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The Story of Her Holding an Orange by inaaace
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This is the story of a mysterious, never-aging woman who followed me my whole life. She always wanted only one thing from me: to take her orange.
Author by MichaelWhitehouse6
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An aspiring writer receives a number of sinister emails which seem to predict tragic and horrific events. Racked by the guilt of being unable to interpret them in time to avert each tragedy, he sets out to do the only thing that he can: Find out who, or what, is sending them.
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Dark Places by JonEvans
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An acclaimed, award-winning thriller, published and translated around the world, now freely available on Wattpad. Paul Wood is a modern vagabond, a man who chooses to leave the comforts of San Francisco to spend months backpacking through some of the world's most challenging terrain. While hiking in the Himalayas, Paul gets more of a rush than he bargained for when he finds the body of a murdered hiker - mutilated in a way he has witnessed once before, in Africa, years ago and thousands of miles away. The police in Nepal, anxious to quell a scandal, close the case and declare the victim a suicide. Only Paul is left to search for answers. He reaches out to his farflung tribe of fellow backpackers for help, and his discoveries lead him to a terrible conclusion: a killer is stalking the international backpacker trail, preying on victims in wild places far beyond the reach of any authorities. A killer whom Paul may already know. Finding the murderer becomes an obsession that leads Paul from Himalayan peaks, through the jungles of Indonesia, across the bleak Sahara desert -- and into some of the darkest places imaginable... Dark Places won the 2005 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel. Reviews "You're hooked ... the characters are delightfully delineated ... beautifully controlled ... Evans contrives to slip the necessary specialist net-head detail into the plot without being boring or patronising. He can also pin down a character with a few details deftly brushed in ... A pacy thriller for the 21st century." - The Times "Anyone would enjoy Evans' clever, relentlessly absorbing debut thriller that becomes a lot more than just another serial-killer mystery." - The Ottawa Citizen "In this haunting suspense debut, Evans takes the reader on a page-turning adventure across five continents ... (a) spooky, inventive tale." - Publishers Weekly
Off the Beaten Path by MichaelWhitehouse6
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Robert Francis sets off into the Scottish wilderness in the pursuit of solitude. Straying from the path, however, can have dire consequences, and a chance encounter with a mysterious grave leaves Robert as the one being pursued...
Darkness Girl: Trickster God by Sam_McGregor
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Can a natural killer learn to be human again? Regan's unique talent for murder makes her a perfect assassin. After a lethal encounter leaves her broken body washed up on a beach, she finds herself adopted by a group of teenage bodyguards. She doesn't intend to stay for long, but soon Regan finds herself faced with a choice: become a hero or stay a villain? *** The boy played with the flat brim of the cap in his hands and looked around the room. He sat back in his chair, trying to look casual, but the heel of his hi-top sneaker drummed rapidly on the concrete floor. Regan sat opposite him with her legs crossed and her hands folded on her tartan skirt. She watched him without a word and brushed a strand of blue-dyed hair behind her ear. Somehow this seemed to unsettle him more. 'Calm down,' she said. 'It's just murder.' *** Author's Note: Darkness Girl: Trickster God is represented by Louise Fury from The Bent Agency. P.S. The epic cover was made by Paul Kopetko (you can stalk him at paulkopetko.com). Enjoy!
The Demon Hunter's Guide by MadameShorts
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Kate Carter was your average book worm, awkward teenager with no social life and no want for one. Or she was at least, until the day adventure ran her over on the sidewalk, quite literally for that matter. From that moment on she was plunged into a world of myth, magic and prophecy. As if balancing homework and tens of just-for-fun novels she was reading wasn't enough now she has to learn how to fight off demons and keep her real life a secret from her family, the whole time trying not to get eaten by hell hounds.
Diary of a Teenage Stalker by MadameShorts
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"The only thing I felt the need to prove to him, was that a human being could stare him in the eyes as he begged for help, and feel absolutely nothing at all." When Josh’s extreme obsession with the love of his life pushes him over the edge and into insanity, he finds himself on the run from the police, wanted for murder. He writes entries down in his “diary” as he goes, all of them written as if to the girl who took complete control of his life. With each new entry his mental state is shown to be increasingly unstable, and he begins to convince himself that humanity's only salvation is death, and he intends to bring that gift to every person who crosses his path. His streak of senseless and cruel murders quickly earns him a place in infamy and it soon seems that not even the law will be able to stop him.