tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-439053481685711772024-02-19T15:10:51.986+11:00Soooz Says StuffWelcome to 'Soooz Says Stuff' 2016. I will be presenting new contests, Showcasing terrific Authors, and hosting some spirited debates. Join in the mayhem!Soooz Burkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02390489724415063410noreply@blogger.comBlogger421125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43905348168571177.post-7987090189296145982016-04-26T11:10:00.000+10:002016-04-26T11:10:08.314+10:00Book Review: Acid Jazz Singer by Nya Rawlyns.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> I'm delighted to revisit and review one of my favorite Authors...Meet Nya Rawlyns.</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Biography:</b><span> </span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Writer, editor and hopeless optimist. I've lived on a
sailboat on the Chesapeake Bay, ridden more than 1000 miles in trail
competitions on horseback, and been owned by two Newfoundlands. I'm
staff for a herd of cats and a herd of horses.</span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I've never met a potato chip I didn't like and I weight lift - which is probably fortuitous as I really like potato chips.<br /><br />I
don't write romance. I write emotion as a contact sport, rough and
often raw. It need not be pleasant, heart-warming or forever after. What
I seek is what lies beneath--a dance of extremes, the intersect of need
and desire, and the compromises we make when pain and pleasure become
indistinguishable.
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<b><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #404040; font-family: "inherit" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; padding: 0in;">Hearts & Other Dead things</span></b><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
</span><b><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #404040; font-family: "inherit" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; padding: 0in;">(A Cake & Quill anthology)</span></b><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jeremy wants Maggie back. Rosa hates Simon.
Adam can’t get laid. Graham hates cats. Maisie brings her new boyfriend home to
meet Mom and Dad. Yuki wants revenge. Jake really should get over his dead
girlfriend. Bradley gets offered a donkey. Doris should know better. And Peter
calls a number, hoping for a good time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #404040; font-size: 12pt;">A handpicked
collection of sad, mad, bad stories and poems from the realms of romance,
sardonic or macabre, infused with woe or mirth, to make you glad you’re single
– or wish you were.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #404040; font-size: 12pt;">Writers are:
Bradley Darewood, Cat Nicolaou, J. Cassidy, Charlotte Stirling, S.A. Shields,
Adam Oster, Angelika Rust, Ken Alexopoulos, W.D. Frank, Tina Rath, Yvonne
Marjot, T.M. Hogan, Chloe Hammond, Jay Robbins, A.E. Churchyard</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #404040; font-size: 12pt;">Cover by Charlotte
Stirling</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #404040; font-size: 12pt;">All proceeds will
go to <b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">HOME</span></b>, a charity in Singapore which works for the rights
of migrant and domestic workers, and against sex trafficking.</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: black; font-size: 11.5pt;">About the Charity</span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">“A
ragged, thin Myanmar girl gripped my hand through the fence and sobbed
repeatedly, ‘chei-zu tin-bar-te’ (thank you). I had done nothing for her except
to say hello and smile. This was my emotional introduction to the dark
hypocrisy that seeps into every fibre of Singapore.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">The
hourly abuse and modern day slavery that exist all over the city-state is
almost incomprehensible. Most people ignore it. Over time, the pampered living
seems t<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">o blinker our eyes to the huge divide between helper and employer.
Perfectly nice Western families forget their maid’s birthday, or exclaim that
their helper hasn’t seen their children for 2 years. But don’t offer to pay them
to return home.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">The
dehumanization of certain people, usually women that I witnessed made me feel
that I was living during Apartheid or the Holocaust and I couldn’t understand
why nobody else seemed bothered. Could they not see it? Seriously?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Whether
making a maid walk three paces behind carrying all the shopping, or denying
these vulnerable women any days off for months, or smacking them, or
humiliating them, or rationing their food. I helped where I could. Vitamin
tablets, hugs, phone calls home, extra food smuggled through the fence, and
more hugs. But I had no political voice there at all and protests are illegal,
so I decided to write a book. Writing is what I do. It’s my talent. And I
thought, just do it. Write it. Get it out there. Tell their stories. Give them
some acknowledgement. Something. Anything.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">HOME
is an extraordinary charity that actively helps these women to take legal
action, to escape abusive employers and re-locate if necessary. They advise on
contracts and employment. But most of all, they give hope when there is very
little left. This is why we have chosen them as the recipient of the proceeds
for this book and are proud to do so.”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">–
Charlotte Stirling, January 2016</span></span></span></div>
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<h1>
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My Review of
"Hearts and other Dead Things."</span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">When an eclectic group of writers, give of their valuable
time, and their clearly remarkable talents, to work together to write a book, specifically
intended to cover difficult topics; then, donate <b>all</b> proceeds from the sale
of that book to a Charity Set up to help victims of horrendous violence; together
with those other helpless souls caught up in the sex-trafficking that is
becoming all too familiar on the headlines of papers everywhere, then the very
least I can do as a reader is review it. </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Romantic's anonymous. A story by Bradley Darewood/ Cat
Nicolaou</b></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">So, what happens when you meet up with your ex in a therapy
Group Called 'Romantics Anonymous?
Initially I thought, oh- okay, interesting concept and frankly expected
something comedic. Don't get me wrong, some of the dialogue and self-analysis
is laugh out loud, and nod in agreement, funny! But this author has cleverly
combined the humor with some in depth insights into the needs that drive the
individuals concerned, and in consequence, their reactions to what they would
normally consider aberrant behavior. I love a story that causes me to reflect,
and when you throw in damned funny dialogue...well for me that's one hell of a
good way to start an Anthology. Look forward to reading more by authors Bradley
Darewood. And Cat Nicolau. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>A very clever poem by J Cassidy</b></span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This also comes under this heading. It is short, and
delightfully bittersweet.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Hambre De Las Calaveras. (The Hungry Skulls) A story
by Charlotte Stirling</b></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> As I have long
considered my visits to Singapore utterly memorable, and have in fact stayed at
Raffles both before and after 1990, the setting for this had me riveted from
the start.</span></span></div>
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</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">It touched on some of the Expatriate's behavior and
expectations, with a clever hand. Revealing much in but a few apt and marvelous
descriptions.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The cruelty which is handed down to the maid Dumadora ...is
devastatingly, and blindingly accurate in its brutality. The vengeance when it
comes is both unexpected and very welcome. Bravo! I look forward again, to
reading more.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>A Poem. By</b><b> </b><b>S.A Sheilds</b>. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This book has layers within it. They peel back like a
Spanish onion. The poetry is stunning. This one 'untitled' by S.A Sheilds, is
both gutsy and revealing. It hit me hard. The pain expressed is I believe
universal for anyone insecure enough to stay in a dreadful relationship because
it's all that they know.<b></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Girl of my Dreams – A Saga of Failure by Adam Oster</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Boarding school can be hell,
insecurity can be worse. First love (or a reasonable facsimile thereof) whilst
in Boarding school, and being insecure...phew! The stuff of nightmares for
folks caught up in that particular feeding frenzy. Again, I find myself drawn
to the characters depicted in this one. At times, in fact they are all too
painfully real.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sure I laughed, and the
measure of author Adam Oster's talent is that I wanted to cry for his misplaced
in time hero as well. It is irrelevant what the reader's own experience of
First Love...or lust maybe, therein lay the beauty of this story. For it hits
that wonderful <i>empathy</i> button that
many, but not all, humans possess. Still smiling.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> Rain. A story by
Angelika Rust.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">One of my favorite all time
singer/songwriters is Melissa Etheridge. One of her songs has the lyric "I
had rust on my dreams, and rust on my love." This very brief and sadly
compelling moment reminds me of that. It touches that chord. It pulls me back
to that pain. This anthology has some seriously gifted writers. Author Angelika
Rust, is yet another to add to my growing list.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>i think i need a shower. A Poem by Bradley Darewood</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I wish I didn't get the punch
line. I do. Still grinning at the very possible outcome.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Down The Drain a story by Ken Alexopoulos</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This one pulls no punches
whatsoever. It's both difficult to read because of its blistering honesty, and
impossible not to, for <i>exactly</i> the
same reason. Did I enjoy it? Hmm ... enjoy may not be the correct word. Did I
appreciate it? Oh, yes. It caused me discomfort. Any story and Author, that can
hit <i>that </i>button with me, is worthy of
me remembering.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>For The Love of Cats and Dogs a story by S A Sheilds.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Wow! This one snuck up and
bit me on the ass. No pun intended. I began reading this lulled into thinking I
was reading a simple expose of a 'Crazy Cat Lady'...wrong! Oh, so wrong. This
has far more. Layers upon layers, thought provoking, and complex. I loved it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Your World and Its Weather. A Poem by W.D. Frank.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I read and re-read this poem,
several times in fact, wondering just how I felt about it. I'm still not
certain. The pain within the words is very evident. The feelings it expresses
for me ... helplessness, acceptance, and something more, it's the something
more that troubles me, because I'm unable to define it. Isn't that what poetry
is intended to do? I asked myself that question. I came up with
"Yes." I'm going to read it again ... and again.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Buried Doll. A Poem by Tina Rath.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Another poem that challenges
me. I like being challenged. Hatred and vengeance? Perhaps. Again, the layers
of meaning. Damn! These writers are good.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Johnny on the Spot. A story by Yvonne Marjot.</b></span></span></div>
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</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The pacing and the dialogue
are marvelous in this story. It takes you on a rather unexpected journey, and,
it's a journey with a road that no man or woman wants to travel. The sad fact
is, that some people do ... thought provoking, clearly defined, and immensely
readable. Ticks all my boxes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Number 6. A story by Charlotte Stirling.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is one of the shortest
of all the stories, but it is one of my favorites. Author Charlotte Stirling
has that wonderful gift of being able to set a visual so clearly in my head
with her writing it becomes cinematic. The debauched and depraved are arrogant.
The things that they do are sickening. The payback ... is a bitch. Tightly
woven with wonderfully fast pacing. Memorable.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Deleting Jessy. A story by Angelika Rust</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Another fabulous read. This
one dealing with possessiveness to a deadly degree. Grief, moving on ... and
retribution gone mad. This author has marvelous insights into the processes
that drive us as humans, to do inhuman things.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Burn. A story By Ken Alexopolous.</b></span></span></div>
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</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Burn," caught me
utterly unprepared. It made me cry. The complexity of loving so deeply, yet
being afraid of the promise of a future without it. Withholding the words that
may enslave your soul. Beautifully written. Sadly powerful.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Valentine's Day. A story by T. M. Hogan. </b></span></span></div>
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</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I'm from Australia, and the
story is set here. The humor and pathos of this piece resonated with me. The
ending ... I refuse to spoil it for you. Suffice it say I thoroughly enjoyed
it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Sex in Santa Domingo by Bradley Darewood.</b></span></span></div>
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</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This one I viewed differently
as Author Bradley Darewood has shared with the readers a true situation (The
names have been changed) from his memoirs currently being written. This is a
powerful piece, and the author has allowed us to glimpse his life for a brief
time along his journey. The author has clearly reconstructed a learning curve
into his self-awareness. Honest, and well written. I'd be more than interested
to read his complete memoir when it's available.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Waiting. A Poem by Chloe Hammond.</b></span></span></div>
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</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Short, Succinct and Painful. Yes.
I liked it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Miss Angelika March. A story by Charlotte Stirling</b></span></span></div>
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</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Let me quote from the story
..."Then my heart turned hard and steel flooded those tight, little veins that
feed the eye, and my mouth tasted the betrayal like an overnight locust storm."</span></span></div>
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</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I was unsuprised that this
story hit me at gut-level; the above description only gives you a small taste
of the pain this Author can create with her words. It is Charlotte Stirling
again. The empathy she creates is stunning.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>To Hell and Back. A story by Jay Robbins.</b></span></span></div>
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</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Be prepared for this one, if
you can. The title is so accurate, and the journey the characters are on will
lead each of them into their own versions of Hell. This talented writer will
take you by the throat and force you to take that journey with them. You may
not enjoy the trip, but you will not be able to forget the journey undertaken
to reach the results. An absolutely riveting piece of writing. This is a stand
out.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Eternal Love. A poem by Bradley Darewood.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Being addicted to anything
carries with it a mandatory life sentence. Being addicted to another human
being can send you straight to death row. Another blindingly aware poem by this
author.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span>Miss Smith's Upgrade. A story by A.E.Churchyard.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>This story holds out a small
crumb of remaining hope for us as a species. The author takes us on a step into
the future of mankind. A.E Churchyard permits us a glimpse into the manner in
which we have been technologically prepared for lengthy survival in a world so
predictable and safe it's frightening in itself. As the title says, Miss Smith
has gone for an upgrade ... to, her implants. Not physical attributes
ostensibly, they are options to alter a facet of life that may not be as
satisfyingly comfortable as the receiver would wish. New Boyfriend? Sure ...
there is an implant for that, and just about anything else that remains of
human desires, and in consequence, their actions.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>The beauty within this story
is that glimmer, that faintly shining, seemingly unquenchable shadow we know as
hope. Author A.E Churchyard encapsulates it beautifully, and gives us as readers
caught up within these pages, a gift. A beacon leading to hope that seems to
continue to burn on within us all. A marvelous and satisfying read.</span></span></div>
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would like to wish each other a Happy Valentine's Day and also all our friends
the same. Our message to you all on this day is to look after and love your
nearest and dearest. With Paula being wheelchair bound and myself suffering
from cancer we find that any good we do for others comes back and makes our
lives better. Remember to share problems and to try and see a bright side
wherever possible. Above all, keep smiling and make life as good as you can for
yourself and everyone around you all.</span></div>
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I am a sixty-five year old ex-coal miner with no writing
training at all. I have written a series of comedy books set in a
fictional valley, the first one is 'Shakespeare's Cuthbert.' The
folk-lore of the valley says that the bard lived there as a teacher to
the children at Mandrake Hall. Whilst he was there he wrote his first
play entitled 'Cuthbert'. The play did not show Queen Elizabeth in a
good light and there would be dire consequences if it came to light. The
play has been hidden all theses years but the valley folk celebrate the
connection by staging a Shakespearean play once a year. These are
uniformly awful as the local residents have very little talent between
them. A sudden influx of strangers arrives to look for the play, can the
even stranger inhabitants stop them?<br /><br />Each of the Cuthbert books
has its own theme, but they all contain the larger than life characters
from Shakespeare's Cuthbert. <br /><br />Wild Wolf Publishing is my new
publisher and the first nine books in the series are all available now
as e-books and Shakespeare's Cuthbert is available too as an audio book.
Please look out for the tenth book which will be available hopefully
this year. I am currently undergoing cancer treatment, so there may be a
delay. We are hoping that new paperback versions of all the books in
the series will be available in the future too.
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members of amateur dramatic societies everywhere, lies a forgotten
village in a remote valley where the 'real valley folk' live, including
Cuthbert, the village undertaker, impressario of the shambolic annual
theatre production, and holy fool; Margery, the local beauty and mother
of the Mafia twins whose constant creative disruption provides a
reliable source of hazard and misadventure; the anonymous milkman whose
flashing teeth can fell a woman at fifty paces; Percy the gardener whose
still waters run curiously if not necessarily deep; and the regulars at
the Mandrake Arms who drink to remember, drink to forget as plots and
plans flourish in their midst.
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newcomers who have taken up residence of the seigneurial Mandrake Hall –
Henry, a prominent media reporter and his daughter who is more horse
than her horse; Henry's brother, Ronald, an adventurer, a mercenary and a
sometime crook; and the unreconstituted Captain and his much put-upon
wife Elspeth.
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parts and what are they looking for as they vigorously comb the village
and the extensive network of tunnels built beneath it? One clue is the
persistent legend that the Bard himself, William Shakespeare, was once
employed as a tutor up at the Hall (thus the annual village play) and
that there might still be fragments of his early work – a fumbling
politically-incorrect piece – waiting to be discovered. Fame and fortune
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undertaker in a forgettable village where legend has it William
Shakespeare may have misplaced one of his earlier works. For fans of
Rocky and Bullwinkle, I promise this bring back Frostbite Falls with a
delicious rush. Every line is a quotable gem. Cuthbert can't seem to do
anything right and that's what saves his skin... repeatedly. He
accidentally embalms his own jaw, he sees himself disappearing and
reappearing like a nun on a zebra crossing, and the poor fellow is so
neutral his reflection doesn't bother to show up.<br />Cuthbert is alone
in a dark tunnel under the town: "Cuthbert advanced down the tunnel
accompanied by a low moaning sound. It was unsettling, so he stopped
doing it." If you enjoyed the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, you'll
love Shakespeare's Cuthbert. Douglas Adams and then some. Highly
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who have decided to march into lush pastures and by-waters nobody knew
existed, even their inhabitants, and turn them into an out-of-town
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As in the first of the Cuthbert series, the endearingly portrayed Percy and Cuthbert never failed to engage.<br /><br />The description is very individual to the author, refreshing to read. I particularly liked it when<br />"Percy collapsed on his knees, panting like a ruptured steam boiler".<br /><br />And
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presence of an underlying compassion between them, warts 'n all. In
places I thought Percy comical but he can be hurt, he can sulk, like a
human, and Cuthbert understands.<br /><br />The character's belief that
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Arkle, the woman more equine than a horse, to challenge, “Would you
redundant hunter-gatherers care to challenge the weaker sex?”, and it
becomes immediately apparent to the men present in the Mandrake Arms
that with Cuthbert and Percy in the team, the men would probably lose a
game of golf against the Valley’s resident crow or Blind Pugh the
sheepdog, never mind against its formidable women.
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<br />As it’s too late for Ronald to retract his statement, and apology is
beyond him, he blunders on, upping the ante with, ‘You name the prize,
then,” before sinking all the men's hopes with, “And you can pick the
teams.”
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<br />“Done,” declares Arkle, and surely they are unless they can come up
with epic amounts of skulduggery, probably with the assistance of the
ever-willing Village Mafia, to offset their evident and woeful lack of
golfing skills. But the women have some plans of their own and have not
the slightest intention of losing. And so this hilarious series,
brimming with memorable characters and witty one-liners, continues …
<br />
<br />Book #3 in the Cuthbert Series</div>
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5 Star review for Cuthbert Tea For Two in The Valley.</h3>
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bought this book immediately I saw it. Hurray now for another great
read. The characters are all there, Jasper, Henry, Ronald, Percy to name
a few. The new interest rears up demons with Ronald's patronizing
statement. Arkle raises her head - and it's war. This is amazing, and I
am not going to say more as I don't want to put in spoilers. Suffice
to say, I read it in two sittings. I wish I had taken my time as I am
now waiting for the next. At least I can read it again and again.<br />Great plot, fast pace and strong structure all go to make Tee for Two another win for this talented author.<br />Highly recommended</span></div>
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<span class="a-size-base review-text"> </span>The Valley is a place populated with the eccentric and paranoid. In a
continuous series of unfortunate misunderstandings, mixed communication
and tomfoolery, Death Valley will have you smiling and laughing out
loud.
<br />
<br />Just when Cuthbert thinks life is becoming dull it turns out he's
botched up burying people. Now he's being investigated just as an
orchestra rolls into town. As always plans go awry, disasters abound,
and a stranger with a horse-drawn hearse is plotting for plots of the
dead.
<br />
<br />This satirical installment of the Cuthbert series continues to
entertain in endless silliness, the characters endearing, and your funny
bone will be honed once again by Patrick Barrett's special brand of
humour. </div>
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The Cuthbert series continues with hilarious shenanigans when a circus
unexpectedly arrives in Cuthbert's yard. This unlocks a spellbinding
plot to discover the missing gold reputed to be left to Cuthbert by his
enigmatic Aunt Edith.
<br />
<br />Soon the local council honcho, Marvin, gets an anonymous tip, and he
sends the Drains workers to conduct maintenance and digs in a bid to
reach the gold first. These men work in a fug and a fog, their funny
antics and eccentricities enough to have you spilling tea in laughter.
<br />
<br />The secret room is no longer secret, the book of secrets is
mysteriously blank, and the search for the missing gold sees a hippo
down tunnels, lost lions replaced, and Percy scaring the daylights out
of the team operating in the dark.
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<br />Hold onto your hat, the madness continues.
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5 Star Review for Cuthbert's Flying Circus</h3>
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More constant laughs from this mythical valley with some of the
strangest characters you could ever hope to meet. Highly recommended. </div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"> Cuthbert’s Valley is abuzz when the ladies decide to take part in a
cooking competition! Suddenly everyone makes the best pastry and
everyone is suspicious of the other as secret recipes try and remain
hush-hush.
</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span>
<span style="font-weight: normal;">When Arkle leaves a cube of pastry with Cuthbert to hide her secret
formula, Cuthbert and Percy think they must heat it for her and pop it
into the oven, with hilarious results. The upshot is tunnels of dough,
two rampaging goats, the drains inspector and his team attempt a strange
rescue, and the two men decide they may have licked this baking gig.
Why can the men not take part, after all? They have the pastry; all they
need are some exotic fillings … like four and twenty blackbirds.
</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span>
<span style="font-weight: normal;">Add to that a note in a wall with hieroglyphs that brings the ‘men
in black’ and a concoction of dough that causes wrinkles to vanish, a
live transmission from Cuthbert’s kitchen, and a true recipe awaits, one
of absolute disaster! </span><br />
<br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00UJREKAU/ref=cm_sw_r_fa_dp_uKWVwb0FXVCKD">Book 7 Cuthbert 'Sledgehammer To Crack a Nut' Purchase Here</a></span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">When little toy soldiers suddenly become men in costume upon a
battlefield, Cuthbert's Valley is in trouble. The Great Dragon Droppings
require a place to play the war game Sledgehammer, a place to build
forts and throw stuff at each other.
<br />
<br />Percy betrays his friends to play at soldiers and along the way
discovers gold miners and a gold mine, and strikes a deal with the crow
for the battle to come. Elspeth reveals her talent for espionage and
Marjery is a warrior queen!
<br />
<br />The inhabitants of Cuthbert's Valley will lose everything, including
their homes, if they don't take a stand and fight off the Dragon
Droppings. Bows and spears bristle from the parapet and bushes attack
the enemy! Pastries are dangerous weapons and Winston is a lad who
dances to his own rhythm.
<br />
<br />Absolute mayhem ensues when the valley transforms into a Sledgehammer world.
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><b><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00UVQBB6K/ref=cm_sw_r_fa_dp_6KWVwb0900Q7A">Book 8 Cuthbert 'Nursing A Grudge' Purchase Here</a></b></span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span>Just when the Valley residents think life is getting boring, Nurse
Brenda shows up on her squeaky bicycle with syringes planted in her
hair.
<br />
<br />Cuthbert bears Nurse Brenda a grudge for past misdeeds, but this is
one fanatical district nurse. When she sees the joker Percy with blue
eyes and lips after he chewed on a pen, she goes into action. There is a
terrible disease in the Valley; it turns its victims blue! Quarantine!
<br />
<br />The Valley is soon pitted against a brigade of district nurses and nearby a new hospital prepares a containment facility.
<br />
<br />Things are about to go to haywire, quite literally when a fence
springs up around the Valley overnight. Hold onto your hospital beds! </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B012L32CK4/ref=cm_sw_r_fa_dp_BLWVwb18D6760">Book 9 Cuthbert 'A Fair Cop in The Valley' Purchase Here </a></span></b></h3>
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<b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></b>A police station in the Valley? Did anyone really believe constable
<br />Beeching's reports of a massive crimewave?
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<br />The locals look on in awe as inevitable chaos prepares to spring.<br />
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So, a marvelous collection of books guaranteed to make you smile. Do yourself a favour, folks, try one of them, but be warned they are addictive.<br />
Pop in and leave a comment. And from me, a very Happy Valentine's wish for each of you. x<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">I am so pleased to be presenting <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Jean Joachim as my Author Showcase A<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">uthor #3</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> For <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">all</span> of you that love reading a beautifu<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">l</span>ly written Romance...Look no further ...Best selling Au<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">thor, Jean Joachim has <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">done it every time!</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<b>Jean Joachim.</b></h2>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt;">About Jean
Joachim</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jean Joachim is a
best-selling romance fiction author, with books hitting the Amazon Top 100 list
since 2012. She writes mostly contemporary romance, which includes sports
romance and romantic suspense.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Dangerous
Love Lost & Found, First Place winner in the 2015 Oklahoma Romance Writers
of America, International Digital Award contest.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Renovated Heart won Best Novel of the Year from Love
Romances Café. Lovers & Liars was a RomCon finalist in 2013. And The
Marriage List tied for third place as Best Contemporary Romance from the Gulf
Coast RWA.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To Love or Not to
Love tied for second place in the 2014 New England Chapter of Romance Writers
of America Reader’s Choice contest. She was chosen Author of the Year in 2012
by the New York City chapter of RWA.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Married and the mother of two sons, Jean lives in New
York City. Early in the morning, you’ll find her at her computer, writing, with
a cup of tea, her rescued pug, Homer, by her side and a secret stash of black
licorice. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Plans for 2016:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">I have big plans for 2016. I’ve
already begun bringing my books to international markets and audio books. I’m
finishing my football series and planning to bring out a baseball romance
series. After that, I’m planning to write two more series, one about cowboys
and one involving rural romance. But those series may have to wait until 2017.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">A brief <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">chat with the Author.</span></span></b></span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;"> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">Have you always known
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facility for writing in the world of advertising. My first writing gig was as a
radio copywriter for a radio station. I loved creating commercials. Years
later, I wrote a nonfiction book for St. Martin’s Press. But I didn’t get to
writing fiction for years after that. When I finally allowed myself to try it,
I found I loved it so much I didn’t want to do anything else. And I’ve been
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mother who her favorite child is. Each book is so different, it’s impossible to
compare them. I love Mac and Danny from my Now and Forever series. The Marriage
List is great if you’re feeling depressed. The Hollywood Hearts series is
glamorous, The Manhattan Dinner Club is poignant with funny pugs and the First
& Ten series has football action scenes and riveting love stories. How
could I possibly choose?</span></i></div>
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improving your craft always use edits, learn everything you can. This is a
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Nancy Drew. I have written two romantic suspense books with another writer. I
intend to have at least one mystery series, after I run out of romances, which
may not be for some time.</span></i></div>
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heart-breaking star quarterback of the Kings – a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>6’4”, 33 year old womanizer. Lauren Farraday
is a beautiful young interior designer, bitterly scarred by divorce, whose life
is falling apart. Though they violently oppose one another in court over her
beloved pug (she thinks he’s arrogant and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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are the bare bones of this sizzling romance, riddled with passion -- the first
in a brand new series that’ll tantalize football fans and have readers glued to
every page and on the edge of their seats!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Griff
looks like a super hero with his tousled, mahogany hair, dazzling smile, dark,
sexy eyes, and a body<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that does
something indescribable to a tight pair of jeans. Though Lauren’s sworn off men
forever, one look sends shivers down her spine, making her feel lonelier than
ever before. Her lustrous, long hair, sparkling green eyes, and nonstop curves
make his fingers tingle at the thought of touching her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How do they deal with their cataclysmic
attraction? Will they be able to drop their protective facades – his to
camouflage his grief over his sister and her family, for whom he was a
surrogate father, moving 3000 miles away…. And hers’ to shield her from the
incalculable loss of her husband and hoped for child? </span></div>
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For Lauren, it’s like putting on cleats and a helmet and running 50 yards…. Can
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Fans of sports romances, hot athletes, strong
heroines, and pugs will want to grab a copy of Ms. Joachim`s first book in her
new First and Ten series. There is nothing not to like in this well written and
sensual read. The characters are fun, sexy, and engaging. The plot is tight,
the dialog crisp, and the bed play hot. I can`t wait to get my hands on the
next book. If you`re looking for a new sports romance series, look no further!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">While I'm not a sports fan in real life I'm
becoming a real fan of sports romance novels. This is my first football romance
and adored Griff. He was rough on the outside, but had a heart heart of gold.
