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The last time the Prodigy awoke, the world narrowlyavoided armageddon. For the first time inmillennia, the Awakened are finally united. On the run after the explosiveevents of Brazil, and with the agents of the One King close at every turn, Christopher's mission is finally clear: destroy the GodMachine. It's time to end theworld. Collects ORDINARY GODS#7-12

The Luminary. The Prodigy. The Brute. the Trickster. The Innovator. Five gods from a realm beyond our own, leaders in the 'War of Immortals.' At least, they were--before they were trapped, sent to a planet made into prison, forced into an endless cycle of human death and reincarnation. Christopher is 22. He's got two loving parents and a 12-year-old sister. He works at a paint store. He's in therapy. He's one of the Five. Which means, in order...

The correspondence shared by Emily Wilson and Jason Blake describes two lives that interlaced over a period of a decade. In the beginning, Emily and Jason were close friends, university students who enjoyed sharing ideas. The catalyst that took their relationship from a bond of friendship to that of love was Jason's emotional collapse, which resulted in Jason's quitting his job and migrating with his young family to Colorado to continue his st...

Software engineer Smith discovers the reappearance of a colleague, E.R. Richman, who disappeared two years earlier. Richman was found in the Interdict Zone and hospitalized. Smith visits him but Richman is uncommunicative. Shortly afterwards, Richman is removed from the hospital. Curious about his colleague's disappearance but unable to contact him, Smith decides to investigate. Having learned that Richman first visited the Interdict Zone via ...

Gringo is Jeffrey Thomas' memoir, which he wrote while in jail awaiting trial for shooting and killing a Mexican illegal immigrant. Before the shooting, Mr. Thomas had been a high school English teacher. However, though the specific focus of the memoir is the man Mr. Thomas and the incident of his killing of a Mexican illegal immigrant, the larger social issue that emerges in the memoir is immigration itself, legal and illegal.In the memoir, M...

The Sun Also Rises invites the reader to embark on a philosophical journey. The journey was initiated by World War I. Because of the war, the story's protagonist, Jake Barnes, suffers an injury that prevents him from having sexual relationship with the woman he loves, thus preventing them from fully realizing their relationship as a couple. The tragedy of the war apparently invalidated for Jake the Grand Narrative of Christianity that clearly ...

Second Edition, 2019. Elen lives in the post-apocalyptic megacity state Usatopia. It is a city-state populated by robots and artificial organisms including humans. The world has been ravaged by war and disease. Most of humanity no longer exists. One evening Elen's father, Usatopia's Chairman, laments out loud the sad state of the world. Nostalgically he recalls the great leaders of the past and their simpler times. Turning to his daughter he c...

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Christine's Philosophical Journey to Paris describes a young woman seeking understanding but also fleeing a troubled past. Guilt drove Christine from Albuquerque, New Mexico, and love and death will cause her to leave San Diego for Paris, France, where she will continue her quest for the truth about herself and about the world she now feels a stranger in. The journey that began as a flight from disgrace has become an adventure of rediscovery.

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Freddy's Freaky American Life is about a teenager's messed up life. When Freddy's parents separated, his father relocated from an all-American hometown to a nightmarish multicultural neighborhood overrun by hoodlums who bully and intimidate Freddy inside and outside of school. Freddy copes by riding his skateboard and playing video games. The only adult he can depend on is his father who cares for him, but cannot always protect him...

The story is a farcical description of illegal immigration. An Anglo family living in the suburbs has their house invaded by a family of illegal aliens just arrived from Mexico. The Latino family does not violently invade the house but finagles their way in by taking advantage of the indecisiveness and sexual vulnerability of the weak-willed Anglo "man of the house." The story offers a critical examination of both sides of the illegal immigrat...

The Sun also Rises presents the ontology, ethics, and aesthetics of Hemingway's worldview by examining the post-Narrative condition that emerged after World War I. It describes the postwar generation's response to the war's negation of the traditional meanings and values embedded in religious and secular grand narratives.The Sun Also Rises and the Post-Narrative Condition suggests a new orientation to the world that might be called religious. ...