The fate of all humankind hung in the balance. Trouble was, they didn't know it. S.S. Wilson is the screenwriter of such films as Tremors and Short Circuit.S.S. Wilson's first novel Tucker's Monster is the Winner of the 2011 Bill Fisher Award for Best First Book - Fiction, presented at the 23rd annual Benjamin Franklin Awards. Views: 821
Stevenson teleoperator Clarity Nice elicits assistance from her friend Cynthia, in order to build an outdoor shower on company lawn that will provide a clothing optional amenity. Infringing human resources policy, clashing against police officer Packwood, who prohibits use of the shower, Clarity purchases a shower patent for Stevenson to lift poor company sales, involving Cynthia as lawyer.After a naked lawn party during clothing optional day, Stevenson Garden Products Malibu teleoperator Clarity Nice agrees with her friend Cynthia Stevenson, daughter of company owner Bill Stevenson, to build an outdoor shower on company lawn, in order to bring publicity for the company. Bypassing the head of human resources at Stevenson, Brock Cheevers, Clarity finds out that the municipality of Malibu prohibits the use of a shower on any company garden lawn, and that it has assigned officer Packwood and his nephew Avery to the 'Stevenson shower' case.When the outdoor shower faucet is closed by Packwood, Clarity decides to build a shower inside the premises of Stevenson, near the rooftop pool of the company, so that employees can relax after a rough day's work. To pay for the expense, Clarity uses Cynthia's power of attorney which allows her to charge and spend company money when her father is away on a trip. Learning that Stevenson sales have dropped and looking for new job opportunities inside the company, Clarity decides to purchase a shower patent using company money savings, in order to boost sales by establishing a new shower division at Stevenson. Without any official document backing her, she uses the funds available to pay for the patent, knowing that her initiative may mean that she is out of a job.With a new patent in her hands, Clarity sets out to sell a number of showers at a Las Vegas bathroom and accessories exhibit, in order to refund Stevenson's money, borrowed to buy the patent, and also to avoid being fired by the owner of the garden company himself, Mr. Stevenson, for having used company funds without authorization. Views: 820
How many lights do you see when you die? Do angels drive blue vans in New England? Why does every town in Paradise and Heaven have a pond? How fast can an armadillo run? And can someone tell me, please, why do fools really fall in love? For a glimpse into the damp cycle of existence, read Kit Duncan's Dandelions in Paradise. Life, and eternity, as you've never imagined before!How many lights do you see when you die? What do Jean, Maggie May, Susannah, Lucille, Caroline, Georgia, Sylvia, Maria, Virginia, and Mrs Brown's lovely daughter have in common? Where do Texas bluebonnets come from? What does Sallie lace her apple pies with? Do angels drive blue vans in New England? Why does every town in Paradise and Heaven have a pond? How fast can an armadillo run? And, can someone tell me, please, why do fools really fall in love? And what's with all those dandelions? For a glimpse into the damp cycle of existence, read Kit Duncan's Dandelions in Paradise. Life, and eternity, as you've never imagined before! Views: 817
Losing the trial is just the beginning...When criminal defense attorney Dylan Wood returns from a defeat in the courtroom, he thinks the worst is over. His client will go to prison, and Dylan will move on. But he learns the hard way that not every client is willing to accept the judgment of his peers. Suddenly Dylan has twenty-four hours to overturn the guilty verdict. If he fails, a ruthless, sexy woman who gives new meaning to the term femme fatale will go public with the dark secret of Dylan\'s own past, destroying his life and those of everyone he loves.This time Dylan is defending himself, and he\'ll do whatever it takes to survive—even if it means breaking the laws he\'s sworn to uphold.Web of Lies is a standalone thriller, set in the same Philadelphia legal world as the Jessie Black Legal Thriller series. (Although prosecutor Jessie Black appears in the story, she is not the main character.) If you like gritty crime stories, vividly-drawn characters, and surprising twists and turns, you\'ll love Larry A. Winters\'s page-turning story of justice gone crazy.Buy Web of Lies to experience this nail-biting legal thriller today! Views: 816
