Showing results by narrator "Robert Sebastian Cooper" in Literature & Fiction

Megan’s grandparents ring up one night out of the blue to ask if they can come down for the week end. Megan and her parents are concerned that one of them may be sick, but that is not the case, they just have more time on their hands now that they are retired and want to get to know Megan better. The weekend holds many surprises, but the best one for Megan is hat her grandparents are sympathetic towards her beliefs and can even feel Grrr’s presence.

Megan is a 13-year-old girl who realizes that she has psychic powers that others do not have. At first, she tried to talk to her mother about them, but with disastrous consequences, so she learned to keep quiet about them. However, some people did offer to help, and an animal showed a special friendship, but they were not "alive" in the normal sense of the word. They had passed on.

Megan is concerned about her father's health because she has never seen him ill before, so she decides to try using her psychic powers to cure him. In the end, she uses a combination of her gifts and the internet to discover ways to help him recover. Her spirit guide Wacinhinsha gives her a lecture on medicine and its application, especially from the Spiritualist point of view.

In Megan Goes on Holiday, the family goes on holiday abroad and Megan becomes besotted with the place. On her return home, she makes a bit of a fool of herself by pretending to be what she is not and showing off. However her mother and a few others bring her back to reality. Her spirit guide Wacinhinsha gives her an explanation for her recent infatuation with her holiday destination.

This saga is led by that complex character von Tabis, a psychopath, whose monumental ego, and fantasies of power and grandeur, were given fortuitous reign by his unexpected transfer to tranquil Tanganyika (Tanzania) just before World War II. His South African co-conspirators who fell under the spell of von Tabis illustrate how his charismatic and compelling personality stimulated their latent dreams and ambitions. 

Lek was born the eldest child of four in a typical rice farming family. She did not expect to do anything any different from the other girls in her class in the northern rice belt of Thailand. Typically that would be: Work in the fields for a few years; have a few babies; give them to mum to take care of and get back to work until her kids had their own children and it would be her turn to stop working to take care of them.

Each tale in this short story collection traces events in the life of whomever possesses a specific penny coin as it changes hands. The thread linking the stories is the coin, although its owners may have no commonality. The stories creatively reflect the social status and aspirations of the current possessor of the coin. Therefore, one sees the diversity of life occurring at various levels of society. We are invited to share in the characters’ joys and sorrows, and witness their actions which range from good to bad, kind to cruel and generous to greedy.

While travelling in central Turkey, Joe Grafton stumbles upon some ancient scrolls that contain a secret so devastating it could shake the foundations of the modern world. Soon he and the beautiful Turkish girl he has befriended are fighting for their lives, pursued across the country by enemies who will do anything to get their hands on the scrolls. 

Charles Pettifer, 75, a former chief planning officer, returns from a hospital appointment, having received his final sentence. He lives alone. His wife left him years ago, and he is childless and friendless. His health worsens. Lonely and frightened, he confides in his cleaner and his nurse, revealing events in his youth in the 1950s and '60s when he couldn't relate to the culture of the times and was frightened of girls.

Megan is a 13-year-old girl with Supernatural powers. Some of them are still only partially developed and others are working, but she doesn't know how to use them yet. In Megan Goes Yachting, Megan and her family are invited to go sailing from Feyton Yacht Club by two of Rob's friends, Ray and Marlene. Even Suzanne is enthusiastic about the idea, but the experience doesn't work out exactly as expected although an enjoyable weekend was had by all and Jane got to go as well. A spirit guide, a ghost tiger, and one scary mother!

Megan is a 13-year-old girl with Supernatural powers. Some of them are still only partially developed and others are working, but she doesn't know how to use them yet. Her biggest problems for the moment is finding a teacher who can show her how to handle them properly. The only people who seem willing to help her are dead, not that that makes any difference to Megan. In Megan Goes Riding, her friend, Jane, invites her to have free riding lessons on a local farm. Megan is keen to try and to meet the animals, but it doesn't turn out exactly as she had expected.

Peter Sykes lifts the lid on the good, the bad, and the ugly in the NHS, based on real-life situations from his 40 years experience at the sharp end of medical practice. Some of these stories will make you laugh, a few will make you cry, and others have a surprising twist in the tail. They feature patients, doctors and nurses, blood, sweat and toil, life and death, heartache and joy.

Jack had survived great perils as a boy, and more as a guard at Dudley Castle. But the sowrd-wound that he'd sustained rendered him fit only for a desk-job and cooking. Bored with the humdrum work, and dissatisfied with his marriage, he enlists as an archer in King Edward's army. But this time, in addition to the human antagonists, he encounters others from the realms of Magic, Saints and Demons. How will he meet these latest challenges?

Set against industrial action that beset the NHS in the 1970s, the normal healthy camaraderie of the city hospital is lost as the dispute sets nurse against nurse and doctor against doctor. Operations are cancelled, waiting lists spiral out of control, and patients' lives are put at risk. Kate and Paul are saddened that so many of their colleagues are prepared to become involved. 

Megan goes to visit her paternal grandparents in west Wales. While she is there, she goes hiking along the cliffs on the coast and discovers an ancient cave. She gathers her courage and ventures inside. It is gloomy, but she definitely gets the feeling that she is in touch with a prehistoric civilisation that once used the cave system...especially in their funeral rites!

Megan is a 13-year-old teenage girl, who realizes that she has psychic powers that others do not have. At first, she tried to talk to her mother about them, but with disastrous consequences, so she learned to keep quiet about them. However, some people do offer to help and an animal showed a special friendship, but they were not "alive" in the normal sense of the word. They had passed on. Megan has three such friends: Wacinhinsha, her Spirit Guide, who had been Sioux in his last life on Earth; her maternal grandfather, Gramps, and a huge Siberian tiger called Grrr.

A Season for Killing is told from the perspective of Daniel Ryan, a corporal in Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Virginia in 1864 during the American Civil War, as the brutal campaign in the spring and summer of that year unfolds. Ryan, an Irish immigrant in a Georgian brigade, serves heroically in a succession of battles as the Confederate Army is forced back through Virginia to their capital city of Richmond.

The Rappahannock Line continues the story of Irish immigrant Daniel Ryan who serves in Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. As the year 1862 draws to its close, the powerful Union army gathers its strength on the Rappahannock River in Virginia to renew its advance on the Confederate capital. Lee's army confronts it there bringing on a further bloody collision. 

It’s been 30 years since the incident, and things are finally starting to settle down. Nobles enjoy specimens of illegal dinosaur meat in the black market, future cyberpunks hack the system in the back of dodgy restaurants, and the Age of Magic is alive and well in the form of advanced weaponry. Overlooking them is none other than the Kingdom of Camelot.

The axis alliance between Britain, France, and Germany in the Euro Zone has been broken and The East Asian Republic is also changed by the events that transpired at the World Council meeting in London, with the death of its Great Leader, the cyborg Long Wei. His successor, General Chi, also a cyborg, is allied to witches of Priddy, Somerset, but they are confronted on the astral plane by Psychic Warriors and the Stewart family, who are natural telepaths. The stakes are high: nothing less than world domination.