The world is exactly as you know it. No, really it is. Except that your landlord might be a spirit, the tree outside your window may be a nymph, that flash in the sky wasn’t a trick of the light and that guy in the suit might just not be a bored lawyer on his lunch break. . . .
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Now that he’s of age, Prince Temmin must leave his childhood home behind for a new life with his father in the capital. King Harsin plans to educate his son in the ways of all the kings who have come before. But the family’s immortal advisor, Teacher, has other plans: to bring Temmin closer to his people, to bind him . . .
The world is exactly as you know it. No, really it is. Except that your landlord might be a spirit, the tree outside your window may be a nymph, that flash in the sky wasn’t a trick of the light and that guy in the suit might just not be a bored lawyer on his lunch break. . . .
Welcome to Curio Killed the Cat—an occult shop in Kensington Market, Toronto. Meet the employees (a lazy hoodoo spellcaster, a feminist succubus, and a snobbish Wiccan priest), their perpetually drunk (and confused) boss, and their strange customers, as they try to keep the shop from closing. . . .
Space & Time takes place in a galaxy where space travel is common, The Galactic Mutuality governs alliances, Humanity is a minority, and a little girl from an alien race tries to overcome the stigma of being a slave. Life moves along as it usually does until a small group of strangers arrives, bringing news of impending destruction and a . . .
The Tales of Germaine, Oregon The Applegate Trail: Susie Applegate is a reporter for The Germaine Truth, the town newspaper, owned and operated by her dad, Howard Applegate. Susie chronicles the stories of the people of Germaine, and with the help of 11 year old Shaherazade Budreau, is determined to solve a 50 year old murder mystery – . . .
Set in a fictionalized version of Hot Springs, Arkansas, Ho Springs is the story of a native daughter who returns home after 20 years in Paris to find her family in a shambles, their historic restaurant shuttered, the town itself in chaos. Ho Springs is told from several characters’ viewpoints, including a Parisian teenager and a meth ho, an Evangelical . . .
From the author of the award winning novel “River” and internet cult hit “Catharsis” comes a serialized novel about the end of the world and the lives of those destined to stop it. Three girls are thrust together by their shared abilities and the roles they are to play in the nearing apocalypse. They are guided only by the mysterious . . .
Eight friends gather for a reunion vacation, but go missing after a hurricane strikes along their plane’s flight path. While friends and family mourn their loss when the crashed plane is found, the impossible happens: they appear in public claiming to have been in a cave in the mountains. Missing for months, they have no memory of the interval. What . . .
After two hundred years, the Stormwall that protected Eristhenia from outside interference is fading away, leaving the islands defenseless against the imperial ambitions of an ancient enemy, Kusan. To thwart this enemy, six people from varying walks of life come together, working through politics, magic, and military prowess to save their nations from Kusani domination. . . .
This novel describes an epic journey from Embankment station, to the Elephant and Castle. There are seven carriages on a Bakerloo Line train, each with 36 seats. A train in which every passenger has a seat will carry 252 people. With the driver, that makes 253. . . .
Four unlikely friends are permanently linked together when they install a beta “ultimate collaboration” tool on their computers—that allows them to teleport to and from each other’s homes at ease. Of course, they get more than they bargained for when they discover they can’t turn their connections off . . . . . . .
A soldier returns home to settle old scores and gets caught up in the schemes of some grifters out to rip off the Russian mob. . . .
Note: I have yet to read the whole serial due, not to the content of the site, but my own time constraints. As such I will more than likely re-vamp this at some point in the near-distant.
The Germain Truth is a story told from the perspective of several different people. [more . . .]
I don’t recall how I stumbled across the Germaine Truth, but once I discovered it and realized what it was, I was in love.
As a web professional and web creative, it is especially dear to me when I find people who are truly telling "Net native" stories. And while one [more . . .]