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The Devil's Nitpicking

The tragic dramedy that completes the father-daughter series Michael Allen affectionately has named "On the Outside Looking In." The Devil's Nitpicking is about a man named Country who graduates college and starts going through life as his career takes him places he never imagined. In the meantime, a little girl named Brianna is growing up through the ups and downs of heartbreak after heartbreak as her mother named Shelly ends one relationship after another. The ultimate surprise takes place when they bump into each other in a bookstore and suddenly, Country realizes he has had a daughter for years and never knew.

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The Deeper Dark

The psychological thriller by Michael Allen - when a hero comes home from the war, he finds his world went on without him and now he has a new war to fight as a corrupt network threatens the only person he has left in his life.

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A River in the Ocean

A drama from Michael Allen - A single father separated from his daughter by a near-fatal accident fights through amnesia to start searching for what's missing in his life while deep down inside, his daughter knows she's missing something as well.

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National Coffee Day And The Human 1.0 Operating System

On this, the day of National Coffee Day, I summon my most hilarious self to give honor to the brew of brews. Without coffee, we would not have cars, planes, [...]

QR Code Menus Are Too Ridiculous

I walked into a restaurant because I was hungry. That was the entire plan. I wasn’t looking to download software, create an account, verify my email address, accept cookies, or [...]

Unitree Explodes On AGT With Actual Robots

They exploded on the stage with energy that was out of its mind. Robots were flipping and doing martial arts moves with perfect balance. There wasn’t a move out of [...]

The Arrogance of the Americans To Keep Calling It Soccer and Not Football

It’s a misleading headline because Americans love the name “football” just fine, and “soccer” can stay just the way it is. The thing is, it’s not arrogance. When you learn [...]

Why Lindsay Clancy Just Might Walk Free

There is something strange happening in the Lindsay Clancy trial that has nothing to do with whether she is guilty, innocent, mentally ill, criminally responsible, or anything else the jury [...]

Madame Web Had Two Major Flaws I Can’t Ignore

Madame Web is an entertaining movie where I learned more about the Spider-Verse than I ever thought existed. It was one of those movies that had me Googling “Marvel” every [...]

Chaos Spawned Highly Profitable FUBAR Technologies

When Chaos Industries exploded onto the defense scene with its “coherent distributed networks” and anti-jamming radar tech, investors cheered. Governments lined up. Stock photos of people shaking hands filled PowerPoint [...]

The War Against Homelessness Unnecessarily Cruel

Just a few days ago, Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles made headlines when she described a downtown encampment as worse than refugee camps she had seen in war-torn regions [...]

AllCrime Criminal Insurance For The Lifer On The Go

The coffee was brewing while the bacon in the Egg and Cheese Croissants was lingering in the air, biting the smeller of everyone who came into the convenience store. The [...]

Leonard and Sheldon: The Big Bang Theory Reimagining

The Big Bang Theory gave fans so many laughs over the years, but wasn’t there an itch you couldn’t scratch? The relationship between Leonard and Sheldon was so off balance [...]

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In the Walk: Wrestling with Theology

A deeply personal journey through questions that many are afraid to ask out loud. Blending religious texts, reflection, and lived experience, this book explores the nature of God, faith, sin, forgiveness, science, religion, and the tension between truth and tradition.

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