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Small press Shack stock update 1

I'm opening up an online store soon and here's a look at the current stock of titles available. if interested in any of the books let me know. shipping costs vary.

Small Press Shack comic stock listing (by Company)

36k studios

Tru vibes

# 1 $5

# 2 $5

2000 A.D.

Scarlet Traces

vol. 1 $25

vol. 2 $25

Aam/Markosia

N-Guard # 1 $5

Ablaze

Unsacred

# 7 $5

Unsacred TPB 1 $25

Unsacred vol. 2

# 1 $5

Abstract Studio

Motor Girl # 1 $10

Rachel Rising

# 13 $4

# 14 $4

#15 $4

#16 $4

#17 $4

#18 $4

# 19 $4

# 20 $4

# 21 $4

#22 $4

# 23 $4

#24 $4

# 25 $4

#26 $4

# 27 $4

#28 $4

# 29 $4

#30 $4

# 31 $4

#32 $4

# 33 $4

#34 $4

# 35 $4

#36 $4

# 37 $4

#38 $4

# 39 $4

#40 $4

# 41 $4

#42 $4

Academy Comics

Robotech 2 The sentinels

book 4

# 13 $5

Action Lab

Adventure Finders vol. 2 #1 $5

Princeless

TPB 1 (small ) $80

part 2

# 1 $5

# 2 $5

#3 $5

part 3

# 1 $5

# 2 $5

# 3 $5

#4 $5

TPB $15

part 4

# 1 $5

#2 $5

#3 $5

#4 $5

TPB $15

part 5

#0 $5

#1 $5

#2 $5

#3 $5

TPB $15

part 6

TPB $15

part 7

# 1 $5

# 2 $5

# 3 $5

# 4 $5

# 5 $5

TPB $15

part 8

#1 $5

#2 $5

#3 $5

#4 $5

TPB $15

part 9

TPB $15

Raven : The Pirate Princess

# 1 $5

#2 $5

#3 $5

#4 $5

#5 $5

#6 $5

#7 $5

#8 $5

#9 $5

#11 $5

Action Lab- Danger Zone

Vampblade vol. 3 # 11 $5

ALC Publishing

Works vol. 1 $10

Alpha-Wave Productions

Ben Dunn Shorts

vol. 1 $20

Vol. 2 $40

Derp Dragons

vol. 1 $20

vol. 2 $20

Jenna & Ninja High School TPB $15

Mighty Tiny: Lost Tails TPB $15

Ninja High School: Ultimate Perfect Memory $15

Ninja High School : Salusian Chess TPB $15

Quagmire U.S.A. TPB $20

Silver Cross TPB $15

Small Bodied Ninja High School TPB $30

Swimmer

vol. 1 $15

vol. 2 $15

vol. 3 $15

Tales From Quagmire U.S.A. TPB $20

Tiger-X TPB $20

Zetraman TPB $25

A.M. Works

Athena

# 1 $4

# 3 $4

#5 $5

#8 $5

Antarctic Press

Gold Digger

Gold Digger # 1 (35th anniversary special ) $15

collected gold digger vol. 3 $5

collected gold digger vol.4 $5

collected gold digger vol.6 $5

collected gold digger vol.8 $5

vol. 3 (color series)

# 3 $10

#4 $10

#13 $4

#14 $4

#15 $4

#17 $4

#43 $4

#56 $4

#60 $4

#62 $5

Gold Diger Gold brick # 6 (#'s 76-100) $50

#98 $2

#100 $5

#101 $2(fcbd ed)

#103 $5

#200 $5

#202 $5

#211 $5

#213 $5

#214 $5

#215 $5

#216 $5

#222 $2

#236 $5

#245 $5

#256 $5

#261 $2

#262 $5

#268 $5

#269 $5

#271 $5

#272 $5

#273 $5

#274 $5

#275 $5

#276 $5

#277 $5

GD – 18

# 1 $5

Gold Digger Perfect Memory

# 2 $10

Gold Digger Annual

#5 $4

#10 $4

#15 $5

#16 $5

#20 $5

Peebo Tales

# 2 $4

# 3 $4

#4 $4

Tangent

# 2 $4

Halloween

# 2 $4

#9 $4

Holidays Special

Universe

# 19 $4

X-Mas Special

# 2 $4

#3 $4

#6 $4

#7 $4

#11 $5

#12 $5

Ninja High School

# 3 1/2 $4

#35 $8

#36 $25

#37 $50 (first warrior nun)

#39 $5

#40 $5

#41 $4

#42 $4

#44 $4

#46 $4

#47 $4

#48 $4

#50 $10

#66 $4

#68 $4

#71 $4

#75 $4

#76 $4

#77 $4

#78 $4

#79 $4

#80 $4

#83 $4

#89 $4

#90 $10

#91 $4

#94 $4

#95 $4

#96 $4

#97 $4

#98 $4

#99 $4

#102 $4

#104 $4

#130 $4

#149 $4

#177 (clr) $5

#177 (B&W) $3

#178 $5

Furry NHS

# 1 $50

# 2 $25

Ninjas vs Aliens

# 2 $5

NHS in Color

# 3 $5

#6 $5

NHS Indie Wars vol. 1 $40

NHS V.2

# 1 $5

# 4 $2

#10 $2

#12 $2

Benzine

# 3 $8

Jenna & NHS

# 2 $10

Hitomi & Her Girl Commandoes

#1 $5

part 2

#5 $5

#6 $5

NHS Annual

# 1 $10

#4 $5

#7 $5

#8 $5

#9 $9

#10 $5

#11 $5

#15 $5

Girls of NHS

# 1 $10

#2 $5

#3 $5

#7 $5

NHS/ GD Maidens of Twilight

TPB $10

NOT Ninja High School

# 1 $100

# 2 $100

# 3 $100

Perfect Memory

# 3 $10

# 4 $15

NHS Swimsuit

# 1 $20

#3 $10

#4 $5

#7 (2001) $80 (first art by Dan Mendoza- Zombie Tramp)

Quagmire USA (Dave Matsuoka)

# 1 $5

# 2 $5

# 3 $5

SB NHS

#2 $5

# 3 $5

NHS Spotlight

# 1 $5

Zetraman

# 1 $5

# 2 $5

# 3 $5

part 2

# 1 $5

# 2 $5

Absolute Zero # 1 $20

Airboy: Deadeye

# 1 $5

# 2 $5

# 3 $5

# 4 $5

Albedo #1 $25

Alley oop # 1 $4

B.A.D.A.S.S. # 1 $15

Blackhops: hare Trigger # 1 $10

Box office Poison # 6 $4

Cat Shit One

# 1 $20

Creature # 2 $4

Cybertronian guide # 3 $15

Enter the zombie # 1 $5

Exciting Comics

# 1 $10

# 2 $5

# 3 $5

# 3B $15

# 4 $5

# 5 $5

# 6 $5

# 7 $5

100 page special $15

Gigantor

# 2 $5

# 3 $5

# 4 $5

#5 $5

#8 $5

#12 $5

Gobs # 1 $4

Jungle Comics

# 2 $5

# 2B $15

# 3 $5

H-Bomb # 1 $50

Hit The Beach # 2 $60

Horror Comics

# 2 $5

# 3 $5

How to Draw Manga #8 $10

Kamen America # 1 $15

Knightmare

# 2 $5

# 6 $4

Konnichiwa Kaiju Kun # 1 $5

Legacy

#2 $4

#4 $4

#5 $4

Legend of Sleepy Hollow # 1 $5

Littlest Zombie # 2 $5

Luftwaffe 1946

# 1 $5

# 2 $5

# 3 $5

vol. 2

# 1 $5

# 2 $5

# 3 $5

# 4 $5

# 5 $5

# 6 $5

# 7 $5

# 8 $5

#9 $5

#10 $5

#11 $5

#12 $5

#13 $5

#14 $5

#15 $5

#16 $5

Macabre # 1 $4

Mangazine

vol. 1

# 2 $5

vol. 2

# 7 $5

#11 $50 (First Gold Digger)

#12 $30

#13 $20

#40 $3

Manga Titles (Antarctic)

Change Commander Goku # 2 $5

Gojin # 3 $2

Hurricane Girls # 1 $4

Iczer 1

# 3 $5

# 4 $5

# 5 $5

Stainless Steel Armadillo # 6 $2

Vampire Miyu

Ashcan $5

Mighty Tiny

# 1 $10

# 2 $10

# 3 $10

# 4 $10

# 5 $10

Mischief & Mayhem winter fun # 1 $4

Mythtresses # 1 $5

Neotopia

# 5 $4

Part 3

# 1 $4

part 4

# 3 $4

# 4 $4

Nine lives of Herbert Noble # 1 $2

Patriotika # 1 $5

Pirates vs Ninjas

# 1 $10

# 2 $5

Annual # 1 $5

Planet Comics

# 1B $15

# 2 $5

Plush # 1 $5

Political Comics

Incredulous Trump # 1 $50

Sarah Palin Rogue Warrior # 1 $10

She-Trump # 1 $20

Prince of Heroes

# 1 $5

# 2 $5

part 2

# 1 $5

# 2 $5

Punchline

# 1 (FCBD) $5

# 6 $5

Rags # 7 $5

Robin Hood # 1 $5

Robotech

#4 $5

#5 $5

Vermilion # 3 $5

covert Ops # 2 $5

Shanna The Firehair

# 1 $8

# 1B $15

Shanda The Panda

# 1 $50

# 2 $40

# 3 $30

# 4 $20

# 8 $15

# 10 $10

# 11 $10

# 15 $10

Sidewinder # 1 $5

Steampunk titles

Edge of Empire

# 1 $5

# 2 $5

Girls of Steampunk

2014 $5

Immortal Wings

# 1 $4

# 2 $4

# 3 $4

# 4 $4

Little Match Girl $5

Sherlock Holmes steam Detective # 1 $5

Sherlock Holmes steam Detective :five napoleons # 1 $5

Steam Hunters # 1 $5

Time Lincoln # 1 $5

Time Lincoln TPB $20

super tiny Dragon arms # 1 $5

Teether

# 1 $10

# 2 $5

# 3 $5

# 4 $5

Tigers of Terra

vol. 1 (Mindvisions)

