Persia Stories

WINNER OF READERS CHOICE AWARDS 2020 (Historical Fiction) Stone hearts. Silver to gold. And the fierce need to prove oneself. [THIS STORY IS PENDING MAJOR EDITS TO CHARACTERS AND PLOTS]. Sequel: Silver Skies Highest ranks: #1 in Arabia || #3 in History || #51 in Assassin || #90 in Spiritual

I'm a prostitute, and my latest John asked me to do something strange.

Lima belas tahun setelah kematian sang ibu yang dinyatakan sebagai kasus bunuh diri, Khafa akhirnya menemukan sebuah petunjuk penting. Dalam papyrus yang tersimpan di perpustakaan sang ibu, tertulis sebuah nama yang sudah sangat familiar ditelinga Khafa, Jabir Ibnu Hayyan. Nama yang selalu ibunya sebutkan dalam setiap kenangan masa lalunya. Nama yang juga begitu erat dengan teori transformasi logam mulia. Berbekal ingatan masa lalu bersama sang ibu dan kecerdasannya, Khafa bertekad untuk menemukan kebenaran dari petunjuk tersebut. Sayangnya, perjalanan ini tidak akan mudah, waktu yang telah terpaut lebih dari 15 tahun, wajah yang bahkan belum pernah ia temui, jarak puluhan kilometer dari Persia ke Kufah, serta gejolak perebutan kekuasaan kepemimpinan Khilafah menjadi tantangan yang harus Khafa hadapi. Belum lagi, pertemuannya dengan Azalea, wanita Arab yang sedang dalam pelarian, menjadikan perjalanannya penuh dengan drama-drama tak terduga . Mampukah Khafa menemukan kebenaran dari kematian sang ibu, siapakah Jabir Ibnu Hayyan yang namanya tertulis dalam papyrus tersebut, apa hubungannya semua ini dengan teori transmutasi logam? Dalam cerita kali ini, pembaca akan berpetualang bersama Khafa di abad kedelapan Masehi untuk mencari sebuah kebenaran dengan berbekal hanya dari satu petunjuk. Petunjuk yang akan membawanya bertualang dari Persia, Kufah, hingga ke Baghdad untuk bertemu dengan bapak peletak dasar-dasar ilmu al-kimiya.

Can the earth ever touch the skies ? - Anarkali, Madhubala, Mughal-e-Azam (1960)

This story is a detailed account of my life changing and adventurous two weeks in Iran as a solo traveller. The economy of Iran was faltering due to re-imposition of sanctions by US. The currency conversion rate makes Iran as a very cheap place for budget travellers. As a backpacker, I never intend to travel with any planning. But, what happens when you land in this Persian paradise and the there is an internet lockdown for 9 days!

Rated PG-13 because some themes might be touchy subjects to some people. No smut. No gore. No profanity. Lucy, the first born of the noble and notably rich Trevana family, had it all; fine clothes, wealth, and even her own bodyguard... at least until her title was stripped of her. Being dubbed unfit of the family name due to her irresponsible lifestyle, her father, Fereydoun Trevana, declared that she must depart from their home and forsake the family name until such a time as she proved herself worthy. Left with nothing but a small sum of money, which she squanders in less than a week, and her best friend and body guard Rodney Marcel, Lucy must now learn to put an end to her riotous, albeit innocent, living while Marcel desperately fights to keep her away from speakeasies in the Callistan prohibition. As Lucy makes her way, she meets different people, each one changing her slightly for the better or worse, who drag her into the affairs of their lives and eventually get her and Marcel mixed up in political, economical, and religious disaster which threatens the safety of the whole solar system. Set in a futuristic version of our world in which the planets have been terreformed, For Want of a Name begins on Callisto in the city Galilea, but a sudden turn of events eventually brings them to the planet where life began and still thrives as the central power of the solar system, Earth.

For centuries Rome and Persia have fought each other. This will be the last great war between them. The Roman Empire stands on the brink of annihilation. Its lands are overrun, its armies shattered. Only a truly remarkable emperor will be able to turn disaster into victory. Fall of Empires is an epic tale of love, loss, hope and revenge. From the baying crowds of the hippodrome, across the bloody battlefields of the Persian frontier, to the secluded harem of the king of Persia, the action sweeps through an ancient world locked in its last titanic conflict. At the heart of the story, two young lovers, Anna and Theo, are torn apart by the tides of war. Whilst Theo finds himself at the centre of events in the struggle between the emperor Heraclius and the cunning Persian general Shahrbaraz, treachery results in Anna being condemned to the life of a concubine in a far-off land. Can they ever be reunited?

