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Sample: Nicolai leaned on the outside of the door, wondering precisely what the hell he just got himself into. Maybe she lied. Maybe she worked as a trick and s
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| Michelle Hiscox | 9/29/2014 |
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One blink,
One breath of air,
One moment in time ...
Could change your life forever.
Growing up, Peyton Spencer fell in love with the boy across the road, Call
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| Len Webster | 6/18/2015 |
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In the New World, all that matters are your dreams. Dreams are meant help you discover your true Purpose: your reason for being recreated after the Old World fe
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| melissa mcdaniel | 9/26/2014 |
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A happy tale inspired by folk literature. One of the happiest tales in my files.
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| CT | 10/7/2014 |
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Exert from the story ; Peter cleared his throat and glanced down. “Well those are Tony’s shoes. And it was Cathy’s voice that I heard, I’m sure of it. But I don
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| James Blackford | 11/9/2014 |
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In the world of Voskia, rebellious duchess Maria Langlord leads a double life. Pursued by the most perverted and richest man in the country, she splits her time
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| The de Wardin Sisters | 11/12/2014 |
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When Hitler's scientists accidentally create a Plague that wipes out half of Europe and spreads rapidly, it changes WWII from country battling country to humans
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| Olivia Kelly | 6/23/2013 |
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In a war-torn world the queen dies in childbirth while the king switches his daughter with the daughter of a serving girl in order to protect her. Nel, the real
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| TimCaseyAuthor | 6/22/2014 |
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Rose has one goal in life—to take care of her younger brother Zack. But her goal gets railroaded when she begins to use the magic she’s been stifling since her
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| Cecile Saldana | 7/27/2013 |
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Teresa Jordan is a rogue detective finishing one last case. Her investigation of a drug trafficking cartel leads her into a world she never expected. On both si
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| Jana Teresa Sosnowski | 6/25/2013 |
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a novella
A dark and haunting tale of a young girl trapped in Winter, longing to be free. When Rose and her sister are left to fend for themselves and an ailing mother, t
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| Rachel Anne Marks | 6/26/2013 |
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An Essay
An essay about a competitive travel checklist that I found on Facebook and spent WAY too much time thinking about.
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| Lucy Silag | 3/30/2015 |
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Short Story
Set in Brooklyn in the fourth story loft of a crumbling old brick building, a girl named Charlie meets her new client Paul. Creative tension ensues.
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| Kate West | 8/5/2013 |
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Jerrod Max has come into possession of an alien artifact that lets him see what’s at any location he chooses, and, if he wishes, will transport him to that loca
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| J. Michael Edwards | 9/1/2013 |
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Ideas for a different title?!
(First six chapters) Cassie Longstreth struggles to maintain her career as an international airline pilot with a new baby at home. Two of her girlfriends, a pil
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| Kathy McCullough | 8/24/2015 |
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Lauren Michaels is exhausted with the push and pull of copy editing for Los Angeles’s woman’s magazine, Frenzy, which caters to pop culture, style, and above al
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| Alex Rosa | 7/31/2015 |
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The Kingsmen Chronicles, #1
Eloel den’Alrahel is a Kingsman. Or should have been. But Kingsman just isn’t a profession anymore, as Eloel is frequently reminded. But the Kingsmount and Star
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| Jean Lowe Carlson | 8/14/2015 |
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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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Sherwood Institute for the Magically Afflicted. A refuge for those seeking remedy from curses, hexes and other fantastical ailments.
In one night, Ariel Winter
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| Melissa Lucas | 8/25/2015 |
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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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The Hybrid Part 1
Too late for the party, all fifteen-year-old Seneca wants when she sneaks out her bedroom window near midnight is to find Kirk still waiting at the beach with a
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| Jearl Rugh | 2/10/2016 |
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Twelve-year-old Jack Boyd knows that dementia is an incurable disease--he's done his research--but that doesn't make losing his grandmother and easier. To make
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| Phil Partington | 9/12/2015 |
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Sahara flees the emotional wreckage of her parents' divorce and her father's betrayal by going to Haiti on an international development fellowship, where she re
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| Allison Kade | 9/11/2015 |
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For years, Simone Fitzgerald has battled to live a normal life, despite the multitude of voices she constantly hears. It seems she's succeeding, until an angel
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| E.A. Comiskey | 9/12/2015 |
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The world of Towne is not entirely the same world as our own. It is a world of the not-quite-normal, the often-skewed, and the sometimes-magical.
