![]() ![]() Chileans in Australia say she may not be the only DINA agent who is evading the justice system. Later this month, an Australian court will decide whether Rivas will be extradited to Chile. In February 2019, Rivas was arrested in Sydney. In 2011, she fled Chile to avoid prosecution. ![]() Known as “la Chany ,” Rivas took an abrasive and arrogant tone as she admitted that in 2007, she had been arrested by Chilean authorities during a routine trip to her home country. In her interview, Rivas conceded that she had been a member of the Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (Directorate of National Intelligence, DINA) from 1973-1977 during the Pinochet dictatorship. ![]() The ASIO officers were posted to Chile in 1973, when General Augusto Pinochet overthrew the socialist government of Salvador Allende, with the support of the CIA. Melgar was researching the collaboration of two Australian intelligence (ASIO) officers with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Her comfortable life took a turn in 2013, when Rivas decided to talk to journalist Florencia Melgar of the Australian broadcasters SBS. Rivas, now 67, was active in soccer and church activities in the Chilean community, one of Australia’s largest Latin American diasporas. She lived a good life in affluent Bondi Beach, Sydney, in public housing provided by the Australian government. Adriana Rivas arrived in Australia in 1978 from her native Chile and worked as a nanny. ![]()
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![]() ![]() As she struggles to sow the seeds of her freedom, love for the God of the Dead grows-a love that is both captivating and forbidden. The bet does more than expose Persephone's failure as a goddess, however. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read A Touch of Darkness. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. But nothing has ever intrigued him as much as the goddess offering him a bargain he can't resist.Īfter her encounter with Hades, Persephone finds herself in a contract with the God of the Dead, and his terms are impossible: Persephone must create life in the Underworld or lose her freedom forever. A Touch of Darkness - Ebook written by Scarlett St. ![]() Hades, God of the Dead, has built a gambling empire in the mortal world and his favorite bets are rumored to be impossible. ![]() ![]() All of that changes when she sits down in a forbidden nightclub to play a hand of cards with a hypnotic and mysterious stranger. After moving to New Athens, she hoped to lead an unassuming life disguised as a mortal journalist. Since she was a little girl, flowers have only shriveled at her touch. Persephone is the Goddess of Spring in title only. "You will worship me, and I won't even have to order you." His request felt sinful and devious, and she reveled in it. She remembered the words she had whispered to him in the back of the limo after La Rose. Clair comes a dark and enthralling reimagining of the Hades and Persephone Greek myth. ![]() ![]() Being utterly free from pride or vengefulness, Kuan Yin gave up her eyes so her father could see. The gods of the underworld didn’t like how things were going so they asked the Buddha to take her away, and he restored her to life.īefore long her father was struck blind with the plague. Kuan Yin’s soul went down to the underworld where her purity turned the place into paradise. When she refused, in some legends he had had her killed. She wished to become a Buddhist nun, but her father refused it because he wanted her to get married and devote her life to marriage. In some Chinese legends, Kuan Yin was the saintly daughter of an evil ruler during the Zhou Dynasty. She is the most beloved of the Chinese goddesses. She is the champion of the unfortunate, the sick, the disabled, the poor, and those in trouble. She is also a grantor of wishes, and in particular, a fertility goddess capable of granting children. She is regarded by many as the protector of women and children. ![]() She is revered today in many parts of the world as the Goddess of Unconditional Love, Compassion and Mercy. ![]() She is a bodhisattva – an “enlightened one”. Kuan Yin, the Chinese Goddess of Mercy is a virgin goddess. ![]() ![]() ![]() Next in line for your bookshelf of woe are The Old Witch and The Vault-Keeper, lurking at a total of 9-inches tall and 6 ¼-inches wide. Poised to recite the tale of his grim origin story Lower Berth, the scene features a sideshow of skeletal ventriloquism sure to terrify and delight you! Total height reaches 8 1/2-inches tall and 6 ⅜-inches wide with all the gory details. The first of your titular hosts up for viewing is The Crypt-Keeper, garbed in his iconic blue tattered tunic. Expertly sculpted by Chris Dahlberg, with prototyping and paint by JW Productions, immerse yourself in the horrific stories you love with these immaculately crafted bookends! Relive your EC Comics nostalgia with Dark Horse Direct’s exclusive new bookend set! One half has The Crypt-Keeper ready to tell you a new tale of terror and the other holds The Vault-Keeper and The Old Witch keeping the dead at bay. ![]() “This is the Crypt-Keeper, ready with another of my Tales of Horror! So sit down on the tanbark floor, and I’ll begin the blood-curdling yarn…!” – The Crypt-Keeper ![]() ![]() ![]() Woodward did this on purpose, he writes in the book’s preface that he selected Patrick Robinson as his co-author precisely because he had not served in the Royal Navy and because he believed “hiring a proper naval historian” would be “the kiss of death.” ![]() While talk of the intricacies of naval war in the missile age could get lost in the weeds, Woodward tells a deeply personal story. ![]() What makes One Hundred Days, first published in 1992, such a great read is that it is not just a memoir for the next generation of naval officers, but is written in a way that is accessible to the layperson. This is a shame for the memoirs of the Royal Navy’s task force commander during the Falklands War, which ended 37 years ago today, makes for not only great reading for fans of history, but takes you inside the personal stories and stresses of a man tasked with leading men at war. Outside of Britain, Woodward’s memoir is perhaps known only to naval officers and hard core history buffs. Then there is One Hundred Days by British Admiral John Foster “Sandy” Woodward. ![]() Augustine’s Confessions to Winston Churchill’s The World Crisis and The Second World War there are no shortage of great memoirs from history’s most consequential figures. ![]() ![]() ![]() Defoe probably did not base his account on a journal by his uncle, but he may well have drawn on the memories and experiences of that uncle and other family members. ![]() Henry would have been in his mid-thirties at the time of the plague the narrator says his family came from Northamptonshire, as the Foes did, and the book concludes with the initials “H.F.” as a signature. Nevertheless, Defoe’s Journal contains many elements that resonate with the circumstances surrounding the current Covid-19 epidemic-especially concerning the behavior of public officials, the persistent role of misinformation and rumor, and the psychological stress of living in a time of such anxiety.