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The Surprising Life and Death of Diggory Franklin by G.S. Williams

I met a beautiful woman today. Twice. I'm still trying to figure that out. Before it kills me.

Diggory Franklin met a beautiful woman today.  Twice. The first time, she warned him of impending doom and then bestowed the most passionate kiss of his life.  The second time, she had no memory of the first. And that’s really just the start of his problems . . .  . . .

A serialized novel, updating thrice weekly.
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(S)wine: Short, Lean Cuts by Alex M. Pruteanu

Fiction...sometimes

Short stories, flash, contemporary, mainstream fiction for the attention-challenged reader. . . .

A growing collection of stories, updated almost daily.
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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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Dead Drop by Zachary N. DiPego

Brother, can you spare a bullet?

A past that can damn him and no future, Trey has to act.  What would you do?  On the run and homeless.  You would grab at every opportunity like it was your last.  This is the last chance for Trey. Dead Drop is a fiction blog, a modern Noir set in Santa Monica and Los Angeles, California.  Listinged every . . .

An ongoing blogfic, with new posts twice weekly.
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The Inventor by Clover

A lie is just a lie.

Reinvention is a rite of passage for a teenager, and Adele, or Ivy, or whatever she’s calling herself today, is no exception.  Newly shackled with a devastating family secret, she boards a bus to the City by the Bay and makes a go of it on her own—but being a runaway isn’t easy. . . .

A serialized novel, updating thrice 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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Daron’s Guitar Chronicles by Cecilia Tan

Sex, drugs, rock and roll, and coming out in the 1980s

Daron thought life would get easier after he got away from his parents’ house in New Jersey, thanks to a scholarship to music school in New England.  But life is tough when there isn’t enough money to actually live on, you’re underage, and you don’t know where to turn.  And is it the best thing that ever happened to you, . . .

A serialized novel, updating Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
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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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False Memoir by Katherine Luck

Based on an Untrue Story

False Memoir is an online fictional memoir. Everything about the author and the setting are true. The characters and the plot are fictional. False Memoir was inspired by the furtively fictionalized memoirs of such writers as James Frey (A Million Little Pieces), impossible to verify but desperately journalistic reminiscences like The Night of the Gun by David Carr, and . . .

A serialized novel, updating daily.
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The Reading List: Ruminations of a Recovering Academic by Leslie Shimotakahara

“The Reading List” is an uncensored blog memoir about an English professor going AWOL on the profession she thought she would love, while her corporate high-flyer father takes up reading for the first time. With each new book she discusses with her father – introducing him to diverse literary masters from Joyce to Hemingway to Faulkner to Atwood – . . .

An ongoing series, with new episodes 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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China Wind by Anne Infante

China Wind: A tale of conspiracy and revenge in the high-rise glass towers of big business . . . with a dash of corruption, secret criminal societies, a beautiful promiscuous woman . . . and a twist of romance. Langford-Price is one of the leading companies in Hong Kong. When the promiscuous wife of one of the directors mysteriously disappears, Brisbane private investigator, Carol Monk, is hired . . .

A serialized novel, updating weekdays.
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ROCINANTE

Slow and . . . slow.

Editor: Donna Sirianni
December 4, 2008

Reading the first five chapters of this story was like slogging through mud up to my thighs.  I’ve never taken so long to read what is rightly such a short amount of words but the tedium with which the story is told wore me down.

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THE PRIDE

Wow Factor

Member: keikomushi
July 22, 2009

Every now and then, I uncover a piece of literature that makes me utter the word, "Wow!" and I have to say that The Pride does that for me as a reader. It is well-written, with strong narrative and plot, with POV jumps that add to the story so far. Although some folks might have trouble with the POV shifts, [more . . .]

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