Yang Zi, a reserved yet sexually repressed man who wouldn't give a fart even if you beat him with three sticks. In the post-apocalyptic world, he encounters a mother-daughter duo as beautiful as twin flowers, an adorable loli just beginning to blossom, and the top star of a high-class brothel, exuding every conceivable charm... Outside, corpses litter the landscape for miles, and monsters run rampant. Inside, the air is filled with a faint, alluring fragrance, and waves of voluptuous breas...

Learn how MongoDB helps organizations build scalable, secure, and AI-ready data foundations that power RAG, AI agents, and intelligent applications while simplifying performance, governance, and growth.Key FeaturesIdentify the data requirements that enable AI applications to succeed in productionEvaluate retrieval strategies for accurate and trustworthy AI experiencesApply architectural principles for scalable, AI-ready data platformsP...

The 2014 STORGY Short Story Competition Anthology celebrates the continued resurgence of the short story genre and showcases some of the most talented up-and-coming authors from across the world. This outstanding collection features all fourteen finalists and competitions winners, as judged by critically-acclaimed author David James Poissant. These wonderfully diverse short stories will move, amuse, unsettle, and entertain, combining to create the most eclectic collection available online....

Get lost! A simple phrase with complicated meanings. Taken one way, it can be considered quite rude and derogatory. Taken another way—the way this book intends—it is an extraordinarily great directive.Writers desire to achieve that blissful sensation of being lost in the words, to find that the story has taken over and is writing itself, causing even the author to breathlessly wait to see what is going to happen next.Readers also want that level of consciousness where their r...

A freezer full of body parts is the tip of the criminal iceberg for Perth cop Eve Rock.The festive season has spawned a spate of murders, robberies and abductions, which actually reassures Eve that others' bad habits far exceed her own. It also gives her a watertight excuse to avoid hanging out with her dysfunctional family while spending time with her two gorgeous colleagues and would-be lovers, Quinn Fox and his son Adam. A win-win situation.Butchered bodies used for questi...

Perth cop Eve Rock is investigating a series of abductions from the seedy inner-city Paradise Nightclub when her boss adds a murder case to her workload.Now, Eve loves a challenge - about as much as she loves red wine, exotic food and cigars - but this case is a bit tricky because she'd speed dated the sleazy salesman hours before he met his Maker.But then 'tricky' is Eve's middle name.Her mum's a former hooker-turned-nun who runs a select girls school.Her daugh...

Bare BonesPixie Silvester looks on her psychic powers as a curse. She sees things, senses things - usually dead things - and sometimes she manages to solve crimes. When a child unearths human bones at a summer barbeque, Pixie experiences sensory overload and gets pitch-forked into a macabre case of missing women, some of whom have been buried alive.Killing KindnessWhen Cuddles, a wannabe fashion designer and bakery shop assistant, trips over a dead hit-and-run victim ...

Tales of mermaids and ghosts, of love and revenge.

Vampires and other ravenous nasties satisfy their bloodlust in this dark collection of horror stories.

Henry's Attic provides fascinating documentation of some of the one million artifacts in the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village. The items represent both Henry Ford's passion for collecting Americana and the astonishing array of gifts—some of great historic value and others of a distinctly homegrown variety—that account for almost half of the museum's collections. It was the quantity of these gifts and the unusual and even unique nature of many of them that provided the inspiration f...

Recent studies reveal a growing global concern among young people about climate change and its impact on their lives. Half of children worldwide report that climate-related anxiety affects their daily experiences, while 70% of youth question the quality of the climate education they receive. Despite widespread recognition of the issue, an analysis of curricula across 100 countries found that 47% made no reference to climate change-particularly in high-emission nations-while countries most ...

To break the curse that has plagued the village for decades and to find my missing parents, I embarked on a perilous journey fraught with countless unknowns. Corpse-guiding, corpse-rearing, spirit mediums, shamanistic black magic, bug magic, and black magic spells... I constantly faced various crises and encountered countless obstacles. Struggling and growing in the face of despair, I did so solely to atone for the sins committed by my ancestors and to repay the debts they owed.