“Becky is as strong-willed and vindictive as they come.” Perhaps not a recommendation in the traditional sense, particularly from a prospective step-parent when speaking about her fiancé’s thirteen-year-old

Entropy increases. A fundamental tenet of the physical universe as described by the third law of thermodynamics, once an action has been taken to shift a system from

Five troubled teenagers and twenty-somethings, the only patients in a sprawling, run-down hospital, locked in their rooms at night as though they were prisoners, miles from the nearest

The eighties are remembered as an era of excess and success, but like the crumbling pyramids of Egypt or statues of slave traders waiting to be toppled it

In the Anhangabuá Valley deep in the Amazon Forest respected archaeologist Galvani Volta oversees a dig, but the funding for the expedition is provided by less-than-respectable businessman Tack

Australia, a land of sunshine and surf, of great tracts of unspoiled land, of high living standards and affordable property, but also of poisonous snakes and spiders and

On a strip of land by the coast, the wind blowing and the restless water churning, the tall building stands, the lights within the only promise of warmth.

Arkansas, 1999, and nurse Mandy is pulling double duty at the hospital with a 12 hour shift, another through-the-night saga of dialysis, dementia, drug overdoses and failed suicide

October 30th, the last hour before midnight and the sparse crowd of night owls are watching Murnau’s Nosferatu when a bloodied man runs in to the auditorium, at

Somewhere in the skies between Greenland and Iceland flight NHL234 from Vancouver to Frankfurt was lost with all hands, but this tragedy was no normal aviation disaster, it