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‡‡‡ HUMOR || SCIENCE FICTION ||ACTION-ADVENTURE || ROMANCE || ‡‡‡ °°°° THANKS! ¬¬¬¬¬ måx¬¬¬¬ Aphrodite's Rainbow is a hardware & software upgrade for a female android to become the UltraFemDroid that allows pure love for a truly loved partner, but madness or death if she is abused by others with evil intent or lust. When true love is found, the FemDroid and her ManDroid partner obtain the one thing an artificial being desires more than anything else in life... that being a human beings temporal lifetime. ¬¬¬¬ MANY CHAPTERS ARE XXX ¬¬¬¬

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France “lost” five nuclear warheads. North Korea “found” five nuclear warheads. A young woman from Brooklyn is the only one who can stop World War III…..and she doesn’t even know it. In a world that seems to teeter on the edge of self-distraction, this story of international intrigue follows Dawn Laskey,a thirty-three year old fashion designer, who simply went on vacation in Paris. A romantic fling leaves her in a literal flight for her life as warring forces believe she has the key to missing nuclear weapons. From the beauty and romance of Monmontre Paris to a brutal prison cell in America, Dawn is caught in a web of evil from which she seemingly can not escape. Her one hope is Detective Gerald Denton of NYPD, the only person who seems to truly believe Dawn is innocent. His challenge is to keep her alive before malicious powers destroy her and possibly the entire human race. Looking to see if the opening chapters catch the reader or if they need a stronger impact

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This is the sequel to "The Devil's Grin", a Victorian crime novel published in September 2012 and workshopped here. Although being a sequel, this novel should be able to stand alone. The heroine - Anna Kronberg - is a German woman who is hiding in the Sussex Downs until she is abducted and used for the development of germ warfare by London's greatest criminal, James Moriarty.

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“Art Terror” is the second in a series that began with “Holy Terror.” Which has been reviewed on this sight? In part. As a result of the comments I did a rewrite of “Holy Terror.” It is now at the publisher and I am awaiting the galleys. I had already started “Art Terror”, but because of the comments on “Holy Terror”, I began again from scratch and here is the Prologue. The entire series relates the escapades of a shadowy, amorphous, and international group of charismatics that have the unofficial name of “The Kingdom.” “Art Terror” is a thriller that takes place in the world of international terror and how it is funded by art theft and forgery. The Kingdom in concert with MI5, Interpol, British CID and the FBI try to bring this operation down. But with complete deniability by the agencies. The Prologue is how a lifelong confidence man, Percy, is involuntarily recruited into this band of charismatics. And the dangerous adventures they live. All comments appreciated

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Ed Laputan, a clinical trials project manager, awakens from a Cabernet-induced black-out to find an insistent Benjamin Franklin pounding outside his window. Franklin (almost) helps Ed and his family escape from a potential disaster and disappears. Hallucination? Delusion? When other apparitions offer Ed (not quite accurate) career advice, he suspects he may be schizophrenic. As Ed struggles with mental illness and his bumbling spirit guides, his co-workers start disappearing and his project begins to fail. Can Ed hold on to reality? Can he solve the mystery of the vanishing employees?

I started another version of this novel on tNBW a few years ago. Other life events have prevented me from writing, but I'm trying to get back into it.

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My first Novel, first chapter.Please read and review. All types of feedback will be appreciated.Comment on characters, writing style, and any others. Thank you.

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Gran De Daddy will be a short novella about the kidnapping of a young boy and the Grandfather who is hell bent on rescuing him. The antagonist is a ruthless psychopath. The grandfather is simply crazy. Phil Cohen is a retired Black Ops hit man. His Grandson is kidnapped. At his daughter's request, he goes to Atlanta to help her, and her husband Maury, deal with the crisis. The kidnapper hires various criminal types to assist him, contacting them through email and sending them to drop points to pick up instructions and cash. The kidnapper insulates himself from detection by ensuring none of his hired help know or meet him or each other. Phil, nicknamed Gran De Daddy by his grandson, has the ability to transform his thoughts into the thoughts of the criminally insane. As the story progresses you find he is virtually insane himself. He deduces that the kidnapper will play a double cross, and instead of setting up a real time and place to make the transfer of Michael for the ransom money, he will arrive at their house with Michael. With a gun to Michael's head, he will force the father to make a wire transfer of the ransom amount. Once the transfer is made, the kidnaper will kill Michael and the parents, making it seem like murder/suicide, and then set fire to the home to cover possible evidence and hinder any investigation. Phil thinks the perp has used this mode of operation many times, making him proficient in the execution of the crime. Phil is frustrated, when every avenue he pursues in his desperate search comes to a dead end. His desperation and anger reach a fever pitch after his daughter and son-in-law receive one of Michael’s fingers by way of FedEX. He comes to realize he is dealing with an intelligent psychopath. This is Phil's story of desperation, murder, and revenge wrapped around a blossoming romance between him and a young woman he rescues from an abusive boyfriend. He leaves a trail of death as he weeds through the chaff to get to the man who dared to harm his grandson. The action sequences are believable and the climatic ending is explosively violent. While this is fiction, many of the events in this novel are taken from real life incidents I have experienced. Working at sorting out my tense shifts. I want this to be first person, present tense.

