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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 . . .
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In the pre-dawn hours on a Saturday morning, something malevolent has awoken, striking fear and terror into unsuspecting citizens all throughout North East Ohio. Former acquaintances, neighbors, loved ones—all at random—transform into flesh-craving monsters hell bent on devouring the living. Corpses are rising from their places of unrest. Nocturnal animal-man hybrids hunt in packs. The dead are awakening from within . . .
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In the first years following a brutal war, residents of the Deel Valley struggle to recover. They rebuild their homes, replant their crops, and attempt to reconcile the past they long for with the reality they’re stuck in. Most of them seek, above all, a return to some semblance of “normal.” Others seek profit and adventure. Mercenary . . .
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Elisa, the Queen of Swans, has lived a thousand years. Her brothers, who she was supposed to free from their spell, have gone missing. While the world struggles with recovering from a winter eclipse, a conspiracy slowly unfolds—entangling her life with the elves and humans once more. In this volume, the heroes and anti-heroes from Volume 1, “Red Riding . . .
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John is a former indentured farmhand, setting out in search of fresh water and an escape from his past. Cody is a traveling bounty hunter and musician, on the run from a debt he can’t repay. Friday is a lounge singer and burlesque dancer, fiercely protective of her friends, seeking adventure. Valerie is an orphan priest, weighed down by responsibility . . .
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Sometimes, the government needs a villain. That’s when they turn to Julia, leader of Project Redemption, a special organization that take incarcerated super felons and uses them in various covert activities. They may not be nice and they may not be clean, but they get the job done. Sometimes, all that stands between our security and a super-powered maniac, . . .
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A wealthy young woman with a dichotomous superpower and a troubled personal life attempts to join a terrorist group, yet what does she seek to gain? When lies and conspiracies abound, it becomes difficult to recognize the right choice. The interests of secretive governments, criminal organizations, and desperate outsiders clash and blend as everyone tries to make sense of . . .
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On June 14th, 2015 at 5:25 am, a baby boy is born at a small hospital in Lancaster Pennsylvania. His birth is no different than the thousands of births that have come before him in that very same hospital, except for one thing: It is the last human birth. Anywhere. On Earth. Meet Derick Anderson, a former government analyst . . .
His past and his present are about to collide, setting off a chain reaction that threatens to destroy dozens of lives, including his own. It was a night like any other night. Then his phone rang. Answering a friend’s call for help, Seth Marlowe sets out for The Compass Bar. He thinks he’s ready for whatever situation awaits . . .
A bus full of passengers wake up to find themselves at the Midhaven Motel . . . and it won’t let them go. Why can’t they leave? And what’s wrong with the air? The threat of the Empty People is always outside. But, will they be able to stick together, or will they tear themselves apart from the inside? . . .
Obnoxious Weeds is a new fictional drama about the unfolding antics of the inhabitants of a small secluded town. The idea for this story came to me one day while I was weeding my garden. It just seemed so obnoxious that all these different varieties of weeds were winding their way through all of the other plants. These pesky . . .
A young but retiring international hitman returns home after a decade to lie low after a botched hit, but soon finds that the only family he has left, his younger brother, needs him to be the man he dearly wants to leave behind – the masterful ruthless killer. . . .
The first day of a new week dawns in St. Petersburg where siblings Mashka and Aleksei Sharov proceed with their academic lives. As the days go by, they become aware that they are being watched. Paranormal events wreck havoc on their lives, and they realise that they are not as human as they had always believed themselves to be. . . .
May 18, 2009: This is a story in its early stages as of this review (May 2009), but one I really like so far.
A street-smart young man, Trey, is on the run, for reasons we’ve not been told yet. He’s sleeping rough in a city park, when he notices a mysterious package hidden in the leaves, and figures he can blackmail whoever comes to pick it up. But so far the plan isn’t going too well, and it looks like his past is [more . . .]
Nov 29, 2008: A difficult narrative is handled with surprising skill by the author of this story. A combination ghost story, mystery, and period piece, it also encompasses multiple timelines. The number of issues brought up by the different epochs, such as language differences, scene descriptions, and in this case legal issues, are more than enough to bring a lesser writer to his/her knees. This author, however, does her research and just gets to work on the story itself, handling all the named issues with ease and dexterity.