Future Days

It is 2035. Teens, armed only with their ideals, must wage war on the power elite. Dahlia is a Low Gater: A sheep in a storm, struggling to survive completely on her own. The Gaters live in closed safe communities, protected from the Sturmers, mercenary thugs. And the C-8, a consortium of giant companies, control global access to finance, media, food, water, and energy resources - and they are only getting bigger and even more cutthroat. Dahlia, a computer whiz, joins forces with an ex-rocker, an ex-con, a chess prodigy, an ex-athlete, and a soldier wannabe.

Colly has done well with her new escort agency in space and now she finds that she has a girlfriend like no other. The fact that her girlfriend is an alien doesn't matter, what's more important to Colly is that she's Elven in origin.

Imagine being able to take advantage of multiple small price increments in various financial instruments every single day to make a full time living. Imagine doing all this from anywhere in the world, setting your own hours and literally becoming your own boss! Imagine not being chained by your nine-to-five job and living the high life of successful day traders.

Imprisoned by the Cartel, Dale Hardy must battle to escape his captors and find a way home before everything and everyone he holds dear is lost forever. For the Cartel, it turns out subduing the small town of Encendido was only the beginning. Ruthless crime boss Fernando Ortega has his sights set on reclaiming great swaths of the American Southwest, an empire he intends to rule with an iron fist. But there's a secret hiding in the desert, a secret that could spell the difference between tyranny and freedom.

Francis Beckett, an author, journalist, and playwright, edits Third Age Matters, the UK national magazine published by the University of the Third Age. His latest book is What Did the Baby Boomers Ever Do For Us ("Grey-haired hippies will read this book and shudder; the rest of us, though, will read it for the splendid stories and shafts of insight" - Dominic Sandbrook, BBC History) and his latest play is The London Spring ("The virtue of Beckett's nightmare vision lies in its Orwellian detail" - Michael Billington, The Guardian).

The events that happen in your life impact who you are as a person, and this entire process of navigating through changes can prove to be quite the experience. While a lot of what happens seems entirely random or outside of your control, the Law of Attraction is a theory that happens to prove otherwise.