http://atlanticghostempire.com Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:45:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Koi of Hungwa tells the story of Rose and John, a young couple iving in the hostile world of 1970’s post-devastation New York City, with only each other to rely on. Rose is nine months pregnant and could give birth any day. John’s sole purpose is to protect his wife ... http://atlanticghostempire.com/?p=861 October 20th Peoria gave me a pile of stuff about del Herrero, coloring books, comics, posters, novels etc. They all tell the same story. He grew up in Barcelona, the son of a blacksmith. At seventeen he joined the Spanish Navy. By age twenty six he was made captain. His ... http://atlanticghostempire.com/?p=846 “What the hell is Alexander Grealish doing here?” said Peoria. “And what are those idiot cowboys doing with him? And what was that shit about Naomi?” “Forget it darlin’…Did you find anything about this del Herrero guy?” said Captain Gram. “They wouldn’t let me into the library because I don’t have a ... http://atlanticghostempire.com/?p=809 Chapter 21 October 18th (Venice) Saint Mark’s Basilica is separated into five domes, each with its own set of archives, dating back as early as 423 A.D. Peoria has spent the past five days going from dome to dome researching the name Francisco del Herrero. When she got back to ... http://atlanticghostempire.com/?p=796 The United States Navy built the F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1883 in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Originally named the Norfolk, it was one of two submarines designed by Benjamin Strickland of Hampton Roads, Virginia. Strickland’s other submarine, named the Suffolk, was sunk during the Spanish American War. In 1910 the Norfolk returned ... http://atlanticghostempire.com/?p=785 October 10th I’m so bored. There is nothing to do in the room. Iseri doesn’t say much and there’s no booze. All I can do is stare out the window and smoke cigarettes. I can’t stop thinking about that duplicate the storekeeper had of my mother’s parchment. What’s the connection? After ... http://atlanticghostempire.com/?p=780 I carefully folded up the letter from del Herrero and continued to look through the papers we took from the storekeeper. I found a hand drawn map tracing Zheng He’s route on his final voyage. His ships sailed past India, around the Cape of Good Hope, up the West Coast ... http://atlanticghostempire.com/?p=768 October 8th We had been locked up for over a week. When Gram turned his mobile back on, he had seven new messages from Tom. The first few were calm, with Tom sending regular updates about his progress repairing the Mechanical Gills on the F. Scott. However as he continued to ... http://atlanticghostempire.com/?p=741 I woke up when they untied me from my chair. I tried to stand but fell over. The chair where the Captain had been sitting was empty. Two soldiers picked me up off the floor and marched me out of the cellar to the back of the house. One of ... http://atlanticghostempire.com/?p=721 The soldiers linked us to the dead businessmen found in the Bazaar three days earlier. We were taken to a cellar and interrogated for hours. They punched me in the stomach repeatedly causing me to vomit blood. The soldiers held Gram down and pulled out one of his teeth with ... http://atlanticghostempire.com/?p=691