Everyone goes to Finnegan's…
It's a pub in lower Manhattan, run by the Finnegan family for generations and now owned by Kieran and her three brothers. Kieran Finnegan, who still works there whenever she can, has become a criminal psychologist—a fitting reaction, perhaps, to her less-than-lawful past.
Meanwhile, New York's Diamond District has been hit by a rash of thefts. No one's been killed—until now. FBI agent Craig Frasier is brought in to investigate; he and Kieran meet at a jewelry store in the middle of a heist. She's there to "unsteal" a flawless stone taken by her light-fingered youngest brother as an act of vengeance. He's there to stop the gang.
But the police and FBI soon discover that there are two gangs of diamond thieves, the original and a copycat group of killers. And the second group seems to think their scheme is as flawless as the stones they steal.
Thrown together by circumstance, drawn together by attraction, Kieran and Craig both end up working on the case. Unfortunately, there's more and more evidence that, somehow, the pub is involved. Because everyone goes to Finnegan's… Views: 351
In 2202 A.D. the world has risen from the ashes of “The Final Holy War” to create a seemingly perfect, Atheistic society. Eighteen year old “Cult Hunter” Cephas Paulson has spent his young life chasing the few remaining Christians but when he’s sent on a high-stakes mission to end Christianity once and for all he finds that Final Holy War wasn’t as final as it appeared.Dr. Cephas Paulson is a man out of time in the year 2202. The world’s leading expert on ancient religions, the government has assigned him the role of finding and hunting down the few remaining ‘Christian cultists’ left in an atheistic modern world ruled by self-gratification. Desperate to end all religion once and for all, a shadowy group with powerful roots deeply planted in the halls of government hatches a bold plan. Cephas becomes one of three time travelers to be sent back to the crucifixion of Christ to get video evidence which will prove once and for all that Christ was a fraud.Under the constant eye of the government and the Christians who want to send a message through Cephas’s death, everyone’s plans are disrupted when a mysterious new religious group known only as ‘Four’ appears ready to take their place on the world stage.Cephas must walk the line between two worlds and two beautiful women. One represents the pleasures and temptations of the outwardly utopian world of man while the other the Godly world that Cephas has sought his entire life to understand. But are these worlds and these women truly what they appear to be? Views: 351
We all live in some types of illusions in our day to day life. Recently, I have developed an illusion that I can also write poems expressing my mind to the readers. My illusions have been reinforced by some ‘Wow’ comments made by some readers when some of the poems were posted on Face Book. Under the seize of that illusion I am publishing my ‘Third Attempt’.Sometimes telling a story in prose form is time consuming. Whenever I feel that, I try my hand in poetry. We all live in some types of illusions in our day to day life. Recently, I have developed an illusion that I can also write poems expressing my mind to the readers. My illusions have been reinforced by some ‘Wow’ comments made by some readers when some of the poems were posted on FB. Under the seize of that illusion I am publishing my ‘Third Attempt’. Views: 351
The quest to break a mummy's curse turns dangerous when a peer ends up dead. Miles Lawrence Hawkins, fifth Earl of Archewyne, is alone and the last of his line, save for a young daughter, and he's made peace with that...Yet unexpectedly finding an attractive female thief in his library searching for that same mummy gives him doubts. Drawn into the lady's insane plot to retrieve various stolen mummies from around London—including the British Museum—Miles accompanies her merely to see what will happen next. Being captivated by her quest and intrigued by her skill in skirting the law is a much needed distraction from the stress of his own life's misfortunes. Lady Emmaline Darling, skilled thief and daughter to the Earl of St. Ives, is nearly alone in the world, and not by choice. Believing herself damned due to her father's penchant for removing antiquities from Egypt, she's vowed to return a pair of mummies to their eternal resting place in... Views: 351
A 15-year-old girl on the autism spectrum discovers the truth about herself, and turns her life and her entire family upside down, when she develops a fixation on a teenage girl singer from the 1960s.Fifteen-year-old Cynthia Ann Butt has much bigger problems than her unfortunate name. At age 4, a year after she was diagnosed with autism, she was put on the Good Brain Diet, which her parents make a living marketing. The selling point of the diet is that Cynthia has achieved “remission” from her autism and is now on the straight and narrow path to medical school. But when she develops an autistic fixation on Amy Zander, an obscure teenage bossa nova singer and drummer from the 1960s, she begins to question whether her “remission” is real, discovers her own musicianship, and makes her first real friend--all under the “guidance” of Amy, who appears to her as a spectral version of Amy’s 15-year-old self. Soon Cynthia transforms herself from Cynthia Ann Butt, loser and failure, into Cyan Beaut, a daring and exciting percussionist, singer, and songwriter, who is happy and proud to be autistic and artistic. But if her transformation is successful, and the truth about her autism comes out, not only will her parents hate her for it, but her entire family will be at risk of financial ruin. The escalating conflict with her parents contributes to the “disease” process that finds her more and more under the spell of “Spectral Amy,” who leads her to places she never expected to go. Views: 351
Egypt nowadays, and how different stories of several foreigners that come into a cafe could interlink with each other ..Taking place in modern Egypt, a group of seemingly unrelated strangers end up through different circumstances in a weird cafe called Bianca, we get to see the story of each and every one of them, and as time proceeds, we find that they are related in the most weird ways you can imagine.. We get to know each one of them deeply, get to touch their souls, their fears, and their grudges..!! Things get steamy as the events proceed, and the interlinks between the characters and each other start to unveil, till the shocking ending comes . Views: 351
