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"Those who deny such history are doomed to repeat it...." A drama set in 1920's South Carolina over the course of thirty hours--GONE DEAD TRAIN is the story of a poor sharecropper Mose Kettering, his wife Anna Mae, and their seven children. When Mose, along with his wife, commence to rise at the crack of dawn to go about their daily chores of working the land of plantation owner Sam Payton and caring for their youngsters, little does the couple know what terrible fate lies in store for them and their young family. Just hours later, when Mose's nine-year-old son Hank heads for the town of Cartersville to carry-out an errand for his father, he is confronted and abused by, none other than, Ross Maddox self-appointed head of the area's White Citizen's Posse. Soon afterwards, Maddox pays Mose a visit and threatens the Kettering youngster with "Jim Crow" style punishment. Being the loving, protective father that he is, Mose refuses to bow down to any thug posing a danger to members of his family. An argument ensues. Accusing Mose of commiting the worst possibly insult to a "southern white man"--Maddox tells Kettering that he and his kinfolk are living their last breathing hours. Yet, Mose Kettering stands defiant. He'll defend his family until his heart's final palpatation. However, there is one white man in all of Aiken County who'll come to Mose's rescue. Clay Payton, son of Sam Payton, confronts a Cartersville lynch mob baying for Mose's blood--but will it be enough to save Mose and his young family from the torch of racial hatred? Though the overall subject matter is not a happy story, Gone Dead Train is a tale full of human warmth and love--a realistic depiction of life in the Deep South United States of the 1920's and the reviews it has received have been top-notch! For the dialogue of this story I use a light version of the period's dialect from this region of the U.S. for authenticity's sake. Please feel free to criticise this tale as you see fit, I only ask that, in the end, you analyse and comment from a writer's perspective with respect and dignity.

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This was the third installment of a 15 part installment I wrote for a local newsletter here in my hometown. The chronicles covered the beginning of Adolph Hitler from his birth in Austria to his final demise.

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A getaway weekend. and a trip to historic Saratoga left me with feelings I wanted to record. ** For some reason this post always KEEPS displaying without paragraph breaks. I keep editing it and it never retains the paragraph breaks. I apologize for the eye sore.

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“You have twenty-four hours to find the Chosen Maiden, Hatun Apu (Commander) Tapo. If she is not present at tomorrow’s Inti Raymi’s, the omens will be judged unfavorable and this nation will sink into civil war. Twenty-four hours, Commander, that is all the time you have to save your daughter, your ayllu and this nation!” The novel provides a panoramic view of the pre-Columbian nation torn apart by intercine court rivalries and surrounded by neighboring Andean nations ready to subvert the expansionist plans of the Sapa Inca (‘The Only Inca’ or ‘Absolute Monarch’) Viracocha and his favored son, Cusi Yupanqui. With his capital already reeling from several ritualistic murders attributed to Supay, the God of the Underworld, and unable to trust his court or army, Viracocha turns to the only man he can trust to rescue the maiden - her father, Tapo, a Chachapoya (Warrior of the Clouds) and disgraced army officer. Unsure if his daughter has been kidnapped because of her mixed bloodlines by religious purists or if she is a victim of one of the innumerable court plots, Tapo turns for assistance to his cadre of Chachapoya officers and fellow outcasts from Incan society – the Guild of Night Soil Cleaners, the city’s sewage workers. Confounded and confronted at every step by institutionalized prejudice and a lack of finite evidence, Tapo must overcome his guilt, addictions and self-doubt to challenge the Empire’s rival heirs, the High Priest and the Inca nobility before his daughter is sacrificed to their ambitions and those of the Chancas and Antis, powerful nations who intend to subjugate the nascent Inca nation before its becomes a regional power.

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Please read summary for Rapes of Passage (Parts 1/2) Part 3 segues from surrealist writing into the history of classical rapes and points up our acceptance of rape as Art. Then the story changes into a manifesto asking why no public memorials have been built to the victims or rape especially in war time, known and unknown, as have been for the war dead. And on into the appalling tragedy of the actual statistics for rape world wide. The rapes are increasing so rapidly that much of my research is outdated. And much, as in the Sudan and most of the world, not even reported. Any suggestions for, or thoughts on raising such memorials to the raped, or ideas for improving the website under construction will be appreciated. Also of course any constructive nitpicks (typos, grammatical errors, etc.) in the story itself.

