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Does life seem harder for you than it should be? Have you spent too much of your life alone in a crowded world? If you have struggled all of your life to get ahead, and everything you do seems to be harder for you than it is for everyone else, have you ever wondered why? A lot of us spend our adult lives in this state of affairs. It may be that you have Asperger's Syndrome.

This is a collection of flash fiction stories and experiences revolving around the conventions that we all know and love. If you have ever attended a convention, especially a fandom convention, then you know that anything is possible.

We all know that the government doesn’t generate money; it takes it. Yet, if we're investing our money into a qualified retirement plan, such as a 401(k), then we're blindly entrusting the government to manage our future income. Conventional wisdom touts it as the best choice, the only choice really, if you want to have a retirement fund at all. Unfortunately, we discover too late that our hard-earned investment doesn't take us as far in our retirement as we thought it would.

Are aliens visiting us?I don't know. Neither do you, but we can discuss it rationally, and come up with some likely answers. Let us use a little humor and a little logic to answer these simple questions: Are aliens visiting us? What are they really? Why are they coming here? What can we do about it?

High school is a time for learning, making friends, and blackmailing your teacher. On a frigid night, we meet a pair of runaway teens, a high school MILF, and the world’s worst policeman, all trying to disentangle themselves from each other’s business. No good deed goes unpunished, as this chance encounter leads to more than any one bargain for.

Death magic creeps into the forest. There are rumors of the dead rising up from the ground. The brothers watched as Tierfi took flight, the former guardian and red dragon, hope still flickering in her heart. "No matter what the cost," she thought, "I must stop my brother, even it is means losing my life. I hope, for the sake of the others, the price will no prove too costly."

Vampires. Shifters. Zombies. Ema Marx has her work cut out for her after accidentally unleashing the evilest creature in history. Their imminent battle has been foretold, but Ema must hone her powers if she's going to have a snowball's chance in hell of winning. Luckily, Ema meets an elite trainer named Bridget, but in the vampire world people are rarely who they seem. To save her new friends, Ema dives head-first into an alliance with the Alpan King, but she may be giving up more than she bargained for.

The No-Nonsense Guide to Divorce: Getting Through and Starting Over is the book you need now if you find yourself facing divorce. Written by an experienced family law attorney, the book is an often blunt, sometimes funny, always empathetic look at one of the most challenging times in your life. In a clear, concise, and contemporary voice, Lori Hellis covers the full spectrum of divorce issues from beginning to end, from how to start and what temporary measures to take to deciding child custody and parenting time, calculating child and spousal support, and dividing property.

Cabbage Night, 1991. The traditional night of pranks takes a disturbing turn when a violent crime rocks a small Adirondack town. Even more so when the only witness is a seven-year-old boy. Hen Trout, who had hoped to catch a pet hedgehog that night, instead sees his beloved Miss Sally become a victim. Single mom Marcella Trout is blindsided when Tyler, her seventeen-year-old, is arrested for the very crime Hen witnessed. Now Tyler’s eerie mood swings seem dark and frightening and rooted in a family history Marcella has desperately tried to bury.

Erin is the daughter of a god. For any other, orphaned as a small child, this would be welcome news. For Erin, nothing could be worse. Upon finding an ancient spell book, Erin Doherty is sent spiraling into a realm that she never knew existed - a place where her father, the male who abandoned her, lives like a king, lording over all. And her brother, Soren Vidar, fights to free the worlds from his oppression. Escorted by her brother’s oldest friend, Jakob Väsen, Erin is welcomed into the home of the fiercest warriors in Soren’s rebellion.

In junior high, I was that kid. You know the one. The one that was somehow always on the outside looking in. The one who never understood why people made it their life goal to find everything that was wrong with me. I was that kid that kids picked on to fit in with other kids. Somehow, that all changed when I moved to a different school and discovered my hardened personality and inability to trust anyone made me mysterious and cool to people who didn't previously know me.

I know there is more to Kross than most people see. I mean, it's not like I've been stalking the guy, but I may or may not have happened by all the places my hand-to-hand combat instructor goes. I might possibly have watched as he played with the kids at the daycare and helped at the animal shelter in his free time.

A king, a witch, an assassin, a farmer, and a backwoodsman struggle to survive in this fantasy novella about magic, power, and family. Tresladore, where both white and black magic are outlawed and masters of the sword are worshiped, is the first island we explore in this saga about kings and queens fighting to win and keep their thrones.

Vampires. Shifters. Nephilim. Ema Marx is their savior, but she can’t believe the bloodsuckers exist. Or that she’s one of them. Sure, night vision and super strength are cool, but when an ancient premonition threatens her life, Ema just wants to get the hell out of Dodge. Or in this case, the mysterious castle she wakes up in.

No memory. No refuge. No escape. When a struggling musician wakes up in an empty, post-apocalyptic casino with no idea how he got there, he soon discovers he's not only in a fight for his sanity but for his survival as well. Ready, set, deal!

Given that the plant kingdom developed on Earth many millions of years before the evolution of human beings, it’s fair to say that herbs are the oldest magical tools in existence. Known for millennia to have beneficial properties for both physical and spiritual well-being, many different species of plants were incorporated into the practices of healers, shamans, and other medicine men and women of the “old days” — this was the origin of herbal magic.

In this volume, what you will find in the sections that follow are twenty-one amazing stories of death and wealth set around a wandering cousin far out in the cold edges of our solar system. You will find Vikings, knights, warriors defending home and hearth, of triumph and tragedy, and, yes, even the god himself. You will listen to tales of great courage and great loss. Of sacrifice for a greater good and of justice delivered to the overly greedy. You will even find the aforementioned Walt Disney himself.

Wicca is a modern, Earth-centered religion with roots in the ancient practices of our shamanic ancestors. Its practitioners, who call themselves Wiccans, honor the life-giving and life-sustaining powers of nature through ritual worship and a commitment to living in balance with the Earth. Wicca is technically classified as a pagan religion, though not all Wiccans would identify as pagans - and plenty who identify as pagans are not Wiccans.

If you think you know Oliver Twist, think again.... The world according to Oliver Twisted is simple: Vampyres feed on the defenceless, orphans are sacrificed to hungry gods, and if a woe-begotten catches your scent it will hunt you forever. When a talking corpse reveals that Oliver will find his destiny in London, he sets out to find the truth - even if it means losing his soul.... A monstrously good story for older children, Oliver Twisted is a terrifying take on Dickens, with added zombies, vampires, and werewolves.

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