Claire's having a quiet day at her job as a librarian when soldiers show up wanting to destroy the tomes of magical knowledge in her library.It's a slow day at the city library, and Claire thinks it's going to stay that way- other than a visit from her girlfriend's class to learn about magic, it seems that nothing else is going to happen. And then soldiers show up, wanting to destroy the knowledge there and rule the city. Can Claire stand up to them, or is years of history going to disappear in the blink of an eye? Views: 711
A broken woman . . .
Crystal learned long ago that love brings only pain. Feeling nothing at all is far better than being hurt again. She guards her wounded heart behind a hard exterior and carries within her a deep mistrust of men, who, in her experience, have only ever used and taken.
A man in need of help . . .
Then Gabriel Dalton walks into her life. Despite the terrible darkness of his past, there's an undeniable goodness in him. And even though she knows the cost, Crystal finds herself drawn to Gabriel. His quiet strength is wearing down her defenses and his gentle patience is causing her to question everything she thought she knew.
Only love can mend a shattered heart . . .<
Crystal and Gabriel never imagined that the world, which had stolen everything from them, would bring them a deep love like this. Except fate will only take them so far, and now the choice is theirs: Harden their hearts once again or find the courage to shed their painful pasts. Views: 711
Time Code: The Best Collection of 52 Stories You Should Be Reading This YearThe stories in ‘Time Code: The Best Collection of 52 Stories You Should Be Reading This Year’ are:1- Big Bang Serenade2- Mercury Heaven3- Twilight's Last Gleaning4- Ginkey's Garden5- White Van6- Finding Footprints7- Timid Bunny8- Red Moon9- Some Pig10- When the Doorbell Rings11- Slush Pile12- To Whom It MayTime Code: The Best Collection of 52 Stories You Should Be Reading This YearThe stories in ‘Time Code: The Best Collection of 52 Stories You Should Be Reading This Year’ are:1- Big Bang Serenade2- Mercury Heaven3- Twilight's Last Gleaning4- Ginkey's Garden5- White Van6- Finding Footprints7- Timid Bunny8- Red Moon9- Some Pig10- When the Doorbell Rings11- Slush Pile12- To Whom It May Concern13- Blood Draw14- Are We Superman?15- Moon Tweets from the Sea of Tranquility, 196916- Time Code17- The Ink Beneath18- Christmas Poinsettias19- After the Last Showing20- September Remembered21- Grafting In the Dark22- Test of a Lifetime23- Coffee Lover, Muffin Lover24- Pink Unicorn Gunfight at the O.K. Corral25- All I Want For Christmas...Beets26- Sitting Next to the Bug27- Sir John Falstaff Pleads With HAL: A Sonnet Not Penned By the Bard nor an Odyssey Presented By Kubrik28- Mac Morris…Sick Day29- Maidens and Monsters; Tokyo Footfalls30- The Typist31- There goes a Tenner...Beans32- Excellent to Bad and Everything In-Between: A Quick Glance at Fredrick Culvert-Owen’s Credit Score33-Eating Acrylic Pancakes with the Dictators at IHOP on my Birthday34 -Fallen Hero35- Girl Wrestler36- Everything is Clear37- Five Voice Mail Messages38- Tourists of Apocalypse39- Yellow Hair Lures Them All40- Writer's Time41- After the Game42- Home Renovation TV43- Bard's Muse44- Fan Fic45- Conan the Barber46- Let's Make A Yggdrasil Tree Deal47- Z-Garten48- Stupid Fucking Story49- Free Range Human50- Sounds of Segregation51- Nemo Found52- Nona’s Christmas Cookies Views: 711
One way to shut up an obnoxious, loud-mouthed, male chauvinist pig. That's all I'll tell you. Click the blue below to see why. Here it suffices to say that the story is short and free. Why read a summary when with little more effort you can read the whole thing? If you can't spare a moment more, you shouldn't be wasting time reading fiction anyway. Go back to work!"One can not judge a book by its cover." So we are told. But a cover is usually the only thing a reader has to base a judgment on. Smashwords tries to aid readers by providing summaries, one short, one long, for each book it distributes. For non-fiction this works well. But this, it seems to me, defeats the whole purpose of fiction. After all, one reads a story to find out what will happen. It’s the uncommon twists and turns that make a story interesting. But if a summary has told all this beforehand, what fun is to be had in the reading? Therefore, no