Adam is the world's only (self declared)Office Ninja-skilled with the ancient art of Ninjutsu, and also using 6 copying machines concurrently. Can Graham, the manager from the office temp agency Office Lenders, teach Adam the Noble Way of the Office Temp, and more importantly- keep Adam from ruining his career?Graham, local manager from Office Lenders, has a problem that most Office Temp managers don't have to deal with at all. One of his workers thinks, in all sincerity, that he is a ninja. See, most people don't get reports on their desk from clients complaining of being hit with paper throwing-stars. They also don't hear that someone is breaking dress code at their job- not by wearing a Hawaiian shirt, but by wearing a black mask and frightening old ladies at a flower shop. But that's OK, Graham will make Adam into an ideal office worker,even if he has to trick him into it. After all, its what a ninja would do.

Tal is the prince of Elwar, or at least he was until his total jerk of a brother tried to have him killed. Luckily, he totally swiped the magic Shaping Glass before leaving.Unluckily, his brother sent some bounty hunters after him. Is this a scrape Tal and his bodyguard will walk away from? Or can Tal master the Glass fast enough to tip the scales in their favor?All you need is a Shaping Glass and the right Relic, and you can change the world however you please.Provided your enemies give you enough time to model every object and person in the room with clay, of course. Oh, and you also have to use the Relic to add in whatever effect you want.Tal, the Prince of Elwar, is freshly on the lamb after being attacked by his brother the King. Next thing you know, him and his bodyguard, Carmine, have been tracked down by some nasty bodyguards. Tal doesn't have enough sword skills to skewer a lump of cheese, but he can use the Shaping Glass and Blue Ice enough to maybe make your drink a bit colder.Which may not especially intimidate bloodthirty bounty hunters looking for Tal's head.Escape is the order of the day, but some violence could maybe happen first.And some totally unfair beard commentary.If they do both make it, what will Tal and Carmine do next? Where will they go? Why do weird things keep happening to them? Why don't people appreciate the noble goatee beard anymore?**Shaping Glass is set within Level Three of the world of Reality Zero.

Ud was a human who died many thousands of years ago. And now, he is the only being he knows of to climb up all of the worlds of the Way Down to the top layer of reality and turn from a Ghoul into a mortal again. His first encounter with the humans at the top of the Worlds didn't go as planned, but he has vital news for his (now) fellow mortals.Ud was once a man, but then he died and then tumbled down the lower dead realms called the Way Down, until he ended up as a skeleton creature in Fourth World, three layers beneath ours. He became a wight (skeleton) slave to the ruling elite there, known to Ud as the Ereshkagali, from his name for the god of the underworld when he was a human in the far past.Over the course of millennia, he achieved what no one else had ever done, climbing from the bone dust lands of Fourth World, up to the Ghast swamps of Third World, through the Ghoul forests of Second World, and finally up to First World, the world of mortals.And, after his initial elation at being able to feel as he once did the wates and clean air, free of rot and parasites the size of dogs passed, he began to realize a few truths.-His mind was now in four parts, one for Ud the Wight (skeleton), Ud the Ghast, Ud the Ghoul and the newly minted Ud the Mortal.-Fragmented memories meant that he only remembered pieces of his selves at a time.-One of those fragments of memory brings with it a warning that all mortals should fear regarding the future of the Way Down.**Note-It's worth pointing out that the words and backstory of Ud when he was alive are related to a people that really existed, as well as a real language.

Scott Guy was a good man, a great dad, a salt-of-the-earth farmer who was gunned down at his front gate for no conceivable reason.His death enthralled us, partly because it was so inexplicable, but also because there were no obvious suspects. When police finally arrested someone, public fascination soared - because the person they claimed killed Scott Guy was his brother-in-law, colleague and former mate, Ewen Macdonald.While on the surface a hardworking husband and father of four, it gradually emerged Macdonald had an alter-ego and alternative life of violence and retribution. The police case against him seemed so logical: Ewen Macdonald was aggrieved, anxious and angry - and secretly hated the person who'd been best man at his wedding, Scott Guy. So Macdonald meticulously planned to get rid of Scott and shot him as he headed to work.But despite enormous media coverage, the reality is that most of us still know very little about the case. To understand what really...