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Karl El-Koura

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Karl El-Koura was born in Dubai, United Arab Emirates and currently lives in Ottawa, Ontario (Canada). He has published more than sixty short stories and articles. Karl holds a second-degree black belt in Okinawan Goju Ryu karate, is an avid commuter-cyclist, and works for the Canadian Federal Public Service.

He is the author of Ooter's Place and Other Stories of Fear Faith and Love, a collection of 13 of his best short stories (twelve previously published in magazines between 1998 and 2010, one exclusive to this collection).

Visit Karl's online home at http://www.ootersplace.com to discover more work by him and keep up-to-date with his latest news.


"The Redeyes"—a story about killer robots, Jesus Christ, and a convict who holds the key to freedom for a group of survivors—is now available at MindFlights.




You're free to go."


The voice belonged to Judge Oatley, the man who had sentenced me to life in prison.


"Free to go?"


He stood inside my cell, blocking the open doorway. Instead of answering in words, he stepped aside.


"How come?" I said, altho...

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My favourite edition of the Bible. The insights, usually in the form of select commentary from the Early Church Fathers, are worth the price of admission alone. It's like a guided tour through the Holy Scriptures by some of Orthodoxy's greatest theol...more
The Walking Dead, Vol. 3 by Robert Kirkman
" The bloody, putrid, rotting corpse of soap opera goodness that is The Walking Dead graphic novels is in its full balls out glory in the third collection Safety Behind Bars.

Lori is pregnant with Shane's baby -- And in case you don't know, Shane is... "
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The Walking Dead, Vol. 3 by Robert Kirkman
" I don't know what it is about this series. I don't find it to be exceptional in any way and yet I keep buying the next volume because I feel like a zombie read and I figure I'm following these characters already....

They aren't bad reads, but there... "
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The Green Mile
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A good book that deserves the re-working Stephen King says he might do to smooth out the edges that come from jamming the six serials together -- or maybe there's a certain charm to keeping it like this, with all of its warts? The book is well done,...more
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