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Horatio
What do you do when an unwelcome visitor arrives and stays for seven long years? You go into battle.
16Flash fiction
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Searching
Darkness. Overwhelming darkness. That was what dying felt like to Marra. However, thanks to new technology created by her best...
10Action / Adventure
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The Golden-Gate
A girl on the bridge wavers between life and death.
0Literary fiction
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The Lord of Shadows-Intro
A mysterious man and an equally mysterious girl discuss darkness and their relations to each other.
3Fantasy / Sci-fi
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Michael Missing in Action
Was given the prompt: a date gone horribly wrong
1Flash fiction
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<The Murder of Grace>First 1500 words
The Murder of Grace is a novel about the involvement of seven children in an apartheid government plot to infect anti-apartheid...
2Crime / Suspense / Mystery / Thriller
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Russian Roulette - Prologue
Soul-bound to a man she cannot trust and hunted by darkness, nineteen-year-old Helena Hawthorn is learning what the world behind...
3Paranormal fiction / Magic realism
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Our Colours Run Chapter 2
Paris 1917. In the war-torn capital where art and love are the only things not rationed, the artist Pierre Bonnard takes a new...
0Romance / Women's fiction
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Comatose or You Don't Know Where You Are
You wake up in an unknown location and attempt to uncover where you are and to understand the oddities of this strange place.
0Crime / Suspense / Mystery / Thriller
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Dancing Objects
of a childs' special safe place
1Literary fiction
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Trekking
Gender interplay gets serious in a Tasmanian wilderness.
1Literary fiction
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The Demons Within Us
He had no idea what was coming for him.
0Paranormal fiction / Magic realism
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Taste
You think that you have tasted everything at my age, sweet, sour, savoury. But once you get a taste of this , well you really...
1Action / Adventure
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Conversations in the Garden Room
Often family secrets remain untold...and some family secrets change history. A conversation with an ageing mother reveals love...
0Historical fiction
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Once upon a time
Once upon a time I met her.....
22Romance / Women's fiction
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Prologue from novel named 'Gone.'
A mum of three kids is struggling with postpartum anxiety. She refuses to get help, thinking no one can help her and the story...
8Romance / Women's fiction
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Sick
A mother tests her daughter about survival in a decomposing world.
1Horror
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The Dentist
A man with an irrational fear of dentists goes to get a cavity filled.
0Crime / Suspense / Mystery / Thriller
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Little Dipper
Four Jewish children are hiding from the Gestapo, where they keep each other company and reminisce about the past.
0Historical fiction
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The Game
A pair of brothers play chess.
0Literary fiction
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