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SAND SHARK

Two boys who want to escape their difficult home lives borrow a metal detector

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Literary fiction


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Marina Marinopoulos

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The Rock Fortress

A mischievous boy rides the trains across Sri Lanka, in search of purpose and meaning in life.

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Literary fiction


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Ryan Glasgo

Little Girl

This is a story about a girl who is coming-of-age and breaking free from the comforts of childhood.

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Coming-of-age / Young adult fiction


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C. L. Beare

Another Mourning

A man wakes up and wonders if human faults like a genetic traits circulate amidst generations.

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Crime / Suspense / Mystery / Thriller


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Kamukai

Once upon a palace

Lana lives in a country manor with her family until she is invited, along with other girls of nobility, to the palace. It is a...

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Action / Adventure


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L. M. Gregson

The Karma Chronicles - Book Excerpt

This is a piece of a completed manuscript I have written, called 'The Karma Chronicles.' It follows the story of these powerful...

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Fantasy / Sci-fi


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Stephanie Allwright

First Love Daydreams

The strongest force known to man would still never be enough to extinguish the fire set by that of your first love.

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Romance / Women's fiction


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amanda estes

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Flight Path - Chapter 1

The second in a series of books following two women, ex-military intelligence operators, now Private Investigators.

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Crime / Suspense / Mystery / Thriller


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Ian Andrew

Illusory Control

As a man suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder, Silas is imprisoned by his own anxieties. When he begins to fall in love...

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Paranormal fiction / Magic realism


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Aaron Wiley

The day she ended

a young girl is taken from her mother whilst on holiday.

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Crime / Suspense / Mystery / Thriller


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Lou Taylor

<Wards of the Shadowkin> Ch. 1 Part 1.

Two revolutionaries, Fellius and Raven, prepare to destroy the Porkibus estate.

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Fantasy / Sci-fi


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Jadened

Cultural Divide

Henry revisits the guilt he feels over his betrayal of Danica, a foreign student from the same birthplace as his mother.

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Literary fiction


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Alex Ambrozic

Sudden Handcuffs

Genre is not exactly accurate: this is a very short story which I would call slice-of-life realism. The story is told in English,...

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Romance / Women's fiction


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Diana Zimmerman de Pescione

Best Week Ever

A young woman deals with life's frustrations in a unique way.

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Crime / Suspense / Mystery / Thriller


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Tia Ichele

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A Good Drying Day

Elaine and her sister have to break some tragic news to their mother

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Action / Adventure


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Mary Rogan

A Tiger Called Amnesia

Struggling with nominal amnesia an elderly woman is in turn confused and confuses others with the unexpected coming and going...

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Flash fiction


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Maggie Brown

Homecoming (a Translation)

An unnamed female protagonist describes her thoughts and emotions upon coming back to her hometown, which has been ravaged by...

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Literary fiction


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Alex Ambrozic

Revenge is Necessary and Very Sweet

If you lost the love of your life - what would you do? A gruesome murder is the beginning leading to a trail of mysterious deaths....

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Crime / Suspense / Mystery / Thriller


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westie roslyn

Hell Found Me

"Hell Found Me" is a writing prompt given to me and I wanted to challenge myself into writing completely outside of my genre,...

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Paranormal fiction / Magic realism


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Brooke Stewart

Silence

A man has never met silence.

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Literary fiction


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Zack Kalbfleisch

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