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Christina Engela lives in a sunny seaside South African tourist haven, where she enjoys watching birds fly backwards and often experiences horizontal rain – which should give you some idea.
She attributes her weird sense of humor to her strange family and friends and perhaps having too much time to herself as a child.
At high school (when she was still a boy) she was known for her quirky poetry and weird sense of humor (which came in handy while directing a school play - which involved, incidentally, 3 toilet rolls, a walkie-talkie and a hammer marked ‘exhibit A’).
Later, she moved into the IT and network support environment, where she gathered a lot of experience in Conflict Resolution and Self Control - and using Solitaire to teach people How To Use The Mouse Without Inflicting Self Injury. Traveling 5km just to push a power cable back into a monitor became a genuinely fulfilling experience.
She works as a graphic design artist and multimedia specialist, where she says she finds 90% of her inspiration and also a great deal of story material.
She has always enjoyed writing her stories (and re-writing them till she felt she got it right) until someone shoved a keyboard into her hands and suggested that she try typing them instead… Which made editing a LOT easier for one thing. (It is also a lot harder to stick a keyboard in your eye.) She says she likes to write from personal experience, but doubts whether anybody believes her.
Her late father was a well known local author whose short stories were dramatized and broadcast on Springbok Radio in the 1960's and 70's. Some of his work is now also available on Lulu.com/theoengela.
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Print: $25.70 Download: $5.00 Truthfully, d’Angelo found himself unsurprised that the engines had finally packed up. “Blown up” seemed a little inadequate to describe what really happened, but the engines were now spread over the last light-year or so behind him. Now that really made his calendar cycle. Life hardly ever turns out the way we expect it to, and for Mykl d’Angelo it had just taken a bad turn for terrible. Stranded in deep space, he is handed a chance to redeem the other shipwrecks in his life - his lost career in the Imperial Starfleet and a lost chance at a relationship with the girl of his dreams. In order to pull this off, he must confront hordes of Corsairs, a crotchety starship captain, his former girlfriend and a particularly dangerous character called Blachart who will lead him behind enemy lines, where he will learn the meaning of trust – but very likely, never return.
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Print: $12.78 Download: $5.00 The battle cruiser was lost. Kaine was the last of his crew that survived – or if any others were still alive, he was unaware of it. Somehow the thing had managed to kill every one of them within the space of only a few days. At first the deaths were taken as freak accidents, being at first sight unrelated and spaced far apart. Then, as suspicion was aroused, murder seemed the cause. Soon it became clear that it was no natural thing that was killing them. Sabotage isolated them from their home, thwarting any hope of outside help. Frantic unreliable sightings of frightening things – horrible things, led to chaos. The crew, terrified, opted to die fighting and went hunting for their attacker. His only regret was that they found it. It killed them all. At first the discovery of the derelict alien ship had been an interesting diversion. Now the crew of the starship Mordrake had to face the terror and solve the ancient riddle of the Akx. Or suffer the same fate.
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Print: $11.84 Download: $5.00 Starship on frontier patrol. Suddenly attacked by unidentified ship. Heavy damage. Loss of weapons and defensive capabilities. Engines off-line. Life support has failed. They've missed supper. Disaster seems inevitable...
Starbase 14 wasn't exactly the ideal pace to start your career. Lance-Corporal Thomas O'Blivion proceeded down the corridor, tugging at the tight collar of his tunic. It had been designed, he reflected, by someone who had known with some degree of certainty that he would never have to wear it.
Launch into space, the future and beyond! (And get a humorous look at life in space through the eyes of some colourful characters in this compilation of 5 sci-fi short stories spanning everything from adventure to suspense to comedy and then back again.)
