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The year is 2130. A young man named Alex wakes up in the middle of a field. And he has no recollection of how he got there. After saving his life from an imminent threat, a trio of ragtag vigilantes with superpowers inform him that humanity has been at war with an alien race for over 30 years, and nearly 75 percent of the human population has either been wiped out or enslaved.

The Real Dream is about a mother who wanted to have a special Christmas for her children. After not getting a job she applied for, she thought Christmas would be a ruined. Listen to the whole story to find out just what God can do for you.

The Corner Scribblers is a small writer's support group in the Chattanooga area comprised of writers, authors, and storytellers from a wide range of skills and backgrounds. We come together once a month to discuss our current projects, recent accomplishments and to share what we have each learned about the craft. Within this cover, you will find a collection of holiday-themed flash fiction stories and poetry, displaying a small sample of those combined skills.

Five years ago, I lost my best friend. A year later, I fell in love with his wife. That Christmas, I ran, afraid of what my feelings held. Three years later, I still can't get her out of my mind. So, this Christmas, I've decided I am going to return to her. I just hope she'll take me back.

IGIST follows the challenges and triumphs of Emi, a 14 year-old Earthling girl that dreams of getting into the renowned Intergalactic Institute of Science and Technology, or IGIST. The odds are stacked against her however. As humanity has spread across the galaxy they have grown to look down on the Bygones left on the brain-drained backwater of planet Earth and have no interest in stopping the Plague that ravages the people left there.

Elele is about to meet her god. She’s about to be elevated to the highest evolved form of her species. Even as she prepares to step before the most powerful entity in the universe, she refuses to confess her secret. She doesn’t want to change. However, the only thing worse than changing, would be failing to transform. Those who don’t evolve are regarded as Ketz, forsaken. Her faith demands she go through the ceremony, but she’s torn between her desire to keep the life she’s known, and what happens to those Seferam who don’t become Var’lechen.

Kaitlyn Olhouser was a long-term experiment that resulted in becoming an empath. She was rescued by her adopted family, a team of people each gifted with psychic powers that calls itself Oneiros. She has abilities just like them. She's even more powerful than all but one of them, but she's 16, and her caretakers seem more interested in making sure she graduates high school that letting her use her abilities to join the team. A short encounter with some bullies inspires her to find her own opportunity to be the hero she knows she's destined to be.

Little Red grow up on Day Street, and the time has come for the neighbors on the street to look for leadership. What or who could be better suited for this task but someone who grew up in the community? Now, it's time to find and prepare someone for the tasks ahead.

Going to university is the start of an incredible journey, but with so much competition after you graduate, it's more important than ever that you put yourself in the strongest position. Mastering Your Degree is designed to guide you through the elements of a degree that many students overlook - helping to improve your grades and get more out of your studies.

Some religions state that the very universe was created by words. The nation of America was founded using words. Words established the rights and freedoms this nation enjoys. The first of those rights is freedom of speech, which implies so much more than the right to use words. This anthology contains four stories from four authors. Each story pays tribute to either the ideals held by America’s First Amendment or to the concept that the words people use hold power. These authors took the concept of words and placed it in futuristic, apocalyptic, and fantasy settings.

Are you feeling less engaged, less committed and more skeptical at work? Do you find yourself isolated? Or are you caught in the middle of co-workers’ interpersonal conflicts? If so, you may be experiencing the confidence-busting, commitment-breaking, energy-draining patterns consistent with broken trust. We’ve all been there, but few of us know how to rebuild that trust. Dennis and Michelle Reina have spent their careers researching and measuring workplace trust.

Gwendolyn Crawford is preparing to take the powers of her family and to become the high priestess of the coven of the Silver Shadows. She was eager to help the covens heal the rift between them. Silas Sigmis Jr., the high priest of the Black Willow, was only following orders given to him by his father. He hadn’t thought of what the consequences of his actions would be until he came face-to-face with the Crawford girl. Two people who should have been at odds with each other will soon find they are each other’s only allies. Even among their own families.

Nurses Kit Carson and Tonto get temporary gigs across town at WellMart's Emergency Department, where they try to save the life of a well-renowned and well-endowed entertainer named Stormy Wether. Saturday Night is the second episode in Kit Carson's Knife and Gun Club. Lurid drama and trauma in America's new Wild West!

Ravana Moon spends her existence searching for her sire, called the Ancient One. What she finds is an unsuspecting vampire completely enthralled. Her repulsion of him only makes him want her more. When they have no choice but to team up to find their creator, they find they have more enemies to uncover.

Written words are vibrating your brain waves, unlocking the crave to follow a program of life. Rays are put in front of us everyday. Reality is presented in a new way.

Mental audio that you can see before you hear. It's in your brain before it's in your ear. If you miss a point, do not fear, just listen to it again. Your mind will make it clear. The vibration of these words make a meaning of this sound.

On her 18th birthday, Elyse Crawford's world turns upside down. Not only does she find out she's a witch, but she uncovers a lifelong secret about her friends, her birth parents, and even herself.Born into a world of magic, Elyse finds out she is the daughter of a high priestess and priest from rival covens. One or both families are in search of her Crawford blood to find her parents, whom she'd thought died when she was just a year old. Or, is someone after her blood for her power? As the descendant of Seraphina Crawford, her power and status are coveted. With the help of her friends, and her protector, Chadwick Crain, Elyse will learn to use her gifts and hopefully save her life. Completing the Blood Rite ritual is first and foremost on their minds. Once that is done, whomever is after her will have to admit defeat. Or will they?

Colors have been here since the beginning of man. Its laws control human life. This writing tells of the powers of light and color and the use and need of their understanding.

Crystal Life Shining Bright is another work of spoken words written by S.L. Worthen A.A.S. with current life content that starts with a true look into the effects of crystals on life as its opening topic. It begins with a spin that makes you stop and think again. The power of crystals was on the earth before man.

Nattie Ryan's bookstore, Mystery, Ink, is dying right before her eyes, and her beloved son, Jeffrey, is in prison for drug trafficking, a crime he didn't commit. Yet, nothing compares to the complications in her life when she discovers her friend, Clyde Hamilton, sitting on a park bench, strangled in the same manner as the unsolved murder 30 years before of Doctor Adams. To avenge the death of her friend, she sets off on a harrowing journey that plunges her into danger with deadly consequences.

Nurse noir fiction set in the American Wild West -- a dystopian near-future when nurses are armed with handguns for self protection and fear rules the night. The author imagines a night shift in a Denver hospital where a crazed shooter is on the loose. Don't worry, the doctors and nurses are all packing heat. All but one, that is...