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To impress a girl, an ugly young man undertakes a robbery, and inadvertently kills someone. This sets off a chain of events which changes the course of history. This is an early work of mine which has undergone significant rewrites, and I am on the verge of sending it to market. I would like some honest opinions about its readability, characterizations, idea content, and literary merit (if any).

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While on summer break, young elementary school teacher, Ava Bryant, sets out to fix up her newly acquired home, willed to her ex-fiancé , Earl, by his aunt and given to Ava as a consolation for him needing to “move on” and “have more personal space.” While working on her new home, Ava encounters Bo, who says he’s an old friend of Earl’s. After learning that the two are no longer together, Bo offers to stay and help Ava fix up her house. Ava accepts, but she can’t shake the feeling that something sinister lies beneath Bo’s toothy grin and quiet, easy manner. When her feelings prove correct, Ava takes self-preserving actions that she never thought possible that will change the course of her life forever. Looking for any type of feedback--the good, the bad & the ugly.

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Parker Ammons is a 27 year old woman living her life as she sees fit. Perfectly happy and standing on her own two feet, she is the example of a young woman most parents would wish their own daughters to be. Parker receives a string of mysterious mail that has her and her best friend Avery concerned. Could someone be out to hurt her? As suddenly as the mail started, it stops, but then things really start getting strange as Parker discovers that history isn't just written about, it's written before it happens and she is caught in the middle of a pivotal battle for humanity This is the first part of a very rough draft. I'd like to know if it seems intriguing enough to keep reading? Often I find myself in the first part of a book and I'm already bored. I've never written before so this is a first attempt. Please let me know what you think!

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-- Strongest Start Six entry -- A floatplane leaves comedian Kenny McIntyre at a remote northern lake. He is fresh out of drug rehab and needs time and solitude for healing. Instead, he finds a brutally tortured woman behind his cabin. Maureen is naked, covered head-to-toe with tar, and dying. Kenny saves her and learns that she killed one of her attackers before escaping through the woods. How long before the other kidnappers track her to the cabin? What will Kenny and Maureen do when they show up?

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Time travel, Danger, Eternal Love... Careening between modern times and 11th century Europe, Grace must endure persecution, predators, and a broken heart as she battles along side her fellow Knowers to save the Earth. Sole survivors of an immortal race, the Knowers’ homeland has vanished. Orphaned, using their supernatural powers, they blend with humanity and persevere. Powerful and pure of heart, Knowers feel human emotions deeply, longing for the love that was stolen from them when their precious race was destroyed. Join Grace, Hilde and Aron as they battle against Demon and Evil to preserve humanity. Will the humans they partner with prove as resilient and trustworthy as they appear, or will history repeat itself and betrayal and devastation ensue? Meet the Knowers at: http://theknower.wordpress.com/excerpts/

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Extractions is a political thriller. It is about war mongering and a conspiracy to promote and sustain civil unrest in North Africa to increase the United States' global power, influence, and control over natural resources.

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Proof that what is one man's trash is another man's treasure. ********** I actually wrote this five years ago, but the story ran out of steam. Any suggestions or help would be appreciated.

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A government computer scientist is dragged into an international crisis when he helps his friend, an NSA analyst, protect a classified technology recovered 50 years ago from a damaged extraterrestrial vehicle.

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A prominent cat is murdered in a world of talking animals.

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“I had my first psychic dream when I was nine. Psychic implied power, and powerful wasn’t a word I’d use to describe myself. I couldn’t foretell the future or conjure visions at will, but I couldn’t think of a more fitting word to describe what I sometimes saw in my dreams.”

For 23-year-old Mackenzie Hill, tossing her life down the garbage disposal is easy after a painful incident shatters her life. Her heart is bleeding, and moving to Watcher’s Point is a chance to start anew, only she isn’t prepared for the guy who walks out of her dreams and into the flesh. Literally . . . because she’s been dreaming about this sexy stranger for years.

