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Price Breaks and Heartaches by Al Bruno III

The somewhat true story of how I barely lost my virginity, almost missed out on true love and nearly lost my mind!

The following story is true- except for the parts I totally made up.  The names have been changed to protect the people I loved and to protect me from the people I hated. . . .

An ongoing series, with new episodes weekly.
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The Urban 30 by C. L. Johnston and Team

Savin' the World, One Hood At A Time

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. . . .

An ongoing blogfic, with new posts almost daily.
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Twelve Steps and a Razor by Emmy Jackson

Liz Bahti wakes up half-dead from her latest alcoholic binge and declares it will be her last.  She discovers that it’s not as easy as moving two thousand miles, shaving her head and rebuilding old friendships.  Stalked by demons both human and mental, she learns that there’s just one crucial question she needs to answer: does she think she’s worth . . .

A serialized novel, updating twice weekly.
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The Complete History of Adam Panflick by Stephen C. Rose

Panflick is an online novel in the manner of Tom Jones. It deals with the limits of marriage, limits of family, limits of religion and limits of life. Its hero is Adam Panflick (1936 -). Irony, iconoclasm, a Terry Southern edge and a Kubrick sensibility suggest its general drift. . . .

A serialized novel, updating twice weekly.
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Rowena’s Page by S. D. Youngren

Mostly-funny short stories about a young woman's life.

Rowena has a mother:     “This is my life, Mom.  Not a Jane Austen novel.  Not—”      “Listen to me, Miss Independence.  He’s a nice young man, but men expect things.  Even nice ones, sometimes.  He’s going to think that you’re inviting him to do . . . married people things.”  Rowena tried to interrupt, but when she opened her mouth nothing came . . .

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The Pride by Faydra D. Fields

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. . . .

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Ascalon, Ohio by K.P.B. Stevens

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 . . .

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Among the Shadows by Dora McAlpin

Good people can do all kinds of bad things, if the reasons seem right.

What is genius . . . and to what extent does it define the lives of those who have it—or don’t? Twenty-year-old Shane Fetters doesn’t just live on the edge.  He hangs precariously in the chasm where he’s certain there ought to be some middle ground, struggling to assert himself as a middle person—not quite male or female, neither pure genius nor utter . . .

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TWELVE STEPS AND A RAZOR

From rock bottom there’s nowhere to go but up…

Editor: Fiona Gregory
July 10, 2011

The opening chapter of Twelve Steps has a horrifying "scare you straight" scene – Liz wakes up half dead from alcohol poisoning in a strange apartment covered in several bodily fluids you would not want to wake up covered in. After recovery in hospital Liz has few options so accepts her father’s offer to go back to her old hometown [more . . .]

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ROWENA'S PAGE

Pages and Pages

Member: Gavin Williams
September 15, 2011

"Rowena’s Page" has short stories in the life of the titular character, going back as far as 2000.  So there is quite a lot to read through.

From the chapters I’ve seen, it’s worth reading if you like a slice of life kind of story.  Rowena comes across as a very [more . . .]

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