It’s the eve of the biggest dragon race in the city of Yemareir. Zaya Shearwater and her wife, Kiriki, have spent the year shooting up the rankings, and now they’re favored to win. But how did a team of women from Yemareir’s roughest precincts become the favorites in a sport where most winners buy their victories?Doctor of Journalism Shenireen Agama wants to know. Through interviews with Zaya, Kiriki, and the ground crew that’s become their family, she begins to weave a story. Its ...

A science fiction novelette, collected in "Blood, Wax, Mirrors."

A short fantasy story, collected in "Blood, Wax, Mirrors."

A horror novelette collected in "Blood, Wax, Mirrors."

A science fiction short story collected in "Blood, Wax, Mirrors."

Matt Weber, a commercial fisherman and craft brewer, takes up snowmobiling and recounts his adventures and misadventures learning the ropes. Weber brings readers along on his journey from buying his first snowmobile to exploring the four best snowmobiling regions of Maine—Jackman, the Western Mountains, Eastern Maine, and The County—in a series of rides that see much learning and laughter, and showcase the sheer joy the outdoors in winter. The book includes tips and helpful information on ...

A hospital pharmacist delves into the deaths of patients on the trauma ward; a child is pressganged into an army that marches with a strange purpose; a woman searches for a way to dull the pain of an amputated arm. Five stories of science fiction, fantasy, and horror, each available singly for $0.99:"Keynote Speech: Fourth Annual Symposium on Information Toxicity, Inaugural Section on Reverie Syndrome""Cerements""Tubby's Letter""Mirrorbox"

As a fourth grader at Holy Cross Grammar School, Matt Weber asked his religion teacher why St. Francis was often pictured with holes in his hands and feet. She responded that those holes were known as the stigmata and that they reflected the wounds Jesus received during his crucifixion. "And how did he get them?" the curious Weber asked. "He got them because he was a good Catholic," was the reply. And so that night, Weber recounts, he did a little more sinning than usual—just to be certain...

Zaya Shearwater has found a dragon, a partner, and a cause.Her dragon is Bandit’s Breath, stolen from her former employers in a moment of desperation, now her inseparable ally. Her partner in racing Bandit is her daughter, Vanako, as fierce and proud as ever but now committed to the family. And her cause is the legalization of yliaster, the substance that will protect her son — and tens of thousands of others like him, who are being slowly hunted by voracious entities that can’t be...

A short story collected in "Blood, Wax, Mirrors."

2017 Christopher Award Winner2017 Catholic Press Association Book Awards, First Place: Marriage“In sickness and in health . . .”At age 29, Matt Weber was newly married to Nell, the girl of his dreams. They had bought their first house, adopted a dog, and looked forward to a blissful first year together. But shortly after his honeymoon, Matt’s recurring, severe stomach troubles send him to the emergency room—and after a five-hour, lif...

The Creo Parametric 4.0 Black Book is the second edition of our series on Creo Parametric. With lots of additions and thorough review, we present a book to help professionals as well as learners in creating some of the most complex solid models. The book follows a step by step methodology. In this book, we have tried to give real-world examples with real challenges in designing. We have tried to reduce the gap between university use of Creo Parametric and industrial use of...