This app Book for iPhone/iPad is really several products in one!

First, it is literature. Second, it is a series of word games.

To play the book cipher word jumble game, use the issued key to identify encoded terms by page, paragraph and word coordinates (for example, 8:3:117). Once you have collected all encoded terms, solve the resultant word jumble and post your answer to assess your accuracy.

The crossword is a standard crossword puzzle with a twist - its clues are sentences from the attached literature and its answers are missing words from these sentences. To solve the puzzle, locate the missing terms and fill in the blanks. There is one small catch, however - the answers are SYNONYMS of the missing words! (Download the Capital Ideations LLC thesaurus to get assistance with these synonyms.)

The clues for the word search game are sentences from the attached literature and its answers are missing words from these sentences. To solve the puzzle, locate the missing terms and find them in the word search.

Score your efforts upon completion of the games. High scores are recorded and tabulated across all Capital Ideations LLC products, so play all our games to be number one!
I completed these stories during the first years of a scientific doctorate. Even though the collection contains production for the years 2007 and 2008, I only completed two short stories during the latter. This lack of production reflects the increasing intensity of the degree process… many of us never finish. Some of us take a permanent and irrevocable sort of leave from Planet Earth, rather than face the humiliation of failure and defeat. I could not quit, since I had the weight of the United States Government, my employer, bearing down with the threat of an unsupportable and unavoidable scholarship repayment in the case of my default. I cannot adequately describe the stress and pressure I experienced starting that year and ending three long years later in 2011 – this period was an almost unbearable psychological agony (I say this without exaggeration and with all due understatement). Contrast this with the heady early years of the degree, and you begin to understand the production difference.

“Ravenous Is the Void” and “She Comes, the Devil” are my visions of the successful doctoral candidate (soon to include myself) – cold, sterile, void of compassion and emotion, comprised of everything hard and logical – yet full of mysterious power and magic. Voyage into the surreal with “Eidetic”, “The Machine’s Manifesto”, “Ed? Is That You?”, “The Wrong Side of Backwards”, “Paw Paw Conjures”, and “We Are For Texas”. Science fiction stories include “The Violent Kind”, “Emerald Planet” (my vision of contemporary reality television run amok), “The Hole”, “Long Is the Journey, Short Is the Sojourn”, and “Zu-Zu’s Petals”, while “Toltaca”, and “Forever Comes the Storm” offer journeys into the past. Finally, enjoy a lethal sort of drama by reading “The House Next Door”, “Scraps”, “Mortimer’s Last Race”, “Shit”, “The Disturbing Case of: Rain”, “A Working Man”, “Through the Meadows Go”, “Jo-Jo’s Big Day”, “Vengeance Is Mine”, and “Black River”. This anthology contains twenty-four stories, and I hope you read and enjoy them all! An insightful collection of short stories.