In a five part story based on the BBC TV show SHERLOCK, the legendary detective, Sherlock Holmes, and his mild-manner companion, John Watson, face five original adventures written by WattyAwards2012 Finalist, E. K. Sloyer. The two partners in crime face a criminal that can only be tracked through John's past; a mysterious voice bent on destroying Sherlock through a member of the Royal family; and lastly, a nemesis that is determined to prove that Sherlock's dead...though, all the while, the great detective is one step ahead of all of them. __________________ IN EDITING PROCESS COMPLETED 2013 #54 in Mystery/Thriller

High school is hard for most people and for Chloe Miller, this is no exception. She is forced to learn the perils of her choices the hard way and the result leads her to building a steel wall around herself that is impossible to crack. Eventually, her mother loses her job and Chloe is then forced to move in with her cousin and their family. This means a new school and on the first day she arrives with a dynamite mission in mind. A mission to reclaim everything that she had once lost at the hands of others. She quickly finds herself fighting a past that she struggles to forget and creating a future that she can live with. It becomes a constant battle for her, centered around peer pressure, character stereo types, cliques and consequences. Couple that with the plight of falling in love and she finds herself playing a starring role in the game of life where everyone is playing for keeps. Will she win... or will she lose? Excerpt: Sauntering forwards, she slid onto his lap with all the grace of a prima ballerina and wrapped her long arms around his neck. Leaning in to his ear, she blew out a little puff of hot air so that it fanned lightly over all the right places. She felt a sense of utter satisfaction when he shuddered. Now that Chloe was certain that she had his attention, she whispered in his ear. “You may have been the best bucko, but guess what…..I’m going to be better.” She lifted up so that she could look him in the face and smiled confidently back at him. His previous cocky demeanor had seemed to have lost some of its earlier steam, “Who are you?” he asked so low that only Chloe could hear him. His forehead was creased as he searched her face, watching her as if she was some type of strange puzzle that needed to be solved. Chloe lifted her hand patted his cheek. The boy didn’t have a clue. “I, my friend, am your biggest adversary. So what do you say Mr. Player, won’t you play with me?”

Grace is a girl who is in constant danger and has lived her life moving from one side of the world to the other to avoid death. She's alone except for her brother, Jacob. One day, in her new home she meets her neighbor and her view of life, love, and friendship changes forever....

"I will make this child's still heart beat again but her life will not be hers anymore..." Nineteen years ago, Queen Annabella Snow gave birth to her first child. The baby was born with a still heart. Devastated by such a loss, she pleaded with the Demon King for her precious daughter's life. The conniving man agreed to give the girl life in exchange for her hand in marriage to his son. Desperate to hold her breathing baby in her arms, the Queen agreed without a second thought. Nonetheless, Princess Viviana grew up to be a vibrant young lady who had everyone wrapped around her mischievious fingers. The older she grew, the more concerned the Queen became and soon it was time. On her ninteenth birthday, the Princess was told about her 'engagement' to a man she had never met. Reluctantly, she consented to such an arrangement for the sake of her mother. But little did she know what awaited her...

Three students from Ashford High get an assignment to film a movie. In their filming location, they discover something that was being kept hidden to the world and this leads to grand adventure to uncover the origins of this mysterious secret. They embark on the journey full of questions, doubts, misfortunes, placing their lives at stake quite a couple times.

"Dreams feel real while we're in them. It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange." Amy Green is a small town girl, starting her freshman year all alone in a big prestigious high school. Then suddenly, when the humble town of Hazelbrookes has a population surge with hundreds of rich, beautiful people moving into her life, all that changes. Something is off about the new kids in town, and it's not just their inhuman attractiveness. At first, it's subtle little things that cue Amy in, like how they never eat anything, or how they all have overwhelming amounts of charisma that tend to allure even the strongest willed people to them. Nothing too big. But after the boy Amy crushes on (or rather, feels the biggest pull to) bites her in the nurse's office at school, she realizes that everything is way bigger than she had originally expected.

Shay Woods hates being ugly. Her only wish is to be like her sister, Avery- Perfect. But once she is, she's haunted by the cause of her new found lifestyle. Now, Shay realizes the only thing harder than being ugly is being unblemished.

"You see, Draco Malfoy, without your sarcastic replies to endure each morning and that arrogance only you could carry, I find myself somewhat missing you." Draco thought the biggest problem living for a year under the same roof as Hermione Granger was the probability of them killing each other. He never thought it would be falling in love with her.

Asa Yoshida thought that the world was old, that nothing was worth changing anymore. No one had given her the chance to see what a small bit of information could do. That was, until she was stopped at the edge of a building, and pulled into a world where her friend mistrusted her, a woman hated her, and a man had her mind running in circles.

(I wrote this little piece about my experiences on this site. If you relate to this, I'll know I'm not a total weirdo with strange thoughts...) You log onto this site with high hopes of becoming a 'writing star'. The only thing standing between you and your goal is one word- failure.