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Could you live in a world where personal vehicles are outlawed? Where coffee is a luxury for the elite? Where you are limited to three ounces of alcohol a day? Where food is manufactured? Could you live in a cube connected to thousands of other cubes in a massive complex that sits on the toxic remains of Mother Earth? This is the only life Rick has known in his 32 years. Living in a wasteland that is beyond repair becomes too much for Rick who, like most of those left on the planet in 2212, works for the Big Five mega corporation.

The six-thousand residents of the Moon habitat known as the Daedalus Dome are under attack by a mysterious hacker. Their waste management system has shut down, a ship has blown up killing a thousand citizens and the atmosphere processor is red-lining threatening the entire population with suffocation. Once again, the Earth-based Planetary Commission turns to Enrico Janice Walton Stein, known globally as Chairman Rick, for his leadership and bravery that twice helped save them. This time, his partner is his 10-year-old daughter, an android named Peach, whose skills navigating the cyber cloud...

New York’s Battery Park is under water. The beaches of the Jersey Shore are reduced to thin strips of sand. Huge portions of California have been reduced to burned hellscapes due to relentless fires and mudslides. Refugee camps dot the former state, as survivors struggle to figure out what to do now that their homes, cars, and all their worldly possessions have been lost. Storm shelters are mandated in major population areas to protect citizens from tornadoes, hurricanes, and other severe weather caused by global warming.

Should one devastating mistake erase 20 years of good deeds? Griffin Ambrose lives a super stressful life as a news manager at a New York television station and a volunteer EMT in his New Jersey town. The commuting grind, the 24/7 stresses and the push-pull of the two worlds weigh heavily on him.

Jail didn't sound so bad to Bud Remmick - a small price to pay for killing his boss, an abusive, blackmailing, sociopathic pig. But the plan to ride out a lenient sentence starts to fall apart when prison life turns on him. Then his lawyer turns on him. Then his wife. With nothing left but his own anger, Bud Remmick faces a reckoning with a lifelong dysfunction that plays out behind bars with a couple of unlikely codependents.

Gunfire rings out in the Armitage town council meeting, and Bud Remmick is confronted by the shocking secret he's been hiding from the world. Always magnified by the TV news lens, Bud and Maggie Remmick's 19-year marriage has endured a killing, prison, a psychotic videographer, a corrupt governor, and Bud's dormant anger.

Two years out of prison, Bud Remmick just wants to be a solid citizen. He volunteers as an EMT, then gets a job in his old career: TV news. But after only a week, he discovers bad things swirling around him, including a psychotic photographer and a corrupt politician trying to mess with his wife's livelihood. His old "anger aura" lights up again, the same effect that moved him to kill a man. Will he kill again?

Tom Kranz uncovers the ways in which authors, artists and musicians find their creativity, especially those who find it later in life or hidden under layers of denial. Artists, writers and musicians aren't necessarily born that way. Or, maybe they are and just don't know it.