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A past that can damn him and no future, Trey has to act. What would you do? On the run and homeless. You would grab at every opportunity like it was your last. This is the last chance for Trey. Dead Drop is a fiction blog, a modern Noir set in Santa Monica and Los Angeles, California. Listinged every . . .
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Reinvention is a rite of passage for a teenager, and Adele, or Ivy, or whatever she’s calling herself today, is no exception. Newly shackled with a devastating family secret, she boards a bus to the City by the Bay and makes a go of it on her own—but being a runaway isn’t easy. . . .
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The Urban 30 captures the lives of several heroes, on and off the clock of being super. Each main character is written by a different writer. . . .
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The Data Yodeler is a twisting tale of five mid-career uber-geeks exploring the potential of a voyeuristic existence, and making that dream into a reality. It is a story about the meaning and purpose of art, a story about the value identity, and a story of coming to terms with an uncontrollable maelstrom of information. “Meet Russ.” “Russ . . .
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Daily blog from an amnesiac bartender in Pittsburgh. Posts about his customer, his views on life, and strange dreams that hint at a previous life. Arched story with an endgame. . . .
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Servicing the Pole is the portrait of a New York stripper—a battle-worn misfit slogging her way through the city’s roughest clubs, watching as the job replaces her personal life, and secretly harbouring rock star ambitions. As the fast-paced night life’s deceptive promises of easy money gradually give way to the harsher realities of addiction and prostitution, Emily must decide—is . . .
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Marcus, a.k.a “w1n5t0n,” is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works–and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high school’s intrusive but clumsy surveillance systems. But his whole world changes when he and his friends find themselves . . .
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Eddie, an ordinary guy, with an ordinary life in an ordinary world decides one day he is tired of the ordinary life. He makes a brash decision to try serial killing on for size. Eddie fails miserably and in the process hooks up with a group of new friends whose lives are less than ordinary are happy to take the . . .
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The comings and goings in a rapidly gentrifying tenement building in lower Manhattan. . . .
“Little Brother” is the story of Marcus Yallow, a high school geek who gets caught in the wrong place, at the wrong time. He and his friends skip school to play an Alternate Reality Game but are picked up by Homeland Security in the aftermath of a terrorist attack on San Francisco. When they are finally released, they find their [more . . .]
I am currently reading Shaw’s "Servicing The Pole", and I want to start by saying that I think it is to her credit that she wants to maintain her independence as an author and remain true to her vision for the dimensions of her main characters. I am enjoying the fact that Shaw seems able to [more . . .]