Chronicles of a Mercenary Captain

EBook Description: The Dales of eastern Tyremthius have always been divided by the aspirations of the local lords and as such mercenaries are always in demand to bolster numbers upon the battle field. With spring looming the war is set to resume and the mercenary force led by Elrean Crothus is sent on a critical mission that will aid the coming offensive. Find out what it is like to work as a Captain for the Guild of Swords in this short story as Elrean Crothus is not only embroiled in a border war between two nations but also a conflict from within as she battles not only the legacy of her family but also the arrogance of her subordinates.

Magestic is the story of a time traveller, sent back from 2025 to 1985 to fix the world. A calamity awaits in 2025, the world needing to take a different course. Wars need to be avoided, certain politicians disgraced before taking office. But the traveller spends most of his time and energy building up a medical rescue charity. Imagine telling someone, in 1985, what mobile phones would be like in the future, the internet, girls with tattoos and peircings.

Ivory

Martin Roberts has made a successful career from painting, but is finding that his creativity is slipping away � stifled by his family life. That is until he is responsible for running a teenage girl down in his car.

Miraculously the girl survives, but stranger than her lack of injuries is her striking physical appearance; stark white hair and skin, and jet black eyes. Being mute her condition and background remains a mystery, but when a black blind man arrives to collect her from hospital Martin learns that she is a prostitute and he is her pimp.

Sunburnt � Life In The Sun

I knew I was in deep shit after I polished off the entire second bottle of the Little Penguin Chardonnay. I knew I was in trouble because I lost my car keys and I couldn�t get home and I had no cab fare and my alcoholic boyfriend was a jerk off. Three strikes in a row. My luck was running out.

Harvest

Craig Digby lives in a high-rise block of flats, one of three towers that make up the Heights estate at the heart of Camden. He is striving to make a life for himself away from the family business that would stifle his creativity as a photographic artist, and to escape the shadow of his dutiful and successful older brother. It will soon become a struggle for survival. Unbeknownst to the residents of the estate, the construction of the towers and their number was influenced by a long-forgotten landmark. Lightning strikes Craig�s tower and completes a ritual started two-thousand years ago. Something stirs beneath the tower. Loving parents find that one of their children has been taken from her room. The front door is locked. The flat is nine storeys up. It is only the beginning.

Headspace

Shadow was a zero, a nothing, one of a growing underclass thrown up in the wake of the vast corporate leviathans which daily swallow ever-growing tracts of a crumbling society. The Net was his home, as it was to six billion others, the virtual worlds behind the eyepiece a new underworld where hackers cut deals and peddled terrabyte chunks of ripped-off corporate cake. But it was just data, the elaborate VR tapestry was an illusion spun by hi-res stereo optics. Cyberspace was just an electrical mirage, no more real than TV or hi-fi.

An Amorous Thing

An Amorous Thing is a short story collection by Kody Boye. Featuring affection and the things it does to us, AAT contains 15 tales of the beautiful, the strange, and the downright horrific.

The Poor House

This fictional delight is about the healing and abundant life that comes when we learn to submit ourselves entirely to God and God�s kingdom in this life. Anthony Perry uses real life experiences in a fictional backdrop to create a life changing and transforming work. This book will challenge and stretch your view and beliefs about what it means to be a Christian.

The Ice Cream Memories of Charlotte Rowe

Charlotte Rowe has been cast in the role of medium from childhood, and studied under a clever fraud. But does she have a real vision? Divination from the spirit world. Con artistry. Cats and mirrors. The implications of Freudian psychology. Death. Life. Birth. Murder. And ice cream. Powerful and intelligent fiction, with splinters of irony.

Palmyra

Three Army buddies-Iraq war veterans-find themselves reunited after one of them arranges a mysterious meeting. The reason for the secrecy is soon revealed. Treasure. Pirate treasure. A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for a high-seas adventure with almost a guarantee to strike it rich. But the three soon learn that nothing in life is guaranteed as they embark down a path that leads to betrayal, lunacy, and perhaps into the mouth of Hell itself.

Twenty Goodreads Authors

Life, death, demons, and doughnuts. The perils of love; the perils of hell. Ghosts, TV, and human sacrifice. What do they all share? A group of writers, published and unpublished, with no other goal than to make you gasp in shock. Thirty stories, twenty writers. Prepare to get hooked. The moderators of Goodreads.com writing group, On Fiction Writing, lead by Carlos J. Cortes, author of Perfect Circle and The Prisoner, created this anthology to promote the extraordinary talents of its members.

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