Max Fathom is a self-described Simulation Hacker. He has come to the conclusion that our world—in fact, our entire universe—is nothing more than an massively elaborate computer program, and we are all just bits of code in some cosmic video game.
Most of his friends pass off his world view as a harmless eccentricity. That is until they find themselves at its mercy.

What is it about the full moon that inspires so many different things. A romantic evening illuminated by its silvery light can be the setting for a heartwarming love story. But hospital emergency rooms claim it's a time that marks an increase in their business.
The full moon can also be a harbinger of things of a more malevolent nature. Creatures you wouldn't want to come upon…

By the Light of the Moon

A Really Good Day will make you laugh, it will make you cry, it will make you stand up and cheer! Enjoy this entertaining golf fantasy about one man's really good day.

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Bill Anker just wanted a robot vacuum to save himself a little time with his household chores. What he didn’t bargain for, was a home that was too smart for his own good.

Part Two of the novel, The Dead Kids Club, by Rich Hosek.
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Part One of the novel, The Dead Kids Club, by Rich Hosek.
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Love, as Johnny Cash reminds us, is a burning thing. And some people believe it can be felt the first time you gaze upon someone. That you can develop deep, real feelings for someone just by looking at them. Is such a thing possible?
And if you did fall suddenly and intensely in love with someone you just met, and later those deep, real feelings were tested by the revelation of a deep, dark secret that threatened to unravel your love, would you hang on to it no matter what that secret was? Or what it cost?

Throughout the ages, stories of magic genies and cursed monkey paws have spurred the imagination. The closest we can get in real life is winning the lottery and fantasizing about what you might buy if gaining such a windfall.
But what if you had the chance to make an actual magical wish. Anything your heart desired. There are plenty of stories about how such an opportunity can go wrong. You get untold riches, but the IRS takes it all away. A long life is spent in prison. Which makes one wonder, is there truly such a thing as 

We all remember the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. How a selfish young girl invaded a private home, stole food, disturbed their belongings and slept in their beds as if was no big deal. In that story, she got away, never to be seen again.
But fairy tales don’t always have happy endings. Sometimes thing don’t go we hope they will. Sometimes, the girl doesn’t get away.

Never has the promise "Till death do us part" meant so much...

Escape rooms are meant to be fun, a way to challenge ourselves, working with others to solve puzzles, pooling our collective talents to crack the riddles that lead to success.
But what if you found yourself in one from which there was no escape. A prison, meant just for you. Your own personal hell. What would you do if there was no way out?

Look before you leap is an expression we sometimes take for granted. It’s easy to overlook the distant consequences of our actions for that immediate gratification of solving a problem right in front of you.
Sean Walker learns the hard way, that trying to do the right thing can take you down a road that leads you to an unexpected destination.

We live in our homes and try to seal out the rest of the world. The heat, the cold, the rain. We also strive to keep out out other aspects of nature we deem undesirable. The pests, bugs and other vermin… like mice.
On their own, they’re actually kind of cute, but that doesn’t mean you want to share your house with them. We trap and exterminate them without a second thought. But maybe, we should take a moment and consider the consequences…

A Really Good Day will make you laugh, it will make you cry, it will make you stand up and cheer! Enjoy this entertaining golf fantasy about one man's really good day.

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We all look for shortcuts in our lives. Voice assistants and countless other gadgets seem to make our day to day tasks easier, maybe even make it so we don’t have to do them all.
But how far should we take this road to automation. Where do we draw the line? Are we willing to trust so much of our lives to Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning? Or is that a step too far. 

Do you ever wonder if we’re truly alone in the universe? If we are the only life to have evolved, gained consciousness, advanced and developed technology across the entire galaxy?
What if we’re not? What would aliens from another planet be like? Would they be hideous creatures bent on invading us, friendly little furballs exploring neighboring star systems… or would they be something like us.

We’ve all experienced it to some degree or another, haven’t we? Hearing voices in our heads, talking to ourselves—or maybe even someone else. For a few, it can be a debilitating condition.
Some people think it is a latent psychic ability, and we’re actually receiving thoughts from other people.
And others think these voices are something else entirely. Something much more sinister, and something we should be very afraid of.

