Twenty six stories that are selections from three compilations. The first draft of each of these stories is available online for free but this collection brings them together in an easy package.All stories are speculative fiction and are samples from Savantia and Other Speculative Stories, Jump Count and Other Speculative Stories, and Civic Duty and Other Speculative Stories.

A book full of unconnected, easily-digested short anecdotes from the author's life. If you have ever worked retail or IT you will find things to relate to within these pages. If you have not worked either of those genres of job you will still be able to relate to the pratfalls of various people (including the author) as he has navigated his life.

This volume contains 27 speculative fiction stories. Will humanity be allowed to join the galactic community? How long is eternity? When does targeted marking go too far? Will humanity reach the stars and find peace or war? Sometimes you need to use what's around you to survive... and win. How do you define yourself? In a future of superior technology and space exploration... where is everyone else? What is real?So many questions exist in the universe and this volume presents a few...

"No-Code Data Automation with Parabola: Visual Pipelines for Operations and eCommerce Teams"For operations leaders, eCommerce specialists, and technically fluent builders who need dependable automation without conventional software development, this book offers a serious treatment of Parabola as a production data system. Rather than presenting visual workflows as lightweight convenience tools, it shows how to design, reason about, and operate them as maintainable pipelines that con...

"Building Business Forms with Tally: No-Code Data Collection and Workflow Automation"Tally can be much more than a lightweight form builder: in the hands of a skilled practitioner, it becomes the front end of serious business workflows. This book is written for experienced no-code builders, operations professionals, consultants, and technically minded teams who want to design forms that do more than collect answers. It speaks to readers who need dependable intake systems, adaptive ...

"Building Workflow Agents with Relay.app: AI Automation and Human Oversight for Business Teams"AI automation becomes truly valuable when it can act inside real business processes without sacrificing control, accountability, or trust. This book is written for experienced builders, operations leaders, technical architects, and advanced no-code practitioners who want to use Relay.app to design workflow agents that do more than generate text: they trigger actions, coordinate systems, a...

What's in this book?21 stories to poke your fears, question reality, examine cultural idiosyncrasies, and to explore the greatest expanses of space and time.Destroying something you don't understand might come back to haunt you later.How much would you give to attend any of the one-of-a-kind performances?Humanity reaches out to the stars and finds more than they expected.Our lives are mazes of choices and events. What if ...

A shiny new spaceship might be the key to lifelong success. A crackshot test pilot might make a critical mistake during first contact. Big discoveries might have big consequences. An efficient stage manager makes sure the show is flawless for every performance. Humans really are a special breed in the universe. Where did everything begin? The Guardians stand tall and always have... what are they for? Where did they come from?This book is 28 shorts that explore various slices of rea...

Ecology and Stewardship of a Pristine Coastal New England EcosystemThe Napatree Point Conservation Area is an 86-acre nature preserve on the southwestern tip of Rhode Island. Designated a Globally Important Bird Area by the National Audubon Society because of its importance as a migratory stopover, Napatree is a breeding and foraging site for a number of endangered species including Piping Plovers (Charadrius melodus), Least Terns (Sternula antillarum), and Ameri...

Featuring exclusive interviews with key figures, from Napalm Death vocalist Barney Greenway to guitarist Bill Steer of Gentlemans Pistols, Carcass, and Napalm Death, this is your guide through the history of death metal.Guitars playing abrasive, discordant riffs, the thunderous double-kick of the drums acting like an accelerated heartbeat, and porcine, guttural vocals pummeling twisted lyrics. Courting controversy from inception to its modern day iteration, death m...

Dive deep into the world of cocktail lore, classic recipes, and hard-won wisdom in Cocktail Dive Bar: Real Drinks, Fake History, and Questionable Advice from New Orleans' Twelve Mile Limit.In this irreverent and engaging guide T. Cole Newton, the owner and proprietor of the beloved Louisiana bar Twelve Mile Limit, brings classic and original cocktail recipes to life with a combination of colorful invented histories and real stories, alongside advice drawn ...

Ashli's first day as a nurse at Wiermont Psychiatric Hospital turns into a nightmare as a bloody riot sends her fleeing into the bowels of the hospital. Her descent takes her to a hellish world populated by lunatics and monsters, cloaked in a secret history of black magic and heinous scientific experiments.