#9 $50

vol. 2

# 1 $20

#2 $20

#4 $10

#5 $10

#8 $5

TPB vol. 3 $50

TPB vol. 4 $50

vol. 3

# 1 $4

# 3 $4

Technical Manual

# 1 $10

# 2 $10

Twilight-X

Interlude

# 6 $10

Ascension

# 3 $10

Quarterly

# 1 $5

X-Tra

# 1 $4

Storm

# 4 $4

# 5 $4

# 6 $4

War

# 1 $4

Ultrabot go go go ! # 1 $5

Valhalla # 1 $10

Velvet Touch # 1 $50

Warrior Nun Areala

vol. 1

# 3 (no CD) $10

vol. 2 (Rituals)

# 1 $10

#2 $10

# 3 $10

# 4 $10

#5 $5

vol. 3 (Scorpio Rose)

# 1 $5

# 2 $5

# 3 $5

# 4 $5

vol. 4

# 2 $5

# 3 $5

#4 $5

# 5 $5

#6 $5

vol.5

# 1 $5

Vol.6

# 4 $5

#5 $5

#14 $5

#15 $5

#16 $5

#17 $5

#19 $5

vol. 7

# 1 $5

# 2 $5

# 3 $5

# 4 $5

# 6 $5

# 7 $5

# 8 $5

# 11 $5

# 13 $5

# 14 $5

# 21 $5

# 22 $5

Annual # 1 $5

Black & White

# 1 $10

# 2 $10

# 3 $10

# 4 $5

# 5 $5

# 6 $5

# 7 $5

# 8 $5

# 11 $5

# 14 $5

# 15 $5

# 17 $5

# 20 $5

Brigantia

# 1 $5

# 2 $5

Frenzy

# 1 $5

# 2 $5

Lillith

# 0 $10

# 2 $4

No Justice # 1 $5

Rheintochter # 1 $5

Serina

# 1 $5

# 3 $5

Shotgun Mary

# 1 $5

# 2 $5

vol. 2

# 1 $5

blood Lore

# 3 $4

#4 $4

Shooting gallery

Silver Cross

# 1 $10

# 2 $8

# 3 $5

Vs Razor

# 1 $10

Zombie Killustrated # 1 $5

Apple Comics

Space Ark # 5 $4

Arcana

Clockwork Girl # 3 $2

Aspen Comics

Potal Bound # 0 $2

Archie Publishing

TMNT : April O'Neil # 3 $8

Avatar Press

Warrior Nun Dora

# 3 $10

Bandai

Witchblade the manga $30

Benitez Productions

Lady Mechanika : Sangre

# 1 $5

# 2 $5

# 3 $5

# 4 $5

Blatant

Marry me

vol.1 $50

Boom Studios

Buffy The Vampire Slayer

# 6 $5

# 7 $5

Buffy: Every Generation # 1 $10

Heartbeat # 1 $5

Kong on Planet of the apes # 1 $5

Mega man Fully Charged # 1 $8

Ronin Island # 1 $10

Ruin World # 1 $5

Unkindness of Ravens # 1 $5

Welcome to Wanderland # 1 $5

Wicked Things # 1 $5

Wynd # 1 $8

Bongo Comics

Mylo Xyloto

# 1 $5

# 2 $5

# 3 $5

# 4 $5

# 5 $5

# 6 $5

Caruso Comics

Crossroads # 1 $4

CPM Manga

Lodoss War : grey witch #4 $2

Lodoss War: Lady of Pharis # 4 $2

Princess Prince

# 1 $10

# 2 $5

Project A-Ko # 2 $5

Cubhouse

Wormworld Saga vol. 1 $15

Dark Horse Comics

Bill & Ted are Doomed

# 1 $5

# 2 $5

# 3 $5

Dominion : no More Noise # 6 $4

Elf Quest final quest # 2 $6

Empowered

vol. 11 $25

soldier of love TPB $20

Soldier of love # 3 $5

High School Hell

# 1 $5

# 2 $5

# 3 $5

# 4 $5

Flaming Carrot

# 18 $4

# 19 $4

# 20 $4

# 23 $4

# 24 $4

# 25 (TMNT) $10

# 27 (TMNT) $10

# 30 $4

Giants # 1 $5

Girl in the Bay # 1 $5

Mystery Science Theatre 3000

Ashcan $10

Shadow Lady

# 21 $4

# 22 $4

# 23 $4

Dangerous Love

# 1 $4

# 2 $4

# 3 $4

eyes of a stranger

# 2 $4

# 5 $4

Super Mario Encyclopedia $40

Devils Due/1First comics

Larks Killer # 1 $5

Double Diamond Press

Hepcats # 7 $4

Dynamite

Army of Darkness vs. Reanimator

# 1A $10

# 1B $10

Nancy Drew # 1B $5

Eclipse Comics

Black Belt Hamsters # 2 $4

Black Belt Hamsters 3D # 4 $4

Cutey Bunny # 5 $10

Fusion # 1 $4

Zooniverse # 1 $4

Entity Comics

Stargate # 3 $4

Stargate: one nation under Ra # 1 $4

Zen intergalactic ninja # 2 $4

Epic Comics

Memories # 1 $5

Eternity Comics

Blade of Shuriken # 3 $4

Eternity triple action # 3 $4

Robotech 2 the sentinels

# 1 $10

# 2 $10

#4 $4

#11 $4

#12 $4

#13 $4

#14 $4

#15 $4

#16 $4

Book 2

# 5 $4

Genesis

# 1 $5

# 2 $5

# 3 $5

# 4 $5

# 5 $5

# 6 $5

Malcontent Uprisings

#8 $4

# 9 $4

wedding special # 1 $10

Tom Corbett space cadet # 4 $4

Eurotica/Mangerotica

Lust vol. 1 $20 (AO)

Ogenki Clinic vol. 1 $25 (AO)

Event Comics

here come the Big people # 1 $4

Fanboy Entertainment

Spellbound # 1 $4

Fantaco

Infinite Punishment #1 $10

Fantagraphics

Critters # 11 $8

GG Studios

Gore # 5 $4

Mediterranea # 4 $4

Grind Studios (all titles are AO)

BDSM & You vol. 1 $15

Changes Omnibus 1 $50

“More” Changes

Vol. 5 $20

vol. 6 $20

vol. 7 $20

vol. 8 $20

vol. 9 $20

Complete Island of Submission TPB $20

Lagomorpha vol. 1 $15

Welcome to Yurika TPB $25

Guerilla

Reform School Ninja Girls # 1 $4

Hasbro

Transformers Animated : Rise of Safeguard $10

Heavy Metal Comics

Taarna # 1 $10

Hyperion

W.I.T.C.H.

Vol. 1 $10

vol. 2 $10

Ianus

Protoculture Addicts # 1 (2nd print) $8

IDW

Angel: After the Fall # 2 $5

Highest House # 1 $10

Jem & the Holograms

# 6 $4

Jem & the HoloGrams: the Misfits

# 1 $4

# 2 $4

Jem & the holograms Annual

# SUB $8

Kill Shakespeare # 3 $4

Sword of Ages # 1 $5

Transformers / Back to the Future # 1A $5

Image

Adventureman # 1 $10

Bitter Root # 1 $10

BlackBird # 1 $10

Dark Fang # 1 $5

Exorsisters # 1 $5

Flaming Carrot Comics Special # 1 $5

Flavor # 1 $10

Ghost Station Zero # 1 $5

Isola # 1 $10

Ludocrats # 1 $5

Marked # 1 $5

Mercy

# 1 $10

# 2 $5

# 3 $5

# 4 $5

# 5 $5

# 6 $5

Monstress

# 23 $5

# 24 $5

Monstress: Talk Stories # 1

NO.1 with a Bullet # 1 $10

Nomen Omen # 1 $5

Normal Man / Megaton Man $5

Prism Stalker # 1 $5

Scales & Scoundrels # 1 $5

Skyward # 1 $10

Strangers in Paradise

# 1 $5

# 8 $5

Twisted Romance # 1 $8

Unnatural TPB 1 $15

Walking Dead TPB 1 $10

Impact Theory

Hexagon # 1 $5

IronCat manga

Dragon Wars # 5 $4

Ironcat Sexy Fruit

I Love You # 3 $5 (AO)

Sepia

# 1 $5 (AO)

# 2 $5 (AO)

JQ Enterprises

Cutey Bunny

# 3 $10

# 4 $10

# 5 $10

JY Manga

W.I.T.C.H. Vol. 19 $20

Keenspot

Dreamless #1 $10

Kenzer & Company

Knights of the Dinner Table # 116 $8

Kitchen Sink Comix

Omaha the Cat Dancer (AO)

