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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

Woebegone

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

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

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

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

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

London Comfort

From Hollywood to the White House: An American Idol's Dangerous R
Celebutante LONDON COMFORT's coke-filled nights with Hollywood party boys are tame compared to what she finds in the White House -- a world just as exploitive b
Henry Scott3/17/2012

Burn your comics

Given the right circumstances anyone can go insane. Maybe you're too tired, maybe you forgot to take your meds. For some it doesn't take a whole lot. Maybe its
guy weird11/4/2012

Video Games

It's still not done but it's a satire on the effects of video games on certain peoples lives and also how reality and fantasy can kind of blend together sometim
guy weird2/12/2013

Affliction

Seattle police detective Kevin Strode takes a smoke break while waiting for the chief psychiatrist of Western State Hospital for the criminally insane. Upon his
Greg Meritt4/8/2014

The Gold Detectives

Book One
Detective Inspector Amanda Gold worries that a career move from the busy inner city department she runs in Birmingham, to the peaceful and stunning surroundings
Gilly H5/14/2011

Time Heals

I kind of just wrote this randomly one day, a friend of mine asked me to wrie about the first thing that came to my mind. So i thought about it for a second and
Floob12/16/2012

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

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

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

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 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

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

EDGY

A lawyer discovers that his wife plans to place her family fortune in trust for her small son and becomes obsessed with changing her mind. When his efforts fai
Deirdra Baldwin12/28/2011

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