“Too bad 21st century telescopes were poorly designed & the supposedly habitable planets found were actually desolate.”Elton Cuauhtemoc John is taken hostage before he can start his dream job. Now, he & a multicultural science team are racing against humans’ inevitable self imposed demise to invent an Faster Than Light phone. After all, how useful is another Earth after civilization collapses?Civilization goes through cycles. Humanity’...

A Camp Without FireYoung Adult’s Perspective of Life during the Great Recession in CaliforniaMarlene and Derek barely talked in high school. But now, seven years after graduating, they come into contact again thanks to the internet. He is an architecture student. She is stuck behind a desk. Both recently have broken up with their own first love and are desperate for meaning and perspective in life as they battle through their first challenges in adulthood.With the G...