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1872. Marguerite has fled to London, leaving behind a traumatic past in Paris. When she is offered work as a cook for mysterious French widow Madame Riel, she seizes the chance to start afresh. But as soon as Marguerite arrives, she is stifled by the tension in the house and before long she comes to resent her stingy and volatile employer, as well as her unfriendly housemaid. Just as Marguerite is about to resign, Madame Riel’s beautiful actress daughter Julie returns to the house and charms her into staying.

Benny tries to ignore the payment-overdue messages he keeps getting from "Forget What?" a memory removal company. Benny's a slacker, after all, and couldn't pay them even if he wanted to. Then people start trying to kill him, and his life suddenly depends on finding out what memories he has forgotten.

Clifford Stumme invites you to join him investigating hobbies and lifestyles that inspire obsession! He interviews the obsessed and tries out the obsessions for himself to see if he can figure out why people love them so much! OBSESSED has high production value and is storytelling for listeners who like to meet passionate people or who want to find their own next big passion.

This ain't your average podcast nah, this is where the free thinkers, culture shifters, and tent dwellers come to chop it up and build. Ya hosts Clifford Sykes & Bass Jones are talking, life, hustle, truth and er'thing society hides. Welcome to the tent !!!!!

Palm Sunday, March 27, 1836, turned out to be the blackest day in the war of independence between Texas and Mexico. Colonel James Walker Fannin Jr. and his men were ruthlessly slaughtered at the Presidio La Bahia, near the town of Goliad. The order was given direct by General Santa Anna. The author describes the background leading up to the start of hostilities in October 1835, and the two Mexican armies who threatened to overrun the Texans, with the massacre at the Alamo on March 2 and then the attack on the Presidio La Bahia, which Fannin called Fort Defiance. A description of garrison ...

What’s the most frightening thing you’ve ever seen? A.A. Clifford presents four short stories so disturbing, they will change you forever.

Bob is no ordinary Minecraft villager. Programmed with a Google AI algorithm, he is getting smarter, but still cannot be convinced he is inside a game. When he learns the truth, he starts on a journey that only "friendly AI" can make. How far can you follow Bob as his life gradually becomes more complex and his growing understanding of "reality" makes him question his place in the universe?

Suzy and the Bug is the story of Aryanna, also known as Bug by her parents, and her cat, Suzy. When the two go to the local park one day, it is to sit and read their favorite book, The Wizard of the Oz. But when they fall asleep, the two wake up to find that they have entered Oz themselves. As they approach the Emerald City and speak with the Lion, Tin Man, and the Scarecrow, they discover that all is not well and that Oz is facing dark and perilous times.

Clifford Stumme and his guests go deep with the most popular songs out there. He explains the deeper meanings behind the songs you hear on the radio, and keeps asking the question, "Is there something more here?" There is something more in every song you listen to, and there's something more in life. Discover them both on the Pop Song Professor Podcast.

Newspaper mogul Mylocent Winecroft is eager for his knighthood. But after journalist Henry Henderson almost decimates this prospect, Henderson is promoted to foreign correspondent and promptly dispatched to Morocco. Caught in the whirlwind of mad monkeys, deep-fried snails, and a lack of booze, Henderson loses his marbles while searching for the Gujat tribe and their black magic.

Kan det være rigtigt, at Art Wellesley genoplever fuldstændig livagtige kampscener fra et tidligere liv? Næppe. Som succesfuld virksomhedsadvokat i New York ligger det milevidt fra hans sædvanlige indstilling at tro på sjælerejser og reinkarnation. Art lider af en række skræmmende mareridt, som bliver startskuddet til hans livs nedtur. Han forsøger at opretholde orden i sit liv, og han møde den karismatiske og clairvoyante Chantalle St. James, som på forunderlig vis kan hjælpe ham.

A young 21st-century ad writer, Boddekker, cuts a deal to put him on the fast track, with a million-dollar dream house, promotion, and the affections of Honniker in Accounting, but when he is mugged by a group of ruffians known as Ferman's Devils, he realizes the secret of his success.

Starting in the Humboldt wilds and ending on the Skid Row of Los Angeles, Skunk Train follows two teenagers, Kyle and Lizzie, who stumble upon stolen drug money and set off to find Kyle’s father, a Hollywood director he’s never met, with drug dealers, dirty cops, and the Mexican mob on their heels.

Award winning author Clifford D. Simak published "The World That Couldn't Be" in 1958. It appeared in the January issue of Galaxy Science Fiction magazine. In the story, Layard was an alien world that puzzled sociologists, since the planet's inhabitants were genderless, yet there was no decrease in population. Gavin Duncan had come to this world to farm vua, a plant that cured mental illnesses. Vua was a cash crop that Gavin hoped would bring him great wealth. He is thwarted by the Cytha, a large, supposedly simple-minded creature with a taste for vua.

"Don’t worry," they say, "there’s plenty more you’ll see." Then one summer’s day, there was only one, no two, or three. A heart-warming story of a fish on a journey across the ocean looking to make a friend! Where have they all gone? Surely he can't be the only one left? Or could he? Was he the only one that survived a fish apocalypse? Is there even such a thing? Or are they all hiding and just forgot to tell him?

The detective is losing his mind. Suffering from a panic disorder that has him haunting emergency rooms in rising waves of crisis, the detective begins to lose his grip - on his relationship with his fiery young lover, on his ability to work, on his health.

Former top-flight prospect Oz Reyes heads security for Coastal Sports Network in Los Angeles. On the eve of the annual awards show, his boss Delma Dupree summons him to Miami. Since tearing his ACL in a bar fight 18 years ago, Oz rarely returns to the city where he blew his NFL chances and lost the love of his life, Tania.

Earth is doomed. But there is one hope and it rests on the shoulders of 98 brave men. Can they do it? Can they find a way of retaliating?

In 1721, when the most notorious pirates are either dead or on the run, Jimmy Kavanagh, who sailed with Blackbeard, decides to pull together a "Company of Gentleman of Fortune" for one last "Adventuring Cruise" that will set them all up for life. All begins well: the pirates sail across the Atlantic and sack Cape Coast Castle, looting it of chests of gold ill-gotten from the slave trade. But before Kavanagh can lead them on, he sickens, unleashing a drastic series of power struggles among the company.

Stay Free Forever is a monthly podcast aimed at helping people, especially those who are currently and formerly justice-involved, to remain free and avoid incarceration or re-incarceration. We do this by talking about replacing risky thinking and behavior with sound, positive pro-social choices. Each discussion is guided by former corrections and parole officer Clifford Fewel, a journalist, writer, speaker and owner of the cognitive behavioral education company Stay Free Forever LLC.