An excerpt from "The History of The Gold-Star Corporation the Unabridged Volume"
There were no massive battlefields, or exploding bombs, for the most part, the great consumers wars began for the sake of money, and ended for the sake of money, and yet, it's effects set the stage for our modern world.
Winter Warming for Gryphons: Melting the Snowflakes with Their Lust (erotic eBook teaser)
They knew that they all had to get along, working side by side in offices and travelling together (of course, when one didn't want to take alternate forms of transport, that was) for a better future, though the modern world held challenges for all.
A hillbilly's life in San Franisco
His parents had been overly protecting towards him, shielding him pretty much his entire life from the modern world of the 25th century.
How it Ends.
Her people needed an envoy though, one sympathetic to the naga people, yet well versed in the modern world, and they found that in shouyousei.
Thinking with portals
Waking up sure, but not allowing her that sweet extra time was a downright atrocity in this modern world.
The Dragon Lord - Chapter 3: Emotions
He felt as if he were free from the stresses of the modern world. "i don't think there is anything you can do to help...
Chapter 2
The modern world would start a new conflict over a dream that does not exist. you can tell no-one..." his eyes softened "please, shouyousei. for your own sake.
Master of Bunnies 1
Drac said that he wanted asimar to get a chance to live in a 'modern' world and learn how to blend in on his own before doing anything else.
Friends of the Dragon
"i'd like to think that it is because you crave my company, but i know that it is because your questing spirit continues to want to be the_ronin,_the paladin, whatever this modern world may call it.
No More Opals, pt 1
The same was not true in the modern world, but, ferren felt something he knew was far deeper then idle fancy; he wanted-- he needed to be near lord corwin muscroft. his declaration earned him another blessed head-pat.
Claude Chapter One
The ways and means of survival in turn she could teach him the modern world, how to adapt to it. lessons that he would then in turn teach their offspring so the mistakes of this night would not be repeated.
Aleaster & James at the Temple of Grippli
The dragon had slumbered for centuries, so who he could possibly know in this modern world?