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Wallflower

For Connie Boyle, a job at the Hayfork, Kansas library was just an excuse to get away from her abusive husband. But when she learns that she’s the only one who
Jennifer B Fields4/28/2011

Quasar Love

Its 6pm and the workday is over but as the doors to the office close and the last person leaves, Franny's life begins in earnest. Franny, an overworked, lonely
Mashinka10/11/2011

Messing Around With The Universe

How A Douche Kills Time When He Sees Everything...Sort of
Seriously? You're going to read this. The short version is good enough. Just read the book. Wait. You're still here? Come on. ummm...I'm a minimalist. Yeah and
Kenley Tan8/28/2011

A Thousand Wishes

Serene is a small town bustling with Elves, Fauns, Humans, Wizards, Witches, Dwarfs and other creatures. When Torro, the Faun, realizes that someone is sneaking
AB Matyana4/28/2011

Afterlife

Mankind is becoming corrupt and greedy, and hells armies now outweigh that of heaven, God needs a new champion, one so pure of heart that he cannot be tempted b
Ian J Smethurst4/27/2011

Reality Shock

Harak'Thor Book I
What if everything we knew about vampires and werewolves is wrong? What if they aren't supernatural boogeymen? What if they are something else, from somewhere e
BrotherD6/13/2012

Eagle's Gold

Days before Germany surrendered to the Russian army, an SS-Brigadefuhrer led ten men into the lobby of the Deutsche Reichbank in Berlin and confronted the bank
Vincent Lupiano3/20/2014

One Night in Tunisia

Eight Englishmen on sojourn, voyage around the Med on Poseidon, a fast schooner. Set against the impact of the Blair/Brown years, the crew find solace and exper
Software5/2/2011

Ice Cream Moose

A guy is on his way to work when he finds a moose sleeping in his driveway. After a brief conversation, the two become fast friends and eat ice cream. This is
Mike Lynch4/28/2011

When I Wake

I heard my name and looked around; sure he wasn’t talking to me even though I was the only one still outside. I leaned against the wall, soaking up all the hea
Brandi Kosiiner4/27/2011

Luka

Mae Carlson has a father dead from cancer and a mother swallowed by grief. Aleksandr Kovalenko has an abusive father, a missing mother, and a sister with a hear
Karoline Tufte Lien4/27/2011

Play

first chapter: introductions. The rest will follow.
Killing is easy, friendship is harder. A loose group of friends try to dance around the murder in their midst, while keeping it cool and getting ahead.
Daniel Logan5/2/2011

ANIMA

Caranome and Tia, wife and mistress, once rivals, now sisters in sorrow, meet in the laboratory of Herculo Chiavengo where Dickson, his rabbity cyber-technician
Sturgis Holt4/30/2011

Swordslayer.

Swordslayer trilogy book 1
Hunted from halfway across the world, Viktor Sable, Johnathan's uncle must protect the vulnerable newborn swordslayer from all manner of vampires, corrupt pries
Ian J Smethurst4/28/2011

Children of War

Coils of the Jumon
Cyrn is burning. After age long wars, only a few of the world's guardians remain untouched by death and madness. Each immortal plots at seeing his version of t
Kevin Rhames12/6/2011

Julius

A neurologist’s wife hijacks his research to satisfy her own impatient ego forcing him to take actions he would have found unthinkable only 24 hours earlier.
Leonard Dolivio4/28/2011

Floating Point

Tyler James is trying to keep his life hasslefree with an undemanding job at a used-book store when his younger brother Russell vanishes in New York City. In ne
Leonard Dolivio4/28/2011

Danvers Hospital

When he's stuck for an evaluation in the psych ward, Brian has to come to terms with his relationship with his fiancée and his responsibility for her death.
Andrew Magnusson5/19/2011

And I Heard a Man Call My Name

This is a flash fiction exercise using the prompt: "The distance between two points increases over time." May, a thirteen-year-old, recalls how her father's chi
Blakely Chorpenning4/30/2011

Homecoming

Sam Minor remembers nothing prior to age six. What little she does know of her gruesome past is gleamed from old newspaper articles. But when Sam visits her ado
MR Nelson11/22/2012

Picayune

Picayune dreams of far away places - of knights and dragons and princesses and treasure. But that is all they ever are, dreams. He feels the rush and passion, b
John DeJordy4/29/2011

The LOVE Curse

Ely, the wealthy daughter of a prearranged marriage, finds herself curious about LOVE. The only issue is that LOVE is the curse the commoners are tricked into.
Armine4/29/2011

The Screaming Box

Novelette 9,500 words
With his Screaming Box, Dylan James found fame and fortune with the added bonus of eternal youth. So what if it killed customers? He could live with it...right?
Jennifer B Fields4/29/2011

Robin Wept

short story - one chapter
A man travels back in time to save his wife, from whom he became estranged, from a future tragedy. Sadly, for him it is a one way trip for several reasons.
Mike Perkins5/2/2011

