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Dangan Ronpa Minecraft by MangoKiwi
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Sixteen popular minecraft youtubers are forced into a mysterious, dark mansion by Herobrine himself. All windows, doors, and other escape routes are all blocked, providing no way to sneak out. The only way to escape? Kill one of your peers and not get caught. Who will survive this game of murder and mystery?
Risen by bloodsword
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Imagine living a full life, dying months after your beloved wife passes and being buried. Only to wake up 300 years later, called out of the grave to fight a final war against an alien invasion. Join Max Niekro, formerly living and now Risen as he deals with this reality as the forces of Earth, both living and dead, are marshalled in a last ditch effort to save the world. **cover by hellvis
Homeland by CoryDoctorow
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER -- In Cory Doctorow’s wildly successful Little Brother, young Marcus Yallow was arbitrarily detained and brutalized by the government in the wake of a terrorist attack on San Francisco—an experience that led him to become a leader of the whole movement of technologically clued-in teenagers, fighting back against the tyrannical security state. A few years later, California's economy collapses, but Marcus’s hacktivist past lands him a job as webmaster for a crusading politician who promises reform. Soon his former nemesis Masha emerges from the political underground to gift him with a thumbdrive containing a Wikileaks-style cable-dump of hard evidence of corporate and governmental perfidy. It’s incendiary stuff—and if Masha goes missing, Marcus is supposed to release it to the world. Then Marcus sees Masha being kidnapped by the same government agents who detained and tortured Marcus years earlier. Marcus can leak the archive Masha gave him—but he can’t admit to being the leaker, because that will cost his employer the election. He’s surrounded by friends who remember what he did a few years ago and regard him as a hacker hero. He can’t even attend a demonstration without being dragged onstage and handed a mike. He’s not at all sure that just dumping the archive onto the Internet, before he’s gone through its millions of words, is the right thing to do. Meanwhile, people are beginning to shadow him, people who look like they’re used to inflicting pain until they get the answers they want. Fast-moving, passionate, and as current as next week, Homeland is every bit the equal of Little Brother—a paean to activism, to courage, to the drive to make the world a better place.
Public Service Announcement by prose-punk
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A collection of short stories for devils and darlings in weird towns and odd places. CONTENTS: 1. Bodies, Bones, and Blotched Hearts (Rated: M) A girl contracts the Devil and is sentenced to live in a never-ending, underground rave. 2. County News 3. Would Be King A werewolf Alpha is usurped by his younger sister, and not even death can stop his revenge. 4. Sunsets and Cigarettes An ex-anarchist, a kleptomaniac, and a three-legged dog meet up at the end of the world. 5. Case File: #667366 An FBI file on yours truly. 6. Nomenclature (Rated: M) A drunk, suicidal teenager is lured into a game of life and death by his previous self on the eve of his nineteenth birthday. (Now optioned for TV by @TNT network.) 7. Parasite (#100WordScream) It's alive. 8. When The World Empties A bereft girl street races. 9. #31creepywords A series of horror stories told in no more than thirty-one words. 10. The Unmanned Mission A team of astronauts crashland on a red plane, but no one back on Earth knows they're missing. (Featured in Epic Tales from Beautiful Minds Anthology: TeamSFHorror hosted by @Ooorah/@LayethTheSmackDown) 11. "You are the White Rabbit, but it's not enough." A poem based off the character created by Lewis Caroll. Entry for #madmarch. 12. Launch Day Where to find my weird and wacky flash fiction on Wattpad's new Tap app. *WINNER OF @Nyhterides THE GLAMOUR OF GROTESQUE CONTEST *Selected by the @BlairWitchMovie --- Cover art: Kacey Lynn (Wattpad/Instagram: @untroubledheart)
Deadland Rising (part 3 of the Deadland Saga) by RachelAukes
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Winter has arrived. It has been nearly one year since the zombie hordes claimed the world. As the plague eats away at its victims' bodies, the Fox survivors search for a safe place to rebuild what they have lost. But a dangerous new threat has risen, hunting them from every direction. To survive, Cash, Clutch, and their small band of refugees must put their faith in a group of strangers and a new government with radical plans. It will take all of the Fox survivors' strength and courage to endure in this barren, hostile world. Even that might not be enough. Deadland Rising, the conclusion of the Deadland Saga, is a journey through Dante Alighieri's "Paradiso", the tale on the seven virtues, reimagined zombie apocalypse style! (Note: This is a draft so please excuse any errors. The finished novel is available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook).
Deadland's Harvest (part 2 of the Deadland Saga) by RachelAukes
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The seven deadly sins with a shambling twist. It has been one hundred days since the zombies claimed the world. Cash, along with forty-two survivors, have found safety in the secluded and well-guarded Fox National Park. The leaves are changing colors, a beautiful, brutal reminder that winter is coming. As the survivors prepare for freezing months without electricity and not enough food, they learn of massive zombie herds several hundred miles north...and headed their way. To save the park, Cash must find a place for the survivors to hide from the migrating herds. If Cash and her small band of volunteers don't succeed by winter, the Fox survivors just may become Deadland's Harvest. (Deadland's Harvest is a journey through Dante Alighieri's classic tale on the seven deadly sins... zombie apocalypse style!) (Note: This is a draft so please excuse any errors. The finished novel is available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook).
100 Days in Deadland (part 1 of the Deadland Saga) by RachelAukes
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In one day, the world succumbed to a pestilence that decimated the living. In its place rose a new species: vicious, gruesome, wandering zombies with an insatiable hunger for the living. Still in her twenties, Cash has watched her friends die, only to walk again. An office worker with few survival skills, she joins up with Clutch, a grizzled Army veteran with PTSD. Together, they flee the city and struggle through the nine circles of hell, with nothing but Clutch's military experience and Cash's determination to live. As they fight to survive in the zombie inferno, they quickly discover that nowhere is safe from the undead...or the living. (100 Days in Deadland is a journey through the first poem in Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, the classic tale on the horrors of hell... zombie apocalypse style!) (Note: This is a draft so please excuse any errors. The finished novel is available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook).
The Cellar by natashapreston
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For months Summer is trapped in a cellar with the man who took her - and three other girls: Rose, Poppy, and Violet. His perfect, pure flowers. His family. But flowers can't survive long cut off from the sun, and time is running out...
Project Aspire by Project_Aspire
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A team of astronauts crash land on a primitive alien planet, millions of lightyears from earth. Hunted by savage megafauna and native tribes, they must band together to survive. What they discover there will change everything they know about what it means to be human. This book is being written collaboratively by four authors, Taran Matharu, Jason Kucharik, Stephen Landry and Penegrin Shaw. http://www.wattpad.com/user/TaranMatharu http://www.wattpad.com/user/sxcore http://www.wattpad.com/user/PenegrinShaw http://www.wattpad.com/user/JasonKucharik For more info, character bios and illustrations, please check out www.startwritingabook.com
Puppet Boy by z0mbies
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"My beautiful Puppet Boy and my beautiful Puppet Girl." A teenage boy and girl find themselves trapped in the lair of a crazy man obsessed with human puppetry. __________________ #1 in horror - 12/6/15 [featured - 12/30/15] IMPORTANT NOTICE - if you're reading this story on a site that is not www.wattpad.com then you could be at risk of a malware attack. Furthermore, please go to this link: www.wattpad.com/user/z0mbies, and report to me where you are reading this story. Thank you. WARNING: This story contains distressing material. Reader discretion advised. The characters in this book are fictional. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead is entirely coincidental.