# 6 $4

#7 $4

#15 $4

vol. 2

# 3 $2

Lead Publishing

Golgo 13 $5

Legendary

Pacific Rim: Tales from year Zero TPB $15

Marvel

Kookaburra K TPB $15

Lords of Avalon TPB $15

Mangaverse

# 1 $10

# 2 $10

# 3 $5

# 4 $5

# 6 $5

Spider-Man legend of the spider-clan

# 1 $5

# 2 $5

# 4 $5

X-Men Ronin

# 2 $4

# 3 $4

Rise of Ultraman

# 1 sketch cover $100

# 1 $10 (Alex ross)

# 1 $10 (spider-man)

# 2 $5

# 3 $5

Transformers The Movie (86) # 1 $10

Moonstone

Buckaroo Banzai # 1 $10

Narwain Publishing

Tales from a forgotten planet # 1 $10

Powie

Mal & Lot

# 1 $5

# 2 $5

# 3 $5

Printed Matter Comics

Renegade Rabbit # 3 $4

Radio Comix

Ahlea # 1 $4

Edge Guard

# 1 $4

# 2 $4

TPB $20

Furrlough

# 54 $4

# 144 $5

Red Five Comics

Bodie Troll # 2 $4

Dragon Whisperer # 1 $5

Rubiks

1001 # 1 $4

Scout Comics

Kyrra Alien Jungle Girl # 1 $5

Princess Revolution # 1 $5

Seven Seas Manga

Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid vol. 9 $15

Shanda Fantasy Arts

In The Zone Special $15

Sirius

Demongate # 3 $4

Soliel

Skydoll

vol. 1 (french) $25

vol. 2 (french) $25

Source Point Press

Dead Duck & Zombie Chick # 1 $5

Skylin # 1 $5

Steeldragon Press

Omaha the Cat Dancer # 2 $20

Stonebot

Legacy of Mandrake the Magician

# 1 $5

# 2 $5

Tapestry

Shades of Gray # 1 $4

Tavicat Comics

Vampurada # 1 $2

Th3rd World studios

Finding Gossamyr

# 2 $5

# 3 $5

# 4 $5

Thoughts & Images

Zell Sword Dancer # 1 $10

Titan Comics

Alisik

# 1 $8

# 2 $8

Blade Runner 2019 # 1A $5

Season of the snake # 1 $20

Under # 1 $20

Tokyopop

Magic Knight Rayearth

vol. 1 $10

vol. 2 $10

vol. 3 $10

Manga Sutra vol. 1 $25

Pixie vol. 2 $5

Twilight Tangents

Soul Chaser Betty vol. 1 $15

Venus Comics

Cheetah pop scream queen # 4 $2 (AO)

Emblem # 5 $2 (AO)

Genus # 21 $25 (AO)

No-No UFO (AO)

# 1 $2

# 3 $2

Verotik

Devilman # 2 $5

Wingbird B&W Bondage $20 (AO)

Viz

A.D. Police vol. 1 TPB $40

Fushigi Yugi

vol. 1 $10

vol. 2 $10

vol. 3 $10

Macross 2

# 4 $4

# 5 $4

Transformers the manga

vol. 1 $35

vol. 2 $35

vol. 3 $35

Wildstorm

Robotech : Love & War

# 4 $4

# 5 $4

# 6 $4

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elenajohansenreads · 5 years ago

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How Many Have You Read?

The BBC estimates that most people will only read 6 books out of the 100 listed below. Reblog this and bold the titles you’ve read.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

2 Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkein

3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte

4 Harry Potter series

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

6 The Bible

7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte

8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell

9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman

10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy

13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare

15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien

17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks

18 Catcher in the Rye

19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffeneger

20 Middlemarch – George Eliot

21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell

22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald

23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens

24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams

26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh

27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll

30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame

31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy

32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens

33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis

34 Emma – Jane Austen

35 Persuasion – Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis [why is this listed separately when #33 is the complete series, oh well, that one can count for the rest of the books, I have read all of them]

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden

40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne

41 Animal Farm – George Orwell

42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving

45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins

46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery

47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy

48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood

49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding

50 Atonement – Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel

52 Dune – Frank Herbert

53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons

54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen

55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth

56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon

57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens

58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck

62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov

63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas

66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac

67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding

69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie

70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville

71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens

72 Dracula – Bram Stoker

73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett

74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson

75 Ulysses – James Joyce

76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath

77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome

78 Germinal – Emile Zola

79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray

80 Possession – AS Byatt

81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens

82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchel

83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker

84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro

85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert

86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry

87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton

91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad

92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery

93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks

94 Watership Down – Richard Adams

95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole

96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute

97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas

98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl

100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

38, not bad. Like the list I did yesterday, there are a handful on here I attempted and DNF’d too early to consider them “read” for this purpose (even if I reviewed them for why I DNF’d them.) A few more are already on my TBR, and after looking over a few I hadn’t heard of at all or only knew a little about, I’m adding Possession to the list.

#booklr #book lists #in my TBR

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ingravinoveritas · 5 years ago

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Saw this post where Neil Gaiman says which actors would have been cast in Good Omens in prior decades and mentions Michael Palin as Aziraphale and now I keep thinking about which Python characters could best be played by Michael Sheen and David Tennant and I totally just realized that the Swamp Castle Tower scene with Prince Herbert and Sir Lancelot in Holy Grail is 100% Aziraphale/Crowley and I’m dying...

#good omens #monty python and the holy grail #aziraphale #crowley #ineffable husbands #sir lancelot #prince herbert #'You've come to rescue me!" = Aziraphale in the Bastille #i absolutely need to see Michael Sheen and David Tennant in these roles

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pricechecktranslations · 5 years ago

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TTDS: The Emerald Girl; Chapter 1

Torture Tower Doesn’t Sleep: The Emerald Girl infomine under the cut

Scene One

Scene opens at a round table (in the royal palace) with King Helios VII. As a side note, the carpet is red, which he dislikes because seeing red all over the floor reminds him of a trauma when he was young (also, he became king at a very young age due to his father’s death).

He’s supposed to be talking with the prime minister (who’s old enough to have known him when he was a child, and views him about as you’d expect of that).

The meeting is regarding what to do about Lion City and the disappearances therein (or else, it’s a general meeting and they’re discussing Lion City at the tail end of it). There have been no new cases in the past six months however (which I think we can take to mean that six months have elapsed since the last book).

There’s other people at the meeting (from the House of Lords) and they go over the situation. Because Lion City is such a small town no one was really paying it much notice, but then Joshua Herbert went missing. He had been spotted in town before that, alongside a Crossrosier member.

Lot of recap about the situation of the tower and Hank, etc. Apparently Helios has been ducking the situation with the tower because his father told him not to go messing with wraiths or something like that. But he’s starting to doubt that’s the right thing to do. He starts talking about investigating into it. The prime minister snaps at him to leave it alone, they argue (and then he says something like, “we can’t afford to have our king lose his life this time” or something like that, which is given emphasis).

They argue a bit more but the prime minister overrules Helios, basically saying that if the losses are limited to just that rural area of Lion City, it’s fine (which Helios says isn’t like him). The meeting ends.

Scene Two

This discusses twenty years ago. There was a border war with a neighboring country while Helios was still a prince (his first war). He participated (his unit far from any actual danger) for his studies (merely observing rather than actually helping disappointed him, but obviously he understood).

They had all thought it was a small dispute, probably resolved in like three days. But without warning, it turned into a massacre (having a little trouble reading this part clearly on the specifics). Dead bodies and red everywhere (blood, I mean). Also black bird feathers.

In the center of it all he’d seen a man with pitch-black hair and brown skin. Also a red pentagram (looks like a star in the art to me idk) tattoo on his right cheek. This was the first wraith Helios had ever seen, and the cause of the massacre.

Hank was also killed around this time (publicly an accident) by a conspiracy between the old king and a wraith (Romarius). Helios is certain this is related to the tragedy of that war.

Helios is now meeting with Romarius (a war hero, a friend of the late king, and the one who saved the current king’s life from the wraith (Rabiah I think) that attacked twenty years ago).

Under Romarius’ suit, on his right arm is a large tattoo of a snake that moves as though it’s alive.

They talk a little (Helios knows Romarius is on his side, but is still afraid of him anyway, which Romarius doesn’t mind because he thinks humans shouldn’t get too involved with wraiths—also some implications that on some level he’s lonely due to his lack of friends but anyway). Romarius presses Helios not to get involved, revealing his own actions to solve the situation with Raymond.

Before he leaves, Helios asks if the wraith that almost killed him twenty years ago is alive—Romarius answers he probably is.

As he leaves he regroups with Raymond (the two of them have a pretty cold relationship it looks like), and then they head for Hargain’s place.

Scene Three

The scene opens on Hargain’s lab, a girl with emerald hair floating in a tube of liquid (I believe it says she’s in a fetal position, but I’m not 100% sure). Hargain is gazing at her, certain that she’s almost complete and consulting the corresponding passage in “Ending Records XXVIII” (? I’m not sure about the name translation. As a note, while this one isn’t pictured, another one is and the number is shown as being in Roman numerals. This one is 28)

He mentions something about a memory transfer and reconstitution of the body, confused why she won’t wake up. He’s apparently had 98 failures before this one. The girl’s body was originally a dead baby, and in the past five years he rapidly grew her to physically resemble a teenager.

He’s so focused he doesn’t immediately notice Romarius behind him. Hargain demands to know what he’s doing there, with his eyes wide open, which doesn’t mean anything in particular it’s just his habit. Romarius tells him that Beritoad has gotten active again, and implores him to aid in taking him down. He brings up Vivian’s death (calling her a disciple of Hargain’s disciples), which Hargain doesn’t seem to care about (also brushing off the concept of having disciples).

Hargain refuses to help, pointing out both that as an old man he’s less physical capable than he once was, but also that what he wanted from Beritoad he’s already obtained (the Ending Records thing).

