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"That night was a lesson learned: There's the erotic's of a woman who feels so miserable and wrecked and anxious and sad she will get on her knees and let four people have at her with varying degrees of rupture and bliss, and then there's everything else." The Common, guest editor of Recommended Reading 2.4, publishes stories with a strong sense of place, yet the opening of Interpreters of Men Get It On sets the story to be the "Middle of Nowhere."

In this book, I will walk you through a few of my traumas (childhood trauma, abandonment, a murder case, trying to find a job with a record, rape, family trauma), what they made me feel like and what things I was displaying during each trauma. Maybe you can identify yourself in my actions/feelings, even if you can't identify yourself in the exact trauma I went through. I will also tell you what tools I used to get to where I am now, on the other side of the trauma, in a healed space.

Crushed by gender dysphoria and the pressure of disappointing her fans who paid for a new face, she answers a sketchy ad seeking transgender women for a free, experimental feminization treatment. The grotesquely flawless Dr. Skurm has gruesome methods, but he gets unbelievable results, and Isa is finally feeling comfortable in her skin. She even gains the courage to ask out her crush: an alluring and disfigured alchemy-obsessed artist named Rayna. But Isa’s body won’t stop changing, and she’s going from super model to super mutant.

Lying at the crossroads of Europe, Ukraine struggles to forge an independent path between the West and Russia. So great is the conflict, a prominent theme in Ukraine's history is freedom from foreign rule. The Wild Fields is a story about a man struggling to make the right decisions for himself and his family within the clandestine world of pro-Russian insurgents and pro-Ukrainian counterinsurgents in the war ravaged Donbas region of Ukraine, where the line is frequently blurred between good and evil.

Celebrate the 2023 Women's World Cup and the unstoppable rise of England's legendary Lionesses! Discover the incredible moments and players that have changed the women's game.

Something otherworldly and unnoticed is happening in the small town of C'ville that would, if known, excite the loins of every government on planet Earth. It is both dreamy and deadly, a combination discerned only by a lovelorn drifter who needs the distraction to keep from dying of a broken heart.

Based on a 133-year-old true story, a small town Missouri minister crosses paths with a weary snowbound traveler who tells of his recent European visit and an unusual discovery of ancient historical documents, which result in unforeseen repercussions.

Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after the Greek mythological figure. In ancient Greek mythology, Pygmalion fell in love with one of his sculptures, which then came to life. The general idea of that myth was a popular subject for Victorian era British playwrights. Shaw's play has been adapted numerous times, most notably as the 1938 film Pygmalion, the 1956 musical My Fair Lady and its 1964 film version.

Finding himself caught in the grind of working in the downtown restaurant scene and nightlife, Hayden seeks a break through an acting program. While working to develop his craft and hone his acting skills, Hayden becomes enraptured by a beautiful young model, Camilla Arden, who he tries to woo over the course of the program, when she is not out trotting the globe. Landing a job at an exclusive downtown restaurant, Hayden struggles to make his dreams a reality.

Over recent decades the proliferation of conspiracy theories has fueled alternative explanations and false narratives for events and circumstances, influencing minds around the globe. While some turn out to be true, others turn out to be driven by an agenda created for monetary or political gain. Who really killed JFK? Is Covid-19 a Chinese bioweapon? Was Princess Diana murdered? Were the Moon landings hoaxed? Were the 911 attacks an inside plot by government factions? Conspiracy Machine examines the validity of these theories.

What can you do to get seen, heard, chosen—and chosen first? That online marketing challenge is the number one struggle for most online business owners.

Texas Ranger Freddie Espinoza is center stage in pursuit of the drug-smuggling county sheriff. Freddie discovers an old friend—and DEA agent—has the sheriff in his crosshairs. Their former Army buddy, a Benedictine monk in his final days, is also on the case in a very unusual way.

Joe's world is turned upside down when he discovers a shattered compass among the brambles where the Crystal Palace once stood and travels through time back to 1888.

Small towns are remembered with nostalgia, deep-seated anger, or parts of both. So it is with those who live or have lived in Jerrod, a small cotton-farming town in North-Central Texas. It is home for multiple generations of men or women with few opportunities to break the bonds with land, family, and hometown. Kilborn focuses on a third-generation native son, Drake Kilborn. Under his father’s tutelage, he learned to pilot spray planes in his youth. 

Disgraced in the US, maverick ad man Eliott Thurber is forced to transfer to the newly opened London offices of Parabola Media. The clash of cultures has hilarious consequences as he tries to cope with promoting a range of peculiar products, challenging clients and not to mention his disgruntled new colleagues. His first assignment is a gourmet cat food for an intensely conservative company but Eliott has his eyes on a bigger prize, American investment in the NHS. After all, "where there's pain, there's gain..."

What creates a serial killer? Many were deeply affected by unimaginable life experiences that defy comprehension. Some were physically and mentally abused by loved ones during childhood, others exposed to the darkest aspects of humanity changing them into monsters, while some have a genetic bias toward extinguishing the life of others. Explore the horror within the individuals that commit the most heinous acts of murder and violence.

Aliens are monitoring planet Earth, watching mankind from afar and quite possibly using our planet as a resource for their agenda. The human species does the same on our home planet: we monitor and experiment on lower species in our heirachy of evolution—we test and probe, and do so for our own benefit. Governments have denied the existence of UFOs, yet the number of leaked reports from various agencies indicate that there is a deeper, hidden truth that is perhaps pointing towards a very dark future for mankind.

They are the most enigmatic structures on the face of the Earth. Monolithic wonders found on every continent designed with precise alignments to the stars and ancient energy grids. Encoded with vast knowledge about the history of the planet and constructed with technological sophistication beyond our current abilities, they are monuments of the past epochs like no other. The legends of many cultures including the Maya and Egyptians told of Gods that arrived and gave the people the knowledge and abilities to erect them as well as the guidance to create great civilizations.

Are Psychopaths natural born killers or is society somehow to blame? Many killers have expressed feelings of alienation and have shown evidence of harboring violent fantasies before they commit to killing. Either way, these people are often created by the society they live in. We need to question ourselves and our society to find the answers to why these people kill. It is a mad world mankind has created and such a world is bound to create mad offspring—but for these psychopathic couples, murder is just a game.

A cup, a chalice, or is it the most powerful bloodline on Earth that has been in power for millennia before recorded history? The Grail has become a corner stone of Royal power and holds a secret so powerful that it could bring down a religion followed by over a billion people. Is it a gift from ancient aliens or even a relic of Atlantis? The real truth is much more interesting, and much more powerful.