A haunted house worker must hide her identity from the horror geek she tormented in middle school. But then she starts falling for him.A zombie. A vampire. A witch. Nora Travers is none of these things.But the former mean girl has to hide behind costumes if she wants to scare the pants off Brendan, the horror geek with the power to make or break her haunted house. Because Brendan is the nerd Nora used to torment in middle school. But now he's in college and so scary hot, even her zombie heart starts beating.And he's looking a bit too long at her bloody fishnet stockings.Nora has to be everything she's not this Halloween so she can hide her true self and terrify Brendan. Not to mention protect her heart.Because what happens when he realizes she’s a monster behind the mask?Note: this is a 22,000-word goth rom-com novella. Views: 234
Emily has just moved into her first house and is excited to start her adult life, but every night her American dream becomes a nightmare.In 2036, true artificial intelligence bots (Taibots) live in society and form relationships with humans; they behave like humans in every aspect. However, Olivia thinks Taibots are just a piece of machinery and have no understanding of what they are talking about. In other words, she doesn’t believe artificial consciousness is possible. But things get complicated after Toby enters her life. Despite the fact he seems like a Taibot, Olivia is certain Toby has human consciousness.On the eve of the sixth mass extinction, resulting from anthropogenic climate change, is artificial consciousness the answer to keeping human consciousness—the apex of 4.5 billion years of evolution—sustained in a universe without humans? Is Olivia able to find out why Toby so resembles her boyfriend who died five years earlier? How would the world deal with the imminent global wipe-out?It’s a fast-paced adventure that entails philosophical discussions about consciousness, love, life, the future of humanity and the universe. Views: 234
Agent 33 of the Psecret Psociety recounts a strange dream about someone who he has never met over rooftop beers in Charlotte. A 2200-word short story.Agent 33 of the Psecret Psociety recounts a strange dream about someone who he has never met (Ted Maize) over rooftop beers in Charlotte. But, was it really just a dream? Was it his dream? Did someone put a chip on his brain? What thoughts are really his? A 2200-word short story. Views: 234
Ashton Miller is one of the best covert operatives in the United States' employ. Zachariah Lawrence is a newer field agent out to impress his superiors and earn a promotion. When the two men are assigned to work together, Ashton is less than thrilled. The last thing he wants to do is oversee a rookie, especially one as stubborn and reckless as Zachariah. But when Zachariah goes missing on an undercover assignment in Bolivia and is written off as a lost asset, Ashton is compelled to go on an unauthorized one-man mission to rescue him from the clutches of Nathan Chambers, an arms dealer and drug lord who leaves a trail of bodies wherever he goes. There's a reason why Chambers is so dangerous, and the two men find out why when they end up on the wrong side of supernatural creatures they never knew existed. And now, the wolves are out for their blood. This book takes place prior to the first book in the series,... Views: 233
On the seventh day of the seventh year… she desecrates.
Evil keeps a formidable schedule in Weston, West Virginia. Every seventh year, spirits from the town's abandoned insane asylum seek worthy souls to command. But this seventh year, a desecration unlike any before is scheduled to ravage the town. And Solomon Gorge is lured to the harrowing event by the screams of Silence. Views: 233
On a rare vacation out west, animal rights investigator Jude Brannock fulfills a lifelong dream of seeing wolves in the wild. The wonder of the moment is shattered when she learns that a wildlife trapper has been murdered and the main suspect is an ALF member and a man she once loved. Jude's search for the real killer takes her undercover where she collides with a government agency that is methodically destroying the wildlife she is determined to protect. Views: 233
A high fantasy story about a housewife who goes on an adventure to find her lost neighbor and comes in contact with creatures and humans who turn her life topsy-turvy.A woman gets her kids off to school, cleans the house, and then sits down to read the next high fantasy book from her favorite author when a scream from next door interrupts her tranquility. She proceeds to investigate and realizes the neighbor's screaming is emanating from the forest behind her property. She ventures into the forest and finds more than the next door neighbor. This short story of high fantasy is the fifth installment of the author's Ten Random Sentences Series wherein the author crafts a short story that is based on and includes ten random sentences that were submitted by his readers during a contest on his Facebook page. Views: 233
When one knight travels to a another world to find his long-lost sister, he is drawn into a conflict deeper than he knows.When one knight travels to a another world to find his long-lost sister, he is drawn into a conflict deeper than he knows.With three photographs of his sister as his only clues, Rii, a Knight of Se-Dela, travels to Xeeo, a world of science and technology completely unlike his magical and mystical home world of Dela, where he hopes to reunite with his sister after her mysterious disappearance six years ago.It soon turns out that the disappearance of Rii's sister is linked to a vaster conflict between two ancient organizations that stretches back to the dawn of the two worlds themselves. And when Rii finds himself stranded on this world, he must race to find his sister before the mysterious figures who want him dead end his life. Views: 233
Amelia Edwards was a normal twenty year old. She had the perfect life. She had loving parents, a good job, and what she had thought, a perfect relationship with Ryan Andrews. Until one day, after being in a relationship for five years, she showed up at Ryan's to tell him she was pregnant. Her perfect life shattered in an instant.After devastation and heartache, she finds control in her life. She leaves Linford and her past behind her. She takes a leap of faith and moves to Fairshore, eighty miles from her hometown. Is eighty miles far enough away from her past? Or will her past follow her? What she finds in Fairshore is more than she imagined. Expecting nothing more than a fresh start, she soon realizes everyone gets a second chance.There is only one question to answer: Is she prepared for her second chance with romance? Views: 233