In Seventeen, the story of a lonely seventeen year old who turns to a right-wing group for self-esteem, and J, the story of a spoiled, young, drifter son of a Japanese executive, Ōe shows us a world where the values that had regulated life had been blown to smithereens along with Hiroshima and Nagasaki: what confronts his heroes now is a gaping emptiness. Views: 351
Sixfold is an all-writer-voted journal. All writers who upload their manuscripts vote to select the highest-voted $1000 prize-winning manuscripts and all the short stories and poetry published in each issue.Sixfold is an all-writer-voted journal. All writers who upload their manuscripts vote to select the highest-voted $1000 prize-winning manuscripts and all the short stories and poetry published in each issue.In Sixfold Poetry Summer 2016:Sarah Sansolo | Bedtime Stories & other poemsMiranda Cowley Heller | Things the Tide Has Discarded & other poemsAlexa Poteet | Escobar's Hacienda Napoles & other poemsCynthia Robinson Young | Triple Dare & other poemsNicole Lachat | Of Infidelities & other poemsAmy Nawrocki | Bad Girls & other poemsLawrence Hayes | Winter Climb & other poemsAJ Powell | God the Baker & other poemsGisle Skeie | Rearranging & other poemsBruce Taylor | Always Expect a Train & other poemsRicky Ray | They Used to Be Things & other poemsS. E. Ingraham | Storm Angels & other poemsLaura Gamache | Outing & other poemsKeighan Speer | It Rained Today & other poemsEmma Atkinson | Grocery Stores Make Me Feel Mentally Ill & other poemsErin Lehrmann | Block & other poemsD. H. Turtel | Margaret, Again & other poemsChris Haug | Bovine Paranoia & other poemsKimberly M. Russo | Definitive Definition & other poemsHolly Walrath | A Tourist of Sorts & other poemsAngel C. Dye | Beauty in Her Marrow & other poems Views: 351
Peter tries to move on and get his life together but soon ends up right back where he first lost his wife... or is it where he finds her and loses himself?The story SAMANTHA is a flash fiction short story on lost love and the possibilities of the afterlife through extraterrestrial beings. Peter is the main character who misses his wife, Samantha, after a shark kills her in a gruesome attack right in front of his very eyes as they work on an underwater archaeological site. Peter tries to move on and get his life together but soon ends up right back where he first lost his wife... or is it where he finds her and loses himself? Views: 351
What do you do when all you have ever hoped for comes true and then turns to a nightmare, a nightmare that you can not wake from? What cost would you be willing to bear for a chance at glory?Sarah Jane was forced to pay an unexpected price. Would the cost of it all pull her under or would she rise above it, stronger than she could have ever imagined she could be?Sarah Jane had been so excited to be accepted on the team of doctors at the prestigious clinic, The Center. It was exciting and exhilarating work. It did not hurt that she got to work with brilliant people all day, everyday. Until disaster struck and suddenly everything she had was in danger of being lost.Would she turn the hands of time if she could? Would she choose differently if she did? Would she choose her old life over the new one that was unfolding?Sometimes, life forces us to grow way bigger than our shells. Sarah Jane had to.(This is a stand-alone novel but readers will understand the story a lot better if they read my book, 'Transgender J' first. Transgender J is free on Smashwords.)This book was formerly titled, Undead - Sarah Jane. Views: 351
From New York Times bestselling author Kelly Elliott comes the gut-wrenching story of a love that transcends all odds—and transforms the deepest pain into the brightest hope.
Firefighter and first responder Preston Ward thought he had grown immune to the job’s emotional burns. But when he goes out on a particularly tragic call, he realizes that some scenes are too devastating to forget. And yet, if it weren’t for that terrible night, he never would have met the woman who makes him want to risk his heart.
More than once, Harmony Banks has watched her perfectly ordered world torn apart by fate. Now she’s finding out that what she lost wasn’t as perfect as she thought—and it’s tearing her apart. The only thing that keeps her going is the kindness of a stranger: the firefighter who saved her life the night everything changed.
Preston isn’t like the men who have come before. For one thing, he’s far more genuine. And the love Harmony feels growing between them is almost too intense for her wounded soul. But if she and Preston can push past heartbreak, they’ll find that something incredible awaits in each other’s arms.
Includes a special message from the editor, as well as an excerpt from another Loveswept title. Views: 350
A promotional giveaway hides a terrorist attack that spreads a new experimental virus among people of a city.People begin to eat themselves before they die due to uncontrollable hunger, but the bodies are revived to follow the hunger instinct.This isn't a common apocalyptic story, the city is only being used to bring something far more macabre to reality, beyond the creatures born from the virusA promotional giveaway hides a terrorist attack that spreads a new experimental virus among people of a city.People begin to eat themselves before they die due to uncontrollable hunger, but the bodies are revived to follow the hunger instinct.This isn't a common apocalyptic story, the city is only being used to bring something far more macabre to reality, beyond the creatures born from the virus.This is the first episode of a series that will be released from time to time telling the horrors of something in the roots of a world threat.This book has many references and homages to Resident Evil, can you find them all? Views: 350
Isavel died, so why isn’t she dead? That question burns brightest as her old life turns to ash in the heat of a war she doesn’t understand. Lost in a storm and saddled with powers and expectations she doesn’t know how to handle, all she has left is faith that her gods know what they’re doing. By following their will, perhaps she can find purpose - and ultimately, peace.
But peace is not for everyone. In these same dark days, Ada is exiled for heresy against the dogma of her people. She decides the world needs to change, she thinks she’s the one to do it, and to her surprise, she is living at a time of more wondrous and terrible change than she could have possibly imagined.
These two young women must navigate a long-forgotten world that is being ground to dust by time and the growing wilderness, each only slowly becoming aware of the other’s existence. They will both have the chance to light a fire to change the world - but first, they must become the people they will need to be. Views: 350
