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Editor’s Foreword (excerpts) Albert’s Book, by Mihaela Manàsia, achieves something rare and moving: it offers not just stories, but a luminous journey through memory, surrealism, education, and human fragility. This book defies easy classification—both prose and poetry, both testimony and dream. It belongs equally to literature and to the metaphysical spaces we too rarely allow ourselves to inhabit. We publish this volume as part of our Romanian Short Stories Around the World series, highlighting the richness of contemporary Romanian literature in English translation. Albert’s Book...

“Fantastic!” —the actual Jeff Goldblum (for real) The essential companion for any fan of Jeff Goldblum, Hollywood’s most beloved and otherworldly icon. You like Jeff Goldblum. We like Jeff Goldblum. Helen McClory really likes Jeff Goldblum. So lie back, Jurassic Park-style, and prepare...

In seventy-two hours, a blockbuster expose will reveal Victoria Stevens's multibillion-dollar startup as a massive fraud. And Victoria has gone missing. Has she faked her death, leaving her husband, Guy Sarvananthan, to face the fallout—and potential jail time? Should Guy flee to his native Sri Lanka, an outcast and a failure? Or embrace denial? Opting for the latter, he takes the corporate jet to a private Caribbean island, where the 0.0001% have gathered to decide which one of the world's biggest problems to "eradicate forever."

When his agent told the popular TV sports analyst and motivational speaker he was messianic, the young, charismatic man thanked him for the compliment which he promptly dismissed as mere agent hyperbole. When the avaricious agent told him he was going to start a teleministry and wanted him to be his money-making preacher, he politely refused. And when the greedy, fiendish agent threatened his family if he didn't accept the job, he knew he had a problem. Berkeley-born Toby Gates sought the help of the Banter Foundation. This delightfully eccentric group not only funds various charities but ...

The book takes place during a transitional period in man’s history: white collar professionals, specifically lawyers, are being replaced by robots, and the legal system is being taken over by a secret group known as The Machine Commission in Support of Artificial Intelligence. Presented as a collection of Judge Daylek’s recent decisions on sexual harassment, wrongful death, pollution, human rights, and intellectual property law, the hyperbolic fact patterns and the Judge’s unorthodox style parody mankind’s self-deluding grandiosity and foretell the future we are creating.

Unmask the World Stage: A Journey Through Media Fakery and Psyops (IPS Deprogram Book 2) Step into The Hollow Moon Diner, where secrets hum like neon and truth hides in plain sight. Join Tim and Jack—two sharp-eyed outsiders with wings, scales, and a knack for unraveling lies—as they dissect a world engineered to deceive. From viral stabbings to crowdfunded chaos, every headline is a psyop, every narrative a trap. Based on the electrifying 5/6/25 IPS Morning Deprogram transcript, this AI-crafted tale rips the veil off media manipulation, exposing Disease X as a mind virus, Mr. Beast as ...

A story that pertains to the lives of all human beings conflicted by the constant bombardment of information. In an era where information capitalism assaults us with algorithms that track every careless click, a heartbroken man plunges into an empirical quest for certainties.

What’s inside a brown paper bag? More than you’d expect. Can a single writing prompt stretch an ordinary object into thirty stories written by one author? These poignant and wacky stories will resonate with anyone who feels like a ball in a pinball machine. You’ll ricochet across genres, collide with taboo themes, and discover narrative magic along the way. Inside, there’s a genie trapped for decades, a peach waiting to ripen, ants fighting over a ham sandwich, and people grappling with love, hunger, shame, desire, memory, and survival. This collection is an invitation to a séance,...

Have you read J.S. Mason’s works before? Are you looking to read something that is entertaining, exciting, fresh, fast-paced, humorous, eccentric, and enjoyable? If so to the first question, then this is the book for you. If so to the second question, then this is the book for you. Much like his previous three books offer, this fourth installment of J.S. Mason’s …And Other series has just as many and now even more giggles, chuckles, chortles, guffaws, crack-ups, and laughter of the rolling on the floor and full-belly variety. With silly and zany adventures afoot in these hilarious ...

