Agni, a loud and sarcastic astronomy student from the University of Chicago, is suddenly transported to another world filled with mythical creatures. Unfortunately, fulfilling the role she's brought there for is difficult in ways she never expected. ▼◊▲◊▼◊▲◊▼◊▲◊▼◊▲◊▼◊▲◊▼◊▲◊ The gods are forced into hiding when an un...
[Previously feautured Noteworthy Novel & Staff Pick on Tapas.io!] Frey Sanders isn't a shy guy. He is a lot of things - obnoxiously loud, over-confident, spoiled - but shy was never even in the list of words to describe him. He has enough confidence to have lots of friends, not considered to be the most popular in sch...
Do most "advice" books and podcasts for writers make you cringe? Yup, same. Welcome to Writers XL, a podcast devoted to better, more joyous writing for all! Co-hosts LL Montez and Shelly X Leonn share steal-and-use strategies beneficial to writers of any skill level. Episodes include epic-level guests, personal anec...
Selected for the #Wattys2018 longlist! "The Storekeeper's Daughter" is a short story set in the early twentieth century that focuses on a young, unmarried woman who works in her father's shop and becomes dangerously infatuated with a mysterious farmer.
{EDITORS' CHOICE} {MAFIA ROMANCE} New York, 1954. Pamela Kelly gets an exciting job as a salesgirl. But there is a dark side to the glittering lights and fashions of New York City, complete with corruption, threats and La Cosa Nostra: an intricate and organized crime system run by the Italian American mafia. Suddenly...
The Center for Female Youth and Adult Reformation Detention, affectionately known as the "Yard", is located on the moon Titan with the purpose of reforming the behavior of wayward females. As an alternative to prison, the idea is appealing to the citizens of Enceladus who initiated its creation, except none of the det...
Kidnap, torture, kill, repeat. That's how this serial killer rolls. So, what does it take for one boy to escape his horrifying captivity? It takes guts! Best friends, Kevin and Josh, are trying to juggle college classes while finding a way to launch a chemistry startup, but their lives turn into a living hell when Kev...
❝So we're basically manipulating people?❞ ❝We're not manipulating anyone. We're trying to prove to people that boys don't just like girls and girls don't just like boys; that everyone is equal despite their differences; that humans should never be seen as possessions that can be toyed with for however long we deem f...
After graduating high school, Gemma Mitchell doesn't know what she's supposed to do with her life. Reluctantly, she agrees to spend the summer helping her mom take care of Mrs. Callahan's old estate near a lake. But as soon as they arrive, Gemma has a feeling that the house, the town, and the lake are all hiding some...
True love is hard enough to find when you're a person. It's even worse if you're a frog, or a witch... An experiment in fairy tale retellings & flash fiction