Mackenzie is even less prepared to face the dark nature of her dreams. They’ve turned disturbingly gruesome, full of blood and murder, and when they begin to coincide with the media’s headlines, she and Aidan realize her visions might be the key to stopping a madman from killing again.

Only Aidan has painful secrets of his own, and perhaps the biggest danger of all is falling for him.

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A story of a deluded woman!

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The free world industrial revolution is endangered by the earth’s fast consumption of rare earth elements. Professor Avner Amram’s scientists develop a sophisticated spectroscopic instrument that can remotely detect the presence of critical rare earth elements in outer space. CIA, KGB and Mossad agents are entangled in spying and counter intelligence while searching for stolen plans and technology secrets related to space missions. Drawings and software are stolen from the Jet Propulsion Laboratories, copied and sent to the Kremlin. A mole recruited by a foreign country is arrested. Avner and his associates are drawn into the mayhem. They encounter industrial espionage and intrigues as they prepare for unmanned space probes. Secrets leaked to Russia result in a race of unmanned probes to Mars and asteroids. Avner’s team reaches a resolution with unexpected conclusions.

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My take on a Faustian love story that I wrote for a little girl who loves fairy tales. This is my first installment in a series of short stories I am writing.

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I have absolutely no experience in writing, but a lot of my friends say I have some talent. I am aiming to get this book published and perhaps make some money for Law school. Please send me your constructive comments. Thanks. PS. If you think of a better name for this story, let me know!

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Liquor License is the second novel in a series about Simms Mitchell a part time FBI domestic cult profiler and lawyer representing women in sexual harassment and abuse cases. Liquor License tackles international divorce and the underground railroad for abused spouses and their children. Any feedback is appreciated.

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When Mason Ward's father walks back into his life, a series of actions are set into motion which change Mason forever. Deception, betrayal and a chase across Europe - who's the real prize?

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A former US Navy SEAL with a merciless sense of justice, teams with a brilliant female detective. Together they discover weaknesses in our defenses against terrorism, but government officials inexplicably disregard their warnings. Will they be in time to prevent massive terrorist attacks in our homeland? Wounded and weakened, our hero confronts a huge, seemingly invincible, psycho-sexual killer with a surprising result.

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Machinery introduces the reader to an amazing scientific possibility through a rather... controversial (if not apocryphal) narrative. This installment is an introduction of sorts, hoping to spark your curiosity about both the science and the narrator. I appreciate your most brutally honest feedback. Thanks!

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Thanks to everyone for the excellent feedback on the 1st draft. I have tried to incorporate some of your suggestions in this second draft.

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This is a children's Halloween tale about a young boy who moves to a new town and has trouble making new friends--until Jim comes along....

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Hello all. The Demon Pool is a 141,000 word supernatural thriller that offers a demonic twist on the famous legend of the Fountain of Youth. Think ChiPS (remember Erik Estrada?) meets The Exorcist only set in Southwest Florida. I am aiming for the mainstream thriller/horror market. I have an associate editor with a major publisher that I was able to pitch at the Pacific Northwest Writer's Association conference this past summer willing to read the completed manuscript (I finally submitted the fifth draft in early May 2011). The story is essentially complete, but I am sure there will be some more editing and revising. Any help with the writing or story that will help me make it better will be greatly appreciated. God bless you all and next time you visit Florida, be careful where you swim. There may be more than gators in the water.

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“God won’t bother with plagues and floods. He’ll just send me.�? When a serial killer is murdered while in the act of enjoying his latest victim, former LAPD detective, Hale Parrish, is asked to use his supernatural talents to investigate. His search is short-lived, because the vigilante, referring to himself as “Judgment,�? tracks Hale down to reveal a life-changing secret: both of them are members of an elite bloodline created to enact divine wrath upon the wicked. While Hale decides whether his birthright is a blessing or a curse, shadows from his past emerge, forcing him to face his demons, protect his family, and take back control of his destiny.

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This is a fantasy story... It tells of ancient abilities, long forgotten by most of us, to harness the powers of light and dark matter in the here and now... But such power begets revenge, jealousy, murder, slaughter... Can it be harnessed for the good of mankind, or, can it be stopped before such powerful abilities are misused by a few...???

