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"Wronged at Birth"
A mentally challenged, yet somewhat clairvoyant young man (Dumbyis) is resented by a local bully. It's the friendship he has with his baby sister that enrag
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| Dickey Harrold | 5/4/2014 |
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A Suburban Odyssey
We shop there. We drive past them every day. We watch them spring up like tumors across the countryside. Colossus of Rhodesville delves into the weird, mundane,
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| Andy L. Kubai | 5/14/2014 |
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Zoë Donahue is a small-time web designer turned accidental hacker who gets nabbed by the FBI. Her only chance to stay out of jail is to cooperate and to go on a
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| Gary Horsman | 5/27/2014 |
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A Cuckold Tale
It was a relatively normal day, but little did Olivia (a.k.a O ) know that her husband, David had a plan. David’s sexual fetish is to watch his beautiful wife
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| Olivia Barringer | 5/31/2014 |
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A Novel
The Adder’s Keeper is an historical novel of suspense in the years following the Norman Conquest, when blood feuds reign over reason, shadows carry swords, and
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| Eve-Anne Griffin | 5/6/2018 |
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An Historical Novel
The Adder’s Keeper is an historical novel of suspense in the years following the Norman Conquest, when blood feuds reign over reason, shadows carry swords, and
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| Eve-Anne Griffin | 5/6/2018 |
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This short story is intended to be included in a collection of stories I hope to publish very soon. Each story is different from the others. There are no char
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| DJ Pizzarello | 6/4/2014 |
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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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Of Bavichigo
Battle lead to Glory, while Glory leads to Honor, and Honor leads to a great death
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| Ryan Lockhart | 7/2/2014 |
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This story is one I hope to include in a book of seven stories I hope to have published. Three of the stories have been posted for peer review on Book Country;
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| DJ Pizzarello | 7/4/2014 |
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Mathew wakes up many nights in a row after having dreams that he can't really remember. He decides that they must mean something and he tries to get the true m
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| Craig Peterson | 7/6/2014 |
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Sample: He was like a picture suddenly snapping into focus, crisp lines crawling over black edges. He shook and shivered despite the warm night air. The megawat
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| by Michelle Hiscox | 8/8/2014 |
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Rent your home to a stranger?
"I'm allowed to meet the families. Whoopee, alert the media."
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| Fluidity | 9/18/2014 |
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three flash fiction stories
Bloodline - Bad Family tree
Deep trouble - stuck in a place no one wants to be
Family Trouble - Son learning of parents true side
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| Craig Peterson | 7/12/2014 |
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A Novella
Shayaan is a young twenty something college goer living with his parents in Dubai and pining over his beautiful neighbour. But the more he learns about his dre
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| Faisal Pakkali | 7/12/2014 |
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“So, have you ever met Daniel Clifford?”
“Dan Clifford… He was that guy that won the lotto wasn’t he? 80 million or something. Lucky guy.” - Jenny Maxwell - Sy
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| Alex Maher | 10/9/2014 |
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A short story about a young man who acclimates to life in the city and takes a chance by introducing himself to someone new...
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| Peter Francis | 8/30/2014 |
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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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The fall of the Soviet Union created a radical shift in policy and doctrine within many militaries around the world. American led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
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| R. Williams | 9/24/2014 |
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Second draft
It's 1878 young Rodney Ball thought he was in big GUN TROUBLE. In stead of facing the music Rod runs East. Rod only stops because of the ocean, plus he's tired,
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| Lost in the Woods | 10/6/2014 |
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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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Inspiration for this tale came from an Oscar Wilde story but the plot is wildly different. This tale is not so much a comedy.
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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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She says it's for research. He thinks it's to explore a hidden desire to be dominated.
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| A. Atticus Poe | 11/10/2014 |
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Helga Heinrich and her four children sail into the thriving Texas seaport of Indianola in 1853, determined to overcome the memory and haunting legacy of Max, he
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| Myra Hargrave McIlvain | 11/13/2014 |
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The First Millenium
The renowned Swiss financier, Samuel Bellibet, recounts in his own words a life-journey through some of the most convoluted times of our History. Beginning at t
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| Paul St.George | 7/16/2013 |
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This is a "life telling" story of one woman and her journey through love. Starting in the early 40s and moving into the 90's. She is an AA woman and a lesbian.
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| KatW | 7/24/2013 |
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Johnny is a teenage boy with a problem, and a somewhat unique solution.
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| Darrell Pestana | 9/4/2013 |
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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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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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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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(Book One of the Broughton Trilogy)
Down-trodden by life and generally fed up with his lot, Edward King is determined to find the tiniest scrap of happiness before it's all too late. But it's not
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| A J Smith | 8/20/2015 |
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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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f there's something bad in your past that you've deliberately forgotten, it stays forgotten. That's what Samantha believed, until the day Daniel suddenly appear
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| Poppy Gillespie | 8/31/2015 |
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Sam and Scott are a couple of teenagers who live in the small town of Atom. A year ago something horrible happened in the town, which affected Sam's father, Bra
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| L J Hick | 2/8/2016 |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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GOD'S MESSENGER
The Mitzvah of ensuring that deceased Holocaust survivor Solomon Meinz is buried according to Jewish law is given to Rabbi's Mendel and David. a search of Mist
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| JACOB BEN ZVI | 2/25/2016 |
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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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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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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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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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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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