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H2LiftShips- Beyond Luna Captain Graciela was master of her own fate, far from her controlling family in a solar sail cargo ship, trading and gambling throughout the heliosphere. Her small crew on the H2LiftShip, the LunaCola, was all the help she needed: Jack, a talking dog with a nose for Earth jerky, Tang, a poker obsessed orangutang, and Octopus, in his watery navigation station.Strong, finely woven nano-spider cloth, filled with hydrogen, haul H2LiftShips to the edge of Earth before being transformed into kilometers-wide solar sails. The same fabric, on return, is a parasail, flying the ship to the aerodrome in the desert. Commerce is the name of the game in this saga and everything has a value. Heat generated from the collection of molecules and garbage surrounding the planet is captured in radiators and sold to the planetary electric grid as a bonus for the crew.The crew was anxious for some 'me' time after being in the void for too long.Tang was ready to double his money in Las Vegas, Octopus planned a coastal shopping trip for live fish, clams, and eggs. Finally, Graciela and Jack were on an epic road trip looking for cargo for the asteroid mines.It wasn't all fun and games for the vast population inhabiting the heliosphere. Asteroids societies were structured on what the sentients knew best, small city-states hanging in the void. Ponos is an injured miner and has to fall back to gig work as he recovers. He was lucky to make enough to cover food and waste handling on the jobs he could find. Find out how he connects with his old pirate captain and makes a break from the daily grind of a workologists on a cold, isolated rock.Lead had more value than gold and was hard to find in the asteroids. Mushrooms, infused with lead, protected all living-chambers, lightly glowing as cosmic rays bounce around the mycelium, changing states for all concerned. Every sentient and most machines use DNA-computers, which store petabytes of data and interface any sensing device. These semi-sentient bioGels suffered in their growth tanks as cosmic rays blasted billions of neural paths into existence, sending a flash of pain throughout the gel. It was no better after leaving their growing chambers and being sold in the wider heliosphere. Every sensor interaction required a fine needle shoved through their one-millimeter-wide edge and suppressed anger was their normal existence.There were no avoiding family issues as Graciela met her mother on some distant rock. Her mother's controlling passive-aggressive nature shown through as she continued playing pranks on her daughterWould Graciela rescue her mother from a kidnapping by pirates and win it all in a rigged card game?Find out in the first volume of the H2LiftShip series - Beyond Luna.

"A collection of poems and watercolor paintings that express the feelings and sentiments of the author during the COVID-19 pandemic"--

Gather information, report back to me, and do nothing illegal. With these instructions received under the cover of darkness and a list of names, Marcus and Alissa launch an investigation into their own classmates. Friendship and investigative skills will be put to the test as these teen detectives take on their most challenging case yet. But when their investigation is suddenly shut down without explanation, the teens have already gathered too many clues to just leave it alone. As powerful forces work against them at every turn they take, will they be able to rise above the challenge? What begins as a quick peek into high school drama, quickly turns dark and dangerous for the pair as they pursue answers to the questions someone doesn't want answered.

A feast of fiction. Flights of fantasy. A smidgen of SciFi. And a dash of dark romance. Stories to titillate any taste.

When PI Tracey Marks receives a distraught phone call from Stephanie Harris, urgently asking to see her, but never shows, Tracey drives to Stephanie''s home in Scarsdale, NY only to discover Stephanie has been killed.Though the police are ruling it a robbery, Tracey has her doubts and decides to do some sleuthing on her own. As Tracey delves into Stephanie''s life, it leads her back to where Stephanie went to high school.As Tracey questions Stephanie''s high school friends, she soon learns they all have secrets and they are not as innocent as they appear. With all the secrets and lies Tracey has to unravel, she seeks the help of her boyfriend Jack, also a private investigator, and her best friend Susie, a lawyer.When she finally realizes who the killer is, Tracey finds her life is in danger and in a situation she may not be able to escape from this time.

Mick (Little Mick) Casey, a tail gunner in WWII, comes home from the war a hero in everyone''s eyes but his own. Scarred by the horrors he has witnessed, Little Mick does what many returning veterans do in order to cope-he learns not to feel. Stepping back onto the civilian streets, he assumes the perception of normalcy. He marries, has a family, and tries to make a life in inner-city Chicago. A poignant tale of how a father''s inability or unwillingness to heal creates a love-hate relationship with his son, sending the child down a steep path of loneliness and self-destruction. For I Have Sinned continues the saga of the Casey clan, intensely loyal and devoted, but only to each other. Set against a backdrop of war, violence and crime it weaves the history of an ill-fated child''s transition from a lonely, inner-city rebel and decorated war veteran to a man who looks all too familiar to him, a man like his father-all earned the hard way.

