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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...

The Man Who Could Not Forget

by Michael Graeme

A Short Story by Michael Graeme (a fifteen minute read): ...I have a problem with my memory. It isn't that it ever fails me - quite the opposite in fact. Indeed, my recall of events from all but the earliest...

In My Neighborhood

by Rev. John Sleestaxx

A glorious romp and recollection of events that occur "in my neighborhood". If I had famous rock stars living all "in my neighborhood". All events are purely fictional and not a true recollection in the real...

She Hates My Futon

by Craig Mitchell

(A novella in progress) We’ve all seen those weird dating service ads that promise paradise. Are you a sucker or are you a dreamer? Ever call one?

The Pea Pod Gambit

by Joseph Devon

Atticus and Seth have the perfect setup: a three bedroom apartment with a third roommate who is never around because he is always over at his girlfriend’s house. But when their roommate’s relationship ends...

How To Disappear Completely

by David Bowick

www.bowick.net/books/ Sitting at the top of a Ferris wheel overlooking the Boston skyline, Josh’s life takes an unexpected turn, and things will never be the same. Along with the many surprises on his life’s...

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.

Swimming Lessons

by Meryl McQueen

A parent's worst nightmare: the loss of a child. A parent's only hope: a child's joy. What happens when all you have to give is not enough? A story about love, dreams, family, unexpected connections, and learning...

Escape From Paradise Island

by Michael Graeme

A 25 minute read by Michael Graeme: Crime doesn't pay. That's what they try to teach you in prison, and fair enough, I might even have left there one day determined to go straight except, suddenly, I was on...

Emu Patrol

by Iain Wells

Emu Patrol is the farcical tale of an obsessional pursuit of love, sex, drugs, rock ‘n’ roll and emus. Who is Jake Lewis? Is he the drug-dealing terrorist the police think he is? Is he the perverted stalker...

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.

Black Silk

by Jan Gordon

Victoria Hudson is 29 and lives in the kind of small town where everyone knows everyone else. She has two great loves in her life -- her cat, Mister, and reading books from her used bookstore. She doesn't see...

Semblances

by S. P. Elledge

Even more short stories.

Love is a Perfect Place

by Michael Graeme

A short story by Michael Graeme - a twenty minute read: He scooped some water up and drank. It astonished him. It tasted like he imagined the most perfect water should taste, but it was a sensation spoiled by...

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

by Francis Scott Fitzgerald

This story was inspired by a remark of Mark Twain's to the effect that it was a pity that the best part of life came at the beginning and the worst part at the end. By trying the experiment upon only one man...

His Robot Girlfriend

by Wesley Allison

Mike Smith's life was crap, living all alone, years after his wife had died and his children had grown up and moved away. Then he saw the commercial for the Daffodil. Far more than other robots, the Daffodil...

A Dancing Bear

by David Free

What if getting the girl meant becoming a terrorist wet boy? On an unnamed university campus late in the 20th century, a young man named Fenton Bland joins a society of student Maoists in order to get near the...

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....

Dial M For Monkey

by Adam Maxwell

Adam Maxwell's first collection of short stories is inventive, funny, dark, and hugely entertaining. Effortlessly fusing pop culture, gunplay, and simians, Dial M For Monkey contains a vibrant mixture of short...

The Kama Sutra

by Vatsyayana

The Kama Sutra, is an ancient Indian text widely considered to be the standard work on human sexual behavior in Sanskrit literature written by the Indian scholar Vatsyayana. A portion of the work consists of...