Have you ever wished you just had a little more time? Or perhaps the ability to go back in time—just a bit—to fix something you did wrong, make a different decision about which line to get in at the grocery store, or whether or not to eat that leftover bagel at work.
Meet Edward, the perfect example of the absent-minded professor, whose brilliance as a theoretical physicist can unlock the secrets of time and space, but the simple act of getting ready for his nephew’s birthday party becomes a challenge of epic proportions.

Some people love Halloween. The costumes, the candy, children parading to your front door begging for treats.
Harrison Hardigan is not one of those people.
However, he is about to be given a rare gift, a chance to examine the choices and experiences that have made him the man he is, and hopefully learn from them. But will it be enough to make him change?

Monsters are everywhere. Under our beds, hiding in our closets, lurking in the woods and haunting our imaginations.
Hank Newsom, according to our legal system, is a bit of a monster himself, flaunting our laws and on the run after escaping punishment. Sometimes, it takes a monster to catch a monster.

The afterword by Loyd Auerbach goes into depth about the paranormal topics covered in the book, and the author's note by Arnold Rudnick explains the history of Raney and Daye.

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Everybody loves a mystery. But what about the mystery behind the mystery? Not so much the whodunnit, but the how did they know he diddit? 
That’s what private detective Isaac Black and his assistant, Jeremy White are being asked to help the police with. It’s a small matter, but for some reason, it takes the perceptions of a blind man to see what everyone else is missing.

In Part Fifteen, Raney/Daye Investigations is born from a confluence of events.

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Many people like taking a walk in the woods, enjoying the shade of the trees, admiring their stately beauty and the abundance of life that thrives beneath their boughs.
Trees are the oldest and largest living things on the planet, they’ve stood by as the history of man has unfolded around them, watching nations rise and fall. 
What has that tree in your backyard beheld? What atrocities has it witnessed? And what will it do when it’s finally seen enough?

A special presentation of one of my stories as produced by another fiction podcast, The Other Stories. 

It seems everywhere you go these days, people are talking about AI, Artificial Intelligence, how it’s going to take over many jobs humans do now.
Are we taking a risk giving potentially sentient algorithms access to not only our accumulated knowledge, but in some cases, the means to control things in the real world? Or is that just paranoia?

Visit https://TheOtherStories.net to learn more about The Other Stories fiction podcast.

In Part Fourteen, we solve the mystery of Diane's Ghost and catch up with the men who shot Nate.

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A good writer puts a little bit of themselves in every story they write. A great writer will pour their whole soul into their work. But what if there was a way to unlock that essence, to bring it to life outside the pages of a book?
And what if that resurrected consciousness had unfinished business?
Come with me on a journey through the life of one woman who comes face to face with the answer to that question.

In Part Thirteen, Jennifer sees how low the Dean will go with her office assignment, then things get exciting when she and Nate stake out Diane's apartment.

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The meta-verse, a 3-D computer generated world that you can visit by wearing a special headset, seems to be all the rage these days. Everyone is excited about being able to travel to exotic places, meet new people from around the world, or even go to work without ever leaving your living room sofa.
But do we fully know what’s in store for us in that virtual reality? What happens to it when we turn it off?
And what was there before we showed up?

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In Part Twelve, Seymour and Freddie make new plans, Nate and Jennifer investigate a mysterious gas leak at Diane's apartment, and Max checks in on Nate.

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If you could see the future, would you change it? Would you have the confidence to know for sure that the choices you made wouldn’t make things worse?
It’s a situation not far off from the time traveler’s dilemma—if you could go back in time and stop a grievous wrong from happening, even if that wrong led to a multitude of good, would you?
One man is about to face such a decision. 
He finds himself with the ability to see into the future, just far enough to make a difference, to keep bad things from happening.
But should he? 
Isn’t that playing god?

In Part Eleven, Nate and Jennifer track down Diane's ex-boyfriend, then later run into one of the robbers from Nate's shooting while Diane gets another visit from her ghostly guest.

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Snow is one of the most magical aspects of nature. Songs have been written about it, and no one can deny the beauty of waking up to a fresh blanket of snow on a winter morning. Each flake that drifts through the sky and lights upon the ground, or the boughs of a fir tree, or the tongue of a child is different, each one of the countless crystals an individual work of art.
But, in the hands of a bully, snow can become an insidious weapon. It can be compacted into a ball and hurled at an unsuspecting victim’s head, or scooped up and stuffed down their back. 
So, what’s a kid to do?
Sometimes the answer to that question can be found one’s own front yard… with a little help from magic cap.