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my story begins in thracia 44AD during the thracian/roman wars. it describes early thracian life focusing om the thracian leader Hermious and his family. Future chapters will make a connection with the present day via a school teacher called Olivia. it follows her on a journey of discovery to bulgaria were she understands the meaning behind the gold bracelet she wears. she falls in love with a bulgarian archeologist and together they discover both her past and her possible future.

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A beautiful young woman stows away on a Yankee Clipper in the 1830's to escape her tumultuous life. Tragically she dies at sea, but not before she is reunited with an extraordinary woman from her past who has the power to bring resolution to both of their lives and carry on a special family legacy in a most remarkable and surprising way.

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Martin's I Have a Dream speech...What if?

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I am a lifelong sailor in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts, USA, and have witnessed a rather sad passing. Please tell me if you share my grief (and also if I am making too much of this thing).

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This is a revised piece in a way. It was written in haste right after the Democrats won back the majority. A friend called me and asked if I was happy. I said I was but feelings were nagging as had been here before all through my life. It seem rather pertinent to repeat it now with lots of editing as technically it was horrible. Hopefully, I have made progress but know there is still lots to correct.

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A great secret is revealed when an assassin tries to kill eighteen-year-old Gabriel Adam; Gabriel is one of four Archangels, born into human form to prevent beginning of the End of Days. Now, he must leave behind the normal life he's known to fulfill a prophecy kept secret for centuries by a clandestine group. Thus begins The Secret of Gabriel Adam, a 75,000 word commercial fiction. Sixteen hundred years ago, the Roman Empire declared the prophetic book, The Apocalypse of Solomon to be heretical and banned it from Biblical canon. With every copy destroyed, the prophecy and all the knowledge it contained to endure the apocalypse was lost. However, one copy survived and now resides in England. With the assassin still in pursuit, Gabriel and his zealous father must travel to England in hopes that the book will guide them. Joined there by Micah - a beautiful Archangel girl - Gabriel must uncover a faith in himself he didn’t know existed before a metaphysical transformation can unlock the power that dwells inside him. But with only two under-trained Archangels and the other two missing or dead, the only hope at stopping the assassin and the End of Days is a weapon hidden inside the Ark of the Covenant somewhere in Aksum, Ethiopia.

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This poem is for all the soldiers out there, who fight for our freedom everyday. You will never be forgotten. This poem won the international poet of merit award. Comments and feeback are welcomed.

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My first crack at Science Fiction. However, it is written, step by step, to appear completely logical with no aliens, monsters, apparitions, etc. Since it concerns time travel, I've been advised that it would definitely be set in the Science Fiction genre. Check out the tags for the variety in the plotting.

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During 1939 in London, a new type of spying device has been presented, by its inventor, to Unit Five, a British intelligence unit. Unit Five's problem is to find a willing candidate to carry it inside Germany, while pretending to be a German Army officer. A desperate search ensues with lots of complications. But, when a volunteer arrives in Nazi Germany, just prior to war breaking out, extremely unusual coincidental events occur. The sex-starved wife of a German Army General ensnares the young British spy as a bed mate. From then on, a detailed plot unravels involving treachery, treason, sex and murder.

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Most historians list Princess Noor Inayat Khan as one of the most intriguing heroines of the Twentieth Century and rank her up near the top along with Mata Hari. She was born inside the Kremlin during 1914 and evolved from infancy into an emotional, naive, careless and beautiful young woman ... hardly the attributes of a future spy. This novel is based upon true events during the years 1914-1944. While being brought up in France, Princess Noor clandestinely falls in love with Paulo. He is torn from her arms after being drafted, during 1935, into the Italian army to fight in Ethiopia and she spends the next eight years trying to discover his whereabouts while he is constantly sent to other danger zones in North Africa, Spain and Russia.

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In 1957, a supposed Brazilian friend with an ulterior motive lures a young American to Brazil in order to take advantage of a get-rich-quick-scheme. Brian Scherer swallows the bait, and plunges into an adventurous odyssey. But step-by-step after his arrival in South America, he becomes entangled in a web of treachery, smuggling, sexual romps, plus an international kidnapping, all of which, causes a bitter diplomatic confrontation between the United States and Brazil.

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