Spontaneous Combustion is the classic "play-in-a-day" theater exercise in literary event form. We gather writers together, provide three story prompts, and give them 24 hours to compose a unique piece of pulp fiction. Our favorites are invited back to prose-slam their short stories for a public audience. In the end, everyone casts a vote and the people-chosen "Top Tales" are bound in the next volume. Awaiting you in Vol. II of this explosive literary tradition is a powderkeg of short ficti...

Success isn't built in the spotlight. It's built beneath it.At fifteen, Mike Lauer stood courtside at Madison Square Garden with a towel in his hands, wiping sweat off the hardwood for the New York Knicks. What began as a single night became eight years inside one of the most iconic arenas in sports. From there, Lauer built a career in professional sports and media-not by chasing titles or waiting for permission, but by learning how organizations actually work and ...