Romarius then offers his own Ending Records document (LXXII/72), which he had kept hidden from Hargain. Hargain reads it, realizing that it may help him finally succeed, only to see that it’s just half of the documents. Romarius tells him Beritoad has the other half.

Thus incentivized, Hargain has Romarius tell him the situation. He then tells him he’ll give him six months to (I think work on his experiments? using the document? I don’t know exactly what he means yet), though Hargain thinks one month is enough. Then he calls in Raymond, saying he’ll lend him to him as an assistant.

He’ll also make sure Hargain does as Romarius wants, and take back the Ending Records if Hargain rejects his offer. Hargain goes to show him the room he has set aside for him, Raymond emotionless the whole time.

Scene Four

Raymond is taken to a room on the second floor of the building. It’s empty now, but soon it’ll have furnishings for someone to live there. He tells him to call on his servant if he needs anything (his servant being Liam Highland (riamu hairando)). Liam comes in wearing a white long-sleeved shirt, looking refined and about thirty years old.

During introductions Liam and Raymond recognize each other, and Raymond smiles for the first time since coming in. Hargain leaves them to chat, heading back to his experiment.

This mansion is used as the headquarters for the Crossrosier magical society, set up on the coast of Lake Last (? Rasuto?) which is near the royal capital. Only Crossrosier’s top brass and their servants can enter. Raymond is only allowed to enter the church and his own room.

They’re walking along the mansion now, running into a maid named Sasha (sasha), entrusting her with setting up the room. Once she’s gone, the two start chatting about things. Apparently Liam used to be a beastmaster at the circus (which is where he met Raymond), and before he started working here spent time as a mercenary. They talk about Raymond being sent here by Romarius, which Liam decides not to pry into further.

They reach the church. Liam tells him he can stay here until his room is finished, and if anyone asks he need only mention Hargain and they’ll leave him alone. Crossrosier has a front as a religious organization (preaching reverence of spirits), and Hargain is called its founder. Of course, Raymond knows that them being sorcerers is really a sham (Liam asks him not to say that out loud).

They discuss Hargain’s research lab, Raymond wondering if he’s making a false wraith (one of the ones they make and set loose to “vanquish”). Liam tells him not to tell anyone of what he saw in there.

Liam brings up as he leaves the fact that he looks so much older than Raymond, despite being roughly the same age as him—he speculates that it might have to do with Raymond being part wraith (wraiths don’t age, so Raymond is aging slowly).

Scene Five

Not even two weeks have passed, and it’s so boring there that Raymond is losing it. Hargain stays locked up in his lab where Raymond can’t keep an eye on him. He’s also doing his best to avoid the other Crossrosier sorcerers (he did let Vivian die, after all), and has little interest in the weird rituals they do in the church. Liam is also too busy to talk to him most of the time.

Raymond wants to head out to the capital a little bit. He figures Hargain will stay where he is for now (apparently Crossrosier functions just fine without him being active in it), and he’s also dying for a good meal (eating meat is forbidden by Crossrosier rules, and he’s tired of the vegetarian fare).

He doesn’t have money though—most of what he has is what Romarius (who hoards wealth, hence him wanting Beritoad’s alchemy) gives him, and there’s not much left of when he was performing in Lion City.

Just as he’s thinking of street performing in the capital, Liam comes in with a letter from Benji.

Benji opens with a joke (roughly, “If you’re reading this, it means I am no longer in this world…Just kidding, I’m probably still working as a doctor in Lion City like normal”). He tells him that the sisters in Torcia Tower have become active again, and Gibbet has been spotted in a town to Lion City’s north, Mercerie City (maaserii). People are going missing there now. Worse, Gibbet has apparently cozied up to the town mayor, so people are getting sent to Torcia periodically (unless I’m misreading that).

He says that if Raymond is going to go to the tower again (which, he doesn’t have to), to stop by Benji’s first, as he has some preparations that might help.

Recap on the situation with the girls from the previous novel.

Funnily enough, Raymond’s thoughts on his friends from back then mirror Romarius’ earlier with Helios: “Friends…hm. Do I have the qualifiers to be called that?” (very rough translation not confident). Also a little note on how Benji is one of the few to know Raymond is part wraith, and notably didn’t treat him any worse for it.

Wanting to head out to Torcia again (but needing to finish things here first), Raymond calls for Liam. He learns that Hargain is away from his lab resting.

Scene Six

Raymond sneaks through easily, as he can see in the dark (so clearly that when he was a child he would ask his mom why she’d have lights on at all, not realizing then this was a trait unique to him).

He arrives before the lab (the one Hargain was in when he first got here), which has a steel door and a plaque next to it that says only Hargain may enter. He first thinks he might try an unlocking spell, but he’s only able to open simple locks (and the one on Hargain’s lab is a special “double type ward lock”).

But then he tries the door and realizes it’s not locked anyway.

He goes inside, see various large glass cases full of liquid. The Emerald girl is also still in the large tube where she was before. He walks inside a little, but then is immediately caught by Hargain, who has returned.

He demands to know what Raymond is doing there, Raymond claiming he just got lost looking for the bathroom (an obvious lie). Hargain threatens him if he plans to get in the way of his research, but then says he’ll let it slide this once if he leaves now and never does it again.

Raymond decides to obey, taking a step to leave the room, when they hear glass breaking. They turn around—Raymond being a little bit faster—and see that the girl has broken free of the tube and is at Raymond’s feet, looking at him with her big, shiny emerald eyes. And when their eyes meet, she calls him “papa” (well, it’s more like “pa….pa…”).

#()torture tower doesn't sleep #raymond continues to be a compelling character #god i love him and his identity issues

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meetnategreen · 5 years ago

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Oct. 22, 2019 at 12:00 a.m. PDT

We originally had planned to offer a deconstruction of one of President Trump’s Four-Pinocchio tweets over the weekend, as an example of how many things the president can get wrong in fewer than 280 characters.

But then the president had his wild Cabinet session with reporters, and we shifted course.

So please watch the video above for the deconstruction of the tweet. Below is a quick roundup of some of the more notable claims the president made to reporters.

#1) “I don’t want to leave troops there. It’s very dangerous for — you know, we had 28 troops, as it turned out. People said 50. It was 28. And you had an army on both sides of those troops. Those troops could have been wiped out.”

It was Trump that had said 50 troops. But these tiny numbers belie the fact that Trump ordered the withdrawal of about 1,000 U.S. troops from northeastern Syria from about a dozen bases and outposts scattered across the region, where they worked alongside Syrian Kurdish partners. The hasty withdrawal, prompted by Trump’s decision to let Turkey invade, meant many of these bases had to be quickly abandoned.

#2) “I always thought if you’re going in, keep the oil. Same thing here. Keep the oil. … We’ve secured the oil.”

Trump appears to be talking about a plan to leave a few hundred troops along the Iraqi border area, to prevent the Islamic State from reestablishing its self-described caliphate in the area. That would also help the Kurds keep control of oil fields in the region. Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper hinted at such a move when he told reporters over the weekend that all forces would be removed from Syria in the coming weeks “except for — the president has approved the — keeping some forces at Tanf garrison in the south.”

But the plan still has to be put into action. Trump’s language suggests the United States is taking control of the oil. But the U.S. military does not seize foreign oil because it’s against international law “to destroy or seize the enemy’s property.”

#3) “We have a good relationship with the Kurds. But we never agreed to, you know, protect the Kurds. We fought with them for 3½ to four years. We never agreed to protect the Kurds for the rest of their lives.”

Trump misleadingly frames the agreement as the “rest of their lives.” But the United States had certainly made a deal with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which is said to have lost about 11,000 soldiers in defeating the Islamic State, after being trained and equipped by the United States. (Turkey considers elements of this force to be a terrorist threat.) To prevent a Turkish invasion, the United States persuaded the SDF to pull back up to nine miles from the Turkish border. In August, the SDF destroyed its own military posts after assurances the United States would not let thousands of Turkish troops invade. But then Trump tossed that aside.

For context, here’s how Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spoke of the Kurds in 2018.

Secretary of State Pompeo: "…Syrian Kurds have been great partners. We are now driving to make sure that they have a seat at the table.." @jinsadc

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#4) “They’ve been fighting for 300 years that we know of, 300 years.”

Trump frequently and misleadingly frames this as a “hundreds of years” conflict between the Turks and the Kurds. There has been a hundred-year effort to create a Kurdish state in the aftermath of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, with the Kurds frequently manipulated by great powers seeking to flex their muscles against a particular nation, such as Iraq. The United States, for instance, spent $16 million promoting a rebellion in Iraqi Kurdistan in the early 1970s, only to step aside when the Shah of Iran (then a U.S. ally) decided to cut a border deal in 1975 with Iraq. “There is confusion and dismay among our people and force,” the Kurdish leadership cabled the CIA. “Our people’s fate in unprecedented danger. Complete destruction hanging over our head. No explanation for all of this.”

#5) “The whistleblower gave a false account. Now we have to say, well, do we have to protect somebody that gave a false account?”

Trump says this repeatedly — he’s already earned a Bottomless Pinocchio — but it’s simply not true. Our line-by-line look at the whistleblower complaint, compared to the rough transcript of the July 25 call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and other information, shows that it was fairly accurate.

#6) “So was there actually an informant? Maybe the informant was Schiff. It could be Shifty Schiff. In my opinion, it’s possibly Schiff. He and his staff, or his staff or a whole group.”

This is ridiculous speculation. Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.) is not the informant. The whistleblower complaint was investigated by the inspector general for the intelligence community, found to be credible and then submitted to Congress.

#7) “I gave away my salary. It’s, I guess, close to $450,000. I give it away. Nobody ever said, ‘He gives away his salary.’ Now it comes up because of this. But I give away my presidential salary. They say that no other president has done it. … They actually say that George Washington may — may have been the only other president to do — but see whether or not Obama gave up his salary.”