The rough-talking charmer won my heart from from the first page.<br />
Griff and Lauren's story is a real emotional roller coaster and I don't want to
give any spoilers, but it could have some emotional triggers for women. I cried
my eyes out in certain scenes.<br />
I loved the slow build of the romance,the hot love scenes,and the camaraderie
between the players and look forward to seeing more in the series.</span></div>
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Successfully shunning the limelight was one way for Megan Davis to keep her
family secret. The press intruded on her life when her twin brother, Mark,
became the star quarterback for the Delaware Demons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Disrespectful of tabloid
superstars,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>financial advisor, Meg,
was shocked when she was tapped to launch a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>celebrity division in the
prestigious<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>investment firm, Dillon
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women who wanted to bask in his fame or sell his secrets to the media, valued
privacy above all else. Would attractive Megan Davis, his new financial advisor
charm the truth from him or would he continue his high profile but lonely
existence to keep his secret safe? Jealousy, deceit and scandal threaten two
careers and the quest for true love and trust in this roller-coaster-ride
contemporary romance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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work and this one certainly doesn't disappoint!! Make sure you have time to
read this in one sitting, you won't want to put it down. From page one the
reader engages with Meg and Chaz. It's very easy to invest in these characters
and I found myself laughing and smiling along, and even let loose a tear or two
at times. I would recommend this to any reader, it has everything you could
want, the ups and downs of a real relationship and the HEA every woman wants.
It definitely let you wanting more, as the end was kind of a cliff hanger (not
to Meg and Chad's story) I can't wait for book 2!</span></span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span class="a-size-base"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">I loved this story of
Megan and Chaz (Dunc). Megan is a witty and smart financial advisor who is put
in charge of developing a celebrity division in her firm and Chaz is a gorgeous
actor who becomes her first client. Megan has a famous football star as her
twin, so the celebrity status doesn’t faze her, nor is it a scene she wants any
part of. Chaz prefers to stay out of the lime light and because of his status,
he hasn’t been big on dating because how does he know if someone wants him for
him or wants him because of his fame.</span></span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span class="a-size-base"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Their initial meeting was
great, especially when Megan put his status on the table stating: “I don’t give
a damn you’re famous, okay. Can we get that straight? I’m not impressed, not
going to grovel at your feet. You’re simply a potential client whose money I
may be managing. No more and no less. I’m not going to swoon and ask for an
autograph or throw myself at you. Of course, I’ll do my best to take care of
your money as if it was my own, but that’s as far as it goes.” As far as it
goes….famous last words. The attraction between them is instant. As they begin
their professional relationship, a personal connection begins and the most
difficult bond of trust is formed when they both share private and painful
stories of their past. </span></span></div>
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<span class="a-size-base"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">The meatloaf dinner was
heartwarming and really showed us the loving, caring side of Dunc from the
Bronx.</span></span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span class="a-size-base"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jean tells a realistic
love story with the trials and tribulations a celebrity couple endures from the
celebrity gossip rags and people who are jealous of what others have. When the
jealousy of others rears its ugly head, a scandal is created and threatens the
careers of both Megan and Chaz and their budding relationship. Is their love
for one another strong enough to overcome the obstacles thrown at them?</span></span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><br />
<span class="a-size-base">This is definitely a book I highly recommend and I look
forward to more in the series. I hope Quinn is next!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> Hi and welcome to my entry in Chuck Wendig's Flash Fiction Challenge. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Rules...select a title from the ten provided, and write a flash fiction piece 1000 words or less ... any genre.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">I had so much fun writing this. The link will take you to the other entries. Thanks for stopping by.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> <a href="http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2016/01/22/flash-fiction-challenge-ten-more-titles/">Chuck Wendig's Flash Fiction Challenge.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span style="font-size: large;">Title ... The Music Box of Manhattan.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">They were lined up around the
block, even in the heavy snow that had been falling steadily along with the
temperature, for around fifteen minutes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">I smiled as I watched them
from the warmth of my darkened penthouse. I enjoyed them. They caused me to
laugh, often to the accompaniment of a melancholy melody of tears.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">They all waited in varying
stages of disarray, most of them wanting to shine so badly they could smell the
faint perfume of success in the chill air of the pristine night.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Each of them willing the
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included in that echelon of faces that graced the headlines in a constant
stream of indigestible crap.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">"The Music Box of
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The latest of a plethora of reality TV shows that had hit the taste buds of a
starving public. The latest monster hit.</span></div>
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town for decades. It was the address that folks had been fighting to buy,
albeit, unsuccessfully, for over five decades. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">"It's Ms. Farnsworth,
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">"And the
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reaction when ten minutes later, the assistant manager stopped in front of
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cassandra Davis woke suddenly, then stretched
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was today. She sat up and checked herself in the mirror. "Yup ... it's me,
and now I'm even talking to myself!" Her laugh rang through the small
apartment she shared with four other actor wannabes.</span></div>
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happened; her life appeared to have been on perpetual fast forward since that
night at "The Music Box." The agent said he was interested in talking
with her. She'd hung up on him thinking it was a hoax, or some sick form of
prank being played by one of her friends. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">James Finch was the best of
the best in this or any other town. She'd been trying for over a year just to
get beyond his receptionist. The fact that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">he</i>
would call <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">her</i> was beyond thinkable.
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convince her.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">What followed would forever
remain cloaked in a magical haze, for Cassandra. She'd been called back to read
again, twice. Winning the role others would kill for still caused her to pinch
herself. She relied on her friends to keep her balanced in a universe that had
suddenly experienced its next 'Big Bang'.</span></div>
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latest client accepted her Oscar with stunning simplicity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">"It's in her smile, and
the way she holds her head." James offered. "C'mon, sweetheart, you
know the classics as well as I do. Look at that smile."</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">"The smile and the way
she holds her head." Frank muttered half to himself as he scrutinized the
winner again. "Oh, my god. It's Grace!" </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">"Bravo. Now she has been
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away from royalty."</span></div>
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Soooz Burkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02390489724415063410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43905348168571177.post-25876718637523936582016-01-10T12:13:00.003+11:002016-01-10T12:13:51.616+11:00Author Showcase. Featuring, Gerry McCullough.<h2>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Presenting Author...Gerry McCullough.</span></h2>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am so delighted to be able to bring you Best Selling Irish Author, Gerry McCullough.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Meet Gerry...</span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #1d1d1d;">Gerry McCullough lives just
outside Belfast, Northern Ireland. She is married to singer-songwriter, writer,
radio presenter and publisher Raymond McCullough, and has four children. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #1d1d1d;">She won the Cuirt Award for
her short story Primroses in 2005, has won, been short listed and commended in
many other literary competitions, and has had over 70 short stories published
in magazines, broadcast, or published in anthologies.</span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #1d1d1d;">Gerry's first novel, <b><i>Belfast
Girls,</i></b> published by Precious Oil Publications, was a #1 bestseller on
paid UK Kindle. It was followed by <b><i>Danger Danger</i></b>, and then by <b><i>Angel
in Flight,</i></b> the first of a series featuring Angel Murphy, a
strong-minded Belfast Girl. Her second Angel Murphy thriller, published in
2013, is </span><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Times New Roman Bold";">Angel in Belfast. Johnny McClintock’s War</span></i></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Times New Roman Bold";"> </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #1d1d1d;">was published in August 2014.
In June 2015<span> </span>came </span><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Times New Roman Bold Italic";">Hel’s Heroes</span></i></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #1d1d1d;">, a light hearted romantic
comedy. Gerry’s latest book, </span><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Times New Roman Bold Italic";">Dreams, Visions, Nightmares,</span></i></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #1d1d1d;"> has just been
released, 1 January 2016. This is a collection of eight of Gerry’s prize
winning literary short stories, extended and edited, and it will be on sale
through Countdown for a week starting on from 6th February 2016 at 99p/ 99c, so this is the
perfect time to buy it!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #1d1d1d;">In 2016, Gerry hopes to finish
her third Angel Murphy book, </span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Times New Roman Bold";">Angel in Paradise</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #1d1d1d;">, which is currently halfway there. But before that a very
different book, </span><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Times New Roman Bold Italic";">Not the End of the World,</span></i></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #1d1d1d;"> a comic fantasy
tribute to the late great Terry Pratchett, will be out at the end of January,
followed by a third collection of light Irish short stories in the </span><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Times New Roman Bold Italic";">Tales of Old Seamus</span></i></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #1d1d1d;"> series, </span><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Times New Roman Bold Italic";">The Seanachie 3: Seamus and the Shell and other stories.<span> </span></span></i></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #1d1d1d;">Variety is the spice of life!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #1d1d1d;">HEL'S HEROES. Commencing 10th January 2016.</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Helen McFadden </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif;">...</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"> Hel for short </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif;">,</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"> is a successful
writer of Historic Romance for the eBook market. But one day she decides that
she needs to get out and experience a bit of real life. She is soon clubbing,
partying and generally having a good time </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif;">,</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"> and men are springing
up in her life from all directions.<br />
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There</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif;">'</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">s Jason, the actor, Paddy the happy-go-lucky
businessman, Jordie the footballer, Markie the pop star, even Pete, her old
friend.<br />
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But do any of them measure up to the heroes she writes about </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif;">,</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"> especially Jack, the highwayman in her current book?<br />
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Will Hel ever learn to relate to a real man and stop expecting to meet a clone
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">5 star Reviews:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">This is an outstanding and cleverly crafted novel. Don</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif;">'</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">t be fooled into thinking that because it</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif;">'</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">s a romance novel there is no action, adventure or deep plots
and sub plots. It</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif;">'</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">s actually a bargain as it is two books in one
and I do not mean one after the other instead one inside the other. The
storyline appears simple, an author who writes historical romance novels is
writing her latest book, which you read and enjoy as she develops it chapter by
chapter. Meanwhile she suddenly decided to try to organise and improve her own
life by </span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif;">...</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">getting a life</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif;">,</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"> after spending
extended period devoted to her writing, which had made her successful, but meant
she was lacking the hero in her life that she always gave the leading ladies in
her novels. Hel soon discovers after a string of comical and a couple of
potentially serious events that the course of finding her hero and true love is
a complex job and for her it</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif;">'</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">s easier in her historical plots, which she
takes refuge in when the going gets tough. The references to Belfast places,
restaurants and pubs, etc., as part of the storyline is an added bonus for
someone with Belfast on their visiting wish list.The twist at the end is
awesome. A highly recommended read.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">***** </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span>This book was a departure from Gerry
McCullough's usual genre. In this book she has written about romance, and it's
complexities.</span></div>
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You get two books for the price of one, for as the heroine, Hel, starts to
explore her own romantic life, she also writes her latest regency novel, which
follows the adventures of Annie, and her swashbuckling dreamboat, Jack.<br />
Gerry has expertly woven the book around the two stories, making it
unputdownable as you want to find out what happens to both Annie and Hel.<br />
The comparison between Helen, the author and Annie, the character is
obvious..Annie and Hel are both true romantics with a nievette,</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"> charm and total innocence. The circumstances
over her parents illnesses, where Helen was their carer, followed by her
writing career, have left her isolated like a long ago heroine in a Manor House
( Annie).<br />
The parallels are obvious, and Hel decides she wants a social life and
boyfriends...so she throws herself in head first! This introduction to social
life leads to some hilarious scenes, I laughed out loud in places! However,
Helen believes there is a romantic,handsome man out there, waiting for her. She
lives the romantic idyll of her heroine Annie.<br />
But real life is not like that! We do not live in a romantic novel from a
bygone era.<br />
Gerry excels at portraying the personalities of her characters, especially the
vulnerabilities of her heroines. This is an excellent book, with levels of
emotion and life lessons,. It resounded deeply with me, the only problem being,
I got no sleep, by staying awake to finish it! The heroes are good, bad and
indifferent , with Hel unable to differentiate ...looking for the wrong
attributes.<br />
A fast paced, gripping tale of two romances...and a woman's introduction to
real life. The question is ...will she wake up and smell the coffe and discover
the reality of mature love? Or will she retreat into the fantasy heroes of her
books? Read this to find out!<br />
I would recommend everyone to read this book. You are in for a treat!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Authors latest book ... Dreams, Visions, Nightmares. On sale from 6th February 2016.</span> </span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">A collection of eight literary and award-winning Irish short
stories, (newly expanded and edited):</span></b></span></div>
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<u><b>Primroses</b></u> (winner of <i>Cuirt international Literary Award</i>,
Galway 2005, published in <i>West 47</i>magazine and <i>Cuirt Annual
2005</i>)<br />
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<u><b>Pink Silk</b></u> (published in <i>Verba</i>l magazine, Derry, 2008)<br />
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<u><b>Shadows</b></u> (published in <i>Brazen City</i>, Belfast 2008)<br />
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<u><b>Giving Up</b></u> (commended in <i>S'e</i></span><i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif;"></span></i><i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">n O</span></i><i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif;">'</span></i><i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Faolain Short Story Competition</span></i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">, Cork 2009; published in<i>Sharp Sticks,
Driven Nails</i>, Dublin 2010)<br />
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<u><b>Slipping</b></u> (published in <i>Ulla</i></span><i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif;">'</span></i><i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">s Nib</span></i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"> magazine,
Belfast 2009, winning Star Prize)<br />
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<u><b>Ballystravey, 1988</b></u> (published by <i>Luciole Press</i>,
California 2009; shortlisted for <i>Cuirt Award</i>, Galway 2010;
published in <i>Crime after Crime</i> anthology, USA)<br />
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<u><b>Stevie</b></u></span><u><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif;">'</span></b><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">s Luck</span></b></u><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"> (shortlisted for the <i>Brian Moore Award</i>,
Belfast, 2008)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Dark Night</span></b></u><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"> (Extended into full length novel, <i>Johnny
McClintock</i></span><i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif;">'</span></i><i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">s War</span></i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"> ...</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"> published in 2014</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;"><i><b>Reviews</b></i>: <i><b>Since this is a very new release,
there are no reviews as yet, but here is what the judge who awarded Primroses
the prize in the Cuirt Competition said about that particular story:</b></i></span><i><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"></span></b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">The Cui</span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">rt prize was judged by celebrated
Nigerian writer, <b>Helon Habila</b>, who had this to say about the
winning entry:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "";">I choose Gerry McCullough</span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif;">'</span><span style="font-family: "";">s</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif;">..</span><u><span style="font-family: "";">Primroses</span></u><span style="font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "";">as
winner because it is a simple and well judged story about very difficult
themes: courage, paedophilia and growing old. The author has managed to truly
inhabit [her] narrator, to use his voice, and to clearly see his point of view, </span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "";">
these make the story so convincing that the reader is not aware how difficult
it is to achieve.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "";">Age and the passage of time are shown in the change in the
landscape, in the ugly square houses that have sprouted to replace the
beautiful flower gardens of the narrator</span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif;">'</span><span style="font-family: "";">s youth. The
relationship between the narrator and the little girl, Jacqueline, is used to
recapture the relationship between the narrator and his dead wife: youth and
age, present and past are thus simultaneously captured in a single frame.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "";">The narrator refuses to back down from his purely innocent
relationship with Jacqueline even at the risk of being seen as a paedophile,
this takes courage. Finally the story is about flowers ...</span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "";">
primroses </span><span style="font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif;">...</span><span style="font-family: "";"> those beautiful, non-utilitarian
things that symbolise the brittleness of existence, the fine balance on which
everything rests, transience, and trust.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "";">Gerry McCullough's other wonderful books.</span></span></h2>
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<![endif]--><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1.<span style="font-size: large;"><u> Belfast
Girls </u></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">The story of three girls,</span><span style="color: #333333;"></span><span style="color: #333333;"> Sheila, Phil and Mary </span><span style="color: #333333;">,</span><span style="color: #333333;"> growing up into the
new emerging post-conflict Belfast of money, drugs, high fashion and crime; and
of their lives and loves.</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333;"><br />
Sheila, a supermodel, is kidnapped. Phil is sent to prison. Mary, surviving a
drug overdose, has a spiritual awakening.<br />
<br />
It is also the story of the men who matter to them.</span><span style="color: #333333;"></span><span style="color: #333333;"><br />
<br />
John Branagh, former candidate for the priesthood, a modern Darcy, someone to
love or hate. Will he and Sheila ever get together? Davy Hagan, drug
dealer, </span><i><span style="color: #333333;"></span></i><i><span style="color: #333333;">mad, bad and dangerous to know</span></i><i><span style="color: #333333;"></span></i><span style="color: #333333;">. Is Phil also mad to have anything to do with him?<br />
<br />
Although from different religious backgrounds, starting off as childhood
friends, the girls manage to hold on to that friendship in spite of everything.<br />
<br />
A book about contemporary Ireland and modern life. An Irish story which both
men and women can enjoy </span><span style="color: #333333;">-</span><span style="color: #333333;"> thriller, romance, comedy, suspense </span><span style="color: #333333;">...</span><span style="color: #333333;"> and much more .... </span><span>
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<b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #333333;">5 Star Review: for BELFAST GIRLS.</span></span></span></span></span></b></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span> 'Author Gerry McCullough has not merely
written a book. She has lovingly crafted a work that insinuates itself into
your soul.</span></span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The world of the 'Belfast Girls' is life in Northern Island as it is today, a
contemporary world steeped in ancient traditions.</span></span></span></h3>
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Gerry McCullough has given life to her characters, they live and breath, laugh,
hope, cry and dare to dream.<br />
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You cannot help but become connected with them, such is the nature of the book
and the skilled hand of a craftsman or in this case craftswoman at work. She
lures you into their world and you are there with them, feeling their pain and
sharing their joys.<br />
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The pacing is fast, the characterizations are truly memorable. Be aware...this
book is un-put-down-able, so allow the time to enjoy it in one sitting.<br />
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Bravo Gerry McCullough, you have crafted a book that will endure.'</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #333333;">Two lives in parallel ...</span><span style="color: #333333;"></span><span style="color: #333333;"> twin sisters separated at birth, but their lives take strangely
similar and dangerous roads until the final collision which hurls each of them
to the edge of disaster.<br />
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Katie and her gambling boyfriend Dec find themselves threatened with peril from
the people Dec has cheated. Jo-Anne (Annie) through her boyfriend Steven finds
herself in the hands of much more dangerous crooks.<br />
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Can they survive and achieve safety and happiness?<br />
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The action travels from Belfast to Geneva, Switzerland, and back to Co. Down, </span><span style="color: #333333;"></span><span style="color: #333333;"> involving both international crime and local drug dealing and
gambling. An enthralling Irish thriller which includes romance, suspense,
action, adventure, and much more. </span></span></span></div>
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deep characterisation, and a compelling and complexly interwoven narrative mark
Danger Danger out as a high octane thriller of the highest calibre. Gerry
McCullough is an innately talented weaver of words, whose dialogue crackles
with hard edged authenticity, and whose stories expose the dark underside of
modern society with a keen and compellingly observed insight.<br />
Highly recommended without reservation.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #111111;"><b>Review 2. </b>A lot of books do well on plot but fall
short on characterisation. In some cases, the characters are driven by the
plot, their entire personalities altering to suit the needs of the story.<br />
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Gerry McCullough shows how it should be done!<br />
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All the main characters in this fast paced romance / thriller are authentic,
well developed people. It's the mingling of their love and greed, passion and
fear, faith and loyalty that creates and drives the plot. Moreover, as we
follow the often unexpected shifts in their circumstances, we see those
characters changing and developing, for better or for worse!<br />
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This complex interplay of personalities and situations - set against vivid and
authentic backgrounds - is masterfully handled, but without losing pace and
energy. The tension in the two interwoven plots is steadily built up until they
crash together! The timing is perfect, and the conclusion satisfying - all the
more so since it remains throughout entirely in keeping with who the characters
are.<br />
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A great story, and marvellously well crafted.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #333333;">Terror and romance in the beautiful Greek
isles</span></span></span></div>
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Introducing Angel Murphy, an Irish female action hero!<br />
Angeline Murphy (Angel to her friends, devil to her enemies) is a girl who
takes control. She breaks out of her abusive marriage and learns how to defend
herself. On holiday in Greece, she narrowly avoids bumping into her ex-husband,
and discovers that he</span><span style="color: #333333;">'</span><span style="color: #333333;">s involved with some very dangerous people.
Like it or not, Angel is soon mixed up in the affair, working to expose
corruption in big business, specifically a pharmaceutical company exploiting
those who are ill.<br />
<br />
With a broken marriage behind her Angel is wary of men, but perhaps her meeting
with Josh Smith, who tells her he</span><span style="color: #333333;">'</span><span style="color: #333333;">s with Interpol, may
change her mind?<br />
<br />
An all-action Irish thriller which mixes romance, suspense, the beautiful
scenery of the Greek Isles, treachery and murder ...</span><span style="color: #333333;"></span><span style="color: #333333;"> and plenty of other
surprises. </span></span></span></div>
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<u><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #333333;">5 Star Review for Angel In Flight</span></span></span></b></u><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span style="color: #111111;">Gerry McCullough has been a favorite author of mine since I
first read "Belfast Girls" then "Danger Danger"</span></span></span></div>
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Angel in Flight does not disappoint...in fact I'd go as far as saying this is
my personal favorite. A thriller that packs a real punch.<br />
<br />
Don't read this work if Romance is all you are looking for. This goes way
beyond the surface thrills of boy meets girl.<br />
<br />
Angel Murphy has. through necessity (A turbulent marriage) learned self
protection skills...as the book progresses she will need them and then some.<br />
<br />
In Greece on a holiday to regroup after her marriage ends, Angel finds herself
caught up in far more than the stunning scenery...although author Gerry
Mccullough has that marvelous gift of taking you to Greece and with few words
you are indeed dining and experiencing the Greek Islands...but and it's a big
BUT this is not a travelogue.<br />
<br />
The tale is so seamlessly crafted that genre is unimportant. The pacing of the
nightmare world that Angel Murphy finds herself flung into is as close to
perfect as it gets...the underlying threat of a big pharmaceutical company
being prepared to do whatever it takes to keep a vaccine that may prevent the
horrors of Malaria under wraps. Money speaks their language...humanity can go
to hell.<br />
<br />
But Angel is not easily daunted.<br />
<br />
She ...ah wait.. that would spoil the book for you, and it's far too good to
have that happen.<br />
<br />
So...do yourself a favor...get yourself a copy, settle down and...I dare you to
put it down. I couldn't.<br />
<br />
This is the start of a series, and this reviewer is eager for the next thriller
from the multi-talented Gerry McCullough. Bravo!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #111111;">4. <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Angel in Belfast</b></span></span></span></div>
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</span></span></b>Alone in his cottage near a remote Irish village, Fitz, lead singer of the popular band, <i>Raving</i>, hears the cries of the paparazzi outside and likens them in his own mind to wolves in a feeding frenzy.
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<br />Next morning Fitz is found unconscious, seeming unlikely to survive,
and is rushed to hospital. Has he been driven to OD? Or is someone else
behind this?
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<br />His friends call in Angeline Murphy, <i>‘Angel to her friends, devil to her enemies,’</i>
to find out the truth. But it takes all Angel’s courage and skills to
survive the many dangers she faces and to discover the real villain and
deal with him.
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<br />Angel's friend, Mary Branagh, from Belfast Girls, re-appears in this novel and develops an interest in one particular member of <i>Raving</i>! </div>
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<b>5 Star Review for Angel In Belfast.</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #111111;">After
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though it would not be my normal choice of reading material, but I really
enjoyed it and was pleased that Gerry had decided to develop the character.
Angel in Belfast was released in time for me to take to Greece on my holidays.
I have to say I enjoyed this book even more than the first. I love the fact
that we are reintroduced to characters from Belfast Girls and Angel in Flight
they keep popping up in the story like old friends. I finished the book in one
day and would highly recommend all three books. I eagerly look forward to
renewing acquaintance with Ms Murphy in number 3 long may she run!</span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #1d1d1d;">Links to all Gerry McCullough's book and sites.</span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Belfast Girls: </span><a href="http://smarturl.it/BelfastGirls" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1037a5; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://smarturl.it/BelfastGirls</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Danger Danger: </span><a href="http://smarturl.it/DangerDanger" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1037a5; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://smarturl.it/DangerDanger</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Angel in Belfast: </span><a href="http://smarturl.it/AngelinBelfast" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1037a5; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://smarturl.it/AngelinBelfast</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Johnny McClintock</span><span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">'</span><span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">s War: </span><a href="http://smarturl.it/JohnnyMcClintocksWar" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1037a5; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://smarturl.it/JohnnyMcClintocksWar</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Dreams, Visions, Nightmares: </span><a href="http://smarturl.it/DreamsVisions" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1037a5; font-family: "Helvetica",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://smarturl.it/DreamsVisions</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span>
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<span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Twitter:</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
</span><a href="https://twitter.com/Gerry1098" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">https://twitter.com/Gerry1098</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Author Showcase. January 2016. T.K.Geering. </span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I am delighted to present Teresa Geering as
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Teresa, or Tee, as she is known to her many
friends and fans has long been a favorite of mine. I am so pleased to have this
opportunity to showcase her work.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUPPgjjXvNqsOTywG_4nnPvbYJNjvIOmLfJmCYs7M9j9Ahnux_CO6zbl54kFaXsFXe7CTGQiVhxw_AvvtjYmJcl6eDxij7aqhOLCFiTEeYgh7n6OgUHGbzHw9xn4Cq-PhtFaQYtXbSrKk/s1600/Tee+Profile.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUPPgjjXvNqsOTywG_4nnPvbYJNjvIOmLfJmCYs7M9j9Ahnux_CO6zbl54kFaXsFXe7CTGQiVhxw_AvvtjYmJcl6eDxij7aqhOLCFiTEeYgh7n6OgUHGbzHw9xn4Cq-PhtFaQYtXbSrKk/s320/Tee+Profile.jpg" width="320" /></a><b><u>Meet the Author</u></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">T. K. Geering began to write seriously about
five years ago. Paranormal fantasy wasn’t a natural choice, it was more of an
unexpected curve ball, but she relented and accepted that fantasy had chosen
her. From there, Tee moved on to crime with a sprinkling of romance. In her
opinion, every good story has to have a romantic interest somewhere within. </span></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In the past she has lectured to ‘A’ level and
Performing Arts students on creative writing. It became an extremely
interesting sideline and gave her a natural break from editing, reviewing and
writing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Whilst interviewing a publisher for the
writing group Tee belonged to, she was delighted to hear that they were head
hunting her for publication of her books. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The rest as they say is history. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">T. K. Geering writes paranormal romance,
fantasy and crime and is a previously published author. Her writing style has
been compared to J.K. Rowling and Jean M. Auel, and her books are now sold
worldwide.</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> <b>The Author shares a plan for 2016.</b></span></span></span></b></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span>One of my resolutions for 2016 is to complete
two books, which are both partly written. One is a crime novel and the other is
a crime fantasy. Then I have a new project in mind, which concerns the life and
times of one of my ancestors who was known as the Murdering Mother. She was
hanged in 1849 for poisoning her husband and two of her children to get her
hands on the sum of £20. A fortune in those days I guess.</span></span></span></span></h2>
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<![endif]--><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">“</span>Shasta's life takes a supernatural turn when she
meets a stranger in her tiny village. Her newly adopted stray cat is hostile
toward the enigmatic Erasmus, thus betraying a paranormal essence. Naive,
unprepared for love or a soul-mate from the past and future, Shasta is plunged
into a reality where realms warp and meld, and where she is their conquest.
