...n FIRE AND FUR: FIRE AND FUR: FIRE AND FUR: FIRE AND FUR: THE LAST SORCERER DRAGON THE LAST SORCERER DRAGON THE LAST SORCERER DRAGON ... ...nd humor in a fantasy novel…painfully beautiful…passionate, sensual…loved the sarcastic cat…bittersweet…full of action…awesome love scene in the thu... ...e in the thunderstorm…heartbreaking…best adolescent hero since Catcher in the Rye.” Originally published in 1994 by Omnimedia. It is the firs... ...nd who could only be parted by death. May he forgive me for turning him into a "she" to make the pronouns easier. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS A revised v... ... an ancient enemy and their bane, the Azghun Demons, that had driven them into the sea in the first place. The problem is that the dragons have gro... ...erything is more when shared. That is gone too. The dragon dropped back into fitful sleep. The cat waited and waited a bit more until she was sur... ...s. His magic embedded gleaming spikes in it. The Demon bubbled out of a crevasse. "Hungry! Feed!" Lei-kung's arm came forwarded and lashed its ... ...loser, he saw a small group of dragonettes playing Find the Tail amid the crevasses and outcroppings. He had to laugh. Not only were those strange... ...At first, it was too dark; then, suddenly, a great Demon bubbled from the crevasse. Desperately, he tried to scuttle back into his pile of filth, o...

...escriptive novel in search of a feature-length, animated film, Fire and Fur might more properly be called "Smart Dragons, Dumb Choices.? It is set in the pre-human Gobi desert and draws on Chinese mythology. Its major characters are dragons and cats. Of course, the cats do speak (often caustically) since a few dragons are interesting enough (cats can still speak but no one...

...s is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any... ...ssa Malcohn. All rights reserved. This e-book edition has been prepared by the author for a limited, free-distribution offer to the reading public.... ... a limited, free-distribution offer to the reading public. Author reserves the right to withdraw the offer at any time. Commercial and derivative u... ... and her willingness to share me with the creative urges that often pull me into a closed room. Since 1995 she has done more for me than I could eve... ...anopy teeming with noisy nests. The young calling for food above her melded into a single, insistent voice, a command from the forest itself. She th... ...old no one. She dressed alone. She lifted her rifle off iron hooks hammered into dark-grained wood. Conversation in the next room became a steady bu... ...gh to be Masari feet. The winds howled about him as he dug into snow-filled crevasses, lifting himself to the summit. After days and nights of clin... ... before their eyes as they negotiated handholds and footholds carved into a crevasse. Beside them hung a series of chains and pulleys guided by meta...

...Vol. 1: TripStone hates to kill her gods but she must feed her people. An accomplished hunter in the Masari village of Crossroads, she is charged with the ritual slaying of the sacred Yata. Her comrade Ghost tries to end Masari dependence on Yata meat by performing experiments punishable by death. His jeopardy increa...

...adic fits of sleep and wakeful spans of dull, hypnagogic thoughts matching the inertia of his confinement he would finally become ensconced there, in ... ...in jostling him around, and at last fall asleep. This was his hope; but in the meantime there was a languid battle with insomnia and inordinate time t... ...me that he, from his "exalted tomb," disdainfully sullied. A god watching the cookie wrappers that he was emptying into his mouth from the upper coff... ...ainfully sullied. A god watching the cookie wrappers that he was emptying into his mouth from the upper coffin glided downward like the leaves of a d... ...t--to him as beautiful as an angel--that seemed speciously able to rapture into a billowing cloud overhead. He knew that it was not merely crumbs that... ...the prior knowledge that engaging in sexual activities would soon lead him into a vacuous afterward of having to stay with such a woman, such an exhau... ...fin or a drawer at a morgue, and at other times like a coffinless rot in a crevasse within the walls of a mountain. And finding that there were no mor... ...Policeman. I would like to report the fact that a stray dog is stuck in my crevasse. You will sir. Thank you, sir. You are such a nice man. I will pre...

...This is the continuation of Nawin's story. Now a famous prostitute painter suffering a midlife crisis, he abandons supercilious makings of wealth for a train trip ride to Laos where he repudiates and ventures onto something new...

...ven David Justin Sills "My work is not a piece of writing designed to meet the taste of an immediate public, but was done to last forever" --Thucydide... ...be had in a long morphine induced sleep where dreams were as uneventful as the idealized restfulness of death; but though privileged enough to be imp... ...e being lodged inordinately in one position on her bed for hours, despite the pillows she put under her. One might say that her knowledge of the extr... ...er more substantive acts of each part of late day, Kenyon would always get into the wheelchair and mist her fern; and as she did so, she would think ... ...lly allowed. But now the morphine was carrying her away on its tide again, into its effacing mists and though she must have had a thought or two at t... ...she gazed across its rancid, whorish expanse. But should she sink placidly into the body of water and permanence as she had into all those stray men,... ...in of the self; that she was debris of rocks tumbling into this perennial crevasse. Something happened. What was it? the shallow regions of her ...

