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A Good Drying Day
Elaine and her sister have to break some tragic news to their mother
6Action / Adventure
Twenty-Three Hundred
A sheriff's office intern witnesses a sad scene she can't fix; she can only make better choices for herself.
15Coming-of-age / Young adult fiction
Succor
Being born into one of the most wealthiest families in the United States, Hazel was born with a silver spoon in her mouth....
3Coming-of-age / Young adult fiction
Black Ink Guilt
Albernathy Central, a boarding school in Connecticut, is hosting a summer program for individuals who got accepted into an...
6Coming-of-age / Young adult fiction
Three Dreams
There are three children, one boy and two girls. They are meant to represent everything we are as children growing up in...
6Coming-of-age / Young adult fiction
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An abusive husband, a five year old daughter and a future as bleak as the night that consumed her, Chrissy Fenix flee’s...
4Crime / Suspense / Mystery / Thriller
Face Value Chapter 1
Entry for WA Comp: Kara Wright and Tien Tran, combat veterans of an elite intelligence unit, now make their living as...
8Crime / Suspense / Mystery / Thriller
<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
Another Mourning
A man wakes up and wonders if human faults like a genetic traits circulate amidst generations.
7Crime / Suspense / Mystery / Thriller
Keeping her safe: Chapters 1-3
Freelance journalist Danni Knight, is befriended by an elderly Chinese woman, Cynthia Shan. The wealthy Ms Shan has lived...
3Crime / Suspense / Mystery / Thriller
Interregnum
At the end of a world war, Peter, a top Human Security agent, returns to the city of New Geneva where a race of people who...
24Fantasy / Sci-fi
Wolves of the Whispering Wood
A retelling of Little Red Riding Hood. When Chloe's mad grandmother goes missing, she tries to uncover the mysteries surrounding...
3Fantasy / Sci-fi
Foliage
In a future society devoid of plantlife and dominated by synthetic medication and technology, an underground uprising begins...
7Fantasy / Sci-fi
The Lord of Shadows-Intro
A mysterious man and an equally mysterious girl discuss darkness and their relations to each other.
3Fantasy / Sci-fi
Brain Child
Something rather unexpected happens when a human brain is allowed to grow without restriction.
2Fantasy / Sci-fi
Four Seasons
A quick trip through the seasons inspired by my local nature reserve.
2Flash fiction
Life... and Death
Brief narrative about an opportunity lost, a love unspoken, and the consequences of staying silent.
6Flash fiction
The Tin Sarcophagus Chapters 1,2,3,4
For thirty years the artist Pierre Bonnard's companion and muse remained the legendary 'Marthe', whom he had first seen...
57Historical fiction
Hexe - Skadi Winter : AuthorHouse
Germany, 1945. The inhabitants of a small villagge near the French border struggle to regain normality after five years of...
2Historical fiction
A Communion in Solitude
A communion in Solitude is a historical fiction, set at the turn of the 20th century, which explores the story of the mysterious...
9Historical fiction
Containment
Perception can sometimes be a dangerous thing.
4Horror
Faint
Within the dissolute aftermath of a concealed global calamity where only the most rancorous of riotous degenerates thrive...
12Horror
The Rock Fortress
A mischievous boy rides the trains across Sri Lanka, in search of purpose and meaning in life.
26Literary fiction
Homecoming (a Translation)
An unnamed female protagonist describes her thoughts and emotions upon coming back to her hometown, which has been ravaged...
10Literary fiction
Truth
This is a piece of creative non-fiction. Two friends are trapped in an emotional predicament, where the truth of their separating...
1Literary fiction
Stolen Eyes
A young girl her whole life as battled with partial blindness, finally receiving a retinal and cornea donation there is something...
6Literary fiction
Pink Panties, Chocolate Pudding, and a Proposal
"Pink Panties, Chocolate Pudding, and a Proposal" (1,456 words) is an extraordinary tale (in a very literal sense) about...
12Paranormal fiction / Magic realism
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...
3Paranormal fiction / Magic realism
Paradigm Shift - Can I Heal?
YA Magical Realism All Sam (Sara Ann Maldebrot) wants is her own life. After a tragedy tears her spirit, sending Sara into...
3Paranormal fiction / Magic realism
Paradigm Shift Chapter 3 - The Edge
After longing for her own life and having her spirit torn (part of her in her world, part in this new world), Sam finds herself...
3Paranormal fiction / Magic realism
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...
8Romance / Women's fiction
The Wedding that Wasn't
Fictional story about the pressure of getting married as a single woman in NYC
7Romance / Women's fiction
Finding Mia
Isobel is on the hunt for her missing muse. What she finds instead is an abandoned toddler who is sunburned and close to...
5Romance / Women's fiction
The Man of My Dreams chpt 2
King Ataji and Renalla become better acquainted.
2Romance / Women's fiction
Kiss It Better
Best Friends decide to see where their relationship could go...
6Romance / Women's fiction
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