The Fire Inside

Miranda is alone and adrift. She wants the excitement that eluded her when she was working full-time and caring for aging parents. For Miranda that means men. B
Debra Thrall7/13/2012 Be the first to review this version

The Blue Roan

A fiercely independent woman returns to the frontier of her birth only to find that western society is even less receptive to her notions of women's rights and
Debra Thrall6/13/2013 Be the first to review this version

ABOUT EMILY

"Un seul être vous manque et tout est dépeuplé." -- Lamartine
The phone call Solange Beaulieu receives in Paris announcing the death of her best friend Emily is followed by another even more troubling. Emily maybe or may
MarieJo Fortis5/22/2013 Be the first to review this version

Burying the Evil Seed

Minding what you’re told and keeping secrets is the only way to survive as a young southern slave, especially when those secrets concern the murders of white me
Sinnie Ellis1/9/2013 Be the first to review this version

Bar Mitzvah

The Making of a Man
How does a young boy survive after his family and village are murdered by Nazis? He must discover the courage within himself to withstand the horrors of war.
Marc P Goldman12/7/2012 Be the first to review this version

Among Wolves

A Thriller
As a disaster response specialist working in the Middle East, Dr. Jacob Chase was prepared for every imaginable tragedy--except his wife's murder. The bombing
Dustin Turner1/13/2014 Be the first to review this version

The Book Of Knowledge

In the aftermath of war, a city is left in disrepair. without the knowledge of what has happened to the rest of the world a group of survivors forms up to survi
Dylan Angland2/9/2015 Be the first to review this version

Warped Time and Punishment

The Marlboro-Squid Administration
2080AD  "Squid drone Beta15 results negative, sir." Henry Hugett's assistant recorded the experiment and placed folder fifteen neatly above the first fourteen f
Robin M. Candelario6/30/2014 Be the first to review this version

Secrets We Keep

Love has many forms, including true love, obsessive love, forbidden love and unrequited love. All of these forms are present in Secrets We Keep. Liv Chambers ha
NatWrites7/25/2015 Be the first to review this version

THE SYRIAN COLONEL

U.S. Army Major Robert Haddad is an Arab-American assigned the the American Embassy in Cairo, Eygpt. He serves as the embassy's Military Attache. He is abducted
Charles Kempton3/23/2016 Be the first to review this version

Sliding Inward

This story came to me late one night. I cannot pin-point exactly why, but I knew I had to write it. It's dark, but in my vision this story shows the dark side i
Jenks Gacy1/20/2016 Be the first to review this version

Gaurdian Angel

Question where you are and what is going on as this face paced short reels you to heart-pounding exhilaration.
P.S. Hinzmann8/31/2013

Brothers in Blood

Two brothers in blood same mother different father deal with threats to their kingdom and survival in the future. One brother is of royal blood....the other muc
walt Hart1/1/2012

The Quakes:

A Story of Disaster
A chilling story that will bring others to the edge of their chairs as earthquakes pop up from many states on record scales, killing many and thrusting others i
Mark Perez 9/4/2011

Code 17

While on his campaign tour in his well-equipped bus, the President of the United States gets delayed to his next destination due to a storm. During the night th
Wayne Norris8/23/2013

The Fine Line between Genius and Insanity

I wrote this short story about a year ago when I was inspired by Edgar Allen Poe. It has 2,278 words. Enjoy!
Jayne ODwyer5/5/2011

His Mother's Gift

A chance meeting of half brothers in an orphanage throws Sammy Wilde, the product of a loving relationship whose father has been reported missing in Sicily and
John Williams2/9/2012

The last game

Four people have been invited to play a game. The four strangers facing each other across a table, gambling everything they have, to win the only thing that the
Fernando Trujillo11/23/2011

India Was One

by an Indian
…Suddenly, he saw something shiny at the bottom of the abyss. He squinted his eyes to see what it was. He ran back to his binoculars and turned them to see what
An Indian12/3/2011

Wackos to Obliterate

Mavis Kincaid believed fifty-six was too early to retire, but her husband George was sure they had played the game and won, so they sold their home to become RV
Kenneth Wayne10/15/2012

The Problems With Family

A couple with a checkered past try to leave their former lives behind but find that things are never as simple as they may seem.
Timothy Noble10/15/2012

Birthright

For Raine Donnelly the things that begin to happen couldn’t possibly be real. Machines malfunction and electricity goes haywire, and that’s just the beginning.
RJ Palmer8/8/2011

