Fifteen short stories ranging from every corner of my rather peculiar mind. From irate aliens to inept vampires. Is the world really as we believe it to be, or a figment of my imagination?

Now they were intergalactic heroes, if only in their own minds. No monsters to fight; no worlds to save, and no one trying to kill them. So it's time to get down to the stuff that really matters to a teenager. That is, finding out what girls really are - that's human girls.Except that it isn't over. Now someone bigger, badder and nastier is out to get them; and if they don't get it right, and quickly, then death would be infinitely preferable to the fate awaiting them.

after being cursed to live forever, tom fletcher thinks that's as bad as it could get. when he discovers that he will spend eternity in unspeakable agony, never to sleep or eat, and that madness is denied him, he truly begins to understand the meaning of hopelessness.after two hundred years of mind numbing pain he discovers that there is a way for him to escape the punishment. that opportunity arrives another century later, but has his mind been so warped by pain and misery that he ...

they thought it was all over, their malignant enemy captured or dead one hundred years back in time. but one thing was still left undone. the bomb in their future was still ticking away, and when it blew up the whole world would be destroyed. there was only one way to stop it. once more they would have to use the time machine, but their destination this time was germany. now there was not just one maniac to contend with, but a whole army.

With only one week before "friendly powers" act, the Prime Minister of Great Britain must contain A flying creature which is slaughtering his people. Only one man can be trusted to solve the problem and his only assistant is someone he hates. As if this was not bad enough, the creature can kill simply by looking at his prey. However some people do not want him to solve this problem. They are as much of a threat as the creature itself.Part one in a series of three.

All the monsters were dead and London was once more safe. Even better, nobody knew that it had ever happened. Unfortunately this left the playing field open for the most audacious plot imaginable - one that might even cause world war three. All that remained was to clear away the mess, but they really should have checked before feeling so smug.

Three bored old men living in New Los Angeles want something to do. Nothing in their lives is interesting or even the slightest bit dangerous. After they discover a time machine buried in the remains of what used to be LA, all this changes.The man who built the machine is not overly impressed, either. He has his own plans for a new world - which does not include them living. Time is short; much shorter than they could possibly imagine.The first of four adventures for my blun...

After David's mum buys him a star from one of those strange magazines with photos of aliens and what you look like after your fiftieth face lift, he thinks nothing more of it.That's when strange things begin to happen. Not least of which is being forced to go, along with two friends, to an alien planet; only to be told that an army of mutant lizoids is going to kill them, then destroy that world and finally the Earth. Nothing too serious, there.Only when they find out that th...

Les parcours universitaires de Paul Roger Lawrence et Jay William Lorsch se croisent dès le début des années soixante à la Harvard Business School où ils obtiennent leur doctorat en management (1964). Les noms de Lawrence et Lorsch deviennent très célèbres en théorie des organisations dès la fin des années soixante, à travers le succès de la publication d’Organization and Environment (1967) qui restera la seule publication écrite en commun par les auteurs.Aujourd’hui encore, les pa...

Autumn approaches, and with it comes a time of dark magic. In this issue we celebrate the fantastical, the foreign and the fatalistic. We have kallikantzaroi on a mission, banana Popsicle munching bombs, alien friends happy to lend more than a hand, a band that really puts themselves into their music and part one of Flashlight, Knife and Flowered Crown, an electrifying, modern fairy tale.Poetry, flash fiction and keen illustration add variety to the mix. An Spanish interview of Jac...

Since the 1990s, contemporary art in the Arab world has experienced exponential growth and numerous changes. With the appearance of artists from the region in international exhibitions, the dynamics within the art scenes changed significantly. Museums & art foundations began to collect, biennials were launched, contemporary art galleries, fairs, residencies and schools emerged in many countries, and the governments of the Gulf states launched megaprojects. This reader serves as a guide for...

As the age of globalization and New Media unite disparate groups of people in new ways, the continual transformation and interconnections between ethnicity, class, and gender become increasingly complex. This reader, comprised of a diverse array of sources ranging from the New York Times to the journals of leading research universities, explores these issues as systems of stratification that work to reinforce one another. Understanding Inequality provides students and academics with the ba...