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Quarantine by Bella_Higgin
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When a deadly disease ravages the town of Holmsley, Frankie and her friends find themselves trapped inside a military-blockaded quarantine zone. ***** A story that was first published in 2014 and feels more relevant than ever. Fifteen-year-old Frankie and her friends must find their way out of quarantine if they want to survive. As the body count rises, Frankie realizes that this is no ordinary quarantine and no one is coming to help. Once infected, the sick become crazed and violent, while fear turns other survivors to savages. And who or what are the mysterious figures Frankie keeps seeing around town? It seems she'll have to unravel the dark truth behind it all if she wants to get out alive... Content and/or trigger warning: This story describes disease outbreaks and contains scenes of violence, which may be triggering for some readers. [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]
THE RELIC GUILD (and other stories) Updated regularly.  by Edward_Cox
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Magic caused the war. Magic is forbidden. Magic will save us. The Relic Guild is the award nominated first book in The Relic Guild trilogy. It was said the Labyrinth had once been the great meeting place, a sprawling city at the heart of an endless maze where a million humans hosted the Houses of the Aelfir. But when the Thaumaturgists, overlords of human and Aelfir alike, went to war, everything was ruined and the Labyrinth became an abandoned prison. The surviving humans were trapped behind boundary walls a hundred feet high, and all magic was forbidden. And now the war is returning. The Relic Guild are all that stand against the end of the city. But they are old, scattered and weak, and the enemy is growing in strength... Here in THE RELIC GUILD (and other stories) please enjoy a large chunk of The Relic Guild Trilogy (published with kind permission of my publisher Gollancz), complete short stories, the odd poem, one or two blog posts, and samples chapters from my other novels.
Battlestar Invictus by Ghost9315
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What would happen if the most powerful battlestar the Twelve Colonies of Man could create escaped the cylon extermination and instead ended up in a new universe? To escape the extermination of his own ship and crew, Commander Price ordered a blind FTL jump just before dozens of nuclear warheads detonated against his ship. Though because of strange workings within the navigation computer the Battlestar finds itself way beyond the Red Line, Uncharted space. They find themselves within the Imperium of Man. In the middle of the Gothic sector during the 12th Black crusade lead by Abbadon the Despoiler. How will our group of brave souls get themselves through this one? +++++++ This is a project from over a year now and still going. I thought it was time I shared it with you guys. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoy writing it. Be sure to give me some constructive feedback!
D'Spayr: A Knight in the Withered Land by JosephArmstead
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In a decayed and dying alien world that was once center of a vast planetary empire, an embittered rogue knight, soldier to the fallen empire, traverses a bizarre landscape discovering strange and sinister truths about the nature of the leaders he once served and about the mysterious warlords who have now carved the world into their private kingdoms. ************************************************************************************************ Wonderful cover art by Stefanie Saw: @seventhstar