Lost and Not Found details one man’s journey all the way from being laid off from his mundane corporate job to becoming the author he truly dreams to be by following his attempt to write his first novel within the challenging timeframe of only four weeks. As his story unfolds we get to read what he is writing and can see the relationship between the author and his work unfold until his life literally unfolds around him.
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Featuring a zombie outbreak and a strange sort of doomsday, but really focusing on how coming through those experiences into utopia and freedom effects different people, Forget What You Can’t Remember is an exploration of the human mind under pressure. It’s about relationships, memory, opportunity, and dealing with their loss - and other kinds of loss. Forget What You Can't Remember is a spin-off novel in the same universe as Lost and Not Found (also available on Podiobooks.com) which doesn’ ...
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FULL TITLE: Untrue Tales From Beyond Fiction - Recollections of an Alternate Past, Book Six: Waking To The Truth or Explanation and Supplication or How To Resolve An Apocalypse (Book 6 of 6) Contains mature content not suitable for all readers. Book Six continues from the shocking revelation which concluded Book Five, and follows the story of why the simulation was created, how Trevor and Toni found their way inside without its creators' knowledge, through waking everyone up and then on to f ...
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FULL TITLE: Untrue Tales From Beyond Fiction - Recollections of an Alternate Past, Book Four: Explorations of Ridiculous Realities or Corporation and Collusion or How To Subvert Corporatocracy (Book 4 of 6) Contains mature content not suitable for all readers. Book Four picks up at the moment Book Three left off, with Trevor, his wife and daughter he's just met, and his best friend Nirgal having been whisked away from Earth in a space craft and escorted to the captain's office. Most of Book ...
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FULL TITLE: Untrue Tales From Beyond Fiction - Recollections of an Alternate Past, Book Five: The Bloodless Battles or Conscription and Revelation or How To Break Into Prison (Book 5 of 6) Contains mature content not suitable for all readers. Book Five continues from the very moment Book Four concludes, with Trevor and Toni on their way back to Earth to recruit an army from among the exiles there, first to save Nirgal and Neyal'h from a corporate prison built into the heart of a black hole, ...
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When the walking dead fill the streets, who can cheat death? Who can survive? Featuring a zombie outbreak that devastates Denver, an indecisive adulterer, and a series of violent, disturbing, and perhaps even heart-rending events of the sort you'd expect when the dead rise up to eat the living, Cheating, Death is a roller-coaster ride through a horror show both of death and of the heart. Cheating, Death is the fourth glimpse of the storybook universe first seen in Lost and Not Found, and giv ...
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In order to implement a radical copyright enforcement scheme, Villain requires one of Robot's core components, and he'll stop at nothing to get it; even deactivating Robot and murdering Glitterfairy when she gets in his way. Without affording Death Noodle the opportunity to recover from the loss of his two best friends, Noodle's UN handlers force him to choose between handing over Robot's body to be dissected by government scientists or tracking down and defeating Villain all by himself. Wit ...
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When two young boys decide to skip school and seek adventure one day, they end up finding much more than they ever bargained for. More than the dragon and the mountain of riches they see at first, one of the boys finds the entire course of his life changed. That boy, Larry, finds himself at the center of an adventure bigger than anything he'd ever dreamed of. And when Larry's continuing adventure begins to effect his schoolwork, and then his teachers and his entire school, Larry's not sure w ...
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True Love. No limits, no obstacles, no miscommunications. Only Love. "Give up, let go, leave everything behind, follow your passions, and remember how to fly, and everything you've ever dreamed of can be yours." --That's how this story goes. There's no arch villain, no dark conspiracy, not even a comedy of errors. This story goes straight to the heart of happily ever after and, like true love, it never strays. The Director's Cut of Lost and Not Found begins where one person reaches that poin ...
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Podioracket Presents-Visionaries is a collection of short stories by Podiobooks.com authors collected by H.E. Roulo and Brian Holtz. The stories are a mix of genre from some of Podiobooks.com's best authors.
