Literature

Bonnie was disturbed and confused. It was dark.”All right,” a voice that was brusque and calming at once was saying. “That’s two possible concussions, one puncture wound in need of…

“It actually makes a horrible kind of sense,” Meredith said. They were in Isobel’s family room, waiting for Dr. Alpert. Meredith was at a beautiful desk made of some black…

“Ohhhh.” Bonnie melted back into the bucket seat. “It was like…kapow! Zap! Zowie! Like…fireworks.””You’re smirking.” “I am not smirking,” Bonnie said with dignity. “I am smiling in fond remembrance. Besides…

Matt was knocking at the Bryces’ door, with Elena at his side. Elena had disguised herself by stuffing all her hair into a Virginia Cavaliers baseball cap and wearing wraparound…

Matt woke, fuzzily, to find himself still behind the steering wheel of Elena’s car. He stumbled into his house, almost forgetting to lock the car, and then fumbling with keys…

In the first days after she’d come back from the afterlife, Stefan had always put her to bed early, made sure she was warm, and then allowed her to work…

Stefan was surprised to find Mrs. Flowers waiting for them when they returned from their picnic. And, also unusually, she had something to say that didn’t involve her gardens.”There is…

Matt nodded, but he was blushing to the fair roots of his hair. “Tami…pressed herself against me.”There was a long pause. Meredith said levelly, “Matt, do you mean she hugged…

1. Introduction Transactional memory is poised to take parallel programming a step higher by making it more efficient and much easier to achieve, compared to traditional ‘semaphore’ locking. This is…

Elena woke up the next morning in Stefan’s narrow bed. She recognized this before she was fully awake and hoped to heaven that she had given Aunt Judith some reasonable…

Much later that night, Elena couldn’t sleep. She didn’t want to be hemmed in inside the Tall Room, she said. Secretly, Stefan worried that she wanted to go outside and…

It came back to him, all of it: the cramped aisles and the tiny windows and the musty smell of old books. He had been in Belgium some fifty years…

Introduction This brief aims to discuss how changes in communication and technology affected the role of the modern diplomat. A diplomat is one who is sent abroad to represent his…

Bonnie couldn’t remember any more sophisticated prayer and so, like a tired child, she was saying an old one: “…I pray the Lord my soul to take….” She had used…

Elena was serenely happy. Now it was her turn.Stefan used a sharp wooden letter opener from his desk to cut himself. Elena always hated to see him do this, use…

The clock’s old-fashioned hands showed threeA.M . when Meredith was suddenly roused from a fitful sleep.And then she bit her lip, stifling a scream. A face was bending over hers,…

Abstract The UK does not have a written constitution and as such there is a heavy reliance on the constitutional conventions. This analysis considers the importance of the conventions and…

There was a sort of universal gasp. Stefan went white, his compressed lips showing in a tight line. Bonnie felt as if she were choking on words, on explanations, on…

“Isaid,get out ,” Meredith repeated to Caroline, still quietly. “You’ve said things that never should have been said in any civilized place. This happens to be Stefan’s place – and,…

Damon was driving aimlessly when he saw the girl.She was alone, walking down the side of the street, her titian hair blowing in the wind, her arms weighted down by…