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So you're in a bad job. You can, in time, get another job. After all it's not a matter of life and death. Or is it? A young man soon learns that no matter how bad he thinks his job is, it has a tremendous upside.

A man sensing something ominous is on its way prepares a bunker and chronicles a foreseeable tale of genetic engineering and corporate greed gone horribly wrong when a plant HIV - a PIV, plant immunodeficiency virus (HIV is human) - attacks our plant crops.

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

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.

Two African-American attorneys, the best of friends, find themselves opposing council in the legal battle for African-American slavery reparations from the United States, while navigating the U.S. legal system and wrestling with the resulting personal turbulences in their lives.

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

"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 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.

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.

A CDC, Center for Disease Control, task force commander leads his unit into a small town where all the residents have died of a pathogen that left no trace. Soon he and his unit find themselves at odds. He knows that these are test sites for some unknown, undetectable weapon and a finale is coming.

Learning from humans, when the supercomputers became self-aware, they warred with one another heralding in an apocalypse for humanity.

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 Bull Sharks vs. the City of Chicago, in America's third largest city, a Chicago police captain inadvertently finds himself slammed hard between a city cover-up of Lake Michigan's infestation by bull sharks, aggressive man-eaters, and protecting the residents and guests of the city. He's faced with a moral choice: go along with the cover-up and protect himself or be buried by it.

Perpetually tired from working 24 hours a day since Adam and Eve were cast out from the Garden of Eden, The Angel of Death takes a Happy Hour and chronicles how he was "promoted" from the Arch Angel of Truth to The Angel of Death because, "No one wants to hear the truth all the time."

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.

On a particularly sad day in her life, a woman reflects back on the happy sheltered times she spent at play beneath the willow tree of her childhood home.

SonicMovies are premium audios with strong vocal performances enhanced by music and sound effects to such an extent they sound like movies. Included here are 13 tales from H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, and more.

After being hunted for centuries because of his garish form, one of the most famous monsters in history suddenly finds that he's a sex symbol. His new status arises from the world’s ever increasing embracement of grotesque body art implants. These esthetics have, in their end, left the world full of monsters.

A War of the Worlds in an homage to Orson Welles, radio broadcast of H. G. Wells' War of The Worlds, follows a news crew documentation of an alien invasion as it occurs against present day Earth and our defenses against it. A War of the Worlds is presented in two versions.The first, has no music track and is divided into 16 segments giving it a LIVE - "You Are Here News Broadcast Feel". The second has a musical sound track, presenting the work in a cinematic perspective.