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Bravefire Fire in the Sky

The telling of a magical night of shooting stars

Short Story
English
946 Words
No Age Recommendation
452
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The night of a beautiful meteor shower, told from the point of view of a teenage girl.

Keywords: meteorites, meteor shower, shooting star, night, stars

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Shadownighttimer The Beginning

Gwen's Story

Fantasy
English
1155 Words
No Age Recommendation
301
6

Gwen is an average little kid with a great life. She has a pony named Marianna. And a [more]

Keywords: beginning, gwen, magic, death, goth

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Denison Olmsted Most Eminent Astronomers

Fiction
English
138401 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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Denison Olmsted (June 18, 1791 - May 13, 1859), U.S. physicist and astronomer, was born at East Hartford, [more]

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Miya chanda Silent Demons

Romance
English
200 Words
Ages 18 and up
18
3

XFinity F.B.I Agent Nathaniel Connor was on the last leg of his well deserved vacation at a Cabin [more]

Keywords: Demons, Demon, Devil, Archangel, Love, Sex, Dark, Mortal, Silent, Gabriel, Michael, Raphael

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Denison Olmsted Letters on Astronomy in which the Elements of the Science are Familiarly Explained in Connection

with Biographical Sketches of the Most Eminent Astronomers

Letters
English
139679 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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Denison Olmsted (June 18, 1791 - May 13, 1859), U.S. physicist and astronomer, was born at East Hartford, Connecticut. Professor Olmsted is credited with giving birth to meteor science after the 1833 Leonid meteor shower over North America spurred him to study this phenomenon. In 1813, he graduated from Yale University, where he acted as college tutor from 1815 to 1817. In the latter year, he was appointed to the chair of chemistry, mineralogy and geology in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. [more]

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Detlev G. Winter Meteor

Science Fiction
German
27211 Words
Ages 12 and up
102
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Sie wollen nicht länger einsam sein – sie überwinden den Tod und die Unendlichkeit Ein Meteor stürzt nahe einer [more]

Keywords: Zukunftsroman, Meteroit, Aliens, Planet, Universum, Galaxis

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W.C. Craddock Noble's Gold

Fiction
English
159161 Words
Ages 16 and up
13
0

A fictional story can sometimes become reality, that’s the great thing about history. The year is 2009 and America is mired in a terrible recession. Looking for a way out of an increasingly worsening economy, an unethical think-tank called the Studebaker Institute of Washington, D.C. is advising the newly-elected President of the United States about the urgent need for the country to return to a gold standard as the only way out. However, the stumbling block is where to find all the gold required to do so and estimated by Studebaker to be 900,000 metric tons. In the history of mankind only 130,000 metric tons of gold have ever been mined on Earth. After various meetings with the U.S. Geological Survey, Dr. R. Cinza Brown the chief economist of the Institute is convinced by the Survey’s eccentric Dr. Benjamin “Pig” Lemkau that despite certain obstacles, the quickest solution is to harvest vast amounts of gold on Mars, heretofore a well kept state secret, using high-yield thermonuclear ordnance. But Archie Jefferson, a photocopier repairman at Studebaker, has accidentally discovered this government top secret project called Operation GERDA - Gold Extraction & Relocation for Defense of America - and involved his army buddy and fellow Vietnam War veteran Sam Noble through a careless act. Samuel Lee Noble is a Senior Courier with the U.S. State Department soon approaching mandatory retirement age and has always wanted to write a book, based on his many worldwide travels, but has picked the wrong time and place. He sends over to Archie at Studebaker using inter-agency mail some of his first chapters, which are then intercepted by Studebaker’s security staff, setting off a chain of events which threatens the lives of Sam, Archie, and others in their wider circle. Now the FBI is secretly investigating the whole affair because Sam, after a lifetime of procrastination, is finally writing about his favorite subjects like Atlantis, the Holy Grail hoax, Knights Templar, mysteries of the ancient world, the Antarctic, and by strange coincidence has also picked gold to write about. The protagonist in Sam’s book is called Duke Mitchum, a name he simply invented by combining the names of this two all-time favorite actors, John “Duke” Wayne and Robert Mitchum. Sam loves old movies and television shows, especially Westerns. Sam and Archie are suspected by Studebaker and the FBI of being dangerous spies and possibly belonging to a domestic terrorist cell with Duke being the clandestine ringleader of the cell. Sam, though, has the last laugh at the end when he retires with his mystical Brazilian wife, part Nambikuára Indian from the Amazon rainforest, to her native village called Campo Dourado where they both make an amazing discovery of their own not far from where Theodore Roosevelt once explored the legendary River of Doubt in 1914. It was that night of a waxing moon and spectacular meteor shower. [more]

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