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">5
Star Book reviews for Soulfate.</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><u><span style="color: #0e0e0e;">Review 5 star Soulfate</span></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/review/R3NYO2RMJXMXVN/ref=cm_cr_dp_title?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1453634754&channel=detail-glance&nodeID=283155&store=books"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Beautiful, mythological, left me wanting more</span></a></b><span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0c0c0c;">Erasmus is a powerful man. Born during a storm, as he
grows up he realizes he has extraordinary powers. He determines he can travel
through time, and goes into the future to meet the love of his life, Shasta.
Erasmus and Shasta were born on the same date, at the same time, many years
apart. They fall deeply in love, and marry. But all the while, Hesper, the
begger boy Shasta takes into her home, shows disdain for Erasmus. Who is
Hesper, really, and who is he to challenge Erasmus the Omnipotent?</span><span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0c0c0c;">Reading this book was an unusual experience for me. The
book is written unlike most modern fiction, where the goal is to create a
personal bond between reader and character. Instead, The Eye of Erasmus reads
like an ancient myth, slightly removed from the reader because it is sacred,
scriptural almost. I loved that aspect of the book; it gave me a feeling of
enlightenment and awe.</span><span></span></span></span></div>
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the place and time setting, which I think is fantastic. This allows every reader
to paint their own version of Erasmus and Shasta, which in turn does allow the
reader to have a personal investment in the story. This story has a quiet,
solemn power about it, and I felt myself pushing through drowsiness to read on
late into the evening. There was no way I was going to sleep without knowing
what was to happen.</span><span></span></span></span></div>
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appeal to a large variety of readers. There are some fantasy and supernatural
elements to the story, so those fans will enjoy. There is romance, so those
readers will love it as well. As because of the mythos involved in the story, I
believe it will greatly appeal to classical literature fans, historical fans,
mythology fans, and readers who enjoy classic storytelling elements in writing.</span><span></span></span></span></div>
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passed on for many generations. The fact that there are 2 future installments
planned for Erasmus' story leaves me breathless with anticipation.</span></span></span></div>
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offered the chance? Most of the population, right? Well, if you read this first
offering from English wordsmith, T K Geering, you will get the chance! </span></span></span></div>
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is one of those books that I really wish I had written. Reminiscent of the
great fantasy tales of yonder (only better than most), it has already been
drawn comparisons with Rowling and Auel. Geering creates a world, which is
inhabited by a cast of characters and a mesmeric world which are all richly
described so as to become thoroughly real.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0c0c0c;">The hero, Erasmus, is a carefully
constructed and multi-layered hero, who although could be described as vain and
a little selfish, is impossible not to like. And Shasta - dear, sweet Shasta!
As the narrative pulls you relentlessly in, you find yourself living each page
with the lovers, and relating to them like you would a close friend or family
member. Although not my usual genre, I was quickly hooked and cannot wait to
read the subsequent parts of the trilogy. </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0c0c0c;">Part of the reason for this maybe
that although Erasmus cries out fantasy from the cover, to the names, there is
really a darn good, twisting and turning, thriller in there, all wrapped up in
a love story. In fact there is something for everyone. If you simply like reading
good books, then this is one for you. Highly recommended. A must read.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Vicky is
a successful published author, but this is just a cover for her real job. She
is a Detective Chief Inspector dealing with espionage and anti terrorism.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The
handsome firefighter Nick moves into the cottage next door and they become friends.
Due to an ankle injury he ends up spending Christmas with Vicky who is nursing
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As the
snow falls heavily, they find themselves snowed in and their friendship turns to
intense love. Nick, a secret Russian sleeper, has a contract to fulfill and the
hit is Vicky.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R3HB6EISPQEEWE/ref=cm_cr_dp_title?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B00XNRTOWW&channel=detail-glance&nodeID=341677031&store=digital-text"><span style="color: #0e0e0e; text-decoration: none;">Short, sharp and fast-paced. An enjoyable experience to read.</span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0e0e0e;">A Russian Gift Of Love is a complex short story. The author
T.K.Geering has compacted a fast-paced read, without losing any of the impact
of the storyline.</span></span></span></div>
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An author, who likes to isolate herself when she works. Yet we are made aware
that whilst she loves writing, and has proven herself to be adept at it; it
shields her other life.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0e0e0e;">A life where she works undercover to combat terrorism and major
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0e0e0e;">Christmas holidays are fast approaching, and Vicky looks forward
to being on her own. The wind down time essential in such a stress provoking
lifestyle. Fate has a way of stepping on plans.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0e0e0e;">Meet Nick aka (Nickoli Morozov) Vicky’s new neighbor, who has
his own deadly secrets to keep. His orders … simple … Kill Vicky Houseman.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0e0e0e;">A Christmas blizzard, and Nick’s unplanned fall sees the two
people pulled together from necessity. Nick's badly sprained ankle brings about
changes neither of them could foresee. The combination of enforced isolation, a
blazing open fire, good wine and great company begin to affect both of them.
But … Is it enough to alter what all their training has prepared them to do?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0e0e0e;">I will not spoil this for you, suffice it to say that what
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0e0e0e;"><b> Another 5 star review.</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0e0e0e;">No words are wasted</span><span style="color: #0e0e0e;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0e0e0e;">Vicky leads a double life. She is a Detective Chief in espionage
and terrorism, but she tells people she is an author. She really has written
and had published six books and this is what she wants the public to know about
her. Nick, the handsome firefighter next door also leads a double life. His
other life includes being an assassin for the Russian mafia. His current hit is
Vicky. When he sprains his ankle and spends Christmas with Vicky, they fall
head-over-heels for one another. Will Nick be able to complete his mission?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0e0e0e;">This is a beautiful short read where no words are wasted. The
character development is divine and the reader can feel the emotions of both
Nick and Vicky.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0e0e0e;">This is a fantastic allegorical story where the heroine is being
given another chance at the journey. The secondary characters are also
important throughout the story and help with the progression of the action in
the tale. Once started, this reader could not put it down.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0e0e0e;">This is an exquisite
love story with a twist! T.K. Geering certainly knows how to deliver an
exciting read.</span></span></span></div>
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Let's get 2016 off to a flying
start!</h2>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt;">NEW
CONTEST: FLASH FICTION...</span></span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Welcome
everyone to <b>Soooz Says Stuff 2016.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">I
thought it would be fun to start of the New Year with a Flash Fiction Contest;
based on the following picture.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The decades flew by on a
whisper, and Mom and Pop passed within weeks of each other, neither being able
to even contemplate the thought of the other being gone and leaving them empty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Ellie placed the photo back
on the mantle above the stone fireplace.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It didn’t do to remember too
much. Memory could play tricks with the mind and damage the soul if you let it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">She walked into the master
bedroom; the old bed was still her favorite. It was high off the ground and the
mattress was lumpy with so many years of use. She recalled without meaning too,
the nights she and her siblings had laid there with her mother. Mom would
always read them that one story on that same night every year until Ellie
declared herself too old to be hearing it read anymore.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">She opened the robe, and
stood for a long time, before she reached in and pulled out the huge carved
wooden box that Pop had made.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">She carried it across to the
bed and sat propped on the multitude of cushions to open it. She lovingly ran
her hands across the top of the box. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">How could she have forgotten how clever
Pop had been with his hands? She ran her fingers as if reading in braille
across the carved name etched into the wood with such love and precision, ‘Allison’.
Her mother’s name. She opened the lid and was clothed in the faint smell of
Lavender still emanating from its contents. Lavender, mom’s favorite perfume of
all. It carried with it the scents and sounds of a century long gone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Ellie hesitated for a
moment, then lured by an irresistible need, she removed the first layer of
tissue paper, and then she caught her breath. The Angel lay there, in a gown
that still shone gold. Ellie’s hands shook as she gently lifted it from the
folds of protection around it. Snuggly tucked in behind it lay the star. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Each
layer she lifted revealed more and still more of all those handmade decorations
from her memories.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Ellie lay there for a long
while, surrounded by yesterday.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">When she returned to the
sitting room she carried the box with her.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">She felt a trembling
excitement building in her blood. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">What was the date? She had to know. Maybe it
was already gone. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">She hurried across the room
and opened the front door, and looked at the old tree still standing tall and
proud in the front yard.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The street had altered over
the years. But she knew the neighbors on one side, and they had been there for
a very long time.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">She crossed the yard, and
climbed the steps up to their front door. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">She rang the bell and held her breath
as the door opened.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Michael, it’s just Ellie,
from next door.” She was at a loss for what else to say.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Well now, yes indeed it is,
Just Ellie. What is it, Ellie, do you need help?” The sudden look of concern on his
face caused her to smile.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Oh, well no … that is, I’m
doin’ just fine, Michael. Thank you for asking. I’m just wondering, could you
tell me what the date is please?”</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Why, it’s December 24<sup>th</sup>
I believe.”</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Oh, thank you, thank you so
much. I still have time! Thank you.”</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Time, Ellie?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Oh, I know it’s strange,
but I’m going to decorate the pine tree in the front yard.”</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">" That’s marvelous. It
has been such a long time since I have seen that old tree look happy.” He put
his head on one side, “A long time indeed.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Ellie grinned at him,
feeling ridiculously pleased that he remembered.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">She took her leave and found
herself almost running back to the house; she could have sworn she could hear
Michael Thomas laughing behind her. It had always been a good laugh.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It took a while to gather
everything she needed together, and then she manipulated the ladder from the
garage, and leaned it up against the solid comfort of that tree.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The lower branches were
easy, they were done in a flash of time, but even Ellie was a little daunted as
her gaze lifted higher.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The voice from behind her
startled her, and she rocked a little uncertainly on her perch on the
ladder.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Ellie, Oh, I’ve given you a
fright. I’m sorry.” Michael Thomas held the ladder firmly as she wobbled her
way back down.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">He looked very pleased with
himself however, and the three smiling faces with him had that inescapable look
of anticipation that young people wear so well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Ellie didn’t ask, she just
waited.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“We, that is, I, was
wonderin’ if maybe we could help, with the tree? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">These are my Grandson’s…The
twins are Peter, and David, but don’t ask me which is which, cause after
fifteen years I still can’t tell ‘em apart. The taller one of the boys, is
Mitchell, he’s just got his first car, which no doubt you will hear over the
next few days.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The boys all stepped forward
and shook her hand in turn.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Then they waited, trying to decipher the look on her face as they did.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It didn’t take long, Ellie
clapped her hands in delight, “Oh, I would be so very happy to have the help
and the company. Wonderful, just wonderful.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The heat was rapidly building, and
Michael headed back to his place, returning with a large stripped beach
umbrella, and a cooler filled with soft drinks and ice. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Ellie added a folding
table and some chairs to the collection, and she and Michael sat in the shade when
they had decorated as high as they could manage. They just sat, in
companionable silence, slurping down ice-cold Coca Cola and watching the
healthy young men clambering like monkeys in the higher reaches of the tree.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The busy scene had created
somewhat of a distraction for some of the children on the street, who now stood
in every increasing numbers, clutching their bikes and watching on in
fascination.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> Some parents joined in the onlookers, and before too long they
were asking if they could help as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Each of the family groups
brought something with them, and the sound of Christmas Carols was soon added
and sung along with, not in tune, but nobody cared.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Ellie looked around her in
amazement. It was different, but the same. How could she have thought for so
very long that it had ended. When, for so many of them, it was just the
beginning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">One of the twins, she wasn’t
sure which, called down from high in the branches, “Ellie? What goes on the
top? The Angel or the star?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Both of them, sweetie.
They’ll fit together, you’ll see.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">"Cool!" was the happy response. </span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Ellie?”</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Hmm, yes, Michael.”</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Can we add some lights? I
mean I remember all the other Christmases, and I know that lights weren’t part
of it, but they would just add to the beauty of it, I’m thinkin’ … maybe?”</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Ellie considered for a
moment, then gave him her big smile, “Y’know, Michael, I guess it past time for
something new to be added, do you have any?”</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Oh, brother, do I have
any!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">When he and Mitchell
returned it was with a huge box of outdoor fairy lights. “How’s this?”Mitchell asked with a silly grin on his face.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“You weren’t kidding. Wow.
String ‘em up, boys.” Willing hands soon emptied the entire box.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Thanks for this, Ellie. You
have no idea, just how much I’ve missed this stuff. I mean, the kids come over
and the Grandkids and all, and we eat ourselves stupid. But I haven’t felt much
like Christmas for such a long time. This … well, thanks.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Darkness takes a while to
fall in the Australian summer, but when it does, it is absolute.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Everyone gathered back
against the edge of the road, and Michael was given the honor of flipping the
switch.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The place lit up. The younger
children still watching on, squealed with delight.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It was glorious.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Mom and Pop would have loved
this, Ellie knew with a certainty.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The sound of laughter echoed
through the street.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Late that night, when
everything was done, and Ellie had gratefully accepted the invitation to lunch
tomorrow with Michael Thomas and his family, she lay curled up on that big old
bed, the pine box was open and ready. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">She extracted the one remaining item; and
began to read aloud, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Twas the night before Christmas and all through the
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<![endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ricki is the
author of best-selling Unlikely Killer, Rings of Death, Bonfire Night, Black
Park, Hope's Vengeance and Bloody Mary, all published by Wild Wolf Publishing.
Her biggest interests are true crime, criminal psychology and comedies</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #2e74b5; font-family: "Calibri Light",sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">My review; of “Rings
Of Death” by Ricki Thomas.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">When I begin a book by an author I have not read
before I always begin with an enthusiasm that I hope is justified as I get
further into the plot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It took me a few pages to accustom myself to Ricki Thomas’s
style and her personal pacing and rhythm; however once I did; I relaxed and
thoroughly enjoyed the journey.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I love a plot that keeps me guessing. Yet it must also
be well constructed enough so that it does not fall apart on closer scrutiny.
The author has achieved that and more. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">From the outset, Author Ricki Thomas had me attempting to guess the identity of the perpetrator of a
series of kidnappings. The victims all female, all very young, and all actively
pursuing excellence in the sport of running.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The missing girls come from different locations and
diverse backgrounds and cultures. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Given that these disappearances were of young
females of drinking and dating age, the police didn’t take the initial reported
disappearances too seriously. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Until that is, one young woman, Sammy Cooper, an
eighteen-year-old, fails to reappear after attending her gym class, a young
woman who had been dating the son of a higher up in the police department.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> Not
cause for concern … except for the fact that the son is a 35- year-old
councilor, and … a consummate sleaze-bag. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Sammy Coopers controlling parents totally unaware that their beautiful daughter is even dating, let alone involved with someone so much older.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The author cleverly weaves the Police investigation,
allowing over-sized egos, communication breakdown, and the often inexperienced
constables to frustrate and delay the viability of the information being pieced
together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Add to this volatile mix an interfering reporter, hell
bent on furthering her career. Nancy Blaine is thriving on the attention she is
getting, and actively seeking more of the same.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The captives (Five in all-initially) are treated worse than animals, drugged
and defeated, with little to no willpower to survive remaining; only the latest
captive, Sammy Cooper is fighting back. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Sammy is attempting to develop a
rapport between the girls and their unseen captor. She opens up a slow and
frustrating dialogue through a barred and secured door. Gradually building a
trust of sorts with the sad and demented individual that holds their young
lives in his hands.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The scene is beautifully set and the pace increases.
The police are hampered at every turn, in some cases purely through
misunderstood motivations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I was cockily certain that I had the perpetrator
identified, and waited confidently for the author to confirm my diagnosis of
the plot. I was way off base. Just when I became complacent and thought I had
this whole thing figured out, the author threw a clever and well-placed curve
ball at me, and I began to rethink who in fact the perpetrator may be.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The plot is complex and well developed. The characters
are multi-dimensional and easy to visualize.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It never does to make assumptions, and the shattering
climax to the book had me smiling in admiration. Well done, Ricki Thomas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> I
will be deliberately seeking out more of this authors work. If you like your
Mystery/Suspense thrillers with a very astute dose of what makes up one of the
Psychological profiles of a serial killer, this book is very highly
recommended.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00KQRB7CW/ref=rdr_kindle_ext_tmb">Purchase from Amazon UK. Here.</a><br />
<a href="http://amzn.to/1hBa5zZ">Purchase from Amazon.com HERE</a></div>
Soooz Burkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02390489724415063410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43905348168571177.post-69279907124492737582015-10-06T09:27:00.000+11:002015-10-06T09:27:13.581+11:00Book Review..CHUMP CHANGE by JEFF LEE.<h2>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">BOOK REVIEW: CHUMP CHANGE by JEFF LEE</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">AUTHOR BIO </span></b></span></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Born in New York State, Jeff Lee was raised in the
San Francisco Bay Area and has spent his entire writing career in Los
Angeles.<br /><br />For more than thirty years he has been a copywriter and
creative director for some of the advertising industry's most
recognizable agencies, winning numerous awards for his creativity. None
of those ad agencies are still in business, but Jeff appears to have a
solid alibi.<br /><br />Trained as a cook in the Army, he still enjoys being
creative in the kitchen and admits that few things in life compare with
the thrill of discovering you have just given a nasty case of food
poisoning to 140 heavily armed men.<br /><br />Jeff lives about halfway
between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, in a house he shares with his two
sons and a cat that's part golden retriever.</span></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Big Dog Recoveries…that
is the name of the Repo-firm operated by three <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">very</i> strange, diverse, and seriously lovable characters. They are
so well depicted, and so intensely visual, they become an image in your mind. I
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>initially met these three whackos a few
years back when I read the first book in the Adventure’s in La-La Land series:<b>
‘</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Ladies Temperance Club’s
Farewell Tour.’</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It only took a brief moment for me to have them
flash back into my head. Let me introduce you. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Meet
<b>Fish ‘Fishbein’</b> A quick on the uptake, finds humor in the worst of
situations, lawyer, Repo man and Bounty Hunter. Fish is the fastest wisecracker
in town, and a damned fine friend to anyone in need.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">His
buddies in the business, are, ‘<b>Kevin’</b> ah!—yes, Kevin. Kevin is cool.
Kevin has a daily return ticket to the 1970’s. His mind still lives there. They
are on speaking terms. I was a teenager in the 1970’s, they were my era, so
Kevin for me is just such a damned comfortable fit.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Then
we have ‘<b>Einstein’</b>. <b>Not</b> used in a derogatory fashion. A seriously
bright, and loyal individual, who helps translate to and from Kevin frequently.
The dialogue exchanges between Einstein and Kevin are priceless. Einstein and
Fish have taken on being Co-Parents of a sort, attempting, not always
successfully, to keep Kevin safe-- and present in the current decade whenever
possible.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Okay,
then there are the bad guys. It would take forever to do justice to them all.
What, between, the ex-lawyer, now turned Producer- Director, aka ‘<b>Arnie
Babe.</b> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Arnie
is attempting to convince Fish to be TV’s latest reality star in a series
entitled “Fish … Bounty Hunter to the Stars.”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Insert
the hugely popular and much loved <b>TV Evangelist,</b></span> <b><span style="line-height: 107%;">The
Right Reverend Dr. George Stonewall Rogers </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">a money hungry, despicable, manipulative piece of scum; currently making his foray into
making Biblical-Porn flicks.(The hysterical Roman orgy scenes are worth the price of the book alone)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His <b>Wife…Mrs.TV Evangelist … Janelle</b>.
She is a totally crazy, violent, obsessed, just plain <b>bad</b> female. I
enjoyed despising her. This <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">paragon</i>
is mother to an increasingly obese 4 year old; a <i>four-year-old </i>who she is attempting to organize <i>breast
implants</i> for, so she is more likely to win ‘The Toddler Pageant’ circuses. Like I
said, Janelle is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">nasty</i> … and
certifiable.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Janelle's less than charming Brother, <b>The
Parking Czar</b> who does a reverse Robin Hood on the unsuspecting folks of L.A.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Mix
them together, add doses of the Mafia, bad guys masquerading as good guys,
stolen loot and multiple murders … set them in a great location, with a
rollicking, fast-paced plot, and you get a marvelously funny and utterly
delightful read.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span class="a-size-base review-text"><br /></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span class="a-size-base review-text">The journey is a delight;
author Jeff Lee has drawn each and every character with an artist's eye
for detail, dialogue, and clever characterizations. His observations of
people are acerbic and acutely accurate.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span class="a-size-base review-text"></span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span class="a-size-base review-text"></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span class="a-size-base review-text"> What
pleases me even more with Author Lee's work is that the plot is
carefully drawn with seeming ease, comedic writing is hard to maintain,
the timing has to be perfect and seemingly effortless... yet it it is
one of the most difficult genres to write well.</span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
author creates mood and characterizes so wonderfully well, I found myself still
laughing long after I’d read the last page.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I
recommend this book, to anyone who enjoys feeling good about life</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://amzn.to/1LDs9VS"> PURCHASE ON AMAZON HERE</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://amzn.to/1LeBjbw">Purchase "Ladies Temperance Club Farewell Tour" HERE</a> </span></span><br />
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</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>A BIG! Congratulations to
Mary Beth Engle. You won the “What is the sex of these authors?” Contest.</b></span></span></b></div>
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</span></span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;"></span></span><br />
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<br />
<span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA;">The contest was far more
difficult than even I thought it would be. The excerpts were wonderful.</span></span></div>
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So without further ado
let me tell you just who wrote what.</div>
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Gev Sweeney from her book “Beethoven’s Wife.”</div>
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Three marvelous books.</div>
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<b>Excerpt Number 1. Author Gev Sweeney ... "Beethoven's Wife' a novella.</b><br />
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<br />Vienna, 1826. Ludwig van Beethoven sits for one of the earliest
photographic portraits in history, and the world of a defeated young
woman ceases to be what she has long accepted.<br />
A couple of the five star reviews.<br />
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Perfectly put together, descriptive, exquisitely worded, with just the
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I really enjoyed this; it reminded me of the feeling you get when you
open a really old book and pressed flowers or rose petals fall out, and
there's still the faintest of scents and you sort of imagine the person
who put them in there. The story was poignant and the characters
haunting and beautifully drawn.
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Purchase Link <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Beethovens-Wife-Gev-Sweeney-ebook/dp/B00SNYS7E6/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1439003474&sr=1-2">Purchase here!</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222;">Bill Kirton </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">was born in Plymouth,
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">lived most
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He’s written stage and radio plays, songs and sketches for revues, flash
fiction, short stories, novels, stories for children and books aimed at helping
students to write effective academic essays and dissertations and get the most
out of university and work. He’s been a university lecturer, actor, director,
TV presenter, visiting professor and artist at the University
of Rhode Island and spent a few years
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Dundee and St Andrews.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #222222;"></span></span></span></div>
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Figurehead</i> was long-listed for the 2012 Rubery Award.</span></span></span></div>
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anthologies and one of them, <i>Love Hurts</i>,
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his Amazon page at: <a href="http://amzn.to/SetQfu"><span style="color: blue;">http://amzn.to/SetQfu</span></a></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>"An edgy,
contemporary tale about death and suicide and its effects on two families.
Death is a fact of life for the principle characters and especially for Marina
Reed who wishes to join her loved ones at ‘the dead club’, a place she and her
sixth form friends obsessed about in their youth. Ultimately her mortido
becomes more urgent until it takes her over the edge. The novel is in fact very
much about edges: where the ultimate edge is between life and death. </b> <b>Written in
bite-sized sections in a colloquial style with elements of black humour and
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>3) Author Bio:</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #333333;">Kate Rigby was born near Liverpool and now lives in Devon.
She’s been writing for over thirty years, with a few small successes along the
way.</span></b><b></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #333333;">She realized her unhip credentials were mounting so she decided
to write about it. <i>Little Guide to Unhip</i> was first published in 2010 and
has recently been updated.</span></b><b></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #333333;">However, she’s not completely unhip. Her punk novel, <i>Fall Of
The Flamingo Circus</i> was published by Allison & Busby (1990) and by
Villard (American hardback 1990). Skrev Press published her novels <i>Seaview
Terrace </i>(2003) <i>Sucka!</i>(2004) and <i>Break Point</i>(2006) and other
shorter work has appeared in Skrev’s avant garde magazine Texts’ Bones
including a version of her satirical novella <i>Lost The Plot.</i></span></b><b></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: #333333;">Thalidomide Kid</span></i></b><b><span style="color: #333333;"> was published by Bewrite Books (2007).</span></b><b></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #333333;">She has had other short stories published and shortlisted
including <i>Hard Workers</i> and <i>Headboards</i>, first published in The
Diva Book of Short Stories and as part of the Dancing In The Dark erotic
anthology, Pfoxmoor Publishing (2011)</span></b><b></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #333333;">She also received a Southern Arts bursary for her novel <i>Where
A Shadow Played</i> (now re-Kindled as <i>Did You Whisper Back</i>?).</span></b><b></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #333333;">She is in the process of re-Kindling her backlist of previously
published as well as unpublished work including.</span></b><b></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: #333333;">The Dead Club</span></i></b><b><span style="color: #333333;"> was released in April 2015.</span></b><b></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">How intuitive are you? The challenge of this contest is
to pick the sex of the author. Below you will find 3 excerpts from 3 very
different authors. Can you pick the gender of the authors.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The first entry with all 3 correct will be declared the
winner, and the prize is an personally autographed paperback copy of my soon to
be released book—“<b>Acts Beyond
Redemption.” The first book in the ‘Unintended Consequences’ series.</b></span></span></span></div>
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choices a brief outline of why you reached that conclusion. You will not be
judged on your reasons for making your choice, this is simply for interest
sake. Did you rely on purely ‘gut instinct’ perhaps? Or do you have a more
detailed reason?</span></span></span></div>
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don’t envy you the task of choosing the gender of these authors. Have fun…and
good luck. Here we go!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">My father, I regret to say, tended to drink more than
he should. He would become bold of speech, losing sense of what was appropriate
for time and place. One day he brought home a dinner guest, a priest who had
survived a mission to the Philippine Islands. I remember my brothers and I
sitting at the table, enthralled by his tales of exotic lands and people. We
failed to notice how much wine our father had had to drink until he made a
crude remark to my mother. It doesn’t matter what he said. What matters is the
effect it had on my mother, who first went the color of mortar and then the
color of an open wound. The blow of the remark, my mother’s face, and the
silence that followed made me nearly sick with fear over what would follow.
