R Richard: 644 books

Large scale minting of the British gold sovereign for circulation ceased in the London Mint in 1917. The six branch mints carried on making relatively small numbers of the coin for some time after the 1917 date. The Pretoria Mint in South Africa then made the last branch mint gold sovereign coins...

I stroll in and address the Town Council. I'm 18-years-old. I have just graduated from high school. The Town Council has big problems. They don't need to listen to some drivel from a high school kid. I have just the one chance and I gotta nail it from the very start. I look the Council members in...

“Okay, I presume that you want to go and check out the Bunny Patch first. If it works out, you can then involve the local girls. When do you plan to try?” Linda says, “Next Friday night. You'll have a couple of new girls in the gym, working on toning exercises and then the advanced aerobic classes....

Wayward Boy is the story of a boy who's a recent high school graduate. He's pretty much ostracized in his filthy-rich East coast hometown of Snobville. As a result, he spends much of his time in a small sail boat in Chesapeake Bay doing water samples and tide pool creature counts. As a result, he's...

Jim is an engineer and lives in a very political town. Jim loses his wife to his boss and then he becomes a political outcast. Jim is a skilled engineer and he gets a job at a nearby military base. Jim then screws over his ex bass, financially. His ex company then sends Angela to solve the mystery...

Annette says, “Yes, that’s how it should play out. It appears that you’ll be a big winner.” “Yeah, a big winner, at the cost of loss of the only place that I ever lived, the only people that I ever really knew, the car that I built and the house that I owned.” Annette says, “You sold...

Amarantha then lectures me, “The prize in an ocean race is the Kings Cup. The cup contains some ancient information, about the war that set the first King on his throne. The Krelzyn must have the information. Only such as I can read the information. I must take the prize, the King’s Cup in my...

Jim Orr is a hard working computer programmer. As a reward he gets fired. A goon tries to abuse Jim, as Jim leaves. Jim defends himself and the goon dies. As a result, the only job that Jim can get is a very strange job, out at the edge of town. Jim slowly realizes that he’s working for space aliens. Jim...

I’m Jason Rall. I don’t have a regular job, working for someone else. I have never had a regular job, working for someone else. I probably never will have a regular job, working for someone else. However, I work pretty much a 40 hour or more work week. I get paid about 150% of what a full time...

Just One More Little Job ... Justin Fentar is forced to make his living running leaf narcotic from the jungle to Nollar city. Then one Blosta Veran if the Septagon Group that abandoned Justin on planet Omicron 4, reappears. Justin Fentar is to be required to do, “Just one more little job for the...

I logically point, “The other aliens are looking for your guys, not me. However, if the other aliens talk to a 16-year-old boy, they will fall for damn near anything, as adults think they're so much more clever than a 16-year-old boy. If you can hook me up with the other aliens, I can then...

Jason and his wife Jill sign up for a job involving the development of a hot Internet application. Jason has been advised not to take the job, as the money man is supposedly insane. However, the money is too good to pass up. The company site for the job is a valley above the California coast. The...

I can see only one way that I might survive financially and that’s a desperate try. I pull up the last week’s stock market trading data into my home computer and run the data through an automatic trading program that I have developed on my home computer. As with the past several weeks, I would...

I awake, as several dim shapes attend me. I am cleaned and barbered a bit. I am then provided with clothing, such as a middle eastern tourist might wear, for a journey across the desert. I am then pushed through a door and I find myself facing what appears to be a very large man, sitting behind a...