You're cold and alone driving through rural Alabama. There's a howling wind that feels more like Minnesota. And that guy in the big Dodge pickup is watching every move you make.
Albert Namatjira (1902–1959) was an Aboriginal painter from Central Australia. Widely considered one of the most notable Australian artists, he pioneered contemporary indigenous art. He was the first Aboriginal artist to become widely popular, and the first of his people to be given Australian citizenship rights, a mixed blessing. (See Wikipedia.) Time gets bent a little in this retelling.
A historical fiction narrative from the point of view of Ramesses head Vizier. Returning from the historical signing of the Hittite/Egyptian peace treaty, the Vizier acknowledges the great respect for justice his people have come to practice. The next day he takes an active role in judgement.
Mr. Barnstaple, is a journalist working for the newspaper "The Liberal." he, as well as a few other Englishmen, are accidentally transported to the world of Utopia. Utopia is like an advanced Earth, it has a utopian socialist, world government. The newly arrived Earthlings pose a grave threat to Utopians, who begin to fall ill. They have to be quarantined until a solution is found. The Earthlings resent this isolation and some of them start plotting to maybe taking over Utopia?
On the night of her mating ceremony, the heroine is publicly rejected by her fated mate, the most powerful Alpha in the region. Humiliated and cast out, she disappears… only to return years later as a stronger, richer, and completely changed woman with a secret that could destroy him.
Join me in a visit to our son-in-law's run-down Tacoma neighborhood where drug-dealing neighbors and frustrated cops engage in high-speed, late-night games.