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Tattoo by Candace McBride

Magic, murder, and monsters

Though pompous with its modern advancements, Sybar City has always fostered a seedy underbelly stretching back millennia. Glory, a humble scholar with a talent for occult research, is unwillingly thrust into this world of ancient malevolent races and scientific exploitation. A girl with issues, she would just as soon crawl into a bookshelf and never come back out, leaving a . . .

A serialized novel, updating Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
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Death, Inc. by Edward Morris

Book Zero of There Was a Crooked Man

Welcome to the world of master fabulist Edward Morris, where History has been pulled down a Hieronymus Bosch rabbit-hole and everything makes far too much sense.  In Morris’s alternate history tour de force, on an East Coast two centuries after Armageddon, a rogue soldier throws himself back in Time to wreak havoc upon History and feed on the blood in . . .

A serialized novel, updating weekly.
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Adam Maxwell’s Fiction Lounge by Adam Maxwell

Adam’s subject matter tends towards the surreal or at least the very least weird.  His writing has been described in the press as a ‘Chandler-esque hard-boiled cocktail, stirred with equal parts humour, mystery, gut-wrenching realism, and trademark minimalism’, ‘weird, wonderful, twisted and witty’ and even ‘almost Fawlty Towers’ which is, unsurprisingly, one of his favourites.  His first book, a collection . . .

A growing collection of stories, updated monthly.
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Sam Swift: Occult Investigator by Deklan Green

A Private Eye for all cases dark and arcane.

Told in the style of classic pulp fiction and film noir, each week you can catch up on the latest in the adventures of none other than Samuel Swift, a private eye with a penchant for cases that are dark, dreary, and fraught with more than a touch of the supernatural. . . .

An ongoing series, with new episodes weekly.
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Hyperlink Your Heart by randomhuman

Until there's nothing left

Out of loneliness, or boredom, maybe, you assign a URL to your heart and share it on the forums and social networks you frequent.  The hits trickle in at first, the unusually curious trampling through, poking and prodding, unsure of what they’re seeing.  But then the links spread.  Everybody wants to see your heart, to have a role in pulling . . .

A growing collection of stories, updated weekly.
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The Great Game by Tim Dedopulos

An interactive urban fantasy story where you choose what happens next.

‘The Great Game’ is a work of interactive fiction, a particpatory story where you’re in charge of what happens next. I write a bit. You tell me what happens next, then I go off and write that, and give you your next choice. I’ll let the narrator sum up the story : “I woke up in a deserted . . .

A serialized novel, updating Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
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Fully Vested by Al Bruno III

a tale of lost gods and fragile transformations

Mike Carter’s new job will change his life. But is that a good thing? . . .

A complete novel.
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The Nick of Time (and other abrasions) by Al Bruno III

Tales of Paranormal Romance for people that couldn't get dates in high school.

Everything you know is wrong- there are plenty of gods but no afterlife, wizards plot rebellion against eldritch horrors with marketing departments, the Chinese Mafia runs the phone company, every tarot card is a prophesy waiting to happen and most vampires live in trailer parks. Read on to visit a world where every cliche is a parable, every fairy . . .

A series.
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Dylan and the Dream Pirates by Jason Andrew

A novel of adventure, friendship, growing up, and pirates

Dylan and the Dream Pirates, by Jason Andrew, is an on-line fantasy novel about a boy named Dylan recovering from the death of his mother.  An accidental meeting with the mythical Lost Boys throws him into a world of magic and wonder.  When he discovers that his best friend Clay has a magical disease called the Taint, Dylan swears to . . .

A serialized novel, updating fortnightly.
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I Found Dave by Jim

Dave set up a blog to communicate with his girlfriend while he was away doing research at a top secret facility.  A blog that I discovered while hacking that facility’s computer system.  Then one day, Dave disappears and all of his friends and family assume that he’s dead.  But somehow Dave keeps writing in his blog.  Now I’m the only . . .

An ongoing blogfic, with new posts almost daily.
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Sidonie by Sarah R. Suleski

The Ghetto calls you home, no matter what.

Seventeen-year-old Sidonie Ardash is leaving her home in Uptown Rivalie, headed for the Bromian Ghetto, a forbidden place she has only read about in the pages of a book written by her mother. She finds a new home, a new family, and a new life in the haunted world of the Broms, a people displaced and cursed by unknowable . . .

A partial series, with no recent updates.
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Life as an Electron by e-

I lead a charged life, and from my perspective, getting there is all of the fun. As nice as it is to hang out in a p-shell with a few of my friends, I get bored after I've counted the Protons and the Neutrons.

Follow e- the free Electron.  Look at the world from a new perspective.  Solve the puzzle and follow the clues to discover the travels of e- through your picoverse. Life as an Electron, the seminal member of the Coffee Break Blog stable, offers the Science Minded, budding Experimenters and Educators the ability to participate in the adventures of e- . . .

An ongoing blogfic, with new posts daily.
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DYLAN AND THE DREAM PIRATES

A nice blend of myth and reality

Editor: Fiona Gregory
April 26, 2010

This story, in its early days so far, is doing a lovely job of blending reality and myth. A modern boy from Seattle interacts with three Lost Boys from Peter Pan’s Neverneverland aka the dreamland. Both the power and the limitations of the Lost Boys’ carefree mode of living in the moment are handled subtly and skillfully, while the [more . . .]

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KNIGHTFALL

Knightfall… coming next after Heroes only on NBC.

Member: Sora
January 28, 2009

Summary: The Rapture is coming.

Likes: Despite it’s size, it is a relatively easy read. I’m not too big on scripts, but this one reads somewhat like a novel. It’s more of a script-novel hybrid with the descriptions and details like a novel, but the dialogue of a script. Then there [more . . .]

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