Would Father beat her, as he was wont to do? Throw things at her, as he was
wont to do? Call her a whore, as he was wont to do? And—remember!—it was all
happening in front of not a mere guest, but a priest, a servant of God whom we
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">As I slouched over my plate in mid-chew, not knowing if
the turmoil inside me would manifest itself through nervous laughter or the
expulsion of what I’d just eaten, the priest, with no show of offense or
condemnation, recalled how, on Good Friday, some of his converts proved their
commitment to their new faith by processing through the Stations of the Cross,
each carrying his own cross. They said prayers and sang hymns, and in the end,
each man lay full length upon his cross on the ground and allowed his friends
to nail him to the wood. The crosses would then be lifted up and the crucified
left to stand for nearly an hour.</span></span></span></div>
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the gruesomeness of the account certainly did distract from the gruesomeness of
Father’s assault upon Mother. But if I’ve remembered the missionary’s tale all
these years, it’s not for the horror of either the tale or the dinner. It’s for
what the priest said as he ended his testimony.</span></span></span></div>
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said. There were no screams, no moans, no tears, no dramatic invocations to God
to end their suffering. But there was suffering, all the same. Nails were
hammered through hands and feet. Blood flood. Bodies writhed, involuntarily,
with every blow. ‘You see the agony of others,’ the priest said, ‘and you want
it to end, yet you can do nothing to end it. All you can do is pray for them to
continue to endure with grace and courage. And as you stand there, praying,
watching, willing them to survive, you realize it’s not the person in torment
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And as you stand there, praying,
watching, willing them to survive, you realize it’s not the person in torment
who finds courage and comfort. It’s you yourself. The person in torment, acting
with grace and courage, has already found what you want him to have. You are
the one who is comforted, because the grace and courage of the sufferer give
you more heart and consolation than any prayer can bestow.’ </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">“You know, sometimes,” she said to Jessie, who was
scraping some scraps of fish from the bottom of her own basket, “I think I’d
like to be workin’ in a manufactory.”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">“Why?” asked Jessie.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">“Oh, I’m no’ sure, really, but I’d be inside, there’d
be none of the stink of this stuff...”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">“Aye, and they’d pay you pennies for workin’ all God’s
hours.”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">“Well, I could be a parlor-maid then.”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">“Who’d let you into their parlor?”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">“Well... a laundry maid, maybe?”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">“Further down.”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">“That’s more like it.”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Rose smiled and pushed at Jessie’s arm, then started
back as two young boys came racing between them, jumping over their baskets and
slithering among the fish scales on the cobbles. One half-fell but was on his
feet again before the other could catch him and they ran on their screaming
way.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">“Strange that we’ve had no children of or own, isn’t
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the two boys. “Would you want to be havin’ that day and night, year after
year?”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">“It’d be somebody to love,” she said.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">“Aye,” said Jessie, reaching over and gently pushing
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">“What do you mean?”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">“Well, how much pleasure have you ever had out of Joe?”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Rose simply shrugged.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">“No,” Jessie went on. “We lie there, or stand there –
Jimmie always took it when he wanted it – and... well, there’s just the filth
and the smell... and it’s all over.”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">To her surprise, she saw tears in Rose’s eyes.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">“Oh, now, come on, darlin’,” she said, moving beside
her and holding her close. “If you want bairns, there’s still plenty o’ time.”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Rose shook herself and dabbed fiercely at her eyes.</span></span></span></div>
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</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">“I wouldna want a child of Joe’s,” she said.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">“Doesn’t have to be,” said Jessie, leaning to whisper
in her ear. “Look at it. Men everywhere. One of them’ll oblige you. You’re a
fine-lookin’ woman.” </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">“And you’re disgustin’,” replied Rose.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Their intimacy was broken by Jack Dorner, one the
clerks of the trawler company they carried their loads for.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">“Stopped for the day, have you?” he said, coming up
beside them.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">“We’re waitin’ for the baskets to...” Jessie started.</span></span></span></div>
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</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">He shook his head and raised a hand to stop her.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">“We need a horse fetched down from the stables. Off you
go, Rose. Quick as you can.”</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">He turned and went back toward the office.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">“Maybe he’d be the one,” said Jessie.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">“What one?”</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">“You know,” said Jessie and she thrust her hips back
and forth.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Rose rubbed her hands on her rough apron to dry them.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">“I’d rather have the horse,” she said.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">“That’s just greedy,” said Jessie.</span></span></span></div>
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</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Rose kissed her on the cheek and set off for Union
Street.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">EXCERPT
NUMBER 3.</span></b></span></span></div>
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</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">It happened again, today, in
Morrison’s. Her shopping totalling £4.44. How did she do that? In
the hardware shop too she bought some cutlery and some tacks and nails for some
old art canvasses and it came to £9.11. It was the way the assistant said,
that’s nine-eleven please, without register, not a visible one anyway.</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">It happened with her father
too, the numbers. He used to speak about it. ‘No accident in
numbers, Marina,’ he’d say. ‘They have their own beauty and mystery. The
universe came into being because of mathematical precision.’</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">He would have known about
that. Clocks were his business – the selling and repairing of them. He loved
the intricacy behind a watch, poring and probing its cogs and wheels under a
magnifying glass, like it was a brain or heart that needed to tick again.
</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">She spoke with him on the
morning of that fateful day. 8.9.89. As if the pattern in that
sequence wasn’t enough, he phoned her at 8 minutes past 9 in the morning from a
pay phone on London Paddington station, in the days before the ubiquitous
mobile phone. She remembered it was that time. Those numbers. He’d
phoned to report on her uncle, his brother, who was stable in hospital after a
gruelling ten-hour operation to remove a tumour from his face. ‘He wanted
to send his love to you and Dale and little Thomas.’ She doubted somehow her
uncle, her father’s brother, would have managed to speak after such an
operation but they were, to all intents and purposes, her dad’s last words
before dropping dead on the Paddington to Penzance service. Overshot his
station by a good many stops, to arrive cold and off his perch at Penzance, the
terminus. When they returned his belongings, his watch had stopped at 8
minutes past 9.</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Morning or evening, nobody
knew.</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The foundation stone of her
life, gone.</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">But he’d seen things to be
proud of – hadn’t he? – her art degree, her wedding, her child.</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Or?</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Did she somehow know that the
happy bells of the wedding would one day turn into a sad bell? A funeral
bell? The weather was all wrong at her wedding, wasn’t it? When it rains at a
funeral people say the weather is in sympathy with the dead, when sunny they
say it is so-and-so smiling down, when it’s sunny for a wedding they say it’s
heaven shining down on the newly-weds – but rain at a wedding? Everyone knows
that’s a bad omen, don’t they?</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
</span></span><br />
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<![endif]-->Soooz Burkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02390489724415063410noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43905348168571177.post-22971341926604069622015-07-14T15:51:00.001+10:002015-07-14T15:51:35.386+10:00NEW CONTEST ..."What is the sex of these authors?"<h3>
Okay, it's been quite a while since I came up with a new contest, so I do hope to garner some interest.</h3>
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I think it will be interesting for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is how readers interpret what they read.</h3>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So ... what is it about?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I want you ... yes, you. I want you to tell me if the excerpts I'll be featuring were in your opinion written by a male or a female or perhaps a gender fluid author.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Simple ... yes?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I'm of the opinion that it may prove to be a damned sight harder than people think.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Now, I need authors to contribute an excerpt of 500 words or less from any of their books. I will only be putting up 3 excerpts each week.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Choose wisely, and try if you can not to feature characters within your excerpts that are widely known.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">ARE YOU Interested</span> in participating in the <span style="color: red;">submissions</span>? Great. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Send the excerpt to me ... Soooz Burke at </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">suzieb4burke@hotmail.com </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Please include your author name and the book title. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In the subject line please write "What is the sex of these authors?" Please also include your gender (especially in the case of those using a pen name) </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The only identifier each excerpt will receive will be a number allocated by myself.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">IF I receive sufficient interest I will put up the excerpts for a week, at the end of that time the <b><span style="font-weight: normal;">FIRST</span></b> person with all 3 correct author genre will win a personally autographed paperback copy of of my latest book, "Acts Beyond Redemption" due for release by months end. NO MATTER WHERE YOU LIVE. If the interest in the contest is good, I will continue to run it. <span style="color: red;">HOWEVER the paperback</span> will only be available week one. After that I will give away an electronic copy to the winner each week.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The benefit to contributors of the extracts is also pretty cool. At the conclusion of the contest each week I will post a full page featuring your book, and your purchase links together with your favorite review.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Okay..Interested?</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Cool. Oh, and I would also appreciate you following my blog.</span></span></span>Soooz Burkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02390489724415063410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43905348168571177.post-55267776073085812222015-07-07T11:29:00.001+10:002015-07-07T11:29:35.642+10:00Soooz's Book Pick for June/July ... Hel's Heroes by Gerry McCullough.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So, let’s talk about SEX, baby.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Those of you that know me are well aware
that my mind goes off on on some <s>fairly</s> (Ok, Really) weird and often
offensive tangents. Blame it on the weather, water supply, narcotics … or just
sixty-one years of observation and a whole lot of laughter. For those of you
fortunate enough not to have made my acquaintance, run while you still can.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">With that in mind, (Mine not yours) I ask
you to picture this …</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A young couple have been texting each other
for a few weeks, they finally meet face to face and phone to phone and decide
that it’s time they took their <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">relationship</i>
to another level.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Yeah! THAT level.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Anyways, after they decide whose apartment
is closer using the google map app-and knowing they can order in using Menu-log
they head off for an evening of friends with benefits. Or SEX as we called it
back when writing was done on papyrus.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">His apartment wins by 2.5 miles. It smells
of unwashed socks and a fully loaded kitty-litter tray … but in the heat of
passion, she doesn’t notice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">No pre-emptive romantic stuff. The clothes
are off, the bodies stripped of designer label concealment … and so it begins.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Oh, did I mention that they are both
clinging tightly to their cell-phones? No! Well, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">trust me</b>, they are.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">He kisses her, gazes into her eyes and
waits … his phone buzzes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The text message reads,“Hm, that was nice.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">She smiles and kisses him in return. And,
waits.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Yes. Your skin smells great.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">He moves his free hand lower and strokes
her. And…yeah, he waits.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“OMG.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Taking that as a sign that things are
moving right along he proceeds further …</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">She texts …“Can u take a selfie of my face,
while I’m, you know? Then the waiting thing again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">”Like, that’s such a cool, idea. U take one
of me too?” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">You know the drill.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Wow,
I’ll bet we are the first people in like ever that have done this.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">From here on I’ll just type the initial W
for the waiting thing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">W.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Yeah.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">She texts. “Um, who first? (SERIOUSLY!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">W.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“I like think it better be u. Cause, u
know, if I do then I can’t get a selfie of you while you do.”</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">W.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Oh. Lol. Yeah.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">W.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Is it good?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">W.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Amazing. I think You can take that selfie
anytime now.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">W.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">She texts again. “Did you get it?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">W.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Sure did.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">W.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Show me.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">He holds the phone to her<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>…</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">W.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“OMG! I’m like, wow, happy.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">W.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“My turn?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">W.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Yeah, but can u make it like really fast,
my phones almost out of charge.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">W.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Oh, Ok. I’ll tell u when.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">W.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">W.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">W.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Now.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">W.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“So, like, was it ok?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">W.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Yeah! Take a look at the selfie.” She
holds the phone to his face.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">W.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Wow. I feel like we really connected, u
know. Can I C U again?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">W.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“This could be something um … special, like
… really special, yeah?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">W.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">W.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Yeah.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And so dear reader, the young um … lovers,
exchange last names. Via text of course. This being the equivalent of taking
her home to meet mom and dad. I’m so grateful that she didn’t text him “Is it
in yet?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">That would have been a real mood killer,
right?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">OMG … is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">that the time? </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My man is on
his way over, and my phones not charged.</span></div>
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Soooz Burkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02390489724415063410noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43905348168571177.post-63662662313039306422015-02-16T09:10:00.000+11:002015-02-17T08:08:22.701+11:00Book Review: "A Russian Gift of Love." by T.K.Geering.<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Author bio.</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><span style="color: #777777; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #777777; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #777777; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #777777; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;">I
started to write initially in my teens for amusement but began to write
seriously about five years ago. I didn’t chose to write fantasy it
chose me…</span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;">In the past I
have lectured to ‘A’ level and Performing Arts students on creative
writing. It became an extremely interesting sideline and gave a natural
break from editing, reviewing and writing.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;">Whilst
sitting in my garden amongst the Shasta daisies one hot balmy summer
evening, I idly watched a spider spinning a web. I was intrigued by the
intricate structure, and ease of his accomplishment. A storyline formed
in my mind and I began making notes. My mind was racing, and my fingers
were loaded with words. A couple of glasses of red wine and Shasta was
born.</span><span style="color: black;"> I then realised there
was a sequel lurking within. Another character introduced himself as
Erasmus a time travelling lover with attitude. My quick fingers helped
him to achieve his time travelling and within a year the trilogy was
complete. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;">Whilst
interviewing a publisher for the writing group I belonged to, I was both
shocked and delighted to hear that they were head hunting me for
publication of my books. The rest as they say …… is history. </span><span style="color: black;">My writing style has been compared to J.K. Rowling and Jean M. Auel, <span style="color: black;">and</span></span> <span style="color: black;">my books are now sold worldwide. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;">Tee Geering writes paranormal romance and is a previously published author. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">My Review:</span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">A Russian Gift Of Love is a complex short story. The
author T.K.Geering has compacted a fast-paced read, without losing any of the
impact of the storyline.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Victoria Houseman is to the casual observer a published
author. An author, who likes to isolate herself when she works. Yet we are made
aware that whilst she loves writing, and has proven herself to be adept at it;
it shields her other life. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">A life where she works undercover to combat
terrorism and major crime syndicates. She is a DCI and has earned her rank the
hard way.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Christmas holidays are fast approaching, and Vicky
looks forward to being on her own. The wind down time essential in such a stress
provoking lifestyle. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Fate has a way of stepping on plans.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Meet Nick aka (Nickoli Morozov) Vicky’s new neighbor,
who has his own deadly secrets to keep.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">His orders … simple … Kill Vicky Houseman.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">A Christmas blizzard, and Nick’s unplanned fall sees
the two people pulled together from necessity. Nick's badly sprained ankle brings about changes neither of them could foresee.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The combination of enforced isolation, a blazing open
fire, good wine and great company begin to affect both of them. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">But … Is it enough to alter what all their training has
prepared them to do?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I will not spoil this for you, suffice it to say that
what follows will urge the reader on to an unexpected conclusion.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Tight, fast-paced, and enjoyable reading.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Russian-Gift-Love-TK-Geering-ebook/dp/B00T3DQRHK/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1423988865&sr=1-1-fkmr0&keywords=A+Russian+Gift+Of+Love+by+T.K.Geering">PURCHASE HERE</a></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.thorstruckpress.com/tee-geering.html">See More of T.K Geerings work...here.</a></span></span><br />
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<b><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Welcome to The Secrets
of Castle Drakon Book Blog Hop</span></u></b><br />
<b><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">I am so delighted to have my work included in this Anthology. What an enormously talented collection of authors; I count myself so very fortunate to have been included.</span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;"></span><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></u></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><a href="http://mybook.to/SecretsOfDrakonCastle"><span style="color: navy;">The Secrets of Castle Drakon</span></a> is a magnificent collection of 11
stories in the <a href="http://www.thorstruckpress.com/index.html"><span style="color: navy;">Thortsruck Press</span></a> Anthology. With our publisher's
blessing we're holding a blog-hop whereby if you follow my blog and go to the
next blog due tomorrow, you will find the next short story. Only readers who
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Suzanna Burke</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Christopher Manning awoke. He shifted uncomfortably in
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describe it.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">He knew he would one day find it, this
Castle, this wondrous place that seemed so real it flowed in his blood. He
would find her, the woman, and with her and her alone his destiny would be
fulfilled.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-align: center;">
<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">•</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The audience rose as one, applauding wildly. The men
were impossibly good looking in their tuxedos, only to be outshone by the women
in gowns which defied gravity and lined the pockets of designers the world
over. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">These people lived in a world set far apart
from the audience that the film would ultimately rely on for its success.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The press gallery was buzzing, already busy
texting reviews, which, for the most part extolled the virtues of yet another
triumph for Christopher Manning, the film’s director.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Christopher Manning himself never attended
the red-carpet premiers. He knew well that before the film credits had rolled
the red carpet would be taken up, to be cleaned and laid afresh for the next
big opening. The futures of the people up on that giant screen would be shaped
by public opinion, and the politically correct votes of the Academy come Oscar
time. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
preferred instead to slip silently into a small theatre somewhere in the United
States when the hyperbole had died down, sitting amongst moviegoers that had
nothing to do with the magical, mystical, bullshit of his everyday world.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
would munch on popcorn, drink Coca Cola, and watch the faces of those around
him as a pivotal scene played out on the huge screen. This was the real
reaction, this was Mr. and Mrs. Average, the folks who paid to see his films
without the hoopla of Hollywood or Cannes affecting their responses.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">It was their opinion that would matter and
show at the box office, because of, or perhaps in spite of, the reviews that
accompanied any of his films. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">It was their opinion that mattered to him.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Christopher Manning began his film career
as an actor, and a very successful one at that. He had the charisma on the
screen that translated into women’s fantasies and men’s wishful thinking.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
stood six-feet-three inches tall, with olive skin, and deep blue eyes
surrounded by lashes that many women in this crazy town would kill for. Add to
that long curling dark hair, and you had a lethal combination that pronounced
him a desirable male on anyone’s list.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Therefore it was a delightful surprise to
many that Chris, (as he was known to his friends), was seemingly unaware of his
devastating looks. He became uncomfortable if gushed over, and tended to
surround himself with friends he had made long before he became an ‘<i>overnight</i>’
success. He laughed with them at that terminology, for his overnight success
had taken a mere twelve years to achieve. Many of his friends had also had
wonderful successes and he delighted with them in their celebrations.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The directors of his Oscar winning films
claimed he was a joy to work with, listening and interpreting what was asked of
him with great instinct. He translated the characters he played with such
intensity on the screen that he was almost too real to watch.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Manning himself thrived on good direction,
enjoying the interplay of emotional intensity that his favourite directors
helped him achieve. He garnered two Academy awards as Best Actor before
deciding that he wanted to be, needed to be, had to be, the one controlling the
film’s ultimate outcome.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">His directorial debut set the stage for all
that followed. <i>Cristopher Manning has the magic touch!</i> screamed the
Hollywood headlines. The New York Times stated that his first film as a
director was a <i>triumph of great artistic merit</i>.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The actors raved about his direction.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">He sat munching his popcorn and smiled.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">In Hollywood he began to be called “Christ” in tones
of reverence. He could do no wrong. He heard the label he’d been given and
grimaced. Everyone knew how that other ‘Christ’ had fared. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The over-inflated and at times dangerous
egos of some high-rollers in this town were waiting for his crucifixion. His
concern was not unwarranted; he knew with infallible instinct that his time as
the number one box office director and guaranteed money maker was limited to
the foibles of an ego driven pack of savage wolves in human form.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Characteristically he shrugged it off. </span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The press were always announcing his interest in any
woman he escorted … to anything. The ladies for the most part enjoyed the
attention being seen with him garnered. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">He only dated women in the business. They
understood time constraints and were career driven. A few wanted more. He let
them down as gently as he could. He had yet to experience love, or at least
what he imagined love could be. For Christopher it would have to be all … or
nothing. He shook himself physically; he seemed to be spending a lot of his
time drifting off on a different plane of late. He needed a break. Perhaps it
was time he began his search. He looked again at the birthmark on the palm of
his right hand; people had commented for years that it bore striking resemblance
to a dragon. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">It did indeed. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">His father had the same mark, yet none of
his six brothers, his uncles, nor his paternal grandfather carried it. He had
asked his father in one of their rare meetings if he knew if any other male
members of the family tree that had it. His father said, ‘No!’ and that had
ended the conversation.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">They were a large family, Chris and his
father both being the youngest of seven boys. Chris wondered if there was any
significance to being the seventh son of the seventh son. He had heard how
wonderfully close large families could be, and he envied those whom had that
sense of belonging. Chris’s mother had died in childbirth with baby number
eight, a girl. His father was never the same after her passing.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">His memory of his mother was only vague, he
could recall her smile, and he remembered a time when laughter had filled their
crowded house. After her death it seemed his father died too. He drank himself
to sleep and couldn’t bear to be with the children. None of the uncles or their
wives wanted such a huge responsibility and as a consequence all the children
were placed up for adoption. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris’s biological father only made contact
when Christopher began his climb to success. He didn’t begrudge the money his
father asked for. He didn’t mind the fact that his brothers all seemed to want
a relationship with him after that first Oscar. Their particular human frailty
of greed he didn’t share, but he understood it nonetheless.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Daniel and Laura Manning, his adoptive
parents, were nice people. They had done their best to see he was cared for and
well educated. The one thing they couldn’t give him was the only thing he had
ever craved … unconditional love.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">His only concern at the moment was finding the place,
his place, the place of his dreams for so very long. The place where he would
create the only movie he wanted to be remembered for.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The recurring dreams which had infiltrated
his sleeping hours since he was a child had become so real that the place had a
familiarity, comforting and potent. He no longer needed to sleep in order to
see it clearly. He told no one that he could also smell it, and feel a distant
wind stir his soul and his heart as it touched his subconscious every waking
and sleeping hour.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Christopher convinced himself that he must
in his early childhood have seen a picture of it somewhere which had stayed in
his memory and played with his mind. The woman was so real to him he could
smell her perfume, his skin felt her gentle touch, his mind heard her loving
words.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">He was writing the screenplay for his next
project, deciding he would use the search for the location he’d seen in his
dreams as the break he badly needed. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The story was unfolding as he wrote it, and
he as yet had no clear fix on where it would take him. Several shining stars of
the Hollywood firmament had expressed interest in working with him, and he had
tentatively reached out to a few with his new project in mind.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">He and the location scouts had already
travelled through Scotland and the rest of the United Kingdom seeking that
location, with no joy. Tomorrow he would fly out to Paris and begin again. </span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-align: center;">
<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">•</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris Manning was growing dejected. His search for the
place in his dreams had proven unsuccessful so far, and the decision to stop
searching and build the sets he wanted was looming. He knew that choice needed
to be made and very soon.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
had committed a great deal of his fortune to this enterprise and if the actors
he wanted were to remain available he needed to begin shooting in the following
two to three weeks.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-align: center;">
<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">•</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Carpathian Mountains</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Transylvania</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The arrival of Christopher Manning with his team from
Los Angeles didn’t appear to create even the slightest ripple in the small
village. It was a pleasant and unusual sensation to be able to walk around
freely without the constant and irritating presence of the paparazzi. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The population of the village was at best
guess around 300, maybe less. His Romanian translators were amazed that there
was no accommodation available, even when a huge amount of money was on offer to
be housed locally.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">They had been informed before coming here
that these villager's were all descendants of the original inhabitants. The
village itself part of Romanian folklore for generations, and its people
superstitious and wary of newcomers.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even
so it was a surprise to the crew to find that the local people were unwilling
to assist them with any and all requests. In fact Chris Manning was taken aback
by their refusal to even make eye contact with any of his small group. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">His experiences thus far had yielded warmth
and co-operation in every other location they had checked. This place had a
marvellous feel to it nonetheless. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The small village square was quite a find;
you needed to watch your step as the cobbled stones were worn from centuries of
use. Chris wondered how many battles had been fought here, and how much blood
had spilled and flowed on these ancient streets.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">It was growing dark now, and he stood
quietly in the deepening shadows watching the street lamps being lit, by hand;
the ancient custom remained, although power was clearly available. The lights
emanating from a few windows of the villager’s homes owed little to candle and
firelight.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">He had come here on a whim, the place was
mentioned several times in conversations with historians he sought out on his
arrival in Paris. He had been told he wouldn’t be made welcome, but that had
only served to make him more curious. Perhaps it was that these simple folk
were weary of questions from outsiders. After all this was Transylvania. The
very name conjured images of fictitious vampires in the minds of most of the
book reading, movie going, world.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Christopher’s good friend and the best
damned cameraman in the business, Dave Walters said, “It’ll be growing dark
soon, Chris. We best attempt the drive back. I really don’t want to be on that
road again late at night.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“You developing a nervous twitch, Dave?”
Chris laughed after he said it. Everyone in the business knew that Dave had
nerves of steel. A fact proven by some of the amazing shots he had put his life
on the line to capture.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Maybe,” was the surprising response.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“I was joking, buddy,” Chris said.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“I’m not. This place is giving me the
chills. I’m serious. I’m glad there was nothing here we could use. C’mon, let’s
head out.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Whoa, easy pal. I was told there is a
castle not too far from the village. We’ll be back tomorrow to see if we can
locate it on our own. This scenery alone is worthy of some footage, surely the
artist in you can appreciate that?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Dave grimaced at his friend and reluctantly
agreed. “Yeah, it is really something isn’t it. Hell, we wouldn’t even need to
create fog, it comes standard.” His mood lightened somewhat and he settled for
his next best option. “Looks like that place at the edge of town is a pub of
some sort, surely they wouldn’t refuse us service?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“I don’t think they’re that rude,” Chris
said. “But let’s check it out, I sure could use a beer.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Dave went off to alert the other two
members of the crew, and the four of them then headed to the building whose
sign boasted an intricate painting of a golden dragon. Wine glasses and grapes
were etched upon the doors. They could hear laughter coming from inside and
entered, hoping it would continue.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The laughter stopped seconds after they
walked in.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“I’m getting more than a little sense of
inferiority about this attitude thing. I may as well get hung for a sheep as a
lamb,” Chris said. He walked up to the bar. “Does anyone in here speak,
English?” </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Is that what you are speaking?” asked the
guy behind the bar.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris laughed aloud. “Well I am American so
it’s more than a little bastardised.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“You have that correct. What is it that you
people want here?” The question offered no preamble.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“I’m searching for a location to make a
film,” said Chris.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“That is why no one will help you, we have
had enough of the ridiculous nonsense that passes as accuracy by some of you
film people.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“If you are referring to the spate of
Dracula movies, rest assured that my film has nothing whatsoever to do with
that subject matter.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Oh? Interesting.” The barman addressed the
room at large in rapid Romanian, after which a few locals actually looked up
from their drinks and directed their still suspicious glances at Chris Manning.
“Okay, Mr. Manning. You have their attention. What is the subject matter of your
film?” </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“You know who I am? May I have your name?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“I spent many years in your country, Mr.
Manning. Your face and reputation are known to me. That is the only reason I
answered when you asked if anyone spoke English. My name is Julian.” </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Thank you, Julian. I will tell you a
little, however the making of this particular film is precious to me, so, I am
unwilling to reveal too much. What do you want to know?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Only your assurance that your film is not
Dracula driven.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“You have my word on that.” Chris then extended
his hand and it was taken into a firm grip. Before Julian released his hand he
turned it palm up and studied it for a moment. Then he freed it with obvious
reluctance. He muttered a word that Chris didn’t catch, and raised his arms to
quiet the onlookers that were now focusing their complete attention on the
strangers. He spoke to the crowd, in exchanges that were both rapid and brief.
Try as he might Chris couldn’t gauge what the response would be. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">When Julian had finished, the patrons
gathered in a large group and the discussions became a little rowdy, with much
use of hands, punctuated by what Chris assumed were snorts of disbelief.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">An older man left the group and approached
the bar, he spoke to Julian quietly for a few minutes, he then surprised Chris
by walking across to where they were seated and extending his own gnarled hand
to be shaken. Chris did so with enthusiasm and was not taken aback when his
right palm was again scrutinised carefully. The old one smiled at him with real
warmth, </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">He spoke a few words, “Master a revenit!”
then quickly shook hands with the other three and hurried back to rejoin his
countrymen, still grouped in a circle of sorts.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris looked at Penny hoping that she could
translate, “Did you catch that?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Kind of, Chris, but it didn’t make sense
to me, I think he said, <i>The master has come home</i>.” She shrugged
apologetically.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris just nodded.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Julian walked over to them, “Well Mr.
