Little Blue Marble magazine's year in stories: flash fiction, microfiction, and more! Tales of our changing world by these authors from around the globe: F. J. Bergmann, Gustavo Bondoni, Wendy S. Delmater, Salvatore Difalco, Anthony W. Eichenlaub, Eric S. Fomley, John Cooper Hamilton, Langley Hyde, Charlotte H. Lee, Dennis Mombauer, Melanie Rees, Holly Schofield, D. A. Xiaolin Spires, Marie Vibbert, Thomas Webb, M. Darusha Wehm, Alison Wilgus, Melissa Yuan-Innes From rising tides to edible homes, weather control and tornado killers, floating city-states and plant-based humans, Little Blue Marble 2018 brings you poignant, sometimes hopeful but often biting visions of our futures living with climate change.

This book is mainly written for the new gardener, especially those who have moved to the Deep South due to cheaper housing and energy, a milder climate, lower taxes and more. But wherever you live it is my hope that the contents of this book will speed up your gardening learning curve so that you can start harvesting things in the first month (yes, month!) and all your first year of effort.

Accidental feminist Wendy S. Delmater takes you through more than twenty years of the highs and lows of NYC construction work with an eye for the ridiculous and the adventures of being a woman in in one of the last bastions of all-male environments. From being in NYC during the terrorist attacks of 9/11 to trying to explain why refilling a fire extinguisher with pure oxygen was a bad idea (it goes boom) every day brings new experiences for a woman whose passion for worker safety was equaled by her trying to protect her clients, and herself.

Engineer Wendy S. Delmater describes how to use a modified quality assurance program to help older women to find a quality mate in midlife. You can be in control of your choices and find success in love if you follow her system of trackable goals and continuous self-improvement. Plus, it's a lot of fun!If you've been out of the dating world for the last 20 or 30 years, the book will also let you know how to handle the new world of online dating with ease. Pitfalls, tips and tricks to make dating again work for the older woman - it's all here.Better Dating Through Engineering was vetted by a clinical psychologist, who not only pronounced the advice sound but stated that reading the book feels like sharing a cup of coffee with a good friend.

"Wendy S. Delmater has a lot of balls to title her book Writing the Entertaining Story. What in the world makes her think that she knows the secret? ...Editing. That's what Wendy brings to Writing the Entertaining Story. She has read and evaluated, compared and analyzed reams and reams of unpublished work in her efforts to pick winners from the slush pile. Her advice in this book is practical, immediately applicable, and comes from her hard-earned time in the editor's seat." - James Van Pelt

How do you say "Telling a depressed person to cheer up is like telling a quadriplegic to stand" and still give hope for depression? Per four-time Bram Stoker Award winning poet Linda D. Addison: This book was inspired by the author's journey with depression, an illness that affects so many people. From Introduction: "The CDC says at any one time 7.6 percent of those above the age of 12 in the United States suffer from depression. It's an invisible illness, but an illness nonetheless." Wendy's bravery in pulling back the skin on the wounds of her life to share and uplift is courageous. This book is for anyone who has struggled with depression, known someone who has or loved and supported someone one challenged with this misunderstood illness.As a poet, the author captures what is so hard to communicate: the harsh breadth and depth of how depression feels, so that the unafflicted can offer useful assistance. And the verses tell a story of recovery that sings hope and promise.

A guide to dating in the digital age, for older men who are interested in marriage and do not want taken advantage of.