Brynn Holden's been good her whole life. Mostly. She's always done what her parents told her to do, eaten her vegetables, and even got good grades in school. She's never talked to strangers, never asked for help, never not given help. So when life barrels into her in the form of Mason Hardie, whom she immediately dubs...
"Over four hundred years ago, we were saved by a man named Adrig. In his glory, he ascended to power and called himself God. People believed him. Now he is long dead, but his government still reigns. They are protecting us from the world we live in, from each other, and even from ourselves." It's the same story every...
He just wants her booty, but she'll end up stealing his heart. ***** After pirates kidnap seventeen-year-old Ana in a case of mistaken identity, the orphaned housemaid prepares for the worst. Instead, between a shipwreck, mutiny, and her growing fee...
This novella was a Hugo and Nebula nominee twenty years ago. I lost both to Charles Sheffield -- whom I married five years later. Life sometimes really is just as strange as fiction.
[Formerly Featured/Award-Winning Novella/#2 in Horror] There is something eerie about this village -- this hole of silent, maddened people. In 1922 my Papa told me of a faceless entity that lurks amongst us in our isolated slice of Russia. The locals have kept this horror alive for a century, though the only ones wh...
A strange and terrible power once performed dark puppetry with the dead to wage war against the living. One hundred winters ago that power was staunched. But it has returned. After a ruinous attack against her kingdom, Princess Elery takes up her father's sword to pursue the path of vengeance. A path that brings her t...
Most blogs don't chronicle a horrifying, high-stakes struggle against otherworldly evil. Mark Huntley's does. In the fall of 2004, as the brutal campaign of Bush vs. Kerry draws to a close in Washington, D.C., even more sinister forces are gathering power in secret. For young Mark, who's seeing things he shouldn't se...
These words usually sneak into my consciousness at the most inopportune moments. I often scramble to find a surface to give them wings, please read and share to help them take flight. "Poems are never finished - just abandoned" - Paul Valéry
When Jack Gibson becomes infected with The Red Plague, turning him into a so-called Zombie, his life suddenly gets complicated. Kara, his cheerleader girlfriend, dumps him. Then, after a Zombie riot, his mother decides the city is too dangerous and drags him back to Osborne, the hick town where she grew up. Things go...
1991. Journalist Duke Johnson must uncover why his news service is blaming the wrong side for the Yugoslav wars, and what happened to his parents during WWII. The stories told to him by his lover, Jelena, draw him further into the conspiracy until learning that the answers lie in a horrific event that occurred fifty...
The twists and turns will keep your spine nicely chilled until the very end. Following the death of her mother 11-year-old Tamicka Moon and her father move from Canada to Eastlake in England, where they both struggle to come to terms with their grief. Jack Moon becomes engrossed in writing about Munford House, the e...
Five teenagers, five stories. All yearning to be told. [ temporary cover; credits for style used for the cover go to @hepburnettes ] #weneeddiversebooks #FreeMentalIllness #youngadultreads
“I never knew the sky was so big or that the world was so cruel.” Between the ominous black walls of Havana Hill lie the ruins of the Old World and the great war that ended it. Kathrine Malone, along with hundreds of other ill-fated children, call these rustic remains home. Under the wicked Headmaster who dwells on th...
Passive Jalith, North-born heir to the throne of Southern Hamrat, has spent his life being groomed and trained for a kingship no one really wants him to have. After a bloody accident sends him roving the kingdom on a year-long Census, however, his Northern blood begins to stir within him--and with it the traits that m...
This is a fanfic! I don't own any of the characters! This is a story of a little girl who was born different. Alone and unloved, she came upon someone like her. An outcast, just like her. Meet Elphaba, a girl born green. Meet Oz. A dog without a home. This is their story. A story of a witch and her dog, who only want...
An ancient demon is born into a human body without any memory of its true self. Now, Anne Halton must figure out who she was and fight for the right to choose who she wants to be. Warning: lesbians, demons, fire, and foreplay. Note: The image in the title page is called "Gadjee" and it's by an awesome french artist c...
To Dylan: i just miss you. - A series of texts in which she experiences depression in the most vicarious way possible, and love is just the tune playing lowly in the background. - [Trigger Warnings for: Depression, Thoughts of Suicide, Self-Harm] [Dylan is a boy, and Anabelle is a girl, to clear things up]
#103 in General Fiction / #162 in Short Story Summary: When Robyn gets engaged to Brian, her second thought is "I love this man!" But her first thought is, “I have to lose weight!” So she signs up for an exclusive weight loss program called Tenacity for Women. They say that results are guaranteed. And boy, do they mea...
The first in a series of sea-themed short stories. A man returns to the place where forty years before his life was suddenly changed with devastating consequences. He hopes to find peace at last. However, the sea is not finished with him yet...
When we think of Germany and World War II, we always jump to the same conclusions. But what about the Germans who weren't Nazis? What about the migrants who lived in the States and other Allied communities? How were they treated? Baldur had no way out. The 2nd World War stripped him of his father, his job, his friends...
Where a girl receives messages from an anonymous passerby who wants to show her the world. © tilmorning. 2013
A smile crossed Death's cold, skeleton face. "Looks like you're out of a job," he told her. The angel looked up at him, shocked. "I-it's not as easy as it looks," she insisted. [A compilation of short stories that are sometimes about life, but mostly about Death.]
Ashton VanderRoma can't get through a weekend without partying. He loves the attention he gets from girls, and he always returns their advances, despite the fact that he has a girlfriend. At the start of his senior year, everything changes. His girlfriend finally catches on to his lies, and his parents are getting sic...
Moving to the city alone always seemed like a good idea to Cora. But it seems that a lot of things are like that. They seem alright in principle, but in reality, they're a shambles.
Fae, a junior girl who's never tried fitting in, and her best friend Parker, the socially awkward boy, have always been outcasts. Both plagued with dysfunctional families, they're surprised when two other juniors join them on the outside; April, a girl who would to almost anything to have things the way they were befo...
The Lawrence's have always had issues. With the misbehaved and overall disrespectful quadruplets Jesse, Effie, Dante, and Louis and their two mothers who are hardly any better, they've never been classified as the "normal" family. Each has their own faults, like any family, but theirs become far more serious when they...