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A Violent Scenery by Tyler D. Findlay

short, edgy fiction

a collection of short stories by a new young southern writer . . .

A growing collection of stories, updated weekly.
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The Data Yodeler by Brad Salomans

The Data Yodeler is a twisting tale of five mid-career uber-geeks exploring the potential of a voyeuristic existence, and making that dream into a reality.  It is a story about the meaning and purpose of art, a story about the value identity, and a story of coming to terms with an uncontrollable maelstrom of information. “Meet Russ.” “Russ . . .

A serialized novel, updating twice weekly.
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.fictions. by ljones by Laura Jones

Vignettes which blur the distinction between what is most definitely fiction and what is less convincingly false. . . .

A collection of stories.
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Improvisational Oblivion by Ron Andrew ODaniels

Short weird Fiction

Short Slice of life fiction and some serial short fiction.  Strange and weird.  The site also includes video and some occasional video also by the author.  All is written as it falls out and published immediately thereafter. . . .

A growing collection of stories, updated almost daily.
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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 . . .

A serialized novel, updating Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
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Alice and Kev by Robin Burkinshaw

The story of being homeless in The Sims 3

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. . . .

A complete novel.
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Servicing the Pole by Lauri Shaw

Some people have nightmares about showing up to work naked. Other people live them.

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 complete pdf novel.
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7 Days in November by Grant Cravens

A novella about Ty, Furball, Bourbon, and their friends in Java, Missouri, and their very busy week before Thanksgiving.  Bourbon risks losing his boyfriend over a bad choice at a party, Ty struggles against the tide of rumors at school, and Furball’s friends try to pull him out of his own potentially destructive slump. . . .

A complete novel.
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Dirty Red Kiss by Derek Henkel

Dirty Red Kiss‘s Caulfield-esque narrator opens a window through which we can see humanity in a way that is beyond the capabilities of a more articulate, self-aware narrator. . . .

A complete novel.
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.FICTIONS. BY LJONES

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Editor: Sonja Nitschke
July 26, 2008

It’s hard to write a long descent review about a collection of vignettes (each different in their own way), so let me just say this:

Ljones writes short stories which may be true or false, but it doesn’t really matter.  Every word, every action, encapsulates a certain emotion or feeling that [more . . .]

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Beauty in Vignettes

Member: LondonIvy
September 14, 2011

The writing reflects the characters. Most of them are common, everyday people who are not writers, and it shows in the prose. But this doesn’t mean there’s not beautiful paragraph here and there that is astounding. No, the prose never gives way to being writerly. It is mostly written in the character’s voices and at their skill level, yet the [more . . .]

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