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Winning is for Losers

A professional killer and a bookie team up to find a missing diary that a gangster left with his son before he went to prison.
Ron Friedman5/6/2011

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

Blue Bloods

After a comet nearly hits the Earth, individuals begin displaying strange powers.
Robert C Roman5/5/2011

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

Life Through Loving Eyes

They loved her. They loved something evil even more...
There once was a girl named Deborah. She had a loving family, a cozy happy small town, and a birth right she didn't want. This book will take you deep into the
Black Fire Blitzer5/5/2011

The Do-Over

What if you had the chance to go back and re-do your worst mistake? When Lexi Bailey gets that chance, she not only changes things, she falls in love!
Gracie Laurens5/5/2011

SpinTrap

... and you think you're having a bad day?
SOMEONE said of this book: "A fast-paced, minimalist read that succeeds - paradoxically - in being accessible and mysterious at the same time. Not a word is was
Rik Roots5/4/2011

The Space Between Heaven and Earth

In a time before the Gods, a woman discovers something about herself and the world that will change everything.
CaseyGoodrow5/4/2011

Painfully Awesome

Awesome Jackson is a pain wizard, she can only use magic when she feels pain. Someone is hunting her and Awesome discovers it has something to do with her moth
Jason Myers5/3/2011

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

Knights and Chivalry

A (very) short piece of fiction that juxtaposes the fantasy and reality of knighthood in a contemporary world.
Michael Guarneiri5/3/2011

Cat Heaven

Samantha had never really believed in life-after-death, so was entirely unprepared for life-after-life.
Sturgis Holt5/3/2011

Robin Wept

short story - one chapter
A man travels back in time to save his wife, from whom he became estranged, from a future tragedy. Sadly, for him it is a one way trip for several reasons.
Mike Perkins5/2/2011

Forsaken

Lisette Thomas comes from a house of abuse an neglect. Fleeing her home one night she runs into a vampire who decides to end her suffering. After tasting her bl
Kristine Ondrus5/2/2011

Henry Spark

‘Henry Spark’ is like Jesus’s Son, richly concise, free of overwrought details, and quotable. Pop culture references insulate Henry from his crumbling personal
Jason Rice5/2/2011

Play

first chapter: introductions. The rest will follow.
Killing is easy, friendship is harder. A loose group of friends try to dance around the murder in their midst, while keeping it cool and getting ahead.
Daniel Logan5/2/2011

Comrade Kitten

A Chinese woman's journey from a peasant girl trying to survive during the Japanese invasion to a communist soldier under Mao's leadership. After living through
Kitten Comrade5/2/2011

SWEEPFIRE: the Untold Story

A Texas billionaire, infuriated by 9/11, inflamed by a U.S. Congressman, and abetted by a Hellfire preacher, creates a secret army of suicide bombers to attack
Sturgis Holt5/2/2011

One Night in Tunisia

Eight Englishmen on sojourn, voyage around the Med on Poseidon, a fast schooner. Set against the impact of the Blair/Brown years, the crew find solace and exper
Software5/2/2011

Merciless Destruction

A Political Thriller
Merciless Destruction takes on the FBI, the religious right, the war on terror, and the political culture of “Hollywood for ugly people,” Washington DC. Vete
Bruce Gatenby5/2/2011

Under the Iron Lake

A crime thriller
A misunderstanding lands Rick in a Mexican jail. His new pals are chronic offenders; Rick is chronically misunderstood. He didn’t know he was working for gang
Display Name5/1/2011

The Twins

Self-expression is dangerous if it changes reality
With strange characteristics and an even stranger origin, twins Alex and Isabelle struggle to fit in. But when they are enrolled in a special school for the Exp
Y Beeri5/1/2011

And I Heard a Man Call My Name

This is a flash fiction exercise using the prompt: "The distance between two points increases over time." May, a thirteen-year-old, recalls how her father's chi
Blakely Chorpenning4/30/2011

ANIMA

Caranome and Tia, wife and mistress, once rivals, now sisters in sorrow, meet in the laboratory of Herculo Chiavengo where Dickson, his rabbity cyber-technician
Sturgis Holt4/30/2011

Picayune

Picayune dreams of far away places - of knights and dragons and princesses and treasure. But that is all they ever are, dreams. He feels the rush and passion, b
John DeJordy4/29/2011

XLI

A warrior monk recruits an assassin to protect his world from high tech pirates. Meanwhile, an alien race tries to escape an ancient evil.
Robert C Roman4/29/2011

