From a young couple struggling to look after their baby to a new captain's reluctance to take command of her ship, and from a sun-addled stranger's appearance in town to the emergence of a sentient AI, the twelve tales presented here explore the central theme of an arrival by someone or something new.There's even an alien puppy.

I have been a licensed Realtor since 2005. I have mentored many new Realtor's right after they are registered and I see mistakes that they make time after time. The same mistakes that I had made when I first registered as a Realtor.Even though I had family who had been in the business and I had worked as the equivalent of an unlicensed assistant it had been a long time. So years later I started taking my courses and I knew some of what I should do. I still ended up wasting my time ...

From a creepypasta horror farm to a bullish love tale and from the bloody metal deck of the ESS Arclight to superhero octopus food trucks, you can transform your shortest stolen moments into utter delights with this diverse collection of 33 flash fiction stories.Commuting to work? Grabbing a quick coffee? Each story tells a complete tale in but a few short minutes with the added promise of a lifelong introduction to new indie writers.You never know, you mig...

The future is not a shiny beacon of hope and good times. The predictions of a glorious golden age with the development of star drives and a massive exodus of humanity to the stars and a frontier atmosphere were all false.Humanity was rocked by a brutal alien invasion that left a billion dead and many traumatized. The shock was made worse by the understanding that true intergalactic war as pictured in any sort of entertainment was not supposed to be possible. But it had happened.

Science Fiction and the Scientists lied…..There was no golden age of discovery. No FTL or Galactic Federations. At first contact we found out how wrong we had been about the future.Then a failed alien invasion had crushed our reborn hope.Tim grew up a normal kid. He went to school and spent time with friends. After all ‘work hard, play hard’ is the way people live now.All Tim had ever wanted was a nice entry level management position somewhere. Pref...

Have you ever sold a home and paid thousands of dollars in commissions and then wondered why you paid that money out when you only saw your Realtor for maybe twenty hours over those weeks?Do you really think it would be nice to have a job where you could become a Realtor and be on the golf course every day in the summer? Go overseas on a nice two week vacation in Europe every year? Or maybe the thought of staying local in the nice cabin you could buy up north on the lake is more att...

The Teddy Bear Stories Collection 1 is a group of 7 short stories about those adorable stuffed animals that are with every small child. The love they feel from their little cuddlers has brought them alive and they act to defend their little charges from the Night Terrors. Fears that have been with mankind since the beginning of time slowly brought to life and now hide in UnderbedWhat do they want? Who knows!The Teddy Bear Guardians are all that stand between the children an...

Ron and his friends made it out of the Virtual Reality competition and did well. Now though they have to deal with the fall out.Everything seems changed and different. Washed out and boring.But they don’t have time to worry about that. The second alien invasion is now inbound. The robots and their masters learned from the last time and are carrying out a larger invasion with better planning.Ron and crew will have to survive the impact of the meteors that are the pre...

I have been a licensed Realtor since 2005. I have mentored many new Realtor's right after they are registered and I see mistakes that they make time after time. The same mistakes that I had made when I first registered as a Realtor.The things you need to focus on when you go into Real Estate are:NOT wasting time or money on activities that generate you no income and can end up dragging you down.DO go out and practice the skills covered in this book so that WHEN you are...

24 Extremely Short Halloween Stories for your Briefest MomentsFrom a Hillary Clinton stripper to mythical beast-women in the harsh Scandinavian tundra and from an unusual band of steadfast teddy bears to the last man in zombie-occupied Chicago, fill your briefest moments with pulse-pounding frights and off-beat chuckles with this collection of 24 flash fiction stories.Commuting to work? Grabbing a quick coffee? Each story tells a complete t...

Investing in residential real estate can be difficult. The idea sounds great, yet where do you start?Why invest in real estate? It’s simple: capital gains, and someone else pays your mortgage.This book will set you up so that you are ready to build up a deposit and you’ll know what to look for in that first property, as well as offer some suggestions for when you are negotiating the purchase. Whether you’re young and single or older with a family, investing in residential r...

Real Estate, debt, hundreds of thousands of dollars in Mortgage debt. Those can be terrifying words for a first time home buyer. This book will lay those fears to rest by taking you through the process of buying that first home. A guide taking you from the beginning to the end of the process after you have moved in.What to look for in a home, different professionals that you will use in the transaction, questions you should use when talking to Realtors if you are using one. This an...