A Jinni Princess answers to no one, does what she likes. A Peasant boy obeys his family, does what he's told. When a Jinni Princess is stranded in the middle of nowhere, forced to grant a commoner's wishes, she is more than appalled at the prospect. Trouble is...he has no desires, or so he says. With trouble brewing on the horizon, this unlikely duo must face danger, overcome magic and deal with the inconveniences of the Ancient World. Too bad they can't get along even if their lives depend on it... 1001 Arabian Nights Inspired Story-set primarily in Medieval Turkey, Bahrain, and Kuwait.

Condensed retelling of an old Persian Romeo and Juliet story...

Poetry published May 2012- May 2013 (Written 2003-2013) Dedicated to my sister, those who followed in Viper's footsteps, and America.

A true story that my dad told me happened in Persia in the 1800s. It's a long story and I don't want to spoil it, so please read the actual story.

My fanfic rendering of this great story. Of course, with added epilogue. Full rights go to the owner, I am not the owner of Prince Of Persia franchise. This story is made for pure fun only.

In the 200 a.a., Persia is on the warpath to conquer the continent of Greece. Attacking only one state at a time, it has conquered most of the Greecian States. In fact, it was just finishing up its conquest of Athens. Sparta had believed Persia was content with what it had, that Persia wasn't stupid enough to attack Sparta. It had been wrong. Persia tried to take them with the same strategy that they had taken the other weak Greecian States. Stopping the Persians in their tracks, Sparta began moving its horrifying military force against them. The resistance from the conquered States began to flood to the Spartans. War was upon them, and the Spartans were confident they would win for no one was as strong as Sparta.

491BC Ancient Athens. Gaiana was raised as a slave her whole life, she knew nothing more than a life of servitude to her master and his son. For her, this life was predetermined since the day she was born. But as the threat of war looms ahead, with a Persian military prepared to conquer the Greek Peninsula, Gaiana soon discovers that her destiny is far greater than the will of any mortal man. As a vast empire prepares a military campaign across her homeland, Gaiana enters the playing field with the powers of Gods, ready to defend her people against the imminent threat. She will travel, grow, and learn what it means to wield the powers of a deviant, and to use these powers against supernatural forces that exist beyond anyone's understanding. This is Gaiana's path, a Deviant's to Olympus.

General Farrokhan is the most dangerous man in Persia. A Sassanid commander of the seventh century, he is famous for relentless conquest and the destruction of cities and churches across the eastern Byzantine empire. But before he can burn a particular church to the ground, he becomes entranced by the story told in one of its mosaics, about a seven hundred year-old trio of Magi whose descendants are feared and revered by his people. Instead of destroying the church as planned, he protects it while the rector recounts the ancient tale of a man from Judah named Melchior, who escapes a life he hates to marry the one he loves. Over the course of many events, both victorious and tragic, the Judean finds himself in Persia, under the tutelage and care of a wise Zoroastrian Magus. Decades later, as the leader of the community, he begrudgingly embarks on a journey with two of his fellow Magi to follow a vague prophecy and a mysterious star. As Farrokhan connects with the story, his life takes a bizarre turn for the worse. One by one the events in his life begin to mirror those of Melchior’s life so many centuries ago, until the commander concludes that he has fallen victim to a curse. But when he returns to the mosaic that began it all he finds the source, not of a curse, but of a grander purpose he is destined to fulfill.

The arms race began in Mesopotamia with the invention of composite bows, light chariots and crossbows. The Persian (Iranian) emperor tried to conquer Athens in 480 BCE but was delayed by the Spartans at Thermopylae while Greek warships destroyed the Persian fleet. The Macedonian ruler, Alexander the Great, completely destroyed the Persian armies by 326 BCE and established the Greek empire. Then, between 600 and 200 BCE, a few hundred Greeks revolutionized science, mathematics, medicine, engineering, history, law and philosophy. Meanwhile, Greeks settlers in Sicily were in conflict with Rome and, by first century BCE, Romans had conquered Greece, Egypt, Carthage and the old Persian empire. Roman traders made large profits using the Silk Road between Rome, China and India and which created higher incomes though out the Roman empire. Roman engineers built more than 80,000 km of roads throughout the empire and 800 km of aqueducts in Rome delivered a million cubic metres of water each day. WHO THE HELL ARE WE? is a series of short books and videos describing the evolution of civilization. Almost everyone on the planet is five times wealthier than their ancestors only 50 years ago. This astonishing phenomenon has also improved health, education, and longevity. The cause; an explosive growth in ideas and productivity. It began when we learned to control fire, evolved articulate speech and stumbled onto the way to create infinite wealth; free trade. The discovery of agriculture made us richer but we also learned how to destroy wealth. Great civilization grew up but then disappeared leaving only incredible ruins and ideas. Later books detail some of the ideas and developments that increased the average life span from about 40 years to more than 80 and the average world income from less than $3 to more than $33 per person per day (and to $140 per day in some countries).