Crowbar Girl

Lane, Mary, and Gwen just want to live the life of normal high school girls. Life isn't cooperating.
Robert C Roman4/29/2011

The LOVE Curse

Ely, the wealthy daughter of a prearranged marriage, finds herself curious about LOVE. The only issue is that LOVE is the curse the commoners are tricked into.
Armine4/29/2011

The Screaming Box

Novelette 9,500 words
With his Screaming Box, Dylan James found fame and fortune with the added bonus of eternal youth. So what if it killed customers? He could live with it...right?
Jennifer B Fields4/29/2011

Sunny's Haven

Sunny Hawkins has a big problem. She’s desperate to keep her husband and daughters from finding out they’re deeply in debt and about to lose their home. The rew
Kenja Purkey4/29/2011

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

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

Swordslayer.

Swordslayer trilogy book 1
Hunted from halfway across the world, Viktor Sable, Johnathan's uncle must protect the vulnerable newborn swordslayer from all manner of vampires, corrupt pries
Ian J Smethurst4/28/2011

Wallflower

For Connie Boyle, a job at the Hayfork, Kansas library was just an excuse to get away from her abusive husband. But when she learns that she’s the only one who
Jennifer B Fields4/28/2011

Ice Cream Moose

A guy is on his way to work when he finds a moose sleeping in his driveway. After a brief conversation, the two become fast friends and eat ice cream. This is
Mike Lynch4/28/2011

Zombie Diapers

Being a teen mom too hard? Try it with zombies chasing you.
Liz is a survivor, one of the few, of the zombie apocalypse. A teenager who just recently was a cheerleader, dating the Quarterback, and doing everything right
Cassandra Stryffe4/28/2011

A Thousand Wishes

Serene is a small town bustling with Elves, Fauns, Humans, Wizards, Witches, Dwarfs and other creatures. When Torro, the Faun, realizes that someone is sneaking
AB Matyana4/28/2011

Luka

Mae Carlson has a father dead from cancer and a mother swallowed by grief. Aleksandr Kovalenko has an abusive father, a missing mother, and a sister with a hear
Karoline Tufte Lien4/27/2011

All or Nothing

A single mom will stop at nothing to get her daughter the education she needs, even if it means turning her back on her first chance at true love.
CarlaKempert4/27/2011

When I Wake

I heard my name and looked around; sure he wasn’t talking to me even though I was the only one still outside. I leaned against the wall, soaking up all the hea
Brandi Kosiiner4/27/2011

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

Ariana of the Island

Every year the dying members of the Sea Eagle tribe take a final journey to the Empire of Valerus, the land of the gods, but when Ariana, the chief’s daughter r
Julie Rossignol4/27/2011

The Archon

In the Land of Thoringarde, A young man and his friend are chosen to join the most prestigious order in the land, The Clerics of Samctum. Everything seems fine
Peter Thomson4/27/2011

A Life Lived Ridiculously

Prolougue, Chapter 1 and Chapter 2
Maxine’s brain is stuck. Everything around her feels wrong and the only way to fix it is to check, double-check, rearrange and count everything. What Maxine can
Annabelle R Charbit4/27/2011

When the Moon Fails

A mystery that spans three countries
One girl arrives in Portugal on a mission. She's never left the UK before. One man arrives in Portugal on a mission. He's never left the States before. Both ar
Susan Roebuck4/27/2011

Manhandled

Elle Eastgate had no idea she was applying for employment at a brothel in New York City. Captain Harcourt had referred her to The Dovetail. She had never met th
Keta Diablo4/26/2011

The Butterfly Bush

A fourth of July party among a few long time friends comes to a horrific conclusion before it even gets rolling.
JK Bradley4/26/2011

And Then They Died (working title)

No Chapter 1 posted...
This young adult re-envisioned Hamlet, reminiscent of Hunger Games, is set 1000 years after an apocalyptic asteroid shower. Humankind decimated, matriarchal fe
Meg4/26/2011

The Will Of Instinct: a zombie novel

One Man’s Struggle to Survive Among the Undead
It is years after the horrors of the zombie plague, and the world continues to rebuild. In the ruins of Old New York, a tattered leather journal is found with
Ruled By Books4/26/2011

Harbinger

Alistar Meriwether is a successful trader and an honest man, a far cry from the scheming scavenger he’d been raised to be. As Alistar plans the biggest sale of
srgruber4/26/2011