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A compendium of speculative fiction, horror, science fiction and fantasy by International authors. The fourth in the landmark series by StarkLight Press.

A story about a raja's two mischievous elephants named Flood and Famine.

How do you like your eggs? Holiday horror stories just in time for Easter. Our contributors have pushed the boundaries of their imagination for this anthology, bringing you horrifying yet inspiringly original works of twisted fiction.

A collection of holiday-themed horror tales, from reworkings of the classics to completely new fiction. Our contributors have pushed the boundaries of their imagination for this anthology, bringing you horrifying yet inspiringly original works of Festive Fiction.

This thesis examines the role of geographic land use interpretation in flood damage estimation. Sample flood data were drawn from the 1998 flood event along San Francisquito Creek in northern Santa Clara County, California. Spatial flood data for the event were collected from the Santa Clara Valley Water District (the District); depth-damage factors and the flood damage equations were both collected from US Army Corps of Engineers' (the Corps) publications; and spatial parcel data were collected from the Santa Clara County Tax Assessor's office (the Assessor). This study computes flood damages per parcel using the Corps' recommended equations. Within that computation process the land use classifications from three different agencies and comprising 9-100 land use categories were interpreted to fulfill the calculations. The Tax Assessor's land uses were generalized into construction land uses in order to identify replacement costs. Construction land use categories were then generalized into the Corps land uses in order to apply depth-damage factors per structure. The flood-affected parcels were then grouped to include the District's designated land uses. The flood risk was then mapped by land use and described in dollars as a means of choosing an appropriate flood protection measure. The computation was performed per parcel and variations in the economic information conveyed by each agency's land uses were reviewed.

"The cliche, lost in translation, suggests that texts decay with each retelling in a new language, losing meaning and artistic purity, but recent work in Translation Theory argues that the divergences in translated texts are not defects. Merging current trends in Translation Theory and Medieval Studies, Turning the Tide reconsiders the Flood narrative of the Old English Genesis A, Exodus, Beowulf and the works of Ælfric of Eynsham. These retellings produced new, legitimate meaning for their Anglo-Saxon audience. The Old English Flood narratives develop Hebraic themes shared by Anglo-Saxon culture such as tribal warfare, genealogy, and blood feuds. However, the physical environments of the Anglo-Saxons and the Hebraic nomads ultimately responsible for Genesis diverge greatly. In translating the Flood into comprehensible terms, the Old English translators transform the physical environment of Genesis into that of Anglo-Saxon England and emphasize the idea of water as divine agent. Effectively, these translations extract the Flood from its desert setting and ground it in Anglo-Saxon lived experience. Chapter 1 examines the ways in which Genesis A transforms the Flood waters by endowing them with features characteristic of Old English oral poetry, including color, battlefield kennings, martial formulas, and agency (the living waves "swallow" multitudes). This translation at once estranges and familiarizes the narrative of obliteration and re-creation by transposing it into a culture long familiar with relentless precipitation and sea-travel. Chapter 2 explores how the Flood informs and repurposes the story of the Hebrews' flight from Egypt in the Old English verse Exodus. In the re-created narrative, the translator describes Moses as an Anglo-Saxon war-lord and the Hebrews as an army of "sea-vikings." Before the parting of the Red Sea, a Hebrew tells the story of the first Flood and Noah, refigured as a sailor. In turn, the Red Sea of Exodus becomes a Flood in miniature used to destroy the Egyptian army. Chapter 3 looks at the suffusing water imagery in Beowulf through the lens of Old English Flood depictions. These traditions allow us to see the connections and crosspollinations between the ocean and Grendel's mere on the one side, and the residual characteristics of the Flood as both agent of God and realm of monsters. Finally, Chapter 4 investigates the traditional Old English poetic depictions of water that surface in ¡lfric's prose translations of the Flood story in his prose Genesis, homilies, and treatises. Through this wide range of adaptations - verse and prose, free and strict - we see that the Old English translations of the Flood were dictated, in part, by the physical surroundings reflected in the language."--Pages vii-viii.

What if our ancestors were far different than they have been depicted for several generations? What if they were of exquisite beauty and extreme intelligence, using one hundred percent of their brains? What if they traveled into space before the flood of Noah and had abilities we can only dream of. What if they had an extra sense that has been lost to mankind, and had the ability to levitate objects of ominous proportions? What if there were giants on the earth, and angels with extraordinary powers living on the earth before the flood? What would life have been like then? It was said by Jesus in Matthew 24:38-39 that they would be like the days just before His final return. Foreshadows presents a picture of what life could have been like if all these things were true, and possibly what our present day world may be facing.