Manning, the elders have decided that we may at least show you the Castle. It
may not be what you seek. If it is, and you decide to proceed, we will talk
further. Is that agreeable to you?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Most definitely,” he replied.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Good. Be here by 6.00 a.m tomorrow
morning, you will of course want to see the Castle as the sun rises. Dress
comfortably. I will escort you myself as there are only a few of us here in
Dragoni that speak your language fluently. I doubt if even your interpreter
would have a working knowledge of the local dialect.” That said and relayed to
the still interested onlookers, Julian gave the visitors another look and said,
“It is the male custom here to drink the local wine.” That said he gave the men
a glass of white wine, and the females a shot of brandy, and left them alone to
talk.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Looks as if this location could be more
trouble than it’s worth, Chris,” Dave said.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Mm … maybe, but I still want a look at
it.” He was clearly distracted. He turned away from Dave and addressed Julian,
calling out from where they sat. “Julian, what it is called, your Castle?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Castle Drakon,” he smiled.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-align: center;">
<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">•</span></b></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Sleep evaded Chris Manning again that night. It had
been a long time since he had felt the adrenalin rush he was now experiencing.
All his senses were on alert, the sounds around him both foreign and yet oddly
familiar, almost comforting. They were a good twenty-five miles from the
village, yet he still felt connected.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">He walked quietly outside, careful not to
disturb Dave snoring happily in the other single bed. He lifted his head and
sniffed at the wind; a gentle wind that carried with it an odour that was oddly
familiar, yet he couldn’t label it. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Not a sweet scent, but neither was it
unpleasant, rather like flowers that were about to fall, almost spent, but
clinging valiantly to their last moments of life. He captured the thought and
chuckled to himself, <i>well, we are waxing lyrical tonight. This air seems to
invite such thoughts</i>.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">He couldn’t be certain where the next sound
came from; it seemed to be all around him. It was a cry, anguished and not like
any human sound he had ever heard. The wind picked up and with it the sound
ebbed and flowed, he could feel it resonating within his mind and reverberating
through his veins, then free-falling away to utter silence, leaving him
melancholy and oddly depleted.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Shaking himself he checked the time,
stunned to realise that he had been outside for over four hours. He had no time
left to wonder about that. He needed to awaken Dave and the other two. They
should leave in the next hour to be certain they met Julian by 06h00.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The others dressed quickly and clambered into
the all-terrain vehicle they had hired at the outset of their search. No one
spoke much on the road trip, each waking up at their own speed. The darkness
was absolute, no moon could be seen, and trees they had seen clearly in
daylight were for the moment invisible. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The sky had not yet begun to lighten when
they pulled up outside the inn where Julian was waiting. He carried with him
thermos flasks of good strong coffee, and a supply of deliciously fragrant and
still warm bread. He greeted them with a smile and was introduced to the two
crew he hadn’t yet met.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">He climbed in and sat next to Chris Manning
who was at the wheel, eager to begin.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Good morning,” Chris said.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Yes it is,” Julian responded with a grin.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Thanks for the hospitality,” Chris said as
he bit into the warm, sweet, bread.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“You are most welcome, Mr. Manning.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“My father is Mr. Manning. I would be much
more comfortable if you could call me Chris.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“It is nice to be so certain of your
parentage, Chris.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Did you do a degree in sarcasm, or does it
flow naturally?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Julian laughed heartily at that, and the
men smiled at each other in mutual appreciation of another mind fast on the
uptake. Any remaining tension dissipated, and Chris was able to relax and take
in the surroundings that were slowly becoming more detailed in the ever
brightening sky.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“How much further?” Dave asked from the
back seat, directing the question at Julian.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">It was Chris who responded, “Not far, two
streams to cross first.” He seemed unaware of what he had said.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“What? How the hell do you know that?”
asked Dave.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Hmm? Oh … someone must have mentioned it
when we were in Paris,” Chris replied vaguely.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“They were correct,” Julian said quietly.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Oh … Cool.” Dave decided not to say more,
for the moment.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">They crossed the first stream and the road
began climbing, so narrow in stretches that two vehicles would not be able to
pass each other. Every few hundred yards a small patch of land had been cleared
to enable a vehicle to pull to the side if necessary.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The second stream crossing was a wooden
bridge that appeared to be original, the spray from the rapidly running water
clouded the windscreen, and wipers were needed to clear Chris’s driving vision.
As they crested the hill Chris stopped the car, and without a word clambered
out and began walking quickly to the edge of a steep rocky ledge.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Julian and Dave exchanged glances, each of
them curious, but for very different reasons.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Chris, buddy, what are you doing?” called
Dave.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“He cannot hear you,” Julian stated.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Of course he can.” Dave walked quickly
over to where his friend stood, and touched his arm, “Chris? Chris! What’s
happening, buddy? Can you see it from here?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris Manning didn’t respond, and Dave
followed his gaze … “Dear God! Look at that light.” The cameraman in him took
over and Dave hurried back to the vehicle returning at a run with his
equipment. He had to capture this before it altered.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Castle Drakon had been built high on a
bluff, the turrets perfectly positioned so that the first rays of sunlight
entered the rear of the edifice and shone directly through, acting like torch
beams and illuminating everything in a precious golden light. A cameraman’s
dream shot, in any man’s language.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Dave was excited, and turned to Chris about
to speak, then decided against it as he noted that his friend’s face was wet
with tears. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris Manning was overcome with emotions he
didn’t try to identify. The Castle was exactly as he had seen it in all his
years of dreaming. He drew a shuddering breath, inhaling the fragrance of
carpets of spring flowers that flowed like a colourful mosaic over every
available surface. He recognised only a few, picking out fragrant orchids,
clover, campanulas, hardy geraniums, daisies, and sweet scented thyme. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Julian joined them. He smiled at Dave who
was measuring distances and moving rapidly now, in order to capture and time
every shot from all possible angles.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">He looked closely at Christopher who
remained unaware of his presence, and whispered, “<i>Bun Venit</i>. Welcome
home.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Dave continued to film until the golden glow
ended as the sun rose higher in a cobalt blue sky. He turned to head back to
the vehicle, for the huge structure of Castle Drakon was still a good mile
away. Looking around he couldn’t see Chris, but Julian was walking toward him
with a satisfied smile on his face. “Where did he go, Julian?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“He decided to walk the rest of the way.
Let us continue, I will take us in.” He climbed behind the wheel.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The remaining distance was covered quickly
and soon they were parking the vehicle outside the formidable gates that were
structured to keep out invaders. Centuries may have passed, but the edifice
looked remarkably intact. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Has the castle been restored, Julian?”
Dave asked as he readied his camera for more external shots.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Some restoration, yes. The addition of
generators and running water were at the behest of the previous owner. He did
not stay long enough to complete his original plans.” </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Why did he leave, before he’d completed
what he’d started?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“He did not share his reasons for leaving.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“So it was fairly recent?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“I believe so. Given the age of Castle
Drakon, anytime in the last century would be recent,” said Julian.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Oh. Who owns it now?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“The last owner was unable to sell it. I
believe that members of his family are still attempting to do so.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Dave lost focus on the conversation as he
climbed from the car, camera at the ready. “It is magnificent.” It was a
statement, not a question. Julian merely smiled at Dave’s disappearing back.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The other location scouts, Penny Daniels
and Lisa Montez, hurried after Dave. No one had as yet asked where Chris
Manning was. They had not passed him on the road, but were now so entranced by
the Castle that the fact hadn’t registered.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-align: center;">
<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">•</span></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris Manning was inside the gates. He didn’t question
how he had known of the passageway, no bigger than the width of a man and
cramped at best, behind the tangled vines that grew wild along the northern
wall. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">It wasn’t visible from the road. He entered
the courtyard and strode to the gates, recognising that the pulley system was
far too big to be operated by one man alone. Julian spoke from behind him, “We
can manage it together.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“How long since the gates were opened,
Julian?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Not all that long, Chris. The villagers
are welcome by the current owners to come regularly to tend the gardens and the
vegetables. There is also livestock and game birds. The place is perfectly
protected from animal and human foragers alike, and has fed the village on many
harsh winters. In exchange the villagers ensure that the interior is kept clean
and free of vermin.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Let’s get to it.” </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Julian was right, the chain and pulley had
been well lubricated with lard, and while not an easy task it was done in good
time; with Dave and the two women cheering them on from the other side.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Dave didn’t ask how Chris had been on the
inside of the gates, he simply assumed that Julian had found him and shown him
another way in. Besides, he was caught up in the excitement of filming, he was
lost in his own world of colour and light, and not bothered with much else.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Penelope and Lisa were recording notes
every step of the way. They were good at what they did and their notes would be
needed when the costs of filming in this location were factored into the
overall dollar equation of making this movie.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris ached to go inside. Julian said, “Go
on. We will find you.” Yet Chris knew he hadn’t spoken his need aloud.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Julian watched him go. He wanted Chris to
be alone when he saw what awaited him within. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Where’s he off to?” asked Dave</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Doing some exploring. Leave him for the
moment Dave, I think it is important that he see it alone and uninterrupted for
now.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Did he say that?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“He did not have a need to.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“He does have a wonderfully expressive
face, doesn’t he?” Dave said, having had the pleasure of shooting both Chris’s
Oscar winning acting ventures.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“His face is most expressive. I agree. You
did a good job capturing that on film.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“It was easy work, the camera loves him.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“It would not be easy, as you say, to catch
that exact moment. Why do you downplay your gift?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“I do that, don’t I?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Yes. I have never understood talented,
gifted, people who are insecure about accepting praise,” said Julian.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Me either. I just know I do it.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Only you can alter that, my new friend.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Dave couldn’t think of anything more to
say. He gave Julian a friendly punch on the arm, and camera in hand headed down
to the spot where blacksmiths had obviously worked over the centuries.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris walked slowly, his long fingers tracing the
texture of the walls as he began to explore. He moved with quiet certainty,
unerringly locating the kitchen and storage areas. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">He was disappointed to note that a previous
owner had modernised the kitchen. Gleaming ovens and refrigeration units jarred
his senses … they just did not belong. He recognised the foolishness of the
thought. These kitchens would prove invaluable when catering to the large film
crew that would be needed to complete the movie he craved to make.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The great dining hall seemed original.
Heavy tables gleamed with a sweetly scented polish, and individually carved
chairs sat waiting to be occupied. Open fireplaces were situated around the
room and large ornate candelabras were spaced evenly, both on and near the
tables.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The walls were hung with richly woven
tapestries and drapes, some concealing window openings only wide enough to take
a man with arrows drawn. He moved more quickly now, his strides long and
confident. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris began climbing a grand staircase that
curved from the entrance to what must have been a throne room of sorts, the
stairs ending their journey at a balcony two floors up. He gave the smaller
bedrooms only a cursory glance, knowing that the master bedroom he sought was
on another level.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">A passageway led off to the right, flaming
torches lit the walls to reveal more glorious tapestries, the colours rich and
vibrant in hues of mulberry and gold. The passageway widened and led him
straight to the master bedroom.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Oh sweet Jesus, it’s real!” Chris was not
aware he had spoken aloud. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The huge canopied bed took up an entire
wall of the room, its deep blue curtains drawn and tied back. Brown bearskins
were layered as a covering across the bed. The window openings were larger this
high up and he hurried across to the one opposite to where a resting hide of
red-deer lay on the floor. This would be where the master’s servant slept. The
master’s dogs however would be afforded the luxury of sleeping on the great
bed.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">He looked down at the grounds layered into
the hillside. Row upon row of vegetables, herbs and fruit trees were laid out
below, the sweet scents wafting up on a current of soft spring air. He could
hear but not see the sheep, and the cry of a rooster whom appeared to have
overslept made him smile. He’d check the grounds later. He wanted to find the
hallway, if it indeed existed.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris slowed his pace now, almost reluctant
to continue. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">What if it’s not here? What if it really
was only my imagination? No … the rest is real, you’re standing in it, idiot.</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Time to find out.</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Walking to the end of the bed he drew back
the heavy dark drapes behind the canopy to reveal an archway hidden behind
them. He held his breath for a moment and forced himself to exhale slowly,
feeling his pulse racing, keeping frantic pace with his heartbeat.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The darkness was absolute until his eyes
adjusted. When his night vision kicked in he could just make out a blue glow
shimmering ahead of him. He put his hands out to his sides and felt the touch
of silk on the walls. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">He fumbled for his lighter knowing that
lanterns would be placed every few feet. Stopping, he raised his hands a little
higher, finding the lantern unerringly despite the darkness. He flicked the
lighter and raised the cover of the lantern, lighting it quickly, and then
taking it from its space on the wall he continued on. Chris felt the climb in
his legs, he was ascending now, markedly. He reminded himself to breathe, as if
it no longer became an automatic function.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The climb ceased unexpectedly. The glow
brighter now, even though it was shielded by yet another fall of heavy drapes.
He drew them back.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Oh, God … it is real. Why am I bothering to
utter the name of a deity I have no belief in? </span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The glow enveloped him with a pulse of its
own; he was more alive than he had ever felt before, and sensations clamouring
for his attention simultaneously began to overwhelm him. His hearing became
more acute, his vision pierced the glow like a lance held in a steady hand,
until the myriad of details burned themselves into his awaiting consciousness.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The ceiling, if that is what it was,
appeared to be made of wafer thin glass, so fine that the sunlight vied for
attention with the clear blue sky above. The long corridor was silk draped,
silk over glass adding its own magic to the surreal experience.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Beckoning him forward was the shimmering
detail of a golden dragon, waiting for him, urging him on. His newly enhanced
hearing detected another sound, a voice soft and sweet was singing a melody he
recognised but could not name.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">He reached the end … and extended his hands
to touch the dragon. He could not. Frustrated he tried again and yet again, each
time thwarted by a barrier he could sense but could not see.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The voice was closer now, enveloping him in
warmth and comfort. “Soon,” it said. “You are not yet ready. Patience. It will
be soon.”</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-align: center;">
<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">•</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Chris? Chris, wake up! What the hell are you doing?”
Dave’s voice penetrated his mind and forced him to reluctantly open his eyes.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“What?” he asked in confusion.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“You were asleep!” Dave’s voice showed his
amazement. “It’s only 08h30 in the morning buddy, and you were asleep.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“I’m exhausted,” Chris said as he stretched
his arms and yawned.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“How … I mean, sure … but this is a strange
place to catch a catnap, buddy!” </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris looked around him, realising that he
was lying on a mound of sweet smelling hay, in what appeared to be a stable.
“If the three-wise-men show up I’m in real trouble. Are we still in the Castle
grounds?” he asked.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Dave laughed, “Yeah, what on earth made you
lay down here?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“I have no idea, pal. But it sure is
comfortable.” Chris smiled up at his astonished friend and extended an arm for
an assist up.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Dave complied, still gazing at his friend
with unfeigned puzzlement. “This is so not you.” He almost mumbled the words.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris Manning laughed. “Yeah, I guess not.
But you wanna know something, I can’t remember ever feeling this relaxed, and
that’s a fact.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Apparently.” Dave returned his friend’s
smile and they left the stable area together.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Have you seen the gardens yet, Chris?” </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Only a glimpse, from up above.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“They are amazing! There’s every imaginable
type of vegetable, well no, probably not every type, but a huge selection. Plus
fruit trees, and then there are the animals; sheep, cattle, game birds. Hell,
buddy, you could live here indefinitely on what the grounds supply alone,” Dave
said.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Please don’t tell me the animals come in
pairs. They don’t … do they?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“What’s with the biblical humour? You been
smokin’ and not sharing?” </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“I wish. No, I appear to be experiencing a
dose of being high on life. Kinda nice actually.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“This place is really getting to you, isn’t
it?” It wasn’t a question. More an affirmation of something Dave had already
concluded.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Doesn’t it get to you?” asked Chris.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Sure, I mean I can appreciate the pure
symmetry of it. Through the lens of a camera this location couldn’t be more
perfect.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“So…what’s the but?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“I’m not certain. It just feels like I’m
not as in sync with it as you appear to be. Kinda like I’m on the outside
lookin’ in. While you’re on the inside lookin’ out.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Poetic, and a little unexpected from my
friend the pragmatist.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Seems to be a lot of that goin’ round.
Anyway, let’s find Julian. I need more of that coffee.” Dave headed off in the
direction where he had last seen his new Romanian friend.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris remained where he was. He knew there
were stables, he wanted to see the horses; he had always loved riding and the
area surrounding the village and the castle would be just perfect to explore on
horseback. He walked the grounds, marvelling anew at the thought and effort
that had gone into the castle’s construction. He didn’t find horses however,
and would need to ask Julian where they were.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">He found both Julian and Dave in the
Castle’s kitchen; Julian busy preparing what looked to be a mini-feast and Dave
drinking yet another cup of the coffee, presumably fresh.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Ah, Chris … what would you prefer, chicken
or venison?” asked Julian without glancing away from his preparations.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Venison, thanks Julian. Can I help?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Yes. The wine cellar has some wonderful
selections, can you grab a couple of bottles to accompany our lunch.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Can do.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“I’ll come with you, Chris,” Dave said. “I
haven’t seen the cellars yet.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Fine.” Chris headed down a set of stone
stairs at the rear of the food preparation area, lighting two lanterns as they
approached the deepest section. He handed one to Dave and took the lead, noting
the rapid drop in temperature as they descended. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">On reaching the bottom they lit several
more wall mounted lanterns and gazed around in awe at the size of the cellar
they found.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Awesome,” Dave said, waving his arm
expansively.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Yes. Awesome.” He walked down the closest row,
feeling the chill through the fabric of his shirt. This place didn’t feel as
comfortable as the remainder of the castle. His head began to pound. “Dave, can
we make it quick, buddy? I don’t like it down here.” He loosened his shirt,
finding breathing a little difficult, and was beginning to sweat despite the
cold.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Chris? Hell, what’s wrong? You look like
shit?” Dave came over to him quickly.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“I don’t know … having some problems
catching my breath. I need to go back.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Okay, let me just grab a few bottles and
we’ll do just that.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Hurry, Dave.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Dave grabbed four bottles from the nearest
rack, he took his friend’s arm, and handed him the bottles whilst he managed a
lantern. He extinguished the others, took back two of the bottles, and they
began the climb back up the stone stairwell. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">By the time they reached the kitchens Chris
was feeling much better. His breathing was still a little rapid, but that
suffocating sensation was gone. Julian took the bottles, glanced approvingly at
the labels, and put them into the large refrigeration unit to chill further. He
noted how pale Chris’s face was, but offered no comment.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“What happened down there, Chris?” asked
Dave with concern.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“I’m not sure, but I think it may have been
claustrophobia.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“I didn’t know you were claustrophobic,
buddy.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Neither did I, but I’m guessing that’s
what it was … I was feeling panicky and had trouble breathing. I’ve never
experienced that before.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Well, it’s good to know. Stay out of
underground areas; does this happen on the subway back home?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“I rarely ride the subway, last time was in
New York, and can’t say it bothered me. I was more concerned about getting
mugged.” Chris raised his shoulders in a shrug. “Go figure.” </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris turned his attention to Julian.
“Julian?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Hmm?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Are there more areas beneath the castle, aside
from the wine cellars?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Julian took his time responding, “Yes. But
they need not concern you. There are burial chambers, unused for centuries,
even the villagers do not go down there. Not from any superstition or fear, it
is mainly precautionary; the walls may not be as stable that far underground.”
Julian stated matter-of-factly. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">He looked at both the men, Dave was
nodding. “Makes sense.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris looked at Julian, about to say more,
and changed his mind, saying nothing.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Lunch is ready, give me a hand and we will
eat it outside. This weather is far too glorious to waste indoors. Dave, can
you bring the wine? Chris, the platter of cheese and fruit, please. I’ll manage
the venison and chicken platter. The ladies have set us up in a corner of the
garden, shaded and perfect. I hope everyone is hungry.” </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The men did as they were bid, and soon all
of them were sitting on the sweet smelling grass, tucking in to the wonderful
food Julian had readied for them.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris forgot about his difficulty in the
wine cellar, the day was much too beautiful to allow any dark thoughts to
linger for long. He ate his fill, and enjoyed three glasses of the dry white
wine. He lay back resting his head on his arms, and uttered a contented sigh.
“This is the way life should be every day. When I am king of the world, I’ll
make it a royal decree.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The others laughed on cue. “I’ll be your
best friend. Kinda like an advisor. As long as the pay is good,” said Dave.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Julian didn’t offer a comment. He watched
the interplay with interest. People tended to become a little more outspoken
when lubricated by alcohol. The wine was strong. Its effects well known by the
local people who indulged in it.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Lunch over and the grounds explored, Julian
said he needed to head back to the village, it was past time to open his
business. Chris was clearly reluctant to leave, but his innate good manners
gave him no other course of action.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">He was quiet on the drive back, his
thoughts a little chaotic. He wanted the chance to speak to Julian alone. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Julian didn’t ask what he had thought of
their morning’s exploration. Chris’s face told him much of what he needed to
know.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Dave and the women exchanged opinions on
the Castle, from the point of view of costs of shooting the film in this location.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Their enthusiasm for Castle Drakon was
tempered by factoring in the costs of the venture. It would be hugely
expensive, and time constraints with the weather could work against them.
Julian offered to sit down with them later that evening and discuss what they
could expect weather wise over the coming months.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">•</span></b></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The bar was crowded. There seemed to be more women in
attendance than the day before, and more younger people. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Julian and two others were kept busy and it
was nearly closing time before he had the opportunity to sit down with the film
crew and respond to their questions. It was a lively conversation with the
exception of Chris Manning, who asked nothing, and contributed little.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Dave kept trying to involve him in the
discussions but he wasn’t paying attention. Dave’s concern at his friend’s
uncharacteristic behaviour was increasing. Chris was normally totally focused
on every aspect of his films. That was part of what made them so damned good.
Nothing was overlooked and nothing was left to chance. Dave had never known
Chris to be so uncommunicative. “You feeling okay, buddy?” he finally asked.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“I’m fine. A little tired, but otherwise
it’s all good,” said Chris.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Dave wanted to ask if he was certain, but
Chris stood and walked outside before he had the chance. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Probably in need of a cigarette, </span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Dave thought. Despite the fact that his
friends had tried everything to get him to give it up, Chris still smoked
heavily. His nervous energy appeared to settle after a couple of drags.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris lit up his smoke, and walked away
from the well lit entrance. He craved solitude, needing only to rewind the day
in his head and think it through. The wind was a gentle caress on his skin,
carrying on it the scents from the wildflowers that surrounded the village.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Julian found him sitting on a low stone
wall, not too far from the inn, smoking another cigarette. “What did you want
to ask me, Chris?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“I won’t ask you how you seem to know my
thoughts so well, Julian. It seems to be such a normal thing to do, here and
now. I have a few questions that I didn’t want to ask in front of the others.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Such as?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“The easiest one is, where will I find a
mount? I want to explore the forests further down the mountain and horseback
seems to be the logical way to do it. Plus I would need a guide.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“I will arrange both for you, early
tomorrow. Will that suit you?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris breathed in the air, and nodded his
confirmation.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“What else, Chris?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“You’re gonna think I’m crazy.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“I doubt that.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“I think I’m crazy, I must be. I’m
experiencing sensations and thoughts I’ve never had before.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Never is a long time. Ask me, and if I can
respond I will. If not I will seek counsel from the elders. One way or another
we can help you, my friend.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Okay … you asked for it. Today in the
castle, I knew exactly where everything was. The entrance behind those
incredible vines. The kitchens, which I hated by the way, too much
modernisation, the dining hall, the bedrooms, all of them. The master bedroom …
and …”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“And?” Julian sat forward and faced him,
“And what, Chris?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris looked into Julian’s eyes, “And the
corridor, hidden by the drapes behind the canopied bed. I went in as though I
was propelled by something I could only feel, but not see. Yet my vision was
acute, as was my hearing. I heard a melody, a voice pure and sweet. I kept
walking toward the blue light, at the end of the long passageway, as if …”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Go on, Chris. As if?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“As if I needed to be there. As if nothing
and no one else mattered, just the light, the voice, and the emblem of a golden
Dragon shielded by something I couldn’t penetrate.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Julian drew in his breath, and held it. He
didn’t respond immediately, and when he did his voice was thickened by unshed
tears. “It will come. There is much I have to show you. It may help you come to
terms with what you are experiencing. Tomorrow when you and your guide return,
come here to the inn. I will be waiting, as will several of the elders.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Why not before I go exploring?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“No. It must be when you return. No more
questions for now. I will make room for you here tonight. You alone. The others
can come back later tomorrow.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“They aren’t gonna be happy about that.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“No, they are not. But, Chris … it is
important.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Very well. I’ll tell them.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Good, when you have done so, wait for me
here. I will come for you when your room is ready.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Understood.”</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris went back inside the inn, which had almost
emptied of other drinkers in his absence.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Dave and the women were deep in discussion
and Dave’s ever present notebook was on the table. Dave looked up at him and
gave him a smile, “Ready to hit the road, buddy?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“You guys go ahead. I’m staying here
tonight and going out early in the morning with a guide to explore a little
further afield. Why don’t the three of you take a rest day, and collect me
tomorrow night,” he said firmly, giving no room for argument.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Dave gave him a look that was clearly not
happy, “Why … I mean why stay here tonight?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“I don’t believe I need a reason, buddy. I
choose to stay, and Julian has kindly offered to find me a room and a guide for
early tomorrow morning. Is that cool?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Dave’s expression said it clearly wasn’t
cool, but he responded with a nod and a brief, “If that’s what the boss wants.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris said, “It is.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Well, goodnight then. See you sometime
tomorrow night. I’m sure Julian will drive you back.” Dave stood and the two
women muttered their “Goodnights” and followed him out the door.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris waited a while, giving them time to
head out in the car, and then he went back into the spring night and waited for
Julian.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">He didn’t have to wait long, Julian joined
him and they shared a silent cigarette, then Chris followed Julian to the rear
of the inn and up a short flight of stairs. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The room was large and so was the bed. The
fire was unlit and not needed in the gentle spring evening. A wash basin and a
jug of water were on a nightstand next to the bed, as was another bottle of
wine and one glass.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“I suggest you drink it, Chris,” Julian
said following Chris’s gaze. “It will help you sleep, without the dreams.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“How did you know about … forget it. Nothing
about today is quite as it seems. I get the feeling I have more to learn.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Yes, my friend. For now, just rest. You
will sleep deeply and awaken refreshed and ready for more, I promise you that.
