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A Short Story
This is a short story I wrote to read at a group reading I did in Iowa City in 2011. We had to make sure our reading did not exceed 7 minutes. I loved the assig
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| Lucy Silag | 9/23/2015 |
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Adia Altvie has been raised as a man in a man's world. But the only problem is, she's a woman. And when she discovers love for the first time under the hot summ
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| Jean Lowe Carlson | 9/25/2015 |
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Fourteen-year-old Kate Kincaid decides logic and reason are her only defenses when moving in with her lion-taming aunt, her uncle the spy, and her grandmother -
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| Megan Christopher | 9/30/2015 |
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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
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| John Boyd | 9/30/2015 |
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Aurora Medius
Here is a brief overview of the book’s plot:
Mark, a fifteen-year-old boy, has been drawing Aurora Borealis pictures since he was three without remembering that
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| David Akselrod | 10/3/2015 |
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There are two worlds: the "real" one where we live in, and the magical one, where the fantasies that populated our world's imagination come from. They exist sep
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| B.E.Knight | 10/4/2015 |
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Jenna blames her mother for her parents' divorce when they are forced to move to Richwood, Ohio, in June of 1963 because of Mrs. Kerby's new job as English teac
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| B.B. Frank | 10/6/2015 |
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As a small group of friends gather to enjoy an evening of food, drink and conversation, an uninvited guest appears out of thin air. Dead from an apparent fall,
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| Hans Jenske | 10/6/2015 |
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Toronto's most notoriously eligible bachelor doesn't stand a chance against this nosy librarian.
Laurel Harbinger, a struggling twenty-something, stumbles into
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| Marcie | 10/15/2015 |
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In London in 1903, after the death of her employer and caregiver, Maggie Peterson must find a suitable position. She has an appointment with an agency that hire
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| A.M. Owen | 10/15/2015 |
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Faolan's Journey
There was a strong, long generation, powerful, race of a pack of wolves. Now this pack wasn't just any other pack. It was the Stone Moon pack. It had been honou
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| Cookies | 10/16/2015 |
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Two men from two different financial worlds meet and learn from one another. Brett Mittleman, a young, green-around-the-ears commodities trader from an upper-m
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| David Boarini | 10/18/2015 |
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What is real? What does it mean for a person or thing to be real? Brigitte Sturm encounters a crisis when she suddenly can't tell if someone in her life is "rea
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| Phoebe Gould | 10/18/2015 |
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Charlie is an 18-year-old transgender male who is told he can switch bodies with people – and when he does, he has the ability to do a little of what Charlie wo
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| Phoebe Gould | 10/21/2015 |
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Six years after they split up, Beth's still not sure if Matt was the best thing that ever happened to her, or the worst.
It’s ten years since Matt and Beth got
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| Caroline Fraser | 10/30/2015 |
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Seventeen-year-old ‘city girl’ Grace Burns got revenge on her controlling, abusive ex by pushing his truck into a lake, running over twelve-year-old Andrea “And
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| Heidi Peitz | 11/2/2015 |
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An African Fantasy Adventure
The year is 1872 and Alexandra Cochette, a headstrong twenty-three-year-old, is working as an Acquirer, a job that requires her to find ordinary-looking objects
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| J. P. Kippling | 11/6/2015 |
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You fall asleep and begin to snore. Then hippo hops up and looks toward the door. The coast is clear! He has no fear! He slides off the bed, down to the floor.
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| Victoria Wirkkala | 11/6/2015 |
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A Danish Fantasy Adventure
Julien Størgård is an ambitious young scientist, determined to put the world's illusions and superstitions to rest. When a mysterious stranger gives him the ult
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| J. P. Kippling | 11/8/2015 |
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A Dunbarton Mystery
The body was found in the early morning, face down in the murky waters of the marsh. There was no question that he had drowned. The question was did he have hel
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| Valerie Tate | 11/9/2015 |
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"This Aging Thing" is a character driven novel written from the point of view of the two main protagonists. Alice Lepo, an ex-CIA operative, and Frank Hast
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| Jan Larsen | 11/12/2015 |
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This is a tale of the journey of a foolish holidaying man and describes the rather curious encounters involving animals, townsfolk, companions and others. It go
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| pope Dixon | 11/13/2015 |
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Aarian Kane watched his childhood friends grow and discover their paths. The Eridian seers, responsible for discovering and unlocking the inner potentials of a
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| by Adam Pitcher | 11/13/2015 |
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The Peacemakers are a near mythical group of lawmen who are preternaturally gifted gunmen. they stand as judge, jury and executioner in a near lawless society.
