Holiday
In the Dining Room
Is this what the future will be like? All the little knick-knacks, books and other little chotskies that we all save, and display will be gone. In this dining room so clean and bare there is a mystery there. The owners say there is no mystery with a smile on their faces. For if you look around shouldn't the table be set for, I thought, formal dining rooms always had the table set, as if to show off all the many treasured dishes one likes to show off right down to the placement of the silverware.
By Mark Graham10 months ago in Fiction
The Hating Game
👩‍💼👨‍💼 Meet Lucy and Josh Office Enemies Lucy Hutton is cheerful, kind, and loves wearing bright clothes and lipstick. She’s a people pleaser who believes in being nice to everyone. She works at Bexley & Gamin, a publishing house created when two very different companies merged.
By Muhammad Hayat10 months ago in Fiction
Jane Eyre
🌧️ A Lonely Beginning Jane Eyre is a poor, orphaned girl living in England in the early 1800s. She’s just ten years old when the story begins. After her parents die, she’s sent to live with her cruel aunt, Mrs. Reed, and her spoiled cousins.
By Muhammad Hayat10 months ago in Fiction
Happy Place
🌊 A Summer Reunion With a Secret Harriet and Wyn were once the perfect couple fun, affectionate, and deeply in love. But now, they’re not together anymore. In fact, they secretly broke up months ago. The only problem? Their friends don’t know.
By Muhammad Hayat10 months ago in Fiction
Get a Life, Chloe Brown
🌧️ Meet Chloe Brown Chloe Brown is a smart, sarcastic, and super-organized woman in her early thirties. She’s a web designer who works from home, drinks lots of tea, and loves warm, soft clothes. She also lives with chronic pain from a condition called fibromyalgia.
By Muhammad Hayat10 months ago in Fiction
Outlander
Outlander is a fascinating mix of historical fiction, romance, adventure, and time travel, written by Diana Gabaldon. It begins in 1945, just after World War II, and takes the reader on a journey back in time to 18th-century Scotland, where danger, love, and mystery fill every page.
By Muhammad Hayat10 months ago in Fiction
Top Ten: remarkable experimental aircraft
The spectacular North American X-15 was the pinnacle of the US series of ever-faster X-planes. Despite the fact that the previous record was set in 1967, this unparalleled aircraft continues to be the fastest aircraft ever built with a human pilot. It was carried to a high altitude beneath the wing of its NB-52 mothership before being released at 45,000 feet at a speed of about 500 miles per hour. At that point, the aircraft's rocket propulsion would propel it to speeds exceeding Mach 6 and altitudes exceeding 100 kilometers.
By Shaeen Sarker10 months ago in Fiction
Lenin's Birthday portrait
April 22 is the Birthday of Vladimir Lenin, the leader of the world's proletariat and the 1917 Bolshevik revolution. It always surprises me that Hitler's and Lenin's birthdays are so close, just one full day apart (April 20 and 22, respectively). Here's a Drabble illustrating how serious Lenin's cult was in the former Soviet Union. It is a loose translation of a story by Denis Dragunsky, a wonderful Russian children's books author, who remembered this episode from 1961:
By Lana V Lynx10 months ago in Fiction
The Foolish Tiger
Once, near a king’s palace, there lived a fox. His den was right behind the royal goat shed. The king’s goats were very beautiful and plump. Just the sight of them made the fox’s mouth water. But he couldn't get close because of the shepherds guarding them.
By Alomgir Hossain10 months ago in Fiction
A Basket by the Door
I always thought Easter was for the little things - the clink of porcelain mugs on the kitchen counter, the crinkle of plastic grass in baskets, the smell of my mom’s lemon bread toasting in the oven, spread thick with butter and jam. It was for pastel sweaters and garden blooms and little foil-wrapped chocolates melting in your hand.
By Elendionne10 months ago in Fiction
