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This is the next installment in our serialized story, The Time Traveler’s Scheme, in which Daeva is steal children in order to form a loyal army, and Melina and Gravity want to stop her. In the last section, we saw Gravity explaining that they believe Jeffrey Jamison, one of the stolen children, may have escaped…
This is the eleventh installment in our ongoing serial story, The Time Traveler’s Scheme. In the previous section, Daeva and Tinsley discovered that space-time was breaking apart, and Melina, now completing her Ph.D., learned a little more about a mysterious stranger named Gravity, who came from the future. To read this story from the beginning,…
This is the seventh installment in our ongoing serial story, The Time Traveler’s Scheme. In the previous section, we saw Daeva returning from the past with the daughter of the President of The United States, Camille Winton. We also saw Daeva’s interactions with her abducted charges, and the problems she’s having with Jeffrey Jamison. To…
This is the 6th in our ongoing serial story of Melina and Daeva. Two chapters ago, Daeva used time-space travel to come from her planet, Gardotian-56, to Earth, and steal President Winton’s daughter, Camille, who has a genetic heart condition. Here she arrives on Gardotian-56 with the little girl. To read this story from the…
This is the fifth part in our ongoing serial story about Melina and Daeva. Melina who lives on Earth in the 21st century is a would-be physicist wanting to develop time-travel. Daeva, from the 22nd century, lives on Gardotion- 56, a planet far from Earth. She is using time-travel to abduct children from the past…
I’m preparing my first manuscript for publication. I’m self-publishing it, which means I wear all hats, unlike in traditional publishing, with a publishing company. I hear things in the self-publishing world like, ‘why go with a traditional publisher, you still have to market your work.’ And that is true, but what they don’t tell you…
This is the second installment in our ongoing serial story, written by our regular contributors. The first part, in which Daeva came from the future to steal Jeffrey Jamison, and Melina Penrose and Eran Jamison witnessed her leaving in her machine, can be read here. 2178 The Franklin mini time machine arrived smoothly on Gardotion-56,…
This is the first installment in a serial novel, written by our Regular Contributors. The next chapter will appear Tuesday, March 22nd. 2167 Seven-year-old Daeva stared at her father, watching his every move. He hugged her mother for a long time. Neither of them spoke. Her mother’s face when he finally let go resembled a…
This is the second in a two-part story. The first part appeared July 29th. You can find it here. “Here it is.” John slips out of the chair and motions for me to sit. Items stolen from warehouse, I read. Last night, four intriguing artifacts from the recently-discovered Artemis boat disappeared. Dr. Herbert Milikian, the…
This is the first in a two-part story. The second part will appear in August. When the air cools and the light dims, I stand and arch my back to stretch out the kinks from leaning over all afternoon. My arms throb with pain from pulling weeds in our large vegetable garden, but its new…
All Patricia could see as she peered into the hallway through the small glass window in her office door was a row of knees in faded blue jeans and other work pants. She sighed. She’d grown up in this small rural community. She knew many of the people who’d come today. They’d always worked hard,…
This is part two of a two-part story. You can read the first part here. “You can come out now, Lacy,” her father said. She stood, rather slowly. “You knew I was there? Do you think Mama saw me?” “I’m pretty sure she wouldn’t have said those things if she’d known you were there.” Or…
The four stately Corinthian columns holding up the porch roof, with the large flower boxes running between them, provided Lacy with the perfect hiding place to overhear her parents’ conversations. She’d tried many time to break herself of the habit, but it was too much fun, especially on a sunny spring day like this one….
When the weather was nice, Leslie liked to bring a lunch to work and take it to the park near her building. She rarely saw anyone from her office there. Today, though, she noticed two people sitting side-by-side on the top of one of the picnic tables, their feet on the bench. As she drew…
Thanks to Moi Cody (katagaci) at freeimages.com for the drawing. The dancer bends over her foot, tying the pink ribbons around her ankle. Positioned against the pale blue wall, wearing a filmy white tutu, she looks like a painting by Degas. Belinda snaps one photograph after another, fuming to herself. Why has she been given…
This is the second in a two-part series. The first part can be read at Robotics, Part I . “Our next step was to test the technology in humans,” Ulrick said. “As you saw, it had worked well in mice. We were delighted that they didn’t suffer any ill-effects.” “None at all? How do you…
The staircase beckoned, its steel steps curving up into the ceiling, the sound of laughter drifting downward from above. Nancy put her hand on the cable which served as the handrail. She hadn’t even lifted a foot onto the first rung when a woman said, “Stop. Don’t go up there.” Nancy turned to the voice,…
Thanks to dariol at freeimages.com for the photo Rosemary stayed in the shower as long as she dared, given the current water situation, then sighed and turned it off. Delicious steam filled the room, even after she’d dried herself and applied lotion, but she didn’t have time to linger. They were expecting her at her…
Thanks to themiz at freeimages.com for the photo. I’m so excited! I checked a mystery novel out of the library this afternoon, the third one in the Dr. Franks series. I hope it’s as wonderful as the first two. Hubbie is out of town, so no one will complain if I read all night. I…
Photo by Verzerk at freeimages.com George was certain his wife was having an affair. She glowed in a way which spoke of only one thing: sex. And it certainly wasn’t sex with him. After fourteen years, their romantic life consisted of a quick kiss in the morning, another right before bed, and dutiful intercourse the…
