Welcome to our stories. We combine techno-thriller intrigue with travel, romance, humor, and a host of good guys and bad. Each story can be read and

Size: px

Start display at page:

Download "Welcome to our stories. We combine techno-thriller intrigue with travel, romance, humor, and a host of good guys and bad. Each story can be read and"

Cynthia Morris
6 years ago
Views:

romance, humor, and a host of good guys and bad.

done in order for a richer involvement in each

We intend this as a fun coloring book for you with

1 Welcome to our stories. We combine techno-thriller intrigue with travel, romance, humor, and a host of good guys and bad. Each story can be read and enjoyed by itself, or done in order for a richer involvement in each character s development. We intend this as a fun coloring book for you with a bit of information included. Enjoy, relax, & get out your colors! Thank you for joining our mailing list!

2 In The Enigma Factor, you will learn the unexpected discovery Jacob makes on his rite of passage journey.

3 In The Enigma Rising, watch as Quip almost descends to the Dark Side and how he faces his regrets.

4 In The Enigma Ignite, you will come along as Master Po puts herself at risk. You will consider that if you thoroughly believe Master Po s lesson, you might be willing to put yourself in danger.

5 In The Enigma Wraith, see why you may not want to trust software downloads to the computers in the middle of your life.

6 In The Enigma Stolen, consider which is more terrifying, predicting your next online purchase or determining the direction of your life.

7 In The Enigma Always, read the fine print before signing up to live forever. Technology can provide very fine print.

8 In The Enigma Gamers - A CATS Tale, you will play with the possibilities that when you can no longer reboot your video games, perhaps they really own you.

9 In The Enigma Broker, study how to use computers to destroy free market supply and demand.

10 In The Enigma Dragon, learn some ways to outsmart your digital enemies by using analog technology.

11 These are a couple of our fun non-human characters within The Enigma Series. You might find their roles interesting. Enjoy the stories! Nikkei Franklin

12 For those of you who like a challenge and a laugh you might try this quiz. To ace this, read The Enigma Factor. Choose the best answers Question 1: You ve been given free airline tickets and hotel accommodations for a show you really want to attend by someone you don t know. A) Don t look a gift horse in the mouth, and go have fun! B) Go ahead and take the gift, but send someone else in your place in case it s a trap. C) Exercise caution by putting a YouTube video out there pleading with 10K of your closest friends for advice. D) Oh come on! This is free stuff! What could possibly go wrong? E) Take gift in the spirit that it was offered knowing you deserve to be acknowledged for your contribution to society. Check over your digital shoulder, just in case. Question 2: You wake up in a hotel only to discover that no one has any record of you checking in for a room or the convention you went to day 1 of yesterday. You can t charge food to your room and the restaurant is threatening to have you wash dishes. A) Inform the server that your father/mother is the Attorney General of the United States and that you will have them serving food only on the 12 am to 8 am shift. B) Warn all incoming guests that the end of civilization is upon us all, but most specifically for those checking in to this hotel. C) Maintain a dignified air about you and boldly claim that you are an heir and that the hotel manager will get 25% of your riches if he will just arrange to return all your stuff. D) Try to reason through the nightmare situation with the security people using logic, government issued identification, and crisp 100$ bills. Question 3: You return to work only to find that the building security people, your company s authentication management system, and your company s HR database have all been compromised. There is no evidence that you ever worked here. A) Take out your gun and ask politely to have the problems resolved in the next 30 seconds. B) Begin to wonder who you have pissed off over the last couple of weeks and slowly back away from the scene hoping that your upcoming dental visit will be more productive. C) Go apply for another job with a new company smug in the knowledge that your old company won t be able to hose you off with a poor recommendation. D) With tears rolling down your cheeks, plead to be forgiven and reinstated.

Question 4: You are cornered by a person, who may be an enemy of the people, who tells you all your funds have been moved, your property (including your Harley) have been sold, and that your identity

13 Question 4: You are cornered by a person, who may be an enemy of the people, who tells you all your funds have been moved, your property (including your Harley) have been sold, and that your identity has been erased. This person tries to comfort you by saying don t try to contact any of your friends or they might get hurt. A) Post your picture on Casebook and ask, Do you know me? and offer a reward of $10 that will be crowdsourced once you are confirmed to be yourself. B) Tweet furiously that aliens are among us and that for $19.95 a month in your prepaid subscription service you will prove it over the next six months. C) Use language harsher than gosh darn it and threaten the perpetrator with physical violence even though they are bigger and have weapons drawn. D) Meekly accept your lot in life and accept the fact that your new name is Aloysius who sells fishes. Question 5: Your government issued identification is found on a dead man behind the foreign hotel where you are staying. The local police are now in your room asking what you know about this person they say was murdered around 4 a.m. A) Boldly state, You ain t got nothing on me copper! and take the 5 th amendment. B) Hang your head down as a sign of guilt and admit that you placed your passport under the corpse to see if anyone would be kind enough to return it to you. C) Offer to share the narcotics that you took from the dead man with the local police and promise that there are plenty more where that came from! D) Remind the police that you really don t know who you are anymore since you had your identity erased and lost all your money. Questions are worth 20 points each, partial credit is allowed If you scored 100% you are now entitled to work for Breakfield & Burkey identity theft protection business or potentially become a character in one of their stories. If you scored 80% we might read about you as a victim of a cybercrime. If you scored 60% you will probably end up on a midnight talk show discussing who not to trust with hard earned funds. You might even consider becoming a poster child for Bernie Madoff s colossal Ponzi scam. If you scored 40% please sign up for the latest Twitter cyber tricks & flips whitepaper for only $199 a month with a 6 month down payment required. If you scored 20% or less (as in zero) consider finishing school and stay off your smart device for a few days. Answers: (no fair looking in advance)

Unhealthy Relationships: Top 7 Warning Signs By Dr. Deb Schwarz-Hirschhorn

Unhealthy Relationships: Top 7 Warning Signs By Dr. Deb Schwarz-Hirschhorn When people have long-term marriages and things are bad, we can work on fixing them. It s better to resolve problems so kids can