In the near future, the world of entertainment has reached new heights in the art of diversion for the elite of humanity. Adam Kimball has signed on for a high-tech adventure vacation reserved only for the select few. When something goes wrong in the process, Kimball gets much more than he bargained for - and finds himself plummeting through a digital nightmare and into a shocking reconstruction of reality.

Do you ever wonder if there is a similitude that exists in the lives spent on this earth? What is this thing we call "life" - are there hidden connections between seemingly disparate entities, metaphysical threads that bind the multitude of difference animating the flesh and spirit of this world? Is there some kind of pattern in the chaos, some secret, shared destiny played out over and over through the clockworks of time? These are questions Old Pete never once asked in his long life. But...

Dawn: A True Story of Courage and Survival. Non-fiction, short story. What would you do if you suddenly found yourself lost in the woods? In the winter time? At ten years of age? Here is a remarkable story about a young girl who faced down this dilemma - and lived to tell about it. Dawn, who has been challenged since birth, was walking home from school one day when she became the target of bullies. She ran into the woods to escape her tormentors, only to find herself in a trap of a differe...

Short story, Science-fiction. In the near future, humanity has lost the race to save its home world. The Earth has become too toxic to support life. In a last, desperate attempt to perpetuate the species, humans have created a vast, sealed city with which they hope to colonize a new world, some distant day. For one man inside this city, the spirit of freedom overrides everything else - perhaps even his own survival.

This short story peers into a world not often seen. It is a snapshot of a life in the tree-felling business. 'Lightride' follows a three man work-crew, Murphy, Steve and Mike, into the woods for a standard day at the office. The close-knit team have been cutting trees for a long time together. It's just another shift in the woods, when the unthinkable happens.

This handbook examines why, how and where creative arts can help meet the social, psychological and occupational needs of people living with dementia and their family carers.Bringing together case studies of music, dance, poetry, digital arts and more, this book explores the core skills needed to co-create inspiring programmes in various settings. Foregrounding the lived experience of people living with dementia and their carers, each chapter showcases best practice, person-centred...

23 very well-known people from the arts, sport, and business worlds talk about how dyslexia affected their childhood, how they were able to overcome the challenges and use the special strengths of dyslexia to achieve great success in adulthood. Darcey Bussell CBE, Eddie Izzard, Sir Richard Branson, Meg Mathews, Zoe Wanamaker CBE, Richard Rogers, Benjamin Zephaniah, Steven Naismith, Lynda La Plante CBE, Sir Jackie Stewart OBE, Sophie Conran and others share their stories, and their advice.

Fiction. Short Story. Science Fiction, horror. Black Glass tells the story of a worker in the not-too-distant future by the name of Henry Jones. Henry receives a mysterious letter in the mail one day, a letter with ominous overtones. The message from Head Office: clear out your desk, you are no longer relevant. What follows next is an anxiety-dripping slide into a world where to become obsolete is to perish. Thwarted at every turn, Henry tries desperately to cling to a life that once seeme...

The workings of royal and ecclesiastical authority in Anglo-Saxon England can only be understood on the basis of direct engagement with original texts and material artefacts. This book, written by leading experts, brings together new research that represents the best of the current scholarship on the nexus between authority and written sources from Anglo-Saxon England. Ranging from the seventh to the eleventh century, the chapters in this volume offer fresh approaches to a wide range of li...

In this short story, we follow a young drifter as he wanders across the great northern tundra lands with his dog, picking up odd jobs when he can. When he finds himself in the small, wind-swept mining town of Fort Nichols, population 180, he befriends the locals and has the time of his life. Slowly though, the truth of this little village is revealed. What unfolds next is the most outlandish series of events in his life, culminating in in a struggle of good versus evil! .

Science fiction. Short story. Deep in space, there are gardens. The humanity of tomorrow have found a use for the tumbling asteroids of the Kuiper Belt - deep space farms. On the surface of these asteroids are cultivated a crop essential to the survival of the species. Much of the operation is done by robotics and automated machinery, all controlled by a supercomputer on the moon Titan. Though a marvel of technological efficiency, a human caretaker is still a necessity. On one regular insp...

Short story, Science Fiction. It is the year 2034. The world is seething with the folly of humanity; overcrowded, toxic, and on the brink of apocalyptic war - our species is set to plummet into extinction. Mankind has lost all hope, and now stands at the threshold of annihilation and oblivion. Nothing short of a miracle can save the doomed species. And a miracle is exactly what is about to happen.