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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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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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You’ve seen the world for what it is, and you know we are in trouble. Ills beyond the reach of bankers and cops, soldiers and presidents and even kings threaten the fabric of our lives. What we need is a hero. Follow the struggle of electrician, Alex Cides as he struggles with forces that upset his balance with the . . .
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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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A fantasy set in modern Japan, about a young woman and the kami who takes a strong interest in her. . . .
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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 . . .
Early next year, a deadly and unexplained virus emerges on the U.S. continent. Within weeks, the entire world’s population faces extinction. Amongst the chaos and desperation of a ruined world stand a few mysteriously unaffected individuals. Lost, confused, and alone. This is the bizarre story of one of those individuals, Matthew Cahill, as he travels from Pittsburgh through the Pennsylvania . . .
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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. . . .
overall 2 votes:
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When the purple-haired dame showed up at the agency, Flank Ploughman, private investigator, did his best to send her away. Like it said on the door, he didn’t take that kind of case. But he couldn’t resist cash when it was right in front of him like that, and soon he was caught up in the underground of Tokyo’s Seru . . .
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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. . . .
The Data Yodeler is a well-written—though ultimately lack-lustre—story of a fictional experiment in web-celebrity. It’s a postmortem, in effect, of how the experiment came about, and "what went wrong".
Russ decides to put his life on display, 18 hours a day, via blogging, twitter, photos, and video. He finds a sponser—the [more . . .]
I’ve always had a thing for detective stories. Sherlock Holmes, The Maltese Falcon, Blade Runner, Law and Order, Tracer Bullet (yes, I just mentioned Calvin and Hobbes), these are some of the greats. There’s something about a detective story that I like. Maybe it’s their use of intellect to solve a problem. Maybe it’s the fact that they use their [more . . .]