All of us long for our child to be special and to be great at what they choose to do in life. But does this wish hold true even if your only daughter is a natural killer? What if she begins to show her talent as an assassin at a really young age?
How safe is all of the wonderful technology that we now have? Most of us carry cell phones with us everywhere we go. We tend to take out internet access for granted. They make life so much easier for us. But what if they were used against us? Asher Benson has moved out in the…
When you dust the blades on your ceiling fan, are you removing the fine particles of dirt or adding them? When you have a fast horse, does it move quickly or is it stuck in one spot? You state that something is finished. Is it completed, or is it destroyed? dike A dike is a wall or…
Do you brake or break the eggs? Is bread or bred served with dinner? Do you breath or breathe to stay alive? When you ride a horse, do you put a bridal or a bridle on it? Would you brows or browse through the selection of books in a library? brake, break A brake is a device…
Could this be a picture of things to come in our society? The business of psychiatry has changed just a bit. Grief is now big business, and Jonathon is an employee of it. He is a Taker. It is his job to listen and take in and listen to all the grief that ails his…
Would you eat a bomb or a bombe for dessert? Would you enjoy your picnic by a born, a borne, or a bourne? You bought a donkey. Did you purchase a borough, a burro, or a burrow? The robbers stole all of the gold bars from the vault. Did they steal bouillon or bullion? bomb,…
An oxymoron is a figure of speech made up of words that usually have completely opposite meanings. As a writer, you can create a character that has a tendency to use oxymorons in his or her speech. Even though oxymorons are pretty much self-explanatory, I will elaborate a bit on each one. I’m not saying…
Homonyms are confusing enough, but there is another category of confusing words: contronyms. With contronyms, each word is its own antonym. When you offer someone an apology, are you saying sorry or are you defending what you have done? When you bolt down a chair, it stays put. But you can bolt from a fight?…
Would you eat soup from a bole, boll, or bowl? Would you be put to sleep listening to a boar, Boer, boor, or bore? Would a vicious dog bight you, bite you, or byte you? bight, bite, byte A bight is a the middle part of a rope. It is a curve, specifically the curved part of…
If you could surf the Internet with your brain, if the thoughts and memories of others were an open book to you, what would you do? Would you be able to handle it without losing your mind? Remember Nick Hall from Mind’s Eye? Everyone has been led to believe that he is dead, but in…
