**A FEATURED STORY ON WATTPAD** Her New Year's Eve was supposed to be a depressing evening alone with a bowl of salsa and a plate of microwaved nachos, but a powerful force had different plans for the unconventional princess. If you like sweet romances and hilarious tales of personal growth & self-discovery, then your soul will devour NACHOS. Weighing in at just under 10,000 words, this novelette will have single & married ladies alike laughing one minute and pondering their own lives the next. It's a story that highlights the magic that exists in our everyday lives and offers hope to those who are struggling to find their Happily Ever After. One bite of NACHOS, and your perception of the world will never be the same--life will become magical. No Fairy Godmother required. To add even more fun to your reading experience, NACHOS has Easter eggs woven throughout the entire story. Sharp (and not so sharp) eyes will recognize references from: *Cinderella *Pinocchio *Wizard of Oz *Mary Poppins *Beauty and the Beast *Snow White *Harry Potter *The Gingerbread Man *Goonies *The Neverending Story *Three Blind Mice *and more! It's like the Where's Waldo of bedtime stories! Marilyn A Hepburn www.MarilynHepburn.com (Note: COVER IMAGE - Rachel Macknight in Interview Magazine November 2015 by Dominick Sheldon)

Darkness festers behind a veil of age-old tradition setting the scene for a horrific murder that will wreak havoc on the Skyean Kingdom and send a young technopath on an adventure to bring back sentience to the machines. Set in our far distant future, this is space opera!.. technopaths, alchemists, death squad 8, augers, genies, churchmen death dealers, drudic nature cultists, star templars, space raiders, sunbeamers, the nephilim juggernauts, Cernunnos, knight protectors, and more! Flagged as 'mature', but nothing worse than a wet tongue in the ear. Enjoy! All parts are edit pending.

A 20-something-year old gets his dream job at the local radio station. It isn't what he thought it would be.

A collection of tales featuring monsters and angels, though not all appear as they truly are. Includes the story Strawberry Pickers ... There were monsters in cages on the lowest floor of the Genieworks building. Other monsters held the keys. Lina was grateful to have a job as one of the strawberry pickers, to see the sun from the sky roofs and to sometimes eat berries that were subpar. When the salary from one job was not enough, though, she had to take a second one-cleaning the laboratory in the lowest floor of Genieworks. This is a collection of short stories, flash fiction, and contest entries, but only for stories that are darkly beautiful. Enjoy! Highest ranking #81 on 6 and 7 May, 2015!

A year after an alien race's first devastating appearance in Beijing, young people all over the world are being abducted for a grotesque rite. Alice, taken by the Serpe from her Toronto office, has tested for the Cage. They have opened her third eye. And now there's a slim chance Alice may have a way out of their death trap. If she wins, she'll create a new meme for what comes next. All Rights Reserved.

"When I was born I was so small I was mistaken for a french fry. I was never an ordinary child. My best friend was a seagull. I was also illegal. Artificially intelligent people like me had been banned ever since that thing with the Twelve Elevens. Mother raised me for profit. Buyers and sellers had other plans for me, but then I grew a mind of my own. This is the story of how my brain ended up inside this box." Candles is a black-market, "artificially intelligent person" (or A.I.P., or "ape" in the colloquial sense, as in 'the planet of the'), an organic being, farm-raised on genetically engineered smoothies and destined for auction to the highest bidding criminal enterprise. Gifted with the ability to communicate with foul-mouthed seagulls and ill-tempered felines, this gender-less, age-less, race-less creature has to find its way to escape from the clutches of its mother and other assorted enemies, in this fairly exciting and ultimately utterly unexpected story.

The first rule of being a Necromancer is: never bring back to life someone you love. You’ll end up having to kill them. And killing undead is not easy, especially when the one before you is the man you were going to spend the rest of your life with. Enjoy this short story. It's got love and action... and of course, a zombie.

If you were a sentient gadget, what would you do? Travel? See the world? After overhearing one warehouse worker tell another that 'Green Bay is better than San Francisco', a newly conscious handheld device decides to re-route its shipping destination. Along the way its talent for personality recording and playback leads a number of unsuspecting human carriers through a host of changes.

"This item discontinued." - Challenge No. 6 Farina is just your ordinary M-pad user, living in one of the many districts that the A.I. District controls. Yes, life is good... Until Farina realizes that something is off.

It's the end of the world as we know it, when the dreaded Singularity finally occurs and happens to be captured, live on tape, by agents of the Frantic News Network, which freaks out, as usual, and causes a lot of trouble for the mild-mannered nanobot exterminator who happens to get caught in the crossfire.