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It is widely believed that improving your appearance will lead to success in other areas; jobs, relationships, personal well-being. And while there are some studies which suggest this is the case - for example, because of the biases which are often expressed against heavier people at school and in the workplace - there are others who argue these effects don't last beyond first impressions. The truth is, devoting too much attention to appearances can damage a person's self-esteem.

That’s what 27 writers want you to consider, here in this collection of the strange and terrible, the shocking and amazing, the frightening and awe-inspiring. Assembled here for easy perusal are some of the finest tales of ghosts, zombies, witches, cryptozoological freaks, monsters, and aliens of the past year.

A prison yard becomes the place where a “lifer" inmate attempts his last stand against the gun tower. An ICU nurse attending to an inmate meets the man that tormented his daughter. A rogue correctional officer receives a body receipt from the county coroner for a man he killed. A prison psychiatrist meets his maker by getting bludgeoned to death by the bust of Freud. The infamous serial killer Ed Kemper finally receives the punishment he told the judge he deserves for his crimes - death by torture.

While the director of the newly formed FSB, Vladimir Putin ensures a young Russian is enrolled in MIT’s PhD program in electrical engineering and computer science. Upon graduation, Alexei Smirnov manages Putin’s top secret operation called The Grey Cardinal Files, a clandestine surveillance of key leaders in the West. Grey Cardinal leads to Russia entrapping a sitting US president, a secretary of State, a seasoned senator, and key leaders in the media. He also controls a key website that leaks classified information. 

Three books in one! Korea x2 (Book One): A CIA director is killed by a North Korean assassin. Three Air Force Pararescuemen and a CIA officer join with the South Korean 707th Brigade, a team of female assassins, to form a team known only by President Reagan and CIA Director Casey as "the Silent Six." Their task: the destruction of the North Korean gangster regime. Also features Silent Six (Book Two) and Putin's Gold (Book Three)!

The Russians are worried that the Javelin antitank missile can be a game changer in the war in Ukraine. With the help from their pit bull on a leash, the North Koreans, and an ex-Stasi physiatrist, the Russians stage a plan of crashing a German airliner into the French Alps. The FSB leaks information, with ties attached to the Javelin missile, to the Americans and the Germans of a plot by the North Koreans to bring airliners down.

Frank Boston, retired Air Force Pararescueman, experienced two separate incidents involving three back-to-back deaths early in his Air Force career. He concluded after the second incident that he has a strange power he calls nose-smell, a sort of mystic instinct of seeing who will die in a group of related deaths. He goes years without using his ability until a small girl drowns in a pond on the nearby Air Force base. He knows two more water-related deaths will soon follow.

Fond remembrances of the life and work of Robert Anton Wilson, featuring Douglas Rushkoff, Antero Ali, Tiffany Lee Brown, David Jay Brown, Zac Odin, and Joseph Matheny.

David Joseph has established himself as one of the most unique military fiction writers of our time. Wielding all the power and magic of a master storyteller, Joseph delivers in Spooky Military Tales the stories the military does not want you to know. He introduces the origins behind the haunted KC-135 tanker that still flies, the aircraft that flew the remains to the US from Jonestown, the strange sightings at Arlington National Cemetery.

Within the elaborate game of geopolitical strategy, ISIS caliphate, terrorist provocations, and global markets, Putin launches guerrilla warfare under the sea with the use of Seaborne Spetsnaz and submarines. He knows his plan will only work if the attacks are perpetrated by Islamic extremist. A war in which Putin has the ultimate advantage of stealth and surprise.

A Boeing 777 takes off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport and rendezvouses behind an American tanker refueling fighters, thus falling in its radar. Chinese military computer hackers break into a key defense satellite, and a North Korean cargo ship drops a black box into the Indian Ocean. All the events, along with a flight simulator, combine to produce a perfect storm for The Great Hijacking.

Author David Joseph brings his most intriguing thriller yet - a terrifying story about terrorism and rescue - brilliantly paced with superb nonstop action. While tracking the 9/11 terrorist hijackers at the "Kuala Lumpur Summit", the Silent Six team are redirected on a rescue mission of sheer audacity and nerve - rescue a group of children being transported from Camp 14 in North Korea.

The Korean CIA Director is killed by a North Korean assassin. Counterfeiting, drugs, and weapons of terror finance the North Korean government. Three Air Force Pararescuemen and a CIA Officer join with the South Korean 707th Brigade and a team of female assassins to form a team known only by President Reagan and CIA Director Casey, as "the Silent Six". Their task: the destruction of the North Korean gangster regime. "The Silent Six" is the ultimate Special Operations Team.

Putin and Kim Jong Un unleash a deadly reign of global terror by hijacking a Malaysian airliner, shooting down a Malaysian airliner, and circulating the "PBF", the Perfect Ben Franklin. CIA Director Mike Perry followed the evil Office 39 Director for over 30 years and finally has a chance to eliminate him along with the Kim regime.

The Bully & Other Stories is a Cold War short story classic. One month after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, a HH-3, Jolly Green rescue helicopter is sent on a mission north of Iceland to rescue a Russian with a head injury off a fishing trawler. Pararescuemen Sam Young is lowered on the deck of the trawler and encounters the unexpected - Russian submarines appear and attempt intimidation - but in the end the entire Soviet Northern fleet is the one intimidated.

Cindy Mayfield is a OSI (Office of Special Investigations) Special Agent. She joined the OSI to learn more about the government lie called MK-Ultra, a lie she learned about as a Correctional Officer at California Medical Facility. This leads her on the trail of virus and vaccine recipes, and ultimately, to China. Her OSI controller stumbles onto 2020 Presidential Ballots, printed in Guangdong, China. Agent Mayfield discovers a far bigger government lie than MK-Ultra - the COVID virus is tied to a coup d’état of the Presidential Election. 

The woman a man loves is the single most important person in his life... But sometimes, loving her can drive him crazy. For Men Only is for every man who's finding out that love is confusing, frustrating, and sometimes downright impossible. It's for every man who's tired of hearing about what men should be, could be, and will be when they become enlightened, refueled, tofued, or generally more like women. For Men Only is for every man who's in love—and wants to stay in love—but doesn't know the rules!

The Streets Photog Podcast is for Tucson street photographers who adore the southwest and love telling 1,000 heartfelt words about their finest images. Follow burgeoning photographer David J. Del Grande who provides a first-hand account of early morning photo shoots and chance encounters grabbing street shots. From freelance photojournalism gigs to exhibition work, Del Grande’s stories will strike a nerve for those interested in Old Pueblo avenue tales. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thestreetsphotogpodcast/support