30,000 B.C. This story is one viewpoint of how our world became dominated by a single primate species. Follow along as one small clan changes the world forever. I posted this story once before under the name "Controlled Influence", after a few changes I am now reposting it under a different title. If you previously read this story not much changed that you need to do so again. This is not a stroke story.
An Erotic Vineyard Mystery A romantic thriller that starts slowly, but the passion builds as the plot unfolds. Sandy Craig is a busy young woman. Her life is all about her work as a reconstructive surgeon and medical partnership. She doesn't have time for a personal life, much less love. Keven Braddock is a well-to-do artist on the rise. Life is his oyster, but something is missing. When they meet, something in their lives change. Now if only things would stop going wrong and getting in the way of them finding happiness. / (Reviews)
The priest Meritamun spends his days performing religious duties and maintaining the temple in which he lives, content in a humble life serving the Gods. His routine is turned on its head when he receives a summons from Anput – the living Goddess of death, and the consort of Anubis. He has been chosen to become her personal attendant, but why, he cannot say. His new role will require him to unlearn many of his assumptions about the Gods, and to open himself up to serving his deity in new ways.
An American astronomer, working at the ALMA observatory and searching for the origins of the universe, finds himself drawn to a Chilean archaeologist who is studying the ancient petroglyphs left by the desert's first inhabitants. Their love story is a dialogue between the deepest past and the farthest future, a connection forged under the clearest sky on Earth, where both seek answers to humanity's biggest questions. Set in Chile's Atacama Desert.
Contemporary story about teenagers who experienced a beautiful, almost classic romance--far too brief--and their daughter, who will know her father only from the memories of others.
A short tale very loosely based on a personal encounter I had myself in that fair city one summer, about ten or fifteen years ago; okay maybe a little longer. Only my encounter had a completely different outcome.
A Chinese-American telepath recounts experiences between 1985 to 2010 as a citizen of a secretive society of similarly gifted individuals.
Readers of Gould's "Jumper" and Cormier's "Fade" will encounter some familiar names and faces. Please note the codes apply to different chapters in the story.