Confessions of Time Spent with Humans

Confessions of Time Spent with Humans

Dora Okeyo

Fiction / Historical Fiction / Suspense

An account of a family torn apart by a secret as told by a chair, so sit and listen.People never think much about ‘us’ chairs. I mean, you buy us, sit on us, move us when you change houses-share us, step on us and all the while it has never crossed your mind to be good to us. I guess that is just our life. It is fate. Fate is cruel for she gives you what you deserve. But for once, listen to what I am about to tell you. Forget that I am a red leather chair. I have lived for thirty years thanks to Michael. He came home one night, sat on me and talked about her. He called her name seven times-and before I could respond he was gone. They took him away from me at dawn. His wife-Nancy couldn’t breathe immediately after. His sons came home that evening and talked about him. The name he called-that’s what I want to tell you about. I want to tell you why she left home. I will have to tell you about Michael and his family too. So please take a seat, or pull a chair and listen.
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Roses and Lies

Roses and Lies

Dora Okeyo

Fiction / Historical Fiction / Suspense

Allan is an advocate in Nairobi.He finds himself in a world where the truth is hidden along the corridors of justice. As years go by, he rises the leadership ranks and is admired by his constituents.However, his wife, Pamela knows one thing about him: he gives her a rose for every lie. Question is, who is counting?Allan is an advocate in Nairobi.He finds himself in a world where the truth is hidden along the corridors of justice. As years go by, he rises the leadership ranks and is admired by his constituents.However, his wife, Pamela knows one thing about him: he gives her a rose for every lie. Question is, who is counting?Roses and lies is tale of mystery with a twinge of passion set in Nairobi and the small town of Micheni.
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Made For You

Made For You

Dora Okeyo

Fiction / Historical Fiction / Suspense

Luke loves May. May loves him just as much. They date for a year and he finally asks her to marry him, but he leaves that night. He's been gone for two years without so much as goodbye-and when May thinks of giving up on her love, she learns of why he left and why he's been silent. People make mistakes, even the people that we love, at times forgiveness is the only way out.Costa Eustakihos is rich, powerful, and fiercely protective of his younger brother. When he mistakes Tallia Maitland for a gold digging tart, he knows it is his duty to run her off before she can sink her claws into his brother. Unfortunately, the ruthless tycoon only realizes his mistake when it is too late. Will the beautiful Tallia forgive him for his appalling behavior, and what will her kindness and innocence do to the jaded millionaire, when he discovers the truth?
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December

December

Dora Okeyo

Fiction / Historical Fiction / Suspense

It's December and Maxwell vowed to make Leila his-but they haven't seen each other since he proposed to her three weeks ago. In a city full of people and events, all Maxwell wants is for Leila to say "yes" questions is can he find her? And if he does, will she say yes?By 2050 the country has gone through some slight changes thanks to a dramatic shift in the makeup in the country's populace giving liberals, referred to by various uncomplimentary names, control over Washington. In that thirty years the country becomes the veritable paradise moonbats have long sought to create, but more resembling a third-world banana republic where English is replaced by twenty-five variations of gang slang, no one gets beyond third grade, rioting and something resembling football with hockey sticks are the national pastimes. There is now a "Forever President," welfare moms have replaced small business, corn is the cornerstone of industry, and people drive around in either battery-powered bubble cars or Latino lowriders. All the while, non-thinking Schwartz is led around on a doggie leash, and has become a 'pinball,' with names ranging from Vic to Dick to Bic, and spends his day bouncing around the fenced playground of a former elementary school turned asylum for the insane. One fine spring day the gate to the compound suddenly opens and Schwartz, along with a hundred or so inmates, unthinkingly escape. While walking aimlessly down a highway, he is struck by another truck (an electric bus) and suddenly awakens from his long sleep to find the liberals' variation of paradise has really arrived in America! Schiessen!
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Say You Love Me

Say You Love Me

Dora Okeyo

Fiction / Historical Fiction / Suspense

If you are married and are caught cheating...what would you do? It seems easy to simply sign a divorce paper, or serve them to someone-but what if a huge part of you still wants to stay, what then? Beryl goes through the same with Mark. 'Say you love me' is a story about love, hopes and dreams and how at times reality hurts more than it should.Synopsis:Anne Daniels has a secret to tell you. Come on an adventure with her to the sunshine in Tampa, Florida, a business trip where her path crosses with the man of her dreams, Alex, a carefree artist. Follow Anne to a beautiful Florida beach hidden from the world where she discovers true love, but not without a twist that changes her heart forever. Have you experienced true love?Praise for "A Brush of Love":- "It will leave you pondering life." - Amazon Reviewer- "Wow! I have read this a couple of times..." - Barnes & Noble ReviewerOne of the 11 stories included in the collection "From Vegas With Blood."
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Of Songs and love

