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LASTING IDEAS

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:8 June 2021
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Isaac Asimov wrote intriguing stories, but perhaps what will last even beyond those tales is his notion of The Laws of Robotics. His original three laws are quoted here, from…

M. A. FOSTER

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:25 May 2021
Post category:Featured Author Science Fiction
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The Warriors of Dawn is a pocket novel I picked from a free-book tree I occasionally donate to. An oldie (1975) but an extraordinarily imaginative tale in the science fiction…

Love and Healing

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:11 May 2021
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Many believe that love heals all. But what sort of love? Whose love? Romance is a blush of blossoms with instant power that must mature or perish. What may be…

Favourite Characters

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:27 April 2021
Post category:Opinion Readers Writers
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Readers have favourite characters, as the many Outlander fan groups prove. But authors do, as well: that one man or woman who colours a writer's inner world enough to urge…

Voices

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:13 April 2021
Post category:Opinion Writers

Find your "voice," aspiring authors are advised, voice being that manner of speech that translates on the page as yours alone. (Well, more or less. After all, there are millions…

Testing, testing…

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:1 April 2021
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Just jotting a little something to test the system. That is one of the reasons I sometimes want to throw up my hands and toss out all notions of maintaining…

Musings…

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:30 March 2021
Post category:Opinion

What if life is a construct, similar to the world of The Matrix movie series? A mere projection? A hologram? And if so, is it created by an Artificial Intelligence,…

Change of Habits

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:16 March 2021
Post category:Adventure Fantasy Featured Author Mystery Romance Science Fiction Thrillers and Suspense

To now, my blog has contained weekly posts. But life is changing and I need more time for other projects; so, I'll be posting less often from here on out,…

David R. Hawkins

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:9 March 2021
Post category:Featured Author Non-fiction Opinion

Strictly non-fiction, David R. Hawkins's works teach us who we really are, where we come from, and what brought us to our current condition, whatever that may be. Power Vs.…

Peter Robinson

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:2 March 2021
Post category:Featured Author Mystery Readers Thrillers and Suspense

If you enjoy England and crime stories, you'll want to read Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks Mysteries. Though an older book, Wednesday's Child has a timely topic: child abduction and abuse.…

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I NOTICED THE SWAGGER FIRST: that arrogant saunter that said, “I’m irresistible and I know it.” He was good-looking, yes—as emphasized by the tight jeans that displayed every muscle and more than hinted at one in particular. And the chambray shirt open to show off a broad chest matted with jet hair that proclaimed his masculinity.

–excerpt from Bad Twin

GINETTE LAY STARING into darkness in the low cot by the grand canopied bed in which Lady Barton snored softly. To her surprise and dismay, the old woman had roused from her fireside dozing when she entered the room and had insisted on regaling her with more tales of the foibles and weaknesses of the aristocracy as Ginette helped her undress.

Thinking back on it, she realized there had been a subtle urgency in the manner of the viscountess. Indeed, now that she recalled her months as maid-cum-companion, she recognized that she had felt yet dismissed a sense of impendence. At first, she had wondered was it she who anticipated something vaguely threatening, or was it Lady Barton who expected some event? Now, a certainty filled her that Lady Barton’s choosing to employ her signified much more than she had guessed.

But what?

–excerpt from Propositions and Proposals