I have electric power here, but it is such a harsh light, is it not?” </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Accordingly Julian lit a candle on the
nightstand, wished Chris a goodnight, and left him alone. Chris sat at the only
open window, slowly drinking a glass of wine, and smoking another cigarette. He
watched the smoke curl and drift out into the night; he discovered that he had
no need of the candle as the room was clearly visible as the moonlight invaded
every corner.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">He poured another glass and drank it more
quickly, savouring the buzz that began in his head and journeyed through his
limbs; he was relaxed and enjoying the warm sensation of comfort that came with
it. He replayed the day in no particular sequence, flashing images and sounds
rapidly through his open and receptive mind, as if he had a fast forward button
that he could control at will. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The stars were not available for viewing as
the moonlight dominated the sky, and after emptying the bottle Julian had so
thoughtfully provided, Chris stood and walked a little unsteadily to the bed,
wondering if he would have a hangover come morning.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">He waited for sleep to claim him and his
last coherent thought was how different his world had become in a very short
space of time.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">He slept.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">•</span></b></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The sunlight awakened him, and he rose and walked to
the window. The village square was alive with activity. The warmly soft breeze
lifted his long hair and caressed his face as he watched the villagers
manoeuvring horse drawn carts out of the square. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">I must ask Julian where they’re heading.</span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">He dressed quickly in the clothes he’d worn
yesterday, anxious to begin exploring further afield. Responding to the firm
knock on his door he found Julian standing there with an armful of clothing.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“I thought you would like a fresh change of
clothes, we are much the same size, and I have included riding boots, you’ll
need them to prevent the thorns of the forest imbedding in your legs.” </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris took the proffered bundle with a
brief, “Thanks, Julian.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Come down when you are ready, I’ll have
coffee waiting. You slept well, yes?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Oh, hell yeah. I feel great. I half
expected a hangover this morning, but I appear to have dodged one.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Good. I will see you downstairs shortly.” </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Julian left the room and Chris undressed
and dressed again, not surprised to find that everything fit perfectly, even
the boots.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">He put his own clothes on the bed and
hurried downstairs.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Julian was waiting outside. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“I’ve packed lunch for the two of you. Your
guide will be here soon. Tell me Chris, are you proficient with a rifle?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris responded confidently, “Why, yes … as
a matter of fact I am. My adoptive father had a farm and I learned to shoot at
a very young age.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Good. I doubt you will need to use your
skill, but it is spring and the animals have young to care for; that makes them
potentially dangerous.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“What type of animals?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“The only ones you need to be mindful of
are bears, and the grey wolf. This forest is their territory and they guard it
well. The guide knows exactly what to look for and what to avoid. Please give
me your promise to follow the instructions you will be given.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“You have my word on that, my friend.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Good. Come, your guide will be here in a
moment, let us share a cigarette.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">They sat quietly on the stone wall. Chris
was almost quivering with anticipation, like a child awaiting Christmas
morning. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Julian smiled. He had developed a real
affection for his companion and hoped deep in his heart that this day would end
well.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris wasn’t certain of what he would see in the
forest, apart from the vegetation. Julian had spoken of bears and grey wolves,
and Chris hoped that he would have the chance to see both in their natural
habitat. That of course would depend entirely on his guide.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">He heard the horses approaching and looked
in the direction of the sound, startled at first by what he saw. His guide was
a woman. A woman with long hair that flowed like liquid gold in the early
morning light. He couldn’t make out the details of her face at this distance,
but realised it didn’t matter a damn. That wonderful hair laid waiting in his
memory, and he strove to locate and isolate where.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Julian stood and walked forward to greet
her. She slid down from the bay she was riding and into Julian’s arms. He
lifted and spun her around in a clear moment of affection.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Chris?” he called.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris gave himself a shake and joined them.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Chris, this is Iolanda. Your guide.” He
said it with pride.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Iolanda extended her hand, “Well hi, Mr.
Manning.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Hi yourself.” He was a little flustered by
the accent. “You’re an American?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">She laughed, a warm inviting sound, “Not
born, but raised, yes. I spend most of my time in The States. I come home,
here, for the spring and some of summer every year if I can, Mr. Manning.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Chris likes to be informal, Iolanda. Mr.
Manning does not suit him.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Fine by me. Chris it is. Were you
expecting a male guide, Chris?” she asked.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Yeah, yeah … I was.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Are you disappointed?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“No … sorry … I guess it was a silly
assumption on my part. Julian says you’re the best.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Iolanda nodded her head, “Yes, I am.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris laughed at that. He liked the fact
that she was confident. “Can we get started?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Yes. I’ll take us to a quiet spot, you
need to be aware of a few things before we reach the deep forest. Julian, you
have the spray?” she asked.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Of course. I have also packed refreshments
for you both. Oh, and Chris knows how to handle the rifle.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Let’s hope we don’t need to use either his
knowledge, or the spray.” She gave Julian a quick hug and turned her attention
to Chris, “Mount up Chris, the day awaits.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Take care of yourselves. I’ll see you
later in the day.” With that Julian headed back indoors, and Chris and Iolanda
rode south, and out of the village.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">They rode in companionable silence for
quite a while, side by side, until Iolanda took the lead and they headed off
the main dirt road and into a heavily treed area. Chris could hear water, fast
flowing water if his hearing didn’t mistake it.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Iolanda,” he spoke quietly, “A waterfall?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“You have acute hearing, Chris. Yes, it is
a waterfall. I can’t wait for you to see it. Not long now, we’ll talk more when
we reach it, okay?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Okay.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">They rode further into the woodland, the
sounds of birds mingled with that of the water, and the sunlight was now
filtered by the canopy above.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris halted for a moment, drinking in his
surroundings with real pleasure. He couldn’t identify much of what he saw,
except for heavily laden apple trees that appeared to be growing wild, and
tangled growths of berries that splashed their deep mulberry and red colours
onto an already laden colour palette all around.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Iolanda had dismounted and was waiting for
him in a spot that grew thick with ferns. He joined her and looked for a place
to tether his mount.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Don’t tether your horse, Chris. He won’t
go far, and has more chance of surviving any threat if he can run free.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris didn’t question her. He laid the
reins across the animal’s saddle and walked across to where she waited.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“How far to the falls?” he asked.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Not far, we walk in from here.” They
didn’t have far to walk and the sounds of the water grew clearer with every
step. Iolanda ducked down suddenly and Chris followed close behind as the mass
curtain of growth fell again behind them.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Iolanda stood to one side to give Chris an
uninterrupted view ahead.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Oh … oh, my…! How can anything be this
perfect?” he didn’t expect an answer. He wouldn’t have heard it anyway; his
only focus was on what he was seeing.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">His companion looked at him and her eyes
filled with tears. Chris’s expression was one of pure joy. Iolanda was happy to
have been the one to show him. She had never before guided anyone here, it was
her private place. She was uncertain why she had decided to show it to this
man. The look on his face was perhaps the only answer she needed.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The waterfall was running full as the last
of the snow on the high peaks had melted. The water gushed out and sprayed
rainbows in the sunlight, bending trees at its edges with its force. The rocks
gleamed with moss the colour of emeralds, and wild flowers clung valiantly in a
profusion of gold and blue untouched nearby.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The falls were steep, and the water-hole
below shimmered, crystal and pristine in waiting. Bird life Chris had never
seen before dove into and behind the falls, crying songs of jubilation as they
emerged with their prizes.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“They only feed on the blue moss behind the
falls, nowhere else in the mountains, no other waterfall, just this one.”
Iolanda had to raise her voice to be heard over the turbulent, pounding, water.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“It’s … magical,” Chris said.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Yes … yes, that’s a great word for it.
Magical …perfect.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Thank you, Iolanda. If I see nothing else
today this alone would have been worth it.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“You’re welcome, Chris. But I do have much
more to show you, and we need to talk where we don’t need to shout. We won’t
eat here, there’s another lovely spot further down. When you’ve had your fill,
we’ll move on.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Don’t leave the decision to go up to me.
We’ll still be here at Christmas if I get my way. Your call.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“I know what you mean. I promise we’ll come
again, before you return stateside. We should go, now.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">If I ever want to go back. Each day I’m
spending here with these people makes even the thought of returning to the U.S
abhorrent.</span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris stood albeit reluctantly, he looked
around again, imprinting the scene on his memory to be savoured later.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“What’s next?” he asked.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Something precious. If what I was told
last night is true.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“When did you get back?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Last night. Julian’s message was waiting
for me when I arrived.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Oh, hell. I’m sorry. Julian didn’t say
anything and I didn’t ask about my guide. You must be exhausted, it’s a long
trip.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“No, I’m rested enough. I would have come
out here today anyway. It’s the one predictable thing I do when I wake on my
first day back. Julian knows that.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Your private time? I’m so sorry I’ve
invaded it.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“No, Chris, you helped make it all the more
special. It’s a real pleasure seeing the joy on your face. Now let’s go, I’m
hungry and need to fill you in on a few things in a quieter spot, it’s not far,
and I can almost taste the food Julian has prepared.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Yeah, he sure knows how to put food
together.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris wanted to ask about their
relationship, but he knew it was none of his business, so he refrained, with
difficulty.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The horses were exactly where they had left
them. They mounted and Iolanda again took point. The slope was steep, but their
mounts were sure footed and obviously familiar with the terrain.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">It amazed Chris, who could see no markings
indicating a trail of any description, yet Iolanda didn’t stop to gaze around
her, she knew exactly what she was doing and where she was taking them. Chris
was relaxed, casting his eyes around to soak in the surroundings. The horse
stopped suddenly and Chris’s attention snapped back to the job at hand. He
leaned forward and patted the animal’s neck. “Thanks, pal. I’ll pay more
attention.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Iolanda was not far ahead, the clearing was
inviting and although the stream that ran below it was fast, it was gurgling
over the rocks, not pounding into them like the waterfall.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris dismounted and he followed Iolanda’s
lead, leaving the horse untethered again. He had to move a little more quickly
to keep up with her and when she stopped he took in the view around him.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Iolanda?” Chris called softly, reluctant
to make a noise.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">She turned and smiled at him, and he felt a
jolt travel through his body.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">She beckoned him closer, “No need to
whisper, Chris. I’ll explain over lunch. See the rock platform just up ahead?
We’ll stop there. Grab the spray and the rifle, I have the edibles.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">He nodded, returned to his horse, pocketed
the spray inside his vest, grabbed the rifle and ammunition, and headed to the
rock platform.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Iolanda’s voice … what was there about it
that calmed him? It was familiar, yet he was fairly certain they had never met
before this morning. The strangeness of the past few days, the things he had
experienced were inexplicable, at least in the world he lived in.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Pull up a rock and take a load off.”
Iolanda said.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris complied, and perched himself on the
edge of the outcrop next to her. “Why is it okay not to whisper?” he asked,
still whispering.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Iolanda was busy laying out their lunch and
readied two unbreakable cups of chilled white wine. She passed one to Chris,
and sat facing him, “Brown bears startle easily, Chris. People make the mistake
of remaining utterly quiet, and the bears don’t know they’re in the area, if
they stay downwind of course. It’s far better to speak and act normally, and
then the bears don’t get such a fright if they happen to catch sight of someone
in their domain. It’s not unheard of for them to still become aggressive, but
it’s usually caused by hunger in a non-productive spring, or if you get between
them and their cubs.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Okay, that makes sense. What do you do if
one does come across you and acts aggressive?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“The one thing you <b>must not do</b> is
run. Under no circumstances. The bear will chase you down. I can’t stress that
strongly enough, Chris. The best you can do is wave your arms, stand tall, make
a noise, and start to back very slowly away, don’t turn your back until the
bear is no longer in your field of vision. If she still comes forward use the
pepper spray, spray it for at least ten seconds to create a curtain, the
problem with that is you need to be only about twenty five feet away from her
to get the best possible outcome. Use the rifle if you have to, but you will
need to get more than one shot into her to bring her down.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I
wouldn’t like to use the rifle, if she’s got cubs to take care of. So that
would be my last choice. Why do you refer to the bear as a she? Why not a
male?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“It’s spring, Chris. Bears are a solitary
mammals. The males come up here only once a year, to mate. You are only likely
to see a female and her cubs in the spring. She would normally have one,
perhaps two. I’ve heard that the female that frequents this part of the forest
has finally given birth; the shepherds have seen her feeding at night with two
cubs. If she is out of the den this morning the area below is where we are most
likely to see her. I hope we’re lucky today, I’ve watched her for years now and
this’ll be my first time seeing her with young.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“You love this place, don’t you?” Chris
said.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Oh, yes. Yes I do.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“How can you stand being away from here for
so long?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“I’ve made some good friends stateside, and
I’ve a job where I have worked long and hard to gain status. Plus my mom lives
there, and I see her frequently, but I admit, it doesn’t get any easier to stay
away.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“What do you do … job-wise I mean?” asked
Chris.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“I’m an attorney.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Satisfying?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“It is, most of the time.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Iolanda, have we met before?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“No, I doubt I’d forget meeting Christopher
Manning. But I’ll admit that it surely feels like I know you. Déjà vu …?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Hm … Déjà vu.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The wind was picking up a little. Chris and
Iolanda chatted on whilst they ate, all the time watching the stream for any
sign of the bear Iolanda spoke of.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Iolanda turned her head to look further
upstream and as she did so the wind lifted her long hair away from her neck,
Chris was startled by markings that seemed to be deep lacerations that ran from
behind her ear and across her shoulder.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Can I ask something very personal?” said
Chris.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Kind of depends on what it is, but go for
it, no guarantee I’ll answer though.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“The marks on your neck … was that a bear?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Take a closer look, Chris.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have asked.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“No, I mean it’s okay, just take a closer
look.” Iolanda moved nearer to him. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris inhaled her fragrance as she lifted
her hair for him to see more closely.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Touch it.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris very gently traced his fingers over
the marks and discovered they were not lacerations at all. “A birth mark?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Yes, unusual isn’t it? Everyone mistakes
it for scarring, and it does look like claw marks. But I was born with it.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Anyone else in your family have it?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Not to my knowledge.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“My biological father has the same dragon
shaped birthmark on his hand that I have,” Chris said as he showed it to her.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">He was about to say more when he caught a
flicker of movement below. He touched Iolanda’s hand and pointed downstream.
The bear was standing deep in the stream with two very curious cubs attempting
to join her, and almost succeeding as they went sliding on the moss covered
rocks.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Iolanda didn’t try to hide her emotion at
seeing the bear she had been watching all her life with her cubs, the tears ran
freely down her face and she made no attempt to wipe them away.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris laughed in delight as he watched the
cubs scrambling and pushing each other into the water under the watchful eye of
their mother.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“She’s huge,” Chris said.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The bear stood erect momentarily and
sniffed the air, and then went waist deep into the water obviously enjoying the
sensation. The cubs stayed where they were, playing games that neither one
would win.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Mother bear clambered out of the water and
shook herself, again standing and sniffing the air around her.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“She’s edgy,” Iolanda said. “We’ll move on,
Chris. Something is bothering the adult, I doubt it’s our presence, more likely
a wolf, but we should go soon.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris was disappointed but understood
Iolanda’s caution. He helped her pack away the food and any scraps. The bear
and her cubs were nowhere in sight when he looked again.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Where next?” Chris asked.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“There’s a place, about half an hour
further on, that the Red Deer frequent. Look out for trees where the bark has
been rubbed off in patches, about waist height.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Half an hour further … I drank too much
wine, nature calls,” Chris said.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Keep me in sight.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris nodded and headed off into the
thickest stand of trees nearby. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">He heard the sound of something moving
through the undergrowth. He zipped his fly and stood still, listening, then
finding, the direction it came from. He looked out to where Iolanda was
waiting; she had mounted her horse and held the reins of his mount in her
hands.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The noise came again, much closer now.
Chris took a couple of steps and caught sight of the animal responsible. It was
a bear cub. His mind raced, <i>either the bear we were watching has three cubs,
or there’s another adult nearby with her own cub. Shit, either way it’s not
good.</i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Iolanda!” he called.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">She looked over to where Chris was slowly
walking toward her.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“You, oka –?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">She didn’t get to finish her question as an
adult bear now stood in the clearing. It stood erect and huffed, making
clacking sounds with its teeth. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Iolanda’s horse reared in fright and
Iolanda was thrown to the ground. She lay still. Both horses bolted.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris reached her, “Iolanda! Oh, fuck. Can
you hear me, Iolanda?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">She opened her eyes, “Wha …”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“I’m going to pick you up. We are between
the adult bear and her cub. Looks like she had three.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris lifted her as gently and as quickly
as he could, even so she cried out in pain and lost consciousness again. He
knew his options were limited. Carrying Iolanda over his left shoulder and the
spray in his right hand, he began to move backwards very slowly.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The cub was directly behind them now, and
the adult bear in front of them huffed again, advancing a couple of steps and
calling to her cub.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris knew he needed to get behind the cub.
He needed the adult to be aware that her cub was in no danger from them.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Time seemed to freeze as he stepped back
again and again, until he drew level with the cub and then just behind it. He
kept going, watching the adult's every movement.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The cub had seen its mother now and ambled
over to her. She shoved it behind her and stayed exactly where she was.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Fuck. Go on bear, you’ve got what you
wanted.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris increased the distance between them,
keeping visual contact as long as he could. Iolanda was drifting in and out of
consciousness and moving with it. “I need you to stay still, Iolanda. I can’t
put you down, I know you’re in pain, but that can’t be helped.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris knew he had to find the horses, or at
least one of them. He finally turned his back, and with his insides clenched in
a ball of fear he hurried now, retracing the steps along the trail as best he
could. He was tiring rapidly but didn’t stop. Iolanda had not made a sound in
quite a while.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Both horses were feeding up ahead and Chris
took a deep breath as he laid Iolanda across the saddle of his horse. He
mounted and pulled her up into a sitting position in front of him. The other
horse didn’t protest as he took its reins and headed back down the trail
towards the dirt road that led to the village.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Iolanda moaned and he loosened his grip a
little, mindful that she may have broken ribs. She had a gash on her forehead
which was bleeding freely. He removed his shirt with difficulty and pressed it
firmly against the wound. He hoped like hell that the smell of fresh blood
wouldn’t lure anything else with deadly intent.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris was shaking with reaction as they
reached the road to the village and he nudged his mount into a faster pace. He
was surprised to see a large crowd in front of the inn, including Dave and the
girls. Julian spotted them coming and ran forward to help.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Be careful with her, Julian, I think she’s
got some broken ribs. Where’s the nearest hospital?” Chris asked in a rush as
he assisted Julian to move her.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Julian held Iolanda in his arms and Chris
walked with them as Julian carried her into the inn.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Several women were gathered around a
makeshift bed and Julian lowered Iolanda gently onto it. He turned to Chris who
was now visibly shaking and very pale.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Chris, there is no hospital close enough
to be of any help. The women are accustomed to dealing with injuries. The
bleeding from the wound will be stopped. Head wounds always bleed heavily, my
friend. She should be fine.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Manning’s legs gave out on him and someone
put a chair under him and handed him a glass of liquid. He drank without
tasting it, all his focus was on the woman who lied so still and quiet just a
few feet away. It was only then he wondered how they had known to have a bed of
sorts ready in the inn.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Chris, buddy … you need to drink another
few of these. You’re in shock. You can’t help her if you black out.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris did as he was bid, tasting the
whiskey this time. “Dave?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Yeah.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Fuck, man … I’ve never felt more helpless
in my life.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“No one’s asking any questions yet, buddy.
Time for that later, okay?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“She’s got to be alright.” Chris’s voice
was agonised.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Dave looked over to where the women were
working on the still unconscious girl, he still had no clue who she was as he
and the other crew had only arrived moments before Chris had ridden up.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Julian joined them with a few bottles of
wine. “She’ll be okay, Chris. Bruised ribs and concussion as far as the women
can tell. She’s drifting in and out of consciousness, the elders have given her
something to ease any pain and she should sleep for quite some time.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Aren’t you meant to keep her awake if she
has concussion?” Chris asked with concern.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Yes, that would be the normal course of
action if a fractured skull couldn’t be ruled out. Trust me on this, Chris. The
women know exactly what they are doing. Iolanda should awaken in a few hours
with one nasty headache, which they will relieve. I think you need to have a
few more drinks and grab some sleep as well, my friend.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“I want to be awake when she comes around.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“I promise I will wake you as soon as she
does,” Julian said.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Julian’s right, buddy. Grab forty winks,
I’ll be here when you wake up. You look like hell,” said Dave.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“I’m certain that’s where we’ve just been,
Dave.” </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris turned to Julian, “Okay. I know
you’ll wake me. Do you want me to bunk down where I slept last night?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Yes … and Chris, drink the wine. I know it
will help.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Dave and Julian helped him to stand, and
then half carried him upstairs when his legs refused to co-operate.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">They manoeuvred him across to the bed, and
he sat there. The alcohol was helping a little; at least he’d stopped shaking. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Sleep, my friend. We’ll talk further
later. There is much we need to discuss.” With that remark Julian poured him a
glass of wine, left the bottle, and went back downstairs.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Dave stood at the end of the bed for a
moment not knowing what to say. He regretted his childish response to Chris
when he’d said he was staying here the night before. He acknowledged
reluctantly that he was unused to Chris seeking out other company. It was
usually the two of them that hung out together, but that was no excuse. Chris
was too shattered to be worried about anything that minor right now, so Dave
just patted him awkwardly on the shoulder and left him in peace.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-align: center;">
<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">•</span></b></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris extinguished his cigarette and sat on the edge
of the bed.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">He understood that he’d had a shock, he
knew that it would pass … what he didn’t understand was why he felt so
completely exhausted. It was an effort to move his limbs.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Maybe this comes with shock, this weird
feeling of disassociation. If I can sleep … it should pass.</span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">He pulled off the boots and what remained
of the clothing he was wearing. His own clothes sat on a chair next to the bed,
he knew he didn’t have the strength left to dress completely, but he managed
his boxer shorts and then fell back onto the welcoming softness.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Sleep came quickly, and his breathing was
steady.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">She held out her hand to him and he took
it, marvelling again at the silken softness of her touch. She didn’t speak, for
there was no need. He knew her thoughts as she knew his. They walked together
along the corridor with the blue light pulsing all around them, beckoning them,
luring them further with its ancient promise of harmony and great joy.</span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The dragon emblem glowed its welcome. She
turned to him and he kissed her sweet mouth, his hands tangled in her golden
hair as they moulded together.</span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Together as they should be, together as
they had been through all time. It was time to …</span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Chris …Chris, come my friend, wake now.
Iolanda is asking for you.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The voice penetrated and the vision
vanished. Chris sat up, disoriented and looking around him, seeking something
familiar.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Chris! Look at me. Yes, my friend. Ah …
you are here. Dress yourself and come downstairs, she is awake and asking for
you,” Julian said.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Is she okay? I mean, really okay?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Yes, she has a gash on her forehead which
needed stitching and her ribs are understandably sore, but otherwise she is
fine. Come now, see for yourself.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris attempted to stand, unsuccessfully,
and sat abruptly back on the bed.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“I will help you dress. Then we go down
together, yes?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Thanks, Julian. I still feel a little … um
… odd.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“That is to be expected. It will pass.”
Julian handed Chris his shirt and helped him into it, and the jeans followed. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Can you manage the stairs?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“I think I’ll be okay, Julian. If you don’t
mind going down just ahead of me.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Let us go.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris could hear the chatter of the
villagers as he came slowly down the stairs, so he wasn’t all that surprised to
find the bar area had standing room only.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The room fell silent when he and Julian
entered. He didn’t notice, his only focus was the golden-haired woman he’d met
only that morning. His eyes sought and found Iolanda sitting propped up on pillows
on the makeshift bed, which had been moved over to the large window.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">He felt the eyes of the crowd follow him as
he made his way to her. The villagers stood back to allow him access to where
she was waiting.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Iolanda became aware of his presence and gave
him that smile, the smile that permeated his being and left him breathless.
“Chris, you are okay! I didn’t believe them. Even your friend Dave tried to
tell me. Oh, Chris I’m so sorry, it’s my fault, I should’ve been paying more
attention, I –”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris interrupted her, “What? No, nothing
that happened is anyone’s fault Iolanda! Shit happens, you know, it just
happens, no rhyme, no reason, it just does.” He perched himself on the edge of
her bed and looked deep into her wonderful brown eyes, unaware of the fact that
they had clutched each other’s hands as they spoke.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Do you truly believe that, Chris?” she
asked softly.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“When it’s convenient, I do.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Iolanda laughed at his honesty and then
dropped one of his hand, in order to hold her ribs. “Ouch, no more laughter,
for at least today.” She then giggled. “Thank you for my life, Chris. Don’t
protest, don’t tell me you did what any man would have done, please. I know
differently.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“What?” said Chris.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Julian had joined them and put his hand on
Iolanda’s shoulder and gave it a gentle squeeze. “I told you he was well, did I
not.” They were the words he spoke, but the message that passed between them
said something entirely different.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Oh, you haven’t had a chance to talk to
anyone yet, Chris, have you?” she asked.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“I’m not certain I have much to say, I was
there, I did what I did, and here we are. The main thing is you, I couldn’t
have born it if anything had taken you.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Iolanda lifted her hand and stroked his
cheek, pushing his long hair back, “Nor I you.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris savoured the moment and then looked
at Julian. A smile of contentment was the last thing he expected to see on
Julian’s face.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Are you two just friends?” Chris asked
hopefully, unable to stop himself.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Oh, much more than just friends Chris,”
said Iolanda. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris’s hope plummeted. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Iolanda continued, “Julian is my brother,
Chris. And a damned bossy one at that.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Your brother! Well, that’s great, I mean,
yeah … aw hell, I don’t know what I mean.” Chris felt the heat rise in his
face.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Oh my … you are blushing Christopher
Manning,” said Iolanda with a great deal of satisfaction.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Julian was clearly enjoying himself; he
doubled with laughter and wiped his eyes, “Do not hold the fact that she is
related to me against her, Chris. I am not as bossy as she would have you
believe.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris’s smile was the one that reduced many
women to blithering idiocy, and the best thing was, he had no idea.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Chris, we need to talk. Just you and I.
