With Seduction in Mind

With Seduction in Mind

By: Laura Lee Guhrke

London, May 1896 DaisyMerrickwas unemployed. Such a circumstance wasn’t unusual Daisy had been in that particular pickle many times before. Some people, including her sister, were inclined to see her ever-changing job situation as her own fault, but to Daisy’s mind that opinion was most unfair. Today was a perfect example.Bristling with indignation, she marched out of the offices of Pettigrew and Finch, where she had just been informed by the matron in charge of typists that her services would no longer be required. And no, Matron had added upon her inquiry, they could not see clear to providing her with a letter of character. Given her shameless conduct, no favorable reference would be possible. “My shameless conduct?” she muttered, pausing on the sidewalk to search for a passing omnibus amid the traffic that clogged Threadneedle Street. “Mr. Pettigrew is the one who should be ashamed!” [download]

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Wolfsbane

Wolfsbane 

By: Andrea Cremer

I COULDN’T SHUT OUT the screams. Darkness surrounded me. A terrible weight pressed into my chest, making me struggle for each breath as I lay drowning in my own blood. I sat up with a gasp, blinking into the shadows. The screaming had stopped. The room became still, flooded with silence. I took a couple of painful swallows, trying to moisten my parched mouth. It took me a moment to realize that the screams had been my own, each cry clawing my throat until it was raw. I brought my hands up to my chest. My fingers moved along the surface of my shirt. The fabric was smooth, with no sign of rips or tears from the crossbow bolts. I couldn’t see well in the dim light, but I could tell this shirt wasn’t mine, or rather, wasn’t Shay’s borrowed sweater the one I’d been wearing the night everything changed. [download]  

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Beneath The Thirteen Moons

Beneath The Thirteen Moons 

By: Kathryne Kennedy

MAHRI POLED HER BOAT AROUND THE BASE OF THE SEA tree, the bone staff she used as much an extension of her body as her own arms. She ducked beneath a branch, a wide one, the limb as straight as the Power of a Seer could make it. The gloom of the evening blackened to inky darkness, the slap of the waves echoed eerily inside the cavern-like arch, and here Mahri chose to anchor her craft. She flipped her wrist in the pattern peculiar to her bone pole, and it retracted with a sliding hiss; her fingers shook as she slid it into a sheath of octopus skin. She patted the bone grapnel with its length of coiled rope and then dug into the small fish-scale pouch that hung against her hip. Mahri withdrew a small piece of zabbaroot, unsure if it would be enough for her task she’d never kidnapped a man before, how could she possibly know? [download]

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Alexander and Alestria

Alexander and Alestria

By: San Sa 

I, Alexander of Macedonia, son of Philip, king of kings, conqueror of the Greeks, came into this world on the night of a great fire. The temple of Artemis was alight. Ocher and yellow flames, forests of sparks and twisting wreaths of smoke, spilled into the sky. Thick clouds settled on villages in which every soul had taken refuge indoors, terrified by the fury of the divine huntress. By the time of my first memory I can already run to the top of the hill. My mother, who dresses me as a girl, takes me to play among the ruins. There are fragments of burned stone scattered in the grass, and wild flowers exhale their bitter fragrance. Wearing a white tunic and sandals with golden straps and with my hair in braids, I stumble up a collapsed flight of steps, hide behind a fallen column, and laugh when the slaves walk past without seeing me. [download]

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Kreativer Denken

Kreativer Denken 

By: Anne Brunner

Kreativität wer möchte nicht über diese Fähigkeit verfügen? Kreativität ist eine Schlüsselkompetenz, die in fast allen Lebensbereichen gefragt ist: in Wissenschaft und Technik, im künstlerischen Schaffen, in der stillen Reflexion auch im privaten Leben. Kreative Kompetenz zählt zu den wichtigsten Schlüsselkompetenzen überhaupt. Nach Hartmut von Hentig ist Kreativität ein „Heilswort“ unserer Zeit. Sie zu fördern wird als zentrale Aufgabe angesehen, sei es im Kontext der Persönlichkeitsentwicklung, des Managementtrainings oder der Didaktik. Kein Wunder also: Kreativitätsmethoden sind en vogue. Sie zielen im Wesentlichen in zwei Richtungen: Entweder darauf, problemorientiert Lösungen für bereits Vorhandenes zu finden. Oder darauf, in „unbekanntes Land“ vorzudringen, also den Möglichkeitsraum als solchen phantasievoll zu erweitern, und damit den Horizont des Denkens. [download]

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In Want of A Wife

In Want of A Wife 

By: Cathy

‘You don’t believe in love, do you?’ she asked, and Louis laughed, raking his fingers through his hair. ‘I believe in lust, and I believe in marriage.’ ‘You mean marriage based on … what? How can you base a marriage on lust? Lust doesn’t last.’ ‘But it’s an enjoyable starting point, don’t you agree? Not that I’ve given much thought to marriage one way or the other.’ Lizzy shifted awkwardly. She realised that her legs were brushing against his, and she primly angled her body away from him. When their eyes met, she could see at a glance that he had noted the shift and was amused by it. ‘And what happens when the lust fades away?’ ‘Oh, that’s why it’s so important to be practical when it comes to getting married. A decent business arrangement doesn’t allow for any nasty surprises. There’s no such thing as the perfect marriage, but there is such a thing as the perfect criteria for a wife.’ [download]

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