I'M GILULI OF THE RED MIGHTY NATIONLAND. Fifty-four years ago, the Corporate World War of 2050 annihilated a bunch of animal and insect species on the planet, not to mention billions of people, but the good news is that we were born - the Red Mighties. They don't like us. They call us mutants. I'm attending their high school in the afternoons to try to understand them better, which believe me is no cup of tea, except for one particular Pre-ev guy who I could drink right up. Meanwhile, they're trying to steal our pure water source and stop us from saving the Red Mighty babies born to their people. I want to help... but I'm not sure I can do what they're asking. "Backbiters is as unique and fresh as its heroine, embracing openness to whatever forms evolution might take us. An enjoyable and satisfying read that will leave you looking at the world in a different way." - Colleen Chen, author of Dysmorphic Kingdom "With a compelling, authentic and energetic voice, Giluli pulls us into her world and her adventure. Righteous and endearing, she forges ahead into the complexities of growing up at the epicenter of clashing ideologies, political tensions and ah yes, high school drama. I couldn't wait to see how she'd come through it all!" - Soramimi Hanarejima, author of Visits to the Confabulatorium "North Korea blasts a nuclear bomb on its southern neighbor, and the resulting corporate warfare changes history and human beings... Debra Leea Glasheen depicts an intricate plot in a masterfully -constructed, highly-detailed futuristic world." - Marcin Dolecki, author of Philosopher's Crystal

A year into the pandemic, with a glimmer of hope that the vaccine will provide herd immunity and a return to "normal," how are we? In this third book of the global insides series, peer into the lives of people all over the world, view their insides through their art, and learn their deepest thoughts and feelings at a very vulnerable moment for humanity. You will find verse, prose, and images from Belgium, Brazil, Botswana, Bulgaria, Canada, Columbia, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Hong Kong, Hungry, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Oman, Palestine, Poland. Portugal, Russia, Singapore, Tanzania, Spain, the UK, and the U.S. Excerpts from this book: "The avenues are filled with ghosts of 'how it used to be' Tediousness scorching, taunting my mind Anguish gets under my skin crawling like thousands of poisonous spiders These feet have forgotten how it feels to walk a mile away from here" - Alejandro from Jember, East Java, Indonesia "I sold food, I'll tell them. I'd like to think I helped. Groceries may not have changed the world, but they sure did keep you going. I won't impress them much, I think. I'll just be their crazy grandmother, shutting doors with my feet, pushing up my glasses with the knuckle of my thumb so my fingers don't brush my face." - Yveline from Duffel, Belgium "My hands always smell of disinfectant. All my face masks are smeared with lipstick no one can see. I no longer know why I paint my lips. I hide lips and teeth and smile behind a mask. I've given up smiling behind this cloth. Too damn much effort. I don't even try to talk with my eyes anymore." - Marianne from Chicago, IL, USA "death brutally took everything funerals in the middle of parks as if they had been torn from photos of the war, whole families devoid of beating hearts when it was time to rejoice over flowers in bloom," - Norbert from Góra, Poland "you can feel death coming for you, I have asthma but children are not vaccinated, why not? we are at risk too, I can feel death coming for me." - Giulianna from Lima, Peru "Yes, we will insult each other and swear, but also hug and laugh again, meet, just talk, kiss and hold another's hand. Shake the silence from the carpets and curtains, fill the streets. We will be more ourselves. In fact, it is enough that we will be more. We will be like butterflies, who, closed away from everything in cocoons, learned how fragile they are." - Ian from Prague, Czech Republic

Science can be both savior and damnation. The inventions of the great minds of the world can make our lives easier, bring about our destruction and facilitate the delivery of terabits worth of funny cat videos. Technically, those last two might be the same thing. Here is a collection of humorous tales of science like the perils of time travel, how body switching can both help and hurt the gender gap, the woes of the classic Mad Scientist in a modern world and the importance of pizza throughout the universe. So grab your guide and towel. Get ready to brave the dangerous terrain of theory and hypothesis. Madness and Science go hand and hand. Skipping, Singing and Laughing Maniacally! Muahahaha!

With over a hundred entries representing more than forty countries bringing you experiences and emotions from around the world, this collection will comfort those who have faced the COVID-19 pandemic and isolation of 2020 and will inform those who have not. The authors of this collection have shared what is inside of them in verse and prose and images to help heal through insight and understanding, through lyricism and art, and through empathy and connection. There is illness, isolation, economic hardship, and social upheaval, but there is also beauty, kindness, and joy. Striving to understand the tribulations of others in these pages, you might find someone who understands yours.