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Solstice Turnpike

a short story
Thomas, a thirty-year-old man is running away from his fear of growing old by the help of his old motorcycle friend. Little he knows that his flight will be com
Mike Greenoor6/30/2013

Children of the Light

Children of the Light is a contemporary fantasy that was inspired by a non-fiction medieval book on gardening. Discover how children and teens find themselves f
Delphine Saucier7/5/2013

A Reluctant Defense of the Competitive Travel Checklist

An Essay
An essay about a competitive travel checklist that I found on Facebook and spent WAY too much time thinking about.
Lucy Silag3/30/2015

The Seinturi Birthright

Book One: The Seinturi Birthright Saga
Just beyond the borders of the Seinturi Union, fierce piety and anger lay the groundwork for holy war. Yet the Seinturi people, assuming themselves absolutely a
Brian Geffen7/16/2013 Be the first to review this version

SALIGIA

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
Paul St.George7/16/2013

Winkle²

First in the Prodigy series
A 130-year-old curmudgeon is roused from his euthanasia four centuries after the fact. Waking him was no trivial matter, so it’s hard to comprehend why these sc
Richard J Bishop7/28/2013

Love Among the Ruins

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
Lucy Silag9/23/2015

Instant Crush

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.
Kate West8/5/2013

The Fate Merchant (New draft)

The Fate Merchant is about Jasper Kravitz, a slacker who has begun to realize that he needs to do more with his life. When he takes possession of a camera that
Marc Poliquin9/3/2014 Be the first to review this version

Cardinal Sky

In a future without hope, one girl’s mistake will change the fate of mankind. Sky grew up in a world conquered by alien invaders, the Cardinals. She fled the s
Maya Green9/8/2015 Be the first to review this version

Inescapable Fate

Not every love story can be beautiful...
Do you really have any real impact on the path your life will take? Or is everything planned out before you? Each step set in stone. The notion of freewill noth
By N K Burke9/2/2015

A Leaf of Lyrea

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
M Shimoji1/17/2016 Be the first to review this version

The Practical Orphan's Guide to Surviving a Fairy Tale

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 -
Megan Christopher9/30/2015

A Thin Rabble Of Friends

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,
Hans Jenske10/6/2015

The Stone Moon Pack

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
Cookies10/16/2015

Yo Ho!

Silly silly silly, and then some. Damn again, how many words do I need to get this thing to post?
Mimi Speike1/26/2016 Be the first to review this version

The Mark of the Hanged

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
Dirk Richter1/17/2016

Illustrious

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
by Michelle Mullet1/18/2016 Be the first to review this version

The Secret Lives of Super Heroes

Rosilla and Vincent Richards try to live a normal life in their sleepy little town. Everything goes according to plan until four villains come to town on the s
Jeff Bates2/17/2016 Be the first to review this version

Godwars

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
Elena Yazykova3/4/2016

Navigating Your 20s

This book is to help people get through their 20s.
Debasree Ghosh4/7/2016 Be the first to review this version

Possession

Rose Burns is a recovering teenage schizophrenic who finds herself tumbled into a world of beautifully terrifying and otherworldly people who can tap int
Claire Garner4/26/2016 Be the first to review this version

Wings of Madness

The Bloodiest Battle in the History of American Aerial Combat
Through the eyes of one pilot, Robert Sternfels, "The Wings of Madness" takes the reader through Operation Tidal Wave, a poorly planned low-level mission that i
Vincent dePaul Lupiano7/22/2016 Be the first to review this version

Kingdom of Rats

A bridge in between civilization and waste, suspended above a dying sea. A boy who becomes King.
Lilah Black8/15/2016 Be the first to review this version

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

Kurig

Brynn gets lost in a terrible storm and wakes up in Kurig, a fantastic world where fairytales come to life.
A J Hart5/7/2013

Twist of Fate

Perhaps the most painful thing for a person to endure is the loss of a child. Anthony Tee, a successful businessman, losses the eldest of his three sons. His
A J Aurichio10/9/2011

Prisoner's Cinema

It's growing into something that I can't quite control, but the process is fun more than anything. This isn't anywhere near completion, but I'm on here just to
Aaron Cederberg12/5/2013

