Fourteen years after 0-Day, civilization is gone.The cities are crumbling. Monsters move through the ruins. Settlements survive by remaining hidden, and the roads between them belong to whoever is strong enough to take them.Commander Samuel Augustus Sutherland is supposed to be documenting what remains of humanity for the Post Event Human Continuity Initiative.Mostly, he just calls himself Sam.Travelling alone with a recorder, limited supplies and a sense of...

CONVERGENCESix months before the world ended, one man had a dream.It wasn't a nightmare. It wasn't a vision of monsters or war. It was simply an unshakable certainty that something catastrophic was coming. Against every ounce of logic, he remortgaged his paid-off home, bought a small piece of land in the Ozarks, and spent every dollar he could preparing for a future he prayed would never arrive.Everyone thought he'd lost his mind.Then, in a single afternoon,...

The first time it happened, there was no flash of light, no warning and no explanation.A man leaned against a wall and passed straight through it.The wall had not changed. Reality had not broken. Something had simply stopped insisting that the barrier was real.He calls it See.It is not a power, a skill or a method that can be taught. It cannot be demonstrated on command, packaged into a system or performed for an audience. The moment he tries to prove it, th...

They say a cat has nine lives.Brian Bailey stopped counting his a long time ago.He has worked in trades, military service, medical response, logistics, construction, diving, acting, writing and more unusual corners than most people could fit into several lifetimes. Each new role became another world to enter, understand and eventually leave behind.From the outside, that kind of life can look unstable.From the inside, a clear pattern emerges.More Than...

When coordinated attacks throw North America into chaos, most people run away from the fighting.Jake Lawson drives toward it.He has no military experience, no weapons training and absolutely no idea what he is doing. What he does have is an old pickup truck, a baseball bat, plenty of beef jerky and a lifetime of questionable lessons learned from action movies.Jake's ridiculous plans should never work. Somehow, they do.As soldiers struggle to contain a rapidl...

At 8:17 UTC, every bank balance on Earth disappears.Not stolen. Not transferred. Gone.Daniel Cross is standing in a Montana gas station when his cards stop working. Within hours, banks close, stores empty and frightened people begin fighting over whatever they can still carry home.The official message says the disruption is temporary.Daniel knows better.As the financial system collapses, money becomes meaningless and the systems built around it begin...

Chase VanHera knows AI-generated work when he sees it.Usually.Armed with suspicious phrases, audio waveforms, unnecessary clear glasses and enough red string to make any investigation look legitimate, Chase has built a career exposing artificial intelligence hiding inside books, songs and other creative work.Then he investigates an author named Daniel Harper.What begins as another simple case quickly becomes something much harder. A singer's voice sounds too...

Country Scars is one day away from performing at the Calgary Stampede when enormous objects appear above the world's oceans.Humanity tries to communicate.The visitors never answer.Then the oceans begin to disappear.Stranded thousands of kilometres from their homes on Vancouver Island, Dan Jeffries, Phil O'Brien and Joe Raymond can only watch as the objects take what they came for. Governments are powerless. Coastlines retreat. Weather patterns collapse. Road...

Eight months after the pulse took down the power grid, the internet, and almost everything people once depended on, the small town of Miller is still learning how to survive.Food is rationed. Fuel is guarded. Electricity is reserved for things that matter.Then a handwritten sign appears outside the old hardware store.COMMUNITY CONCERTSATURDAY NIGHTEVERYONE WELCOMESome people see it as hope.Others see it as a dangerous waste of fuel....

People disappear during overnight retail shifts all the time.They hide in the bathroom. They wander into forgotten corners of the store. They take suspiciously long breaks and somehow remain unavailable whenever there is actual work to do.So when Darren disappears, nobody is particularly concerned.At first.Ryan Blaney and the rest of the overnight crew assume Darren is avoiding work again. But as the minutes pass, they realize he is not hiding.He is ...

Turn a block of wood into an elegant (and functional) heirloom-to-be! A complete compilation of woodcarving projects from the acclaimed magazine, Woodcarving Illustrated, 12 Spoons, 2 Bowls, and a Knife features 15 step-by-step, beginner-friendly projects ranging from rustic coffee scoops and simple love spoons to salad servers, cereal spoons, bread bowls, jam knives, and more. Showcasing the beautiful work from an array of talented wood artists, craftsmen, and Woodca...

'My Lord, You are aware that, at this moment, the public feeling is strongly excited against the perpetrators of the late foul and cold blooded murders that have taken place in the very centre of a populous and civilised city . . . Your Lordship is aware, that in all civilized nations, blood calls for blood . . .'From ' Letter to the Lord Advocate . . . By The Echo of Surgeons' Square'Early nineteenth century Edinburgh was gripped by fear of body snatchers. New graves were c...