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Homesick

by Meryl McQueen

Marcus has been on the run for decades from the violence that scarred him as a child in South Africa. Now his past has caught up to him. It happens now, the sirens and the silence. It happens now, the sirens...

A Month of Sundays

by Meryl McQueen

Four best friends. One deadly secret. A family's tragedy. This is a story of understanding too little, too late. Don't waste a minute of this one precious life.

Vertigo

by Meryl McQueen

Traveling in Paris with her husband and kids, Melissa Foreman meets an old flame. What happens next is anyone's guess.

Do Butterflies Bleed?

by Meryl McQueen

A short short about grandfathers, grandsons, and the beauty of a dignified death. Written in the form of a one-scene play.

Courting Disaster

by Meryl McQueen

Abrams Porter. Plumber. Smart, sexy, single. Every woman's best friend. And falling hard for Nina, the long-legged vision he met at a hot dog stand. A short, sharp story about love, pickup trucks, relish, Twizzlers,...

Boarding Pass

by Meryl McQueen

Where do you go, when you've been everywhere? Carl is about to find out. A short story about love, travel, familiar faces, and airport food.

The Path of Dreams

by Eugene Woodbury

Although they have never met before, a seemingly chance encounter leaves Elaine Chieko Packard and Connor McKenzie haunted by passionate dreams they cannot control. They determine to resolve the growing tension...

My Inaugural Address at the Great White Throne Judgment of the Dead

by secretrapture

An unusual perspective on current End Times events, as predicted in the Book of Revelation, including the Rapture and the Tribulation.

Kachina Dawn

by Gregory Bernard Banks

This novelette, excerpted from the short story collection "Phoenix Tales: Stories of Death & Life (Second Edition)", was a L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future Contest Quarter-Finalist (2002).

Shattered Crystals

by Mia Amalia Kanner & Eve Rosenzweig Kugler

In Shattered Crystals, Mia Amalia Kanner recounts the true story of her desperate struggle to save her family from annihilation in Nazi Germany and war-torn France. Yet this is much more than a Holocaust history....

Fall Daze

by Meryl McQueen

New school, new town, new life: sixteen-year-old Nicole is about to find out the hard way that home can be a four-letter word.

Red Riding Hood

by Naomi Kramer

Rosie dresses as "Little Red Riding Hood, all growed up" for a party at an exclusive adults' club. Roger dresses as the wolf. When they meet... sparks don't exactly fly. This isn't a romance or erotic fiction,...

Waiting

by CD Clement

So what becomes of us as we lose our faculties? Where do we go and what secrets do we learn? And do we discover that all our sacrifices were worthwhile?

Semblances

by S. P. Elledge

Even more short stories.

The Choices

by Michael Graeme

A fifteen minute read: I am sitting here in the lounge-bar of the McKinley Arms Hotel, by the shores of Loch Lomond, and I am staring out into the twilight at my choices. I have been this way before many times...

Forty Hadith

by Imam Ruhullah al-Musawi al-Khumayni

Forty Hadith An Exposition on 40 ahadith narrated through the Prophet [s] and his Ahl al-Bayt [a] Translated by: Mahliqa Qara'i (late) and Ali Quli Qara'i Published by: Al-Tawhid P.O Box 37165-111, Qum The Islamic...

Timo Time goes by

by kinko12

Timo Time is the main character who keeps passing by people and making their lives better.

Oliver Twist

by Charles Dickens

Set in Victorian London, this is a tale of a spirited young innocent's unwilling but inevitable recruitment into a scabrous gang of thieves. Masterminded by the loathsome Fagin, the underworld crew features...

Old Man

by Marc Khoury

Julian Cams lost his wife Martha to Alzheimer’s last year. After three years of supporting her through the disease, he now rests at home and awaits Death in order to meet his wife again. While talking to his...