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Zoe - a beautiful young woman, class president, driven to be the best at everything she does - uses skills honed as captain of the rifle team, when she finds herself the only thing between her class and a massacre at graduation.

An expert on the history of torture and its devices gives a lecture that becomes much more than that.

"Ninety days has September, April, June, and November..." is an antiquated rhyme because for an unknown reason, the Earth is spinning faster and faster, and a day is far, far fewer than 24 hours and getting shorter. It's cataclysmic, but most importantly...humanity is persevering.

A civilization experiencing global cooling that will herald in a new ice, age follows in the path of denial that plagued a long extinct civilization.

Who's on First? - On a team where the first baseman's named Who, the second baseman's named What, Idon'tKnow is on third, a woman finds it difficult to make her husband understand that the answer to his question, "Who's on first?" is Who. This work could also be called "The Relationship" because there is not a couple alive that has not had a discussion or three like this. Enjoy!

A man discovers that it was not his sins that brought him to Hell.

A man, having made his fortune early, retires to a life at sea. After reading an article on modern pirates, he arms himself, trains, and soon learns that another definition for survival is when preparedness meets opportunity.

An onslaught of supernatural events assails a man, who quickly realizes both the source and the two competing choices he faces.

When a book reviewer trashes a horror writer's latest work in her column, stating a blank page is infinitely more horrifying than his latest work, to her horror he sends her a blank page for comparison.

Using advances in genetic engineering and manipulation, two fast food companies war with one another through their customers.

Devastated by the sudden end of her relationship, Rose reunites with her best friend from high school after a 10+ -year break in their friendship. The old flames rekindle and through their romantic involvement they learn that love, like people, is uncategorical, multi-hued and infinitely more complex than the societally established boundaries of "friend" or "lover"; and the key to happiness is accepting love and ourselves for what they are.

Locked in a vast and hopeless intergalactic war with a militarily superior species determined to turn all of humanity into their cattle, a military commander forges an alliance with the creatures' oldest enemy and learns that revenge is a dish best shared.

A woman discovers she has a natural defense against vampires.

Through the exploits of Chicago's Big Dez Zombie Hunter, we see why zombie apocalypses have a season and why zombie hordes will never defeat humanity.

Twenty-one SonicMovies - stirring AuralPerformances enhanced with sound effects and musical scores - interwoven in a collaboration centuries in the making between some of the world's greatest musicians, poets, and entertainers featuring John Quincy Adams, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Mathilde Blind, Ada Cambridge, Emily Dickinson, Frances E. W. Harper, Felicia Dorothea Hemans, William Earnest Henley, Lucy Larcom, James E. McGirt, Alice Christiana Meynell, Lydia Jane Peirson, and more.

The world, perpetually at war somewhere, is forced to end its childhood when the federation of Extraterrestrial species that has protected humanity for untold eons reveals itself, heralding in prosperity, technological advancements, longevity, and world peace, compelling humanity to work together as one in a common goal but not quite in the way the protectorate could have possibly foreseen.

In a parody of "A Visit From St. Nicholas" by Clement Clarke Moore, Santa Claus makes a visit to a housing project in "da hood".

One night, while dumping a corpse in a secluded, marshy, swamp, a serial killer unexpectedly discovers love and horror.

A solar cataclysm heralds in an apocalypse, in which life on Earth, struggling to rise above a new dark age and a lunar research facility struggling to survive reunite 500 years later in an expected, yet unexpected way.

A grave robber glances at a coffin he's recently unearthed and opened, and, enraged, he witnesses his prized corpse being drawn out the chewed end of the coffin into a subterranean burrow by the graveyard rats. Without thinking, he dives in after it and, crawling through the underground maze, pursues the corpse only to discover he is being pursued by the gargantuan rats and something far more ominous...the undead.