The president’s annual salary is currently $400,000 — and Trump is the third president to give away his salary. Herbert Hoover and John F. Kennedy, both very wealthy at the time, gave their salaries to charity. Barack Obama gave about $1.1 million to charity during the eight years he was president, according to a Forbes analysis. His presidential salary during that period was $3.1 million, though he made millions more from book sales.

#8) “Best location, right next to the airport, Miami International, one of the biggest airports in the world. Some people say it’s the biggest, but one of the biggest airports in the world.”

Trump defended his now-abandoned decision to hold the Group of Seven summit at the Trump National Doral resort, but he needs to get his airport rankings straight. Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport is No. 1 in the world by passenger volume, with more than 100 million passengers, but Miami does not even rank in the top 20. In 2017, it ranked 40th, according to the Airports Council International.

#9) “Doral was setting records when I bought it, because I owned it for a period of time. Setting records. It was going to — there was nothing like it. It was making a fortune. And then what happened? I announce I’m going to run for office, right? And all of a — and I say we got to build a wall, we got to have borders, we’ve got to have this, we’ve got to have that. All of a sudden, people — some people didn’t like it. They thought the rhetoric was too tough. And it went from doing great to doing fine. It does very nicely now. It’s actually coming back, I understand, very strongly. But Doral was setting records.”

Trump’s Doral resort has been in sharp decline in recent years, according to the Trump Organization’s own records. Its net operating income fell 69 percent from 2015 to 2017; a Trump Organization representative testified last year that the reason was Trump’s damaged brand since he became president. Trump bought it in 2012 and spent several years renovating it, so it’s possible 2015 was the resort’s best year. There is no evidence as yet that it is coming back “very strongly.”

#10) “I don’t know if you know George Washington, he ran his business simultaneously while he was president. … George Washington, they say, had two desks. He had a presidential desk and a business desk.”

We will leave it to readers to decide if the practices at the nation’s founding are relevant today. Washington was one of the nation’s largest landowners when he became president, though they were of dubious value, and he was a shareholder in the Patowmack Co., which aimed to build canals that would have given his land more value. Some historians have been critical — one wrote that Washington “betrayed private trusts in pursuit of private gain” — but our colleague Joel Achenbach, in his 2005 book, “The Grand Idea: George Washington’s Potomac and the Race to the West,” concluded: “There is remarkably little tarnish to be mined in the Washington archive. We can be confident that his reputation as an honest man is not the product of a historical whitewash.”

Achenbach told The Fact Checker: “My thinking is that he did remotely run Mount Vernon as a going concern during his presidency, via letters to his farm manager, but it was a completely different era. Back then he had to borrow cash just to make the trip to get inaugurated.”

#11) “Hey, Obama made a deal for a book. Is that running a business? I’m sure he didn’t even discuss it while he was president, yeah. He has a deal with Netflix. When did they start talking about that? That’s only, you know, a couple of examples.”

In defending the Doral deal, Trump mentions deals that Obama arranged after he left office, speculating without evidence that Obama started negotiating them when he was president.

#12) “I don’t think you people, with this phony emoluments clause — and by the way, I would say that it’s cost me anywhere from $2 billion to $5 billion to be president — and that’s okay — between what I lose and what I could have made.”

The emoluments clause is not phony; it’s right in the Constitution (Article I, Section 9, Paragraph 8): “No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”

Trump’s net worth is valued at $3 billion, so it’s difficult to see how being president could cost him even more than his net worth. Bloomberg News recently estimated that his net worth grew 5 percent in 2018, following two years of declines, bringing it back to the level calculated in 2016. Forbes calculated that as of September, his net worth is $3.1 billion.

#13) “You could end up in a war. President Obama told me that. He said, ‘The biggest problem, I don’t know how to solve it.’ He told me he doesn’t know how to solve it. I said, ‘Did you ever call him?’ ‘No.’ Actually, he tried 11 times, but the man on the other side, the gentleman on the other side, did not take his calls, okay? Lack of respect. But he takes my call.”

We gave this claim Four Pinocchios in July. There is absolutely no evidence that Obama tried to call North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, let alone meet him.

#14) “I see this guy, Congressman Al Green, say, ‘We have to impeach him, otherwise he’s going to win the election.’ What’s that all about? But that’s exactly what they’re saying. ‘We have to impeach him, because otherwise he’s going to win.’ I’m going to win the election.”

One problem with this complaint: Rep. Al Green (D-Tex.) says he never said that. The Texas congressman noted that on Twitter, writing, “It’s no surprise that @realDonaldTrump, who promoted birther conspiracies about President Obama, who claimed there were nice people among the bigots and racists in Charlottesville, and who consistently engages in perfidy, would tweet another untruth. I never said that.”

#15) “They’re interviewing ambassadors who I’d never heard of. I don’t know who these people are. I’ve never heard of them.”

This is false. Gordon Sondland, the ambassador to the European Union and a big donor to Trump’s inauguration, testified to Congress on Oct. 17 that Trump in an Oval Office meeting on May 23 directed him, special envoy Kurt Volker and Energy Secretary Rick Perry to talk to his personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani about Ukraine issues.

“We asked the White House to arrange a working phone call from President Trump and a working Oval Office visit,” Sondland said. “However, President Trump was skeptical that Ukraine was serious about reforms and anti-corruption, and he directed those of us present at the meeting to talk to Mr. Giuliani, his personal attorney, about his concerns. It was apparent to all of us that the key to changing the President’s mind on Ukraine was Mr. Giuliani.”

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locke-writes · 5 years ago

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@aryn-the-wolfheart asked me how many books from this post I’ve read and instead of just reblogging with the number I wanted to do what the post had said and bold the titles (mainly because if anyone wants to talk books which I’m all for, it’s helpful to know what I’ve read

Total Amount: 49

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkein 3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens 11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks 18 Catcher in the Rye 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffeneger 20 Middlemarch – George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis 34 Emma – Jane Austen 35 Persuasion – Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne 41 Animal Farm – George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving 45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy 48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding 50 Atonement – Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel 52 Dune – Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen 55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth 56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon 57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens 58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck 62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov 63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac 67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding 69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens 72 Dracula – Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses – James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal – Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray 80 Possession – AS Byatt 81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens 82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchel 83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert 86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry 87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton 91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery 93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks 94 Watership Down – Richard Adams 95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

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evildilf2 · 6 years ago

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"List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who reblogged something from you. Learn to know your mutual and followers."

This is so cute, thank you for sending me this!

1. My Spring Awakening OBC cd that I got at half priced books a few years ago.

2. Attempting to skateboard in the parking lot by my house.

3. My 100+ year old Napoleon biography I got from a local book store I used to live close too.

4. Acting! Especially as Prince Herbert from Spamalot and Specs from Newsies.

5. Making costumes and fun outfits!! Rn I’m working on one for Aziraphale, but I also have a tenth doctor trench coat that I got when I was about 13!

#horatio speaks

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dearagony15 · 6 years ago

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Fall Into Your Sunlight.

BLOOD SERENADE.

Chapter. 1 Fall Into Your Sunlight.

Saint Hills. 2016.

6 am. The alarm had rung, loudly. Skyla was walking fastly out from the bathroom. She was throwing her towel on her bed and taking a rubbermaid from her desk, pulling her red straight hair to the top of her head and tighted it up. She was looking at the clock. Hm, 6am. Time is up, she said to herself and then turning off the alarm bottom. She was taking her jins jacket and her backpack, ready to go to school again.

Skyla Marianne Herbert, 16 years old. One of Lincoln High School’s students. Smart, multi talented and food lovers. She had a best friend named Dave Spencer. Skyla first best friend since she has moved here. Dave was an introvert guy and so does she. That is why, they both fits each other to rejecting people around. And Skyla loves the way Dave talking to others because he was a quite sarcastic man, full of silence and mystery. He always use the same tone when he was talking, except when he gets mad his tone will be a little bit higher. She knew him very well.

Tinnnnn tinnnnn.

Dave was beeping his car, giving Skyla a sign that it was their time to go to school together. Skyla was walking through the stairs fastly, almost like she was dancing like a queen there. Yeah, she is very active person and faster while walking or doing everything. She always win running competition at school. But never want to join sports club or athletic. She hates being sweat and now she starts to hate sunlight though.

“Sorry, it took you so long,” said Skyla apologies to Dave. She was sitting in the passenger seat and closing the door.

“Welcome back to Saint Hills,” said Dave to her without a single smile.

“Thanks.” Skyla replied cheerfuly. “Well, good morning,” she said again to him and giving the best smile to him. Wish he could say something nice today. She misses him so much.

Dave was looking at Skyla, nodded and roaring the engine while she put the seatbelt to her body. He almost never talk or say something first except Skyla makes her moves. Kinda cold hearted guy. Makes all girls at Lincoln adored him so much.

“Hei.” Skyla shook his arm to get Dave attention. “If someone said good morning to you, you should have replied it back. It called respect and care, Spencer.” She reminds him with her soft and perfect intonation. Sounds so adorable and clingy. But that is her. Dave can stand for it.

“I do,” said Dave short and simple.

“How? I didn’t see or listen it.” Seems like she wanna starts the war, but well--- that’s her. Cheerful and hilarious. If she suddenly keep silence, means something happened to her. Dave knew it very well. And have to become accustomed with that.

“With my way.” Dave said again while driving to Lincoln.

Skyla nodded in a long silence.

