The clock is ticking.When Amanda Reeves, a beautiful young student, is kidnapped on the streets of Los Angeles, LAPD Detective Ray Collins knows that every second counts. Because the kidnapping is clearly the latest work of the serial killer known as the "Night Shade Killer," who has terrified the city for the past twelve years.Each year, the killer kidnaps a victim to torture and eventually kill them after a thoroughly planned ritual. Each time, there are ...

We need to reimagine how we think about the firm. The dominant view of today sees corporations as relentlessly driven profit-maximizers; and, while many see this as an unfortunate reality, others maintain that a sophisticated understanding of law, economics, and morality reveals that corporations have a duty to act in this fashion. Either way, the dominant view is out of step with the needs and values of society. People, and especially members of younger generations, are clamoring...

LAPD Detective Ray Collins and his partner Steadly team up again to solve a case which might not only put their careers on the line, but also their lives.A young girl seems to have disappeared without any trace whatsoever. Her best friend Rebecca tells the police that they got drunk and took pills “up in the hills somewhere”, but she has no further memory what happened next. When she woke up the next morning, Tracey was gone.There are little to no hints of ...

In a world governed not by gods or chance, but by probability itself; one mind searches through the fragments of self left behind in countless lives. Faith is not required; only perspective.This genre-bending philosophical narrative invites readers into a space where identity shifts like sand, memory stretches across lifetimes, and empathy becomes the bridge between radical selves. Gently woven with spiritual thought yet unbound by dogma, it offers a meditation on what it ...

A group of college students decide to sneak into the local zoo, only to walk face first into an ongoing nanoterrorism attack that will leave them forever changed in this titillating tale of transformation, domination and terror.

Arriving from distant lands in the east, Christopher King is an unusual sort around these parts. He has only two legs. He has two arms with strange wriggling things at the end. He seems to like pressing them against things instead of just grasping them in his puny mouth. He is hardly a pony at all.Of course, he isn't. He is a human, but he plans to make his mark felt and to find his place in this world alongside the fey equines that he hopes to join. It will take resolve and skill ...

Corporate executives, lawyers, and board of directors suffer from groupthink when confronted with a crisis, restructuring or litigation, which results in a communications meltdown that hurts a company's number one asset—its reputation. This failure to understand how to communicate in distressed situations results in lost credibility and trust on a global basis in front of many target audiences: customers, employees, vendors, business partners, the media, analysts covering the company, lend...

Corporate executives, lawyers, and board of directors suffer from groupthink when confronted with a crisis, restructuring or litigation, which results in a communications meltdown that hurts a company’s number one asset—its reputation. This failure to understand how to communicate in distressed situations results in lost credibility and trust on a global basis in front of many target audiences: customers, employees, vendors, business partners, the media, analysts covering the company, lend...

A man working for one of the few remaining businesses in America is called upon to make the world a better place. A tall order when most of the country has been devolved into strange varieties of mutants.A couple go to preach their beliefs to the zebras next door.Odin weighs in on things.A shut in geek ends the world with selfish intentions.A post apocalyptic tale done for NaNoWriMo 2011.Four short stories woven together in a new world where technolo...

A couple is swept up in the abrupt cataclysm that is the Promethean Nanite release. Their worlds turned upside down and forcefully seperated, we follow one as they try to guide and work with others to survive, but how long can humanity last when the their passions burn more hotly in this tale of post apocalyptic survival in a world gone so very wrong.

A tantalizing Day 0 short story set in the Flexible Survival universe, revealing the origin of the panther taur creatures and their sinful tale.

An injured king gives a sudden order to a noble woman, who happens to be a skunk, asking her to leave her home and take part in an adventure. She takes her childhood friend, also a skunk, and a would-be kidnapper, who just happens to be a raccoon, and possessed, with her to fulfill her duties as a citizen of Sweetwater.