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It happened just yesterday or perhaps the day before.
The bombs were dropped.
No one knew why.
Maybe a political study was taken into careful consideration. Perhaps a research grant had been involved. A new plan to invigorate the stock market. Whatever the reason, due diligence was undoubtedly done and all aspects were carefully considered. Certainly, the motion was passed around the senate a time or two.
After all, an election was coming.
And,...
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Water is a liar.
If you tell a story with water, it cannot be trusted and it will wash away in the first hard rain or in the tears of a long good cry.
And, stories told in blood and stone stick longer by far.
Finbar Tanner is telling a story to his son, Isaac.
It is a story of love, desire and sacrifice.
It is a story of blood and water and stones.
It is a story of the deeper currents that flow within a man's heart.
It is a story of the sea.
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It happened in early September, the time of year when the city does its damndest to remember what heat was, just one more time before winter rocks on in...
This is a story of horror and haunting regret.
(fair warning, this is a STORY, maybe about eight thousand words)
A group of homeless men, fishing for a little fun and folly, latch onto something that MIGHT be a mermaid.
Regret lives on and lingers, long after the last teardrop has fallen.
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This is a story set in war-torn Okinawa, back in the final days of the Pacific Campaign of World War 2.
It is told from the point of view of a young Kamikaze pilot preparing to fly his fighter plane into the side of an American battleship.
It is a story of guilt, loneliness, memory and the taste of the sea.
Oh, and there's a sea monster as well.
I expect I ought to mention that...
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It was Billy McTavish's first sea voyage.
He had signed on to the serve as convoy escort on the THISTLE a Royal Canadian Navy corvette. Through U-Boat attack and Luftwaffe bombing runs, Billy had thought he had seen all of the horror that the Atlantic could offer a young Canadian sailor. But, Big Jimmy Noonan had other ideas...
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Tommy has come home from the city to visit his Dad for one last time. He is determined to get to the bottom, of all of the secrets that his Dad has kept for hidden behind a smokescreen of storytelling and charm. It turns out that some secrets are best left untold.
NOT JUST ANY OLD GHOST STORY is a quiet little story about coming home and ghosts that you can never escape and a love that never dies. It is a story that will take you to the very heart...
8) Sea Tales
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Let's face it.
About seventy-five percent of the world is covered in water, and of that water nearly ninety-seven percent of it can be found in the sea. Maritimers will tell you that there is a story for every wave that has ever washed upon the shoreline.
Here are seven of them.
"In the Dark and the Deep" offers a very haunting yarn of World War 2 convoy duty and a sailor who made and kept a terrible bargain.
"Harry's Mermaid" introduces you to...
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At age twelve, after discovering Fairies & Ghost are real. CT didn't think anything else could surprise her. Not even the return of Vernon the Witch, long thought dead according to Fae Legend. She can feel the hatred emanating from this witch. Her headaches and blackouts grow more severe every time Vernon is nearby.CT is unsure of what this witch could want with her however, she soon discovers she needs to fight for her life. Her life won't be the...
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Cela s'est passé au début de septembre, la période de l'année o la ville fait tout son possible pour se souvenir de ce qu'était la chaleur, juste une fois de plus avant que l'hiver ne commence. Un groupe de pêcheurs sans abri attrape quelque chose qui POURRAIT être en fait une sirène. " comme si John Steinbeck s'était saoulé avec Manly Wade Wellman et que les deux avaient collaboré pour un pari idiot.
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Part social epic, part punk-rock thriller, writer/filmmaker Virginie Despentes's Vernon Subutex trilogy continues the Man Booker International Prize shortlisted sprawling tale of an ex-record shop clerk's celebrity fortunes and misfortunes.
Rock star Alex Bleach might be dead, but he has a secret. It's a secret that concerns several people, but the only person who can unlock it is Vernon Subutex, former record shop proprietor turned homeless messiah...
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Paris may burn, the world may crumble, but Vernon Subutex shall reign supreme! -The final installation of writer/filmmaker Virginie Despentes's Man Booker International Prize shortlisted punk-rock trilogy.
As storm clouds gather, portending a final reckoning, ersatz rave-cult leader Vernon Subutex decides to return to Paris. Even if it means leaving behind his disciples. He has to. He's got a dentist's appointment.
Back in the city, he learns that...
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