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With a trillion sensors feeding data into a central computer unleashed into the world, governments, militaries, mega-corporations, dictators, and even hackers will be able to hear the heartbeat of the Earth. This is an invisible communications network enveloping everything, including your home. These Smart Dust particles, 100 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair, easily penetrate human skin, enabling trackers to monitor every moment of your day.

It was the time for a change in the world. A time when it would see the people reach the stars and conquer them, in a sense. There were advancements being made in robotics, space travel, and so much more. It was the time for humanity to reach a new era, and yet, it would be no different than what has always been.

E Foster B tells the heartbreaking story of Johnny, who desperately tries to make the most of his second chance at life after being released from prison. In the struggle to overcome the tough odds that an ex-felon faces back in society, Johnny discovers quickly that a second chance doesn’t exist and that freedom actually never truly exists again.

After Clark, a 30-something married man, mysteriously finds himself on a strange exotic getaway, he searches for his wife in order to remember how they got there in the first place.

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Christmas Eve is the first story in the second volume of the collection Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka by Nikolai Gogol. The story opens with a description of the winter scenery of Dikanka, Ukraine, a witch flying across the night sky and the devil stealing the moon and hiding it in his pocket, first playing with it in the sky, which no one in the village notices. Since it is the night before Christmas, the devil is free to roam around and torment people as he pleases, so he decides to find a way to get back at the village blacksmith, Vakula, because he paints religious art in the church.

The Thing in the Hall, is a rather macabre and strange story - retold by Mike Vendetti - of two friends living in London, one of whom tempts fate by inviting a spirit to visit without limiting what type of spirit he is inviting. As we know, there are "evil" spirits just awaiting a home or a victim.

At the Farmhouse by Edward Frederic Benson tells the story of a landscape painter, who after twenty years of hideous marriage to an abusive and drunken local woman who is rumoured to be a witch, sets off to murder her. In his pocket is a ball of strong twine with which he will strangle her, and a box of matches with which he will set light to the farmhouse to destroy the evidence of his crime. After that he will be free... What happens when he reaches the farmhouse is gruesome, uncanny and totally unexpected.

The Cat is an odd story about a young man who suffers a severe shock reaction to the unexpected ending of his engagement. Initially he is thrown into a deep depression which lasts several months, but then all of a sudden something snaps in his brain and he undergoes a phenomenal transformation. Not only does his depression leave him, but he becomes suddenly upbeat and sees the world in richer colours and with greater clarity.

Edward Frederic Benson was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer. Benson was also known as a writer of atmospheric, oblique, and at times humorous or satirical ghost stories. Among the most significant works Edward Benson is the The Wishing Well (1929) and many more.

The Sanctuary, a story of Satanism. "There was a thump on the ceiling overhead as if someone had fallen, and without a word we ran upstairs into Francis's bedroom. The door of the wardrobe where the vestments were kept was open, some lay on the floor. The panel was open, too, but within it was dark. In terror at what might meet our eyes, I felt for the switch and turned the light on..."

The Terror by Night is a short horror story published in 1912. The Terror by Night is a part of a short story collection The Room in the Tower and Other Stories also published in 1912. In the story, the first-person narrator and two others experienced a series of odd sensations, ultimately suggested to have been caused by a ghost. One of these proves more severe than the others.

The following works are included in the Selected of works Edward Frederic Benson: Mrs. Amworth; Negotium Perambulans…; Naboth's Vineyard; At the Farmhouse; The Wishing-Well; The Terror by Night; The Thing in the Hall; The Cat; The Sanctuary; Caterpillars.

Little Bun Rabbit is the twenty-second and final tale in L. Frank Baum's 1897 collection Mother Goose in Prose. Dorothy is a farm girl who is allowed to roam the local meadows and woods and play to her heart's content. She has the rare ability to understand and speak the language of the animals. The kind-hearted child makes friends with Bun Rabbit, and learns about his life and experiences. Bun Rabbit once modeled for Santa Claus, so that Santa could make stuffed bunnies for "the babies" to play with.

The story The Little Angel (1899) about a teenager - half-hungry, offended by the whole world "wolf cub". Once on a holiday in a rich house, he saw an angel on a Christmas tree. A toy becomes for him a sign of the "wonderful world where he once lived." She must belong to him! And the boy, who endured a lot, defending his pride, falls to his knees in front of the "unpleasant aunt."

The Pony Engine and the Pacific Express - a wonderful Christmas Story for Children. It was published in Howell's collection, Christmas Every Day and Other Stories Told for Children (1892). This classic short story from William Dean Howells finds a brother and sister fairly demanding their papa to tell them a story. As a long-standing storyteller, papa is reluctant to dream up something new. The demands of children often mean that a parent will do things they never thought they would, if only to salvage their own sanity. A memorable tale for all ages.

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Round the Moon is Jules Verne's sequel to From the Earth to the Moon. Having been fired out of the giant Columbiad space gun, the Baltimore Gun Club's bullet-shaped projectile and its three passengers, Barbicane, Nicholl and Michel Ardan, begins the five-day trip to the moon. A few minutes into the journey, a small, bright asteroid passes within a few hundred yards of them, but luckily does not collide with the projectile. The asteroid had been captured by the Earth's gravity and had become a second moon. The three travelers undergo a series of adventures and misadventures during the rest of the journey.

A Russian Christmas Party by Leo Tolstoy is about a generous family on the brink of ruin whose mother pins their hopes for restoring their fortune on their son, Nicolas' marriage to a wealthy bride. Nicolas isn't cooperating, for he loves a poor girl named Sonia. Alas! How will they see it through?