In Part Ten, Nate helps Jennifer debunk a psychic to the detriment of her career and her brand new office space.

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A Really Good Day will make you laugh, it will make you cry, it will make you stand up and cheer! Enjoy this entertaining golf fantasy about one man's really good day.

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What is your worst nightmare? Being chased by some unseen monster through the woods at night? Realizing that you have a test coming up—and you haven’t studied. Or showing up at work and discovering that you forgot to put on your pants, and your underwear.
What about waking up to find yourself abducted by aliens of a most insidious nature.
Now, imagine that it’s not a dream. Creatures from outer space have landed, and have rendered you helpless as they take over your life and the lives of the people you care about. 
In that case, waking up is the nightmare.

In Part Nine, Nate has a strange experience that advances Max's investigation, while Dave has an interesting encounter with Diane's neighbor, Rose.

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Benjamin Franklin once observed that “nothing is for certain except death and taxes.” Never has a truism stood the test of time so successfully.
Harold Potter is a man who lives a somewhat complicated life—mostly due to his unusual line of work. Today he discovers, that not only are death and taxes certainties you cannot evade, they are sometimes inextricably linked. No one can escape the taxman, but the grim reaper is even more determined to exact his due, and when they team up, there’s nowhere you can hide.

In Part Eight, Jennifer and Nate interview Diane, the woman being visited by a ghost, then talk to Nate's great uncle about his experience 60 years earlier.

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Simulation theory claims that it is more likely than not that we are living in a highly sophisticated computer program, one that provides us with the illusion that we exist in a natural world governed by the laws of physics. The evidence, they say, is all the crazy things around us, the stories we see in the news or on the internet that make us say, “That can’t be real” or more specifically, “I guess there’s a glitch in the simulation.” 
According to some interpretations, there’s no way for us to tell for sure whether the world around us, and the very paths out lives take are real, or subroutines in a vast and complicated computer game.

In Part Seven, Jennifer finds a case to get Nate involved with while Nate is dealing with the addition of a dog to his life.

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And now, 
let me tell you a story…
A story told not with words, but with paints and brushes. They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but some have a value much greater than that. And the story they tell, isn’t always the truth.
All artists are creators, they bring their work to life with every drawing they draw, every song they sing, every tale they tell. But each creation relies on the imagination of the viewer, the listener or the reader to complete that transformation.
Unless, of course, there are other forces at work…
George is an artist who normally works in a somewhat ephemeral medium, one of pixels and bits. But when he’s asked to apply his talents in a more traditional manner, he finds that even paint on canvas can be unexpectedly fleeting.

In Part Six, the team starts looking into Diane's case, Nate does some checking up on Dr. Daye, and Jennifer gets the upper hand with the dean.

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Let me tell you a story…
A story about a woman at the intersection of loss and fear, placed in a very uncomfortable situation. But aren’t those are the moments where we experience the most growth, discover inner strengths, and perhaps unexpected rewards.

In Part Five, Nate returns to the police station for the first time since his accident and discovers Dr. Daye has been asking about him there. He tracks her down at one of her lectutres, but his conversation with her doesn't go as planned...

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A Really Good Day will make you laugh, it will make you cry, it will make you stand up and cheer! Enjoy this entertaining golf fantasy about one man's really good day.

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The perfect Fathers Day gift for the golfer in your life!

Belief, they say, requires faith, an unfailing certainty that what you think is true, actually is. But just because your faith makes something true for you, does that make it so for everyone else? If, for example, someone believed you were, say, a werewolf. Would that in itself be enough to transform you into a bloodthirsty beast when the moon was full? Or would that belief need to be built on a more solid foundation of fact and knowledge. In either case, the proof of the the pudding is in the eating—or in this case, the listening.

In Part Four Jennifer runs into problems with the dean of her university department who isn't fond of her paranormal side gig. While she makes an appearance on a popular podcast, Diane Collins, who is being visited by an apparition, decides to reach out for help.

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Let me tell you a story…

… a story about a monster. Not a big, fierce, toothy creature with razor sharp claws and glowing eyes, a monster of a different type, and a different size. Who says only good things can come in small packages?

Buck Harris has a problem. Some pest has been stealing food from his kitchen cupboards, and he’s determined to catch it. But is he prepared for what he’ll find when he does?