Short stories recount the visit of an alien spaceship to an Australian fishing spot, the gift of a surfboard to a boy who lives among wheatfields, the revenge of a vegetarian girl on a bully, and other situations...
The two men were circling each other with all the angry energy of fighting bulls, in front of a crowd that was already wild with excitement. The Pankration was what most of the onlookers had come to Olympia to see; the strongest men in Greece fightin...
In Greece, in 430 BC, Nic sets out to search of his friend, Gellus, at Olympia in order to save him from his awaiting enemies and the challenge of the Pankration, the most vicious and brutal sport in all the games....