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Imagine the moment when the present ends, and the future begins--when the world we knew is no more and a brave new world is thrust upon us. Gathering stories by nine of today's most incisive minds, Seeds of Change confronts the pivotal issues facing our society today: racism, global warming, peak...

(Note: "Nighthawks" is a short story that is also available in the larger collection, Daggyland #1, by the same author.) * Two men, a woman, and young soda jerk find themselves alone in a New York City diner in the wee hours of the night. Why are they there? What are...

Living in a lazy tropical seaside village, shy and sensitive, sixteen year old Jeddo is on the cusp of manhood. He was happy and content until childhood bullying forced him to retreat within himself. Now he stays at home, quietly painting canvas sails and sculpting figureheads for the local fishing...

A Tokyo back alley is no place to die A beautiful young Japanese woman is dead. The crime is sure to grab headlines. But a respected police inspector's secret might keep her killer from justice. All Tokyo Police Inspector Shig Sato wants is to work a case. After three years in exile...

Fi Fi La Rue is a burlesque dancer in a honky tonk club in a small town in Texas. Her biggest wish was to meet a rich man and get out of the small hot town she was in. One day while performing she meets a handsome man, he becomes smitten with her, she even more so when she finds out he's one of the...

The course of a young sailor’s life is forever changed when, in a moment of weakness, he, along with the ship’s crew, abandons his distressed ship and its passengers. Now deserted by his fellow crewmembers, Jim is left to face the consequences of their actions alone, and loses his sailing accreditation...

“So,” Friar Daffyd said. “What has happened to you in that other place?” It was just five months since Myfanwy had been sent from Annwn to go to school in England: sent from a land of magic and wild country to a land of technology, crowded with people. He watched as a shadow passed across...

In this short detective story, a privileged yet unworldly young woman embraces a deadly habit as a means to deal with her anger and grief while living in one of the world’s most beautiful cities—Rome. This story is a Derringer Award finalist. It first appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine. (Note:...

EXTRAIT: I M. Baker, second du navire le Narcisse, franchit d’un pas le seuil de sa cabine éclairée et se trouva dans l’ombre du gaillard d’avant. Au-dessus de sa tête, sur le fronteau de dunette, l’homme de quart piqua deux coups. Il était neuf...

1600 words on Macbeth's background, plot and key ideas. Get up to speed on Shakespeare, sharpish.

Why Do I Do That? is a self-help book for people who don't usually buy self-help books. Instead of offering cognitive-behavioral techniques for dealing with anger, or affirming strategies to boost self-esteem, this self-help book adapts the basic methods of psychodynamic psychotherapy to a guided...

"Morning Pages" is about a writer, Ben Halaby, who is suffering from writer's block. He accidentaly stumbles across "The Artist's Way," a book about creativity by Julia Cameron. Cameron's basic principle for breaking out of a block is to write three-pages-nonstop-first-thing-in-the-morning-for-84-days....

A take-off novel from the author's first work, Relentless, The Dawn Stealer finds paleontologist Laura Crisler doing field work near the abandoned town of Coleman, Arizona. An epic discovery entangles her in an international web of danger and a search in which she must succeed no matter the cost....

Abby has met the man of her dreams; too bad he lives in her fantasies! Nightly, she pulls out his picture and dreams of an erotic life with him, just like many other women do as his popularity and romantic image grows. Meanwhile, in the small town where Abby lives, she becomes the object of rivalry...