Earth's sixth mass extinction has ended, and in its wake a post-dystopian civilization has struggled to rebuild after a global cataclysm shattered its ecosystems and propelled all life to the brink of eradication.In a world where the air is unhealthy, food is strictly rationed, and the energy consumption that triggered the destruction is highly regimented, scientists experiment with artificial biospheres to secure survival and techno-mimicry to breathe life into long-dead species. ...

When Michael arrives at work early one winter's day, he discovers that he's not the only one who's had a busy morning...A Dirty Business forms part of the Case Files series of short crime stories from USA Today bestselling author Rachel Amphlett.

One of the most widely celebrated artists of his generation, Ed Atkins makes videos, draws, and writes, developing a complex and deeply figured discourse around definition, wherein the impossibilities for sufficient representations of the physical, specifically corporeal, world — from computer generated imagery to bathetic poetry — are hysterically rehearsed.A Primer for Cadavers, a startlingly original first collection, brings together a selection of his texts from 2010 to...

1)      This is My Planet: Our planet is the most important thing in our lives, as we wouldn’t exist without it.  The stories in this book explain to children that we as human beings not only have to protect our planet, but also need to be kinder to our animal friends and all other living species.   ·         Human Joke: Written from a kitten's point of view; this story tells the readers the difficulties str...

The "Penny Dreadful" was a Victoria genre of fiction, generally dealing with gruesome subjects such as Vampires, Werewolves and Murder. Printed on cheap paper and sold for a penny on street, they appealed to common people and were generally shunned by the "upper classes".In writing this series of penny dreadfuls, I take the genre, but give it a comic twist. As short stories they are easy to read and hopefully provide you with a little humor in a world where things are a little bit ...

If you have rats or mice in your home, you need to get rid of them as quickly as possible. Apart form the noise that they make, they can do a great deal of damage by chewing on electrical cables, water pipes, and pulling away insulation materials.Unfortunately, getting rid of them is easier said than done, and many people often spend huge sums of money on professional pest control firms, sometimes without the result that they wanted.I live in a very rural area and have had ...

If you have rats or mice in your home, you need to get rid of them as quickly as possible. Apart form the noise that they make, they can do a great deal of damage by chewing on electrical cables, water pipes, and pulling away insulation materials.Unfortunately, getting rid of them is easier said than done, and many people often spend huge sums of money on professional pest control firms, sometimes without the result that they wanted.I live in a very rural area and have had ...

A searing sequence of poems about a daughter’s vision of a father’s illness and death—by the Pulitzer Prize and T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry winner, called "a poet for these times, a powerful woman who won’t back down" (San Francisco Chronicle).The Father chronicles these events in a connected narrative, from the onset of the illness to reflections in the years after the death. The book is, most of all, a series of acts of understanding. The poems...

Amorous space squids. Sentient fridges. A derelict alien spacecraft adrift within an interstellar cloud. Speed-dating zombies. The truth behind the extinction of the dinosaurs. A potentially lethal interasteroidal freight consignment. And a planet on which biological diversification has utterly failed to take hold in eight billion years.80,000 Totally Secure Passwords That No Hacker Would Ever Guess is a collection of SF short fiction, sometimes humorous and sometimes dead...

"Saving Godzilla and the Other Dinosaurs" Written and Illustrated by Eve Hunt.As you will see, playtime for Edward and his friends was always fun and exciting. Although it was dangerous and off limits, the construction site promised even MORE fun and excitement. Deeply engaged during their playtime, the boys created live action between the Tyranasaurs Rex and the Dimorphodon. They were wild and imaginative while proving their knowledge about dinosaurs was nothing s...

How much of who we are is tied up in what we know? If something wiped our 'knowledge,' or higher education, but left our basic faculties, the ability to speak and to act, would we all be created equal again? In The Game, everything must be learned the hard way. The learning curve is painful. The price of a mistake is a laser bolt through the head. A short story.

Humorous version of the age-old battle of keeping bird feeders squirrel-free! If you're a bird lover, you've been there!