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David Malone, a peacekeeper in the rundown Crystal City, discovers a plot within the movement of life's lottery, wherein the benefactors are stealing the entire life-force of the donors in order to perpetuate their own life across decades in a high-tech act of human sacrifice. How can something created to stabilize the human race after the holy wars get so perverted?

Presenting your lover with 24 roses signifies that they are always on your mind, for each rose represents one hour of the day. 24 Roses is a series of poems that explore the powerful and varied raw emotion that is love in all its glory. From the innocent love of childhood sweethearts to the weathered relationships of those who grow old together, and the anger, infatuation, despair, and romance in between.

What if the girl of your dreams turned out to literally be, a girl in your dreams? For Sam, meeting Susi in the same pub every night when he closed his eyes was exciting until he started to realize that this dream world, this half-light, offered more than his real life did. But now, in this place between reality and dreams, this place that is nowhere and everywhere, Susi has started to change; she is becoming confused and distant. Sam begins to realize that there must be a link between this world and reality, that something is drawing him to Susi each night.

Another Blood Jet is A. J. Huffman's new collection of poetry. This collection is a multigenre, literary horror collection of 48 poems that intermix personal memoirs of moments of a volatile relationship with bloody and surrealistic visions of the speaker's everyday life and madness. The goal of this collection is to take the listener on an emotionally tangential ride that twists their minds and guts in empathy. Collectively it creates a diversely intriguing mix of imagery, metaphor, and real-life memoir.

An alien on the run from bounty hunters arrives on Earth and hides in the body of a gangster who has just been murdered by his own gang. He finds himself in conflict with the gangster's determination to avenge himself on the gang and redeem a past failure while at the same time he has to deal with the bounty hunters.

Let's face it: Selfie pictures aren't going away anytime soon. In fact we can all admit we have taken some of these photos ourselves and posted them to Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, or Google. You can post a sweet selfie picture pretty much anywhere.

Essential oils are extracted from flowers, leaves, fruits, peel, seeds, wood, bark, roots, and other natural materials. There are thousands of different kinds of essential oils, and each has unique properties and characteristics. They are highly volatile, so they are easily absorbed by the skin, and one must take care in the use of them.

Shakespeare’s history plays fall into two categories: political dramas and propagandistic pageants. The second category is comprised of the two plays in this presentation, Henry V and Henry VIII.

These six plays are Japanese classics from the 14th century and are presented in the order of a traditional Nō programme. Nō, the Japanese word for "skill", is a form of Japanese musical drama that originated in the eighth century, and is the oldest major theatre art that still survives today. Alongside Nō plays were kyōgen plays, which were short works typically inserted as a comedic interlude of sorts between the more classical Nō performances.

After the death of their father, Oedipus, Antigone and Ismene return to Thebes. The ruler is their unyielding uncle by marriage, Creon, who assumed command after the death of the sons of Oedipus, Eteocles, and Polynices in a fratricidal struggle to take control of the city. Creon has the body of one brother buried with full civic honors but forbids the burial of the body of the other, whom he regards as a traitor. Antigone's challenge to Creon's decree, which she considers unjust, results in the extinction of the family line of Oedipus.

As the generating force of its plot, Twelfth Night uses a device which has since become a staple in comedy: gender confusion. Viola and her twin brother Sebastian, are shipwrecked on the coast of Illyria, a country ruled by the melancholy Duke Orsino. The twins are separated and Viola is led to believe that her brother has perished. She disguises herself as a male under the name of Cesario and makes her way to the ducal court, where Orsino employs her as a messenger, to communicate his love to the reclusive lady, Olivia—who is not willing to return his affection.