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The war over Wyoming land rights did not begin with the lynching of Jim Averell and “Cattle�? Kate Watson in 1889, nor did it end with the Butch and Sundance-style execution of Nate Champion outside his KC Ranch cabin in 1892. Those whose generations have lived in the Cowboy State know that land counts for much and family can be a secondary thing. When Sheriff John Pruett’s wife of 44 years is murdered by her own brother in the whirlwind of a family feud over precious mineral rights in the gas boom of the 2000’s, he will face not only a test of professional mettle, but also a formidable reconciliation with both his faith and his own flesh and blood—Pruett will ultimately battle his child, his town, his ghosts, and his God. This is a tale of twisted, hardscrabble greed set against the majesty of one of the last, true American paradises.

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"We Own The President" (set a few years in future; 116,000 words) Why it’s unique: father-daughter buddy story meets 007-type thriller... Harry Evans works for secret government agencies, sees himself as the last line of defense against the evil people in the world. He’s good at it. Kate Evans, studying for an MBA at Wharton, is contemptuous of her father and has as little to do with him as possible. After all, he’s nothing but a killer... Readers get a big swirling thriller--mad-genius twins try to "own the President"--plus entertaining inter-generational conflict. Harry Evans, daughter Kate, and her friend Carmen are increasingly in the center of the vortex, not sure what is real or where their loyalties should be. The country is coming apart. President Simpson declares war on Mexico, and hints at worst. Kate and Harry, alone against the world, start to function as partners -- but don’t try to tell Kate that. The question is, can these two alphas stop squabbling long enough to save the country from a conspiracy to seize control of the president and to accomplish this in a way that conceals what has happened. Any feedback is welcome.

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Dr. Nathan Rysner is a member of the GenRose Bio-engineering team in Chicago. Nathan is exposed to genetically altered material in an accident in the lab and gains the ability to change his own genetic make up at will. A military black ops group is after him and the genetic protocol that can make a warrior impervious in battle. Nathan is on the run for his life. His adventures introduce him to the love of his life, Sherry Turner. Nathan inadvertently releases a healing gene that causes world wide controversy and instantly causes the medical field to become obsolete. The twists at the end will have you returning to the beginning searching for clues. I'm looking for any and all feedback. I only ask that you read from the beginning if you are reviewing for story line. Nits are welcome. I'm particularly interested in your thoughts on dialogue and believability of scenes.

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The story begins with mystery writer, William Tyler, contemplating his life in the midst of a citywide blackout. When he is confronted by a figure from his past, he makes a decision that will change his life forever.

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Here is a chapter from a larger work in progress. Originally written as a theatrical play, this story is inspired by actual events. I like to bring it out once a year or so and play with it... searching for an ending. Any feedback would be appreciated!

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This is an apocalyptic thriller with an embedded love story. Following the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001, the lives of Kodi Peek and her father are irrevocably changed as they begin the countdown to 2012.

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*** THIS IS THE SEQUEL To KINGS & QUEENS *** Still reeling from the repercussions of the church shooting plot she got jerked into ten years ago in high school, Majesty is shattered, having also lost her daughter, Mikayla, in a preschool gas explosion and her marriage to a slut. So, when she receives a bizarre glimmer of hope that her little girl might actually be alive, she fights heaven and hell to reclaim the happiness that’s been stripped from her. But her hunt sets five others on a collision course with disaster: Crystal, an eleven-year-old who’s trying to escape a hellish facility filled with mindless kids, her fifteen-year-old sister, Skye, who’s out to expose the supposed magical secret society at her high school, her former best friend, Vivien, an art therapist, who hopes to unlock her daughter’s turmoil as she suddenly stopped speaking and began slipping into catatonic states and drawing gruesome pictures, and Chance, a guy imposing as a wealthy recluse while trying to recall his forgotten past and eliminate his enemies. In their dark world, nothing is what it seems and these seekers of truth may not like the answers they find. And little Mikayla could very well be trapped in this web of deception … or truly gone forever.

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This is a story of bullies, revenge and a class reunion all entangled in a twisted love story. Oh and there might be a bit of redemption in there too... I have more chapters coming... :-)

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Novel based upon many of the circumstances we find ourselves in as parents and step-parents in today's divorce-ridden society. I am looking for constructive criticism.

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A hit man prepares himself to carry out his contract. This is another "shard" in the Hard Cold Kiss Goodbye series where the reader is invited to produce the overarching plot.

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Lisa Kaamp operates a small childcare business out of her home in the sleepy little town of Nogeksum, Michigan. Highly respected and known for going the extra mile for her daycare kids, Lisa thought she had handled every daycare emergency possible. But nothing prepared her for the nightmare she now faced. Lisa awakes one morning to find herself bound and gagged, four strange men in her home, and the daycare children being held hostage in the next room. Terrorized by her captors as the authorities work to meet the ransom deadline, she tries negotiating with the men for the release of the children, and soon realizes that at least one of them has no intention of letting anyone go. With the deadline quickly approaching, Lisa must do the unimaginable to protect the children and get everyone out alive.