A nameless narrator awakens to the muddle of middle age, no longer certain who or what he is. He finds himself at a party talking to a woman he doesn't know who proves to be his wife. Soon separated but still living in the same apartment, he is threatened by a litigious dachshund and saddled with a stubborn case of erectile dysfunction in a world that seems held together by increasingly mercurial laws and elusive boundaries.

When Fumiko emerges after one month locked in her dorm room, she's already dead, leaving a half-smoked Marlboro Light and a cupboard of petrified food in her wake. For her boyfriend, Henrik, an aspiring translator, these remnants are like clues, propelling him forward in a search for meaning. Meanwhile, Fumiko, or perhaps her doppelganger, reappears: in line at the Louvre, on street corners and subway platforms, and on the dissection table of a group of young medical students, including “you”.

Being a hot billionaire just isn't what it used to be... To dirt-poor Wetta, romance novels aren’t a diversion, they’re a life plan. Certain her ticket out of Dullsville lies between those steamy pages, she spends her days crafting her own catalogue of the demure, waiting for her hero-in-a-Jag to appear. Everything changes when she catches sight of “The One”—handsome, bed-hopping billionaire Veego Drake. Convinced he’s her destiny, Wetta crosses the country to track him down and start her glorious new life. Nothing prepares her for the rollercoaster ride that awaits. Treacherous...

Brace yourself for a riotous, razor-sharp sci-fi satire that’ll have you howling—until the dinosaurs take the stage! In Jurassic Jest: The Laughing Extinction, Earth becomes the galaxy’s hottest comedy club when a fleet of stand-up saucer-riding dinosaurs returns after 66 million years, armed with killer punchlines and an appetite for tenderized humans. From a T-Rex in a sequined zoot suit to a Velociraptor heckler with a grudge, these cosmic clowns are here to slay… literally. Join Tommy Jenkins, a mediocre influencer turned accidental hero, as he wields the world’s worst dad ...

Attorney Carl Danson wakes up on his eightieth birthday and quickly realizes that he has finally gone bat-shit crazy when the skin tag on Carl's waist introduces himself as Drake and begins to have conversations with Carl. Even worse, Drake proves to be a terrible influence and talks Carl into doing ridiculous pranks whenever alcohol is involved. Will this unusual duo wind up committed to an institution, or can their new friendship actually bring them comfort? ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Lance Majestik is a pen name used by retired Canadian lawyer Donald W. Desaulniers as a means of publishing a few ...

Are you looking to read something that is entertaining, exciting, fresh, fast-paced, humorous, eccentric, and enjoyable? If so, then this is the book for you. Much like his previous two books offer, this third installment of J.S. Mason’s …And Other series has just as many giggles, chuckles, chortles, guffaws, crack-ups, and laughter of the rolling on the floor and full-belly variety. With silly and zany adventures afoot in these hilarious tales, you can be sure that you’ll be thrown into a journey you’ve never experienced before. Prepare for anthropomorphic characters poking fun at ...

In the second installment of his City Attorney’s Office series Christopher J. Stockwell takes you on another satirical jaunt through the criminal justice of Seattle. Through antihero Ben, you will get a look behind the curtain of a busy prosecutor’s office the way only a jaded former prosecutor can show you. It’s not always pretty, but it’s always candid and real. Enjoy!

A struggling Dr. John Watson becomes involved in a scheme. He's paired up with Sherlock Holmes as Sherlock investigates a murder that leads to a larger confrontation.

Jack Holland never meant to become a priest. An Irish teenager with no religion and even less restraint, he sought refuge in a seminary to dodge family pressure—just until he figured things out. But procrastination has a way of rewriting destinies. Years later, Jack finds himself in California, wearing the collar and preaching to the faithful, all while wrestling with shattered vows, unexpected success, and a God who seems more wrathful than forgiving. His journey is equal parts absurd and profound—a spiritual misadventure laced with dark humor, biting satire, and the ache of a man ...

When Pepperoni met Pizza.

Have you ever wondered what Big foot does on his day off? Or were hippies really about peace and love? Why are there really so many junked cars in the south? Well sit down and find out about this and more. This is a collection of stories that take place in the world of Harold Hatch cryptid liaison. From magical mishaps to aliens abducting hobos.