In in a chilling "what if" tale, writer S.S. Wilson (screenwriter of such films as Tremors and Short Circuit) calls into question everything we think we know about life - and death. Be forewarned that it's a little darker than my usual happy-go-lucky writing. Might seem controversial to some, too. Let me know what you think!.S.S. Wilson's first novel Tucker's Monster is the Winner of the 2011 Bill Fisher Award for Best First Book - Fiction, presented at the 23rd annual Benjamin Franklin Awards.S.S. Wilson, screenwriter of such films as Tremors and Short Circuit has just finished his first novel Tucker's Monster after 30 years. "It really was 30 years in the making," jokes the author. After being "side-tracked" by success in screenwriting and directing, Wilson returned to a book he began over three decades ago and is now writing his second novel Fraidy Cats.S.S. WILSON has always been a storyteller with a love of fantasy. His high school science project was an animated dinosaur that demonstrated the concept of persistence of vision, the "flaw" in human optics which makes movie watching possible.As a teenager, Wilson made backyard stop-motion animation "epics" with 8mm film and later went on to study film and television at Pennsylvania State University and the USC graduate film program, where he met writing partner Brent Maddock. He and Maddock landed early jobs writing material for animation giants Chuck Jones and Friz Freleng's television specials featuring the Road Runner and Daffy Duck.Wilson also wrote a book on special effects stop-motion animation, PUPPETS AND PEOPLE. Views: 815
The Unlucky Thirteen virus kills all thirteen-year-olds. When children turn thirteen, they fly or die. Fly to a distant planet that holds the cure, or die on Earth.Zak Connors has been chosen to fly. To survive, he must discover the secrets of a mysterious planet - Kronnus 13.This is one of a series of character interviews from The Flame Before Us. This interview is with Hekanefer, formerly a Mitsriy scribe attached to a military unit stationed in Gedjet and part of the army responsible for defending the province. He is now living in Shalem. If you like the interview and extract, The Flame Before Us is available as a full-length novel.The Flame Before Us:Conflict and commitment in the shadow of a city's downfallThe raiding ships have come before, but this time it is different. This time the attackers are coming to stay. The great kings and their vassals collapse as the newcomers advance.Walk with refugees, migrants, and defenders of the land alike, as they struggle to create a different way of life beside the ruins of the old. Can alliance, commitment and love survive the turmoil? Views: 814
NYT bestselling author Wong takes readers to a whole new level with his latest dark comic sci-fi thriller, set in the world of John Dies at the End and This Book is Full of Spiders
Dave, John and Amy recount what seems like a fairly straightforward tale of a shape-shifting creature from another dimension that is stealing children and brainwashing their parents, but it eventually becomes clear that someone is lying, and that someone is the narrators.
The novel you're reading is a cover-up, and the "true" story reveals itself in the cracks of their hilariously convoluted, and sometimes contradictory, narrative. Views: 814
Mi vida en rose es el nuevo libro de relatos de David Sedaris, el maestro de la sátira, un brillante humorista estadounidense que sigue la tradición de Woody Allen o Groucho Marx. Delirantes y desternillantes, políticamente incorrectos, mordaces y en ocasiones impertinentes, estos relatos nos hablan, entre otras cosas, de cómo aprender francés a una edad adulta y los inconvenientes que conlleva esta valiente decisión, y nos presentan a un niño que hace terapia de pronunciación y a un profesor de escritura creativa que comete los más elementales fallos ortográficos y gramaticales. Sedaris vuelve a hacer una disección del absurdo de algunas conductas y de la vulgaridad de la vida cotidiana y familiar, esta vez desde el relativo anonimato de París, donde se ha refugiado tras haberse convertido en una estrella mediática en Estados Unidos Views: 811
Teleoperator Clarity Nice investigates two wealthy women lured to marry each other within the Church headed by Cassandra Scafarel in Bahrain, the Church of the Holy Flower. Following indications of a conglomerate with ties to the kingdom, Clarity´s mission is to prevent the partly naked bridal union of the neophytes, who are debating who will be naked and who will wear the broderie wedding dress.Standing on a window-cleaning platform carrying a squeegee, Stevenson Garden Products teleoperator Clarity Nice and Colorado heiress Montana Sterley, investigate two wealthy women lured to join the All-Women Church of spiritual development headed by British expatriate Cassandra Scafarel in the kingdom of Bahrain, the Church of the Holy Flower. Both women investigated by Sensual Intelligence, Jenny Owens and Shalia Owell, have paid the steep Church membership access price of fifty thousand dollars, and Scafarel wants the two lovely single Board Members to get married to each other, one of