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Can true love conquer a zombie mutation? Prepare yourself for an undead zombie romance novel, one that is oozing with dark humor!

Adventures in prose from around the Chesapeake tidewater region told by an erstwhile and eclectic collection of writers. Ringmaster Ken Rossignol gathered together many of best and brightest of bards, poets, and tale-tellers to give their views, experiences, and fabrications in an entertaining way. Fans of short stories will enjoy the fourth book in The Chesapeake series and the valuable history told here of the Chesapeake region - with a few excursions led by the writers to other lands.

A few short years ago William Tell Davis was a simple Marine Sergeant drinking bear in a local bar, he got in a fight and ended up having to leave Earth to prevent its destruction. Now, after the actions covered in The Deserter, General Davis and the Legion he created to protect the Earth from Aliens has to protect all biologic life in the Galaxy.

Marc Gregorio wakes up paralyzed. Accident? Stroke? Did someone slip him an overdose of Botox? The answer, he discovers, is much, much worse. He’s only a copy of Marc, a digital brain without a body, burdened with all Marc’s human memories, but without access to human sensual pleasures. Now he has to find a reason to keep on, um, “living.” Adam the Mindclone meets the real Marc Gregorio - and his new girlfriend Molly Schaeffer. Adam loves her, too. But how does a digital entity experience love? He can’t even experience pizza. And a power-mad military contractor will stop at nothing to control the technology for his own ends....

Shaun Ryan's brother, Teddy, died in 1989. Only he didn't. Looking through his grievously ill mother's personal effects, Shaun finds a postcard that Teddy posted from New York, dated October 22nd 1990. And in his mother's family Bible is a picture of an adult Teddy. Could Teddy somehow be alive? And how do you find someone who has never been declared missing and who vanished nearly 30 years ago? Missing-linc.com are an oddball assortment of geeks and obsessives whose macabre hobby is matching unidentified bodies with missing people....

What Life Can Bring is three connected science fiction stories that revolve around my fascination with time. The first story, “The Journey Home”, opens with a handsome, tattooed young man who goes by the nickname “Poly” being released from jail on a beautiful August day in 1994. Poly has high hopes for a fresh start, but he’s not able to find a job. Struggling to make ends meet and keep a roof over his head, Poly can find only one option: Join up with his old crew in a bank heist. Things don’t go entirely to plan....

Welcome to the incredible world of Ambrose Bierce! A true master of the weird, eccentric, macabre and even grotesque horror story. The 24 tales in this collection are no exception. They are often deceptively simple, in the end requiring the listener to re-evaluate what has transpired and realizing that the pieces of the puzzle - often quite dreamlike - makes for something bigger and more sinister than just the finished work.

When is a suicide not a suicide? You Can Leave, a novel by Laurie Calhoun, portrays a dark, disturbing, dystopic world where dissenters are permanently silenced whenever perceived of as threats by ruthless sociopaths occupying the highest corridors of power. The narrator relays her experiences at the hands of “the new mob”, a coordinated network of operatives enlisted from all walks of life on a “need to know” basis to carry out what appear to be trivial tasks for enticing sums of money. Lost in the labyrinth of an insane bureaucracy run amok, the heroine charts her path to survival using the only available means: her capacity to think. But will that be taken away from her as well?

Jacob Smith believes in crime and shooting first. His life is about to take a big turn. A devil awaits him at his next bank heist. Not a violent, powerful, demon-possessed human, but a shapeshifting reptilian giant. Jacob does not pray. He carries firearms and operates with a trusted crew. Two of them know the name of Jesus. Will this be enough to save Jacob’s fiancée? Will faith provide 700,000 quid to pay the fines on the Beefeater Pub? If they descend into the Earth after their enemy, will they ever again see daylight? Piotr Devlin remains a step ahead of them at every turn. What is ...

In this episode, Ryan and Shannon discuss an article about OpenAI's GPT-4 and its ability to exploit real vulnerabilities by reading security advisories. GPT-4 was able to exploit 87% of the vulnerabilities presented to it, while other models tested as low as 0%. Ryan is optimistic about the potential of AI in cybersecurity and sees it as an opportunity to build better defenses. However, he acknowledges that AI will also change the job landscape and professionals will need to evolve and acquire new skills. Please LISTEN 🎧 LIKE 👍🏿 and SHARE ❤️ Thanks! Socials: Website - https://...

Eye Can See is a tale about the realization about what is reality and what is fantasy - and what can happen when our eyes play tricks on us.

A lives with B. B seems to be becoming more and more like A. If A's boyfriend, C, likes A because A is A, but now B is the same as A, where does that leave A? And what has happened to the family across the street, who left one afternoon out of nowhere, covered in sheets with holes cut out for the eyes?

Before his accident, Billy was an average guy in Louisiana, just trying to get by. After his accident, he became Major Damage, one of America's foremost Superheroes. He has super strength and is invulnerable to any weapon currently known to man. When the government asks him to infiltrate the secret base of Doctor Destruction and save the International Space Station from destruction, he can hardly say no.

He was once more famous than F. Scott Fitzgerald. He's the literary giant you never heard of. Alexander Icarus Camby was supposed to write the Great American Novel. After shaking the literary world with award-winning short stories in the late 20s, Camby overshadowed Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Faulkner, by accepting a then mind-bending advance of a quarter of a million dollars for his debut novel. The whole world waited. And waited. And he never wrote another word. Or did he? Sixty years later, an aspiring author, suffering from crippling writer's block, inherits Camby's writing cottage, a ...

Terrorists attack the British and American Embassies in Bangkok simultaneously causing horrific damage, but who is responsible and how will they be stopped from doing such a thing again? A squad of renegade ex-SAS elite commandos is called in to help by the British government, even though they are wanted by the police in seven countries.

While a boy is regrowing his arm that was hacked by robots, he reads an old diary that describes the origins of a parasitic worm that has infected multiple planets. The magical abilities of the stone the worm lives in transforms the lives of the kingdom. Two friends then melt strange pink rocks in a fire, only to discover they are actually organisms that are living in a dormant volcano, which evil robotic dogs are mining to use for organic computers.

Marc Gregorio si risveglia paralizzato. Non riesce più a percepire il proprio corpo. Incidente? Ictus? Un'overdose di tossina botulinica? La risposta, scoprirà poi, è molto, molto peggiore. Lui è soltanto una copia di Marc, un cervello digitale senza corpo, dotato di tutti i ricordi umani di Marc, ma senza alcun accesso ai piaceri sensuali degli esseri umani. NOTA: I lettori americani hanno assegnato a Mindclone 4.5 stelle su un massimo di 5. Puoi leggere le loro recensioni a questo link.

An unassuming woman wanders around the landscape of hell accompanied by a dammed priest and a '60s styles teenage demon activist. The trio is sometimes helped and sometimes hindered by a god-like being with dysfunctional split personalities. All You Can Eat contains the following episodes:

Welcome to "You Can Smooch Tho?" where we talk Boys Love Manga, Webtoons, Comics, Anime, Videos Games, and every illustrated and fictional media under the sun!Join your host Lullaby, an artist with a higher education in comics and low qualifications, as she and her cast of shounen hero-esque guests discuss and analyze the artistry, humanity, and the emotions that Boys Love media evokes in us as people from all different walks of life.

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