Crater Omen, a madman jilted by cosmic betrayal, sets loose a chain reaction at the center of the galaxy that threatens existence itself, only to find something lurking there that he hadn't bargained for. Meanwhile, his twin brother Oort desperately tries to hold on to the woman they both love, and must locate Diego Hadron: the sole hope for stopping Crater. Can Oort restore the Higg's field to its metastable state and bring to light that familiar presence hiding in the heart of darkness? Will he do it before Crater realizes his goal of ending all life and eradicating the very fabric of spacetime? Can either succeed as the cosmos unfolds beneath them, revealing a new reality no one could have expected? With the universe as their chessboard, the brothers Omen play a dangerous game with rules they're just beginning to understand...

"We're all mad here." Truer words have never described this two horse, single stoplight jerkwater. Tales of woe and madness abound! Somewhere a portal has opened (or a mountain crevasse) and beckons you to fall in! Where other novels fail, "Goofy Ideas and Lies about Twin Peaks" captures the spontaneity and weirdness of the original series in a sequence of vignettes inspired by the unique mania of 20 different rural Washington state residents (including Frankenstein).

When the spacebar on his computer stopped functioning, Tuán Tǐ remembered an idea he'd had years before. What would it be called if the total allowed length of a flash fiction assignment was just the length of the prompt? Tuán Tǐ began hammering away on his nonfuctioning keyboard for twenty minutes a day, and it was in this moment that slash fiction arose out of some abyssal hole to liquidate the minds of the author, and by proxy, you.

A novel about secession in the modern era and the political collapse of the United States political order. In "The Last Independence Day," join Jon Freeman, an apolitical lawyer caught up in his work-a-day life, on an unexpected journey to rescue his cherished nation and home state from dystopia. The story is set in Arkansas as it and other red states are transformed into hotbeds of right-wing extremism after the 2022 midterm elections. The "Red Wave" has engulfed the heartland, creating the ominous "New Law" that governs all. With civil rights disappearing, Jon Freeman must summon the courage to confront Governor Suzy Brandy 'Buckshot' Landers and the relentless grip of the "New Law." Will he be able to save the United States from secession and civil war caused by its own divisions?

When Ashley Anders' world is shattered by the sudden death of her husband, she finds herself ensnared in the fine print of his will. Bound by a clause that demands her return to the haunting city of her youth she fled a decade ago, Ashley must confront the shadows from her past or risk losing everything they built. The city she once adored, with its tranquil river and grand estates, now whispers of her darkest days. As Lisa Jacobson, she was the victim of a brutal attack that splintered her reality, perpetrated by one of the influential Bryantt brothers. Paul, whose cruelty knew no bounds or his brother, Jefferey, Jeff, who lives with the guilt of the same sin. Now, as Ashley, she must navigate the treacherous waters of her former life, keeping her true identity shrouded in secrecy. But the Bryantt brothers have not forgotten Lisa—or the woman she has become. As Ashley's and the brothers' paths intertwine, a tumultuous storm of emotion and peril erupts. Each encounter threatens to tear away the veil she's carefully constructed. With her new life and the remnants of her old one colliding, Ashley finds herself in a heart-stopping game of deception and desire. What begins as a fight for control and a quest for vengeance becomes a journey of redemption and passion. As the boundaries between love and hate blur, Ashley must decide how much of her past she can face, and what it truly means to let go. When the whispers that haunt her dreams grow too loud to ignore?

Rachel Ingles, an ambitious writer with a penchant for landing in the most bizarre predicaments, never imagined her celebration of a new job would involve a chilling encounter with a dead body. Her insatiable curiosity, coupled with a knack for getting into trouble at every temp job she lands, once again ensnares her in a web of intrigue. This time, it's at an ATM company where a sinister world of murder and money awaits. But the most unexpected twist? Being forced into a tumultuous partnership with an ex-cop, Blaise "Blaze" Ferrell, she finds infuriatingly crude, disheveled, and maddeningly irresistible. Her charismatic boss, Josh Tanner, thrusts her into this chaotic alliance, setting Rachel on a path where danger, passion, and dark secrets intertwine. As tensions flare and mysteries unravel, Rachel realizes there's more to this world than meets the eye. Can she trust Blaze, or will their undeniable connection be their undoing?

A quick reference / cheat sheet of 100+ FFmpeg scripts to quickly get you using FFmpeg for Video editing, Audio Editing and Streaming to Youtube. Inside You'll Learn Using a Green screen Frei0r Filters Streaming to Youtube Streaming Webcam Using Filters with Streaming Codecs, Formats, Map, chains Coverting Ogg, FLAC, WAV, MP3 Coverting MOV, MKV, AVI, FLV, WebM, MP4, GIF Trimming from start and end Volume, Crossfade, Normalization Echo, Tempo, Pitch, Sample Rate Generating Text to Speed and Audio Tone Low-pass and High-pass filters Reducing File Size Segmenting and Concat Blending Color Normalization Color Balance Hue, Saturation, Inverting RGB shift Vignette Removing Colors Generating Color Pallets Multiple Sharpening and blurring (unsharp, smartblur, Gaussian blur, Box Blur) Pixelation Speeding up, slowing down, reversing video Cropping video Changing Frame Rate Change the resolution of Video Applying Quantization Removing Duplicate Frames Stacking videos horizontally and vertically Flipping Video horizontally and vertically Rotating Video Adding subtitles, extracting subtitles, text editing Adding watermarks Creating slideshows Extracting image frames Generating Solid Colored videos Datamosh / Glitching Video Fades Adding Noise and Static Randomizing Frames Common Errors and so much more!