summary of the present short story is given. It's short and it’s free! So read the whole thing and see if you like it. I ask you to do this because I think it is the best book judging method. To find fiction you like you must first read around enough to learn something of the style and stories of different authors. Then you can judge books, not by their cover, but by the your opinion of the writer. I'd like to help you do this. The present short story is one of several which I will make available free at Smashwords. Read a few (or all of them) and decide if you like them. It won't cost you a dime. If you like them, you can then purchase some of my not free (but still inexpensive) longer stories. All these stories are of one particular kind. To reflect this similarity all have the same cover picture, the Kitty & Rose shown above. So after you’ve read a few, you can, in fact, judge them by their cover. The common theme of the Kitty & Rose stories is human sexuality. This is not unusual. Most fiction concerns sex in one way or another; ranging from romances so sedate and demure an extraterrestrial could never know sex is at the root of everything described, to erotica so unrestricted even an extraterrestrial might blush. Kitty & Rose stories are in the middle of this range. All deal with human sexuality, but none do so explicitly. Rather, they are seemly. The dictionary gives three meanings for seemly: Attractive or agreeably fashioned; Decorous or conventionally proper; and Appropriate or suited to its purpose. With respect to appropriateness, seemly sex stories range from the humorous to the inspirational, but all concern human sexuality. So they are clearly appropriate. These stories are also seemly in the decorous and conventionally proper sense. For, while they treat sex candidly, they do not do so graphically. There is nothing pornographic nor erotic in any seemly sex story. Of course, different persons’ opinions about this may differ. A few consider frank pornography decorous. At the opposite extreme are those like the abbot of the monastery where the great biologist Gregor Mendel did his epochal research. This abbot thought Mendel’s studies were decidedly indecorous because they involved the sex of pea plants! Finally, there is the principal sense of seemly, attractive and agreeably fashioned. Like every author I exert my every effort and ability trying to make these stories seemly in this regard. But like every author, I must await your determination of the degree of my success. Since both of us will be pleased if you find them attractively seemly, I very much hope you do.Happy reading!BobbyBP.S. This is Kitty & Rose short story 10, uploaded 2-27-17. Views: 711
Bethany travels to a new fictional world to rescue her father in this third book in the New York Times bestselling series, Story Thieves—which was called a “fast-paced, action-packed tale” by School Library Journal—from the author of the Half Upon a Time trilogy.
Owen and Bethany have sworn off jumping into books for good. But they didn’t make any promises about not jumping through strange portals that lead to a comic book world.
Jupiter City was once filled with brightly costumed superheroes and villains, but nowadays, there’s nothing left but the Dark. Even the villains are terrified of the Dark’s shadows, and most of the heroes have either disappeared or been lost to mind control. The one hero who might have stopped all of this, Doc Twilight, has been imprisoned by the Dark.
But who is Doc Twilight really? And how can Bethany and Owen defeat the Dark without superpowers of their own? They’ll definitely need the help of some old friends and new allies to bring the light back to Jupiter City, and find out the truth behind the Dark.
It all comes back to Bethany’s own secret origins. What really happened when her fictional father disappeared years ago? Who is Nobody, and why is he writing these Story Thieves books? And what kind of supervillain name is The Rotten Banana? Views: 710
She’s forbidden, never-been-touched temptation. But we're about to put our filthy hands all over her.
Johanna
I thought it was just a job - I’d go work on a stranger’s ranch to save my aunt and uncle’s farm.
Except that was a lie, and now I’m a prisoner, being groomed to be sold to whoever can pay.
It all seems lost, until I meet the two men charged with guarding me.
