Inamorata

Cameo Rose arrives in Santa Barbara over Halloween weekend to attend a Masquerade Gala, an invitation Cameo accepts out of a sense of obligation and a detached
Jacob Bennett4/11/2012

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

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

Woebegone

A southern town is turned upside down when they find a monster in their midst.
JamieWyman3/23/2011

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

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

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

The Brethren Plague

In 1959, a Bantu hunter, who had cut his hand while butchering a monkey to feed his family, wandered into a medical clinic in the Congo only to die a short whil
Jeff Deal6/24/2011

The Body Shop

While recovering in a hospital after an accident, Mark wonders how he got there, and where everyone else is.
Jen Lewman3/5/2015

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

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

The Megiddo Revenge

A murky group of international businessmen, working together with Arabic and Chinese Jihadist terrorists as well as vicious Somali pirates, plot to precipitate
Jesse Smith11/27/2013

Don't Kill the Messenger

book one of The Messenger Series
Tristan Shays is on a mission he doesn’t fully understand. For the past two years, he’s been plagued by visions—terrifying images of strangers in peril—and giv
Joel Pierson6/24/2013

Dark Side of the Rising Sun

When Tim Harrington, a young Anglo-American working in Japan, is tricked into teaching English to a Japanese crook involved with the yakuza, it’s merely the sta
John Boyd9/30/2015

Sierra Overdrive

The desert is a big, lonely place where the unexpected can find you unprepared. Julie Bravo is a ranger who knows her corner of the desert well. The Marine Corp
John Franklin6/23/2014

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

God Bless the Child

A story of Survival, Hope, and Accpetance
K-9 officer, Chase Milan, is living the life he always dreamed he should. He married his high school sweetheart and has followed in his father's footsteps by jo
K T Leone11/23/2011

Glow

Intitiation
A debut book readers have described as compelling, witty, fun, and engaging. This book has: Conspiracies. Telepathy. Spies. Homicidal knitting. Sentences. (It
Kate Winters7/31/2013

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

Batteries

a new version of Batteries Required
a Latin American drug lord flees San Carlos after a coup there.From New Orleans he tries to make a deal for his land, finding a lot of interest because his drug
ken miller6/29/2011

Clip

A Kafkaesque Thriller
Charles is an expatriated American living in Japan who spots himself in a sex video that has gone viral. Initially, he dismisses it as a fluke. His apprehension
Kenneth Wayne6/29/2011

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

Venom

Twelve years ago, Kylie Marx was bitten by a snakebite, left for dead by a poacher, after she eyewitnessed his crime. Now, she's a herpetologist who studied sna
KristenH2/8/2012

Keepers of the Wheel

The ancient cult known only as The Triangle, is hiding the source of their power under the old church, and they will stop at nothing to keep Detective Ayn Ryan
Kristin Bird11/10/2012

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

Diana and the Diadem

A round-the-world chase after a precious sacred object. (But it's not the Holy Grail.) Set in Istanbul, Paris, Washington DC, Jerusalem...and a cave in Kyrgyzs
Lex Hames1/28/2014

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

What Killed Jonathon Harnish?

If you had the photographs of his victim, his journals, if you knew everything about him, except where he is right now?” In the summer of 1992, these are the q
Marc E Hopkins8/7/2011

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

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

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

Hearts

a short story
The little girl needed immediate open-heart surgery but her tiny ski village was encased in the blizzard of the century. Her father was still trying to recover
Mark Bartel10/4/2014

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

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

Legacy of the Sun

It was the archaeological discovery of a lifetime. Despite the danger of the guerrilla insurgents terrorizing the region, he’d pushed forward with the survey a
Michael Craig9/15/2013

The Master of Complications

Mike Henchard is an experienced International Private Bank working for an English global bank in New York. At the end of 2000, he is asked to move to Geneva, S
Mike Henchard9/14/2013

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

Drop Out

The room was dimly lit with flickering strawberry-scented candles. Power was out. It had been nearly a decade since Nathan stood inside someone’s home; since th
Neil Ostroff5/17/2013

Imagination

A botched military mission finds new recruit Christopher Parker in a hostile prison camp. His life has become pain. To escape the prolonged misery of torture, C
Neil Ostroff3/18/2013

Frostproof

On a winter night in 2009, Niles Goodman risked his life to try and save a woman and her newborn infant from a terrible car accident, seriously burning his hand
Neil Ostroff5/22/2013

Degenerates

An alcoholic writer, a self-destructive teen, a burnt-out waitress, an abused young wife, a good-natured cook, a tormented serial killer, and the cop unwittingl
Neil Ostroff3/12/2013

Pulp

A clairvoyant prostitute, a psychotic soldier, a broke newspaper writer, and a dismembered body; what could go wrong?
Neil Ostroff4/4/2013

The Pit

Running home, Adeline falls into a pit, where she must succumb to her deepest fears in order to escape.
nfuschetti1/31/2013

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

The Funny Old Game

Set over several thousand years, this story revolves around the best game in the world - football. Friendships that transcend normal lifetimes; legends and myth
Pete Randall5/19/2013

The Dream

Something is wrong. Is Free Will still free and your will? At 11:30AM CST all across the world people will not know that they can be owned by simply being conne
Randi Edwards-Lee12/13/2014

Lost Spirits

A Suburban Gothic
Jennifer Durrell returns to Cascade Bay after her parents' deaths to recover and mourn. But love and career problems, an alcoholic best friend, and disappearing
Ravenna Gray5/22/2011

Dreaming of Hell

Sergeant JP Morales is severely burned in Afghanistan. He returns home for treatment, and quickly realizes that he would rather die than live as a freak. When t
RDeMille4/16/2011

Coyote Midnight

The Sequel to my novel HELLFIRE
Travis Deacon and Dee Jones are recovering from injuries they received when stopping a brutal terrorist attack in Wales (in my first novel HELLFIRE). Now they a
RDeMille2/21/2012