Of Songs and love

Dora Okeyo

Fiction / Historical Fiction / Suspense

Faith and Sam are the best of friends. He is a journalist and she is a Bank teller. He's loved her for over five years, but Faith has only loved one man-Bellamy. Her heart has never been open to Sam, and he tells her how he feels-just like Daughtry. Each song has a meaning and a time. He uses music to reach out to her and she finds the strength to move on because of that.Of Songs and love is inspired by Daughtry's album: Leave this town.Music has the power to say the things that we cannot say and each song bears a different meaning to different people. People can disagree about most things except for the feelings invoked by music.The same happens to two best friends: Sam and Faith.He loves her, but she loves another man. How long does he have to wait on her? Instead of giving up hope, he takes on the path of reaching out to her. With each article her writes in his column, he slowly tells her how he feels. Doe she come around?Only time will tell.
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Pieces

Pieces

Dora Okeyo

Fiction / Historical Fiction / Suspense

Would you stay married after the first affair? Maria loves Micah despite his flaws. He is handsome and kind and she loves him, or not, but she has stayed even when the affairs has surpassed the number of her fingers.Pieces is her view on her marriage, loyalty and why revenge is best served as a cold dish with a smile on one's face.Epic Fail. The anti-hero, anti-fantasy, anti-quest adventure continues. Escaping from one prison only to find themselves inside another, where machines run wild, the sun doesn't know how to set, and time itself is running out, the chosen ones find themselves without a clue. All they have is an old battered book that re-writes itself daily and advises them to "follow the path", but what they find at the end of the line is both more and less than they ever expected.
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The Absolutely Boring Life of Mya

The Absolutely Boring Life of Mya

Dora Okeyo

Fiction / Historical Fiction / Suspense

Mya's special, sweet, and bored out of her mind with what happens in her life-that's before David, Clive and Wayne all show up-and she realizes that love though beautiful is complicated and all she does is run...Intuition: A Bonus Intangible short story, an introduction to the highly rated Intangible Series. An enthralling glimpse into the Intangible world by an "author [who] has a way with words that just pulls you into the story and holds you there until the very last word, and even then you just do not want to be let go" (Shelly Hammond).Luke and his twin sister Sera have unusual abilities. Hers is a gift--she can heal with a touch of her hand. His is a curse--he can see the future but he can't do anything about it.On a hike up the mountain, Luke has a vision unlike any other--one that leaves him terrified. Knowing that it will come true--and that he must do everything in his power to stop it--leaves his own future uncertain.(This is a short story, and approximately 16 pages long.)Intangible (Book One), Imaginable (Book Two), and Indomitable (an Intangible novella) are available now. Book Three coming late 2015.
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Luke Zane and the Bushwhacker

Luke Zane and the Bushwhacker

Dora Okeyo

Fiction / Historical Fiction / Suspense

Luke Zane don't take kindly to being bushwhacked, but when an awful pretty schoolmarm is involved, he starts to see some benefit in even a bad situation.When twenty-two year old Mark Prior jumped at the opportunity of joining his friends on a backpacking holiday around the Aegean islands, he never imagined that they'd come across a forgotten relic that would change their lives forever. The mysterious island of Samothrace is the group's first stop and the epicenter of secrets where the blue lightning is harbored, hidden deep within its ancient mountain.Who are the enigmatic Order of Knights, known as the Clergy, that are sworn to protect the world from this primeval and forgotten power? What is their connection to their adversaries, a vagabond group of misfits calling themselves the Organization?Join the adventures of Mark, Alice, Telemachus and Jose as they unleash an ancient power, designed to bestow the wielders of the blue lightning with extraordinary abilities. Witness their story as they realize the consequences of their discovery with half of the world's secret services hot on their heels.Stormcall is the first installment of the E.M.F. Chronicles, a five-part series of suspenseful action adventures with a strong science fiction edge. Follow the life of each character in a tale of friendship, camaraderie and conflict, from the green slopes of mount Saos to the magical circle of stones in Glastonbury. T.A. Marks' remarkable book will keep you guessing, from start to finish.
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Mist

Mist

Dora Okeyo

Fiction / Historical Fiction / Suspense

Rose's life is perfect: rich husband, two kids, great job and a great body. However, Rose knows that money cannot replace desire, neither can it replace love nor life. She gets a call informing her that her husband is dead. Will his secretive and rich family let her know the truth?
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Ethan And Richard

Ethan And Richard

Dora Okeyo

Fiction / Historical Fiction / Suspense

Richard walked out on his son, Ethan, eighteen years ago-and now he's back. He has a month to live after battling Lung Cancer, and he wants to set things right, he wants Ethan's forgiveness. Ethan does not want anything to do with him.But Richard is persistent...will he win?Nate Bray and Cady Steward were an average eighteen year old couple. They juggled their time between enjoying each others company and enjoying the company of their friends Mike, Cera, and Taylor. But one disrupted summer solstice party and militant ambush later, everything changed. Now, with Cady and Cera taken hostage by these mysterious terrorists, Nate and the remaining group must work against time as well as their own shortcomings to ensure they save their friends and survive the night. And maybe they'll have a decent epiphany along the way...maybe.
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