Are you tired of feeling anxious and awkward when meeting new people?Do you wish that you had some sort of hack to improve your social skills?Maybe you feel comfortable with close friends and family, but when put into a situation with strangers you become a blundering mess?Let's face it, having a lack of social skills can make your life more challenging.You feel like an awkward failure every time an importan...

Are you frustrated with finding yourself in awkward situations full of embarrassing social blunders?Do you feel like you're drowning when you talk to people due to your social anxiety?Are you tired of giving yourself the constant excuse that you are "too shy" or "socially awkward" to talk and connect with others?If you find yourself saying yes to any of these questions, we might have a solution for you.The p...

Short Story Press Presents Dad's Down Under by Chad CollinsDad's Down Under chronicles the tumultuous-- and often humorous-- funeral of an emotionally abusive husband, told from the point of view of the man's eighteen year old son. Present are the distant relatives and immediate family, all of whom have different recollections of what kind of man he was. His immediate family views him as a monster, while his side of the family remembers him as a kind, loving, and generous man....

After a near fatal attack, Veronica Kilter is taken under the wing of an underground cyber criminal who is known as "The Master". He trains her to carry out his elaborate heists which this leaves Veronica living a dangerous double life as an artist by day but a highly trained criminal by night. She accepts the life she leads until she falls in love with a man who makes her question it all.

Dad's Down Under chronicles the tumultuous - and often humorous - funeral of an emotionally abusive husband told from the point of view of the man's 18-year-old son. Present are the distant relatives and immediate family, all of whom have different recollections of what kind of man he was. His immediate family views him as a monster, while his side of the family remembers him as a kind, loving, and generous man.This book is a semi-autobiographical account from the young mi...

When the lights go out and you pull the covers up to your neck, do you lie there listening to something that sounds like footsteps in the hall? Do you glimpse a mist out of the corner of your eye, but when you turn your head to look, nothing is there? Are those strange noises you hear, the knocks and bangs, just the house settling, or is it something more sinister?Some might say you're crazy, but many of us believe.Within these pages are true ghost stories. Many of the circ...

When the self-help books just aren't helping, it's time to call in the experts: real people . . .San Francisco Chronicle columnist Adair Lara polled her readers for life lessons learned through experience, receiving thousands of heartfelt and irreverent responses. The best are compiled here in more than two hundred bits of priceless counsel, accompanied by witty, whimsical illustrations by award-winning artist Roxanna Bikadoroff.This handy little v...

The mind has an amazing ability to heal itself, especially given the newest therapies, but Aaron's mind just won't cooperate. And neither will… he.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Hell of a Book, comes a short story from the world of The Returned where one determined couple seeks to reunite a young girl with the father who thought he had lost her forever…When Heather and Matt Campbell find ten-year-old Tatiana Rusesa on the side of the highway, she is thousands of miles away from her village in Sierra Leone. She hasn't seen her family in almost two decades, not since she...

This story came to me in a message over the internet. The man claimed to need an anonymous way to get the word out about this disappearance. He told the story to me in its entirety and then offered to release to me all rights if I would publish it under my name, title it "This is a true story!", advertise it locally and forward any comments or information about it to him. The guy sounded so sincere that I think that he actually believes this to be true. Anyway, I love weird tales and besid...

After seventy-six years of life, the legacy, the bond between husband and wife, mother and daughter is about to end...

Sightings of Bono tells the tale of a girl who sees Bono everywhere and becomes obsessed with her sightings writing them all down in a diary until they start to threaten her daily existence. In 2002 it was adapted for film (Parallel Productions, Dublin), Sightings of Bono, directed by Patrick Kavanagh and featuring Bono acting as himself. It was released as a bonus DVD on the album Greatest Irish Bands (Celtic Collections, 2004). It was first published in the Sunday Tribune in 1995 and was...