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Kristen Wiig is the brilliant and talented lady responsible for some of Saturday Night Live's unforgettable sketches. Known for her characters such as Gilly, Target Lady, Penelope, Aunt Linda and Sue, Kristen Wiig had definitely traveled a long and colorful road in showbiz. With unmatched talent in the...

A look back. Without the rose-tinted spectacles, but with hindsight and humour, and with poignancy and affection. 1978. The North. Phillip sees life in a simplistic if passionate way: up or down, us and them, black, white and nothing in-between. When not doing his ‘thing’ in Wigan’s Casino Club...

A murder mystery with more twists and turns than Hampton Court Maze A young girl, murdered in the grounds of a private sanatorium catering to those with emotional and addiction problems. For newly promoted Detective Inspector Patrick Augustine O'Malley it is the worst possible case to be placed in...

No one can tell who made the spheres of twelve faces or why or what the Romans called them: maybe Corpus Sacrum. Maybe something else. We refer to them as pentagondodecahedra. But that is a modern word, and an uncouth one, too. A hundred are known. Many have been found in France, in Belgium, they seem...

A Pregnant Young Lady Is Murdered. A Member Of The Famous Dupont Family Allegedly Commits Suicide. Is There A Connection? Was There A Cover-Up? “Where were you Wednesday night?”Detective Drummond asked.Father Milford laughed. “Why do I get the feeling that yoususpect me of killing Miss...

It’s a known fact that most butterflies struggle getting their wings. It seems as if the pain of leaving the cocoon is often times just too much to bear. However, without this experience, the butterfly will never gain the strength to fly. So even in the midst of all of the pain and strife, the butterfly...

A Team of Marines enter a village forsaken by Human Life. Only to find themselves under an enemy with teeth. An army of zombies run this village with appetites. These Men reach this village after they're ordered to find a black box that went down with a plane. This Team of Marines go up against an army...

FOR WRITERS BY WRITERS is a dialogue of many voices to establish the essence of the art of literary writing. Renowned writers of world literature give their views point on the art of writing. Each voice is articulated in a continuous discourse, led by the author, as if it was said by a single narrator....

MARTHA STEWART, BORN AND DIES ON THE FAMILY’S PLANTATION FARM BY THE SEA, AND DESPITE THE CHANGING SOUTH AFTER THE CIVIL WAR, FINDS FAMILY, FAITH, AND LOVE. I found Aunt Martha out walking the shore. Old then, but able to move in long strides, her flowing gray hair trailing behind like a...

A Ghost Searches For The Meaning Of Both Her Life And Her Death. Forty-nine-year-old Southern society belle Ladell Allen commits suicide on Christmas night 1948 in the wake of yet another failed love affair. The dead Ladell spends the next six decades revisiting the past, as well as watching the world...

Our shelves contain countless books on the history of space travel, illustrated with colourful images of the moon and names we have frequently read: Alan Shepard, first American in space, John Glenn who orbited earth, Neil Armstrong, first man on the moon, Elliot See ... Wait a minute. Who is Elliot...

I believe that fiction is an imaginative expression of truth; it follows that every truth can events and provoke a debate that tends to reform society. The author’s responsibility is to express himself in a language which does not offend a civilized society but one which causes it to think and act....

Life is too short to gain all knowledge by personal experience; one has to learn from the experiences of others. The best way to do this is through books. A short story deals with an issue generally faced by us and interestingly shows how to tackle it. Whether you agree with the author or not it is certainly...

Life is too short to gain all knowledge by personal experience; one needs to learn from the experiences of others. The best way to do this is through books. A short story deals with an issue generally faced by us at different stages in life and interestingly shows how to tackle it. Whether you agree...