The revolutionary comedic short stories, rants, poems, loves and hates of one of the internets most read writers, the host of Peace and Pipedreams, and various other sites.

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"Ham" MacPherson is a promising left-handed baseball pitcher at Wilkes Central High School whom the Atlanta Braves have told will be selected with the third pick of the 1976 MLB draft, complete with a generous signing bonus. Within a twenty-four hour period, however, Ham's world goes topsy-turvy. His relationships with his girlfriend, Nora, and best friend, JC, are turned upside down and inside out. A life-changing catastrophe transforms Ham and the way he views the world. Accidents and deaths soon follow. How will Ham deal with all the tumult in his life? The story ends where it began, in a hearse.

The Edge of Today, and the End of Tomorrow: Subtle Beginnings By: Christian Gray David is a young author, gamer, homebody, kind of a shut-in, really, whose quiet imaginative life in Misawa, Japan becomes all too real and all too dangerous when an alien invasion rudely wakes him at the ungodly hour of 4:00 p.m. When his nosey, cranky landlady escorts a large, scary stranger into David’s bedroom and demands that he get up and out immediately, he’s having none of it. But his outrage is quickly replaced by immobilizing shock at the horrific sights he spies out his bedroom window. Monsters, of varying sizes but all with a taste for human flesh, are swarming his neighborhood. The Edge of Today and the End of Tomorrow launches David into a world he’s never known, one that rips him from his peaceful existence and thrusts him into life-and-death situations that he must rise to meet. He has a steep learning curve to become the man he needs to be to survive and to save the human race, a man he never imagined he could become.

Jen Lancaster hates to burst your happy little bubble, but life in the big city isn't all it's cracked up to be. Contrary to what you see on TV and in the movies, most urbanites aren't party-hopping in slinky dresses and strappy stilettos. But lucky for us, Lancaster knows how to make the life of the lower crust mercilessly funny and infinitely entertaining. Whether she's reporting rude neighbors to Homeland Security, harboring a crush on her grocery store clerk, or fighting-and losing-the Battle of the Stairmaster- Lancaster explores how silly, strange, and not-so-fabulous real city living can be. And if anyone doesn't like it, they can kiss her big, fat, pink, puffy down parka.

The New York Times bestselling true crime author investigates a shocking case of a wife, mother, and murder in the Iowa suburbs. Iowa housewife Tracey Pittman Roberts seemed to have it all: natural beauty, three loving children, and a fairy tale second marriage to a wealthy businessman. But beneath the happy façade was a woman who used lies, manipulation, sex, ugly allegations, blackmail—and even murder—to serve her own selfish ends. On December 13, 2001, police rushed to Tracey’s home after a shooting left her young neighbor dead. Tracey claimed it was an act of self-defense. Nine gunshot wounds—and a decades-long trail of extortion, fabrication, fraud, and intimidation—said otherwise. Ten years after the crime, Tracey’s case finally went to trial in an explosive courtroom showdown. In a searing exploration of the criminal mind, acclaimed investigative journalist M. William Phelps traces the saga of a psychopath who hid in plain sight—until her wicked ways caught up with her. “Phelps is one of America’s finest true-crime authors.” —Vincent Bugliosi “Phelps is the Harlan Coben of real-life thrillers.” —Allison Brennan