College and the years just afterwards are pivotal for many people, having adventures and establishing their lives. It was especially true for Randy Clark and his three girl friends. They are very different people facing very different futures. Can their special friendship survive the problems and distances of the real world? . . .
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Short stories, flash, contemporary, mainstream fiction for the attention-challenged reader. . . .
Simon Drake is an up-and-coming young FBI hotshot, an agent with a personal track record so outstanding that it borders on unbelievable. Not yet thirty, he’s already the leader of his own special ops team; a ragtag bunch of talented but nigh-uncontrollable lunatics, it’s true, but under Simon’s inspired leadership they’re a force to be reckoned with, a team with . . .
What do you do when you’re a single parent who can’t make ends meet and the solution is staring you in the face . . . a solution you’d rather not take, but a solution nonetheless? You drop your pride and become a part of The Pride. . . .
Weren’t you paying attention? The monsters live here. They just help us enter the world of folly by being so weird. We look at them and think, ‘well, if that can exist then anything can exist,’ and we’re there, in the world of folly. A serial about the fictional town of Ascalon, Ohio, set in the present. The story . . .
Khann of Mann is a fictional account of an uncompromising Wall Street investment banker and the human interest storyline as he wrestles with life, laws and love on a global scale. The novel is less about Wall Street, rather man’s pursuit of his desires and the consequences those pursuits create. Christopher Khann is a self-taught genius who can resist everything . . .
In the distant post-apocalyptic future after what most of us would consider to be the end of the world, people begin losing hope. With a power-hungry government hell-bent on creating the perfect utopia, you’ll venture through a world filled with genocide, torture, ruthless spies and double agents, and a resistance movement aimed at saving those targeted by the government for . . .
This is the story of Karen Kanast, a single, thirty-something owner of The Dusty Rose Cafe. The entries you have read are the on-going chronicles of her life. . . .
Vignettes which blur the distinction between what is most definitely fiction and what is less convincingly false. . . .
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 . . .
A young professional in Chicago discovers the nebulous power of style, which subsequently threatens to consume him as he propels himself towards the American Dream. . . .
College and the years just afterwards are pivotal for many people, having adventures and establishing their lives. It was especially true for Randy Clark and his three girl friends. They are very different people facing very different futures. Can their special friendship survive the problems and distances of the real world? . . .
Tom Evans gets dumped by the love of his life. To help him forget about her, he and his friends form a pact that leads to adventures in both drama and humor. . . .
Warning: Spoilers rampant throughout review. Read only first and last paragraph if you don’t wish to be spoiled.
The Next Generation by Wes Boyd is the type of inoffensive story you can read for Sunday school: No swear words, good home values, everyone is sweetly moral, and they live happily ever [more . . .]
The Karen Chronicles have a lot of pros and cons to them, and it has left me with some mixed feelings as to whether I like or don’t like it. On the plus side we have one very well-developed character, the Italian guy, a main character which will probably be developed soon, and a fairly well developed side character. The [more . . .]