Terence the Turtle has been adopted by Mother Duck. Five year old Michael makes the connection to his own family situation and the love he has found.

Flash fiction is short short stories, generally up to 1000 words but often limited to 300 words. The challenge to the writer is to tell a great story in so few words. They are great writing exercises because they teach how to cut out all unnecessary words. This is a collection of gay themed flash fiction, written as a weekly writing challenge for an internet writing group that I used to be a member of. We were given a prompt and had to write a quick flash fic based on whatever the prompt i...

Terence the Turtle has been adopted by Mother Duck. Five year old Michael makes the connection to his own family situation and the love he has found.

Mr. MacGregor had a new hat. It was a very expensive hat and his wife said it made him look very elegant and important. Mrs. MacGregor had given it to him as a birthday present. She had been so fed up seeing him with the old battered cap he used to wear. Mr. MacGregor's old hat was now perched on the head of a scarecrow in the bottom paddock. Most people agreed that it suited the scarecrow better than it had ever suited Mr. MacGregor. He didn't agree and when he lost his new hat he wasn't ...

The Bible ReadingsHope in Jesus: Psalms - Christopher AshHope because Jesus rules (Psalm 2)Hope because Jesus was saved (Psalm 3)Hope because Jesus wept (Psalm 6)The SeminarsOur Future Hope - Michael ReevesHope and Grief - Joanna JacksonHope and Lament - Rico VillanuevaEvening CelebrationsWhy Hope? Grace! (2 Thessal...

Everyone needs to do risk assessment. You can't do good work with poor tools and the risk matrices used by many companies are poorly designed and often misunderstood by the people who use them. If you need to build a well-designed and highly-functional risk matrix, you need to read this book. Learn how to set risk targets, specify consequence and likelihood criteria and design a risk matrix that reflects your organisation's attitude to risk.The book is written by a chemical enginee...