Let us leave Iolanda for a short while. Are you able to take a short journey by
car? There is something you need to see,” Julian asked.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Iolanda nodded and squeezed Chris’s hand,
“I’ll be right here, Chris.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Promise?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Oh, yes. I promise.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris was reluctant to leave her, yet he
knew that this talk with Julian had waited long enough. He had questions, and
he had the feeling that Julian could provide him with the answers. “When,
Julian?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Now, my friend.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Okay.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Julian was pleased. He walked across to
where Dave was sitting trying valiantly to understand the conversation being
directed his way by a number of the villagers. “Dave, we’ll be back soon. Can
you sit with Iolanda awhile, she is much easier to understand. Sometimes.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Dave was only too happy to oblige.</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-align: center;">
<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">•</span></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-align: center;">
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<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-align: center;">
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris sat in the car waiting for Julian.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">He knew that some of the questions he had
would probably make him sound way on the southern end of normal. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Yeah, but what’s normal? And normal
according to whose criteria?</span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">He could only hope that Julian didn’t write
him off as unsuitable for Iolanda as a result. Julian climbed in behind the
wheel, assured himself that his passenger was comfortable, and they set off.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">As soon as they crossed the first stream
Chris knew where they were going. “The castle, Julian?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Yes, my friend. Can you wait to begin your
questions until after we arrive? It is important.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Of course.” </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Julian looked across at Chris, uncertain of
how best to approach what needed to be said. Having made his decision, he had
to await the most opportune moment to begin. He didn’t need to wait for long.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Julian … this has to do with what we
talked about before Iolanda and I met, hasn’t it?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Yes.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Can we begin now?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“We can if you so wish, my friend. Perhaps
though it would be best to wait a few minutes more, when I can have access to
show you things that may help you understand and come to terms with what you
must.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Why not … I have waited for so very long
already,” Chris said softly.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“You have already surmised much of what I
need to tell you, have you not?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“I think so, Julian. But this is all so far
outside of anything I can explain rationally. I guess I need clarification, and
if at all possible … a reason.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Julian pulled the car up outside Castle
Drakon. The late afternoon sun lit up the site to give it the warmth that the
edifice needed to appear welcoming to some. It wasn’t needed for either of the
men in the car. With unspoken agreement they both headed to the hidden entrance
behind the vines.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris stopped once inside the grounds,
“Julian, show me what you need to, then we can talk without skirting around
anything that may be outside our comfort zones.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Very well, Chris. Can I ask you first,
what your beliefs are? Specifically your religious beliefs.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris thought about that question for a
while before answering. “That has been on my mind a great deal, for a very long
time, Julian. I have come to the conclusion that I have no religious
affiliations, I do not believe in the God of the bible, and I have read just
about every other book on most other systems of belief that there is. I believe
in none of them completely. Are you shocked?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Relieved would be a more apt emotion.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“I thought it may be.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Let us go inside,” said Julian</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">They walked side by side until they reached
the kitchens. Julian stopped, “Chris, I have to ask you to trust me without
question for a short while. Can you do that?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Julian … I trust very few people.” He
looked at the man as he spoke, “The best I can offer is I’ll try, that will
have to do I’m afraid.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“That will suffice for now. You need to
come with me down to the wine cellar and beyond.” He raised his hand to
forestall, Chris’s objections. “I promise you there will be no panic attack
this time, no sweating or shortness of breath.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“You can promise me that?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Yes, Chris.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“It’s a big ask, Julian. The last time
scared the shit out of me, I couldn’t breathe … but I will try.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Thank you.” Julian waited for his friend
to ready himself and when he had they quickly made their way to the kitchens.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris hesitated for a brief moment at the
entrance to the wine cellar, and then drew in a sharp breath and continued after
Julian. He felt the coolness through his shirt as he had before, but nothing
else, although he waited for it, despite his best efforts not to. They reached
the wine cellar, and … nothing … Chris started to relax a little. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Julian indicated another stairway leading
down deeper beneath the castle. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Didn’t you say it was unsafe to come down
further because of the structure being unstable?” Chris asked.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“I did, my friend. I lied to keep Dave and
yourself from entering this area.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“No way on earth I would’ve ventured down
here. But you’re probably right about Dave, he seems to be fearless.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“None of us are really what we seem,
Chris.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Julian walked another few feet and stopped,
he lit another lantern and handed it to Chris. “Open your mind to all possibilities,
please, my friend. I will try to help you understand what you are about to
see.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The crypt was even colder than the wine
cellar, so cold that their breath left a mist in the air. Julian walked across
the room, lighting lanterns as he moved to them, until the place was well
illuminated. He stopped. “This one will be difficult for you, Chris. Trust me,
my friend.” Julian heaved back the heavy cover and motioned Chris forward.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris wanted to run like hell, but he
didn’t. He walked over, braced himself, and looked down. Then he screamed. “No!
It can’t be … we just left her.” Iolanda lay in the coffin, dressed in a white
gown. A bandage around her beautiful neck. “No! No … no!” Chris repeated over
and over sobbing the words.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Julian grabbed Chris’s shoulders and held
him in a firm grip while he spoke. “Chris, it is NOT Iolanda! Listen to me.
Listen to me, Chris! It is not her Chris, hear what I say … this is not
Iolanda.”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack1"></a></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Not? Not her? I will kill you, Julian, if
you are lying to me.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Yes, you would. I know that.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Then who is it? She looks exactly like
Iolanda, even the bandage where the birthmark is.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“She showed you that?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Yes.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“I need you to look at one more, Chris.
Please, you have to see it, and then we will go back upstairs while I tell you
more and answer your questions.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris was so afraid that Julian had lied,
yet something in Julian’s face convinced him.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Chris, please … look, and quickly.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris looked down, and kept looking. “It’s
me. It’s me, Julian. But … I’m standing here, talking to you … aren’t I?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Yes, Chris. You are. You are very much
alive, my friend.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Then how? Why is only my … his … face
showing?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Julian pulled the coffin lid shut. “Come
away, back up to the kitchens, then we will talk. Come, Chris. You have seen
all you needed to see here.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris followed, saying nothing. He was
bereft of speech. This is a day he wouldn’t ever forget.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Julian made the ascent quickly.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris sat down and took the glass of wine
that Julian offered. They both remained silent and drank several glasses each.
Chris lit a cigarette with a hand that still shook. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“What the fuck is in this stuff?” Chris
asked holding up the wine.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“It is a calmative, very effective. We do
not share the wine with strangers usually. But you have already gathered that
you are not a stranger to us here, Chris.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Are you talking reincarnation, Julian?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Chris, to be truthful, I do not know if
this fits into my understanding of reincarnation. Allow me tell you what I do
know, and I’ll show you the written records for that time, although I will need
to translate for you. You have trusted me thus far, I thank you for that.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Ah-huh, that doesn’t mean I don’t want to
get the fuck out of here and see Iolanda for myself!”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Julian nodded in understanding, “Of course.
This will not take long.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Go, on … I’ll try not to interrupt. One
quick question, does she know?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“She does now. But not before you went out
this morning. We couldn’t interfere in what destiny had in store for either of
you. It broke my heart to let her go with you, in case she did not come back,
but I trusted in the man I could see. You did not let me down.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“I’m listening, Julian.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“The mark of the dragon that you were born
with is, and has been for generations, the symbol of our village and Castle
Drakon. For hundreds of years the masters of Castle Drakon all bore it, from
birth. Three hundred years ago there was a plague, it decimated the village,
and the castle was not spared. No children were born for many years, and the
lineage faltered. The village recovered and the children came again. Yet not in
the bloodline of the masters. The records talk of the old master taking a young
girl from the village, she gave him twins, boys … both born with the mark. He
had her murdered to silence her. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The elder child, by only a matter of minutes
and subsequently the heir, was a monster. He was vain, selfish, and exceedingly
cruel. For the first time in our centuries of co-operation with the masters the
villagers began talking of open rebellion. Yet they did not rebel. Too many
customs and years of servitude prevented them from doing so, but they were
unhappy, and hungry, never a good combination.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The new master took whatever woman he
wanted, he impregnated a few. Those that had his children bore him only girls.
He killed both the mother and child at the birth. He wanted a son. He became
crazed with that need. It drove him and he took more and more of our women in
his attempt to fill it.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">A golden haired daughter had been born to
highly revered members of the village. The child was taken and hidden away to
protect her. Legend spoke of her coming. It was decreed that this girl child
would restore happiness and prosperity to the village, and they guarded her
well. He found her. Yet he did not capture and rape her as he had the others.
He married her. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The villagers hoped that she would bring
about a change in the man she married. He was besotted at first and appeared to
outsiders to be a loving husband. She was desperately unhappy, and when she
fell pregnant she hoped against hope that he loved her enough to allow her to
go if a girl child was born. If a girl child, she would take her and raise her
in the village. If a boy, born with the mark of the dragon, she knew she was
doomed to stay. She would have honoured that commitment.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The master made the promise to the elders,
that should she birth a female they would be both free to leave.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">She had a girl. The master seemed content
to allow her the freedom he had promised. He begged her for one last day in her
company. Her kind heart forced her to agree. She loved the mountains and the
forest, so he suggested they take the little one and picnic by a mountain
stream.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">He returned alone. Like a crazed man he
swore that a wolf had taken the baby! His wife, he said, had gone mad. In her
grief she had run into the forest, he had searched for many hours but found no
trace of her. The villagers organised a search party, unbeknownst to the master
and against his express command. They found her, just alive. She told them that
he had thrown the infant to the wolves, and then turned on her and hit her over
the head with a rock, and dragged her into the forest. When they found her it
was just moments too late to save her … her throat had been ripped opened by a
bear. The villagers carried her home in secret and preserved her young body in
age old vats of liquid, and then they embalmed her and took her, using the
passageway, to rest for eternity in the ice cold crypt of the Castle.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">They dragged the murderous bastard from his
bed and buried him alive, with his arms and legs bound tightly and with only
his face free. To ensure his death was long and agonising they gave him water
and just occasionally food, just enough to ensure that he lay there in agony
buried up to his neck for a long time before he died.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Iolanda is the first golden haired child to
be born in the village since that time; she was born with the birthmark of the
bear’s claw. Our family are superstitious, myself included. It was decided that
the best way of life for her was not to remain in the village to be viewed as
some sort of talisman, an oddity, but away from here. Our mother left her only
home and took her to America. My sister blossomed and attained a wonderful
education, but she simply cannot stay away. I miss her, Chris. I think you can
probably fathom the rest. Questions?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Hell, I don’t know, Julian. Don’t get me
wrong, I believe everything you have told me. But where the hell did I come
from? My father has the mark, as do I. Why me, and not him?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“He was born too early to be the one,
Chris. You were not. If what we have been able to learn since Iolanda was born
is correct, and we have no reason to suppose otherwise … the last master of
Castle Drakon born with the mark had continued to rape and impregnate women
during his only marriage. The golden haired one did not have a child until the
second year of that marriage. Two of those women he raped in those two years
escaped him before the birth of their babies. They fled with help from the
elders. We have records that tell us one of them gave birth to another girl. We
can find nothing whatsoever about the younger girl. I think we can safely gauge
that she had a son.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris sat silently, he was beyond being
able to talk.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Everything that Julian had told him sounded
like some drug induced nightmare, except for the fact that he did have the mark
of the dragon on his hand he may have been able to convince himself that he was
in that dream state again.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Julian watched the doubts flow across
Chris’s face, and understood them. It was more than most people could deal with,
but his gut instincts told him that his new friend was not most people. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“I think perhaps we should go back to the
inn, Chris. You may feel utter confusion now, and that is not to be unexpected.
Once you have an opportunity to speak to Iolanda alone, you may feel more …
centred, is that the word?”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris stood and walked out to the
courtyard; he felt ill. He didn’t make it much further before he retched
violently. Julian was right, he needed to see her, touch her and talk with her,
and then wait to see what, if anything, was to happen then.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The drive back was completed in silence.
Chris gazed from the window but saw nothing. There was no crowd outside the inn
this time and he was thankful for that. Dave was seated next to Iolanda when
they went inside, deep in conversation, yet her eyes sought him out as he
entered.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Dave vacated his spot with a concerned look
when he saw Chris’s face. He wanted to say something but the words didn’t come.
Julian called him over to the bar and they talked quietly together.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris sat next to her and she took his
hand. “You’ve had one bastard of a day. I can’t get a grip on all of it yet. So
much has happened,” she stroked his cheek with a butterfly's touch.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris took her hand and gently kissed her
palm, “We need some time together without an audience. Are you able to make it
upstairs? I’ll carry you.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Iolanda smiled up at him and put her arms
up to be lifted. Chris didn’t speak, he held her close to his heart and without
a word to anyone else they went up the stairs. He laid her carefully on the bed
and sat beside her. “Déjà vu didn’t even come close.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Iolanda laughed, “You got that right. Chris
can you hold me, until I fall asleep. I need to know you’re here beside me.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">He lay next to her and she snuggled into
him. He stroked her hair gently and felt the tension leave his body as her
breathing deepened. They had no need of wine to help them sleep; they curled
together in perfect symmetry and slept the deep sleep that children know, the
sleep that comes before the innocence is torn away.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">•</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The rumour mill in Hollywood was working overtime,
Oscar time did that, it turned almost sane rational people into piranhas hungry
for blood.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Christopher Manning’s latest film had been
nominated for four major awards, and the fact that he had been absent from the
U.S.A for several months had everybody wondering if this film would be his last
as a director. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Those he did talk to kept silent as he was
highly regarded by his friends and associates. The press had been having a
field day at his expense, stories of illness, drug addiction, ad nauseum. They
weren’t too worried about the fallout, as long as they reported from ‘sources
close to the star’ and used the word ‘alleged’ with abandon, their collective
asses couldn’t get sued. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris read the stories and laughed long and
loud at some of the wonderfully creative lies. He was far too happy to allow
any of it to get under his skin.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Dave Walters was beside himself with
excitement, he had finally been nominated for Best Cinematographer. He was
damned proud of the work he’d done on this one. If he didn’t win so be it, but
he acknowledged finally that he was good at what he did. He and Chris had been
in regular contact, and Chris had returned stateside for the final
post-production and editing process. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The late afternoon April sun glared down on
the red-carpet as the A lister’s strutted their stuff for the world’s press.
The Academy Awards rated highly with the public and the carpet was lined with
fans all screaming at anyone and everyone that wore a tuxedo or an evening
gown. Photo opportunities were taken at risk of life and limb for the security
people.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Ultimately, despite the glamor and pretence
of these ceremonies, the votes that came in from the members of the academy
reflected their true feelings about the categories they voted in. So despite
the hoopla, to win one was prestigious.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Dave accepted his award with surprising
grace. He held it aloft and thanked Chris Manning for the chance to have been
part of a wonderful experience. Other major awards were handed out, and
accepted, but the audience were waiting on the big two. Best Director and Best
Film were the most hotly contended awards. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The five nominees for Best Director were
read out, the envelope was handed to Ben Affleck to announce the winner, “And
the winner is, Christopher Manning, for <i>The Secrets of Castle Drakon</i>.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris never attended these things, so the
audience waited for someone else to accept the award on his behalf. So they
were delighted when Chris walked up and onto the stage, and they stood and
applauded, loudly. “Thank you all, it was a privilege to work with some
amazingly talented people. I have thanked them all privately, but you all know
who they are. Dave buddy, I owe you a cellar full of our favourite stuff.”
Chris held the award high, flashed his killer smile, and left the stage</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Finally the nominees for Best Picture were
announced, together with brief clips from the films. Ben Affleck slowly opened
the envelope, and read the winner with great pleasure …</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“And the winner is <i>The Secrets of Castle
Drakon,</i> produced and directed by Christopher Manning.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">This time Chris Manning wasn’t alone when
he accepted the award, he had with him a beautiful woman. The crowd grew quiet
and waited for the acceptance speech. Chris was crying quite openly as he stood
there, the woman put her fingers under his chin and smiled into his face. She
whispered something to him that made him laugh. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Then still holding her hand, he stepped up
to the microphone. “Ladies and gentleman, I thank you from the heart, to all of
the marvellous people who helped bring this movie to fruition, both behind and
in front of the cameras I say again, you helped me make my dream come true. I
would like to take this opportunity to introduce you to the beautiful lady at
my side, my lady, my life, my wife Iolanda. I don’t know if our little boy,
Julian, is awake, but I have a sneaking suspicion his uncle and he may be
watching. This film is part of our legacy to him and our love for his extended
family. Oh, and what I was laughing at … Iolanda wants to go out for popcorn
and Coca-cola. I love this woman.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris took Iolanda’s hand and they remained
on stage while the cast and crew joined them. They stood to one side for a
moment and Chris gazed down at her, her beautiful hair was swept up, exposing
her elegant neck and shoulders. He traced his fingers from behind her ear and
down across her shoulder, her skin silky smooth and clear. The birthmark she
had carried all her life had faded and disappeared on that night when they had first
slept in each other’s arms.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.0pt; text-indent: .3in;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Chris’s did not.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Julian sat in Chris’s Los Angeles apartment
nursing his nephew. Pleased with the results of the telecast, and delighted
that the baby had been named after him, he held the tiny hand in his own,
tracing the outline of the birthmark. “Tomorrow little one, we all go home. You
will love your home, not every little boy has his very own Castle to play in.”</span></div>
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END</span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA;">I
do hope you enjoyed my small contribution to this wonderful selection.</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">To read
more you can see <span style="color: #1f497d;"> <a href="https://sharcwriter.wordpress.com/"> Paul Rudd's Blog</a> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>posted yesterday highlighting his story
in the anthology, titled <b>SATAN'S BAND</b>….<i> </i>and
tomorrow make sure you check out<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <a href="http://www.bevallenauthor.com/blog">Bev Allen's Blog</a> </span>/her short story A SOLEMN CURFEW</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">You can get the entire collection from <a href="http://mybook.to/SecretsOfDrakonCastle"><span style="color: navy;">Amazon</span></a>.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I review most genre's.</span></span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">It makes for an eclectic reading experience over a twelve month period.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> I have decided to select one book a month as my book pick. Then at the end of the year, I will have my list of favorites ready to go.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> This book and it's author are my Book pick for January 2015.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Meet author Tom Winton.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Said to be a man who writes with his pen dipped in his soul,
bestselling author Tom Winton has been listed as one of Amazon's Top 100
"Most Popular Authors" in both Literary Fiction and in Mystery,
Thriller and Suspense. </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Tom's novels have been likened to such
classics as Catcher in the Rye, To Kill a Mockingbird and more. His
titles are Beyond Nostalgia, The Last American Martyr, Four Days with
Hemingway's Ghost, Within a Man's Heart, A Second Chance in Paradise,
and a short story collection The Voice of Willie Morgan.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%;">My review of FOREVER THREE by Tom Winton.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Having read and been deeply moved by ‘Beyond
Nostalgia’ I was delighted to find that author Tom Winton had penned a sequel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although this
book can easily stand alone. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Life has pain in store at some point, for all of us. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It’s how we deal with that pain, and how we struggle,
often unsuccessfully, to move beyond it that alters the end game. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Author Tom Winton has tapped into that pain, that
experience; the regrets, the longing … and the destructive forces we humans
carry within us to destroy what we have, before it destroys us.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The character of Dean is a man, a complex, fallible man, and a man capable
of great love. He is equally capable of being blinded by what once was, at the
risk of losing what now is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It is part of the human condition to wonder “What if?”
To nurture and dream of the ‘If only …’ in our lives. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This author has a deep gut
level understanding of these demons that propel us. He possesses the enviable gift of empathy, an empathy that draws us in, because we recognize these
characters, and the things within their nature that lay buried within our own
psyche.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%;">He had me sighing in recognition with his beautifully
penned words. Can any one of us say honestly that they have not wondered at
some point in their lives if someone is out there that will always remember us
with love and longing?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The characters
of Therese and Maddy are equally complex. They have their own demons. They
share a history with this man, a love, a lifetime of sad regrets, and a need to
know which of them will be the acknowledged last love of his life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Author Tom Winton takes us on a journey in this book.
A journey that compelled me to read on, often blinded by tears, and just as often
feeling anger and frustration with the character of Dean. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%;">These characters will affect you, they made me … feel.
I became involved in their lives. I was given the gift of belonging for a time
within these pages. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%;">That in my opinion is the measure of a wonderfully talented and
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Soooz Burkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02390489724415063410noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43905348168571177.post-39616134518468950802015-01-24T08:08:00.000+11:002015-01-24T08:08:18.683+11:00Book Review "SOULFATE" by T.K.Geering.<!--[if !mso]>
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<span style="color: #777777; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #777777; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"> <b><span style="font-size: large;">Meet the author</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-fWjpL2T7-YznL5B1Ct8euPuiTuF0hON8FZrN5LTMxuH3smjqz__u3_wMBOo5Ios6y3_v4WS6yyyTNvnklRa5EdMvCCaJ06YEsVNqB-NieAegJKEBxhGR3Aj8gx5vtWOUoi9MZVHak5s/s1600/tee+geering.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-fWjpL2T7-YznL5B1Ct8euPuiTuF0hON8FZrN5LTMxuH3smjqz__u3_wMBOo5Ios6y3_v4WS6yyyTNvnklRa5EdMvCCaJ06YEsVNqB-NieAegJKEBxhGR3Aj8gx5vtWOUoi9MZVHak5s/s1600/tee+geering.jpg" height="320" width="320" /></a><span style="color: #777777; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #777777; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"> I
started to write initially in my teens for amusement but began to write
seriously about five years ago. I didn’t chose to write fantasy it
chose me…</span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;">In the past I
have lectured to ‘A’ level and Performing Arts students on creative
writing. It became an extremely interesting sideline and gave a natural
break from editing, reviewing and writing.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;">Whilst
sitting in my garden amongst the Shasta daisies one hot balmy summer
evening, I idly watched a spider spinning a web. I was intrigued by the
intricate structure, and ease of his accomplishment. A storyline formed
in my mind and I began making notes. My mind was racing, and my fingers
were loaded with words. A couple of glasses of red wine and Shasta was
born.</span><span style="color: black;"> I then realised there
was a sequel lurking within. Another character introduced himself as
Erasmus a time travelling lover with attitude. My quick fingers helped
him to achieve his time travelling and within a year the trilogy was
complete. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;">Whilst
interviewing a publisher for the writing group I belonged to, I was both
shocked and delighted to hear that they were head hunting me for
publication of my books. The rest as they say …… is history. </span><span style="color: black;">My writing style has been compared to J.K. Rowling and Jean M. Auel, <span style="color: black;">and</span></span> <span style="color: black;">my books are now sold worldwide. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;">Tee Geering writes paranormal romance and is a previously published author. </span></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Book Review: SOULFATE
by T.K. Geering.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">This
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strange mystery, the characterizations so beautifully crafted by this author
that you can see them dancing in your mind…You can hear the cat speak…You are
laughter bound on meeting the darling Aunt May.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Erasmus
and Shasta are bound through time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
is a love story that has no boundaries of centuries past or future.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As adults we may need to learn to relax and
accept all we read, before we can totally absorb all the book has to offer.</span></div>
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if you bring to the book the willingness to suspend disbelief, you will be
transported by the Author…it will perhaps remind you of the magic of childhood
as you find yourself<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>hearing and feeling the warmth and magic within its pages.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Sans",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">If
you want a joyous exploration, a journey through a world less harsh and
cynical, then you can do no better than Soulfate.</span></div>
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<br />Soooz Burkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02390489724415063410noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43905348168571177.post-43880508285275300392015-01-15T09:28:00.001+11:002015-01-15T09:51:13.739+11:00Just WHO IS Sheila Harrington?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">#WhoisSheila? </span></span>Soooz Burkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02390489724415063410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43905348168571177.post-86304272216292158952015-01-07T06:35:00.000+11:002015-01-07T07:30:14.641+11:00Book Review "The Secrets of Castle Drakon" A Thorstruck Press Anthology #1.<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="background-color: blue;"></span>BOOK REVIEW:</h2>
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"THE SECRETS OF CASTLE DRAKON'</h2>
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A THORSTRUCK PRESS ANTHOLOGY #1.</h2>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I am delighted to present a review of “The Secrets of
Castle Drakon.” An Anthology from eleven authors at Thorstruck Press. </span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I thought
long and hard before reviewing this book, as I too have a story included. I
made the decision to remove my author’s hat and review this as an avid reader.
I will not of course be presenting you with a review of my own work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The remaining 10 Tales I read for the very first time
this week, and I can tell you before we begin that I am proud to be in this
company.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The challenge presented to the authors was simply to
write a short no longer than 20,000 words based on the writer’s interpretation
of the cover above. Any genre was welcomed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">So <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>… let us
begin.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Tale
1: The Fiddler’s Soul, by Richard Rhys Jones.</span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Jacob Carpenter, chief sports reporter for the Chester
Courier is invited by a stranger, a German named Freidhelm von Pilke to “attend
a gathering of mystics and mediums at Castle Drakon, and witness a paranormal
phenomenon, never before seen by man.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Having been caught out by a hoax about a haunted
chapel, Jacob was wary. His editor had no reservations, a flat NO was his
response. Surely after being demoted in the pecking order as a result of his
previous unfortunate gullibility, Jacob wouldn’t be interested?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">He organizes time off, and with the promise of payment
for the story garnered by another magazine he heads off to meet the German von
Pilke.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> In a small village in the north of Wales he meets Fritz von Pilke,
together with the rest of his gathered <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">mystics
and mediums. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>The location ‘Castle Drakon.’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">On arrival Jacob meets the remainder of this odd
assortment of humanity and is informed that the aim of the weekend is to “retrieve
a soul from the realm of Satan, an innocent man who foolishly took a bet, and
paid for losing it with his soul.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Author Richard Rhys Jones has beautifully
reconstructed the time frame, the formality of language then used and the mode
of dress. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Each character is visible to my reader’s eye without overpowering my
own need to visualize more detail.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The masks of ‘sophistication’ apparent within the
gathering soon begin to slip haphazardly sideways, as Jacob is overtly
propositioned by Hypatia von Pilke. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The dialogue is fast paced and held this
reader riveted, and eager to read on. I will not spoil the tale for you.
Suffice it to say that nothing is quite as it seems. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">There is no predictability on offer here. Least of all
the ending. I have no hesitation in recommending this read and will be looking
out for more work by author Richard Rhys Jones.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Tale
2: Zeara Ga Mouche by Jeffrey Blackmer</span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This story is both clever and engaging. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Five interstellar
travelers walk through a portal of ‘Castle Drakon.’ </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Their quest, to gather 50 kg
of a fungus that grows nowhere else, a fungus that would be used to create a
universal virus vaccine that could not yet be replicated synthetically. The
portal brings them to an oasis of sorts, where the trees grow to over a mile in
height, with bases over 100 yards in diameter. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">They are a diverse group of travelers, with Hawthorne
as mission commander, the female botanist Brandt, uncomfortable wearing a
sidearm yet excited to have been included on the mission. Dobrovsky is their
exobiologist; his expertise hopefully would help protect them from the apex
predator, already the cause of eleven deaths on two previous missions. Grady
and Arnoff are military, bought along as mission protection.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Grady was the only survivor of the 2<sup>nd</sup>
mission. Apart from himself and the mission leader, none of the crew had been
warned or told of the high death rate of the previous missions. They had all
found it odd that they needed to be so heavily armed in what appeared to be an
oversized tropical paradise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The briefing by Brandt reveals that the fungus can
only be found at approx. 3,000 feet. Their protective suits will shield them
from the extremes in temperature.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Dobrovsky then informs them of the ‘apex’ predator
which he calls <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sheidah.</i> The Polish
for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">dark demon</i>. The news that it is
around the size of a saber-tooth tiger and will attack if detecting any
movement has the crew rattled. They are warned not to move if sighting one. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The good news is that a bird resembling an Australian Kookaburra, only much
larger and vividly colored, a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Varovani</i>
... Czech for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fearful Premonition </i>could
be their greatest ally, this bird gives a warning cry whenever a Sheidah is
nearby. The call sounds like ‘zeara ga mouche.’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Author Jeffrey Blackmer keep the tension resoundingly
high in this tale. Unrelenting and unpredictable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> An absolute pleasure to read.
