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Thebes is cursed. Or so Ismene's nurse tells her. Ismene has never been outside the palace; she's led a sheltered life protected from the plague that took the lives of her parents, the king and queen. But when a mysterious voice compels her to leave the safety of her known world, Ismene decides to venture out on her own. Soon she learns the only things keeping her inside the palace are the lies being fed to her by the ones she loves. Ismene disguises...

This publication is a compilation of two science fiction/speculative fiction short stories. It is reprinted from Mindscapes: Ten Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction Short Stories (C) 2014 by Victor D. López.In the first short story, "Justice", a man is being tried for the last remaining capital offense in a kinder, gentler, truly unified world in the not too distant future. In the second, "Riddle of the Sphinx: Solved" the secrets of the Sphinx...

Gadget is off to awesome Egypt to explore such sights as King Zoser's Step Pyramid and the famous Pyramids of Giza. He unravels the riddle of the Sphinx, wanders through the Cairo Bazaar and explores Tut's treasures at the Egyptian Antiquities Museum. He then travels to Dr. Ragabs Pharaonic Village where he learns to decipher ancient hieroglyphic symbols and walks along the Avenue of the Sphinxes which leads him to the Temple of Karnak and Temple...

Long after he was dead, French poet Charles Baudelaire inspired a Decadent Movement in France, which became definitive of fin de siecle sensibility. One of the historical and influential links between Baudelaire and the new Decadents was the Comte de Villiers de l'Isle Adam, who called the first of his own collections of Decadent prose Contes cruels, because they spurned conventional means of attaining literary closure by celebrating 'the irony of...

This book is a compilation of 10 science fiction and speculative fiction short stories by the author from his two previous short story collections, Book of Dreams and Book of Dreams 2nd Edition, as well as two new stories written in 2013. Its scope extends from the innermost dimensions of the mind to the outer reaches of the universe, focusing from diverse perspectives on some common themes as to the meaning of life, the superlative strength and wrenching...

The Riddle of the Sands is a 1903 novel by Erskine Childers. The book, which enjoyed immense popularity in the years before World War I, is an early example of the espionage novel and was extremely influential in the genre of spy fiction. It has been made into feature-length films for both cinema and television. The novel "owes a lot to the wonderful adventure novels of writers like Rider Haggard, that were a staple of Victorian Britain". It was a...

"This is how the woman becomes the goddess," the gossip writer in this work will explain near the end of the book, a journey that also draws a Goddess into her womanhood.Here is a Hollywood Faust and a female one at that. She is under the sway of her companion, Lilith, whose own own romance, a mystical, sexy story, creates a trajectory that crosses the star's descent, but whose falling course she cannot help but guide.Faustina's resemblance to Marilyn...

While the Thea sisters are at the excavation site of a dig at Hierapolis, Professor Brenninger unearths a series of priceless and very old figurines, but the Thea Sisters think the discovery may be a scam and investigate.