Two short stories containing magic and angels, or are they demons after all? Perhaps it is all in the mind? But writers have the power to change it all.Heavens Gate a story about a woman on a deserted road where she encounters a man who sends her to hell. Is it real or all in her mind? Is he the devil and she an angel, or are they just people?Writer's Magic is a story about two writing witches. Sisters seeking the man they want, but the men might not be who they took them for. Will they get what they are after, or will they fall prey to forces bigger than the writing magic they possess?

Short YA fantasy romance about a girl who falls in love with the prince of a river.The metal soldiers slip through the darkness doing their wicked duty under the gray-red dust laden skies of Planet War. A soul has been taken and they must find it. Rock, a newly masked soldier, is among them. What seems routine is not. Those who are near indestructible are not. The odds are incredible and the mission perilous. This is beginning of the Metal Soldiers Series. Read it now!This is the first book in a series of four books in the sci-fi genre by Kenneth Guthrie. The next book in the series (Metal Soldiers #2: Princess Of War) details the desperate fight of the metal soldiers to retrieve a certain soul before it falls into the wrong hands. You can find the full series in Metal Soldiers: The Collection.This is the first book in the series and so is free for your enjoyment. Thank you for reading.

Ben is back on board the Bonaventure, and the ship is on its way back to base. Meanwhile his new hobbies include surgery, taking watches apart (not necessarily with the owner’s permission) and shrugging. This is the second series of snippet stories about Ben the alien and his life amongst humans.Ben is once more back on board the Bonaventure, and the ship is making its way back to base. Very slowly. The bosses of Min-XR are not so sure they want a powerful alien loose in their city, and it is not long before they are plotting to keep him away from Camp Munro while they decide what exactly to do with him. Ben is still enjoying his life amongst the humans, and has now taken up the new hobbies of surgery, dissecting watches (not necessarily with the owner’s permission) and practising shrugging and modest looks.This is the second series of very short ‘snippet’ stories about Ben and his life on the Bonaventure.

Caught alone on a dark night, one man reflects on his past mistakes as he feels his life quickly coming to an end. Will one young woman be able to save him and herself from an uncertain fate as their paths and purpose become one and the same?This book contains six of the eighteen fairy tales from Andrew Lang's Blue Fairy Book (1889). The stories have been rewritten sentence by sentence to make them accessible to 21st century American children. The 6 stories include Toads and Diamonds, Beauty and the Beast, Snow-white and Rose-red, Why the Sea is Salty, Felicia and the Pot of Carnations, Hansel and Grettel.The great beauty of Andrew Lang’s Blue Fairy Book, originally published in 1889, is that it brought together many different fairy tale traditions. There are stories written by Charles Perrault and Mme d’Aulnoy, collected by the Grimm brothers and Asbjornsen and Moe, and translated from the Arabian Nights. It is a very rich collection of fairy tales.However, the stories are written in a language that is outdated and in places inaccessible to modern American children (and even their parents). To remedy this problem, I have thoroughly edited half of the stories contained in Lang`s book, keeping the stories as intact as possible, while revising every sentence so the stories can once again be read with pleasure by children.

By outward appearances the North Shore is the greatest place on Earth. Affluent families living on compounds driving the finest vehicles. Friends, families, and parties the way of life. Coffee shops. Yoga pants and Mexican groundskeepers. But just beneath the surface the North Shore is anything but idyllic as best friends Anne, Chaz, and Margot are about to find out on D-Day.Any occasion is cause for celebration on the North Shore. An announced engagement sets off a course of parties where each host attempts to outdo the previous. Election to the Board of Directors of a charity in the city requires the local newspaper to attend to photograph the event. Milestone birthdays keep the CEOs away from their palatial offices and in their corporate jets spiriting away to private clubs the world around.In River Grove there were few celebrations larger than the party commemorating one of its favorite citizen’s participation in the landings at Normandy.For Margot Wallace, June 6th will always mark the day her life irrevocably changed.For Chaz Perkins, June 6th is always a day to shine in the spot light.For Anne Glassmaker, June 6th is all too familiar to the day before and bodes poorly for the day to follow.Follow Margot, Chaz, and Anne and their searches for love and fulfillment in stories of “The North Shore” available monthly.

