Logan is a spoiled child whose whole world revolves around himself and his Mama. Follow his adventures as a young child and the tragedies and glories of life which make up this delightful storyThis is a short descriptive piece on a boy going to a funeral where all that can be found is sadness until he see's a little girl and sees her life and helping her move on. Views: 252
An insane and bitter cat schemes to save her beloved city by destroying it.Consider a world inhabited with only cats and dogs: a society recognizable as our own, but with its eccentricities being the norm, rather than the exception. A world where the charm of Kenneth Grahame’s Wind In the Willows meets the exotic world of Ian Fleming’s Bond. A world where fluffy just got dangerous. These are the Velvet Paw of Asquith Novels, also known as the Dooven Books: welcome to the genre of New Fable.“Attempting to eradicate an entire city’s council before hurling oneself off a cliff is odd behavior for anyone, let alone the daughter of a police chief. Nor is it helped by a determination to graffiti mis-spelt words with appalling grammar in her own manure.Politely, Oscar pointed this out to her.So she punched him and pushed him off his stool.”Oscar Teabag-Dooven is a highly trained secret agent who is convinced he’s no more than a poet. Unable to do much more than rhyme one lot of words with another, his attempts at foiling the world’s villains are, at best, tenuous. When assigned to determine the cause of brewing tensions in the exclusive seaside city of Ruen, he discovers it’s on the brink of tearing itself apart. Things become complicated when it appears those responsible are in charge of running the place. Drawn into a scandalous plot of insanity and greed, Oscar befriends the Dervy, a young revolutionary, by throwing her off a cliff, and Horace, an elderly doctor with a phobia of worming ointments.Together they battle the ruthless genius of Sedervitz Tappen-Noo and the grievous insanity of the Pyjami, in an attempt to save a beautiful city from certain destruction.But things don’t go according to plan. Principally because they don’t have one. Views: 251
Dublin, 1922. As civil war sets brother against brother and Free State and Republican death squads stalk the streets and back lanes of Dublin, demobbed RIC man Sean O'Keefe takes a break from life as a whiskey-soaked waster to search for the missing son of one of Dublin's most powerful brothel owners. Views: 251
An Owen Tremaine Supernatural Mystery (Book One):Owen Tremaine is in more trouble than he ever imagined. The founder of a software company, he thought work-related burnout was a major crisis. But then a friend gets killed on Owen’s houseboat. Now he’s dealing with what used to be his own company, a police detective, and...a surprising discovery about local Native American history.An Owen Tremaine Supernatural Mystery (Book One):Owen Tremaine is in more trouble than he ever imagined. 28 years old, the founder of a software company in Corpus Christi, Texas, he thought work-related burnout was a major crisis. After walking away from his company, he’s spent a year trying to reinvent himself as a private investigator, living on a houseboat. Which he realizes is a fantasy that’s not really working out, but he doesn’t want to admit that to anybody…yet. Maybe a few more months will turn the tide.But then, on a lazy summer afternoon, a good friend gets killed on Owen’s houseboat, and Owen finds his body. The police think Owen’s girlfriend may be involved. She’s missing, and so is Owen’s former business partner. Who, judging from the blood left on his floor, may also be dead. Then there’s the kidnapping of a local child. And…it turns out that not everybody involved is, strictly speaking, human. Which Owen also never saw coming. Magic? Really?Owen’s new skills get a workout. Now he’s dealing with what used to be his own cutting-edge software development company, a police detective who takes a personal interest, some downsides of recent anti-terror legislation, and…a surprising discovery about local Native American history. You know, the magic thing. Turns out extinction is more complicated than it first appears.But hey. Owen’s still got friends. Too bad he doesn’t know as much about them as he thinks he does…. Views: 251
Victor and Eli started out as college roommates—brilliant, arrogant, lonely boys who recognized the same sharpness and ambition in each other. In their senior year, a shared research interest in adrenaline, near-death experiences, and seemingly supernatural events reveals an intriguing possibility: that under the right conditions, someone could develop extraordinary abilities. But when their thesis moves from the academic to the experimental, things go horribly wrong.
