Next Stop Hell

We are all on a roller coaster ride. We are all passengers on a runaway train. We are drivers under the influence, of something: love, hate, ambivalence, jealousy, lust, some element of emotion, unbridled passion. We are all careening toward the abyss. We are all on a crash course with isolation, desperation. We are all trapped in burning buildings. We are always just one step away from hell. Heaven & Hell reside within us. Which one, do you think, is behind door number two. These poems provide a roadmap to hell. Good luck on your journey.

OUR NEXT STOP AFTER DEATH - THE ASTRAL WORLD What happens to us after we die? Is there really a life after death? Which part of us survives and where do we go to? What is the astral world? This book gives us an insight to the astral dimension, a world of emotions, imagination and creation -an exact replica of the physical world we live in, as is our astral body -an exact replica of our physical body. The astral, the heavenly realm of light and indestructible life, the realm of vibratory life energy is hidden behind an invisible veil from our material world. The veil between the two worlds, however, has been ruptured and mysteries are being revealed. After death, our astral body, spirit and soul return to the astral world, free of all physical limitations. We humans live on earth on different levels of consciousness, and as to how long the astral body and soul while on the astral plane and on which level, awaiting reincarnation or not, depends on the level of our consciousness during our lifetime here on earth and the moment of our death.

Part One: Reflections on Teaching the Vietnam War. - Part Two: Methods and Sources. - Part Three: Understanding and Teaching Specific Content.

Historically, short stories were a rich source of successful movies and significant films. Classics such as Rear Window, High Noon, Psycho, All About Eve, and Blade Runner began as short stories. Unfortunately, many of the major venues for discovering new talent—The Saturday Evening Post, Colliers, and Mademoiselle—are gone. Today, short stories are again becoming an important basis for major motion pictures and television, with films such as Brokeback Mountain, Good Will Hunting, and Minority Report. One reason short stories are making a Hollywood comeback is Next Stop Hollywood, an organization dedicated to finding both new talent and terrific material. This volume, selected by more than sixty movie-buff readers and advised by an editorial board of Hollywood insiders, picks up where those magazines left off. These very same stories may be at a theater near you in the near future. For anyone who has been disappointed by the movies of our day compared to those of the Golden Era of Hollywood, refresh yourself with these exciting short stories, and the possibilities they hold.

This book contains anecdotes, trivia and interesting facts on 222 railway stations in Europe, from Amsterdam to Ankara and Lisbon to Helsinki. Das Bahnhofsbuch in englischer Sprache enthält Anekdoten und interessante Fakten zu 222 Bahnhöfen in Europa.

Welcome to Hell In a bloody attack, ruthless outlaws hijack the morning stage from Trinidad, New Mexico. Not for gold or money, but for Denver banker Raymond Parker. Even more valuable to Sheriff Caleb York are the money man’s fellow passengers: York’s ex-flame, ranch owner Willa Cullen, and Rita Filley, the sensual owner of the Victory Saloon. Holding their captives at a hotel in the ghost town known as Hell Junction, the Hargrave gang demands a high ransom. Caleb must find a way to infiltrate the gang and rescue the hostages. Because Caleb York knows when you’re in Hell, justice takes no prisoners . . . “Spillane is a master in compelling you to always turn the next page.” —The New York Times “Spillane is a pioneer of tough-guy ethics.” —Washington Post “Collins displays his mastery of Spillane’s distinctive two-fisted prose.” —Publishers Weekly “No one can twist you through a maze with as much intensity and suspense as Max Allan Collins.” —Clive Cussler

Hell's Interstate is an action-packed crime novel about two desperate men traveling down the highway to Hell. Financing their travels by robbing convenience stores along the Interstate, the one predictable fact about their next robbery will be the fact that they will leave no witnesses. Reed Haskell, the ringleader, knows how to rob a store and do it fast, but what he doesn't know is that someone is watching his partner, Vernon Sanger, very closely. Michael Smith, an apparent vagrant they came in contact with one rainy night along the Interstate, keeps showing up wherever they go, and he is not shy about intervening in their business. How he continues to appear, and why he shows up when he does, neither man has an answer to. Although Vernon is curious about the man, for some reason the otherwise unflappable Reed is quite unsettled by him. Does Reed know more about Michael Smith than he's willing to admit, or does he just suspect the purpose of Michael's persistent interference? If Reed was truly in the dark as to Michael's identity and purpose, he'd not have long to wait before being enlightened. As for Vernon, that enlightenment lies over ten years away.

The world is one vast bank where we are born to spend and spend. Lose at the expense of nothing certain and guaranteed to help attain solace for the end of times. Before the inevitable, we spend our emotional currencies on people, on feelings and places; things that leave us breathless and baffled. We spend our blues, yellows, grays, and a rainbow of disarrayed sunlight on individuals we meet. What is the toll of your emotional currencies?