Christina Engela lives in a sunny seaside South African tourist haven, where she enjoys watching birds fly backwards and often experiences horizontal rain. 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 - all skills which came in handy when she became a human rights advocate.
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... More > 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)< Less
Dear Eric,got the keys to your apartment and received operating instructions for the cat (turn the tail three times left, twice to the right) and got shown where Everything is. (You forgot to tell me... More > what I’m supposed to feed it to.) Apparently there’s a Universal Remote somewhere as well and that should come in handy... See you soon! Mac.< Less
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... More > 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.)< Less
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... More > 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…< Less
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... More > 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)< Less
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. ... More > 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.)< Less
HOW TO REALLY IMPROVE YOUR BEETLE WITHOUT EMPTYING YOUR BANK ACCOUNT. A host of low budget, cheap, skillful, cheap, d.i.y, cheap means of enhancing your grocery getter’s performance and... More > handling. Dollying the rest up is your baby. (Btw, did I mention it’s cheap?) Most of
the procedures described can be done by a handy
woman (or even a man) with the parts currently residing on the average drive-to-work banger.
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.)< Less
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... More > 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.< Less
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... More > 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)< Less
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... More > 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)< Less
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