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Before she met Nicholas, all Emily cared about was shopping, and she believed her teachers when they told her the vampires had made the world a better place. After falling in love at first sight, Emily's mind was opened to the harsh realities brought about by the worldwide alliances between vampires and humanity at every level of society. Nicholas was leading the charge in the fight against injustice, cruelty, slavery, and tyranny by the elder vampires, and Emily found herself suddenly caugh ...
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Chapter Eighteen: In which DNGR finishes cleaning up after Villain's defeat, then return almost immediately to their interrupted tour & waiting fans. Epilogue: In which the modifications Villain made to Robot's stolen component lead to the unexpected emergence of a brand new threat.
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In which Death Noodle and an inert Robot are taken to Villain's real-world lair, where they face a final confrontation with Villain.
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In which Robot struggles with trying to get Death Noodle out of the virtual environment before his own body finishes restoring itself, while Glitterfairy tries to defend Tinkerer's server from an onslaught of out-of-control virtual Minions threatening them all.
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In which Death Noodle makes a last, desperate attempt to spend time with Glitterfairy before she ceases to exist, only to find DNGR driven rapidly back into action by forces outside his control.
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In which Death Noodle must confront his own inner demons to reach the copy of Robot within his mind, then finds himself face to face with the loss of his friends once more.
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In which DNGR confronts Villain's virtual avatar in the heart of his virtual lair.
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In which Band Manager's disloyalty delivers a captive DNGR directly to the depths of Villain's virtual lair.
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In which the virtual Robot contacts Band Manager, hoping he can lead them to more information about how to locate Villain, but ends up in an argument about Copyright enforcement instead.
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In which Death Noodle and the virtual Glitterfairy are saved by a virtual Robot, and Noodle confesses his love for Glitterfairy.
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In which Death Noodle and a virtual Glitterfairy face off against an army of virtual Minions.
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In which Death Noodle finds himself within a virtual environment representing Earth's Internet, and tries to figure out how to track down Villain, who has Robot's stolen component.
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In which Tinkerer comes up with a plan for how Death Noodle may be able to restore Robot, which Noodle agrees to despite the considerable risks.
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In which Tinkerer and Death Noodle examine Robot's seemingly-inert body and discover the key to unlocking the challenges they face.
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In which Death Noodle takes Robot's inert body to Tinkerer's shop in the hope that the old man might know a little more than he about repairing Robot.
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In which Death Noodle tries to find, on his own, a way to restore Robot to life.
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In which Death Noodle meets with his UN contacts and faces a difficult choice.
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In which Death Noodle attends Glitterfairy's funeral, then has to deal with a series of interviews -first with the press and then with a young group of DNGR's biggest fans- wherein he learns more about Villain and his nefarious plot.
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Prologue: In which Villain interrupts DNGR's concert to steal a vital component from Robot, killing Glitterfairy and deactivating Robot in the process. Chapter One: In which the dust from Villain's attack settles, Death Noodle begins the grieving process, and Band Manager takes him to Glitterfairy's funeral.…
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In which Emily remains dedicated to the cause until the bitter end.
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In which Nicholas' group has trouble moving forward without him, and Emily likewise finds her life both interrupted and irrevocably altered by his passing - then she seems to discover a conspiracy working to dissolve the movement Nicholas had put into motion.
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In which emergency responders try to help the survivors as much as they can, hindered by their opt-out status.
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In which Nicholas, Emily, Ken, and Benjamin attempt to deliver Austin into the care of an older vampire to mentor him but, before reaching their destination, Austin's hunger drives him over the edge and he begins attacking, eating and mutilating them one by one.
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In which Austin is weaned from the blood stipend and begins practicing the hunt, to try to open his mind to the true experience of being a vampire.
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In which Emily strings Austin along enough to get him to show up to Nicholas' meeting, where he doesn't quite fit in until Nicholas convinces him to buy in completely.
