During the mid-eighteenth dynasty, the Egyptian Queen, Hepshetsup, held an annual festival. The festival included excessive drinking and sexual encounters. This is a fictional account of that festival; however, basic facts, geography and outline of the festival occurrences are correct.
Halloween 2018
It was a Halloween tradition for high school seniors to stay overnight in The Haunted Shack. This year something different was going to happen. Old curses and lifted wards combine to make this a night of horror for eight 18 yr-old high school Seniors.
Orphaned 14-year-old Daniel Crawley, already initiated by his school headmaster, taking advantage of the boy's orphan status, is shipped from England to Malaya to inherit and live at his father's rubber plantation in the early 1900s with the understanding a guardian will be provided. However, the plantation overseer, Russell Singleton, and the Malay major domo, Junada, compete for control over the plantation and Daniel, and the solicitor charged with finding a guardian is under their sway.
Fourteen-year-old Serrah is sold as a slave in 1773 by the father of the son Serrah was lying down for in Sierra Leone, Africa, because the father wants perfectly formed Serrah for himself. The boy is manhandled by the British slavers and sailors on the Middle Passage voyage that lands him in South Carolina Colony to survive or not on his back on Daufuskie and Hilton Head Islands until his talent and perseverance get him to the brothels of Savannah and control of his own destiny.
A Mystic Treefort Story (2) Jack and Annie go back to Revolutionary France to pick up "A complete book from an incomplete man." The price of that book, Jack learns, is his dignity.
When Shanghai lawyer Wang Bao tore the virginity of half-English, half-Chinese fourteen-year-old orphan Ryan Hathaway from the boy when his parents' vessel capsized on the Yangtze River and then seized the boy's inheritance as well and sold him to a Chinese brothel, he thought he had covered all of his bases. Little did he know what could come back to bite him hard.