It is a worl
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| Jennifer E. Pergola | 9/22/2015 |
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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 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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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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Pet Medicine
For the past nearly two years, I’ve been writing amusing pet essays that have appeared serially in “The Dayton Leader” newspaper. I was just starting to think a
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| Kate Sebeny | 2/2/2016 |
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“What started out 50 years ago as an annual party evolved into a yearly reunion and then a way of life. It’s sort of like a geriatric Big Chill.”
Sam and Sara
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| Kate Sebeny | 2/13/2016 |
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Born into servitude, Space spent half her life in the lowest banks of the deadly Godwars mine where fallen bodies of ancient gods had turned to stone of immense
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| Elena Yazykova | 3/4/2016 |
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Rumors say CeeCee is a bad kid and even she's starting to believe the stories. One wrong decision and she slips through to an unseen world that's wedged in the
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| Mary Pascual | 3/15/2016 |
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I wrote this story in middle school, as well as in early 2015, published it in 2015.
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| Erez Bailen | 3/21/2016 |
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It's not just in your imagination.
Imaginations are just that: imaginations. Or are they? Pepper Fairfield is a spunky young woman with an incredible imagination. When she accepts a job as a nann
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| Rachel E. Wollaston | 4/5/2016 |
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The year is 2268, The City of Angels. Peter Romito, a drug addict and prostitute, is hunted by the Priest, who is on a sacred mission. The Priest carves out his
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| rj crowther jr | 6/12/2011 |
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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
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| Vincent Lupiano | 3/20/2014 |
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Book One: Difference
Amadeau is of a gypsy splinter-species of humanity. He is a clever but lonely boy who harbors a dark secret and finds himself first hunted and then stranded on
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| Hudson MacHeath | 4/18/2012 |
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Sophia Parsons’ family has skeletons, but they aren’t in their graves...
Solving the mystery of an ancestor’s hanging might silence the clashing whispers in So
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| InkMuse | 10/10/2011 |
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A paranormal private investigator who is aging and wounded accepts an undercover position at a senior's residence.
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| Kerry Schafer | 6/28/2014 |
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All Aithera of Athens wants on her trip to Delphi is to fulfill her father’s last wish and get a break from her tiresome new husband. Finding a body on the alta
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| kbmakansi | 8/9/2011 |
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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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He was a literary legend in Seattle. He had written four books, the last of which earned him a Pulitzer prize for fiction. Then something happened. It had been
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| James Boatner | 1/6/2012 |
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The Times They Were A-Changing.
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Sixteenth century England was in chaos; a feudal society was crumbling. There were all-powerful despots, entitled jerk
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| Mimi Speike | 3/18/2014 |
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Once, after He’d had too much to drink, God misplaced His sketchbook.
As usual, Metatron cleaned up the Old Guy’s snafu. He had to trade the Ten Commandment
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| Rebecca Hodgkins | 1/21/2012 |
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Tracking German soldiers through the muddy trenches of France, Captain Charles Clee stumbles onto something amazing--a secret archeological expedition from the
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| Brian Lowe | 7/14/2012 |
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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
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| RDeMille | 2/21/2012 |
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A Realm Walker Novel
Juliana Norris is a Realm Walker, an officer for the Agency. It’s a thankless job filled with danger and even death. Fortunately for Juliana, death had yet to b
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| KathleenCollins | 3/19/2012 |
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Azovi is the abandoned son of a crumbling empire. Born of rape and cast into exile when his mother is found dead, Azovi struggles to define himself in a world c
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| Melissa Hudson | 8/2/2013 |
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Abducted off the street. Tortured for days on end. Then released to be watched. What will happen in the thirteen hours after...
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| Terryll Preston | 3/22/2012 |
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Three months of missing time were only the beginning
Tamara Williams had just settled down to a quiet evening at home when, one moment she’s in her apartment then the next she’s on a dark street with a set of head
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| GloriaOliver | 1/17/2015 |
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