them naked, the other wearing an intricate broderie mini dress, to vow their faith and fidelity to the Church´s symbol of affluence and beauty, the Rose of Levity.In exchange for becoming members of the Church and gaining access to the Rose of Levity´s practical spiritual knowledge, the two bridal neophytes must sign a power of attorney to Scafarel, leaving their Board of Director seats to the shrewd business woman after their wedding. Clarity´s mission is to prevent the marriage of both women, and return them, clothed or unclothed, to their human sexuality studies at University of Arizona, as per the indications of the Board of Directors of a powerful conglomerate, Owens & Owell, a group where both of the women have their Board seats, with ties to several ministries of the kingdom. Views: 810
A collection of short stories by the author of Balls and The Trap-Door, most have which have been selected for publication in literary magazines. Quality literature ranging from humour to the unsettling.Detective Sergeant Harriet is working the night shift in a backwater town in Ireland. In the interview room, she is surprised to see a fully blown cowboy, bruised and belligerent.“It was three hours past sundown,” he says. He describes, “some no good wastrel whooping it up with a lady.” Then he clams up like a clenched fist. He will say no more in front of “a lady.” I almost look around for one but he means me. She digs the truth out of him, and in getting him to acknowledge his influences, finds some truths out about her own.Please note: This is a COMPLETE short story, 1,989 words. I think one of the reviewers has the wrong end of the stick. At the end of the short story is the first chapter of my full length novel. You can skip it if you like! Views: 807
Un giorno la piccola Claire, sottraendosi ai genitori litigiosi, si rifugia nella discarica dietro casa, dove trova uno specchietto rotto dal quale si sente stranamente attratta. È un brutto pezzo di vetro tagliente, ma ha il magico potere di trasformare anche la più squallida realtà in un mondo fiabesco: il cielo bigio nel riflesso diventa azzurro paradiso e la casa di Claire, una modesta villetta di periferia, si trasforma in un castello turrito sormontato da fantastiche conchiglie. Intanto il tempo passa e Claire cresce, sempre accompagnata dal suo specchio magico, in cui può vedere il proprio viso senza l’acne dell’adolescenza, e il padre che abbraccia teneramente la madre al pub. Ma nella realtà il padre sta flirtando con la sua nuova fidanzata, per la quale abbandonerà la famiglia, e il ragazzo di cui Claire è innamorata sta con la sua peggiore nemica. Quello specchio crea solo illusioni e Claire, arrabbiata, sta quasi per buttarlo, quando interviene Peter, un ex compagno delle medie. Ma quando lui la invita a uscire una sera e le dà appuntamento alla discarica, Claire rimane sbigottita: anche Peter ha trovato un pezzo di specchio rotto, che in realtà è il tassello di un puzzle più ampio. Views: 807
How do you know he's The One?
Are you getting butterflies just thinking about him?
Have you dreamt of marrying him?
Do you just know?
When Lucy meets Nate in Venice, she knows instantly he's The One. And, caught up in the whirlwind of first love, they kiss under the Bridge of Sighs at sunset. Which - according to legend - will tie them together forever.
But ten years later, they've completely lost contact. That is, until Lucy moves to New York and the legend brings them back together. Again. And again. And again.
But what if Nate isn't The One? How is she going to get rid of him? Because forever could be a very long time...
A funny, magical romantic comedy about how finding The One doesn't always have to mean happily ever after. Views: 805
Asher 'Ghost' Collins and Natalie Kovac shared a passionate night together. One neither of them can forget. Why is it so hard for them to be around each other? With no hope of the two getting along they decide to go their separate ways. And somehow end up closer than they've ever been. Will friendship ever be enough for the pair? Views: 805
When Tante Lulu decides to matchmake, matches are made. But this time, her meddling Cajun charm will be put to the test...
For five years Savannah Jones thought Special Forces Captain Matthew Carrington died in Afghanistan. For five years he thought she'd rejected him - thanks to his mother’s interception of the letter she wrote to him as he left on his tour of duty.
Now she’s struggling to rebuild a life for herself and their daughter, Katie, despite the devastation Katrina wrought on New Orleans. Thanks to Tante Lulu and her police-officer great-nephew, Tee-John, Savannah and Matthew are about to be reunited.
Will Tante Lulu’s bayou wisdom and sassy attitude be able to turn their broken relationship into a loving gumbo?
Note: this story was made available on the author's website Views: 804