Ten years later, Victor breaks out of prison, determined to catch up to his old friend (now foe), aided by a young girl whose reserved nature obscures a stunning ability. Meanwhile, Eli is on a mission to eradicate every other super-powered person that he can find—aside from his sidekick, an enigmatic woman with an unbreakable will. Armed with terrible power on both sides, driven by the memory of betrayal and loss, the archnemeses have set a course for revenge—but who will be left alive at the end? Views: 251
A tragic car accident leaves Tim and Catherine, teens and without parents. It also leaves them with a bitter sense of betrayal. Can they get past this and go on with their lives or grow up in the midst of this darkness?PLEASE “RATE“ THIS STORY at the bottom of this site. Thanks!Tim is 16 and Catherine 13, just teens but a tragic car accident leaves them without parents. With no place to go but their grandmother's house they carry with them a bitter sense of betrayal. The tragedy has made them quiet and introverted. Can they get past this and go on with their lives or grow up in the midst of this darkness?PLEASE “RATE“ THIS STORY at the bottom of this site. Thanks! Views: 251
A very old parrot living high in a jungle tree relates to a group of young parrots what she has seen and stories she has heard over almost a century. She tells of the changes from a bird's point of view."Aliens Did NOT Destroy Chicago" is the title of a video discovered on the internet after claims that aliens nuked the city are broadcast on new networks. The story is told in that format, with a transcriber copying all of the spoken text into long form. In this short fiction, the author formulates a scenario where a major US city is destroyed by a false flag operation, and what might occur if the scale were so monstrous it could barely be believed. The reader is challenged to examine perceptions and exercise discernment through the use of media. Views: 251
my first book..this a story of love, magic, wolves and birds all finding true love maybe. phoenix is happy for the first time in her life. she has a mate she loves and who loves her. a knock on the door and a dream brings hawk with news of trouble. will hawk help her or distroy her happiness?phoenix is happy at last a woman who has finally found her mate and wouldn't you know it he is an alpha who started his own pack. life is good until phoenix starts having dreams of a new mate. rain is not happy with the idea of sharing her or sharing the alpha spot. would the pack even accept two alpha males, it was unheard of. with no name or discription of this new mate phoenix has no idea who to expect. then there is the message that the pack is in danger. what is a she-wolf to do. Views: 250
What If You Couldn't Say No To Others But They Never Knew? Empathy should have its limits. But for Freya it doesn't. When others are around she finds herself bending to their will, unable to tell anyone what she wants, unable to assert herself or defend herself. Can she find a way forward or will she forever be drowning in their darkness? Views: 250
A Sunstrike spin-off story. Clint behaves like a movie hero. He drives like Jason Statham, rides like John Wayne, and would fly like Top Gun if he ever tried. When he’s thrust into a major disaster, he reacts with confidence and style, leading others from danger and caring for the helpless. But despite his bravery, he can’t protect his family when a solar storm knocks out all technology.Sunstrike - what happens when a massive solar storm knocks out the world's electronic technology. Starstruck Hero follows one of the minor characters from the novel Sunstrike as he deals with the sudden absence of transport, communication and electricity. Clint lives his life as if he's the hero of every movie he's ever seen. He drives like Jason Statham in The Transporter, rides like John Wayne, and would fly like Top Gun if he ever got the chance. When he’s thrust into a major disaster, he reacts with confidence and style, leading others from danger and caring for the helpless. But despite his bravery, he can’t protect his family from the terrible repercussions when sunstrike hits and the solar storm knocks out technology right across the planet. This is a relatively gentle post-apocalyptic story, free from zombies or aliens, but dealing with the end of the world as we know it.This is a spin-off story from Sunstrike, a novel featuring Averie Brown as she learns to survive in a post-technology world. In suburban Auckland, she finds the disaster shakes her out of her rut as she learns new skills to survive. After her previous uneventful life, still mourning the loss of her husband and missing her absent son, she finds the new challenge a welcome adventure as members of her neighbourhood rally to support each other against the fear of a cold and hungry winter. But the teenage waif she takes under her wing is not all he seems. Scientific research on the effects of solar flares on earth is worryingly inconclusive. It’s agreed a big eruption on the sun’s surface would send large quantities of electro-magnetic energy streaming past the earth causing severe damage to high-voltage transmission lines, and that alone would stop the provision of electricity for months if not years. The Sunstrike stories explore what might happen next. Views: 250
