First sip, smooth and elegant, with a bitter after-taste. Smell, sweet. Second sip, mind and body, with a strong will. I want more. Excitement becomes desire. A glass-full of her. First glass, not enough. Sweet desire, like her, like the wine. Glass by glass … I get drunk. I want to taste her body, I need the sweet alcohol that is her mind. I want to get drunk!

Gary is a young ambitious broker. He lives in Takoma near Seattle. The weather forecast has shown that hurricane Sandy would hit the NY coast in the next few hours. He grabbed the opportunity. He knew what he did. He bought “Corner Constructions” stocks with all the money in the account he was managing. It was a construction company based in New York. Phil was the owner of a small tavern in New Jersey whose all belongings were lost when the eye of the storm hit his neighbour. The stories in news reports and the tragic figure of Phil, touched the avaricious Gary’s heart and changed his life forever.

The plot focuses on the adventures of five Americans on an uncharted island in the South Pacific. During the American Civil War, five northern prisoners of war decide to escape, during the siege of Richmond, Virginia, by hijacking a balloon. The escapees are Cyrus Smith, a railroad engineer in the Union army (named Cyrus Harding in Kingston's version); his ex-slave and loyal follower Neb (short for Nebuchadnezzar); Bonadventure Pencroff, a sailor (who is addressed only by his surname. In Kingston's translation, he is named Pencroft); his protégé and adopted son Harbert Brown (called Herbert in some translations); and the journalist Gedéon Spilett (Gideon Spilett in English versions). The company is completed by Cyrus' dog "Top".

The story was first published on The Weekly Knob on Medium. https://medium.com/the-weekly-knob/fruit-fly-9c78353ac4c7#.rb9zytuhx This is a flash tale about the intricate delicacies of destruction and chaos through the marvel and wonder of the human intelligence. A technological impossibility rises up through the eons in order to provide its inventors with cheap and affordable energy. The story takes place around a star and two engineers are about to complete the greatest structure ever to be completed. Enjoy.

Mansfield Park is the third published novel by Jane Austen and was completed between February 1811 and 1813 while Austen was residing at Chawton Cottage. The novel details the life of its main heroine Fanny Price from childhood through to her eventual marriage with a close childhood friend.Mansfield Park was first published in May 1814 by Thomas Egerton, who also published Jane Austen's two earlier novels Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice, in the two years prior to the third novel's publication. The publication of the novel was well-received by the public and a second edition was published in 1816 by John Murray still within Austen's lifetime. Murray then went on to also publish Austen's fourth novel Emma which was Austen's last published novel still within the author's lifetime.

Sense and Sensibility is a novel by Jane Austen, and was her first published work when it appeared in 1811 under the pseudonym "A Lady". A work of romantic fiction, and a comedy of manners, Sense and Sensibility is set in southwest England, London and Kent between 1792 and 1797 and portrays the life and loves of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. The novel follows the young women to their new home, a meager cottage on a distant relative's property, where they experience love, romance and heartbreak.

"I feel so alone. So many people around me but all of them stare at their phone." That is one of the thoughts of an old man who struggles to cope with the evolution of technology.

A collection of flash fiction stories in the genres of horror, thriller and fantasy.

A couple walking and exploring a remote beach make a bizarre discovery that shakes their world. This story is a possibly chilling view of the future, a fresh look at the consequences of our attempts to avoid death.