ĭefoe was only 5 years old in 1665, but he had an uncle, Henry Foe (Daniel added the prefix “De-” to the family name when he was an adult), who may have been a model for the narrator of the Journal. ![]() As it happened, England fortunately did not suffer from a visitation of the plague in the 1720s or indeed in later times. Reports reached London in 17 that the plague had already killed tens of thousands in Marseilles, and the laws for quarantining ships from foreign ports had been tightened. Almost three hundred years ago, in 1722, shortly after he published Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe wrote a similarly fact-based fictional narrative- A Journal of the Plague Year-to warn of what to expect if the bubonic plague were to afflict England as it had with horrific effects in 1665. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Coming Jfrom Simon and Schuster Children’s Publishing 496 pagesĬontent Warnings: Whipping scene within the context of slavery, gun/police violence, discussion of and character with an eating disorder, blood/gore/violence, death of a loved one, substance abuse/addiction, mentions of child neglect, non-sexual nudity, murder, emotional manipulation, kidnappingĪbout the Author: “Liselle Sambury is a Trinidadian-Canadian author who grew up in Toronto, and her brand of writing can be described as ‘messy Black girls in fantasy situations.’ In her free time, she shares helpful tips for upcoming writers and details of her publishing journey through a YouTube channel dedicated to helping demystify the sometimes complicated business of being an author. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He graduated from the University of California with a bachelor’s degree in Communication Arts. Initially, Gonzales was his surname but after being adopted by Felix Elias Feist, he changed his surname to Feist. He was born in Los Angeles California in 1945 when the Second World War ended. Feist is an American author who mostly writes fantasy fiction. McKiernan,Mickey Zucker Reichert,Lynn Abbey)Įnemies of Fortune (By:Jody Lynn Nye,Mickey Zucker Reichert,Lynn Abbey,Robin Wayne Bailey,Jeff Grubb) Stealers' Sky (By:Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin) Soul of the City (By:Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin)īlood Ties (By:Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin)Īftermath (By:Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin) ![]() The Dead of Winter (By:Robert Lynn Asprin) Wings of Omen (By:Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin) The Face of Chaos (By:Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin) Storm Season (By:Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin) Shadows of Sanctuary (By:Philip Jose Farmer,John Brunner,Joe Haldeman,Robert Lynn Asprin) ![]() Tales from the Vulgar Unicorn (By:Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin) Thieves' World (By:Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For me that waiting is the hardest bit of the writing process, though that rejection smarts when it pings into your inbox (I scored bonus points last year for shortest time before a rejection when a short story was rejected in 2 minutes). Of the remaining stories (and some that I completed in 2019) I submitted them 25 times: I have so far received 17 rejections (In addition to my own I also received two for someone called Jenny, please give her my condolences, and one for a completely different author who had subbed to the same anthology), 3 acceptances, 1 invite that is still pending final acceptance, and there are still 4 open submissions I am waiting to hear back from. The novella Matryoshka I am happy to say is being published by Hersham Horror on April 21st, and the poem was published as part of the Sinister Horror company’s Christmas Advent Calender. ![]() In 2020 I managed to write a novella, 10 short stories and a poem. Last year I was thrilled to be nominated for the BFS 2020 Best Newcomer Award for my collection Suffer Little Children, and also to have my short story Dendrochronolgy nominated for Best Short Story, and although I didn’t win, I was awarded this wonderful “Making up Words with Friends” trophy for my prowess at on-line scrabble by my fellow nominee (and dual award winner) Laura Mauro. ![]() It has been an odd 12 months (for everyone and everything, not just for my writing), there have been both highs and lows in my writing since I last up dated my website. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As a young man, Orwell lived in poverty in London and Paris in order to learn about the darkest parts of society. His belief system was well fostered and served to inspire him to write 1984 and Animal Farm, as well as other works of fiction and non-fiction that seek to promote democratic socialism over any form of totalitarianism. The events of his life led him down a path that allowed him to see the world through a very clear lens. It is for 1984 that George Orwell is best-known. Antagonist: The Party/ O’Brien/Big Brother.Genre: Novel / Dystopian / Science Fiction.When/where written: Orwell wrote the book in Jura, Scotland from 1945-1949.Title: Nineteen-Eighty-Four: A Novel, later republished as 1984.Winston’s burgeoning interest in the past and his hatred of the Party and its cruel, murderous, and destructive policies lead him to seek out the revolution. At the center of the Party is a mysterious figurehead who goes by the name of Big Brother. ![]() But, Winston Smith has escaped the brainwashing that seems to have taken over everyone else’s mind. ![]() The Party demands the allegiance and adoration of its citizens. 1984 follows Winston Smith, a mid-level member of the Party. The novel takes place in the year 1984 in which England has been transformed under a totalitarian superstate known as Oceania. ![]() |