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Swords, Wands, Cups, and Coins. Emperor and Empress, High Priestess and Hierophant. Light and Dark. Life and Death. The evocative symbolism and arcana bound up within the cards of the tarot have fascinated seekers for centuries. Now Tarou: The Fall imagines the reality that inspired the mystical—the real fantasy world of which all our rich tarot imagery is but a shadow.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a captivating short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald from 1921, has been transformed into a major motion picture. It tells the extraordinary tale of Benjamin Button, who is born as an elderly man, much to the shock and dismay of his father and family doctor. As he ages in reverse, he navigates the complexities of life until he ultimately departs from this world as an innocent newborn. (Summary by Mike Vendetti)

A fictional radio station from the post apocalypse.

It's called "the event", an unimaginable cataclysm that shatters 600 million years of the Earth's timeline. Our world is gone, instantly replaced by a new one made of scattered remnants of the past, present, and future, dropped alongside one another in a patchwork of "shards". Monsters from Jurassic prehistory, ancient armies, and high-tech robots all coexist in this deadly post-apocalyptic landscape. A desperate group of survivors sets out to locate the source of the disaster.

Earth's timeline has shattered in "the Event," creating a frightening new world of prehistoric monsters, lost cultures, and strange futuristic perils. A ragtag band of survivors from different points throughout history have joined "Merlin," a mysterious figure who may be their only hope to save the world - if he is who he claims to be. When their 23rd-century ship the Vanuatu is sabotaged by an unknown enemy and thrown far off its course, the team must solve a dangerous new mystery, even as they are split apart and fighting to survive in a war-torn Shard World...

The Banshee: Is she to be feared, loathed, or is she simply misunderstood? Barry Fitzgerald and Cormac Strain explore some of the history of this very famous entity of myth and legend to reveal things are not possibly what they seem. They speak to people from all over the island of Ireland who have come face to face with this messenger of death and share their encounters. These encounters are not from the dark regions of Irish history but rather happened within the last 50 years.

A collection of short stories featuring a suite of wealthy protagonists navigating the perceived hardships of 1920s society. The themes center on lost love, personal struggles, fleeting romance, and the melancholy life.

In the near future—after a virus has swept the globe and the oil has run dry—what’s left of humanity has created a new technology, one that turns plastic back into oil. A mad scramble for resources ensues, with new cities being built on the seven largest landfills in the world. Plastic is the new gold. Tracer is the adopted daughter and hired gun for the president of PH City—built outside of what used to be Los Angeles, atop the Puente Hills landfill. When a distress call comes from the landfill city outside of Las Vegas, the president of PH sends Tracer to answer it.

They call it "the Event"—an unimaginable cataclysm that renders 600 million years of the world's timeline into jumbled fragments. Our Earth is gone, instantly replaced by a new one made of fractured remnants of the past, present, and future. All exist alongside one another in a nightmare patchwork of "time shards". With surprising help from throughout history, an American girl and her companions first must save ancient Alexandria, the last bastion of civilization, from a panzer tank invasion. Then they will face the ultimate challenge at the end of the world . . . the shatterfield.

Here we meet all sorts of characters and situations in California’s early history: gunmen, outlaws, lynch mobs, raging storms, mining camps, lost clergymen, freed slaves, Northern sympathizers, Southern sympathizers, soldiers…. Oscar Penn Fitzgerald was a Methodist clergyman, journalist and educator. He served as California Superintendent of Public Instruction (1867–1871). His California Sketches were published in two series (1879 and 1881) and a consolidated volume (1895). This reading is based on the consolidated volume (Sections 1-48) with the addition of the sketches from the first ...

The Glass Cryptographer is set in London, 2033. Sherlock Holmes has become 'real', as a 3D bioprint, and soon learns that he was the fictional creation of Conan Doyle. Can he solve both the riddle of himself and a monstrous crime now that all his methods have been surpassed by technology?Recorded, performed and produced by the author.Support a second series: https://www.patreon.com/theglasscryptographerTo find out more about the author, and support his work, go to https://themanoutoftime.com/ Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/the-glass-cryptographer-a-future-sherlock-holmes-story. ...

A Baltimore, nel 1860, una coppia della buona borghesia dà alla luce il primo figlio, ma l'atteso lieto evento porta con sè una sorprendente...

The Glass Cryptographer is set in London, 2033. Sherlock Holmes has become 'real', as a 3D bioprint, and soon learns that he was the fictional creation of Conan Doyle. Can he solve both the riddle of himself and a monstrous crime now that all his methods have been surpassed by technology?Recorded, performed and produced by the author.Questions, comments? bakerstreet2033@gmail.comFor more information about the author and producer, go to neil-fitzgerald.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ardita Farnum is a beautiful but spoiled and rebellious young woman on a yachting trip to Florida with her uncle. On the verge of throwing her life away on a disreputable playboy, she is captured by pirates and becomes enamored with their captain. She wonders if she has she met her match.

En este relato, Scott Fitzgerald nos demuestra cómo la perspectiva es fundamental a la hora de concluir lo que se ha visto. Benjamín es un hombre que nace viejo pero a medida que pasan los años va recuperando la juventud, lo cual le va a permitir ver a la sociedad que le rodea con los ojos con gran capacidad crítica, que le permite una perspectiva completamente diferente.

From the bizarre and audacious imagination of horror author Andy Marino comes a harrowing tale of the insect that will herald the apocalypse… "The literary equivalent of swallowing a wasp that's crawled inside your Coke can. Do yourself a favor and read this book." – Nick Cutter, author of...

Der seltsame Fall des Benjamin Button von F. Scott Fitzgerald, gelesen von Ingolf Kloss. Erzählt wird die Geschichte von Benjamin, dem Sohn von Roger Button, der als alter Mann geboren wird und im Laufe seines Lebens auf wundersame Weise rückwärts altert. Benjamin beginnt sein Leben als Achtzigjähriger in seiner Wiege und wird "älter", während sein Körper umgekehrt sich mit jedem Geburtstag verjüngt. Die Geschichte führt uns durch Benjamins gesamtes Leben: seine schwierige Jugend, seine Ehe, sein Leben als Soldat und Vater und schließlich sein unvermeidlicher Abstieg ins Kindesalter.

La historia de Benjamin Button, un hombre que nace viejo y, a medida que pasan los años, recupera la juventud, lo que le permite ver la sociedad que lo rodea con ojos distintos y críticos. Otros relatos hablan de novios imposibles y padres incómodos con su condición, de jóvenes y ricos herederos que envejecen prematuramente un mundo de luces y sombras que deja un sabor amargo en los labios. Este audiolibro constituye la quintaesencia del mundo narrativo de Scott Fitzgerald, quizá el narrador más dotado que dio la literatura norteamericana del siglo XX.

The Masters, dreadful and severe, rule the Red City and the lands far beyond it. By night, they politic and feast, drinking from townsfolk resigned to their fates. By day, the Masters must rely on their human servants, their Day Boys, to fulfill their every need and carry out their will. Mark is a Day Boy, practically raised by his Master, Dain. It’s grueling, often dangerous work, but Mark neither knows nor wants any other life.

On Tommy Llewellyn’s first birthday, his doting parents awoke in a home without baby blankets and bottles in the fridge, without the photos of their newborn once scattered about, and without any idea that the one-year-old sleeping in their home was their child. That’s because Tommy Llewellyn is a boy who, in the very cosmic sense of things, will never be remembered—stuck in a universal Reset that causes everyone to forget he exists when the clock strikes midnight on his birthday each year.