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| JEFF SHELNUTT | 11/18/2015 |
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a novel
Thirty-year-old Brooke Thompson prepares to leave Manhattan and her 20s behind to move upstate with her fiancé, when she receives a friend’s startling invitatio
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| Andrea Dunlop | 11/18/2015 |
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A novel
Dhara Seth, a radiant young woman in Nairobi’s traditional Punjabi community, dreams of opening a restaurant. But before she can follow her own dreams, she need
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| Judith Wright Chopra | 11/20/2015 |
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College Junior Ian Taylor has been in love before, but never with another guy. Finding himself while falling in love with Freshman Alaska Jackson, Ian's life ta
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| Stephanie Fox | 11/28/2015 |
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Enter the Adventure
Alexander Read was bored, not because there's nothing to do but because he was normal. But everything changed when the Bassots moved to next door and Alex reali
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| Cadmus Crow | 11/30/2015 |
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Livie's imagination runs wild at bedtime. When her efforts to avoid bedtime are squashed, she finds ways to help her fall asleep. She even enlists the family
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| jkissel | 11/30/2015 |
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Sage Country Book three
Bullet wounds leave puckered scars, if you live long enough for them to heal
At the end of the 19th Century, life is hard for folks living on the Front Range o
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| Dan Arnold | 12/5/2015 |
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Libra
Lady Anne Hewitt will do anything to keep her family's name from scandal. After she marries the rake who accidentally compromised her, that is. To avoid further
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| Noelle Pierce | 12/14/2015 |
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Every morning, 17 year old Maria De Rosario takes an hour long train ride to her private high school in Manhattan, where some girls use Marc Jacob handbags to c
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| Paul Gramigna | 12/15/2015 |
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The first drafts had POV problems. I THINK I now have only 2 POV's. I already know some opinions hold that two is one too many for a story. I am happy with thes
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| RC Gravelle | 12/18/2015 |
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The Return
The return of the primordial gods of myth to our current day world propels aftershocks throughout a humanity grappling to deal with their now splintered ideolog
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| J.C. Dillon | 12/23/2015 |
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A collection of short stories
Jennifer is a twenty something reaching a pivotal point in her life, she encounters a man who will change her life forever. The story is set in a middle income
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| Jessica Safavimehr | 1/1/2016 |
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Devon Sawyer is a bright, energetic graphic designer who falls in love hard and fast with his soul mate, Carmen Calderón. A mutual acquaintance of theirs hits o
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| Mary-ellen DeLeon | 1/5/2016 |
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Astra Cole was not expecting much from her life, but when strange new powers start manifesting inside of her, she is dragged into an age old battle that she has
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| Jade Anastasia | 1/7/2016 |
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Olivia is realizing and learning some important life lessons in her mid-thirties, that she wishes she had learned in her 20s like other women. For the first tim
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| Anne Robinson | 1/7/2016 |
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A young woman departs from self-prescribed isolation with the sudden death of her estranged brother.
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| Melissa Toldy | 1/8/2016 |
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Ways of Love series - Book 1
A missing heirloom...
It all started with the Ashcroft sapphire, a rare brooch that has been passed down through the lines for generations. It was his grandmoth
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| Tabetha Waite | 1/10/2016 |
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Prologue for novel, Changing Sweaters
I don't want to describe the book this piece is an experimental preface to. Instead, my goal is to elicit readers' responses to the type of book they ENVISION a
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| Kate Sebeny | 1/12/2016 |
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Daring the Impossible to Birth Greatness
This book deals with how to create ideas that will trigger your greatness. It introduces greatness as God's endowment in man and turns it into a quest in man fo
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| Chris I. E. Edwin-Odhe | 1/12/2016 |
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A River Band is one of many stories Olivia Martin has from Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Throughout the story, Olivia tries to capture the emotion and perso
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| Olivia Martin | 1/14/2016 |
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Duke's Foals is one of many stories Olivia Martin has from the Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range. Throughout the story, Olivia tries to capture the emotion and pe
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| Olivia Martin | 1/14/2016 |
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In Training is one of many stories Olivia Martin has from the Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range. Throughout the story, Olivia tries to capture the emotion and per
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| Olivia Martin | 1/15/2016 |
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Just so you get a general idea of what the initial aim was, this novel will no doubt be labelled as a ‘Game of Thrones’ meets ‘Hunger Games.’ With a significant
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| Amy Telford | 1/16/2016 |
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In modern day America, a despised career criminal is sent to the gallows in the first public hanging to be carried out in the United States since 1936. But unb
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| Dirk Richter | 1/17/2016 |
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Aerilyn Livingston was a mage that was quite the unusual kind. She didn't like magic. In fact, she was afraid of making any kind of tea that it was a wonder she
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| M Shimoji | 1/17/2016 |
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novella
This is a thrilling story.The story goes like this,“The work of Gold Syndicate was going well, increasing the confidence as well as the greed of the company. Bu
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| Ravi Ranjan Goswami | 1/18/2016 |
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Illustrious follows the story of a medieval artist in the middle of creating a famous illuminated manuscript called The Hours of Catherine of Cleves. If you'd l
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| by Michelle Mullet | 1/18/2016 |
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