Featured Reads on the Literary Fiction Network

A featured read every week/two weeks will be recommended and reviewed here. Tune in and add to your reading lists for brilliant literary work that will for sure inspire or awe you in some way.

Carl Panzram: The Story of One Man and His Crimes

Information taken from the documentary 'Carl Panzram The Spirit Of Hate And Vengeance' and the website provided. ( http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Panzram ) The life in a cell is one not worth living. In humane conditions that will drive a man crazier then the term itself. Psychopath, Sociopath, they're just words...

Adventures in South East Asia

After spending a year teaching in Thailand, I longed to travel with only my quirky self to keep me company. My journey started in Myanmar where temple cycles and village treks exposed me to the past and present of this intriguing nation. I returned to Northern Thailand for a volunteer experience and some of the most i...

A Life Wasted

WATTY 2016 WINNER of the HQ Love Award! With national focus on Islamic terrorism, few noticed when "Domestic Terrorist" Clayton Waagner was added to the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List on September 21, 2001. How did a software developer become the 467th person added to the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List? Why did the FBI make W...

The Unlikely Prince

(Editing in Progress) 👑 2016 Watty Award Winner - Writer's Debut 👑 -Milestones- •1K Votes - (1.2.17) •44K Reads - (8.15.17) •Highest Ranking: #18 (Short Story - 8.16.2017) **Ranked #1 in BDD Prince William is one of many well-known princes' in New York despite the fact that no one has seen him in person f...

Bring Back Our Girls

About 200 girls taken from their homes, about 200 girls all on their own...

Jamie

We all have stories to tell, some more exciting than others, but I think it's a matter of perspective, it depends on how you see things. Mine's an ordinary one, as ordinary as life gets. It's probably a plain book with a really plain cover, with a single word written as the title. It's probably called Jamie, sitting...

Armie

here is maë. girl. mortal. philosopher. harbinger of death. here is armie. boy. god. lover. armageddon. and here is the end of the world.

Lesbian Crushes and Bulimia: A Diary on How I Acquired my Eating Disorder (lesbian story)

I'm presenting here how it all started, the beginning of my book. 'Lesbian Crushes and Bulimia' is a real-life diary portrayal of an obsessive nineteen year old lesbian, Natasha, whose internal homophobia, alongside infatuations with other women, bring her condemnation in both her gay and straight environments and dri...

Le battement d'aile du pélican

-C'EST TRES BEAU, ai-je dit très fort. -JE SAIS. Il s'est assis sur un banc au bord de l'eau calme et je l'ai imité. Il a souri. J'ai souri. Le héron a souri. Son regard s'est posé sur moi et m'a détaillée très longtemps, si longtemps que j'ai pensé qu'il allait m'embrasser. Et puis je me suis souvenue que j'avais le...

Ask A GE Scientist!

GE scientist Isela Macia Bertran wants to answer your questions about big data and predictive analytics!

midnight city

❝ we liked being awake when everyone else was asleep ❞

NACHOS ✓

**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...

Lyrics in the Lines

Do you ever hear songs that make you desperate to pick up a pen and write? It happens to me all the time. So I've decided to start writing those stories. I'm collecting them here. One chapter = one song and one stand alone story. I hope you enjoy them.

sleepless, loveless

"Sometimes happiness feels like a chore." A short story chronicling the relationships (and lack thereof) of Drew; in which nights and days are spent curled up in the tear-and-food-stained sheets, with and without the warmth of another living soul, because he has lived like this and he'll probably die like this -- whet...

String Theory

I fell in love with a physicist, and then we lost ourselves. Maybe there are places we can all be happy. We just need to find those places. Or maybe they don't exist.

Before the Morning [BEING EDITED]

[This story is free as of February 10, 2021] "Move over A Walk to Remember, and make way for one of the most heartwarming stories this side of Wattpad. It's so cute, I could cry (again)." - Grace @ HQ After tragedy strikes, Nolan loses all faith and never expects to love, let alone smile again until Nora-perky and per...

City Quirks

A book for us poor writers who want to write on different countries but can't get there. [#23 IN NON-FICTION]

Open Your Eyes

The mundane story of an arty promiscuous boy and a daisy loving law girl who own opposite windows and talk occasionally.

One Day In Budapest. A Thriller.

A relic, stolen from the heart of an ancient city. An echo of nationalist violence not seen since the dark days of the Second World War. Budapest, Hungary. When a priest is murdered at the Basilica of St Stephen and the Holy Right relic is stolen, the ultra-nationalist Eröszak party calls for retribution and anti-Semi...

Dark Corners / ✓

"Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter appeared." When Emmy helped her exhausted and on-the-verge-of-a-panic-attack neighbor into his apartment at three in the morning, she never expected to be sucked into his world; one filled with the unsolved murder case of his mother from...

King of the Woods, or Trivial Pursuit

Florida Forest Service duty officer Ray Lumley is in love with a white fringetree. Not an I-read-Walden-in-high-school love; a sweaty, sappy, I-want-to-rub-against-you-'til-I-get-splinters love. It's awkward. So, he's relieved to learn that he's really hot for Trivia, the dreadlocked, radical environmentalist nymph wh...

Celestial & Horizon (1)

Independent Metaphor Series (1) Celestial has stardust in her veins; Horizon has clouds in his lungs. She taught him how to see beyond the skies; he taught her how to love beyond the skylines. | © 2016 Sarena Akhter.

Lest They Be Forgotten

A series of twice-told tales from Canadian author Shane Joseph. These newly re-published works include stories of losing home, wandering abroad, and finding home, always beginning from scratch. Similar to Joseph's own life path, each story has a silver lining and each story deserves to be heard once more.

The Power of Rest

#Wattys2014 Award Winner: This candid, heartfelt collection of essays addresses many of life's thorniest challenges. Whether you struggle with a perennially messy house, run away worrying, depression, an unhappy relationship, mega-stress or even the devastating loss of a loved one, give yourself the gift of The Power...

little talks

i needed to write down almost everything he had said, to reassure myself that he had been real, that we were something that lasted; at least for a little while. - nina [ © jude rigor two-thousand-&-thirteen ]

Mittens

The next December, they were apart. [Sequel to December]

Osculation

"As far as I can tell, there are two basic (kissing) rules: 1. Don't bite anything without permission. 2. The human tongue is like wasabi: it's very powerful, and should be used sparingly." In which Anna writes about a lot of people kissing.

Carpe Koi

Ce n'est pas facile, les relations humaines, Surtout pour un petit garçon qui, dans sa tête, n'a pas vraiment de facilité pour se faire des amis. #156 dans Nouvelles (04.07.2017) © Je suis un paradoxe | 6 Septembre 2016 collection « Astéroïde »

The Hazards of Skinny Dipping

This isn't a deep book about first loves or self-discovery. If you want a book like that, I'd be happy to recommend one, but I don't have that kind of story to tell. Instead my story is about rash decisions and finding out that your dream guy is bad in bed. It's the story of when I finally went skinny dipping, and how...