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The best-selling Extinction Cycle series by Nicholas Sansbury Smith first introduced listeners to a world ravaged by an engineered virus that turned men into monsters. Humanity's only hope was not a cure, but another bioweapon. When deployed it killed 90 percent of the infected, but the remaining 10 percent transformed into even more terrifying creatures called Variants. Here's a collection of Extinction Cycle short stories that explore the human spirit and the fight for survival in the face of overwhelming odds from some of the leading voices in the post-apocalyptic genre.

What Wendy Ross wants is simple - to live and love openly as a modern, independent woman. The problem is that according to her birth certificate her name is Roy Clark and she is a boy. Mistreated by her father, who is appalled at having such a child, misunderstood by her sister, whose clothes she has stolen, and committed to a mental hospital where she is mistaken for a homosexual, Wendy finally gets her chance to escape when she turns 21 and inherits a small legacy.

Have you ever felt stuck in a place of mediocracy? The place where it feels like you’re gripped with handcuffs? The place where your feet are fastened to the red light while looking down the road to destiny? Does your mind show you that place that brings pure joy all while reality reminds you of idleness? There was a time in my life where I was dominated with the thought of “This is it?” Where I was then couldn’t be my destination in life. I asked God to get me to my destiny and give me the proper steps to take so I can do my part in getting there.

“You may be wearing dungarees but you just joined the Big Red One, sailor.” The corporal turned a moment and David saw his unit patch. “Your old job has been overcome by events, as you might say.

“Sheepdogs, Tom,” Jerry said. He got a beer from the ice bucket and handed Tom one. “We’re the convoys’ sheepdogs. You know the difference between a shepherd dog and a sheepdog?” Tom leaned back in his own chair and sipped his beer. “I thought they were about the same.” “Oh, sheepdogs and shepherds are very different. The sheepdogs live with the sheep. When they’re puppies, they sometimes even nurse from the ewes. They look like the sheep and they love the sheep. Then some animal shows up – a strange dog or a wolf. Out west it’s mostly coyotes but sometimes it’s ...

A collection of stories inspired by Marty Robbin's "Gunfighter Ballands and Trail Songs" album. With a foreword by Robby Robbins. "When a town lives off of cowboys and cattle, it will have a wild side. It may be mostly one big wild side and that was El Paso in ’84."

This is the first volume of a new comedy series that delivers a next generation twist on stand-up. An entertaining hour where reality meets stand-up comedy via performances and profiles of the next generation of great African American comics. We Got Next takes you into the talent scout lab of Bob Sumner (Founder/Producer/Lead Talent Scout of Def Comedy Jam series with Russell Simmons on HBO) as he sets out to answer the question, “Who’s next?”