...This experimental literary novel seeks to probe the mind of Kenyon, an isolated invalid in her home, as she goes through morphine induced sleep and lucid wakefulness, and in both seeking meaning for her life and to be reconciled to her estranged marriage...

...owning him with woolen fillets; but for ourselves, we shall employ, for the sake of our real good, that more austere and less fascinating ... ...re and less fascinating poet and legend-writer, who will imitate for us the style of the virtuous man." Plato (Republic) Chapter One At Tok... ...ne At Toksugum Palace in Chongno of Seoul Sang Huin (known by his friends in the states as Shawn) felt an empathy as deep as the gods; and the reconst... ...the gods; and the reconstructed walls of ancient buildings that he could see into and imagine long deceased emperors in coronation ceremonies or readi... ...mpassion for him. It was sorrow, the enlightening, sweet venom, and it sank into him. It was deep empathy. It was God. It was definitely something th... ... was spastic like a nervous twitch that would every now and then startle him into wakefulness and he would wonder where he was: Muguk, Chongju, Seoul,... ...h compel him to climb each and every pleasure until at last falling into the crevasse of family himself and all of its falling debris of obligations. ... ...bris of obligations. This being such, she knew that her time within her own crevasse would not last; and that to be inextricably attached to these se... ...y who, to acclimate, were ensconced in safe perfunctory movements within the crevasse. The mutability of family: WasnﾁOt it apparent that her man had...

...NG by H. G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication God the Invisible King by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the mate- ... ...ntially different ideas, incompatible one with another, and falling mainly into one or other of two divergent groups; and that people slip carelessly ... ... slip carelessly from one to the other of these groups of ideas and so get into ultimately inextricable confusions. The writer believes that the centu... ... a struggle—obscured, of course, by many complexities—to reconcile and get into a relationship these two separate main series of God-ideas. Putting th... ...arded against falling, that avalanches were prearranged spectacles and the crevasses at their worst slippery ways down into kindly catchment bags. If ... ...ugh life with a certain recklessness. And provided there is no slip into a crevasse, the Providence theory works well. It would work altogether well i... ...ovidence theory works well. It would work altogether well if there were no crevasses. Tartarin was reckless because of his faith in Providence, and es...

...Preface: This book sets out as forcibly and exactly as possible the religious belief of the writer. That belief is not orthodox Christianity; it is not, indeed, Christianity at all; its core nevertheless is a profound belief in a personal and intimate God. There is nothing in its statemen...

...Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Clas... ... Series Publication Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsy... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...of parental training without dictation, and have been led, but not forced, into the way in which they should go. Therefore it will not be irrelevant t... ...self upon the only sister among them, made marriage with her an adop- tion into a group that could not fail to exercise a strong in- fluence on all co... ...nk God can forgive me?’ When Fanny’s love of teasing had exasperated Coley into stabbing her arm with a pencil, their mother had resolution enough to ... ...with the hatchet, and to climb over places not a foot broad, with enormous crevasses on each side. I was deter- mined not to give in, and said not a w... ... (dur- ing which I made but one slip, when I slid about twelve feet down a crevasse, but providentially did not lose my head, and saved myself by catc... ...d, and saved myself by catching at a broken ridge of ice, rising up in the crevasse, round which I threw my leg and worked my way up it astride), got ...

...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and much can be made matter of certainty, for which a few years would have made it ...

...e Moon by H. G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the mate- ... ...ll, the outcome of the purest accident. It might have been any one. I fell into these things at a time when I thought myself re- moved from the slight... ...o light below it is a more doubtful matter. It is scarcely necessary to go into the details of the specula- tions that landed me at Lympne, in Kent. N... ...ossibilities, and very probably that biased my opinion. I had, indeed, got into the habit of regarding this unwritten drama as a convenient little res... ...ulation, we began to roll down a slope, rolling faster and faster, leaping crevasses and rebound- ing from banks, faster and faster, westward into the... ...rately wrapped about. And after evad- ing them for some time I fell into a crevasse, cut my head rather badly, and displaced my patella, and, finding ...

...Excerpt: As I sit down to write here amidst the shadows of vine leaves under the blue sky of southern Italy, it comes to me with a certain quality of astonishment that my participation in these amazing adventures of Mr. Cavor was, after all, the outcome of the purest a...