In the distant future, mankind has developed a way to live forever by switching bodies created via stem cell research. Arlen Burns and his sister Centara dream of a way to escape their home on the Moon colony Atlantis. When they finally get a chance, however, they learn of a terrible "project" conducted by the mysterious Enigma Corporation which threatens to destroy all they hold dear.The year is 2035, and everything Arlen Burns cares about is about to be threatened. It starts when he and his sister Centara buy a ship and leave their home on the Moon colony Atlantis. After several days of overcoming the obstacles space has to offer, Arlen and Centara learn of a consipiracy perpetrated by Arlen's former employer, Enigma Corporation. The fearsome head of Enigma, Eric Sibelius, is a man who makes his living manufacturing and planting false memories into the heads of unsuspecting citizens. When Arlen and Centara's mother disappears, the quest to save their colony becomes personal.

Every human baby is killed beneath the waves--with one exception. The one hundred thousandth is spared.A long time ago, 1 in every 100,000 children born from a human was a mermaid. But now mermaids are the only ones that can survive in this flooded world. Every human child born is killed the moment they take their first breath. However, one in every one-hundred thousand is spared. WATTYS 2015 AWARD WINNERThese children are placed on the mountain-tops, the "islands", that poke up over the sea. The Earth has become warmer, making these islands habitable. The humans that survive through Mother Nature's fury have created Tribes, created rules. One of these rules is to not go near the water, to not touch it. And then there's a girl who lives to be sixteen, who goes and touches the water. Who begins to show symptoms of something half-human. Symptoms of a mermaid.These symptoms have drawn something out from the depths of the woods, from the darkness of the sea... And it's out to get this girl that's growing scales. The One-Hundred in the midst of One-Hundreds. Cressa-la.Gifted and spared. Will she be so lucky again?Part 1 of Book 1 in The One-Hundred Series.

This is the fifth in a series of short stories based in the same world as the book series A Life in After World. Instead of telling the life story of one character, these stories tell the story of one day in the life of a person in After World.She does not have a name. She is programmed to serve one purpose. She is a clone and her purpose is to live an interesting and full life and hope that when the time comes, Mother will select her to merge with so that she can live on forever.But she has been ordered terminated by Mother and now she has no purpose. She must find a way to get away from her people a live a life of her own. With the help of a rogue AI, can she get away?

I am not Roald Dahl, I am not that man, A TREASURY OF CHILDREN'S STORIES.I am not Roald Dahl; it’s not a part of my plan,The poor man is dead, as dead as can be,I am not that man, now where is my tea?A TREASURY OF CHILDREN'S STORIES. I am not Roald Dahl, nor am I trying to imply that I am. I am Gerrard Wilson, and that is a fact. Welcome to my Treasury of Children’s Stories. I hope you enjoy reading these stories as much as I enjoyed myself writing them. I endeavoured to include something for everyone; from funny to scary, serious to crazy, and a whole lot more in between. There are so many stories, limericks and songs crammed into this book I found it impossible to record them onto this page with any degree of order, semblance of normality, so delve into the book, at random, and go with the flow.Signed: Gerrard Wilson.

Glyphs are the technology holding together the kingdoms of the Scarred Sea, and the means by which competing guilds control most of them. For all their benefits, not everyone is content with the world they've created. When the theft of valuable glyphing metal increases tension between the guilds, Thjorn, the glyphpunk responsible for the theft, will ensure that's only the start of their trouble.Glyphs are the technology holding together the kingdoms of the Scarred Sea, and the means by which competing guilds control most of them. For all their benefits, not everyone is content with the world they've created. When the theft of valuable glyphing metal increases tension between the guilds, Thjorn, the glyphpunk responsible for the theft, will ensure that's only the start of their troubles.

We're all just created, debated, chewed up, eaten, spit out, and repeated by the machine that runs the world.The moon is falling. The shift is tearing apart the transportation infrastructure, and the population is stricken with "moon sickness" - literal lunacy.Charlotte, Lawton, and Fisk are friends. They met in a writing workshop when the news of the moon's fall was only mentioned on the late-night conspiracy shows. While lunar cults pray for the intense celestial coitus of Luna's impact with Earth, all Fisk wants is Charlotte.MOON SICK is a surreal short story by Aniko Carmean, author of MIXED MEDIA and STOLEN CLIMATEs.

