"Sure, it was robots this time. But who's to say that it won't be zombies next time? And when the zombies do come, who's going to be ready for it? Me." - Marietta "I mean, like, say what you want about the robots, but at least they weren't gross!" - Lila Welcome to the long-awaited sequel to the irreverent and uproarious 2015 Watty Award-winning EVERYONE DIED + MY iPHONE STOPPED WORKING! It's been three years since humanity was *almost* wiped out and the lucky survivors are now breathing easy, confident that they no longer have anything to fear from murderous robots. And indeed, they do not. But unbeknownst to them, there is another extinction-level threat on the horizon. It's a ferocious new enemy... and it smells terrible. Cover art courtesy of my ridiculously talented friend Dave Pressler. http://www.davepresslerart.com

In the parliament square of a country listlessly crumbling under the immovable yoke of a malign administration, baked in poverty and a relentless tropical sun, a young woman climbs onto the gilded statue of the benighted country's stubbornly immovable dictator to protest. She is immediately arrested and the only reason she isn't shot is due to the intervention of a minister in the dictator's government. The young woman is Ella, ejected from the beloved country of her birth when her families land was seized. Her saviour is Amina, the mother of her closest childhood friend. Amina's instinctive intervention places her in considerable personal danger though, when guided by filial love she appeals for clemency from the ever paranoid President, an elderly man, isolated from his people in a grand palace and perpetually haunted by the foul mouthed ghost of a former political partner he is widely believed to have had killed. After Amina appeals to the President for clemency, he takes an interest and meets with her, and from there an increasingly surreal and satirical dialogue develops between Ella, the President and the potty mouthed and remorselessly disparaging spectre that only he can see and hear, which as it touches on power, corruption and inedible cuisine, inexorably destroys all involved. The author, David Skynner, is a writer and director primarily of film and television and winner of the 2006 Best Drama Bafta for the Children's series 'The Giblet Boys'. He also directed the 1997 ITV film of Wuthering Heights and in addition to his work as an author writes feature scripts.

This story is a collection of short letters that have been submitted to the Unknown Soldier project. The project is inspired by a statue that stands on Platform 1 of Paddington Station in London, representing all the millions of soldiers who died – a statue of an ordinary soldier in battle dress, reading a letter. The letters are not in any order so feel free to select the ones you might like to read. You might notice a few famous names within our list including Nathan Filer, Stephen Fry and David Cameron. See more letters at www.1418NOW.org.uk/letter

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These are musings of mine, told as I grow through residency. I hope to share a little insight into the making of a doctor, one who still cannot believe she's been blessed with this responsibility.