...y H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells is a publicatio... ...uture: Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... feeding rankly on rumour; Opinion in neu- tral countries; Opinion getting into great tangles of misun- derstanding and incorrect valuation between th... ... gasy soldiers resting for a spell among the big shells they were hoisting into trucks for the front, in a couple of khaki- clad Maoris sitting upon t... ... to stop this war. I want to nail down war in its coffin. Modern war is an intolerable thing. It is not a thing to trifle with in this Urban District ... ... up to be seen. As one approaches they be- come remoter; great unsuspected crevasses are discovered. Across these gulfs one makes ineffective gestures...

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...A Journey to the Interior of the Earth By Jules Verne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicatio... ...es Verne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Jules Verne is a publication of the Pennsylvan... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ed for time in the first hours of the world, had assembled several animals into one.} The colossal mastodon XXXII. I return to the scriptural periods ... ...S FAMILY On the 24th of May, 1863, my uncle, Professor Liedenbrock, rushed into his little house, No. 19 Konigstrasse, one of the oldest streets in th... ...d that she was very much behindhand, for the dinner had only just been put into the oven. “Well, now,” said I to myself, “if that most impatient of me... ...e precaution, sounding his way with his iron-pointed pole, to discover any crevasses in it. At particularly dubious passages we were obliged to connec...

...Excerpt: While the translation is fairly literal, and Malleson (a clergyman) has taken pains with the scientific portions of the work and added the chapter headings, he has made some emendations concerning Biblical references of his own, li...

... Publication One of Our Conquerors by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ... for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...g gentlemen to stand upright on their legs, and get it, we expect civility into the bargain. Moreover, there are reasons in nature why we choose to gi... ...errogations, as to how he, of all men living, could by any chance have got into a wrangle, in a thoroughfare, on London Bridge, of all places in the w... ...on the most mercurial of patriotic men, and gave him a whole-length plunge into despondency. It lasted nearly a minute. His recovery was not in this i... ...ed to anticipate high entertainment from him. He did nothing to bridge the crevasse and warm the glacier air at table when the doctor, anecdotal inten...

...on the Mississippi by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ..., for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...a State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the mate... ...tes that the river annually empties four hundred and six million tons of mud into the Gulf of Mexico—which brings to mind Captain Marryat’s rude name ... ... cut offs have had curious effects: they have thrown several river towns out into the rural districts, and built up sand bars and forests in front of ... ...le religion was the passion of their ladies, and classifying their offspring into children of full rank and children by brevet their pastime. In fact,... ...fering in the rear of that place. The negroes had given up all thoughts of a crevasse there, as the upper levee had stood so long, and when it did com...

...Excerpt: The ?Body Of The Nation? But the basin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and...

... (1915) (1915) (1915) A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the mate- ... ...1 1 THE STORY OF William Porphyry Benham is the story of a man who was led into adventure by an idea. It was an idea that took possession of his imagi... ...free to go about the world under its direction. It led him far. It led him into situ- ations that bordered upon the fantastic, it made him ridicu- lou... ... say. One might hesitate to call this idea “innate,” and yet it comes soon into a life when it comes at all. In Benham’s case we might trace it back t... ...tions which she had foreseen as glorious wanderings amidst the blue ice of crevasses and nights of exalted hardihood be- came a walking tour of fitful...

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... Cousin Betty by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- o... ...ate University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- one associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the mate- ... ...rung the bell, the citizen-captain made strenuous efforts to pull his coat into place, for it had rucked up as much at the back as in front, pushed ou... ..., rose as if she had received an electric shock. “Hortense, my darling, go into the garden with your Cousin Betty,” she said hastily to her daughter, ... ...y to emphasize its meaning—at Poitiers, or at Coutances. “If you will come into this room with me, we shall be more conveniently placed for talking bu... ...he flame that scorched her seemed to emanate from her wrinkles as from the crevasses rent by a volcanic eruption. It was a startling spectacle. “Well,...

...Excerpt: It is neither to the Roman Prince, nor to the representative of the illustrious house of Cajetani, which has given more than one Pope to the Christian Church, that I dedicate this short portion of a long history; it is to the learned commenta...

...ND By George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Adventures of Harry Richmond by George Meredith is a publication of the... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ate University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associ- ated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...the intelligence to possess it thoroughly. ‘Rather late, eh? Oh! Shove him into a bed, and give him hot brandy and water, and be hanged to him!’ Sewis... ...ump, the squire cried: ‘Downstairs? downstairs, Sewis? You’ve admitted him into my house?’ ‘No, sir.’ ‘You have!’ ‘He is not in the house, sir.’ ‘You ... ...ow, here, on the spot, and I’ll engage to see you paid fifty pounds a year into the bargain. Stop! and I’ll pay your debts 12 The Adventures of Harry... ...fall to behold the distant Sennhiittchen twinkle, who leaps the green-eyed crevasses, and in the soli- tude of an emerald alp stretches a salt hand to...