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Print: $12.44 Download: $5.00 When a single Ruminarii Hammerhead invaded the backwater Terran colony of Deanna, the people of Atro City went to meet them at the spaceport with open arms. (Perhaps exposed was a better word?)Life as a private investigator, slash bounty hunter wasn’t all Gary Beck wanted it to be. But then, what could you expect living on a planet like Deanna? A third rate colony in the Terran Empire, Deanna had more than its fair share of dull moments. It orbits a star called Ramalama. If you think that’s funny, Deanna’s two moons are called Ding and Dong, respectively. (This is a local joke.)Cindy Mei had hoped to put her violent and somehow depressing past behind her, but now it seemed her new beginning (and her holiday) were going to have to wait. With the talents of Gary (aka Beck the Badfeller), and the Skegg’s Valley Dynamite Fishing Club, how could she possibly go wrong? (Mature transgendered theme)
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Print: $12.32 Download: $5.00 Time travel wasn’t for the faint of heart. Things happen at a certain time in a certain way, which in a sense, is what it’s all about. If it didn’t, then things would be completely different. Johnathan Scrooby was extremely tense. His job at the Time Saving Agency was a tough one. Billions of lives depended on him not screwing up. Once, he’d screwed up in only a small way and people wore those little yellow smiley faces on t-shirts for decades afterwards. And that was just a small screw up.Yesterday Napoleon managed to dig a tunnel across the English Channel, invaded London and everybody at the Agency ended up speaking French for a while. Sorting that out had been… well,challenging. Mon dieu. Something smelled funny in the anals of History.Things were not as they were supposed to be.Someone somewhere was tinkering with the works. Somehow, he had to go back and fix it or who knows what might happen this time.(Mature transgendered theme)
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Print: $12.12 Download: $5.00 Deanna was just another third rate colony in the Terran Empire-and it was pretty much as boring a lump of rock as could be expected. That is, until Gary Beck ran over an obsidian crow with his Jeepo and didn’t have a spare tyre. (Things pretty much went down hill from there.)There was an assassin in town now and she had a score to settle. She was pretty, but as most poets will tell you, beauty can be deceiving. The same poets, who would write about Helen of Troy as the face that launched a thousand ships, would write about Villainessa Tittle as the bitch that sank them. As an assassin she took pride in her work, enjoyed what she did for a living – and above all, that she was bloody good at it. And this time unfortunately, it was absolutely 100 percent personal.(Mature transgendered theme)
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Print: $27.88 Download: $12.00 A special compilation of three stories by Christina Engela: 'Black Sunrise', 'The Time Saving Agency' and 'Dead Man's Hammer'. 3 in 1!
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Print: $13.64 Download: $5.00 Ever since he’d decided to quit being a P.I. and to try his hand at running cargo instead, things had just blown up in Timaset Skooch’s face one day at a time. (Grezakian Flamebirds tended to do that occasionally.) Returning from an evening spent visiting relatives in Mars City he didn’t know he had, he arrived at space terminal to find his new acquisition stolen. A few minutes later, the crew of his slightly run down loderunner “Celeste“, returned from the nearby pub, blind drunk, puzzled and now technically unemployed as well. He was sure it had something to do with the 10 000,00 credits he was offered to transport two passengers to an asteroid in the rings of Jupiter, (as soon as possible, no questions asked), by a middle-man with no neck and a tendency to smile a lot. And to crown everything, his girlfriend was mad at him too (just a little). He was beginning to regret ever winning that card game…
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Print: $11.08 Download: $5.00 A selection of poetry by Christina Engela, expressing the angst and emotional turmoil of a teenager and young adult, written before and after her coming out and during her transition.
Beginning in 1989 at the age of 16 and ending in 2002, when she had already begun her journey into womanhood, her turbulent separation from her partner of the time and the dramatic shift in interpersonal relations that followed. (Gay/transgendered theme)
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the procedures described can be done by a handy
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P.S.
All work should be carried out in consultation with a reliable workshop manual wrt torque settings, gaps, procedures, sequences, disassembly, reassembly, where to hide the leftover parts etc. Tina accepts no responsibility for anything resulting from you or anybody else trying anything as described (or not) in this document whatsoever – but if it works or you end up with some amusing stories to tell your (or someone else’s) grandchildren, please feel free to drop me a line. (No death threats please.)
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Download: FREE An attempt to write a children’s story results in some really interesting comedy… Especially after a few headache pills. The illustrations drawn by the author are nice too, well worth the finger cramps. A selection of misguided wisdom and other things guaranteed to turn innocent minds into cynical little monsters. So why not buy this book and set to work on your kid today? Jimmy… It’s time for your bedtime story… Forget Goldilocks and the three Bears… It’s time for some kickass stuff YOU will probably enjoy reading more than your kids! Featuring some of the lovable characters from The Time Saving Agency. (No, not the one with the teaspoon.) Download for Free |
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It is becoming increasingly clear through the relentless attacks on the pink community that there is a great deal of ignorance among the heterosexual community about what it means to be gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or intersex. This ignorance leads to fulfillment of that old saying about people fearing the unknown – and so that is the purpose of this booklet – making the unknown known, and thereby lifting the veil of ignorance on a subject some people only hear about coming from those who incite hatred, lies and propaganda. Astounding hatred is vented against people in the media, be it newspapers, TV programs, the internet or even in social groups or religious institutions, solely based upon ignorance and the fear caused by such ignorance. Download for Free |
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Download: $6.25 To a collector, the find of a vintage bug stored in a garage for a decade is the stuff dreams are made of!
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