Humanity has been gone for 10,000 years. Although humans are extinct, the solar system is not empty. A man wakes up in a house. He has no memory, he does not know his name, he does not even know how old he is but there is one thing he does know. He is certain he is not on earth. The sun is too small and the sky is the wrong color. The house he is in appears to be part of a university campus. The streets are ordered and clean and there are houses opposite but there are no trees, no birds an...

An assassin waits in a hotel room in Washington DC. Four people sit at separate tables outside the restaurant below. One of those four people is his target. Each person has their own problems and each of them could potentially be the target. Which one of them will it be? The assassin never misses so one of them will die, that much is certain.

Paul Bremer is one of ten people who go to sites around the world where a Finnish professor has theorized that there will be a quantum vortex energy spike on a certain day of the year. While walking the site Paul feels dizzy and sits down. When he recovers he finds that he has somehow jumped between worlds to another quantum reality. Paul's wife is called Joanie and in this world she is married to his friend Todd and Paul is married to Todd's wife Susan.Paul emails the Finnish prof...

Journalism Online tackles the pressing question of how to apply fundamental journalism skills to the online medium. It provides an essential guide to the Internet as a research and publishing tool. In particular, it examines how to forge key journalism skills with the distinctive qualities of the World Wide Web to provide compelling web content.Trainee and practicing online journalists will learn:- core journalism skills of identifying, collecting, selecting and presenting n...

A man who has had a difficult last few years snaps and considers selling his soul to the Devil. His view is that the life we live has been planned for us by our souls before we are born. But if his soul planned his life then the last few years have sucked and it is his view that his soul deserves to pay.Should he sell his soul to the Devil? Will he sell his soul to the Devil? What will his soul do to him if he goes ahead with this crazy plan? Read on and find out.

Mankind has been gone for 25 million years. Eight foot tall birds descended from ravens live on what was once Greenland. Greenland is now called Northland and is covered with tropical rain forests.Although it is inconceivable that anything as primitive as a mammal could have ever been intelligent it has been proven beyond doubt that a creature called man wiped out almost all life on planet Earth. Not only did man wreck the atmosphere and the land, he also wrecked the oceans.

Will Black is an adult male in the American Autonomous Region of China. Forced to watch as the wife of a Chinese administrator murdered his father when he was a young boy, Will Black has never forgotten, and he has never forgiven. Will is a member of the resistance. Every American is forced to wear a Chinese designed pain belt, and see a Chinese counselor once a week. Will's old counselor Mr. Wu was a decent man, his new counselor Miss Lin is a psycho who seems likely to torture him to dea...

A seventeen year old girl follows a man down a beach on Sea Island in Georgia. When she starts to follow the man he appears to be in his forties. Further down the beach when he approaches two girls he looks to be just twenty years old and later his hair changes from a very dark brown to Scandinavian blond. Every person they pass on the beach is scared of the man and some of them are very scared of him. The girl feels no fear, there is a connection between her and the man in front of her. W...

An American soldier called Robert Hamilton is kidnapped in Afghanistan, and taken over the border into Tajikistan. He manages to kill his captors, and get a short message out, which is picked up by an American military satellite. By the time an American team arrives there is no trace of the soldier, and the transmitter has been smashed.Without help the soldier will die, but nobody knows where he is, and satellite searches fail to turn up anything useful. The soldier's uncle, Frank ...

Five people are booked into separate rooms in a five star hotel in a city in the south. Each person in their own way has a problem. Some of the individuals know that they have a problem and want to do something about it; others have a problem but don't know they have it and at least one person will be carried away by their issues. The City of the New South has been here a long time and has seen many difficulties. It has even had its own problems because it was once burnt completely to the ...

Robert Gerard is a cyclist in Jacksonville, Florida with roid rage. One day he kicks the side panel of an expensive car belonging to a woman. Unfortunately for Robert this is no ordinary woman. Seconds later he is sailing through the air looking at trees underneath him. He lands hard and his bicycle hits the ground two seconds after he does.Robert has been thrown into another world by a female magician and he finds himself being chased by humanoid creatures with red hair and sharp ...

Stephen Haggerty used to work for the British SAS. He was trained to go into the houses of Gulf Arabs in the Middle East and kill the guards and then the occupants. One day the British government threw Haggerty on the scrap heap and he was reduced to driving trucks for $7 an hour. Three years ago Stephen Haggerty was introduced to an American from Philadelphia and now he has a completely different kind of job for a very secretive organization based in Pennsylvania.Martin Hammerling...