This anthology contains volumes 31-34 of the humor and satire zine, Green Jean Humor.This is a selection of OMR - One Minute Reads. Each week when I attended Pomona Writers Group 2012 the facilitator gave us homework to write no more than five hundred words on the title he chose.Hope you indeed enjoy reading these OMR - One Minute Reads as I have had in writing and publishing them.

This collection of short stories by Nicholas Bridgman delves into finding beauty and love in unexpected places, including when young classical musicians develop a passion for jazz and for each other, vacations to the Grand Canyon and Ireland go horribly wrong, a grandfather sends his grandson a gift from beyond the grave, and a man with schizophrenia finds himself incarcerated.This collection of short stories by Nicholas Bridgman delves into finding beauty and love in unexpected places. It begins by following two young classical music proteges who discover their passion for jazz and for each other at a summer music academy, and who meet fifteen years later and have to face the potential relationship they lost. In "No One There to Listen," a family vacation to the Grand Canyon goes horribly wrong, with the family members unable to express their love for each other until it is too late. In "Grandfather's Gift," a man has to lose everything to discover the love behind a gift his grandfather sent him from beyond the grave. In "Lost in the Woods," two American study abroad students in England have a harrowing time lost in a wood on their way home from Dublin, creating an unlikely bond between them. Finally, in "Sleep," a man with schizophrenia traverses the forensic mental health system and finds that sleeping his time away serves as a strangely beautiful coping skill.

Here is my sixth free short ebook of poetry, 36 poems for your perusal and enjoyment. Included in this volume are several brand new poems. There will be two more books to follow. The poems range from the philosophical and introspective to the romantic and exuberant. Hope you enjoy reading them as much as I enjoyed writing them! Feel free to review, I would love to hear what you think.Here is my sixth free short ebook of poetry for your consideration and enjoyment, 36 poems for your perusal. Included in this volume are several brand new poems. Please feel free to review my work, I'd love to hear what you think of it. There are two more short books to come, ready for publishing. These poems range from the philosophical and introspective to the romantic and exuberant. Hope you enjoy reading them as much as I enjoyed writing them!

This short story is the prequel to The Magi series of books - it includes a sample of the 1st novel 'The Magi'.When one of the most elusive criminals in the galaxy uses his power and his money to evade arrest, who you gonna call call?Who else but An Kohli, honoured member of the Guild of Bounty Hunters, pin up girl for police forces across the galaxy and scourge of the criminal classes.This short story is the prequel to The Magi series of books - it includes a sample of the 1st novel 'The Magi'.When one of the most elusive criminals in the galaxy uses his power and his money to evade arrest, who you gonna call call?Who else but An Kohli, honoured member of the Guild of Bounty Hunters, pin up girl for police forces across the galaxy and scourge of the criminal classes.But even An Kohli still has to get up close and personal before she can make an arrest, so when Biggar Fro hides out in a maximum security luxury hotel there are challenges to be faced and bodyguards to be overcome, not least of whom is a knee tremblingly good looking Aloisan by the name of Thomaso.

The rural community of Owensville has grown old. The glass factory that once gave that town heart has been shuttered for decades. Yet the residents still hope that Mr. Turner will rise from his bed to bring life and industry back to their sleepy streets. Each morning those residents gather at the foot of Mr. Turner's crumbled wall and pray that man's bones provide answers they desperately need.Following the death of her father, Lauren Freeman decides to pay an overdue visit to Owensville, the town of her family’s origins. She travels to the estate of her grandfather, Roscoe Turner, a man who built and managed the great glass factory that long ago provided purpose and means for the families who settled in that rural town. Lauren is shocked to discover that one of the walls to her grandfather’s home has collapsed, and that Grandpa Roscoe’s body sleeps in a bed exposed to wind, sun and rain. Yet cousin Maximillian holds up a hand and tells Lauren that calling for help can no longer do any good, and Lauren must learn what forces Max to keep a family skeleton in the daylight

