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Prepare yourself as you dive into this intense collection of twisted short stories. They will challenge your views on reality and perhaps make you question your sanity. These stories will take you to remote islands, dive into urban environments, and even explore the world of historical fiction. They will examine the realities of the human experience through fantastic and mysterious circumstances. Enjoy these surreal adventures, as you explore the limits of the human mind.

A miracle of science and medicine is achieved by Dr. Vincent Rivera in the development of Reincarbonation. His desperate attempts to save a child leapfrog science forward, but spell the beginning of mankind's demise. Death becomes optional as Reincarbonation transplants a patient's old soul into a new, healthy cloned body. Eventually Reincarbonation is militarized. What was started by the altruistic Dr. Rivera soon becomes the ruling corporation in the world, "The Board", which seizes control over all the re-soldiers - along with every nation on the globe.

Asked to attend the home of a billionaire for a second job interview, a young man quickly finds out what’s expected of him to secure his appointment. He needs the work, but there’s also something more to the proposition that’s made. It plays to his own fantasies and he submits to being the billionaire’s slave for an evening as he’s tied up and used.

Welcome to 'UnControversial’ ...a podcast with Dave Gilpin & Ricky Emmerson where they discuss “Unprovocative Ministry Wisdom for Everyday Ministry Challenges.” With a combined local church ministry experience of over 50 years, Dave and Ricky dive into uncontroversial, slightly boring, completely mundane, yet potentially thought-provoking conversations about God, church & ministry life and things to help pastors and leaders in their journey of leading within their local church communities. Join us for the fun, stay for the conversations.

There's a double murder on Military Road. The bodies of Colonel Matthew Hanson and his wife Susan are discovered with a single shot to the head. Detective Faye-Lynn Johnson is assigned the case, but even with her extraordinary powers of observation and deduction, the killings are baffling. Faye-Lynn and her partner can find no possible motive for the horrible murders. Enter General John Brittan, Commander of a Top-Secret Strategic Defense Program, he orders the detectives to back off the case. The murders are part of an intense inquiry by the Criminal Investigation Command (CID).

Chief of Police Nick Burns opens a 12-year-old cold case, and long-submerged secrets begins to surface. Detective Faye-Lynn Johnson, to whom the case is assigned, learns that this is not an isolated incident. The killer has done this before and will kill again. She must solve the biggest case of her career before the killer strikes again.

Lizzy Albright, a red-headed, freckle-faced girl from Overland Park, Kansas, is celebrating her tenth birthday on Christmas Eve 1964. An impending winter storm is approaching as Lizzy and her family travel to Cordelia, Kansas, where they plan to spend the holidays with Granny in the McHale family mansion. An imaginative young girl, an antique quilt, a goose named Gretta, and a cursed kingdom combine as the foundation for a fantastic fantasy filled with surprise, wonderment, betrayal, bravery, mystery, and intrigue.

Dennis Wilson (Sticks) takes you on a gripping tale of life in the Projects. What began as innocent kids in a bicycle gang eventually became something much more. But family is not always what it seems in this raw, entertaining mystery. The body of a local drug dealer is discovered, Detective Faye-Lynn Johnson assigned the case, and everyone becomes a suspect, including her boyfriend. Conflicting facts soon emerge as she grapples with this baffling mystery.

Is she the perfect wife? A beautiful spring day in Frederick is shattered when the home of a family of six becomes a crime scene: five of them dead, one - the mother - missing. Was she lucky to have escaped? Or, is her absence evidence of something sinister? Or, is she the perfect killer? Detective Faye-Lynn Johnson is on the case seeking justice and must make sense of the clues left behind. The young woman who, whether as victim or suspect, is silently pleading, "Look for me".

Understand that life is an intrinsic teacher, mentor, and guide. But, in order to benefit from the lessons that life provides, we must recognize when to pay attention to the process. Life Lessons takes you on a journey of personal discovery and development that will empower you to use your experiences, fears, and failures to create a transformative life of purpose and productivity.

A drunken evening with a friend gets out of hand for Rob when another pal arrives unexpectedly carrying a package. When he sees the sex toys in it, he’s both surprised and excited. It quickly becomes clear that it’s a set up, but with lowered inhibitions and curiosity taking hold, he lets himself be talked into trying them out. That leads to more when his two friends give him a demonstration of just how much sexual pleasure the toys can give.

The threat of kidnap leads to the grandson of a billionaire being assigned a bodyguard he doesn’t particularly want. The muscular Navy SEAL gets his attention though, and desires come to the surface that he can’t control. It quickly becomes obvious the military man is interested as well, and it leads to a torrid night neither can resist.

A raw and slightly unhinged podcast about pushing the envelope in the corporate social space. We’ll take a deep dive into where to begin, explore the realms of content marketing, and discuss the power of social selling. Your host, Ricky will be sitting down with guests who’ve taken a more edgy approach, turning their own persona into a brand. Get ready for unfiltered conversations that define the art of personal branding.

When most of us hear the word "Auschwitz" it immediately invokes black and white, grainy footage of living skeletons, gas chambers and inhuman brutality of a level never seen since. But the thing that most people do not realize is that before the town of Auschwitz was used as a death camp, it was one of the most posh and cosmopolitan towns in all of Austria. It was a prosperous Jewish enclave known rather fondly as "Little Jerusalem".

A new job on the ranch of billionaire Cody Bryant goes wrong in the very first week for Steve when he makes a mistake in the presence of his new boss. It turns out things going wrong turns into one of his fantasies of being punished with a riding crop. His erection doesn’t go unnoticed and gets him flogged more as he finds there are kinky perks to enjoy as the submissive ranch hand of a dominant billionaire.

Kurt Taylor, a self-employed plumber, witnesses the start of the horrifying outbreak. Desperate to reach his family before they fall victim to the ever growing horde of shambling corruption, he flees the scene. In a society with few guns, how can people hope to survive the endless waves of zombies that seek to consume every living thing? With ingenuity, planning, and everyday materials, the group forge their way and strike back at the Hellspawn legions.

One of the grilling hot seats of controversies that breed not only human and public discrimination but fierce judgment is the issue of homosexuality. The grilling questions are: Are lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people corruptions of human nature and dignity? Or are they the design of creation that expresses uniqueness and evolution? These essential questions are crucial in order to address the root issue. And this book was created for that purpose.

It started as a rivalry between two brothers. Promised twins destined to be a nation with the older serving the younger. Esau, the elder of the two men whose loins produced the country of Edom, would often have conflicts with Jacob, whose group of sons formed Israel. Due to internal problems and strife, these two tribes, bonded by blood, would become a fester of pain and struggle towards each other in a land full of hostile empires and nations. During an exile of Israel, a message was sent by the prophet Obadiah to the people who lived on Mount Seir, known as the Edomites.

Episode 5 in the third series of The Ricky Gervais Show, in which Ricky Gervais and Steve Merchant discuss Karl Pilkington's literary achievements.

A break-in at his apartment results in Craig calling the police. The officer who arrives is sympathetic to his plight, but tells him not to get his hopes up that his property will be returned. It’s something else that catches Craig’s interest though as the opportunity to have an encounter with a handsome, uniformed man presents itself. The officer is more than willing to give him what he wants as things get out of hand.