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Ever get laid off while wearing a costume? Forced to get over a fear in less than 10 hours? Hey, we've all been there, right? These are just a few of the weird woes that writer and blogger Roberto Scarlato has to face. A collection of six humorous essays of true events that happened in his life. It tackles subjects like apartment hunting, traveling, acting, Halloween contests, and scammers.

Somewhere in an impoverished desert shantytown there's a life devoid of all things human. Yet from this loveless, hopeless, and altogether barren existence comes fiery hope and unexpected love. As brutal as a Tarantino movie and as tender as a sure-fire chick flick, Bizarro Love drags the listener through the loneliness and ugliness of the character's world. Amidst an utter absence of humanity comes the greatest of human conditions, love and hope.

Born into the household of a wealthy slave owner in Cuba in 1797, Juan Francisco Manzano spent his early years by the side of a woman who made him call her Mama, even though he had a mama of his own. Denied an education, young Juan still showed an exceptional talent for poetry. His verses reflect the beauty of his world, but they also expose its hideous cruelty.

Lies and love. This is how a war starts. A life for a life. That's the mafia way. Damian Rossi owes his life to a man who is ready to collect. That payment comes in the form of an arranged marriage to the daughter of another leading family in the Chicago Outfit. He's ready to follow through, even if that means making sure Lily knows she's his.

Hotel owner C.C. Dixon has a beautiful fiancée and a mysterious million-dollar debt. Before he can embrace his future, he'll have to sort his past. Or die trying.

Old Chicago has a new hero, the Bagman. Created by writer B.C. Bell, the Bagman is former gangster Frank McCullough who goes straight and becomes a crime-buster to protect the good people of the Windy City. These stories mix fast-paced action and humor in the finest pulp tradition.

This homage to a by-gone era of classic "Detective Noir" stories is a fun and exciting journey through the streets of L.A. in 1945. Lucky is returning home from World War II to restart his life up as a L.A.P.D. cop, when a case nobody wants lead him on a journey of self discovery he will never forget. Love, lust, and lamentation, travel beside Lucky through intrigue, mystery and murder, all conspiring to turn a hero into another gritty L.A. shamus reminiscent of Sam Spade or Philip Marlowe.

Supreme Pharmaceuticals designs and manufactures Enoxadin, a drug that coats the inner walls of arteries and prevents heart attacks and strokes. The medicine, taken by everyone over 20 years old, works wonders for decades until it interacts with a new virus and starts killing the population it's meant to protect. Brent, a scientist from the future, journeys to the past to find four teenagers and warn them of what will befall an unsuspecting populace.

Lo zar semplicemente era imbattibile. E lo zar era Aleksandr Popov. Per tutti era lo zar, ma per gli americani era Big Dog, il cagnaccio. Perché non ti mollava mai. Inesorabile. Nel 2000 Popov si presenta a Sidney per affrontare la sua terza olimpiade. Può diventare l'unico nuotatore nella storia a vincere tre ori di fila nella stessa specialità. Il traguardo è lì ad un passo.

È l'alba del 5 settembre 1972. Il marciatore israeliano Shaul Ladany si sveglia di soprassalto nel suo letto del villaggio olimpico di Monaco. È andato a dormire da poco. Fino alle 3 aveva ritagliato gli articoli di giornale che parlavano della sua gara: la 50 chilometri di marcia. In quel momento il sangue di Moshe Weinberg è già sull'asfalto. Il suo corpo è crivellato dai colpi di kalashnikov del commando di Settembre nero.

In this compilation, Agent Richards races against time to find the daughter of a wealthy entrepreneur in "Abducted"; in "Cunning", a newlywed, who is obsessed with Transylvanian folklore, encounters her husband's mysterious kinsman; while a murderer flees a crime scene in "Reckless". Listen to these short stories, and more, in Scribbler Tales: Volume 4.

Everyone should have a survival pantry. It really is that simple. Maybe you don't believe in the "zombie apocalypse" like your crazy neighbor up the road (doesn't everybody have one of those, or is it just my luck?) and that's fine. There are many more practical reasons to store and preserve foods and potable water. Think hurricanes, tornadoes, rampant wildfires, and other natural disasters. Think terrorism.

Shaeffer is an old-school heistman. You need an armored car taken or a football stadium's gate receipts lifted, you call Shaeffer and his buddies. But the world is fast moving to a cashless economy. Everyone is paying with Paypal, debit cards, or electronic fund transfers these days. Join an aging heistman as he tries to deal with an increasingly high-tech society, feeling more and more left behind.

I forestieri visitano Dunwich molto raramente, tutte le indicazioni stradali sono state rimosse da quando sono accaduti quegli orribili fatti. Forse una ragione c'è, è che le persone del luogo sono decadenti in modo spaventoso.

Il network marketing è un efficace sistema lavorativo che permette a chiunque di avviare un'attività imprenditoriale attraverso la vendita diretta. Questo meccanismo di distribuzione e di commercializzazione di prodotti e servizi è ormai particolarmente florido in molti Paesi del mondo e rappresenta un settore sempre più in crescita. Prevede, infatti, guadagni meritocratici e possibilità concrete di fare carriera, gestendo il tempo in maniera flessibile e a fronte di un investimento pari a zero.

The first 24 stories of the Free Story Friday series are collected here for the first time in audio. Includes "Under the Bed", "Into the Tall Grass", "Down the Slope", "The Quality of Life", "Letters from Galileo", and more.

Terrible Things is the story of John and Jimmy Leetch. John is a soldier in the Korean War who hasn't yet met his son, Jimmy. After a chilling and traumatic turn of events in the war, he eagerly awaits the moment that he will finally return home and begin his new life as a father. Jimmy, now a middle-aged man, discusses his childhood and family life with his therapist, who is helping him to overcome his decades-long struggle with alcohol. Delve deeper into the world of Leetch, and uncover the roots of this family tree.

Dworshak isn't a lake in the classical sense of the word, but a reservoir; a portion of the once narrow northern fork of the Clearwater River, dammed up to generate power and prevent the yearly spring floods that once plagued the town of Orofino. If half the rumors about Dworshak were true, it would surely be haunted. Stories about a small trade town, its buildings deserted but still intact, buried under hundreds of feet of dark water.

Humanity has reached for the stars and has gained complete domination. The human empire has remain unchallenged... until now. A new alien race is discovered, and they are as human as we are. Unfortunately for Earth the aliens are far more advanced technologically, smarter than the average Earth human, and are just as aggressive. Maybe it doesn't help that they are all psychopaths. Bill is just training to be a combat marine in a war that Earth based humanity is losing.

Roberto Malini, che da oltre trent'anni si dedica allo studio dell'Olocausto e a progetti di educazione alla Memoria, ha incontrato, soprattutto in Israele e in Italia, numerosi sopravvissuti ebrei e 'zingari': a loro sono dedicate le sue "Poesie dell'Olocausto". Il poeta presenta inoltre le sue versioni in italiano di alcune poesie di autori scomparsi nell'Olocausto o scampati ai campi di morte: Henja e Ayala Karmel, Jankiel Wiernik, Paul Celan, anonimi del Ghetto di Kovno e dalla comunità sefardita della Grecia, Wladislaw Szlengel, Tamara Deuel.