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 . . .
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Tales of MU is an open-ended serial detailing the college life of one Mackenzie Blaise, a university student in a world where our fantasy is reality and our science is fantasy. Moving from her sheltered existence as an outcast and self-professed geek into the wild, wide world of Magisterius University, Mackenzie narrates her own story for us in a style . . .
Now that he’s of age, Prince Temmin must leave his childhood home behind for a new life with his father in the capital. King Harsin plans to educate his son in the ways of all the kings who have come before. But the family’s immortal advisor, Teacher, has other plans: to bring Temmin closer to his people, to bind him . . .
City of Roses is about what happens when Jo Maguire, a highly strung underemployed telemarketer, meets Ysabel Perry, a princess of unspecifiable pedigree. It’s also about hearts broken cleanly and otherwise, the City of Portland, Spenser, those moments in pop songs when the bass and all of the drums except maybe a handclap suddenly drop out of the bridge leaving . . .
Regan St. James is just your typical eighteen-year-old vampire hunter. He enjoys sharp objects and random hook-ups. But one night, in a quiet little mountain college town, he meets a guy named Ira who just might change his life. If he can survive Ira’s relatives, of course. . . .
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 . . .
killthewabbit is a web-based improvisation using social media tools. The main character, killthewabbit, is a bodysnatcher — someone who gives rides to casual commuters — in the Bay area. He is also a predator. Readers are encouraged to participate by commenting, tweeting, friending killthewabbit on Facebook, and using other social networking applications. . . .
The main character of this story is a vampire, but not your traditional True Blood, Twilight, Buffy vampire. The main character of this story believes, for whatever reason, that she siphons energy out of other people, drawing in their life force in order to supplement her own. She feeds on them in hot, intense, seductive sexual encounters that leaves them . . .
A work of “singularity” fiction, in which reality itself is controlled and shaped by an intelligent agent for the benefit of humans who now live forever, can no longer harm one another (without consent), and in which no desire is left unfulfilled. In a world where everything is safe, where any whim can be instantly satisfied, what is there . . .
A four book countdown until the Mayan Calendar’s last date, 20/12/2012. A rambling maze of several connecting stories, all involving some attractive young women and wild-assed guys. And all, without knowing it, in pursuit of the mystery of the End Of Time. The lovely young Mayanologist, the rapacious lesbian industrial spy, the ReElect Obama manipulators, the dolphin groupie, . . .
ChoCho and Jynx are two young lovers facing down a world almost completely devoid of human life after an undefinable event destroys nearly every city and township on the planet. . . .
Mankind is ruled by a fundamentalist Church. Sex outside of marriage, music, dancing and even lipstick are forbidden. There’s only one place of absolute freedom: Madilon, a space station turned into the last night club of the galaxy. . . .
An Interactive/Cross-media Novel Can you help Arie discover happiness by Labor Day? Will she find adventure? Will she find romance? Will she find the smiles her life has been missing? Arie has a Greyhound Discover Pass and an entire summer to explore the country. She’s asking her readers to play spin the compass and point her toward the places . . .
I’ve been following this story nearly from the beginning and it’s only gotten better the more Mei has written. Considering this is her self-professed "first attempt at fiction," I’m going to have to give her a standing ovation. She certainly puts other, more seasoned, writers to shame in this regard.
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The premise is good. I enjoy reading about Mackenzie’s life in college. I also like the fact that while there is a lot of sexual content, it is still readable and has a plot. I’m getting more comfortable with the sex. I like the dynamics between the characters and the world. The roles they play are interesting.