A collection of thought. Dreams, anger, love, empathy, and kids stuff.

"Wishes you make for others are wishes from the heart and have a special power." How do you save a star that has fallen from the sky? The animals in the forest discover the power of "heartfelt wishes", which make the star shine as if it were becoming stronger and stronger. Perhaps it can fly up into the night sky again when it has gathered enough strength? When this doesn't work, the animals despair. Only a story told by the star gives them a saving idea. Sometimes it takes particularly po...

Do you struggle with balance between work and home? "Success" doesn't have to be so hard!There is an equation for understanding and accomplishing our needs, goals, and objectives. Half of the success equation is about what you want (goals), and the other half is about what it takes from a people-point-of view*.* It's easier to reach your goals when you learn to balance the two sides of the equation, aligning what you want to accomplish with the people who can help ...

Christian faith isn't blind obedience to a set of rules and regulations; it is entering into a relationship with a God who pursues us-not to punish, but to love. As the leader of Central Christian Church in the self-proclaimed "Sin City, U.S.A.," Jud Wilhite has seen it all, and he knows that no matter how far someone has strayed from God, God always remains in passionate pursuit. Using the biblical prophet Hosea's marriage, commanded by God, to an unfaithful prostitute as a metap...

For the first time in their lives, nineteen year-old Nur De Dernberg and her younger sister Deirdre are leaving Seychelles, Africa. They've come to Boston for a year, but not to party with the college kids – they're here to learn English. Nur, trapped by her inability to speak the language and her sister's inability to speak in anything other than clipped wisecracks, finds herself in a strange country with nobody to talk to; she is dreadfully, existentially alone.Until, that is, sh...

AND NOW, a few paragraphs to describe this collection, which features fifteen short stories and two novellas. These are stories of many different genres, covering a whole range of tones and time periods. There's a little girl learning to deal with a new member of the household, and there's a guy who's having a very hard time killing his coworker. There are stories set at the height of the Persian Empire, in the trenches of World War I, and on a far-off planet called SYL-33. There's slapsti...

JAILBREAK! - Get this: Samuzzo D'Amato just busted out of Sing Sing. You know Sing Sing, right? That big famous prison? Real maximum security type deal. Anyway, forget about Sing Sing already, on accounta D'Amato's outta there.Only don't forget about it so fast. See, D'Amato's lawyer cooked up a way to bust him out legally. Whole bunch of loopholes, I guess, since you better believe D'Amato did all those crimes they said he did. Plus some others. Point is, the wheels of ain't-so-ju...

Far in the future, war is fought entirely through simulations. No land is ever taken, no lives are ever lost. Like a game no one wins or loses. To be honest, it's basically just peace with games. It's pretty boring. Sorry for starting this off saying the galaxy was at war.But you see, not too long ago the galaxy was at proper war. DORAGHA, that period was called. Terrible weapons were constructed to fight this war. Atrocities were commonplace. It all became too costly. In lives los...

As COVID-19 sprawled across the world, our youth had to adjust to life without the support of their peers, teachers, clubs, and communities. The Unapologetic Voice House created a Young Adult imprint called YA Stories! to give children between the ages of 11 - 17 an outlet to express themselves through..After the Nova is the first anthology published by YA Stories!.In this anthology, you will find stories of perseverance and strength. Our female-driven narratives explore them...

In the era of hair metal, all the good times are happening down on the Sunset Strip. Which is why that's the first place Delmer goes, after moving across the country to chase his dreams of rock stardom.Too bad about that killer stalking around the Strip. The one who takes a particular interest in the hard-partying metalheads. Sure, there's a detective named Isley on the case, but she's coming off of a few things too. The sorts of things she used to buy down there on Sunset. Which d...

Today's evangelical community faces a multitude of questions about the creation of the cosmos and the beginning of human history and-quite naturally-we look to the Bible for answers about the origins and meaning of human history. But what are we to do with the stories in the first two chapters of Genesis?Reading Genesis 1-2: An Evangelical Conversation brings together the voices of five prominent evangelical scholars who take on difficult interpretive questions that arise ...

Risk is not a one-dimensional problem cured by a single dose of diversification. It's a multidimensional problem, and diversification's passive risk reduction is only just the start. At least since Markowitz developed Modern Portfolio Theory 65 years ago, risk has generally been measured as the standard deviation from average return. However, Behavioral Economics (and even the dictionary) say risk is really about the loss of value, which is quite different from volatility. Risk has at leas...