Dave just kept quiet too. He was rolling down the window besides him and let the fresh air come into them. Well, it was 6;15 am by the way. Still freezing and foggy. Saint Hills was more colder because of the different climate and geographic. And she loves it.

“--- okay. Not in the good mood, Huh?” Skyla tried to humor him, at least make a joke for today before heading for a Math test together.

“Don’t be too sensitive, Skyla.” Dave turned around the steer at the corner of the street and passed a long road with many people jogging and running.

Skyla nodded. She made him mad again. Always. But he looked cute though. She smiles in the silence. “Okay.” She nodded.

Dave was driving slowly. The sun was warm outside and when he passed by the traffic light, the sunlight was shining through them by the opened window from Dave’s side.

“Ouch.” Skyla closed her eyes quickly with her palms covering her face when the sunlight passed them by.

“Are you okay?,” asked Dave. He looked at her seriously, worried. But still with a half focused on the road too.

Skyla still closed her eyes behind her palms until she makes sure that the sunlight passed by. “Yeah. I’m good,” she replied, confused though. “I forgot my sun glassess. Damn.”

Dave was opening the dashboard and giving one glasses to her. Not a sun glasses actually, just a normally glasses he knows she dropped it there sometimes. “Take this.” He gave it to her.

“Thanks.” She took it and smile to him. “My eyes---.” She was wearing that glasses and stopped to continue her words. It’s not the right time to talk about this now. No, when Dave still have a cold words to her. She hates it.

“What happened with your eyes?,” asked Dave now, finally, still driving carefully.

“Nothing.” Skyla answered him. Take a revenge now with a short answer.

“Elaborate nothing.”

“It’s just---- nothing.”

“Okay.”

Skyla was turning the radio station on to kill the damn silence situation in the car. And SUM 41 song was playing on air with the titled With Me, her favorite one. Make everything so awkward now. She checked her phone many times and opening her Math book, try to remind all the things she read and learned last night.

Dave was looking at Skyla from the mirror in front of his head. He knows this girl being too sensitive again and again almost everyday especially when she got back from England. Sounds weird because she looked different after came back here and he never asked about what had happened. “Getting irritation a whole week?” Dave glanced back at her and then back to his steer again. 100% focused. “Your eyes.” He added again with a soft voice now.

Skyla nodded. “Yeah. Somehow. It’s gonna be more sensitive. I don’t know.” She covered her face while the sunshine was shining up above the car.

“You did something wrong with your eyes? Like--- plastic surgery or something. In England.”

“Oh my God, no.” Skyla denied it. “I won’t do that even if I want to.” She added with a lower tone, like talking to herself.

“Eyes like Yuna Final Fantasy 10 is cool.” Dave smile, trying to make a joke but Skyla sulked herself.

“Yeah. That’s why you like her.”

Dave smile again and now was staring back at Skyla for a second only. “Go and do your medical check up.”

“Come on, Dave. It’s such a simple thing. This glasses help me so much. Thanks for that.”

“Okay. And when will you start to driving again?,” asked Dave, changed the topic. Trying to keep the conversation on. But in a second he thought that he chose the wrong topic. He was in a dangerous area now. And it’s too late to take it back.

“Why? You hate to see me everyday or you getting bored drops and picks me up everyday or you girlfriend doesn’t like----------,” Suddenly Skyla was losing her temper. Her emotions ups and downs. Burning inside her head. Now she can’t handled it anymore.

“Silence, Skyla.” Dave cut her words with an intense look. “You’re on period or something?”

Skyla exhaled. She was trying to control her emotions now and almost crying. “Sorry. And, no. It’s over.” God, she doesn’t know what happens with her.

“Your emotion.” Dave replied it back to her.

“I know. Sorry.”

“What happened when you were in England?,” asked Dave finally.

“Nothing. All same.” But actually not much.

Still Dave distrusted of something. “Did they fight again yesterday when you got home? Your parents.” Dave asked. He can’t believe her statement.

“I don’t have parents.” She said, fed up.

“Skyla---”

Silence for a second.

“Always,” replied Skyla then. “They always fight and throws everything around--- nothing’s changed.”

Dave nodded and keep driving. “It’s been a year. Right? Since that day. Dan.”

“Yeah.” Skyla knows what Dave wanna talking about. It’s about Dan, her brother. Who died a year ago, car accident at Saint Hills. That was the reason why she hates driving and chose to left Saint Hills a year ago. And now she has come back here. Bring all the puzzle back into this town.

“That’s your reason to stop driving?,” asked Dave in a long silence. He stopped his car in the parking lot. Waiting for her to answering his serious question. But Skyla just turn off the radio station.

“Kind of.” Skyla replied him, released the seat belt and came out from Dave’s car.

Lincoln. Like usually, always crowded and full of lies and dramas. Skyla was waiting for Dave to come out from his car. She was standing behind the window and seeing a red SUV car was arriving with a high speed race, parking besides Dave’s car. And then she saw a tall, modest and pale guy came out from the driver’s seat. Looks like a duplicate from Ashton Kutcher as well. Then a girl--- Maureen, maybe, as she had remembered, came out and following that tall guy. The wind blowing harshly. Make a chance for both of them to look and staring each others, feeling the same smells.

Skyla was looking at that guy and so does him. She can smells something different from him and Maureen. Something like---- not normal things, that makes her feels so addicted and attractive to them. And she doesn’t know what is it. Just a strange and strong scent around them. And it’s not like a perfume or cologne. The scent--- is more than that and it stinks her a lot.

“What is this scent?,” asked Skyla to herself. She touched her nose many times to get away that scent.

“Hi, Skyla,” said Maureen nicely. She grabbed her boyfriend’s hands tightly in front of her. Her lovely Ashton Kuthcer. And smile flirtatious. Ewww.

“Hi. Do you know me?,” asked Skyla innocent. She can hear Maureen’s boyfriend laugh and she looks so stupid in front of them. Omg, where’s Dave at the moment like this. And the scent, really makes her sick.

“Nice to see you---, Skyla.” The Ashton Kutcher twin now was talking to Skyla, smile, look nice almost perfect and--- creepy.

His eyes. Skyla doesn’t like his eyes. Reminds her of something--- or someone in her head she can’t remember clearly. It’s like a dejavu to be honest.

Maureen just gave Skyla a sweet weird smile. She didn’t answer Skyla’s question and walked away like a greedy princess with her boyfriend. The couple looked like a parody of Kate and Prince William in the real suck life. Full of fake drama.

Skyla smirked at her. “Annoying,” she said in a low tone. Grumbling about them.

“Who?,” asked Dave suddenly appeared behind her shoulder.

“Who’s that tall, white pale guy? I’ve never seen him in a while. He drove that red car like a racer. He’s new here?,” asked Skyla to Dave. Her eyes keep watching to that couple until Dave was talking and giving her an answer.

“He’s Chambells. You don’t recognize him?,” said Dave amazed.

“--- Chambells?” Skyla repeated that name and thinking for a minute. She feels so familiar with that name. “Well, You know, since ---”

“Yeah. I knew.” Dave cut her words.

“So, who’s that guy? Identical of Ashton Kutcher or something?”

“Yeah, Lucius Chambells. They looked same, actually. Do you remember The Chambells family?”

“I don’t know. Just feel so familiar with that name. You tell me.”

“Of course you do. They have been a part of Saint Hills’ for almost many years. Lucius is the youngest. He sent aboard by his father from Saint Hills for duties a year ago.”

“Duties? What kind of duties?,” asked Skyla curious.

“I don’t know. Church’s service maybe.”

“Owh, finally there’s one thing you can’t solved it.” Skyla smiled to Dave.

“It’s not my problem, anyway.”

“Yeah you’re right. Go on, continue your story.”

“Now, seems like he has come back here. With Maureen, his long term girlfriend.”

“But, how did they recognize me? They called my name, like, Hi Skyla,--- well, we’re not a friend and I’ve never talked to them as I’ve been remember in my entire life.”

“Efraim and Meredith Chambells was a priest-preacher couple at St. John. And Lucius was a part of the music team at that community. Maybe they have had met you before and you just forgot.”

“Really?” Skyla not so sure about that.

“Yeah. You left this town almost a year, right?”

“Wow. You know more about this town very well. Better than me,” said Skyla. She pushed Dave shoulder and smile, looked surprised, giving it as a compliment to him. “That’s a compliment. I’m not flirting.”

“Yes, you are,” replied Dave indifferently. He walked by, left Skyla behind.

Skyla was running to catch Dave. “Hei. I’m not flirting, Dave. I said the truth from the bottom of my heart,” she tried to pleading herself. Acted like a cute puppy. But Dave too shy to give her a response for that.

“First class, Math. Remember?,” He reminds Skyla as an order.

“Arghhhhhhhhhhhhh. You are ruining my mood!,” said Skyla punched Dave shoulder as a joke.

“You have to drive yourself home.” Dave walking to his chair and sit beside Skyla.

“No. It’s your job. You made a promise before.” Skyla reminded her best friend about that again. She grinned and showing her teeth now. Pretending to look angry or something.

“Shhh.”

“Silence. I know.”

During Math exam.

Dave looked fine with all the questions in his papers. His hands never stop writing. But not with Skyla. She looked flustered. She’s already done with her questions exam but something stuck in her mind. Something like what? Something like--- Oh my God, she realized that The Ashton Kutcher twin was sitting behind her and now was staring, glaring to her. His eyes full of hunger and curiously of something too. Makes her feels so cold and creepy at that moment. She look toward by turning her head to Dave, try to get his attention but Dave just focus with his paper only. It’s sucks and annoying. And when she saw a number in her paper again, her mind reminds of something. Something like a flashback memory in her mind.