...Excerpt: Subject Of Contention. One midnight of a winter month the sleepers in Riversley Grange were awakened by a ringing of the outer bell and blows upon the great hall-doors. Squire Beltham was master there: the other members of the household were, his daughter Dorothy Beltham; a marr...

...Selected Writings by Guy De Maupassant Short Stories of the T ragedy and Comedy of Life with a Critical Preface by Paul Bourget of ... ...ries Publication Selected Writings by Guy de Maupassant: Short Stories of the Tragedy and Comedy of Life with acritical preface by Paul Bourget of th... ...ench Academy and an introduction by Robert Arnot, M.A. is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...re. The only confidences that he has ever permitted his pen to tell of the intoxication of a free, animal existence are in the opening pages of the st... ...nce has the distinc- tion of having changed Tolstoi from an adverse critic into a warm admirer of the author. To quote the Russian moralist upon the b... ...He never accepted other people’s views on the questions of life. He looked into such prob- lems for himself, arriving at the truth, as it appeared to ... ...at four o’clock. The snow had leveled the whole deep valley, filled up the crevasses, obliterated all signs of the two lakes and covered the rocks, so... ...ible sort of accident. Gaspard might have broken a leg, have fallen into a crevasse, have taken a false step and dislocated his ankle. Perhaps he was ...

...Excerpt: Selected Writings by Guy de Maupassant: Short Stories of the Tragedy and Comedy of Life with a critical preface by Paul Bourget of the French Academy and an introduction by Robert Arnot, M.A....

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... Series Publication Celt and Saxon by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...quire Adister, whose family-seat was where the hills begin to lift and spy into the heart of black mountains. Examining his ticket with an apparent cu... ... reflections and a remainder of the impetus, Mr. Patrick O’Donnell stepped into a carriage of the train like any ordinary English traveller, between w... ...of public companies, immediately, as if the renouncing of our independence into their hands had given us a taste of a will of our own, we are eager fo... ...ng for warmth. His efforts to fish the word out of Patrick produced deeper crevasses in the con- versation, and he cried to himself: Hats and crape-ba...

...Excerpt: A young Irish gentleman of the numerous clan O?Donnells, and a Patrick, hardly a distinction of him until we know him, had bound himself, by purchase of a railway-ticket, to travel direct to the borders of North Wales, on a visit to a notable landowner...

...THE DAY’S WORK THE DAY’S WORK THE DAY’S WORK by Rudyard Kipling A Penn State Electronic Classics Series P... ...RK by Rudyard Kipling A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Day’s Work by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...-crane travelled to and fro along its spile-pier, jerking sections of iron into place, snorting and backing and grunting as an elephant grunts in the ... ...own tongue asserted and the later consignments proved, put the fear of God into a man so great that he feared only Parliament and said so till Hitchco... ...onkey-engines, to hoist a fallen locomotive craftily out of the borrow-pit into which it had tumbled; to strip, and dive, if need be, to see how the c... ...‘We’ve all oor leemitations. Y e’re certain it was a crack?’ “‘Man, it’s a crevasse,’ I said, for there were no words to describe the magnitude of it....

...Excerpt: The least that Findlayson, of the Public Works Department, expected was a C.I.E.; he dreamed of a C.S.I.: indeed, his friends told him that he deserved more. For three years he had endured heat and cold, disappointment, disco...

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...cation Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...pense of his maintenance. There must have been a cordiality in his welcome into the T od family, for to the day of his death he looked upon judge T od... ...e horses stopped, however, before any damage was done, and without running into anything. After giving them a little rest, to quiet their fears, we st... ...leghanies, and but few east; and above all, there were no reporters prying into other people’s private affairs. Consequently it did not become general... ...s, is carried through these same channels to the river below. In case of a crevasse in this vicinity, the water escaping would find its outlet through... ...McClernand had already found a new route from Smith’s plantation where the crevasse occurred, to Perkins’ planta- tion, eight to twelve miles below Ne...

...m Bonum, or Mother Carey’s Brood by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ..., and with the ornaments likely to please a girl’s eye, she suddenly broke into a little irrepressible cry of joy and de- light. “Oh! oh! how lovely! ... ...hen of the song of the little bird with wounded wing who had been received into this nest. She had the dimmest remembrance of home or 6 Magnum Bonum ... ... looked up in his face bewildered, and then said shyly, the colour surging into her face— “Please, what did you say?” “I asked if you would stay with ... ...Don’t leave me, Armie,” he said; “you can’t— you’ll fall into one of those crevasses.” “You’d better let me go before the fog gets worse,” said Armine...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Joe Brownlow?s Fancy. The lady said, ?An orphan?s fate Is sad and hard to bear.? --Scott ?MOTHER, you could do a great kindness.? ?Well, Joe?? ?If you would have the little teacher at the Miss Heath?s here for the holidays. After all the rest, she...