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Hosted by Brian Shaw, 2023 Strongest Man on Earth, 4 times World's Strongest Man Champion, and the most successful American Professional Strongman ever. Topics will range from Strongman and strength sports, nutrition advice, positive mindset, overcoming adversity, and comedy moments in lifting.

Carlotta Indranova is a preservation specialist in a quiet Vermont town where objects are maintained, documented, and rarely questioned. But when artifacts begin surfacing without clear origin—misattributed, absorbed into public record, quietly legitimized—she realizes the danger isn’t corruption. It’s process.

For all we know, or think we know, about Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, what we don't know is far, far greater. In one of the duo's most exciting cases, The Adventure of the Speckled Band, we know when Helen Stoner arrives "in a considerable state of excitement" at the door of 221B Baker Street, seeking the assistance of Holmes and Watson: "It was early in April in the year '83..." But what happened during the rest of 1883? Or all of 1884?

It was a killer year for horror fiction of the harder kind. Authors, editors, and publishers presented readers with some startling works of horrific imagination, stories graphic in the extreme yet with subtleties suggesting larger meanings, tales that explore humanity by plumbing depths of soulless inhumanity and, in some cases, outright depravity. The stories here represent the best of them, disturbing tales that dig deep and take you into the dark heart of horror itself, unrelenting and unapologetic.

Wars end, enemies are defeated and territories are conquered and the combatants have to return to a life changed. America and the rest of humanity have fallen to the Fae, ancient mortal enemies of mankind. After building their strength for two thousand years, the Elves have claimed their vengeance and now rule Earth with an iron fist and dragon fire. Down but not out, a human resistance is building, but first daily life needs to be lived.

Meet the presidents, warts and all,in this series of five-minute biographies.

Want a real, only slightly snarky, debate of the current issues? Our plucky panel of political pundits take a REALLY FAIR and BALANCED look at this morning’s headlines. They’re A.I. characters whose only purpose is to present their side’s viewpoint as honestly as possible.

Neworld Papers is brimming with action, adventure and a touch of New Adult romance grounded solidly in thought-provoking science fiction. Is revealing the truth worth the disruption of a society? Fallon lives in a peaceful world that has no concept of war, or murder, or even love. It is a society that prohibits histories and pledges itself to "The Service of Today and the Building of Tomorrow." Just weeks before he reaches adulthood, Fallon is torn from his sheltered life as a ward of the state. He is drawn into a subversive group that needs his secret talents and he quickly becomes a ...