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Using advances in genetic engineering and manipulation, two fast food companies war with one another through their customers.

"Ninety days has September, April, June, and November..." is an antiquated rhyme because for an unknown reason, the Earth is spinning faster and faster, and a day is far, far fewer than 24 hours and getting shorter. It's cataclysmic, but most importantly...humanity is persevering.

The Last Leaf is an endearing story about many forms of love and our interdependency upon one another and most importantly ourselves. In it a young woman dying from pneumonia despite the best efforts of her loving roommate, a doctor, and a mature resident in the building who has appointed himself guardian to the young lady and her housemate, soon learns that she is the key to her own life or death and in that discovery she helps a friend rise to their true greatness.

A man, having made his fortune early, retires to a life at sea. After reading an article on modern pirates, he arms himself, trains, and soon learns that another definition for survival is when preparedness meets opportunity.

A civilization experiencing global cooling that will herald in a new ice, age follows in the path of denial that plagued a long extinct civilization.

A CDC, Center for Disease Control, task force commander leads his unit into a small town where all the residents have died of a pathogen that left no trace. Soon he and his unit find themselves at odds. He knows that these are test sites for some unknown, undetectable weapon and a finale is coming.

Perpetually tired from working 24 hours a day since Adam and Eve were cast out from the Garden of Eden, The Angel of Death takes a Happy Hour and chronicles how he was "promoted" from the Arch Angel of Truth to The Angel of Death because, "No one wants to hear the truth all the time."

The world, perpetually at war somewhere, is forced to end its childhood when the federation of Extraterrestrial species that has protected humanity for untold eons reveals itself, heralding in prosperity, technological advancements, longevity, and world peace, compelling humanity to work together as one in a common goal but not quite in the way the protectorate could have possibly foreseen.

In Bull Sharks vs. the City of Chicago, in America's third largest city, a Chicago police captain inadvertently finds himself slammed hard between a city cover-up of Lake Michigan's infestation by bull sharks, aggressive man-eaters, and protecting the residents and guests of the city. He's faced with a moral choice: go along with the cover-up and protect himself or be buried by it.

In a story that heralded in a genre, a world-famous big-game hunter learns firsthand how it feels to be hunted when a deranged Russian millionaire hunts him on his secluded tropical island as The Most Dangerous Game.

A woman discovers she has a natural defense against vampires.

In this international award-winning story, a woman finally comes to terms with her mother, who left her as a very young girl, and the legacy of horror she left behind.

On a bitter cold night, a conflicted man finds himself trapped between his humanity and his wolfhood.

The arc of a love affair is told in the ringing of four distinct bells.

Denys Barry, a very wealthy American, who has moved to his ancestral home of Ireland, discovers to his horror that his plans to drain a bog conflict with the desires of the wraiths protecting it.

When his ship is torpedoed by a German U-Boat during World War I, a man is taken prisoner by the Germans. Later, he escapes from the U-Boat to the sea, where he discovers a vast body of land, previously submersed on the Pacific Ocean floor, recently ripped from it through some geological upheaval, and bearing evidence that a highly intelligent, monstrous, race shares dominion of the Earth with humanity, and for the moment exercising it's rule only on the ocean floor.

Prince Prospero and a thousand of his followers lock themselves away to avoid the plague that ravages the common poor. Secure inside the abbey walls, the prince hosts lavish celebrations. But Prospero is not as safe as he had hoped, and death comes looking for him.

"The Charge of The Light Brigade" - written in 1854 by one of the great representative figures of the Victorian age, Lord Alfred Tennyson - celebrates the heroism of a British cavalry unit mistakenly ordered to attack a vastly superior Russian stronghold amidst the Battle of Balaklava during the Crimean War (1853-1856), a military conflict between Russia and a coalition of Great Britain, France, the Kingdom of Sardinia, and the Ottoman Empire.

A baby gives us a tour of the things it owns, including, "the couple of old persons around 20 who refer to themselves as 'father' and 'mother'.

A woman learns that she is too close to the truth when she hypothesizes that the Earth is a super organism determined to either purge itself of humanity or pare it down substantially.