Dominant, gorgeous, and rough - the two rugged cowboys look at me in a way that sends dirty, filthy, forbidden thoughts through my head and heat through places in my body it shouldn’t.
Something about them makes me want to let them take me any way they please, until I’m begging for more.
But I’m their captive, and this is all wrong. I definitely shouldn’t feel this way, and I definitely shouldn’t moan when they put their rough hands all over me.
A good girl like me shouldn’t want them to claim my innocence.
Both of them…
Roman/Colt
She doesn’t belong in a place like this. She’s too sweet, and too good.
Too innocent.
But something about that untouched purity brings out the beast in us, and makes us want to claim her as our own.
It’s our job to guard her. It’s our job to teach her, and train her - make her the perfect plaything for some rich prck when he comes to buy* her.
But now that we’ve laid eyes on her, there’s no way we’re giving her up.
Now we’re obsessed, and if we want to save her, we have to break her.
She’s never been touched, but we’re about to put our filthy hands all over her…
Breaking Her Innocence is a quick and filthy book involving two utterly obsessed alpha heroes, one sassy heroine, and enough insta-love, steam, and sugary-sweetness to make your Kindles melt. This mfm romance is all about her – no m/m. If you love over-the-top, slightly unrealistic, and wildly dirty stories, this one’s for you! HEA with NO CHEATING!
For a very limited time, this book now also features two other stories of mine. Professor: A First Time Romance and Sugar & Spice: A Billionaire/Au Pair Romance are included in the back of this book as special thank you for picking up this new release edition! Views: 710
To the forest on the shore of the Kingdom of the Isles, the orphan Pug came to study with the master magician Kulgan. But though his courage won him a place at court and the heart of a lovely Princess, he was ill at ease with the normal ways of wizardry. Yet Pug's strange sort of magic would one day change forever the fates of two worlds. For dark beings from another world had opened a rift in the fabric of spacetime to being again the age-old battle between the forces of Order and Chaos. Views: 710
What if someone tells you that you can actually play games on LOVE? What if True Love is just a fantasy and a fairy tale? I bet this is one of the most controversial book ever. You're truly going to find crazy philosophies here. Enjoy!Dana Bowman’s ex-husband, Colby, comes across a form Dana filled out for a contest. The phenomena/psychic society showcases any aspiring psychics who care to predict events in the coming year. Colby knows Dana won’t remember to send in the form, she never does. He reads her answers, laughs at the predictions, and figures her answers are as good as anyone else’s at guessing what will happen in the coming year. One year later, surprise! Dana wins prizes amounting to a whopping $50,000. To collect, she must appear in Los Angeles with the well-known psychics who sponsored the contest. Adam Knight, a publicist from LA, is elected to meet Dana, take her to all required appearances, including a television show. At home, Colby and their daughters, Mitzi and Kayci, watch their now-famous mother and wonder who will accompany her to Paris. Jealousy colors Colby's thoughts and actions, at least initially. Perhaps Colby can convince her to re-marry so he can accompany her to Paris and start winning back her love. Will he get to Dana in time before she invites someone else…say, Adam Knight?(Contains sexual love scenes) Views: 710
New York Times bestselling author Wendy Higgins brings you the second book in this thrilling war-torn world...
Being on the run in the desert means food and sanctuary are hard to come by, but Amber Tate and her crew are not about to give up. Not after having the things they love brutally ripped from them by an unknown enemy who sent their world into the apocalypse.
Survival takes precedence, but once safe shelter is found, their guards fall and the emotions they've been holding in are finally released. Anger, insecurities...lust. In their tight quarters, Amber, Rylen, Tater, and Remy can't escape it. The past must be faced, and passions run even stronger in the darkest of times. In the midst of unrest, their worlds are rocked again when they discover the truth about the war that's ruined their lives. They thought finding out the enemy's identity would give them the edge; instead it's revealed terrifying dangers they never thought possible. Views: 710
When thirteen-year-old Max Tilt happens upon his great-great-great-grandfather Jules Verne’s unfinished, unpublished manuscript, The Lost Treasures, he doesn’t realize that he’s found the answers to all his problems. And Max has a lot of problems—his mother is sick, his father is out of work, and his home is about to be foreclosed on. But when Max and his cousin Alex discover that Verne’s last work reveals everything he wrote was fact, not fiction, they realize that the book holds the key to something incredibly valuable. A treasure that can save his house—and maybe his entire family.
