The most frequently used words in English are highly ambiguous; for example, Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary lists 94 meanings for the word "run" as a verb alone. Yet people rarely notice this ambiguity. Solving this puzzle has commanded the efforts of cognitive scientists for many years. The solution most often identified is "context": we use the context of utterance to determine the proper meanings of words and sentences. The problem then becomes specifying the nature of contex...

It's About TimeTime-traveling thieves and assassins. Mysterious visitors from the past and future. Historical encounters that were never meant to be. Predestination paradoxes and miraculous machines. Journeys through the ages that take unpredictable twists and turns, sending the travelers—and the reader—where they least expect.Welcome to The Accidental Time Travelers Collective, featuring twelve short stories by an international group of speculative fictio...

Time and Time AgainTime-traveling tourists and multiverse-hopping aliens. Ancient arts with a futuristic twist. Romantic risks lovers get to try more than once – if they're not afraid to pay the price. Temporal technologies that send travelers spinning into the realm of their wildest dreams, or the landscape of their worst nightmare.These and other stories await you in The Accidental Time Travelers Collective, Vol. 2. Like its companion volume, this anthol...

Thirty-five awesome stories - one kick ass meme that started it all.It started as a joke. Storm Area 51 they said. They can't stop all of us they said. But all laughter stopped when the U.S. Air Force mobilized the reserves and pulled out the big guns.However, relentless mockery and derision by the media and the powers that be pushed the weebs and alien enthusiasts too far. What else were they supposed to do? They put on their big girl panties and showed up, determined to fi...

Kim L. Smalls was born to the late Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Smalls as a baby boomer. She was educated by the public school system when prayer was a part of their protocol. She was baptized at the tender age of seven. Kim later received her Bachelor of Science degree at New York Institute of Technology in 1979 and majored in Sociology. She was a Case Manager by profession, lived the life of parties, drugs, tobacco and alcohol which included the riotous living of men. At the age of twe...

Kim L. Smalls was born to the late Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Smalls as a baby boomer. She was educated by the public school system when prayer was a part of their protocol. She was baptized at the tender age of seven. Kim later received her Bachelor of Science degree at New York Institute of Technology in 1979 and majored in Sociology. She was a Case Manager by profession, lived the life of parties, drugs, tobacco and alcohol which included the riotous living of men. At the age of twenty, she...

This text presents a new critical theory addressing religious diversity, Christian religious privilege, and Christian hegemony in the United States. It meets a growing and urgent need in our society—the need to bring together religiously diverse ways of thinking and being in the world, and eventually to transform our society through intentional pluralism.The primary goal of Critical Religious Pluralism Theory (CRPT) is to acknowledge the central roles of religious privilege, oppres...

As Serena sat at her desk, she placed her mug of black coffee on the cup holder. Without coffee, Serena was no good to anybody. She had always needed the caffeine kick in the morning. Looking through the appointment book, she noticed that she had a full day ahead of her, and through this, she gave a big sigh. If only something exciting would happen to her as it did in the novels. Then she realised that they were make believe and not real.Switching on the computer and just double-che...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE: BIRDS OF PARADISE, STARRING KRISTINE FROSETH AND DIANA SILVERS.“A compulsively readable story. I was breathless and battling tears up until the very last stunning turns onstage and beyond. A dazzling, heart-wrenching debut.” —Nova Ren Suma, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Walls Around UsWould you die for the Prize?Best friends Marine Duval and Kate Sanders have trained since childhoo...

"Bright Burning Stars is the compulsively readable story. I was breathless and battling tears up until the very last stunning turns onstage and beyond. A dazzling, heart-wrenching debut." -Nova Ren Suma, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Walls Around Us Best friends Marine Duval and Kate Sanders have trained at the Paris Opera Ballet School since childhood, where they've formed an inseparable bond forged by respective family tragedies and a fierce love for dance. When the body of...

Alix Leclaire has a plan: graduate high school and land her dream job as a feather artist at Mille et une Plume, where her creations will help define high fashion. Her best friend Jeanne will get a record contract and they’ll take over the Paris art scene together.But then Jeanne dies.Alix is lost, until the day she feels Jeanne pushing her to the feather boutique.Soon, Alix is living a life she hardly recognizes—pursuing a passionate affair with an alluring artist,...

Hold Still meets You've Reached Sam in this lyrical novel about one young woman's journey through the Paris fashion scene as she chases promises, overcomes grief, and falls in love.Alix Leclaire has a plan: graduate high school and land her dream job as a feather artist at Mille et une Plume, where her creations will help define high fashion. Her best friend Jeanne will get a record contract and they’ll take over the Paris art scene together....