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Hattie and Mike wish to return their world to normal and escape the small farmhouse on the edge of the Poudre River in Eastern Colorado. The monsters who roam the Earth present a constant and life-threatening challenge and there seems no end to the blazing lights in the sky that caused the apocalypse. If they can’t escape their situation and discover the cause of the devastation, they will likely die amid the horror. Currently, they survive sleeping in shifts, always on the lookout for one of the giant creatures.

A brand-new housing estate is being built in North Tyneside and a new family takes over one of the first properties to be completed. The 'Geordie Boy' of these stories is the first child of an unlikely pairing between a world-weary, already married piano player cum soldier—unwillingly posted to the North East and many miles away from his own London-based family, and a very young, somewhat prim and naïve nurse who, having become pregnant by him, decides to risk all and try to make a go of things.

Ride along with four calls in my career. Each one is based on true events, names and specific details have been changed for legal and privacy purposes. Otherwise, these calls are what happened based on my experience. You will ride along in my deep first-person perspective. It is intense. It is adult. It is life changing. The job is intense, grueling, and requires mental, emotional, and physical resilience. Most paramedics quit within the first few years. We leave EMS because of low pay, high stress, and bad work-life balance. So why do the job? Because we love it.

They think he’s just the driver. They’re wrong. In Houston, Orlandus Shorter moved quietly through the lives of the city’s elite, its strivers, its liars, its lonely, its grieving, its beautiful, and its broken. CEOs. Athletes. Couples on the edge. Men performing power. Women carrying secrets. People who believed a closed car door made them invisible. It never did. The Silent Driver is a hybrid work of interconnected literary fiction written from the lived perspective of Orlandus Shorter, who becomes both witness and vessel for the private lives passing through the backseat of his car.

Life is often unpredictable. Many times, bad things happen that no one would ever see coming, not even ourselves. And such is the case for the people in each of these stories. Some will be attacked by vicious animals, while others navigate through wild weather. The rest will find themselves in freak accidents, coming face-to-face with the supernatural, being a part of something out of this world, and many other situations that can only be described as unfortunate.

This book is a collection of short stories that have materialized over a period of quite a few years. They are written in a variety of styles and voices. They are stories about life, loss, greed, wrong-doing, forgiveness, and accepting people for who and what they are. Some are tales of love and some are tales of woe. They are all unique in their own way. I hope that the reader will find them enjoyable and extraordinary, and that they will remain in your memory for many years to come.

Marriage is a special event in anyone's life. There are a lot of changes in the way marriage is conducted in olden times and the current times. With the current changing times, a ready-made lifestyle came into this setup, and event managers are managing everything. Event Manager is a story...

Michael Baer's life mirrors his own passion for learning. He delights in the thrill of a search, the celebration of a find, and the gift of bringing to light a discovery to share with others. This collection of stories and accounts from Michael's life illustrates the power of "redefining moments"—experiences which profoundly shape our character and map out pathways through life. In this book, Michael shares some of his most treasured "redefining moments" with us.

Within these diverse stories, you will encounter a magician whose finale is murder, shared nightmares, a magic carpet that lives up to its name, a recipe for a Martian non-vegetarian main course, a cook who purloins the body of a stranger, and other interesting topics and characters. A few can be classified as horror stories, one as science fiction, and the majority just plain quirky. There's a story here to amuse almost anyone.

Places We Never Went is an upliftingseries of romantic events, in short story format, revolving around a leading male character named Orso, who doesn't exist. Orso is sophisticated, fun-loving and always just around the next corner, ready to offer a big-city dose of his own, special variety of magic and pizaaz to each and every dating experience that never actually happens.

A young woman is relocated by the Witness Protection Program to a position as hospital admission director in another state. An illegal Latino immigrant loses his job and becomes homeless, and lives on the street. A young 19-year-old man, with an exceptionally high IQ, joins the US Army and befuddles his sergeant with his amazing knowledge. A married couple buy a cemetery lot in their hometown, planning ahead for the future. A 70-year-old widow is shocked to learn that she is pregnant at a routine medical examination by her doctor.

Blossom of the Orphanage: The Bebe Story is a poignant and inspiring tale that traces the remarkable journey of Tiago, a child abandoned at birth on the doorstep of a Portuguese orphanage. Through sheer determination and an unyielding passion for football, Tiago transforms into the renowned footballer known as Bebe. His path takes him from the shadowy corridors of the orphanage to the hallowed grounds of Old Trafford, as he joins Manchester United.

Ellen sat waiting in the Buick while Fr. Dean Finn checked in at the motel office. He always registered them as Mr. and Mrs. George Adams of Syracuse, New York. There was no objection to a couple without luggage taking a room for a couple of hours at the Hit-the-Sack. The desk clerk, a poorly-shaven, perpetually smirking man of 35 lewd years, had managed, in the midst of an ambiance of sexuality which should have inoculated him against disgust, to cultivate a urinal of a mind.

MCXI Confessions is an intimate collection of eleven erotic tales inspired by real encounters — where lust overrides logic, desire rewrites the rules, and nothing is left unsaid. Each story drips with intentional seduction, unapologetic heat, and raw emotion. From first-time fantasies to forbidden affairs, these confessions explore the tension between what we crave and what we dare say out loud — in bedrooms, backseats, hotel lobbies, and private messages never meant to be read twice.