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“No. No. Please, Dan. Don’t leave me alone. Please!” Skyla screamed behind the mirror of Emergency Room at Saint Hills Hospital Center. Her body was wet, shaking, sweat and full of blood. Smells blood everywhere. She can hear the impulse slowly was going down and down from the outside of Emergency Room. No heartbeat, almost. She knows what would it be but she tried to ignored all the bad possibility. She can see the Death was standing beside Dan’s iron bed. Ready to do his jobs.

“No. No, don’t do that. Don’t do that to him. Hei! Take me! But let him go. Release him away! Hei!” Skyla screamed to Death, or someone invisible from the outside of the Emergency Room. She tried to get in but the nurse guarded against her and forced her to stay or they will get her into the medical patient, as an unconscious patient.

“Can you just sit and calm yourself down, please Miss Herbert?,” asked the old nurse lady. She was grabbing Skyla’s hands and forced her to sit back and relax. Her eyes was glaring and--- red.

“No. I can’t. He’ll take my brother if you don’t let me in and make a deal with him,” said Skyla was trying to explain to her but she knows the old nurse lady won’t understand her instead will think she was a crazy girl after became a survivor from the accident.

“Him? You mean Death? How dare yourself to make a deal with Him?,” she asked Skyla again with full of emphasized with her words.

Skyla was standing up now, looking eye to eye with the old nurse lady. And she smells something, like a weird scent of flower or sage or anything name on it. She hates that scent. More than she hates smell of blood. “How do you know that? You can see Death too?,” asked Skyla curious. She can feel something weird, strange, strong and very powerful with the nurse. She’s a witch? No. Her aura was totally different with the other people here. She’s not a part of us. No. Skyla can feel it. That was one of the gift God gave to her since she was born. Got a supernatural weird annoying sense, she called it.

“Who are you? You’re not one of us,” Skyla asked the nurse again. Her eyes was looking deeply into her red eyes too. Wish could see or find something.

“You’re fast enough to realized about it, Miss Herbert. That’s mean you will going to 17 years old. Good age to be turn. That’s a beautiful gift for you.”

“What do you mean?,” asked Skyla again.

“You will know or you have already knew.”

“I don’t have time to play Sherlock Holmes with you!”

“Yes, you’re right. Your time much less since from now.”

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Skyla can hear it. She was turning around her head and walking toward the door of Emergency Room. “No! Please! Let me in!,” said her to the old nurse lady. Wish the nurse would help her to come inside. But the old nurse just kept quite and ignoring her. Just watching her faded. “Please,” she begging please, desperately.

The doctor and nurses tried so hard as the best as they could to saved Dan. But it’s not worked. He sustained bad injury almost all over his head and body, bleeding and swollen. That was a fatal car crashed but Skyla didn’t get any injury even her blouse and jins ripped out and dirty. No physical injury. Nothing. The doctor team had done with the medical check up but she’s fine. That was really weird and strange things. In fact, Skyla sat in the passenger seat. So the doctor assumed that was a miracle here at Saint Hills.

“I’m sorry, Miss Herbert. That was his destiny to die, Miss Herbert.” The old nurse lady explained to her. “Just to keep you saved.” She added again.

Skyla was walking closer and now she was standing in front of the old lady, glaring her red eyes she frightened too. “I don’t need your words. I don’t need Dan to die just to keep me save. I need him alive to keep me save!”

“It’s written all in the prophecy.”

“What kind of stupid prophecy?! Back to reality, Please!” Skyla was screaming to the old lady but no one notice about them. Seems like all the circumstance frozen.

“This is your reality you have to face it through, Miss Herbert! Own it as the Chosen Lady!” She shouted back to Skyla now.

“You’re crazy. Screw you. May your soul burns in hell.” Skyla cursed her.

“You will know what’s like to be in hell when you wake up then.”

Splashed of light and Skyla can’t remember anything again. All she had known she was lying on the white bed in hospital, smells of medicine mixed with everything there. She only knows that she lost Dan. Forever. She feels so bad and her heart become so numb.

Tap tap tap. Skyla heard footsteps was coming closer. It was not the same sounds like the doctor or nurse but it was different. Tap tap tap. And no heartbeat. She was counting in her mind with her cold eyes. Mourning. Dying. And they were coming closer to her, the Chambells. Efraim and Meredith Chambells. They were walking into the room wore a couple of black suit and handed a Bible in their hand. Skyla was turning around her head and expecting her parents to come but the Chambells showed up. Where’s mom and dad now? They supposed to be here. Now. Dave. Where is he now? Skyla keep questioning it.

“Are you Skyla Marianne Herbert?,” asked Meredith nicely. Her face looked so pale like a porcelain. Her black hair was straight into her shoulder, neat and perfectly beauty. She was looking at Skyla, waiting for her answer with giving her a sweet warm smile.

“Who are you?,” asked Skyla with her soft voice. She was sitting on her bed with her hospital uniform. Looked so pale and weak. She wasn’t feel good. Seems like many blade and knive was stabbing all her body. It’s tortured her since she woke up.

“I guess your answer is yes.” Meredith nodded. Still with a smile politely.

“Who the hell are you?,” asked Skyla again. With her cold voice, her eyes glaring back at them, full of hate and anger.

Efraim taking over the conversation now. “We’re from St. John. I’m Efraim and she’s my wife, Meredith. We give our condolence about your brother, Dan.” He said with a soft tone intonation. Feel so peacefully and warm.

“Thanks,” replied Skyla.

“Where’s your parents?” Efraim asked her. Because he didn’t see anyone there.

“I don’t know. They supposed to be here also.” Skyla was rubbing her chest. She feels something burning inside and makes her want to throw up.

“Are you okay?,” asked Meredith coming closer to touch Skyla’s face. At that moment she could smells Skyla’s blood rushing through her vein. Fresh, addictive, attractive and totally pureblood. That’s why she could heal by herself and The Oracle said about this girl was right. She was caressing Skyla’s back head, acting like a mother figure she knows that girl needed the most. And she read all her mind. The Oracle has came to her already and compelled her to forget what had happened. Poor little girl. Her time will come, said Meredith.

“Yeah,” replied Skyla then.

“You were at passenger seat at that moment, right?,” said Efraim to Skyla. “I saw your last report medical check up from doctor. And it said that you’re totally good without any injury with your body.”

Meredith didn’t surprise to see Skyla’s last report in her husband’s hand. It described that Skyla’s blouse ripped out from her breast, means that maybe it supposed to be a place she could have bad injury there. And blood stain almost in her body but she’s fine, no scar. Clean. That was a miracle? Or means something.

Skyla shook her head twice. Confused. “I don’t know. I don’t know what happened to me!,” she said full of emotional.

“Do you remember the last thing that happen before that incident?,” asked Efraim again.

Skyla was trying to remember all in her mind. But she pissed off. She was feeling so bad about it. She hates everyone around and where is her parents? Where’s Dave too?

“Please, try to remember all as you can. Maybe we could help you.” Meredith added.

“You’re here to pray or to investigating?,” asked Dave suddenly appeared behind Efraim’s back. He was staring at them one by one with his blue eyes and feeling so annoyed to them.

“Dave,” called Skyla surprised but happy.

Dave hugged Skyla tightly and kissed her forehead. “I’m sorry. I have to handled something last night. Are you okay?” He asked while looking at Skyla’s face and he feels that her body’s temperature was so hot like a fire burned.

Skyla nodded in her silence but Dave knows her silence means something happened.

“Look at me and answer my question,” Dave said as an order.

“You can take a look by yourself, Dave. No scar or bad injury. I’m freaking alive. Like a freak one! A monster or a walking dead, maybe,” she said with a high tension of emotion. Her eyes glaring at him and she almost pass out.

Dave was so worried. He didn’t know what he’d gonna do. “Fever only? That’s impossible,” he said to Skyla with his soft intonation from his voice.

“That’s why we’re here. We could help her, Mr. Spencer.” Efraim cut their conversation though.

“You?,” asked Dave uncertainly.

“Yes,” replied Efraim politely.

“Doctor is better than your consultation, by the way,” replied Dave sarcasm.

“Doctor would never gave you the right explanation about how she could have saved from the fatal incident. I bet you saw the crime scene before you came here, Mr. Spencer,” said Meredith to Dave.

“So, you’re a Witch or something?” Dave asked.

“We can help, if you let us. But if you---”

“Get them out from here, Dave,” said Skyla.

“You allright?,” asked Dave again. He looked at Skyla. She’s sweat, pale and her body temperature suddenly became cold.

“Get them hell out from here!!!!!!” Skyla screamed in front of them.

“We’re very sorry about your brother. But this is the last thing we could do for you and for us,” said Meredith to Skyla.

“Devil,” cursed Skyla.

Meredith and Efraim didn’t care about it. The last thing Skyla could remember just, a flashed light and darkness.

End.

After school, in the parking lot.

“Skyla,” called Dave. But no reaction from her. “Skyla.” He repeated again and shaking her shoulder.

“Yeah?,” replied Skyla shocked for a while.

Dave was looking at Skyla’s face, guessing by himself. “What are you thinking about?,” he asked.

Skyla shook her head. “Thinking--- about what?,” she asked again, confused.

Dave pointed his finger, showing her what he questioned about. “Them?”

“Who?” Skyla asked again when she saw Lucius had a serious debate with Maureen not far from the parking lot area. She can hear them fighting each other, talking about cheating, sex things and breaking up thing.

“Lucius and Maureen,” added Dave again make it clear his statement.

“What?” Skyla had realized that she was looking at that couple almost couple minutes ago. Dave knew it and she was freaking out now. Blushing too. “No. I’m just--- I don’t know. Let’s go.”