The mean streets of inner-city Chicago and the high-rise housing projects are a tough place to grow up unless you learn to swim like the other fish. Emmett Casey is a quick study but a slow learner, and he learns most of his lessons the hard way. As he navigates through the guilt and shame instilled by the Catholic nuns and priests, he learns that he can only trust his own instincts and the example that his father sets for him. He struggles to function in a world where he is far too smart for a society that moves too slowly for his restless spirit. He finds trouble because it is more interesting than the life that surrounds him, but trouble can have mortal implications when it goes beyond just interesting. Bad decisions and lack of commitment are tough to counter.As a young adult with no direction the Army finds him. War takes him to the places within himself that he fears the most. The man in the mirror begins to resemble his father.Through the steaming jungles of Vietnam, Emmett struggles with his world and himself. The rough beginnings in the slums of Chicago shaped him and made him tough; the last thing he wanted to be. Good and evil become relative to the situation, and he learns to dance with his devils-quickly.Balancing heroism and catastrophe, Emmett walks through his damaged childhood to become a decorated veteran, finding trouble and salvation at every juncture. He prays for redemption but knows he doesn''t deserve it, forgiveness although he cannot accept it. Ultimately, the time has come for him to choose: face his ill-conceived choices and rise above his actions-or die.

The Heretic continues the saga of the Casey clan, intensely loyal and devoted, but only to each other. The third in the series, following Bless Me Father, and For I have sinned that are set in the backdrop of war, crime and violence it weaves the tale of a child''s transition from a lonely inner-city and decorated war veteran to the man who looks all too familiar to him, a man like his father. Surviving through wartime battle, a life of crime and passion. This third novel joins Emmett Casey as he visits the ghosts of his past and struggles to find peace among them.

The oath Detective Cooter "Cadillac" Holland swore to defend his home against foreign and domestic enemies is put to the test when evil men from both sides of the border start a war on the eve of Mardi Gras, an election, and the first Super Bowl in Saints'' history. A shadowy operation has resurrected the blueprints for the classified operation that nearly got Detective Holland killed in Iraq, and threatens his life again. When Cooter''s friends and family are also put at risk, he is forced to call upon the skills and mind-set learned as a Special Forces and Intelligence operative to keep the peace between local heroin dealers and a violent Mexican drug cartel, outsmart a defense contractor, and take on a loose-cannon Federal official out to cover the tracks of a deal gone bad.

Detective Cadillac Holland has to find whther the pit bull that killed ex-con Biggie Charles Lynley was someone's murder weapon or just a good judge of character. A crime nobody else cares about solving opens a Pandora's box of secrets nobody wants exposed, including Detective Cadillac Holland.

The Term, “Pulp Fiction” originated from the magazines of the first half of the 20th century. Stories were printed on cheap "pulp" paper and provided “escape” for fiction fans of that time. The pulp fiction era provided influential talent and freedom that focused on detective, mystery and science fiction genres.THE NEW MILLENNIAAlthough Pulp Fiction was associated with creative writing that was available to the American public in the early nineteen-hundreds, and could be found at all the newsstands, 21st Century Pulp has entered a new paradigm. Much like the independent authors of that time, new technology has enabled the possibility of self-publishing and has opened the door to the New Millennia Indie Author, including five juveniles under the age of fifteen. These are their stories…and poetic expressions.

Imagine if tomorrow morning you woke to find every channel on TV, social media, and the entire internet, all exploding with images of a massive ocean liner hovering fifty feet in the air over the Long Beach harbor. There for the world to see, the RMS Queen Mary had been levitated by parties unknown. This is how the world learns of Jack & Jamie's new invention: gravitational disaffinity.After inventing an energy efficient form of antigravity, the Sparks brothers are ready to cash in on their billion-dollar discovery. But very soon they realize that there is no government or corporation on the planet that would not kidnap them for control of this technology. After all, gravitational disaffinity would not only change the entire world paradigm, but it would also be a priceless tactical advantage for the nation that possesses it first.Desperate to see their invention change the world while enriching them, the brothers hatch a scheme to make their dreams come true while preemptively derailing those who would seek to steal their designs. In a funny and twisting story that never stands still, Jack and Jamie decide to chase their dreams, even if it kills them.Like all Rotten novels, TDGBI is a fun, character-driven story, filled with tantalizing personalities that leave you with a warm fuzzy feeling. In a David vs Goliath match-up, the Sparks brothers take on massive forces in their quest to change the entire world paradigm. With the entire world beating down their door for control of their invention, will they succeed or be steamrolled by their own government?