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Welcome to the not so distant future. Human beings have pushed
Mother Earth to her breaking point-mass wildlife extinctions,
global warming, widespread resource shortages, over population-and
the Department of Homeland Security is offering stimulus packages
to the children of American citizens who volunteer to be
euthanized. This short story about a chance encounter between two
volunteers serves as a warning to a self-destructing human race.
Voluntary is a tale of sacrifice, passion, and emotion between
complete strangers who realize that time is of little importance to
their feelings for each other in an inevitably dying world.
As mankind inches closer to self-destruction@corruption, greed,
religious zealotry and intemperance@Patrick Mitchell struggles to
find purpose and order amidst the growing chaos he@s witnessed in
the world. As a former Marine serving in the Middle East, then as a
college student, Patrick sees the mounting ignorance of mankind. He
is distraught by the moral deficiencies and surrendering of
principles he has observed. Patrick ignores the temptation of
blissful ignorance, instead choosing to pursue wisdom, feeling that
a life without examination is not a life worth living. Reflecting
on his personal tribulations, Patrick Mitchell considers the future
of mankind and has determined one thing alone to be his priority.
The Complete Series When Americans are alerted of an imminent
nuclear attack, Luke and his parents retreat to their underground
shelter, barely escaping the deadly blasts. The years crawl by, and
as their supplies continue to diminish, Luke's desire to leave the
shelter is further driven by his raging teenage hormones and sexual
curiosity. But when the time to leave the shelter finally arrives,
what waits for them on the surface surprises them all. Follow Luke
as he gives his personal account of doomsday, growing up in a
fallout shelter, and a civilization that rises from the ashes of
the apocalypse.
The harsh winter and great outdoors of upstate New York provide
Benjamin with the only solace from an otherwise agonizing
existence. His mother's abusive alcoholic boyfriend, the bully on
the bus, and a Math teacher who pays a little too much attention to
schoolboys are slowly chipping away at his dignity and feelings of
self-worth. Benjamin clings to any sense of normalcy until a series
of compounding events drives him to the very edge of suicide. He
begs God for help - a divine intervention - but his prayers go
unanswered and he has an epiphany: God helps those who help
themselves.
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