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This is the start of a series of stories about a young man that makes a tragic mistake but benefits from it and has to deal with the struggle between guilt and the desire to live.

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Within the last bastions of democratic society called bluezones, beyond the chaotic slums and destitute refugee camps, exists a technology that could either push civilization further into the abyss, or bring forth its salvation. - Struggling to save his innovative hybrid techno-finance company from malign threats leftover from twenty two years of severe economic depression a young uberman ends up fighting for his life against ruthless enemies. - Corporate banksters are increasingly adopting unscrupulous strategies and tactics. - Dangerous slumlords have infiltrated every facet of the economy and run their gangs like small quasi-nations. - Rebellious artificial intelligent entities, which may or may not believe the human world actually exists, are going rogue. - And the bluezone government, so obsessed in asserting its authority, is willing to risk all out civil war. - Not that James Tucker, a war veteran and corporate uberman by the age of nineteen, and a staunch proponent of alternative economic theorem, minds putting his life on the line. At stake is the destruction of his country, the disillusionment of his fans, and the prospect of betraying a promise he made to his daughter. - THE BLUEZONE WILL NEVER BE THE SAME AGAIN - - This near future tale addresses the key elements of what constitute real power in society, loyalty and honour as opposed to money and violence. ************* I am looking for feedback on individual chapters, especially ones that haven't received any reviews. On things like grammar, structure, character and dialogue, as well as an indication of where the chapter stands on the boring barometer. (Revised Title; 07/01/13)

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Sophie has a secret. A secret she buried seven years ago. At least she thought she did.

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Hotshot Sydney detective Max Beckett wakes up in a seedy hotel room with two dead bodies, and police hammering at the door. He flees the scene and sets in train a series of events that plunges him into the twisted worlds of a deranged serial killer, Russian mobsters and a band of terrorists preparing to launch an unprecedented attack on Australian soil. Only Max and a sexy Russian intelligence officer can save the day in this desperate race against time. A rollicking good read that adds the name of Max Beckett to the pantheon of crime noir heroes.

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In this era where science fiction is becoming science fact, technology is mixing with strongly held myths, and art is blending the chaos to shine a light on the rapid changes, we will either destroy ourselves or else learn to live in peace, without and within. This is the story of a particularly gifted young psychic, Aurora Swift, and the psychiatrist who tries to unravel her worlds, and in doing so unintentionally comes into contact with interconnected universal mysteries, dimensions, ancient beings and civilizations. Mixture of fantasy and reality genres. Mainly, the two settings are the modern day present with a bit of government conspiracy, and a sort of underworld that Aurora calls the Night World she escapes into to keep her sanity intact what with the pressures of her life. We meet a lot of other psychics in Aurora's circle and travel all over the U.S. and the world in search of some type of salvation. ** The first six or so chapters are non-linear and deliberately jarring as Aurora is experiencing a crossover of dimensions and times that will be sorted out in later chapters.// If I were to summarize the emotional stew or message of the story, it might go something like this: It is easy to wonder if our lives are worthless and actions are pointless because all will be forgotten one day. If every inventor, thinker, artist, intuitive being, and scientist followed through with this line of thinking, we’d still be in the Dark Ages or perhaps cause a new one. In this time of flourishing light, we need not allow the darkness of short-sightedness envelop us. The power is within us to make this world whatever we want it to be and become. And yes, one can make a difference with a little help from her friends.// **NOTE: I am on this site for constructive criticism. If you believe my work is only worthy of a 1 or 2 and feel like writing a snide scathing review or telling me how to write according to you, go somewhere else. My work isn't perfect, but I what I don't need is people who wish to feel superior by cutting me down or taking out their bad day on me. If you "don't get it" either ask me why something is written as it is or read something else. That I've had to explain this is sad, but there are plenty of A-holes in the world and that is reflected by similar percentages on this site. For those of you here to learn and grow and offer positive suggestions: Welcome. ---- (4/23/09 Currently reposted Chapter 1-3 and more coming soon for fans old and new).

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Dr. Maxwell “Max�? Warden’s enjoyment of his dream position with the Center for Disease Control is short lived when the lives of a number of his friends and fellow researchers are lost in an outbreak of an unknown virus in Somalia. Max is soon thrust into a world of intrigue and danger, where an automatic weapon is as important as his microscope. He leads an operation into the heart of the unknown to rescue his friends, not sure if they are even still alive, and becomes embroiled in a terrorist plot that promises to rock the world.

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