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In which Austin and Emily go to the movies, and Emily invites him to Nicholas' meeting the next week.
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In which Emily avoids calling Austin as long as possible, but ends up asking him out in order to avoid disappointing Nicholas.
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In which Nicholas finally invites Emily out for coffee -their first date- and discusses the new direction he'd like to focus his efforts for making a real difference in the struggle against the system.
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In which Emily tries to see Madison the night after she'd been turned, then finds out Justin has already been arrested and meets Nicholas at the Police Station where Justin is being held.
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In which Madison joins Emily at Nicholas' meeting, Justin agrees to turn her, and they go through the whole thing that night, on camera and before a live audience.
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In which the new school year begins, and Emily finds a more suitable subject for the application of Nicholas' ideas about standing up for vampires' inherent right to reproduce.
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In which Nicholas and Emily head home from the rally and their conversation takes an odd turn - wherein Nicholas talks Emily into being turned into a vampire.
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In which several speakers at the rally in D.C. explain the global, military, economic, and political problems and rights-infringements instituted by the vampire interventions in human societies.
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In which Emily participates in a protest march around the vampire-run capitol.
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In which Emily goes on a road trip with Nicholas and his group, heading to Washington, D.C. for a protest rally at the White House.
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In which Emily convinces her parents to give her control over her own healthcare choices, so she can opt-out, and receives a gift from Nicholas.
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In which Emily accompanies Nicholas through an entire day of drawing blood from humans at one of the government-run blood centers, then feeding blood to a recovering vampire organ donor at the hospital.
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In which Nicholas finally gives his presentation, charismatically exhorting his audience to opt-out of vampire-assisted healthcare and the "blood tax".
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In which Emily sees that even the working-class have been displaced by vampires, taking over work like building construction because their superior strength and speed allows them to create more with less time, effort, and cost.
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In which Emily hears how vampires have been taking chief executive positions at most large corporations, making it impossible for humans to compete fairly for corporate leadership roles.
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In which Emily learns about how vampires have secretly been manipulating human society for centuries, and how even moderately old vampires have been disenfranchised by the open alliance of vampires and humans.
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In which Emily gets to know a real vampire, Justin, for the first time, learning what life is like for the new generation of young vampires, turned after vampire and human cultures had been integrated.
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In which Emily attends Nicholas' meeting, hoping to spend more time with him, and ends up meeting Terrence, someone whose life has been ravaged by his addiction to vampire blood, and she learns the dangers of using vampire blood as a quick-fix for every human injury.
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In which Emily, Nicholas, and Ken are brutally attacked by a vampire.
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In which Emily's day of casual shopping is interrupted by her first glimpse of Nicholas, and her eyes are opened to the invisible layers of oppression and slavery built up around her, while her heart is opened wide, to let Nicholas in.
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Thanks for listening. If you enjoyed Untrue Tales… Book Six, please look for my other titles on Podiobooks.com, including: Cheating, Death (a zombie novel), Lost and Not Found, Forget What You Can't Remember, Dragons' Truth, Time, emiT, and Time Again, & all the other books in the "Untrue Tales From Beyond Fiction - Recollections of an Alternate Pa…
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In which the various futures of Trevor and Toni, Nirgal and Neyal'h, Jessie and Stan, Majel and the AIs, Christianity and The Radiant Empire, are briefly described, along with one explanation for the books you've just finished.
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In which Majel decides to become a living human, and shows Trevor and the others how they can use the same technology to bring anyone they like from the simulation to real life.
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In which a representative of the Radiant explains the events that led to the near-annihilation of humanity, then Trevor and Toni have to decide how they'll respond in light of the new information.
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In which the remnant of humanity follows Trevor across Ersetu's skies, taking in the extent to which the Radiant have rewritten their world, then face off against the Radiant at the foot of the Seal.
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In which Trevor and Toni are finally reunited with Nirgal and Neyal'h, explain what's really going on, and everyone wakes up from stasis.
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