There are some things an author is not supposed to do. One of them is to start with a purple prose opening line of "It was a dark and stormy night." Another is to make the subtitle on the cover bigger than the title. In this very short story I set out to make all the author mistakes I could think of just to see if I could use them and still entertain.I suppose I should tell you a bit about the story? Well this is the first story of a series which tells how I became a time traveller....

I'm a reluctant time traveller. You won't believe that but that doesn't matter because someone will eventually read this and start thinking, "Maybe..."This was my second time travel trip and I wasn't looking forward to it. If I went on the Titanic, I would die. If I didn't go the Titanic disaster would never happen and millions would die as a result - and I would never be born because that would kill my grandfather. You're probably confused. I was, but when you are time travelling, ...

You're not going to believe this short story. It's the tale of how I was infected with timebots. I could die, have them removed and then be restored to life by Alex Pierson (aka Jack the Ripper) or take a trip through time to Maryland in 1785 and rescue a witch. Time travel - here I come.Almost forgot to tell you - My trip was arranged by T.A.C.O. (Time AntiChronoclasm Organisation) and in it you'll learn about B.E.L.L. (no clue what that stands for). The trip lasts three seconds / ...

In 1982 'Castle of Riddles', an adventure game for the BBC model B computer, was published. This retro game was text only but challenging.The new version of this game has been greatly expanded with more puzzles, graphics and sound but still retains the appeal of the original version and is even more challenging.You're probably going to get stuck so here are all the answers including fifty ways to die,

Examples of leader actions and decisions—some humorous, some tragic—that will help guide you whether you are a military officer or a civilian in an office.John Chapman is a longstanding observer and chronicler of leadership events. In Muddy Boots Leadership, he describes 285 military leadership situations and the actions leaders have taken to meet the issue at hand. The leadership lessons learned and relearned by military leaders are applicable to a wide v...

Author John Chapman leads you through the intricacies of getting your book to readers.• Conventional publishing• Independent - Print on demand• Ebooks…the choices are up to you, and are not as tricky as you may believe.John directs you through cover design, book descriptions, keywords and book promotion because, unfortunately, getting sales is not so obvious.Author John Chapman and his wife Shelia have written and published 17 books. As an ex-te...

You won't believe this, but I'm about to tell you a story that will change the course of history. A story about time travel, secret agents, and paradoxes. It's a story that will start with a chance encounter with a time traveler known as Jack the Ripper, and it will end with the founding of TACO, the Time Acency Chronoclasm Organisation, a powerful agency controlling time travel throughout history.The second short story tells how I was coerced into joining TACO as an observer on a m...

The world of 1493 was not ready for flying machines. Time-travellers needed to persuade Leonardo da Vinci. He agreed, but we ended up not only helping him to complete one, but then go with him on its first flight.As if that wasn't enough, we also solved two mysteries:• What happened on the Mary Celeste?• Who exactly was Mona Lisa?'Time Flies' is book 4 of the short story series in which the author travels through time as a Time Agency Chronoclasm Organisation (T...

Who was Jesus? A bishop recently used His biography to illustrate a good theological point when he described Him as 'an uneducated man from Nazareth, son of a poor carpenter named Joseph who preached in several synagogues'.The implication is that all the wisdom Jesus exhibits comes from God who would surely have informed Him of modern technology, whereas Jesus clearly demonstrates a detailed knowledge of Alexandrine philosophy. Then why would a poor carpenter make a long journey to...

Nayhoom and Naomi, in East Tennessee, struggle against dastardly mounting consequences caused by global warming. They struggle with the suppression of a humanity lost to the aberrant circumstance of insane heat and foul weather. They are managing to stay one step ahead, but she is pregnant. They deal with the reality of there being nowhere to go that is safe for their baby to come. There is nowhere to go, but they must go. It is all happening at this moment, now.

The prolonged and event filled Christmas school break in 1957, spent at home interacting with local neighbors and friends, is a time of change and great danger for an exceptional twelve year old Darvin Gamble. Possessing a unique dower of wisdom beyond his years he suffers with strange dream behavior and ensuing troubled notions about himself and his place in the world.

George Middlebrooks is a young man who inherited from his deceased parents an old house and ten acres in the country. He decides to live in it even though it has no running water or electricity. But there is a spring on the property. And he has interesting neighbors: a Black couple, Benny and Miranda, who become close friends, and a fair skinned girl with red hair named Dee he falls in love with. The way he chooses to live brings profound changes to his life and the lives of his friends.