When a family deemed as a cult holds up in a Colorado ghost town and holds two negotiators hostage, it leads the crew to take them down, and puts them back in contact with Hale Jalen and Kaylen Graden.

APOLOGIES: I have removed this book. It was free on Wattpad from 2017 to 2023. As of Sep 5, 2023, it is published in bookstores. AbbyGoldsmith.com/Majority If you'd like to be looped in on my Abby Updates, please subscribe to my very infrequent newsletter! AbbyGoldsmith.com/subscribe ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ In a galaxy-spanning utopia where societal leaders are networked together for instant communication, nothing goes unnoticed. There's no crime. No secrets. No privacy. And no way to escape. Until Thomas unintentionally captivates the top super-genius influencer. If he's going to help his enslaved friends, he'll need to trick her... plus her audience of thirty trillion mind readers. And so Thomas's galactic conquest begins. ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ ✴ Winner of the 2017 Ooorah Awards. ✴ First book of a completed web serial. ✴ Dual protagonists, a brain + brawn. ✴ Formerly titled "City of Slaves." ✴ Now on Royal Road (AbbyBabble). Copyright © 2017 Abby Goldsmith. All Rights Reserved.

A gift for the holidays - culled from the novel LEGACIES, this fix has long been a favorite of Repairman Jack fans. If you've never read a Repairman Jack story, this is a great place to start. The kids in the Children with AIDS center have little going for them, but a lot of kind people have donated presents to brighten their Christmas... until someone steals them. The police say they'll look into it but they're busy with more serious crimes. The solution is to send someone outside the law in search of the presents. Repairman Jack gets the call...

"...one by one the lights flickered off. The air-conditioner stopped functioning and the room was flooded with the humid warmth of mid-spring. From the bedroom, I heard the TV shut off as sounds of the football match abruptly cut off. A loud rumble that sounded like huge machinery cranking echoed through the corridors. The last bulb flickered off, and we were left enveloped in total darkness. Ruby's soft whimpers drifted into the bathroom. A last drop of water that had been hanging on the opening of the tap fell loose, hitting the sink with an unusually deafening 'plop'. A sick feeling began to rise in my stomach. Something has changed, something has happened. My life would no longer be mundane." A normal peaceful evening escalates into a nightmare when the school dormitory is placed on lockdown and Emaline is trapped inside. Armed with nothing but a baseball bat, Emaline will have to fight her way through new terrors that have arisen, friends that have turned into flesh hungry monsters and hostile troops. And every bite is fatal. A new world order has arrived, and you'd better learn the rules fast. Rated PG-13...I think? Just be prepared for some gory descriptions and strong language. Other than that, mostly just good zombie scares. ;)

The future isn't friendly. People in Meta are dying from a mysterious disease and Sean wants to know why. But in the Core, asking the wrong question can be dangerous. Pursuing the answers, Sean and his friends embark on a perilous journey that will put them on a collision course with the malevolent Niles Galvin, the most powerful and treacherous oligarch on the planet. Could Susan's Plague be something more sinister than they thought? Will they discover a much darker side to the oppressive oligarchy that rules them? Sean finds himself caught up in the complex machinations of an evil man bent on seizing and controlling the power of the past for his use to rule the present. With their lives hanging in the balance, Sean struggles to save himself and his friends when he realizes the truth has dire consequences. By Rick Chisholm Copyright © 2014 Rick Chisholm All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or in any means – by electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise – without prior written permission.

For twenty-five years, L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future Contest has discovered and nurtured a steady stream of new authors who have changed the face of SF. Chosen by an impressive panel of judges drawn from the biggest names in the genre, taught at a remarkable week-long workshop, and celebrated at world-class venues such as the Kennedy Space Center, the United Nations and the Science Fiction Museum, Contest winners are given the best possible foundation for a long-standing writing career. Filled with more than a thousand spectacular images, interspersed with over one hundred success stories and testimonials, this book celebrates the first quarter century of Writers of the Future. This is truly the gold standard of SF awards. For more info, please visit: http://www.writersofthefuture.com/

(Historical Fiction / Action) - Gunslinger: I may be feared and admired, but I call nowhere home. My gun and my skill define my existence. I was born fast, and endless practice has made me the best. For now. A brief rush of adrenaline. Noise, the smell of cordite, and one of us crumples to the dust. This time it was him. I leave nothing but dried blood in the sand...

Everybody is somebody else's weirdo: I suspect I may be many people's. Consider this a brain dump, or indeed a Brian dump given the misspelled pseudo-entity who lives in my skull. Tangential thoughts, comments, ideas, and general Brianisms from the soggy grey matter of Gav. And other stuff...

We as a race have spent millennia warring and killing each other over everthing from God to Country, Money and Power, Love and Jealousy, or even simple Psychotic Rage. But now that Humanity has a new enemy to face, one from the stars with far superior technology. And it is now up to every Man, Woman, and Child to come together and make a choice: fight for their Freedom, no matter the cost and to the bitter end, or Surrender and face the implications of what that means...

What happens to a family when society fails? What happens to society when civilization comes to an end? When Connor and his family survive the apocalypse, he discovers that survival has a price. As the world falls apart around him, Connor struggles to keep his family and his sanity intact.