Captain Jim was still more excited when he discovered that Owen Ford was what he called a "real writing man." He gazed at him as at a superior being. Captain Jim knew that Anne wrote, but he had never taken that fact very seriously. Captain Jim thought women were delightful creatures, who ought to have the vote, and everything else they wanted, bless their hearts; but he did not believe they could write....
<p>As we march ever closer to the inevitable future where every video game is Warhammer 40,000, gamebook expert Tin Man Games has announced a trilogy of Warhammer-themed choose-your-own-adventure novels.</p><p>The first, Legacy of Dorn: Herald of Oblivion (a digital adaptation of the Warhammer 40,000 Path To Victory gamebook of the same name), will hit iOS and Android in September.</p><p>As usual, things have been spruced up for this digital remake. The paper book is now an Imperial Cogitator computer terminal. And the dice combat is scrapped in favour of first- person, turn-based brawls.</p><p>The story makes you a veteran Space Marine of the Imperial Fists Chapter. Which sounds fun, until you learn that you're trapped aboard a space hulk, the only survivor of your squad, and surrounded by alien nasties.</p><p>This is part one of a Legacy of Dorn Trilogy. Sequels Pits of Commorragh and Forge of War are due for release in 2016. We'll let you know when Herald of Oblivion hits the app stores.</p>...
Two nights later Anne took Owen Ford down to Four Winds Point to introduce him to Captain Jim. The clover fields along the harbor shore were whitening in the western wind, and Captain Jim had one of his finest sunsets on exhibition. He himself had just returned from a trip over the harbor....
A BOY put his hand into a pitcher full of filberts. He grasped as many as he could possibly hold, but when he tried to pull out his hand, he was prevented from doing so by the neck of the pitcher. Unwilling to lose his filberts, and yet unable to withdraw his hand, he burst into tears and bitterly lamented his disappointment. A bystander said to him, "Be satisfied with half the quantity, and you will readily draw out your hand."...
