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In 2015 I was an up and coming writer hired to work on a television show. I had just gone through a breakup and left my job of 14 years. Things were looking up and before I knew it I was flying to Seattle. That was when everything changed. This is a coming of age story about a man being pulled into a world he is not familiar with and the characters he meets along the way. Come along for a ride of big money, fast cars, and loose women, or maybe not. You'll have to wait and find out.

When 12 men take over an all girls school one person stands in their way. Daisy is having a bad year, first her father is arrested after a shooting, then she has been sent to live with her grandparents, now a group of terrorist have taken over her school. This is the story of a 14 year-old girl trying to survive as her world falls apart around her. Raised by her father, Daisy uses her training in Judo and knowledge of 80s and 90s action movies to make sure the terrorists lives are a living hell. After subduing a man, Daisy is asked, "what are we going to do?" "If they bleed, we can kill ...

Years after the terrorist takeover of her school, Daisy has moved on in her life. Living on her own in a dorm room in a college campus she is oblivious to a recent political uproar on campus after a local police shooting involving a white police officer and a black man at a traffic stop. Overnight, a civil rights protest turns the campus into the Central Hill Autonomous Zone, or CHAZ. Communists and anarchist take over the zone and soon the struggle sessions of Mao’s China and trials start forcing those who don’t agree with the party to either take a side or disappear. With the mayor ...

A steel fortress sits in eastern Ohio built of old steel shipping containers. What had functioned as a trading post now sits as a castle under siege from a traveling horde of marauders. Their leader, a man called Death, leads their charge to take what he wants. When a lone swordsman stops him from taking what is his, Death sets himself on a self-destructive mission to kill the only man to ever get in his way. John and Aurora are newlyweds who have never been outside of their home town of New Haven. Growing up in the former state of Michigan 20 years after the collapse of the United States ...

John Glock thought he had found the perfect town. While working as a police officer he kept to himself, the ladies had an interest in him, and life was quiet until he found a body early one morning. As the murder investigating started he quickly learns that the dead man on a biking trail had won the Medal of Honor and the secrets of the quiet town would have to be exposed to find a killer. John isn't the only person out to find the suspect. A Black SUV pulls into town and the police learn that the dead man on their trail had friends that will stop at nothing to have their version of justice.

Following a series of outbreaks, congress signs the "Bite Act" taking away the civil rights of citizens who have been bitten by an infected person. Zombies have become an everyday part of life. Hospital and police procedures are changed to protect those on the front lines. The signing of the "Bite Act" was intended on protecting those who were still healthy but one of the side effects was the creation of a new form of human trafficking. Those who have been bitten are required to turn themselves into care centers where they spend their last hours under armed supervision but most choose to ...

Underneath the glamour and money that built Pedigree City is a criminal foundation. Cats and dogs try to live in harmony after the end of WWII in a world that has hopefully learned from the horrors of war. Tibbs and Gonzo are cats, brothers, and homicide detectives who use their skills to keep the peace and protect the public from killers that could jeopardize a fragile peace. Their relationship is a balancing act. Tibbs is a black cat who plays by the rules and remained a straight shooter throughout his life. Gonzo on the other hand, joined the Army during the war and came back home with a...