ghosts | ghosts
Jan.21.2010
If you think that your life is less than typical, look at the case of Chloe Saunders before you draw any conclusions. For example, she sees the dead and experiences them on a very real level. And she has the power to raise corpses from the grave through necromancy. Chloe is a genetically-altered...
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Dec.23.2009
And the house is all cosy and lit with candles and the tree is regal and the food is good. And I thank the table and those at it and weep a tear for times past, for the ghosts that haunt me, the ones that persist in knocking on my door at this time of year. What do I do? I welcome them in. I say...
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Dec.17.2009
Felix Leblanc was once the most powerful and celebrated voodoo priest in New Orleans. That was more than a hundred years ago, before a dangerous client brought about his ruin and condemnation. Now, he is cursed to lead a life without love, an eternal life of misery. But when Regan Henry, an...
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Dec.10.2009
>She hears the voice
of unrealized bliss in
the coos of koel
at the window sill this evening
rains love and delight
His message to meet
at moonrise among the flowers
sparkles a secret
on her smiling face passion
glows with charming fervour...
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Oct.08.2009
A Book and a Chat with "Dianne Castell" If you like a down to earth romance novel, with humor, plenty of twists perhaps a ghost or two and a happy ever after ending then books by my special radio show guest tonight are for you.
Dianne Castell is an USA Today award winning author whose...
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Sep.18.2009
I do not believe in ghosts. The dead are dead.
Death does not make a soul suddenly omnipresent. None of those who have passed on are looking at me as I go about my daily life.
How would they see me anyway? Is there a giant screen television in Heaven (or Hell) tuned to the 24 hour Alive Network? If...
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Aug.22.2009
As I sit down to write this entry I ask myself the question, how do I begin? Where do I begin? And then a small voice says, Mary, begin at the beginning. Well, the beginning is; I attended a party a few weeks back. A typical gathering of friends at a neighbours house. Later on into the evening a...
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Aug.06.2009
In his New Republic blog, the magazine's honcho Marty Peretz rightly rails at the failure of the Fatah Party to agree on anything at its conference this week in Bethlehem -- except that Israel killed Arafat. Rails because, of course, that's not going to reform this corrupt bunch of villains who're...
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Jul.05.2009
The Twelve by Stuart NevilleHarvill Secker (July 2, 2009 isbn: 1846552796)(to be published in US in October as “The Ghosts of Belfast”, Soho Crime isbn: 1569476004)
Things that seemed clear enough to kill for during a conflict become impossible to look at once the murdering is at an end. Anyone who...
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May.24.2009
My first night in Auvillar I saw a man in my room. To be more accurate, two men--first a white man, very briefly, then a black man, leaning over my bed. His image had more permanence. I was disoriented, in a new place, exhausted, jet lagged. I had a moment of acknowledging that the black man...
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