"You will never escape, Danielle. Never." The world is tainted. The world is shadowed. The world is cursed. A demon presides over everyone, ruling with power and fear. Every few months, the Games of Hell are held, twenty people culled from the masses to compete. Nineteen will die. The twentieth will want death. Join Danielle in her mission to escape the Games: leading the Competitors to hope. She is tested time and time again, tortured with memories and pain, but still preservers in her desperate attempt to escape. What happens when she finds love and friendship in the darkest of places? Will she find the escape she needs, or is she fated to fail? Under all the pressure, of the terrible things she must do to further her plans, will she break? Read to find out in Toys of a Dangerous Mind: winner of Undiscovered Thriller 2011

Welcome to Ethernet. Welcome to the Ether: Digital glory and escape from the norm. You do not join Ethernet. The Ether joins you. Follow the rules and the Ether will become you. Break the rules and the Ether will destroy you. Invitation Only.

Every night Elizabeth Nadine Karr is given a choice. Choose correctly and she lives another night, choose incorrectly and she dies. So far she's been able to evade death but fourteen years isn't that much compared to a life time of cursed sleep. :Written for NYC Lisa McMann Contest + top 10:

A young boy discovers his amazing ability, the power to absorb objects into his body. Now, five years after running away from all he knows, he must run once again to save a girl from those who wish to use her for their own purposes.

GODS, a scientific branch of the US Department of Defense, has done it. They have genetically engineered the perfect agents. Better, faster, smarter, and stronger than regular humans, these "Gods" are the best any official could ask for. But when someone takes it too far, can Artemis, the sole member with her sanity intact, survive against members of her own kind?

I am an Agent. And it's my job to save my planet, Threade, from anything and everything. Now it's in danger of dying. From a disease. And only because some stupid biased man won't help us. Now he'll have to pay. Because no one stands against my world.