Why Shanghai sucked.
August 29, 2011 · Book / Movie Reviews, Featured Story · Comment 

The movie Shanghai wants to be a big hullaballooing tapestry of love, espionage and betrayal in WW2 China, woven through with parallels to Casablanca. What we get though is more gold-threaded doily then Bayeux, knitted with great pomposity from dramatic…

Bone Diamond @ Beneath Ceaseless Skies

My story Bone Diamond – a sweeping tale of greed, madness, and murder in alt. Egypt – has just gone live at Beneath Ceaseless Skies. This is my first ever pro-rated sale, so I’m utterly proud and pleased with it….

Ice-Flock Gulls @ Kizuna Anthology

Kizuna: Fiction for Japan is a charity anthology of 75 stories from authors all around the world, with all proceeds going to benefit the orphans of the disaster-stricken Tohoku area, through the charity Smile Kids Japan. It includes a story…

Dead Sentinels: 10 Stunning Abandoned Lighthouses
August 5, 2011 · Featured Story, Lighthouses, World Ruins · Comment 

Lighthouses are the sentinels of globalization; for thousands of years they have stood on barren shores the world over and guided the spreading hands of global trade, keeping unknown seafarers and their precious cargoes safe in the night. Now they…

Abandoned Lighthouses 10. Fish Fluke Point
August 5, 2011 · Canada, Lighthouses, World Ruins · Comment 

The Grand Harbor Lighthouse on Fish Fluke Point, Ross Island Canada, was built in 1879, a square wooden tower 32-feet tall with the Keeper’s dwelling attached. Its fixed-white catoptric light was visible for 11 miles in clear weather. It was…

Abandoned Lighthouses 9. Ship John Shoal
August 5, 2011 · Lighthouses, USA, World Ruins · Comment 

Construction of the Ship John Shoal Lighthouse in Delaware Bay took 27 years, from a decision by the US Congress in 1850 that a light was needed, through various incarnations of caisson-foundations, screw-pile roots, 2000 tons of rip-rap, and a…

Abandoned Lighthouses 8. Aniva Rock
August 5, 2011 · Lighthouses, Russia, World Ruins · 15 Comments 

The Aniva lighthouse was built by the Japanese in 1939, on a chunk of rock off the southern coast of Sakhalin, a thin 950 km long island situated just east of Russia, between the sea of Japan and Russia’s Sea…

Abandoned Lighthouses 7. Capo d’Otranto
August 5, 2011 · Italy, Lighthouses, World Ruins · 3 Comments 

The Capo d’Otranto lighthouse was built in 1867, situated at Italy’s most eastern point, marking the point where the Ionian and Adriatic Seas meet. It was abandoned in the 1970′s, but restored and reopened to tourists in 2008, where it…

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