This is Cursed Hadley and Charmed Hadley bundled into a full-length novel. From now on, the books in the Cursed Hadley series will be full-length novels. My life has always been a bit cursed. To keep some stability, I try to focus on three things: Taking care of my sisters Getting good grades so I can get into a decent college. Drag racing. I don’t have time for anything else, especially guys and dating. But then my dad moves us to the rural town of Honeyton, and right next door to the Porterson brothers, and just like that, my cursed life becomes even more cursed. The Porterson brothers are all gorgeous and arrogant and won’t leave me alone. That’s okay, though. I’m going to get them back. Or so I plan to. But during my endeavor for revenge, I find out the Porterson brothers aren’t what they seem. They’re dangerous, a little bit—okay, a lot—insane, and I’m pretty sure they’re not human, since I caught them drinking souls. Maybe I’m going crazy. Doesn’t really matter. Now that I’ve learned their secret, they’re not about to let me go. A reverse harem series

The prolific writings of Kahlil Gibran, author of The Prophet, continue to inspire a devoted international following and have transformed modern Arabic literature. In this volume of early writings, Gibran’s simple yet lyrical style crosses from prose to poetry and yields insight into his dedication and inner vision of beauty, including the tale of a strange hermit in “The Tempest,” the discovery of love lost to war in “The Mermaids,” and the long voyage of sea and soul in the prose poem “Between Night and Morn.”

The second in the enthralling new mini-series of novellas from the #1 bestselling authors of the House of Night, Lenobia's Vow tells the gripping story behind the House of Night's enigmatic riding instructor – and one of Zoey’s closest allies against evil The House of Night is an international publishing sensation; with almost 12 million books in print, and an incredible 120 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, the series has taken the world by storm. Now, the excitement continues as the Cast mother-daughter duo shares the back stories of a few of the House of Night's most important – and mysterious – characters. The second of the House of Night Novellas brings us Lenobia, the strong, beautiful horseback riding instructor, who guides Zoey through some of her darkest hours, and has a dark secret buried in her own past... In a small southern town at the turn of the century, young Lenobia is developing into a beautiful young woman with ideas of her own. But when she is Marked as a fledgling vampyre, her world turns upside down, and she is drawn to the musical streets of New Orleans. There, she learns of the city’s dark underbelly, ruled by powerful black magic. As Lenobia experiences her first love – and loss – and discovers a passion for horses to sustain her, she must come face-to-face with Darkness itself. And she may not escape without scars.

Tennessee Williams’ Collected Stories combines the four short-story volumes published during Williams’ lifetime with previously unpublished or uncollected stories. Arranged chronologically, the forty-nine stories, when taken together with the memoir of his father that serves as a preface, not only establish Williams as a major American fiction writer of the twentieth century, but also, in Gore Vidal’s view, constitute the real autobiography of Williams’ "art and inner life."

Looking to get lucky? Stephanie Plum is back between-the-numbers and she’s looking to get lucky in an Atlantic City hotel room, in a Winnebago, and with a brown-eyed stud who has stolen her heart. Stephanie Plum has a way of attracting danger, lunatics, oddballs, bad luck . . . and mystery men. And no one is more mysterious than the unmentionable Diesel. He’s back and hot on the trail of a little man in green pants who’s lost a giant bag of money. Problem is, the money isn’t exactly lost. Stephanie’s Grandma Mazur has found it, and like any good Jersey senior citizen, she’s hightailed it in a Winnebago to Atlantic City and hit the slots. With Lula and Connie in tow, Stephanie attempts to bring Grandma home, but the luck of the Irish is rubbing off on everyone: Lula’s found a job modeling plus-size lingerie. Connie’s found a guy. Diesel’s found Stephanie. And Stephanie has found herself in over her head with a caper involving thrice-stolen money, a racehorse, a car chase, and a bad case of hives. Plum Lucky is an all-you-can-eat buffet of thrills, chills, shrimp cocktail, plus-size underwear, and scorching hot men. It’s a between-the-numbers treat no Evanovich fan will want to miss!