Download or read book Strange Eyes written by Pam Tunbridge and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2014-02-20 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is it? Jack repeated and covering his hand with the sleeve of his jacket he pushed the brambles aside, then he heard a tiny, pitiful squeaky noise. What was it? Katie sat frozen to the spot, she was scared of dogs, and they could run faster than she could. She closed her eyes and willed the dog to go away, but the dog just sat and looked at her. Liam lay gasping and wheezing. His heart was thudding and his fi rst thought was, I need to fi nd my puffer, I cant breathe. He struggled to his knees, and tried to suck in deep gulps of air, but it wasnt working. She sat up rubbed her arm and peered out from her shelter and gasped in horror. Her boat was fl oating; it didnt appear to be tied to anything.The tide had come in and she was a long way from the shore, she could just see the jetty platform, but the steps to it were completely underwater. She started crying; she was scared, she was going to die.
Download or read book Raechel s Eyes written by Helen Littrell and published by Wild Flower Press. This book was released on 2005-05-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of Helen Littrell's daughter Marisa and her odd college roommate Raechel -- two young women who did not fit it -- one legally blind and needing assistance, and the other with a strange diet, but seemingly no history at all. This fascinating story, written from experience and years of research as documented in Part II, crackles like science fiction but is true. It answers two important questions: Why haven't aliens landed on the White House lawn, and why haven't they taken over the Earth? Marisa's story invites you to expand your vision, to see the world, and ultimately the universe, through the eyes of a blind girl, her mother, and most strangely, through Raechel's Eyes.
Download or read book The Mind s Eye written by Oliver Sacks and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Mind’s Eye, Oliver Sacks tells the stories of people who are able to navigate the world and communicate with others despite losing what many of us consider indispensable senses and abilities: the power of speech, the capacity to recognize faces, the sense of three-dimensional space, the ability to read, the sense of sight. For all of these people, the challenge is to adapt to a radically new way of being in the world. There is Lilian, a concert pianist who becomes unable to read music and is eventually unable even to recognize everyday objects, and Sue, a neurobiologist who has never seen in three dimensions, until she suddenly acquires stereoscopic vision in her fifties. There is Pat, who reinvents herself as a loving grandmother and active member of her community, despite the fact that she has aphasia and cannot utter a sentence, and Howard, a prolific novelist who must find a way to continue his life as a writer even after a stroke destroys his ability to read. And there is Dr. Sacks himself, who tells the story of his own eye cancer and the bizarre and disconcerting effects of losing vision to one side. Sacks explores some very strange paradoxes—people who can see perfectly well but cannot recognize their own children, and blind people who become hyper-visual or who navigate by “tongue vision.” He also considers more fundamental questions: How do we see? How do we think? How important is internal imagery—or vision, for that matter? Why is it that, although writing is only five thousand years old, humans have a universal, seemingly innate, potential for reading? The Mind’s Eye is a testament to the complexity of vision and the brain and to the power of creativity and adaptation. And it provides a whole new perspective on the power of language and communication, as we try to imagine what it is to see with another person’s eyes, or another person’s mind.
Download or read book The Man with the Compound Eyes written by Wu Ming-Yi and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a tsunami sends a massive island made entirely of trash crashing into the Taiwanese coast, two very different people—an outcast from a mythical island and a woman on the verge of suicide—are united in ways they never could have imagined. Here is the English-language debut of a new and exciting award-winning voice from Taiwan, who has written an “astonishing” novel (The Independent) that is at once fantasy, reality, and dystopian environmental saga. Fifteen-year-old Atile’i—a native of Wayo Wayo, an island somewhere in the Pacific—has come of age. Following the custom of his people, he is set adrift as a sacrifice to the Sea God but, unlike those who have gone before him, Atile’i is determined to defy precedent and survive. His chances seem slim, but just as it appears that hope is lost, Atile’i comes across a sprawling trash vortex floating in the ocean and climbs onto it. Meanwhile, on the east coast of Taiwan, Alice, a college professor, is overcome with grief. Her husband and son are missing, having disappeared while hiking in the mountains near their home. Alice is so distraught that she decides to end her own life. But her plans are interrupted by a violent storm that causes the trash vortex to collide with the Taiwanese coast, bringing Atile’i along with it. Alice and Atile’i subsequently form an unlikely friendship that helps each of them come to terms with what they have lost. Together they set out to uncover the mystery of Alice’s lost family, following their footsteps into the mountains. Intertwined with Alice and Atile’i’s story are the lives of others affected by the tsunami, from environmentalists to Taiwan’s indigenous peoples—and, of course, the mysterious man with the compound eyes. A work of lyrical beauty that combines magical realism and environmental fable, The Man with the Compound Eyes is an incredible story about the bonds of family, the meaning of love, and the lasting effects of human destruction.
