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When Covid-19 swept across the world, it took everyone by surprise. Debilitating illness, unprecedented lockdowns and tragic deaths soon followed. Then the questions arose - howlong would the devastation last and would anyone survive? Alwyn Marriage contracted Covid-19early in the pandemic and that is where this moving collection starts. In poems written in realtime, Alwyn tracks the course of her own illness and recovery, the death of her brother and thegradual dawning of new hope. Above all, she asks what we have learnt from this pandemic, andwhether the world will ever be the same again. This is poetry that grips you, may make you cry, but will also warm your heart.
Pandora's Gun
Fairwood Press
2015
pokkari
Curiosity changed the course of mankind.Pandora was the first mortal woman and the first bride. Zeus gave Pandora a storage jar for a wedding gift which she of course opened. Who wouldn't? It was a wedding gift, for crying out loud. The evil spirits trapped inside the jar were freed and have wreaked havoc on mankind ever since.Fast forward to today . . .Pandora Jones lives in a modern stone castle stuffed to the roofline with handmade boxes filled with the worries and troubles she collects each night. Trying to atone for her ancestress' costly mistake leaves no room for friendship, let alone romance.Head God Zeus sends his handsome eldest son to set things right with Pandora, but neglects to tell him who, what, or why. That would take all the fun out of the game-and everyone knows the Olympic gods love their games.
Curiosity changed the course of mankind.Pandora was the first mortal woman and the first bride. Zeus gave Pandora a storage jar for a wedding gift which she of course opened. Who wouldn't? It was a wedding gift, for crying out loud. The evil spirits trapped inside the jar were freed and have wreaked havoc on mankind ever since.Fast forward to today . . .The ultimate lonely girl, Pandora Jones lives in a modern stone castle stuffed to the roofline with handmade boxes filled with the worries and troubles she collects each night. Trying to atone for her ancestress' costly mistake leaves no room for friendship, let alone romance.Head God Zeus sends his handsome eldest son to set things right with Pandora, but neglects to tell him who, what, or why. That would take all the fun out of the game-and everyone knows the Olympic gods love their games.
Drones, you cannot escape them. Everywhere you are, they along with others can be also. It's not a matter of if or when. It's a matter of from now on. A timeless, suspenseful, thrilling story about a major dilemma of the human condition: the battle between good and evil; right and wrong; love and hate. Heroic warriors and courageous characters in this epic tale arise to give us hope. Their formidable worldwide dedication, vigilance, amazing feats, unselfish bravery, and sacrifice, help keep us surviving in an explosively unpredictable and unstable world environment caused by so few and rarely seen in the history of the world. National security agents Nolham Real and Renner Spinot are thrusted into the national spotlight when their efforts to investigate seemingly disparate localized domestic crimes uncover and link associated ongoing international terrorist activity, threats, and challenges. A National State of Emergency is declared due to related catastrophic terrorist events. Newly sworn in national decision makers need options for a way forward and assurances to relay to a dramatized bewildered population. A fantasizing diabolical deranged genius seeking revenge, along with his spies, cohorts, and unsuspecting pawns, use off-the-self technologies combined with stolen government specialized scientific technology to inflict much drama, negative consequences, and maleficence. Nolham and Renner spearhead the national security community's effort to identify, discover and neutralize the mysterious unknown perpetrators. Along the way they discover how past life lessons and experiences help make you who and how you are. Both discover something else, romantic true love.
Wrath of Heaven. Wrought by Man.Light years away from home, they perilously fight unspeakable horrors back into endless night.Blessed - or cursed - by an ancient artifact, this experimental unit of the desperate, dying, and the damned fight for redemption and freedom against an impossible enemy born of nightmare.They are Pandora Squad.What hope have they found in the bottom of their strange little box?
I wish I could meet other humans. That is the secretwish of Ria Frontier, who grew up as the sole human amid a veritable melting potof other fantastical races on a small island. As she prepares to celebrate theturn of the thousand-year cycle, that wish is granted‚ in the form of awar party of humans that arrives on a flying ship to ransack her home and hurther friends and adoptive family in search of Pandora's Box. Pushed too far bythe cruelty of her race, Ria somehow manages to unseal the terrible power ofwhat the humans have been looking for, unleashing a tragedy that will change herlife forever...
Her life turned upside down by "Pandora's Box," Lia Frontier travels to the mechanical forest in the hope of finding a ray of light in the darkness. But only anger and resentment—stemming from human deceit—await her there. And before Lia can even begin to exonerate herself, the humans in hunting her leave devastation in their wake. What can she even do in the face of such overwhelming hostility?
Searching for the truth behind Pandora’s Box, Lia Frontier heads for the Great Shrine of Necromanie—allegedly, where the truth of the entire world is assembled. However, since the rise of Humania, this isolated place has gained a reputation as a cursed land. What new disasters await Lia in this desolate corner of the world?!