But Max and Alex aren’t the only ones who know about Verne’s clues. Spencer Niemend, a strange skunk-haired man who has spent his life researching Verne’s works, is bent on reshaping the world with the hidden treasure. To find it first, Max and Alex must go on an adventure that’ll take them from the broken remains of an underwater city to the very jaws of a giant squid to the edges of a whirlpool from which no one has ever emerged alive. Views: 709
Haiku and Senryu are both tiny seventeen-syllable poems that paint a word picture of a moment in time and space. This Japanese form has been a favourite with Pam Crane for many years, building up into a verse journal - and often replacing a forgotten camera!Haiku and Senryu are both tiny seventeen-syllable poems that paint a word picture of a moment in time and space. This Japanese form has been a favourite with Pam Crane for many years, building up into a verse journal - and often replacing a forgotten camera! Haiku are strictly concerned with seasons and the natural environment; Senryu can express anything - a mood, an event, an idea, even a joke. They have become so popular in the West that both versions are now erroneously called Haiku in the media, and questions on BBC TV's 'Pointless' quiz are often framed as 'Haiku' (though this makes them very difficult to read!) Views: 708
In this short story enhanced with beautiful illustrations, the bestselling author of A Man Called Ove and Beartown delivers an insightful and poignant tale about finding out what is truly important in life.
A father and a son are seeing each other for the first time in years. The father has a story to share before it’s too late. He tells his son about a courageous little girl lying in a hospital bed a few miles away. She’s a smart kid—smart enough to know that she won’t beat cancer by drawing with crayons all day, but it seems to make the adults happy, so she keeps doing it.
As he talks about this plucky little girl, the father also reveals more about himself: his triumphs in business, his failures as a parent, his past regrets, his hopes for the future.
Now, on a cold winter’s night, the father has been given an unexpected chance to do something remarkable that could change the destiny of a little girl he hardly knows. But before he can make the deal of a lifetime, he must find out what his own life has actually been worth, and only his son can reveal that answer.
With humor and compassion, Fredrik Backman’s The Deal of a Lifetime reminds us that life is a fleeting gift, and our legacy rests in how we share that gift with others. Views: 708
From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Kristen Proby comes a new story in her Fusion series…
Chase MacKenzie is not the man for Maura Jenkins. A self-proclaimed life-long bachelor, and unapologetic about his distaste for monogamy, a woman would have to be a masochist to want to fall into Chase’s bed.
And Maura is no masochist.
Chase has one strict rule: no strings attached. Which is fine with Maura because she doesn’t even really like Chase. He’s arrogant, cocky, and let’s not forget bossy. But when he aims that crooked grin at her, she goes weak in the knees. Not that she has any intentions of falling for his charms.
Definitely not.
Well, maybe just once…
Every 1001 Dark Nights novella is a standalone story. For new readers, it’s an introduction to an author’s world. And for fans, it’s a bonus book in the author’s series. We hope you'll enjoy each one as much as we do. Views: 708
Continue Violet and Viggo's heart-racing journey in the epic fifth book of The Gender Game series.
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A young girl wanders the city streets as her mother sits in a lawyers office discussing her pending divorce. As the sun begins to set, Julie will be forced to rely on the kindness of strangers, in a world where strangers are no longer so kind...Small Violence takes quick looks at violence through three flash fiction stories. The first story, The Fundamentals of Treating an Asthma Attack, is a 100-word story about the mishaps of being treated medically while being trans. The second, an experimental index story looking at the consequences of an affair gone wrong using the colors of the rainbow to look at the aftermath of the event. The third, and final, story is a slice of life view of bullying, as viewed by middle schooler Stephanie. Views: 708