The truest and most reliable account of the creation of...er...Creation. You name it, it's here! God, Lucifer and Michael. Adam, Lilith and Eve. Talking animals and voices in a head (not one, not two but three! Yes, three!). Chaos, as itself. Guest appearances, Jesus, Cthulhu and Shub-Niggurath. And don't forget the vicious but quite divine Headache... did I mention about the aliens?There, in the middle of absolute nothing, deep inside the blackness of primordial space void, several awkward moments before the Bing Bang that gave birth to one of the innumerable universes, he (or He, if you prefer…someone, anyway…) made his discreetly appearance. Someone, who hadn’t the faintest idea about how he got there or who he was or even if he should be there, at all. The random discovery of the power of speech and his innate divine abilities will spur on and convince him to stay at that spot and become famous. With the help of his First (who drags him to the brink of nervous breakdown) and a multitude of other angelic creatures, benign and extremely impressed, he creates one of the most original worlds of the multiverse (in his mind, at least). Light and darkness, planets and stars, earth and seas, all of them created in mere moments (from a lower lifeform’s point of view) of divine, artistic inspiration. Higher and lower forms of life passed, in a blink of god’s eye, from the sphere of ideas into the material world. All of this of course with the assistance of angelic side-kicks, archangelic fights and a thrice-split Luciferian personality (things are rarely what they seem). The construction of the being in the image and likeness of the creator, along with its spouses, will force Chaos and all the other vague cosmogonic forces to seek for serenity in some other, more interesting universe, far away from potential gods and their creative delusions. Creator, Lucifer (evil background music), Archangels and firstborn humans. Love and jealousy, thrills and action, enormous carnivores and tiny blind and naïve animals. Plenty of laughter and a persistent headache. All of them having as background our freshly-constructed universe, in the truest story ever imprinted on paper without the chronicler losing his mind. And all, in a week’s work… Views: 250
Angels start to appear at random funerals, eulogizing the deceased for 10 years after millions disappeared from across the earth. During one funeral, an angel is the cause of a fatal event investigated by a priest, nun and former seminarian. Their investigation leads to a test of each of their beliefs, and answers to questions they never anticipated.Who would even begin to think that angels would indiscriminately present eulogies at random funeral services immediately after millions mysteriously disappear across the entire world? Funerals become must go to events; T.V, radio stations, and families, hold contests to fill guest seats for those wanting to attend the ceremonies of the deceased, hoping to catch a glimpse of a heavenly creature. Seats at county and city services for unidentified John and Jane Does are now full. For ten years this occurs. No one knew where or when one would appear, only that no one is able to take any photographs or video recordings when an angel does show; hand drawings, once completed, fade or disappear .Our story begins where an angel is the suspect of a fatal event during one such funeral In Los Angeles, killing all of the attendees, minus one survivor. Why? The Catholic Church dispatches a priest to work with a nun and a former seminary student who have extensive knowledge of angels try to determine what happened. The investigation will lead to a test of each of their beliefs, and answers to questions they never anticipated."Not all angels are the same." Views: 250
When Jake wakes up, he expects the day to be just like every other day, ordinary. So when his crush asks him to help her get out of a dangerous situation, he isn't expecting the danger to include hiding from dangerous people, explosions, and being face to face with the barrel of a gun. Fearing for their lives makes him realize he must share his feelings for her, if they can make it through alive.When Jake wakes up, he expects the day to be just like every other day, ordinary. So when Jake heads to school for one of his last days of college, little does he know that his whole life is about to be turned upside down.When his best friend (and crush) Olivia asks him to help her get out of a dangerous situation, he is determined to help her and finally share the feelings he has been hiding. But he doesn't realize the danger she is in. After being chased by dangerous people, almost being blown up, and being face to face with the barrel of a gun, he is realizing it might not be so easy to share how he feels.With the help of his friends, can Jake help save Olivia and finally make his feelings known? Or are they in over their heads? What Jake does know is that his life will never be ordinary again. Views: 250
