting/mutilation, dowry-related violence, trafficking, sexual violence during wars, femicide, ‘honour’ killings, forced sterilization, pornography and bride kidnapping. “Violence against women also takes many forms of psychological abuse, intimidation and harassment. The lack of space or reluctance to voice discontentment and grievances, have added to the silence that veils these issues even though we see, hear and experience it in our daily lives.”...

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16 Scenes.