Dave suddenly was throwing his car key to Skyla. She fastly responded and caught it with her right hand. Epic. “Nice catch.”

“Thank you.” But what’s that mean? She confused again.

“Now, you have to drive me home,” Dave said to her while walking into the passenger seat.

“No. No. Dave, I can’t.” Skyla was in panic situation.

“You can’t or you don’t want to?”

“I—I can’t. You know why.”

“I know. So what? Face it and move on.”

“Dave, it’s been a year and I’ve never ever driven since that day. Even in England.”

“Yeah. It’s been a years. So?,” asked Dave. He feels so irritated hearing Skyla blowing up about England.

“---” Skyla didn’t answer him. She kept quiet. Frozen.

“You know, everybody’s here used car. Helps a lot. It’s the only transportation here instead you prefer to walk.”

Skyla smiled bitter to him. “Seems like you don’t want me in your life anymore. You tried to pushing me away.”

“Stand up for yourself. Now I was trying to make you that way.”

“I can stand for myself, Dave!”

“But you’re not, actually. You ran away. Once you’ve done, you will do the same.”

Dave words totally hurts Skyla’s feelings. “Because I went to England?! Did you think I run away?!”

“What else?”

“What?”

“You just left that day. Remember? As a best friend, you didn’t say goodbye or anything. You just left.”

“You kept all questions in your mind and now you throwing it all in front of my face. This is the new you, by the way?”

“And this is the new you? Came back to town, you totally different. Your appearance, emotionally stuffs, reckless self control, afraid with sunlight. You’re a vampire or something?”

Skyla can feel it at that moment. Lucius was staring at her, when he ended debating with Maureen. Maureen has just left. Skyla can feel it. That looked was so intense and made her feel so--- frightened and secure too at the same time.

“Okay.” Skyla ended that stupid debate with Dave and enter into the driver’s seat. She just wanna save her pride only. She knows Lucius keep staring at her. Even it’s her first time to see him eye to eye but she feels like she have known him before, somewhere.

Dave followed her and sat at the passenger seat, waiting for her to start the engine. But she didn’t do anything except kept quiet and frozen. “What’s wrong?,” he asked. Worried though.

“Just so you know. I’ve never left without said goodbye, Dave,” Skyla was trying to explain. Her eyes focused with one red dot in front of the lensed view. Seeing Lucius keep standing outside in the same place with the same attention to her eyes, straight to the hell or heaven.

“It’s okay. I understand. I’m over it,” replied Dave cold like usually.

“No. You have to know this.”

“Meaning?”

“I came to you at that night. To said goodbye. I remembered that.”

“No, you’ve just left.”

“I called you. You didn’t answer your phone. I texted but you just read it. You chose your girlfriend and ignored me at that time. When I needed you the most. Andrea, remember?”

Dave kept quite. He didn’t say anything instead of keep listening to her.

“It’s okay.” Skyla added again. “If you wanna take your time to date some girls around, I understand. I’ve never want to tight you, though. So, I understand. I am.”

“Why did you blow it up now? You can called me from England. Phone call, email or anything.”

“I can’t.”

“Why?”

“Because---” Something missing in Skyla’s head. And she suddenly stopped talking as if something forced her to stopped by.

“What?”

“----- I can’t remember it--- anymore.”

“It’s ridiculous, don’t you know that?! Have you met a guy in England? Even your parents didn’t care about you except me, Skyla. I was so worried at that time!”

“I know! I’m sorry. I’m sorry, okay? I’ve told you thousand times.”

“Don’t you know secret will ruin relationship?”

I know, very well. Skyla nodded and answered it by herself.

“Okay. Keep drive, I have to do my things,” said Dave ended the arguments.

Skyla still can’t do it. Even she was trying to start the engine, the flashback and all the scene was playing back in her mind. Made her feel so horrible and frightened. She still remember that day. All the scene in her head. “I’m sorry.” She said. Released the seatbelt and came out from the car. Dave just watched. In a second he saw Lucius keep watching of him but in a next second he saw Lucius has left. So was Skyla.

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Some Utah businesses rail against governor’s mandate for employee masks

A handful of Utah companies are already bridling in opposition to Gov. Gary Herbert’s mandate that staff put on masks within the office — and regulators say they’ve obtained dozens of complaints that firms are flouting the principles.

“In such a compassionate, family-centered state, it’s unlucky that folks actually don’t appear to care that what they do is negatively impacting their neighbors,” Maryann Martindale, government director of the Utah Academy of Household Physicians, stated. “It feels opposite to Utah values.”

For the numerous Utah companies which have been requiring masks for months, Herbert’s new order merely reinforces what they’ve already been doing and is not any trigger for alarm. Nevertheless, others reject the federal government mandate on precept, with one Salt Lake Metropolis motorbike restore store mockingly warning clients to put on masks on the behest of “his majesty King Herbert” and Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox, the governor-elect.

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Jared Scoggan, the restore store’s operations supervisor, stated he discovered the poster on Fb and printed it out “as a coping technique for the brand new mandates.”

Virtually each buyer who has are available in for service this 12 months has requested the store’s coverage on masks or requested to take away his or her face overlaying, Scoggan wrote in an electronic mail Friday.

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“He wants to grasp that there are particular issues he doesn’t management,” Lyman, R-Blanding, stated. “Corresponding to our hospitals and our Thanksgiving dinners and what we do in our houses.”

Lyman stated he’s taking precautions on the accounting agency he owns: Most of his staff have been working from residence, and he’s ensuring his workplace is sterilized frequently. However when he meets with purchasers in particular person, he doesn’t put on a masks, he stated.

“I would take into account sporting a masks, however I’m not going to do blind obedience to a mandate like that,” he stated. “An individual like me says, ‘Over my lifeless physique.’”

Herbert’s spokeswoman, Anna Lehnardt, stated sporting a masks is the best manner for Utahns to forestall transmitting or contracting COVID-19.

“We’re hopeful that as Utahns put aside their private dislike of sporting protecting face coverings, we’ll lastly begin to see outbreaks sluggish and hospitalizations lower,” Lehnardt stated in a ready assertion. “With our hospitals stretched to a breaking level, that is vital.”

Companies are imagined to publish signage with public well being data and ensure patrons are masked, based on officers. However the Utah Labor Fee, the state company accountable for implementing the brand new business necessities, will solely be citing firms if their staff aren’t sporting face coverings.

(Rick Egan | Tribune file picture) Face masks are advisable at most enterprise in Salt Lake Metropolis, Tuesday, Might 19, 2020.

Eric Olsen, a fee spokesman, stated inspectors with the Utah Occupational Security and Well being Division will probably be responding to complaints that companies aren’t following the governor’s directive and can verify worker mask-wearing in the middle of any office security investigation. Until there’s a criticism, the division’s roughly 20 inspectors gained’t be visiting companies particularly to do spot-checks for masks compliance, he stated.

The company this week has obtained greater than 100 complaints from folks claiming {that a} enterprise is violating the governor’s new COVID-19 orders. The occupational security and well being division continues to be investigating the stories and haven’t but cited any firms or imposed any fines, which might attain $10,000, based on the governor’s workplace.

Dave Davis, president of the Utah Retail Retailers Affiliation, stated his group has at all times been supportive of masks, and member firms have lengthy required staff to put on face coverings and have finished their finest to encourage clients to observe swimsuit. And so they’re not nervous concerning the potential fines that violators might now face, he stated.

“I don’t assume anybody is on the market enjoying gotcha,” he stated. “I feel that if you happen to’re demonstrating as a retailer or every other enterprise that you simply’re making a good-faith effort to conform, I don’t assume anybody goes to be issuing citations or levying giant fines.”

Native impartial restaurateurs are additionally behind the governor’s new emergency order, based on Michele Corigliano, government director of the Salt Lake Space Restaurant Affiliation. She stated she hasn’t heard any complaints concerning the masks mandate for workers, though she is worried that the governor’s new state of emergency will scare folks away from eating places totally.

“No one goes out,” she stated. “So I’ve gotten calls from various completely different eating places, the place they’re speaking about simply shutting down utterly as a result of they will’t afford to remain open, as a result of they both haven’t any folks coming in or two to-go orders a day and so they simply can’t survive.”

Whereas her group doesn’t usually ask for bailouts, Corigliano stated, the eating places in and round Salt Lake Metropolis are struggling and badly want authorities assist to be able to pull by way of the pandemic.

Martindale argues that Herbert’s enterprise necessities don’t go far sufficient — and that retailers and eating places ought to be accountable for ensuring clients, in addition to employees, are sporting masks.

Till Utahns deal with COVID-19 with the seriousness it deserves, the state’s case counts will proceed to climb and the burden on medical professionals will solely develop heavier, based on Martindale, who stated a nurse she is aware of died of the illness a few days in the past.

“That is tragic,” she stated.

(picture courtesy Intermountain Healthcare) Hospital employees at Intermountain Medical Heart in Murray take care of sufferers with COVID-19 on June 9, 2020.

Davis argued in opposition to holding companies accountable for the actions of their patrons. The truth is, he stated, it’s “bodily unattainable” for grocery retailer or grocery store managers to watch what all of their clients are doing inside these giant buildings.

However retailers are typically doing their finest to place up indicators instructing folks to put on masks, and lots of publish staff on the entrances to remind clients to cowl their faces, he stated.

Scoggan defined that his motorbike restore enterprise doesn’t have the capability to pressure clients to don masks and questions the very legality of Utah’s current public well being mandates. Store staff keep residence from work in the event that they’re feeling sick, and so they ask clients additionally to not go to the enterprise in the event that they’re unwell, he wrote.

“If the federal government is sick,” he added, “we will proceed to vote and publish indicators that replicate our emotions.”

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