The Runaway

This book is about a serial killer attacking women. Women who go into law enforcement. The killer believes that women are to weak to be in this field of work. S
Danielle Urban5/8/2014

The Provocation

After six years in an elite black ops unit, David Ingram retired and joined the NYPD in search of a quieter life. But then he made the wrong call in a hostage s
James Twiss5/7/2011

Her Shadow

Detectives Stacey Monroe and Mark Marion are searching for a killer who leaves no evidence behind at scene. But when they are able to figure out a pattern to th
Fatima Hyman5/17/2011

Blood Ties

Nightmare Prologue
Having just discovered she is a werewolf, Sara finds she must learn to use her abilities, to protect her loved ones from a power hungry vampire that wants to us
Astria Firestorm5/4/2012

Cracks in Nightmares

Agent Alden Kraft and Agent Doug Longwood are FBI profilers who are on the trail of a prolific serial killer. The killer seeks out and murders schizophrenics a
Charles Shell4/28/2013

Samuel and Shawn

A man wrecking himself with uncertainty, finds certainty in sleep.
Victor Vieira6/19/2011

The Converted

Angels, Demons, and a sinister plot to take over the world. The Converted is the first in a three part series in the ultimate struggle of good and evil.
Angel Luna10/17/2011

Drug Lord's Daughter

Reya is the daughter of the famous Mexican Drug Lord, 'El Dios' of the Cruz Cartel. On a breezy Hacienda, Reya grows up facing both tremendous fear and opulent
FIction Lover7/15/2011

Merciless Destruction

A Political Thriller
Merciless Destruction takes on the FBI, the religious right, the war on terror, and the political culture of “Hollywood for ugly people,” Washington DC. Vete
Bruce Gatenby5/2/2011

BATTERIES REQUIRED

"Then why you here?" the cabbie asked. "Looking for a body," Drew said. "I have to find a body and send it home." The cabbie spit out the window. "You looking f
ken miller5/28/2011

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

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

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

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

Tabula Rasa

Cass Vaughn grew up a Senator's daughter and when "security issues" sent her and forty other lawmakers children to a camp in remote Montana, she dealt with it.
D. E. Bowers6/20/2014

Home of Masterpieces

Guy can't be satisfied with the mundane life at his mum's house in the little village of Twerby, even if parole after serving a sentence for art theft makes tha
Linnea3/12/2011

Resurrected

A Nikki Slade Story
After her husband's death on a covert op, former sniper Jessica Rogers tries to find out why. After an attempt on her life, Jessica disappears, but a secret con
MarkQuiet3/13/2011

Mayhem, Inc.

The chaos surrounding us is not just random chance...
Archer Quinn only eats food he can count, organizes his clothes by color, and polishes every bullet before loading his gun. Quinn, a former Special Forces opera
Jason Myers5/3/2011

Phoenix 2125

20 years after California sinks into the ocean, creating a coastal Arizona, orphan Tom returns home to Phoenix. He is quickly swept up in a world of intrigue hi
Alexander Hollins3/31/2011

Midnight Trigger

While all of the young men and women working as assassins for the rich and mysterious Maxwell Buelington have their different reasons for working, no one is as
Jade Warwick4/19/2012

PENCORP

Penitentiary Corporation
In the year 2035, most American citizens were incarcerated for profit.
Rodney Pittman1/21/2012

Dead Switch

Mitch Turner’s career as a weapon designer is ruined after he’s unwittingly used as a pawn in a game of industrial espionage. His reputation destroyed, he acce
Marc Poliquin2/20/2012

Miasma

A Novel of Horror and Science Fiction
Miasma is a novel based on the scientific premise that a biological life-force directs the development of life on Earth. It counts among its recent achievements
RJCoronato3/18/2012

The Golden Cavern of Santiago Dinamarca

Didier Ouissemann, a bald, generous, round-headed, somewhat arrogant character publishes the Bordeaux newspaper, L'Eclaircie. He has hired the bike racing champ
Ben Lowings3/22/2012

For King or Country

When young William Van Drier is pressed into service in the Royal Navy at the turn of the 18th century, he's headed for adventure on the high seas and in new an
Ella Black5/13/2012

The Plain Door

The Plain Door is a short story about John Phillips, a man who has his orderly life cast into the madness of humans natural fear of the unknown.
Zach Cleland2/27/2013

The Shepherd's Crook

Chapters 1 - 3
Jonathan de Grun dreams the kidnapping of other young people. He lives in rural Nebraska and has convinced his mother that he has simple night terrors. Soon aft
Jerrid Wolflick2/25/2013