This anthology of short stories written by Ray Pairan is dystopian, raw, and full of passionate humanity. Environmental destruction and unrestrained corporatism that leads to a world of pain and suffering are offset with lusty tales that excite both physically and intellectually. Take the journey into the totally unexpected – travel into a not to distant future that each of us may already recognize. Ray Pairan has this truly unique and unusual ability to embed his readers directly into each story so they feel the pain, happiness, and horror in the numerious twists and turns of his dynamic imagination. Table of Contents Spaceship Earth Earth Dead Planet at the Edge of the Milky Way Fusing All Traces of a Mistake in Molten Rock A New Originator Wakes from Oblivion Our Crystal Clear Blue Sky Rebirth A Beautiful Day Awaits Your Presence Zalon Kingdom Recalls RAD War Justice Seemed Distant The Unbreakable Spirit Trip Back Home Observant Ancestors of Red Planet The Iovian Moon Base Moon Stuck Free the Sleeping Inhabitants from the Feeders Surviving after Capitulation The Short Reprieve The Alliance to Defeat Evil The Unquestioning Valley Dwellers The Empire and Its Outlands A Deteriorating Country Broadly Smiling The Brown Prairie Grass Awaits another Storm Our Survival Assured Talkers Offer Assurances Clear Blue Lights A Strand of Hope in the Future Elegant Power Night Attack Road from Destruction Passing upon the Rock Pleasure Blue Escape Waiting for the Last Tear Reality Creation Board Cheap Death Freedom’s Pulse A New Day in Autumn Freedom The Greedy Tyrants Playtime Crossing the Line Galactic CorpGov – Theft on Epsilon Five CorpGov Emphasizes Education The Magnificent Human Bone Grinder The Complacent Acceptors Tyranny Yawns at Daybreak Dirty Secrets Clog Everything I’m So Happy I Should Smile The Dangerous Blue Planet The Last Word of Freedom Leaving a Spark of Action One More Cry of Anguish from the Lost Citizens Production Camps Built Upon Tumor of Greed We Are All Walking Dead, Even Our Rulers Final Days of Humanity Staggering to the Six-By-Six Polluted Mega Corrupt Dying Planet Red Glow Economic and Environmental Struggle Ends Swiftly Once Beautiful Planet – Ecologically Dead