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Suffice it to say that I will not be heading into the
tropics again anytime soon.</span></div>
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3: BROTHERLY LOVE? By Jillian Ward</span></u></b><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Meet Carlton Greenleaf, Solicitor. A tall, thin, man
who makes no sound when walking, and casts no shadow. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">He enters the office of Larry and Barry Bolton, twin
brothers that run an unsuccessful Real Estate office. Larry Bolton, the older
twin by a matter of minutes, is the brash, pushy brother. His twin, accustomed
to always being downgraded by his sibling, is quieter, more thoughtful and
reflective. He has long given up trying to exert his own personality, knowing
in advance that his brother would always undermine him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The strange Mr. Greenleaf has a proposition for them,
making it very clear from the outset that he is well aware of their precarious
financial position. A tenuous situation that no amount of bluster by Larry
Bolton can change. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Mr. Greenleaf offers them the opportunity to represent his
client Count Malachi Drakon in the sale of Castle Drakon an imposing 300 year
old ‘white elephant’ located nearby. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Greenleaf directs most of his conversation towards the
quieter twin, Barry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Before leaving them he offers a substantial bonus if
they are able to acquire a buyer within a period of three months. That bonus
together with their commission from the sale would buy them out of financial
trouble and set them up in a major city to begin anew.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">‘Castle Drakon’ named so by the last owner, and the
twin’s newest and only client, was an architectural abomination in anyone’s
language. Having being sold and resold often, and altered with every new owner,
it had the unfortunate reputation of being called everything from haunted to a
place of strange practices of unspeakable evil.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">When the brothers head out to take their first look
they find a lot more than they expected including a room that would please
anyone with an interest in sexual perversions, and drug paraphernalia suited to
all types of addiction.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Author Jillian Ward has set a cracking pace with this
story, the relationship between the twins features strongly. The descriptions
used and the gallows humor in the dialogue are both exceptional. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Relationships
and their often strange outcomes are absolutely pivotal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A terrific yarn.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Tale
4: A SOLEMN CURFEW by Bev Allen</span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Meet Quine. Section head in the enormous kitchen of a
Castle Drakon that existed when Ladies and Lords were commonplace. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Quine, a man
who loved recognition and reward almost as much as he did producing his
marvelously creative dishes of exquisite vegetable produce. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">He had an uphill battle on his clever hands to bring a
superlative dish to the attention of the Master and her Ladyship. For the head
chef was a devious man, recognizing that Quine’s talent could make his own
dishes shine, without thought being given to their creator. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Quine hungered for
that recognition, and the silver and sometimes golden coins that accompanied
that acknowledgement. They would be saved, and one day he could leave this
place and allow his dream of running his own small but excellent establishment
to come to fruition.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">He had a small run of success, thanks to the
intervention of the chief steward. A fair man, who allowed a dish that Quine
had created to be served, not as an accompaniment to a main course, but as a
separate dish.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It was a huge success, and garnered Quine a small
taste of reward, in the form of a glass of wine sent from the Master.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">His self-esteem and standing within the kitchen rose
as a result, he then earned another accolade in the form of a silver coin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">But … he ran short of the delicate mushrooms required
to make his favorite dishes, and made a grave error in catering to his Master’s
love of spicy or hot food as an alternative… Onion rings perfectly battered and deep fried,
pleased the Master, but infuriated her Ladyship as she would be the one to
suffer the foul odors the night of this dish would bring to her bed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Quine was reprimanded in front of the kitchen staff.
His standing reduced once more, and his anger and frustration grew.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">He needed something so different, so unbelievably
delicious that his standing would never falter again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Author Bev Allen has crafted a wonderfully descriptive
piece, which had me literally hungry for more. Combine with that her
understanding of the demon’s that drive us; and those that take over and rule
us; together with the knowledge of the betrayal man is capable of inflicting on
their fellows.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">And you have an altogether sumptuous feast of a story.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Tale
5: ANCIENT ILLUMINATION by Elaina J. Davidson</span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“There are only five of us now. We are the last of our
kind.” So begins this story.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Take a journey with five people, unsure of why they
have been drawn together to escape the death of their world. Knowing only that
the desire to survive burns so strongly within each of them that they will run,
until they can run no longer … run to escape the certain and inevitable
destruction of Drakonis, their home, now laid waste by the forces of volcanic
fire. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">They will run in the blistering heat of a world
blanketed so thickly by volcanic ash that everything in and of that world is
close to ultimate annihilation. The darkness absolute.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Each of them connected, each of them necessary for the
survival of the others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">They believe that their escape, or the passing on of
memory, lay within the belief that legend is a tangible concept. A concept that
was in eons past based on reality of sorts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">They ran from the fire into ice, the remembered heat a
lifetime ago. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">They are close to starvation, have not had fresh water to drink
for too long and are close to frozen in the icy remains of a world gone mad.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Brennan is the leader, a female who has survived as a
burglar for years, with the company of Cole the younger of two brothers.
Bastian the older boy strong and quiet. Halley a female uncomfortable and
untrusting of her companions, and Audri who has never spoken once on their
journey.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The story is intricately woven by Author Elaina J.
Davidson. She writes powerful words and leaves the reader entwined in her story,
eager to read more, yet somehow reluctant to know what is coming.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The story has layer upon layer of connected meaning.
Each section allowing the reader a glimpse of understanding, yet cleverly
holding back until the final revelation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This work is beautifully written, sadly prophetic, and
superbly paced.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I can’t recommend it highly enough.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Tale
6: THE DIRECTOR’S CUT by Suzanna Burke.</span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As this is my own small contribution to the Anthology.
It will not be reviewed.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Tale
7: SATAN’S BAND by Paul Rudd.</span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Set in the French Alps in 1995.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> An invitation to a
friend’s Gothic Fantasy wedding has the rock band … ‘Satan’s Band’ entering
Castle Drakon. They are to supply the music for the nuptials and the pre and
post wedding parties.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> It is clear to them on entering that this could well be a
couple of days that could show them both hell, and heaven in the shapes of the
beautiful staff willing to meet their every need.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The narrator (The band’s drummer) has shared more than
just friendship with one of the guests, or rather he had done till she
unceremoniously dumped him and took up with a Scott the narrator refers to as
‘Jockstrap’.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Author Paul Rudd has a wonderful sense of comedic
timing. I heard the voice of Keith Richards as I read. The <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>pace is rapid, and the clever, tight, dialogue
had me laughing out loud at times.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> He gives clarity to the voices we the reader
can hear, and the visual images he paints are both vivid and at times disturbing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Musical references tie me into the story jogging my
memory to sounds I am so familiar with.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Castle Dakron and its inhabitants of Vampires and the
ancient Succubus becomes a killing field. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I love a story that leaves me wanting more. This one
does exactly that.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Tale
8: THE BLOOD RED NAILS OF WAR by Hannah Warren</span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">July 1908 …Chateau Drakon; France.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Count Horace de Dragoncourt together with his English
wife Virginia and their four children escape the city life every year to spend
the languid summer months in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Departement
Roye.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Elle de Dragoncourt at 17-years-old is bored, moody
and looking for anything to excite her rebellious self.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The arrival of a guest and her dislike of the man has
her eyeing his car with unbridled longing. She adores beautiful things, and the
sleek, powerful, white 120 HP Benz lures her restless spirit. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Without regard
for consequence Elle decides she will drive the car. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">With the wind streaming through her hair and her
spirit soaring she masters the beast, and her hands with their long red-painted
nails feel as one with the steering wheel. She has no fear, and this ride will
set her on a course she cannot change. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Her twin brother Jacques meanwhile lounges under a
parasol totally immersed in Henry James’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Wings of the Dove.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It is an innocent time. The formalities of afternoon
tea parties and dinner at 8.00 where formal attire was de-rigueur sheltered them
in the luxury they were born to.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Agnes Dupuis and her father Baron Maximilian Dupuis de
Melancourt are guests at a tea-party at the chateau. Agnes is a beauty and at
fifteen she is sheltered and unworldly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The cynicism and behavior of the twins initially
shocks her, however they vie for her attention and she is fascinated by their behavior.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The friendships develop slowly and the young people spend
time visiting each other, until an incident when Agnes is staying at the
chateau shocks her so profoundly that she returns home. She vows never to return.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1917. Agnes is a newly qualified doctor and the war in
Europe rages on. Despite her vow never to go back to the Chateau Dakron she
finds herself journeying there with her friend Angele also a doctor. The
Chateau is now operating as a hospital close to the front lines and they want
to help any way they can.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Author Hannah Warren lures the reader to that time and
that place. Her ability to create mood and color through language is stunning.
The reunion of peoples with shared history, and the empathy and understanding
evoked by her words linger on long after the tale is complete. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> Elegant and compelling. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Tale:
9 THE DRAGON’S MATE by Joanne Sexton</span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In an ancient Castle Drakon the sorceress Agatha
rules. Her word is law and refusal to obey results in death, or worse still, a
spell that will render the victim forever changed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Elizabeth is a beautiful young woman falsely accused
of murdering a member of the sorceress’s harem. She escapes the castle and runs
for her life with the knowledge that she will die a horrible death if caught.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Exhausted and hungry she begins to falter. Rescue
comes in the form of a dragon. Elizabeth is too shocked to question why it
wants to help her. The dragon indicates by movement that she should hurry and
climb up to seat herself, assisting her by lowering its beautiful neck to the
ground.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">They fly at great speed to the safety of a cave. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Nightfall descends and the dragon changes its form and becomes a man.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">He introduces himself to Elizabeth as Dante.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> He had worked in
the castle stables and his good looks had attracted the attention of Agatha the
sorceress. She wanted him to join her harem … he refused, and she punished him
by casting a spell that would alter his form to a dragon during the hours of
daylight. He reverted to human after sundown.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Author Joanne Sexton has woven a fantasy tale that
captures the imagination. She entwines the story with the developing
relationship between Dante and Elizabeth. The innocence and freedom that they
share during the daylight begins to alter as their love grows. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The author touches on many of our human frailties, and
our strengths, as loyalties and courage are called into question. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">She has a
deceptively light touch and the lovely ability to cleverly craft deeper
messages within.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Tale:10
SLEEPING WITH THE GODS By Tee Geering.</span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Maia and Alcyone are sisters, named after the
daughters of Atlas due to their parent’s obsession with Greek mythology. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">They
have grown up accustomed to great wealth and the surroundings at Castle Drakon
(Won by their father in a poker game) reflects the opulence of the exorbitantly
wealthy.</span></div>
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passion. </span><br />
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spooks herself, then she burrows into her sleeping bag and drifts into sleep;
awakening soon after with hunger pangs gnawing at her. </span><br />
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her the food … but ... he warns her that if she eats from the platter her life will
change dramatically; she will become immortal and live on a different plane
with the Gods … she would also become a beautiful and desirable woman. </span><br />
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leaves her alone with the food to make her decision. Maia deep in thought
nibbles a little of the food without realizing she has done so. Drako returns instantly, pleased she had made her
decision.</span></div>
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Geering’s deft touch, jealousy, hatred, lust, anger, obsession and greed,
mingle freely with their opposite number.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Author Tee Geering had me laughing out loud with much
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">However don’t mistake this story for comedy … the layers peel
back like a Spanish onion, cleverly exposing the very human need for love and
acceptance.</span><br />
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11: MY SWEET MATRYOSHKA by Poppet.</span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Tears make no sound when they fall; they are the most
silent of screams.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">That is just one line from this story, powerful and
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Evanda rejected a man in her youth, she took his love
and betrayed him. The love between them he had revered, he would willingly have
given his life to make her smile. Her betrayal murdered his soul. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">She had
married another, an imposter and allowed him to banish her lover from Castle
Drakon without regret.</span></div>
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with only revenge on his mind. He is the rightful heir and it is time for him
to reclaim what he has been deprived of for so very many years. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The setting is
today, yet those within the castle live a life where servant equates to slave.
The violence and cruelty of the current Master, Ivan, is obscene. His drug
addled brain increasing his sexual needs, for everyone but his wife. The
lineage is 15,000 years old, and Zalar is well prepared to prove his heritage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Evanda does not recognize him. “An auspicious portent
for success.” There are secrets he is not privy to. He speaks to Evanda in
private, using the pet names he had once spoken, and only ever to her. She
remains blinded to who he is. A bitter, angry woman has replaced the girl he
once loved beyond reason.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Author Poppet has crafted this feast of beautifully descriptive
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;">We are presented with the worst and the best that humanity has to
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <b>About this book:</b></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span>Grace Dove is a borderline bipolar depressive who not only attempts to
take her own life twice, but goes through the medical gallows into the
dark halls of electrical-shock therapy - drugs - and psychiatric
treatment. She could assign blame but instead decides to try Doctor
Malcolm Petitt's unconventional treatment.
</span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />Sent into her spiritual self, Grace finds herself crossing logical
borders into the profound realm of Colin McLeod's imaginary garden,
finding him hiding there in a safe haven of his own making. She is drawn
to him, spending more time in the spiritual ether with her soulmate
than in the living world.
</span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />These two wounded hearts find solace in each other, their friendship
blossoming into a physical real world connection when Grace goes to
meet the war soldier suffering from catatonic post traumatic stress
disorder. It's no longer a war on the battlefield, now the war is to
draw Colin back into society and human interaction, before the doctors
do something so drastic it may end up killing him.
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />Grief and pain destroy boundaries, helping Colin is healing Grace, and now she's desperate to help him heal too.
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />This is an intense Scottish journey into the mind of post war
trauma, into a connection between two people which builds a bridge of
love. The hardest action for the wounded is to surrender to hope, to
dare to take the first step on the long path of recovery. Colin and
Grace will immerse you into their lives, into their wounds, exposing
their vulnerabilities and flaws, leaving you forever grateful for the
experience.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My Review.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lucy Pepperdine … Author of ‘In the Garden of Stones.’An author I will seek out again and again.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you are
seeking a book that will imbed itself into your memory, a powerful, inspiring,
memorable, painful yet often funny emotional roller-coaster of a book … this is
it.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The author has taken me on a journey with her words,
a journey that was at times exhausting because it is brutally honest. The
empathy that shines through this work, that connection the author has with
Gracie and Colin her pivotal characters reads at times like non-fiction, the
shattering expression of mental illness and its devastating<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>effect on all those touched by it is not
sugar coated.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Yet throughout the book a message of hope shines
through.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I found myself invested in the characters well being,
I laughed with them, cried for them and cheered them on in their quest to make
sense of a senseless world.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The interaction of others is integral to the book,
there are no superfluous characters. Author Lucy Pepperdine has not merely
written words on pages … she has opened a window into a half-life that so many
people merely exist in.</span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> A life where all that is craved is a safe place to be.
The author crafts that place with integrity, allowing the reader to become a
part of that world, permitting us to visit without judgment.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">NEW
CONTEST – STAR CHASER: THE TRAVELER</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">It’s my
pleasure to announce that Soooz Says Stuff has partnered with Quicksylver
Publications to bring you a contest as part of the worldwide launch of a brand
new Sci-Fi/Fantasy series, Beyond the Outer Rim. The prelude, Star Chaser: The
Traveler is now available for purchase on Amazon in paperback or on Kindle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Here’s
how it works… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Read the excerpt from
the novel included below.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Go to the facebook
page for the series (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/beyondtheouterrim">https://www.facebook.com/beyondtheouterrim</a>)
to find the contest link and information.</span></div>
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question relating to the excerpt that you read.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">And
that’s it! Just that simple.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">At the
close of the contest, THREE winners will be selected from all correct answers
and each winner will receive a copy of Star Chaser: The Traveler, signed by the
author, and a 'swag bag' of goodies from the exclusive launch party.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Enjoy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Dungias was going to be introduced to
Gavis Station for the first time… twice, though it took some time for him to
get over how Nugar looked.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“This is nothing,” Nugar said, waving off
the interest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The first presentation: Nugar allowed
Dungias to ride with him as he boarded his fighter-craft and launched from the
gunship before it could reach the line of ships awaiting their docking
assignments. Nugar was directed to a special place at the station to land his
ship. The aged Vinthur quickly explained to his student that it was a place
reserved especially for Travelers. Dungias was awestruck at the incredible
range of sizes the ships came in. Nugar’s customized fighter was on the smaller
end of the comparisons, but it was hardly the smallest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Is that a pressure suit fitted with an
engine?” he asked, looking at one of the stalls.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Which is why it’s not at a docking
slip,” Nugar advised. “Those things are pretty damn unstable. Still… sometimes
you try to get as close to the black sea as possible.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Would I be assuming too much if I were
to say that tone speaks of past experience?” Dungias asked.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Take hold of the stick back there,”
Nugar commanded.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">“But
I-”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“It’s not the first time you’ve been at
the controls of a vehicle,” Nugar snapped. “Now take the stick and trust
yourself for a change!” Dungias steadied his breathing as he put his right hand
on the control stick and his left on the thruster control. It was a 360<sup>o</sup>
movable handle, parallel to the floor, mounted on a lever that moved forward
and back. Any movement from the handle would activate thruster jets. Moving the
lever forward would increase forward thrust, and moving it back would activate
reverse engines. “Automated landing cycle has been disengaged.” Nugar reported
and Dungias could feel the nose pulling down.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I disengaged our automations; the
docking system is not mine to command,” Nugar answered as he activated the
armour for his fighter-craft. “And the Traveler docking system is notorious for
catching many unwary Travelers at the end of long journeys, only to have them
crash at the end.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“No unnecessary movements,” Dungias
whispered as he gently pulled back on the stick and eased the thruster lever
forward. His light touch received a quick and ample response from the fighter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Instead of what you fear, tell me, what
do you feel?” Nugar asked as he closed his eyes. “When you look beyond the
fear, what do you feel?!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Just over ten thousand trams from the
docking aperture, Dungias calmed himself and tried to sense what his teacher
might be talking about.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“He called it the black sea,” Dungias
remembered. “And it is cold… very cold! But there is something else.” Dungias
recalled what it was like to go swimming; something he had to plan and schedule
in order to keep from encountering ill will. But there were many times when he
would swim out to the middle of the pool and just float. “Yes, I see it now. I
can feel it!” The thrusters fired, but never at too great a yield, and hardly
for too long. The rocking of the ship settled to a slight shimmer and Nugar
smiled.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Well done, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dungi</i>! Superb, in fact!”</span></div>
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docking slip and the fighter was quickly secured. Nugar looked at his watch and
chuckled.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Are you up for a bit of a game?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“That’s a good lad!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The two of them ran back down the docking
slip and Dungias could see Nugar take the stairs up to a catwalk which led to
the main entrance for the docking bay … the main spacecraft entrance! He looked
hard at his teacher, but the Vinthur’s strides were not shortening, nor were
they slowing down. The end of the catwalk was in sight and there was no railing
to prevent anyone from falling off the edge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“There you go again!” Nugar shouted,
almost singing what he was sensing coming from his student.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“It’s not about what you fear,” Dungias
panted. “… it’s about what you feel beyond the fear!” Dungias looked away from
the catwalk and put his sights on Nugar. He did not run like a mature man, but
a child running toward a favorite toy. Making the final turn, a smile broke
across Dungias’ face and he ran faster, beginning to overtake his teacher.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>With very few strides in front of him,
Nugar looked to the right. The whooping and hollering of other Travelers
reached his ears. Each one of them had a smile on their faces and cheered Nugar
on. He waved once at the collective and dove off the end of the catwalk. He was
surprised to hear a cry of joy behind him. Looking back, Nugar could see
Dungias still climbing from the leap he had taken. Both of their bodies passed
through the atmospheric shield.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Lean to your right, boy!” Nugar
directed, holding out his right arm and throwing all of his bodyweight to his
right shoulder. Without the artificial gravity, there was little descent to
their flight paths, but even outside the station, there was some pressure,
warmth, and breathable air. The cool air blew through his long hair and made
his clothes flap around his body.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Dungias looked around Gavis as he flew.
There was so much more to see from his vantage point. It did not look anything
like a space station. The horizon reminded him of Threm, but now he was the
slide-sled and he flew high and fast. The construct was massive; from the
plating and paneling, to the lights and windows, to a couple filled with eager
eyes gawking at the two flying forms that were, for some reason, not dying. He
was distracted by the cackling of his teacher and he looked down on the man who
was nearly glowing as brightly as the smile which shone across his face.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Atmospheric curtain,” Nugar called out.
“It extends beyond the portals of the station for nearly fifty trams! The trick
is staying near a functioning entry port. Release your fear and fly with me, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dungi</i>!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“What fear?!” Dungias cried out as he
soared ahead of Nugar. Keeping his heading going around the station, Dungias threw
his body into a spin with his shoulders rotating clockwise. After three spins
he threw out his arms and leveled out before diving straight down. Ten trams,
then twenty, thirty fifty, then one hundred and still he flew. He leveled out
again and flew along the side of the station, screaming out as he glided around
the outside of the station. Dungias performed another spin and Nugar tensed up
as it appeared his student was about to hit hard against the side of the
station, but he leveled out with his chest parallel with the plating. Dungias
allowed his fingertips to drag along the hull before pulling away from the
station.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Look
at him</i>!” Nugar thought, actually having to give some effort to keep up with
his student. “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I won’t have to teach him
how to observe the world around him and gain from it</i>. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The landing schedules were on two of his consoles</i>. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">There are at least three ways we can reach
our destination</i>. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Leave it to my
student to take the most precarious route</i>. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Yes</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">because if he is going
to be the next Star Chaser</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">we want
him to play it safe</i>!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Haa!” Nugar laughed at his own sarcasm
and pressed for more speed. Dungias was beginning to pull away, and the danger
of the route he had chosen was beginning to look simple for him and potentially
treacherous for the Traveler.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>As Dungias dove toward the security port,
the large doors were only beginning to open and the fast-moving shuttle was
making its way inside. Dungias landed on the nose of the craft and jumped clear
of it, employing Pax’Dulah to give himself more lift and speed. Nugar timed his
landing on the craft and used the blowback of the turning thruster to push him
toward Dungias.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Your left hand, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dungi</i>!” Nugar called out and while laughing, Dungias jumped away
from the station and held out his left hand that slapped against the forearm of
Nugar’s extended right hand. “Now pull against me!” While the direction of
their flight path did not change, the two spun around each other with their
arms serving as the axle of this most impromptu wheel. Dungias looked up at the
stars; his view, for the first time, unhindered by glass or iro-form. The
majesty of them took hold of his mind and soul. As he gazed at them, it felt as
if he could hear them singing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“But what would a Star sing?” he thought.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Get ready,” Nugar directed, bringing
Dungias back to the moment. “And keep pulling!” They both screamed like
children as the speed of their rotations increased. “Release!” Nugar commanded
and Dungias was slung forward to the next public entryway while Nugar was sent
toward the plating of Gavis.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“It can’t be!” Dungias exclaimed, knowing
that what he saw was indeed quite accurate and very true. H’Dalvi’s gunship, which
seemed so much larger from the outside than it had appeared during the many
walks he had taken along its corridors, was making its entry into the station.
Dungias smiled as he careened toward the large spacecraft, and he landed on the
foredeck just in front of the bridge window. He squatted down and waved at
Commander H’Dalvi and his bridge crew.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Well, it’s been a few dockings since
I’ve seen that,” Narwyss said with a smile as he recovered from the surprise.
His voice helped the rest of the crew return to their duties more quickly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I agree,” Turo added. “And the last time
either of us saw it, I believe it was a Vinthur.” The Sub-Officer folded his
arms across his expansive chest and smiled. “That was a fine wager you made.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I took it as solid advice from a trusted
resource,” Narwyss replied. “And speaking of good wagers, tell the crew that we
are going to have a celebratory meal at ShoSoro’s. Anyone pulling guard duty
gets two plates brought to them.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“That will be quite costly,” Turo pointed
out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“It is already paid for, and there’s a
few credits remaining for me to spoil my officers,” Narwyss said as Nugar
landed beside Dungias. “Oh look! They come in pairs! Helm, make this as bumpy
of a landing as you can manage.” There was laughter on the bridge as the
Commander took his leave.</span></div>
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Soooz Burkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02390489724415063410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43905348168571177.post-78100261210413802022014-10-08T09:10:00.001+11:002014-10-08T09:10:46.677+11:00I believe strongly in Freedom of Expression. Should there be a line that never gets crossed? Share your views.<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-AU">I will <b>neve</b>r condone <b>Censorship In Literature</b>.
That is a stance I took before I wrote my own books. Whether
Non-fiction, or Fiction. Targeted or not. The freedom I have come to
hold precious had to be by extension carried over to my life online and
in the real world. I would not write the words of my own pain, and
expect others to censor theirs.</span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN-AU">Views of course will differ, strongly. I invite you all to share your insights. They will be published uncensored here. </span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">We
are all members of a profession that by it's very existence has the
power to touch a great many people, and in some instances it assists
those people in learning about genres and topics that otherwise may
have remained forever outside their realm of experience. Because they
have the option to choose what they read!</span></span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"> Should they be denied that
opportunity to choose? What signals are we sending to the next
generation of writers ... and readers? If they are only able to access
sanitized choices are we not denying them the freedom to explore new
realms of expression.</span></span><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><br />
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: large;">I
would be less than honest if I said that I wasn’t nervous about posting
this. I have dealt with some pretty strange people since I first
published “Empty Chairs”my biography.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: large;">People
called me names that don’t need repeating, men wrote to me on quite a
few occasions and said I probably deserved to be raped at age 5. It was
dirty and painful. The haters really knew how to hit the vulnerable
spots. But I accepted that the book and the topics it dealt with would
inevitably attract those people out there that somehow get “Off’ on
other people’s pain.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: large;">My
stance against incest, rape and pedophilia is well documented. Would I
go so far as to suggest the Banning of books containing such things...<b>NO. I would not!</b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: large;">I
fought long and hard for my freedom in a world that wanted to shove me
down and make me disappear. I fought for my right to be heard. I fought
for my right to exist. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: large;">I will <b>neve</b>r condone <b>Censorship In Literature</b>.
That is a stance I took before I wrote my own books. Whether
Non-fiction, or Fiction. Targeted or not. The freedom I have come to
hold precious had to be by extension carried over to my life online and
in the real world. I would not write the words of my own pain, and
expect others to censor theirs.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: large;">“Oh”, you may say...”but Soooz...yours was <b>NON</b> fiction!”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: large;">Yes it was...<b>so what?</b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: large;">Did that make it less titillating to be read, by those that were only looking to be titillated?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-AU">No.</span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: large;">Let’s
not kid ourselves here people, if a reader is searching for a way to
get off on what he/she is reading the fact that is has labels all over
it, of the “Adult content only” variety won’t make a damned bit of
difference. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: large;">The
labels simply take them where they need to be more quickly... Those
that seek out those places for that purpose will always find them.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: large;"><b>BUT..</b>.should
someone be permitted to decide what can and can not be read?...Should
they have the ability to be the invisible conscience for all things
deemed sweet and light; all things good and noble?</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: large;">Should
they then have the power to force us to accept their decision by
removing books that THEY deem unsuitable for human consumption?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-AU">NO!</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-AU">How dare they?</span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: large;">Most people don’t lead a Mary Poppins existence, for those that do this question would </span><span style="font-size: large;">surely<span lang="EN-AU">
never be raised; for their worlds would be so shut off from reality
that the very thought of something needing to be censored would not in
all probability cross their minds.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: large;">They
would probably never read a post like this. To those that do, and are
shocked and horrified that such books exist in their world..I say it is
your right to be shocked, it is your right to be scandalized. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-AU">It is your right NOT to purchase the book.</span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: large;">We fight wars to allow others Freedom of Religion, for Freedom of Choice, Freedom of Expression...</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: large;"><b>Freedom </b>to be permitted to live our lives without impeding the same FREEDOM to others.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: large;">Freedom to not have our reading matter decided and selected for us by anybody else.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: large;"><b>What do you think? </b></span></div>
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