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After spending better than two decades working in call centers, I cannot help but notice the glaring similarities shared by call centers in North Texas. The pay is rarely close to the industry standard for the frontline call-taker. Most of the call centers I hired into operated like poorly run daycare centers. Those individuals who were well-liked by management rarely found themselves targets of bathroom break micromanagement and the questionable practices and tactics which made Tina Faye's "Mean Girls" so infamously popular.

The crew of a cargo ship are inexplicably ejected from their cryogenic tanks. For one crew member, remembering the events that preceded the crew's ejection is imperative to the completion of a mission that takes an erotic turn in this lighthearted futuristic tale of sex and bedroom debauchery. 

A serial killer who murders children sets out to find her latest victim and is confronted by a younger version of herself. 

A death row inmate, scheduled to die, has requested one final interview. What the inmate reveals during his tell-all confession sheds light on a terrifying government conspiracy. This stunning interview has left many people wondering how far elected officials in government would go to protect the sanctity of outdated American ideology.

Successful businessman Casey Talbert reveals how he unwittingly stumbled into a twisted version of a Christmas miracle. 

Sometime love sucks and sometimes love bytes. Lifelong smartass Roger Westhoven found love in the most unlikely of places...a college bar. As luck would have it, Roger's neighbor, Lila, just discovered a dark secret festering between the cracks of this tiny college town. A rash of murders darkens Hill, Pennsylvania every seven years and the bartender always dies last. Roger's new girlfriend just so happens to be the new bartender at Corky's.

Christie Lovelace is sent to investigate an anonymous tip linking the death of a nameless woman to allegations of corruption in the small town of Danbury, Texas. In the course of Christie's roller-coaster investigation, she is blindsided by unexpected news from her boyfriend Kieran, financially accosted by a strange motel owner named Otto, and forced to endure the curiously strong smell of feces wafting throughout the sheriff's station.

Tatiana, Claudia, Calvin, and Sasha have been lured to school by a clever clairvoyant named Jonas. Jonas Goodwin's test is to uncover each of their darkest, most perverted secrets. If Jonas can discover how each teen connects to the biggest catastrophe to rock the tiny suburb of Seville, Texas, he will earn his place at the grim reaper's right hand. Except, there is more at stake than a mere test. Lucifer is not one to be shortchanged or denied. The reaper has come up short on his next delivery of souls.

Arlene is running from her old life. While driving a desert road in the middle of nowhere, her car breaks down, forcing her to seek refuge in a small diner. Diner owner Joe strikes a tentative deal with Arlene: in exchange for waitressing one night, he will cover the repairs to her car. On the surface things appear legitimate, but Arlene can't shake the feeling there's something off about Joe and his cliché diner.