Download or read book The Eye Like a Strange Balloon written by Mary Jo Bang and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems in The Eye Like a Strange Balloon find their seed in paintings, film, video, photographs, and collage, and the end results are something more than a sum of their parts.
Download or read book Story of the Eye written by Georges Bataille and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bataille’s first novel, published under the pseudonym ‘Lord Auch’, is still his most notorious work. In this explicit pornographic fantasy, the young male narrator and his lovers Simone and Marcelle embark on a sexual quest involving sadism, torture, orgies, madness and defilement, culminating in a final act of transgression. Shocking and sacreligious, Story of the Eye is the fullest expression of Bataille’s obsession with the closeness of sex, violence and death. Yet it is also hallucinogenic in its power, and is one of the erotic classics of the twentieth century.
Download or read book Strange Skies Strange Eyes written by Brian Allan and published by Fortean Words. This book was released on 2015-01-21 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book could best be described as a series of reflections and observations, a distillation if you like, on the nature of, and relationship between, the occult as we encounter it in our daily lives. This includes the paranormal in all its guises and how this impinges upon the often fractious subject of Ufology, aspects of which may in themselves be other manifestations of the paranormal. From my own investigations and researches it seems to me that there is little if any difference between any of these subjects and where any divergences do occur, they are almost certainly in how different individuals experience and interpret the individual components.
Download or read book Five Classic Horror Stories Frankenstein The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll Mr Hyde The Were wolf Dracula The Phantom of the Opera written by Various and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 711 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five Classic Horror Stories is a collection of the most chilling and influential horror stories ever written, including tales by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Robert Louis Stevenson. These five ghastly tales are sure to make your hair stand on end. Read Victor Frankenstein’s story as the young scientist pillages graveyards for body parts to fulfil his macabre desire to create life. Discover Dr Jekyll’s wicked monster, Mr Hyde, who evolves from a horrific experiment destroying the balance between good and evil. Meet a strange young woman who appears to be unafraid of anything. Reveal quietly monstrous incidents and curious circumstances in Transylvania. Immerse yourself in a Parisian opera house where a malevolent phantom haunts the stage. The contents of this volume include: - Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus (1818) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson - The Were-Wolf (1896) by Clemence Housman - Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker - The Phantom of the Opera (1909) by Gaston Leroux Featuring psychological thrillers, supernatural interventions, and classic gothic horror, this volume is a gripping read and highly recommended for lovers of horror fiction but not for the faint of heart. Fantasy and Horror Classics is proud to be publishing this fantastic collection.
Download or read book Strange Detective Stories written by Robert E. Howard and published by Jovian Press. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE horror first took concrete form amid that most unconcrete of all things - a hashish dream. I was off on a timeless, spaceless journey through the strange lands that belong to this state of being, a million miles away from earth and all things earthly; yet I became cognizant that something was reaching across the unknown voids - something that tore ruthlessly at the separating curtains of my illusions and intruded itself into my visions...
Download or read book Library of Famous Fiction pt 1 Heavy yokes written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Moon of israel written by H.Rider Haggard and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Strange Tales 9 Pulp Magazine Edition written by Robert M. Price and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This special edition of Strange Tales #9 is presented in the original magazine's dimensions. In addition to great work by Hugh B. Cave, L. Sprague de Camp, and many more, this edition adds "The Devil's Crypt," a novelet by E. Hoffmann Price.