Henry James tells of Otto Vogelstein's voyage aboard the Donau, a ship that runs the route from Bremen to New York. In this way, the young and reputed German Count will meet Pandora Day, an American woman of incredible beauty who will soon fall in love. After a brief conversation with her, the official warns that the social status of the young woman is not the most suitable for a damsel who wants at all costs. Shortly afterwards their roads are separated upon arrival at the port of New York. Otto gives up his chance to conquer her, but fate brings them back together during an event in Washington.
Full text. A delightful short story which combines three topics which regularly fascinated Henry James and are present in many of his tales and novels. Foremost is the relationship between Europe and America - his 'International' theme. Next comes the 'new woman' who emerged in America towards the end of the nineteenth century and behaved in a socially more liberated manner. And third is the social and moral tensions which arise in cases of class mobility - though James doesn't always discuss this issue explicitly.
Pandora's Matryoshkas - Dark Psychological Suspense Novel: A Rampant American in Moscow
Ferdy S. G. Dumel
Independently Published
2018
nidottu
"Pandora's Matryoshkas is a hot, psychological thriller that keeps you on the edge. It takes you down a dark path to a world that few have traveled but many will love.""As a reader, you find yourself on a journey through the darkest, seamiest, roughest night at the end of the American Dream."In Brooklyn, New York, middle-aged Chris Brewer a former CTO has to get his life back on track, that's when Lisa, his coming-of-age daughter, decides to help him out. Against the backdrop of post-9/11 mayhem and tragedy Lisa walks around bemused and angry with her father. This doesn't seem to stop her from helping him online to find someone new after the death of her mother, but does she really want to help?Several months later, as Chris's life turns into a game of Russian roulette - complete with Moscow beauties and the highest stakes imaginable - Lisa is left at home, fighting a completely different set of demons. She contemplates her grievances, and decides to continue on a dark road she can never turn back from.6000 Miles apart, Chris sees himself as a stranger in a strange town. In Moscow, deception appears everywhere, and the truth doesn't come cheaply. Not Anastasia, the woman he came to visit, not a strange American man in the lobby, nor Dumsfeld, the eccentric senior in front of the hotel is whom they seem to be.In broad daylight, disaster strikes in front of the Kremlin. When Chris is about to face his own darkest secrets, he's wondering whether he'll ever see his daughter back. For lovers of political romance fiction books and the best suspense novels ever to have been read, as well as for fans of unreliable narrators, this novel is barely possible to put down.
Pandora's Time Machine transports the reader into the mercurial life of Dora Upchurch, a Portland graduate student who creates an "organic" time machine for an art history research project, despite roadblocks from an arrogant professor and the exploits of a shameless tabloid journalist. Viewed through the eyes of a lovestruck suitor, Dora's charmed life turns tragic when her time machine is portrayed as a Pandora's box, prompting friends and admirers to rally behind her in a poignant, yet laugh-out-loud finale.
Charlene - that glittering knockout cross-dresser with hit-man chops and a lethal wit to match - is back, and the Pandora's box she's set to crack open is bad news for both her cousins: Vinnie the shady witness-protection fixer and Danny the uptight lawyer. Not that they mind, because in a case like Toledo's mysterious after-hours bar that strays into sex trafficking, deadly cage fights and a deep-freeze full of corpses, Vinnie and Danny would be fools not to want an experienced "mechanic" like Charlene in their corner. Or their Pandora's box. The mayor isn't what the voters thought, Charlene is way more than the club owners expected, and Ike the dog? Well, he might just speak Chinese.This is the second book in a trilogy after My Cousin Charlene. It is followed My Cousin's Closet.
Many of Henry James' most acclaimed works of fiction are set at the intersection between European and American culture. The novella Pandora takes its tension from the differences between the Old World and the New-as well as the surprising similarities between the two realms. Free-spirited American Pandora Day crosses paths with the reserved Count Vogelstein, and the two learn a great deal about their respective countries and worldviews.
It has long been the custom of the North German Lloyd steamers, which convey passengers from Bremen to New York, to anchor for several hours in the pleasant port of Southampton, where their human cargo receives many additions. An intelligent young German, Count Otto Vogelstein, hardly knew a few years ago whether to condemn this custom or approve it. He leaned over the bulwarks of the Donau as the American passengers crossed the plank-the travellers who embark at Southampton are mainly of that nationality-and curiously, indifferently, vaguely, through the smoke of his cigar, saw them absorbed in the huge capacity of the ship, where he had the agreeable consciousness that his own nest was comfortably made. To watch from such a point of vantage the struggles of those less fortunate than ourselves-of the uninformed, the unprovided, the belated, the bewildered-is an occupation not devoid of sweetness, and there was nothing to mitigate the complacency with which our young friend gave himself up to it; nothing, that is, save a natural benevolence which had not yet been extinguished by the consciousness of official greatness. For Count Vogelstein was official, as I think you would have seen from the straightness of his back, the lustre of his light elegant spectacles, and something discreet and diplomatic in the curve of his moustache, which looked as if it might well contribute to the principal function, as cynics say, of the lips-the active concealment of thought. He had been appointed to the secretaryship of the German legation at Washington and in these first days of the autumn was about to take possession of his post.