It's not so far off as you suppose.In our looming future, marketing has finally turned the tables. Once upon a time their appeals were shaped to a target audience. In 2084 Americans strive for the mentality that ads hand down. Commercials are the favored part of any show, fieldtrips to the mall teach kids how to shop, and the RealiTV complex keeps everyone suitably distracted.It's an election year and the Presidential Sweepstakes offers voters a chance to win a bundle. Hit ...

Nothing counts for much in this life until you're brought to the edge. Only then do we each find out who we truly are. These twenty stories explore tipping points internal or otherwise.

You're a hardworking family man in a tight spot. Your side-business is failing, as is your marriage, daughter Nora needs surgery, son Graham has college dreams you can't afford. It chafes because you were raised to be a winner and never shook that expectation. The lengths a father goes to hold family together can make living with yourself a bit crowded. It's not 99% of a man that must be accounted, just the little sliver nobody knows. Can it be undone? How much does it matter if the questi...

In 1970 when the Beatles broke up, a humble Brit named Harold Glaub begins to experience remarkable dreams that continue for ten years though he never recalls a one. A real shame for each night our man becomes the fifth Beatle. John Lennon's old mate, puckish bridge-builder Harry helps the group soar to more unique heights. By day Harold doesn't realize the dreams inspire a parallel career for he and lifelong chums Don, Pat & Geoff as a quartet of carpenters.A history of the world'...

Cutbacks in federal funding force a dingy urban mental institution to shutter its doors. Bewildered patients are given a bag lunch and shown the door. A nameless man wanders the streets of this strange new world homeless and scared. For the first time in twenty years his meds are wearing off. This whirling city begins to offer hint, long-lost recollection he was once a part of things. Burdened by the most basic questions -- Who am I? What am I? Where is this? -- he seeks to reclaim a blank...

These stories offer myriad view of ourselves. Men, women, children, teens, adults, oldsters, each with a certain self to face down. From a neo-noir gumshoe to the vast empties of a lost child, a dropped wallet to the end of our universe, Wilderness of Mirrors seeks to mix it up. Of course nobody ever really shakes their own approach, not that they shouldn't try. What you won't find are stories of cruelty. That being said life in time spares nobody; these dings add up to everyone we are not...

Shooting a period piece a film crew arrives at The Hornburg, a reclusive alpine German estate. Art-house movie hero Morgan Essex isn't sure why the stately location troubles him. Maybe his reunion with bankable star Julie Beth Pohlter whose career has eclipsed his own. Maybe the vague familiarity of young actress Vanesse Lasterson with whom he must share a difficult scene. Maybe how the house just beckons. A dark draw of history soon opens doors he can't imagine, but must.

For centuries scientists have used math to predict what they will observe next. Their accuracy is remarkable. Verse serves us similarly. Brought to the edge of ourself the view often defies description. Keep at it and these efforts to speak back an understanding can predict who we become. This collection features only a few characters, most are a straight shot. Using words to scout that frontier. A path I suspect we each have known, its signposts both familiar and unknowable. Virgin territ...

With all the attention heaped upon the most deadly sexually transmitted infection of all, HIV, other non-fatal forms of infection have been somewhat neglected, and even overlooked in sexual education. However, incidences of STIs such as chlamydia and gonorrhoea have been dramatically and silently rising in many parts of the world in recent years - though receiving far less attention. It is now recognized that this is a major public health issue, affecting thousands of people, irrespective ...

Live Like You Were Dying is the unforgettable story inspired by Tim McGraw's #1 Country Music song of the same name. It weaves a tale of the miracles that happen once you stop being so busy with life that you actually have time to live it.Millions have embraced the song's lyrics. Now experience the inspirational story that will touch your heart and soul.

In TOO LATE, 15-year-old Greg is in a teen sex offenders’ facility because of an assault on his stepsister. He hates the professionals who try to help him and can’t wait to go home. When he enters a room for a meeting, his mother is there crying. Her partner, whom Greg calls Step Dude, sits at her side. They have come to tell Greg they don’t want him back. It’s too late to be good, they say. Greg comes to the crippling realization of what he has become: the father he has both hated and fea...

Greetings, This is Soldier of fortunate a.k.a. Joshua Brooks the ebook Wise In The Ways of The World Part 2 are poems that are broken down in primary division. Telling what is being taught today different from what was taught back then. With rhythmic poems about certain worldwide situations. That have surrounding socially active life changing experiences.Giving the side of life that happens in societies that differ from one another. With its expensive luxurious fashion trio with a ...