Triads

Two's company, three's a crowd…but not in Adam Jeden's tri-gendered, post-nuclear world. Though it’s been six centuries since the Cataclysm, the human species
momgotshocked7/11/2013

Life Through Loving Eyes

They loved her. They loved something evil even more...
There once was a girl named Deborah. She had a loving family, a cozy happy small town, and a birth right she didn't want. This book will take you deep into the
Black Fire Blitzer5/5/2011

He Came

Children of the Shadows: Book 1
Arch is hopeless, until he is approached by an enigmatic leader of an underground gang. Will he escape poverty? Or will his inner demons destroy his future?
Jayne ODwyer5/5/2011

Without Mention

Without Series Book one
When Oden joins a squad in the royal army, he learns that the human race is not in control like he always believed. There is a war, a war between the races.
Armine6/3/2011

The Contest

Working Title
When the seers of the Church forecast the impending death of the pope, the Cardinals and their secular allies and enemies begin the contest over who will succee
L R Waterbury11/28/2011

Under the Iron Lake

A crime thriller
A misunderstanding lands Rick in a Mexican jail. His new pals are chronic offenders; Rick is chronically misunderstood. He didn’t know he was working for gang
Display Name5/1/2011

What Am I Now?

A man struggles to accept the fact that his dog has learned to talk. This is a 2,200-word short story.
Mike Lynch5/28/2011

Helicopter Show

A zebra and a rocket ship befriend an somewhat antisocial bumblebee. This is a 2,200-word short story.
Mike Lynch5/17/2011

Star Child

Almost-seventeen Mel Armstrong has been blind since age seven. Wheelchair-bound, her own mother has put her in an Albuquerque home for the disabled. Mel's l
Amy Sterling6/17/2011

The Twins

Self-expression is dangerous if it changes reality
With strange characteristics and an even stranger origin, twins Alex and Isabelle struggle to fit in. But when they are enrolled in a special school for the Exp
Y Beeri5/1/2011

The Gnome and Mrs. Meyers

When the recently-widowed Mrs. Meyers wins the "Expect The Unexpected Sweepstakes" she thinks everything in her life will turn around. But the prize of precious
susan klein5/6/2011

Winning is for Losers

A professional killer and a bookie team up to find a missing diary that a gangster left with his son before he went to prison.
Ron Friedman5/6/2011

Comrade Kitten

A Chinese woman's journey from a peasant girl trying to survive during the Japanese invasion to a communist soldier under Mao's leadership. After living through
Kitten Comrade5/2/2011

Homme de la Maison

A mother's stress is too much to endure, as a young boy faces his inner turmoil of becoming a man when his father and brother leave for Napoleon's Grande Armee.
Andrew J Olinde Jr6/29/2011

Collections

Modern Times viewed through Short Stories
A commentary on Modern society and Culture, Collections features short stories that deal with important themes pertaining to modern times, such as corruption, v
AJR Sottil5/8/2011

Cat Heaven

Samantha had never really believed in life-after-death, so was entirely unprepared for life-after-life.
Sturgis Holt5/3/2011

[no title yet]

[I will think of a title when I finish the book, if I finish]
What attracts people to each other and how much of it is what is perceived and believed about gender difference and what happens when these are discovered to be
nom de plume6/14/2011

Hamelin's Child

A thriller set in the seedy world of London's drug rings, this book contains strong scenes and adult material.
Debbie7/27/2013

SWEEPFIRE: the Untold Story

A Texas billionaire, infuriated by 9/11, inflamed by a U.S. Congressman, and abetted by a Hellfire preacher, creates a secret army of suicide bombers to attack
Sturgis Holt5/2/2011

SpinTrap

... and you think you're having a bad day?
SOMEONE said of this book: "A fast-paced, minimalist read that succeeds - paradoxically - in being accessible and mysterious at the same time. Not a word is was
Rik Roots5/4/2011

Forsaken

Lisette Thomas comes from a house of abuse an neglect. Fleeing her home one night she runs into a vampire who decides to end her suffering. After tasting her bl
Kristine Ondrus5/2/2011

Benevolence

What would you do for love?
Will's flying south to a new life in New Zealand with his baby boy, Thomas. He's going to a place where no one knows him, where awkward questions won’t be ask
Andrew Wright10/6/2011

The Space Between Heaven and Earth

In a time before the Gods, a woman discovers something about herself and the world that will change everything.
CaseyGoodrow5/4/2011

Dead Man's Float

A little murder in a big corporation. Art Donnelly, an employee at a Fortune 100 company, is killed six hours short of his retirement. His long time friend D
Steve Yudewitz8/25/2014

The Forsworn

A Max Cole Adventure
The 1920s Roar! And hiss, snarl, slither and bite. Evil things lurk in the shadows of 1924 and Max Cole and his band of Holy Marauders hiss, snarl, and bite bac
Samuel Tyree7/17/2011

Confabulation

a short story
Eddie January has the perfect parents, and they are the perfect family living the perfect American middle class dream. Or is there something else going on? Th
Mike Perkins11/22/2011