"I lived in a world of steam. It clouded my vision, and then drew back to reveal a storm. Caught off-guard, I couldn't fight back. I needed to be trained to stop that happening again, I needed training..." 15 year old Mila has lived on a steam train all her life. Stoking the engine daily, she knows more than anyone else what hard work is. Her friends are workers, her home is a train, her entertainment is passengers that board the train daily. But after an accident forces her into reality, Mila embarks on a journey she could never have expected... Full of adventure, but with deeper secrets... a conspiracy... and the truth about her past. ©Laura Animalgirl 2013-2016. All rights reserved. No part of this work may be copied, shared, stored in a retrieval system or published without prior written permission of the author. Rated: PG-13 but no swearing/cussing involved. (Please note the cover images are not mine, they belong to other creators.) #steampunk #teenager #clean #airship

This is the completely rewritten second edition of Unbecoming Humans. It's bigger, it's gayer, it's everything the first edition deserved to be. Please note that this rewrite is currently in progress. The end of the current rewritten chapters will be marked. With civilization on the brink of collapse, Aria's parents built Eden to be the cradle of the next evolution of humanity, but survival at Eden is far from guaranteed. Aria has been little more than a puppet in her parents' games of genetic experimentation and control over the next iteration of humanity for almost as long as she can remember. When Aria meets Nima, the latest in a long line of victims lured to Eden by the promise of safety, a spark rekindles her cold heart. Aria can't sit idly by while Nima becomes her parents' next prey. The two must find a way to survive Eden's deadly experiments, or risk the greatest love they've ever known.

A serial killer stalks Barbados and Detective John Riley returns to the island to stop them before they turn their attention to the people closest to him. ***** A serial killer stalks the tropical paradise of Barbados, leaving victims naked in canefields and the island police force is ill-equipped to handle the case. Enter Seattle homicide detective and Barbados native: Detective John Riley. John hasn't been back to Barbados in decades, and he has his own demons to face. But as he combats the heat, the media, and the very police force he's working to help, he desperately hopes he can stop the violence before the killer turns their attention to the people closest to him. [[Wattys Winner]] [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]

Arielle Thomas is applying for a new job at Silver Fox Mansion outside Louisville, Ohio. It's an astonishing residence with a mysterious history, and her chores turn out to go far beyond any normal job. But Arielle is so desperate to get an income that she signs the contract without hesitation. It's only until later she starts questioning the many secrets hidden in the walls of the majestic building. But does she really want the answers? 🌼 Written and completed in 2018. Edited: 2023 Word count: 40.894

During the summer in Texas, a girl name Maddy, & her parents were driving to Florida when their red pick up truck broke down. A nice woman offers them to stay over at her house. Maddy meets a boy who's the same age as her name is Thomas. During the weeks they've spent with each other, they grew closer, to becoming best friends. But once the truck is all fixed it was time for Maddy to leave; she promised to return back to him. One way or another. As 13 years went by, Maddy & her so called "friend", Tiffany, along with her other friends are driving to Arizona but when their car breaks down an old woman offers them a place to stay for dinner, but what they didn't know that THEY were the dinner. Her friends were slaughtered, she meets face to face with the killer who surprisingly wouldn't kill her. Will Maddy survive this madness? Or will end up as lunch?

"I'd give everything if you would grant my love a pardon, and all the fruits again would fill the garden." Primrose Goode had spent her entire life bathed in the light before she met Michael Langdon. She thinks she has lost him forever until he reappears one day out of the depths of the nuclear winter. War is raging between two sides, and her hesitation to pick one is not the only obstacle for these seemingly star crossed lovers. The apocalypse couldn't keep them apart, but her mother might...