Plucking Away

Young frustrated musician, Robert Monroe, begins having involuntary astral projections which increasingly unsettle him. Amidst all this, he deals with loss of c
Abid Azam12/24/2013

Entropy's Son

Aarian Kane watched his childhood friends grow and discover their paths. The Eridian seers, responsible for discovering and unlocking the inner potentials of a
by Adam Pitcher11/13/2015

Summoned

It all began with an energy flux and a pilfered vile, but as their journey progresses, Therin and his companions fall deep into the demented plot of an unknown,
Adelaide Emerson4/10/2012

Rise of The White Raven

Love blooms. Prophecy unfolds. Evil awaits, and it’s only spring Break. Deidra thought she was a typical seventeen-year-old girl who had transformed from
Aira Philipps3/16/2015

Collections

Modern Times viewed through Short Stories
A commentary on Modern society and Culture, Collections features short stories that deal with important themes pertaining to modern times, such as corruption, v
AJR Sottil5/8/2011

Look What I Pulled Outta My Ass

So here we are, two writers facing the terrible blockage...of course I am referring to writer's block. So what did we do? We played a game: collect 5 words from
Alex WIllis1/8/2012

Rules of Twelve

Mia Mitchell has a problem, & it has nothing to do with the living. She's single, likes long strolls through cemeteries, and her morbid curiosity is on the brin
Alex Rosa7/11/2014

Eustice

Book One of The Reaper Corps Series
Eustice P. Jennings awakens alone and confused on an ugly piece of office furniture in Purgatory. Being dead is the least of her problems as she is quickly draf
Alex Gulczynski9/8/2013 Be the first to review this version

Finding Oblivion

Book Two in The Reaper Corps Series
Book two of the Reaper Corps Series finds Eustice P. Jennings the last Reaper, alone and betrayed. She takes to The Wastes for refuge as the Eternal Conflict be
Alex Gulczynski9/8/2013 Be the first to review this version

Still Life

The end of the world as we know it, as seen through the eyes of an eleven year old little Australian girl hiding inside a pet shop.
Alex Maher7/10/2015

Tryst

In this sensational New Adult debut by Alex Rosa, boyfriends are too much trouble. So what’s the harm in a little fun? With an abusive relationship behind her,
Alex Rosa 11/18/2014

Soulweaver

Draft 1
Unseen, Unheard and undetected, the soulweaver feeds of the souls of the dying. Cleaning them of their lifes memories before transporting them to the awaiting u
A L Maher6/23/2014

Tim

The Toothpaste Troll
Meet Tim. Tim is a Troll He also isn't very happy. You would have thought that being a troll, being unhappy should have been great. Trolls aren't exactly known
Alex Maher2/26/2014

Rash Decisions

Julia Ferris had it all. A loving a boyfriend, a glamorous city, and a high paying job. What more could a girl want? She’d ask you, “what if all those things we
Alex Rosa10/7/2014

The Invisible People

“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
Alex Maher10/9/2014

Unwritten

Hailey Elwood always knew three things: she wanted to be a writer, she didn’t want to run her family diner, and she was madly and unconditionally in love with C
Alex Rosa2/25/2015

Fahrenheit

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
Alex Rosa7/31/2015

The House of Lattimore

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
A.M. Owen10/15/2015 Be the first to review this version

Phoenix 2125

20 years after California sinks into the ocean, creating a coastal Arizona, orphan Tom returns home to Phoenix. He is quickly swept up in a world of intrigue hi
Alexander Hollins3/31/2011

Shadowed Sins

Sin Eater Book 1
Jenna has lived by one credo her entire life--avoid unnecessary complications. When you have the ability to not only 'see' another person's sin, but absorb it
LexieGirl3/4/2011

1 Chapter. The secret of woman's power

Novel with Lessons
The book is much more than an inspirational and amusing romantic novel about a woman learning ancient wisdom from her aunt in the south of France. The book open
Alexandra Joy10/2/2013

Winter Rose

When Rose Davidson receives word that she is to teach children in the West, she is excited. However, it means she has to maintain a long distance relationship w
A.M. Owen10/31/2014