High school is miserable for Taylor. Despite the fact that her superpower is a little less conventional than super strength or shooting laser beams from her hands, she’s been holding on to a dream of becoming a superhero. As she takes the plunge, however, things don’t go as planned. Taylor finds herself immersed in a world of black and . . .
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The Eagle men have never been attacked before. Their palace floats high above any attackers. The only other flying creatures that would harm them are the goblins, and they hide in their caves from the sun. That all changes when a dark cloud blocks off the sky. Kareen and her husband Terin prepare for battle, but they wonder if they . . .
WIYP is a story written blog-style from the point of view of a person experiencing the shift of his country into Orwellian dystopia. Written during the decline, exploring how it could happen more than what the after-effects would be like. . . .
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 . . .
Live the Journey . . . Experience the Horror . . . Discover the Truth. Catharsis tells the story of a troubled young woman with special gifts and heavy burdens. . . . In an attempt to escape mysterious forces that may ultimately destroy her, Eve Shelby packs up her little sister, Dez, and embarks on a journey with a group of fellow telepaths. After a car accident leaves one person . . .
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 . . .
Lechery, debauchery, total annihilation, blood and mud―the usual stuff as two prime movers contend for power. Not power to do anything in particular―threaten, coerce, destroy: illuminate a city, tighten the skeins of a siege engine, or wind up the bowels. She was the Fata Morgana, Queen Mother of the World, and had built herself a love slave to assuage . . .
The cities have gated their walls. Those in rural areas have been reduced to savages. When Callen Carrus, a seven year old boy from the city, faces a personal crises and runs away, he’s chased outside the city walls. What happens to him there sets him on a twelve year quest that leads to love and extraordinary adventure. The riddle . . .
An urban fantasy about the wildlife of New York City, starring a squirrel protagonist who has to find his way from exile in Staten Island back to his home in Central Park. . . .
This is my story of post apocalyptic survival, as best I can remember. After the outbreak, with the help and support of friends and family, we created a safe, secure place for my son to be a child and grow up in a zombie infested world. There were troubles with neighbors, huge zombie hordes, and battle, but we always tried . . .
It started as a simple experiment: How would two characters survive being homeless in the Sims 3? This is their story. Alice is a young woman struggling to cope with homelessness and an abusive father. Kev barely knows he has a daughter and yearns for love he can’t reciprocate. . . .
44 BC: Julius Caesar survives assassination attempt. 410 AD: Romans repel King Alaric I. 1010 AD: Albinus Gordian is elected Emperor and begins a new age of environmentalism in the Roman Empire. Global Warming is happening, but that doesn’t mean we can’t try to stop it. Spanish anchorman turned international reporter Joe Body is setting out . . .
Under werewolf law any person who fails to attend the reading of a will is judged to have no interest in the content, and anything they would have inherited is distributed among those who are present. Its not a bad law, but it is quite easy to exploit. When Greg learns that his rich uncle is dead he . . .
The reviews so far have been very positive, and added to those on the author’s web page obviously this story appeals strongly to a number of people. I personally found it compelling enough to continue reading to the end, and it has given me a colourful mental picture of Hong Kong life that I will never forget, but I [more . . .]
The day is coming when genre categorizations will collapse around our ears. No one would shove a copy of The Master and Margarita into the fantasy section of a Barnes and Nobles, although it has many things in common with the glossy books that you would find there – talking cats, the devil, levitation. But Bulgakov’s masterpiece is given the [more . . .]