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Edinburgh schoolteacher Brian Reid has an ambition - to pass a fairly basic piano exam. After trying a number of teachers, he finds one who might be able to help him... This short story was written as a prequel to the full-length novel "Four Old Geezers And A Valkyrie".

So what do you do with all that old cardboard left over from boxes of cereal, crackers, chocolates, paper, shoes? I used to throw it out or recycle it but then I got an idea: why not paint on it?  I was already painting as a hobby - mostly abstract and nonrepresentational watercolours. These were...

SNOUTSOur democracy is broken.Our political class is now the donor-class, as in the USA.Sixty percent of donations to Labor and Liberal are untraceable according to the electoral office.So who is running Australia?Those parties know that they aren’t telling us mushrooms.After 75 years of...

A New Beginning - The Journey Home is a series of commentaries for those men and women seeking a personal relationship with God. This is Book One of the series, containing Episodes 1 to 3.

THE stories in this volume are transcribed from voluminous illustrated diaries which have been kept by me for some twenty years spent in travel and in sport in many lands—the last nine of them almost entirely in Japan, while collecting subjects of natural history for the British Museum; trawling...

Have you ever been inspired to create your own t-shirt design? or had an idea for a pithy one liner you'd like to see on a shirt? In this 1600 word article you will be guided through the steps needed to create a simple t-shirt design using the Open Source (read free!) Vector Graphics application...

Alkaline Water has so many benefits on ones health that not drinking it would be insane. Alkaline Water has shown signs to be outstanding in peoples health. You will learn how drinking this kind of water on a regular basis can help you with things such as reduce aging, weight loss, balancing the ph of the body.

Short Story Recommended Ages: 17+ Rachael's world was collapsing around her when she found the injured sea turtle on the beach. A sometime volunteer and animal lover, she felt forced to help the poor creature. Little did she know that the by taking care of the turtle she would ignite a firestorm that would threaten her very life.

Benedict Weathersbee is content in his self-imposed exile. His fencing academy, with its WASP-ish clientele, provides an adequate income to satisfy his needs, if not his social station. It is enough to keep a man until Queen and Country should require his services again. But Benedict is a man...

A story of love, sex, time travel and betrayal, and a reality that just won't settle down.

Imagine you gave a baby up for adoption forty years ago, and after years of trying to find her, she finds you. Now come the hard questions. She's healthy, beautiful, and successful, but she wants to know why you gave her away and why you didn't marry her father. How do you explain to her that giving her away was the best gift you could offer?

A federal Narcotic agent is sent to Paraguay to open an office in the US Embassy primarily to pressure the local government to extradite "The Latin Connection". He has been indicted in New York for smuggling hundreds of kilos of French heroin to the United States by way of South America,...

The first book in the Kitty Wu Series.What if America became a socialist republic?In the new America, citizenship means your every need is cared for. All you have to do is take an emotion-numbing pill and surrender your rights.For Kitty Wu, life as a citizen is not for her. Surviving...

Twenty five years after the Affirmative Action Policy is ruled unconstitutional, a new nation emerges in Africa, one that is populated and governed solely by Black people. The African Union of New Kemet, or AUNK, becomes an economic and political superpower with clout equal to the industrialized nations...