When seventeen year-old Runner was sentenced to death for stealing a loaf of bread in MegaCity One, his dreams were literally at an end. But then he opts to sign up for the Remnants of Men, a government sanctioned search for a rumoured fresh water lake beyond a radiated wasteland. At first, it seemed like a second ch...
When you kill a man, ensure you give him the respect of your gaze. Hold his eyes until he dies. And then, when the battle is done, remember only that every victory has its price.
Noah is a young boy born with a dysfunctional face beyond imagination. When he grows into the habit of wearing a panda head costume to hide his face, he refuses to take it off for anybody except for his momma and the doctor. So when he meets Delilah, who wants to be his best friend and learn what he looks like, Noah m...
"As I sat on the toilet, I realized how badass I was being. First of all, I (kind of) broke into Walmart; Second, I was (kind of) plotting to steal toilet paper; and third, I was doing all this while a hurricane was brewing outside." Ellie wanted a quick trip to Walmart to buy some toilet paper for her mom. A minute i...
Music:ON World:OFF Welcome to Syrus. Please pick up your complimentary pair of headphones at the gates. Plug them into your mandatory devices and skip to track four. Listen and enjoy. Cor's world is filled with notes and pitch and tone. Twenty three hours of the day she is hooked to the music mandated by the Serial Se...
It's Hailee Windor's 18th birthday. Part of a shooting, she dies on the evening of one of the biggest days of her life thus far. What she doesn't know when she wishes for one more chance to tell her best friend, Brent, that she loves him, is that she will have to wake up tomorrow. And it will be June 6th once again. A...
"They are martyrs, dedicated to a life that wasn't their choosing. Dedicated to me..." Katarina Labore is known as "the girl with strange eyes." She has the capability to read several languages without having to learn them. She hears voices in her head, and has reoccurring dreams of a man with "yellow eyes" killing he...
The Magnetron Chronicles, Volume 1 Phineas Magnetron is an eccentric Nineteenth Century inventor blessed with a strange gift he doesn't completely understand. As a former soldier and current member of the Hogalum Society, an inscrutable secret organization of crime fighting adventurers, Phineas is no stranger to peril...
Hunter called himself an archaeologist, but he was a modern day treasure hunter. Tiyana was a scientist devoted to her craft. They were passionate people, wholly devoted to their work. Neither of them had time for love. Neither of them could resist it when it happened. Neither of them knew that the world would need th...
'Ashley looked forward to her new role as a moth looks forward to an electric light, drawn-in inexplicably and equally doomed upon contact.' Seventeen-year-old Ashley has her life mapped out as an aspiring psychologist. Bright and brilliant, with a particular fascination for warped and extraordinary minds, she leaps a...
Sam is the most promising swordsman among this year’s crop of Paladin trainees...and knows it. Brash, cocky, and unbeatable with a sword (well, almost), Sam is the kingdom of Thule’s best hope against the violence wrought by demons. The only problem is that Sam is really Lady Samantha, daughter of the seventeenth Duke...
As predicted by the Oracle, there is only one who can return a necklace missing from the Fae culture for centuries. Having not an idea of what she journeys for, Evera is sent from her hidden people to find the charm and return it before the fortnight ends. But with an encounter of her almost love from her changeling y...
Abigail Frost is dealing with the loss of her best friend, Madison, who died of cancer. It brings up old wounds of her father's death two years before. Her and her mom decide it's time for a fresh start, so they move to sunny California, USA. Here she meets Daniel, a senior at her new school. But will Daniel be enough...
This story is about a girl who goes through a tramatic loss in her life and stops speaking. When she moves to a new town and meets a boy that pulls her out of her shell, she also has new things to go through and lessons to learn. If things start to go bad will she stop talking again? Or will she face them head on with...
When you have a crush that is like your best friend, you mess about in the corridors, care for each other like siblings, talk every night through social networking, call each other names and your feelings towards them just grow and you start getting hopes that maybe, just maybe there could be a 'Us' When Jessie is sha...
Everyone knows the story of "Bloody Mary" and her reign before dying. Elizabeth Tudor I became the queen and thus uniting the kingdom under her rule. But no one knows of Mary's life and what she went through seeing Anne Boleyn seduce her father and take him away from her. This is her account.
Where I come from, we don’t believe in pacifism. We believe in getting even. With the paper moon, pinprick stars and papier-mâché mountains as my witnesses, I’m callin’ out the bandits who killed my Pa. Under the blue moon I will slay the people who did me wrong. And all I need is my gun, my horse, and an infuriatin’...
As a child, Ashne swore two oaths. With her adopted sister Zsaran she made a pact: one would never die without the other. To their mistress, the queen, who plucked them both out of the inhospitable marshlands, she vowed eternal loyalty. When a tiger spirit from a rival kingdom kidnaps the queen's only daughter, Ashne...