Scary Mary is an online novel for teens about a high school girl who hears ghosts. Mary begins her junior year of high school without high expectations. As the resident school freak, she’d just like to be left alone, but Cy Asher, a new student, tries to befriend her. The budding friendship, though, dies when Mary discovers Cy’s house is . . .
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Addergoole is a contemporary fantasy story with erotic and dark-fantasy elements. Set in a world which is, on the surface, much like our own, Addergoole follows three students as they enter a strange, new school and discover just how much they don’t know about themselves, their parents, or their world. . . .
The supposed memoirs of Arnold Schnabel, a brakeman/poet recovering from a mental breakdown in the quaint seaside resort of Cape May, NJ, in 1963. . . .
Strange Little Band is the ongoing story of Addison and Shane, two self-centered, amoral psychics who work for the cut-throat Triptych Corporation. Their insular, comfortable lives are disrupted when, due to Triptych’s machinations, they become unlikely parents. How can they raise a child when they can’t trust each other? . . .
Zephyr is a well-read ongoing prose webcomic detailing the adventures of a well-meaning but often hapless superhero in a dystopian new America. Zephyr is influenced by postliterary writing and Sturgeon’s law. It’s 2009 on the eastern seaboard of the United States. The place is Atlantic City: a sweeping longitudinal metropolis designed by Frank Lloyd Wright following widespread devastation in 1984. . . .
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 . . .
Street is a fast-paced online/print cyberpunk thriller about a woman alone in a dystopian future, Gina, working to make ends meet like the rest of the new underclass — by taking a powerful drug that gives her telepathic abilities. She skirts the edges of sanity when she takes a job she knows she really shouldn’t, and finds herself embroiled deeper . . .
Brave and beautiful young Treasury agent Annabelle Duniway is sent undercover to the wide-open mining town of Scryer’s Gulch to track down the villain poisoning the magic-boosting ore known as hermetauxite. If she doesn’t succeed, this unscrupulous evildoer may take over the world! Is it the kindly mayor? Or the ruthless mine owner? How about his gold-digging wife, or his . . .
Peter Normal leaves California and moves into his grandfather’s house with his mother and sister. Upon arriving he discovers that his grandfather’s house looks like something out of a horror movie, that his grandfather forbids him to go into the garden, and that the neighbor boy is a bit off the wall. He also discovers that the undead thing . . .
Faith’s world has ended. Broken, poisoned, and increasingly infested with the shambling dead, it isn’t much like the world she used to know. She made it through an apocalypse with a handful of strangers, but what does she do next? This is her story, told in real-time as she tries to keep a journal of her group’s journey, searching . . .
The daily trials and tribulations of superpowers and nonsuperpowered folks—some queer, some people of color, some elderly. All they want is to get through their days and grab a little happiness where they can. Inspired by the works of Alison Bechdel, Kurt Busiek, and Armistead Maupin. . . .
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. . . .
Gare Marx has been a PI for all of five minutes when he discovers he sucks at it. The mob wants money he never borrowed, he’s suspected of murdering someone he hasn’t met, and he’s hired to find a woman who may be involved in some extremely shady business. That, and his secretary is an amoral jiu jitsu-loving sociopath. . . .
(Review written after reading approximately 20 pages).
Beasts of New York is not what I expected it to be when I clicked the link – I was expecting, frankly, a literal anthro squirrel protagonist, a human with a huge fluffy tail, that kind of thing.
This is a fairly new serial novel as I review. There are only 5 chapters complete, and it seems to be updated weekly. So far I really enjoy were the story is going.
The story is about the world 20 years in the future after a virus called Persephone wipes out [more . . .]