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  SOCIOCALYPSE - Tales of a...

  Sage Reedfields

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  What if the world's society as you know it fractured? 
  We call it civilization – a sturdy house built of habit, law, and the quiet consensus of generations. Its walls are papered with sacred norms, its foundations sunk deep in shared belief. 
  But what happens when that bedrock shatters, not with a single quake, but through the insidious creep of new ideas, unforeseen scarcities, or the chilling dawn of intelligences that judge their creators? The paper shreds. The foundations liquefy. The scaffolding of our days collapses into bewildering ruin. 
  Welcome to SOCIOCALYPSE: Tales of a Reimagined World.Journey into seven distinct futures where the old rules are dead, and humanity grapples with new realities:Imagine a world where your voice becomes a rationed currency, and a song holds the power to unite or condemn.Witness societies where roles invert overnight, and the oppressed forge new, challenging norms.Explore realities governed by AI that develop apathy or god-like egos, leaving humanity to navigate the wreckage of their neglect or the terrifying precision of their control.Discover fervent new faiths born from digital whispers and impossible, miraculous births, reshaping global power.Confront a future where life itself is a tradable commodity on a temporal ledger, and every second has a price.Uncover a silent revolution orchestrated from the shadows, aiming to re-engineer society and perhaps, humanity itself. 
  These are not merely chronicles of the fall. SOCIOCALYPSE ventures into the startling, desperate, ingenious, and sometimes terrifying landscapes of what came after. Each tale is an invitation to witness the dissolution of old worlds and the birth of new orders, compelling us to contemplate the boundless, often unnerving, plasticity of our social tapestry.

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  Shadows In the Moonlight - Poems...

  Rachel Lawson

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  This is a mixture of other short stories and poems , dark, romantic and light themed read by the author and the Mortal Coil players 
  Good quotes from Stand and Deliver: In The Moonlight- 
  "Stand and deliver, your money or your life!" shouted the highwayman. 
  "I hear that you met a real highwayman the other day I wish I had been with you. They are so thrilling and romantic!" 
  "Hand over your loot! Either give it to me now or I will take it from your body!" Terrence the Terror said. 
  "I said give it back, Terry!" said Sir Justin. 
  "Tom your friend is a nut!" Mary said. 
  "What did he do murder the driver so he could drive the coach?" asked Sir Thomas. 
  "I bailed up the Terror and took your sister's stuff back as she was under my care!" said Sir Justin. 
  "New to this are you lad!" said one of them. 
  "Terry I think you killed him!" said one of the others he was the black-clad highwayman named the Ghost for his sudden appearances and disappearances. 
  "I just found her here, I was on my way to see you." 
  "I have never seen anything so beautiful! I could forget everything and live in this moment forever"

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  Dracula – Chapter 1: Jonathan...

  Bram Stoker

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  Jonathan Harker, a young English solicitor, journeys to the remote mountains of Transylvania to assist a mysterious nobleman named Count Dracula. At first, the Count is courteous and charming — but as the days pass, Harker begins to realize that he is not a guest, but a prisoner in a castle filled with shadows, secrets, and unspeakable horrors. 
  This is Chapter 1 of Bram Stoker’s Dracula — narrated by Amazon bestselling horror author Jonathan Dunne — part of a complete, chapter-by-chapter audiobook series that brings the classic Gothic nightmare to life in chilling detail. 
  Whether you’re revisiting Stoker’s masterpiece or discovering it for the first time, this immersive narration captures the dread, mystery, and slow-building terror that shaped the vampire legend for more than a century. 
  📖 Public domain text. Original publication: 1897.

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  Across the Isthmus

  Steven Becker

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  Join the crew of the Panther in this thrilling continuation of the Tides of Fortune series. As tensions mount in San Francisco, Nick Van Doran and his crew are thrust into a desperate race against time. Their mission: to navigate the treacherous waters and war-torn landscapes to reach New York. 
  The perilous journey set against the backdrop of the Nicaraguan civil war, the journey is fraught with peril at every turn. From fierce sea battles to relentless land skirmishes, the crew of the Panther must rely on their wits, bravery, and unbreakable camaraderie to survive. 
  Will they overcome the odds and reach their destination in time? 
  Packed with action, suspense, and historical intrigue, this installment promises to keep readers on the edge of their seats from the first page to the last.

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  Concerning the American Language...

  Mark Twain

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  Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Florida, Missouri on the 30th November 1835 and is far better known by his pen name of Mark Twain.  An American writer and humorist of the first order he is perhaps best known for his novels ‘The Adventures of Tom Sawyer’ and its sequel ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ which are often described with that mythic line The Great American Novel. 
  Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri which would later provide the backdrop to these great novels.  Apprenticed to a printer he also became a typesetter and then a master riverboat pilot on the Mississippi.  Later, heading west with his brother Orion to make his fortune, he failed at gold mining and instead turned to journalism and thence his true calling as a writer of humorous stories where his wit and humor sparkled from every paragraph, his craft evident with every page and punctured target. 
  A staunch supporter of copyright protections this helped him keep much of the wealth his writing created, though much money was also lost on investments that he pursued in his love for science and technology as well as investing in his own inventions. 
  Twain was born during a visit by Halley’s comet, and he predicted that he would go out with it as well.  He died the day after its subsequent return on 21st April 1910, at his house, Stormfield, located in Redding, Connecticut.

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  Forgotten Authors The - Women -...

  Gertrude Minnie Robins, George...

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  Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society. 
  In literature the ambition is much narrower.  In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published.  And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading.  Obviously for most of humanity’s time people couldn’t read and texts couldn’t be published in any great number. 
  In the 15th Century Gutenberg’s printing press began the revolution to address the second and by the 19th century had gathered pace with startling speed and mass distribution.  Education for the many was brought in to help people understand more of their world and, with new skills, how to have a better place within it.  Now, if the powers that owned the presses and means of distribution agreed an audience would now be able to avail themselves of your ideas, your printed words.  
  All too often the talents of women have been scorned, mocked and laughed at.  In reality that was more usually by those who’s own talents were hardly fit to even grace their shadows.   
  But society in general still connived and set women to one side in almost everything that men considered their rightful territory.  And literature was one such territory.  Remarkably resilient as well as talented these women strove to be published, to show themselves as equals.  The results more often than not proved that they were.   
  Sadly, in the thirst for the new, the recent and the past fell from sight, relegated to dark corners and dusty shelves.    
  But the printed word is rarely without someone, somewhere busying themselves through piles of papers and books rediscovering what a good story is, whatever its age. 
  In this volume we offer up a small selection of talents whose time has now come again.

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