Download or read book Strange Strange World Box Set written by Tinnean and published by JMS Books LLC. This book was released on 2023-08-05 with total page 2505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine an earth just a bit different from ours. In this world normals unknowingly share the planet with all manner of beings, including vampyres, shapeshifters, aliens, and ancient gods. What would happen if ordinary people learned of their existence? These stories tell those tales. Contains the novels: Destiny’s End: It’s the early part of the 20th century, and Warrick Synclaire, a baronet’s son, is in love with his best friend, Thomas Smythe. After they part, Warrick is bitten by a werewolf, although he doesn’t turn immediately. Events keep them separated, they find other lovers, but Warrick can’t forget Thomas. He returns home and his life unravels under the full moon. Will any love be able to save him? The Most Loved of All: Years after they first met, Roddy Sayer and Thomas Fortescue-Smythe cross paths again in Egypt and renew their friendship. But the danger that lurked in the hot desert follows them home to England. Can they save each other from the threat of a millennia-old curse? Lagoon of Dreams: Scientist David Knight has been plagued by dreams his entire life, only to have no memory of them when he awakens. Now his dreams are drawing him to the Amazon, where an unidentifiable clawed hand has been found. Theories abound, and an expedition is put together to explore the stretch of the Amazon leading to the Lagoon of Dreams. Will what they find once they arrive there give them an answer? Rainbows in Your Eyes: Andrew Dorincourt has the blood of powerful shifters in his veins. However, he can hide what he is. Da’ric is the son of an extraterrestrial and a Terran. His physical characteristics, rainbow-colored eyes and scale-patterned skin, make it difficult for him to conceal his heritage. They meet when Da’ is kidnapped and Drew helps him escape. What will the future hold for these two unusual men? More by all Mores: In an effort to gain his father’s notice, St. John Ashford sets his sights on Andrew Dorincourt, a man for whom the Viscount has nothing but disdain. However, St. John finds himself more attracted to Andrew’s brother, Robin. When Robin realizes Drew wants someone else, he decides to go after St. John. St. John might be attracted to Robin, but he’ll be damned if he’s anyone’s second choice. They Come By Night: Tyrell Small has always felt different. On his sixteenth birthday, he learns exactly how different. He’s a sabor, a being vampyres need in order to survive. Ty decides he’s not having any of that, but while attempting to run away, he meets Adam Dasani, a vampyre who’ll one day feed from him. Others also want Ty, however, and it’s up to Adam to keep the young sabor safe. The question is, can he?
Download or read book Full Circle written by Morgan L. Booth and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-07-30 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thousand years after the end of the Second Endless Winter, life seems to be stable around the globe. And one night, a zoo in the middle of a bustling city welcomes a new arrival: a rare hybrid cub, half lion and half tiger. A liger. As the little Ligress grows, a question constantly bothers her: what does Panthera look like to her? Does she see the view of the tigers, Panthera's blue eyes? Or does she see the view of the lions, Panthera's red claws? Her mother tells her he looks like a tiger; her father argues that he looks like a lion. Who does she believe? One winter night, mysterious stray cat with a pure white coat appears, and tells her that both views are wrong. He alone knows what Panthera truly looks like. But in order to help Ligress see the true light, he would have to tell her a story, starting from the very beginning. He would have to tell her the story of Panthera, and how he became a Star Lord.
Download or read book Donovan written by Edna Lyall and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Strange New Worlds 2016 written by Various and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-10-03 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the ordinary to the extraordinary, here are ten all-new fan-created stories embraced by the vision of Star Trek®! When Gene Roddenberry first created this landmark television series fifty years ago, he also tapped a wellspring of human imagination. Viewers were immediately transformed, and over the decades turned the very definition of "fan" on its ear. However, when what was on the screen was simply not enough, fans started writing their own stories… In celebration of the 50th anniversary of Star Trek, here are the electrifying results of the 2016 Strange New Worlds writing contest—the best fan-created stories by new writers such as: Derek Tyler Attico, Neil Bryant, Chris Chaplin, John Coffren, Nancy Debretsion, Kelli Fitzpatrick, Roger McCoy, Kristen McQuinn, Gary Piserchio & Frank Tagader, and Michael Turner. By the fans, and for the fans. Boldly going where no one has gone before.
Download or read book Bertram A Tragedy in Five Acts written by Charles Robert Maturin and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
