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Lella

by Drew Andrews

A short, dark tale about two very close and forbidden young artistic lovers and the rough woman between them.

Zen From the Heartland

by Robert L. Schrag, Ph.D.

Zen From the Heartland chronicles chord theory unfolding in a life; mine. Harmony defines our lives; we do not choose that reality, it is the unalterable organizing structure of the universe. We can, as they...

Gone

by Bryan W. Alaspa

A group of employees trying to have a weekend of bonding in the woods. What they get, however, is a weekend of unrelenting terror. What is making them disappear one at a time? Why can't they leave? Will any...

Baxter's Key

by Alwyne Ashweth

Strange Circle - Micro Fiction: Baxter is a man who finds his keys in the most unfortunate places...

Tokyo Zero

by Marc Horne

One man goes to Tokyo to end the world. It goes fairly well.
As a Japanese cult gets ready to stage a massive attack, they are forced to recruit a secretive young bio-chemist from the West. They hide out on...

Eugenics and Other Evils

by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

From the introduction: "I publish these essays at the present time for a particular reason connected with the present situation; a reason which I should like briefly to emphasise and make clear. Though most...

The Book of Five Rings

by Musashi Miyamoto

Miyamoto Musashi's Go Rin no Sho or the book of five rings, is considered a classic treatise on military strategy, much like Sun Tzu's The Art of War and Chanakya's Arthashastra. The five "books" refer to the...

The Prince

by Niccolò Machiavelli

Il Principe (The Prince) is a political treatise by the Florentine public servant and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. Originally called De Principatibus (About Principalities), it was written in 1513,...

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

by Edwin Abbott Abbott

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is an 1884 science fiction novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott. As a satire, Flatland offered pointed observations on the social hierarchy of Victorian...

On Liberty

by John Stuart Mill

On Liberty is a philosophical work by 19th century English philosopher John Stuart Mill, first published in 1859. To the Victorian readers of the time it was a radical work, advocating moral and economic freedom...

Philosophical Lectures

by Kevin J. Browne

An examination of the history of philosophical ideas and their influence on everyday life.

Utilitarianism

by John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill's book Utilitarianism is a philosophical defense of utilitarianism in ethics. The essay first appeared as a series of three articles published in Fraser's Magazine in 1861; the articles were...

Tao Te Ching

by Laozi

The Tao Te Ching is fundamental to the Taoist school of Chinese philosophy and strongly influenced other schools, such as Legalism and Neo-Confucianism. This ancient book is also central in Chinese religion,...

Star Maker's Apprentice:  A Novel Exploration into Higher Dimensions & the Nature of the Gods

by F. Louis Szot aka "Ambassador Zot"

IMAGINE there is a Cosmic Institution that functions as the equivalent of a Library containing all of the most fundamental documents that have been created within the Milky Way Galaxy. "Star Maker’s Apprentice"...

The God Chord:  String Theory In The Landscape of the Heart

by Robert L. Schrag, Ph.D.

String theory [ST] is a relatively recent development in theoretical physics that reveals the fundamental, irreducible building block of the universe to be an inconceivably tiny vibrating string. Everything...