Today was the birthdate of horror writer Bram Stoker. Here are some quotes:
We learn of great things by little experiences.
There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights.
Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker.
No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.
Once again...welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.
I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.
Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.
Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.
But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.
Beta
(Combat Team Series #2)
Steff was abducted by an evil alien race, the Orbs, at fourteen. Used as a weapon for years, he eventually escapes, but his problems are just beginning. How does a man support himself when his only work experience is a paper round and using an Orb bio-integrated gun?
Warlord is an alien soldier who knows little but war. When the centuries-old conflict which ravaged his planet ends, he seeks out another world where his skills are still relevant. There are always wars on Earth, it seems. However, none of Earth's powerful armies want him.
Natalie has always wanted to visit England and sees a chance to do so while using her martial arts skills, but there are sacrifices she must make in order to fulfil her dream.
Maggie resorted to crime to fund her sister's medical care. She uses her genetic variant abilities to gain access to the rooms of wealthy hotel guests. The Ballards look like rich pickings, but they are not what they seem. When Maggie targets them, little does she know that she is walking into a trap.
Hotel owner Hamilton Lonsdale puts together a combat team to pit against those of other multi-millionaires. He recruits Warlord, Natalie, Maggie and Steff along with a trained gorilla, a probability-altering alien, a stockbroker whose work of art proved to be much more than he'd bargained for, a marketing officer who can create psionic forcefields, a teleporting member of the landed gentry, and a socially awkward fixer. This is Combat Team Beta.
Steff never talks about his time with the Orbs, until he finds a woman who lived through it, too. Steff believes he has finally found happiness, but it is destined to be short-lived. He is left with an unusual legacy which he and Team Beta struggle to comprehend; including why something out there seems determined to destroy it.
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