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  • The Egg at Dumstreet
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    [Completed] A U.S. expatriate is cast into a rainy, foggy corner of Europe. He went there on the pretense to work on his research, but he actually wanted to put as many miles as possible between himself and his ex. The university he works for has found him an apartment in a house inhabited by a set of strange characte...

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  • Bunker Bird
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    Tim, a garbage handler in a post-apocalyptic bunker, loses the little he has. But then he finds Amy, the redhead with an attitude. Together, they will try to change the world they live in. -- Tim is one of those who shovel the shit and clean away the waste. Life in the dirt of others is all he knows. When his father g...

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  • Walking the Ruins
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    [Featured Wattpad Story] A girl cast into the future, navigating a dystopian wilderness with her friends. Leona and some friends are hiking in the rain, on a school excursion. She would prefer to be elsewhere. Suddenly, nausea takes hold of her. Then everything turns dark, and a clapping noise rips her world apart. T...

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  • When We Shed Civilization
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    [Wattpad Editors' Choice] In a dystopian future, Beth is to marry a man she has just met. And Leo seeks revenge for his wife's murder. They start off as enemies. ---- Decades after humanity's downfall, the last remnants of civilization hide in gated communities. Gangs and fights rule the rest of the desiccated lands. ...

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  • The Craving - Marooned
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    [Complete] After a plane crash, Megan is marooned with a group of survivors on an uninhabited island in the Pacific. They find a dead man's body, and the next day it's gone. And then someone of their group disappears, too. They realize that there's something with them. Something that might be lethal. ---- Not having...

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  • Tales Between the Lines
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    Destiny in a store, Time the Thief, Schroedinger's Cat, and a storm-inducing butterfly-what do they have in common? And why are they called "The Four Metaphors of the Apocalypse"? And what's the color of Universe's loincloth? If these are the questions you want to have answers for, come in and find out. A collection o...

  • Und mein Schiff heißt Nemesis | Wattys 2021 Shortlist
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    Eigentlich sollte ich nur die Tochter des Senators nach Europa-5 bringen. Der Lohn würde reichen, endlich mein Schiff zu überholen. Aber das Schicksal meinte es anders. Es bescherte mir nicht nur einen Asteroideneinschlag, sondern auch einen blinder Passagier. Und damit fing der Ärger für mich und meine Katze erst an...

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  • The Unseen Hand
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    For years, the faceless terror known as the Hand of Fate has been secretly manipulating the port city of Reyza for her shadowy ends. Those she favors rise in status while those who betray her are never heard from again. When the opportunity to eliminate a powerful dynasty presents itself, the Hand of Fate conspires wi...

  • The Dragon Chase: A Tale of the Everburning City
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    There is no night in the Everburning City. There can never be. ***** For four hundred years the Everburning City has withstood the advance of the life-strangling fog known as the Gloam. Its walls have held back five invasions, but on the eve of the...

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  • Desire & Blood - The Thorne Siblings
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    [Completed] Anne is a shy, sensible accountant and knows that getting involved with her rich and hot billionaire boss Thierry Thorne is playing with fire, but she is irresistibly drawn to him anyway. The powerful, devastatingly handsome playboy can have any woman he wants--and now he wants Anne, much to the disapprova...

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  • Last Seal's Revenge
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    The last seal's death will not go unnoticed. My contribution to the #PlanetOrPlastic writing contest. planetorplastic Cover and chapter photograph by David Rich at pixbay under CC0 Creative Commons

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  • Welt der Ruinen
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    Ein paar Freunde auf ihren Weg durch die Ruinen der Zukunft. Leonie stapft auf einem Schulausflug durch den Regen, ohne jegliche Begeisterung. Da wird ihr übel, plötzlich und intensiv. Und dann folgt ein lauter Knall. Sie wird mit ein paar Freunden in die Zukunft verschlagen, in eine scheinbar mensche...

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  • Fleeting Thoughts
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    Elusive, ethereal, fragile and hard to catch: Fleeting Thoughts, the butterflies of the mind. This book is but a bag for thoughts, rants, and shorts, which I write for whatever reason. I know that there's no huge audience for stuff like that, but some things just need writing... Some of these stories are compet...

  • Last Hope Falling
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    Pete is the captain of a generation ship that has traveled the lightyears from ruined earth to its destination system. He enjoys the privileges of his rank, unwilling to risk them by attempting a landing on the planet they have been orbiting for years. Ralph, his younger brother, has spent his life in Pete's shadow, t...

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  • Der Letzte der 1000
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    Nach einem Flug, der Generationen gedauert hat, erreicht das Raumschiff "1001 Nacht" seinen Zielplaneten. Die Passagiere bereiten sich auf die Landung vor. Eine Kurzgeschichte, inspiriert durch das Buch "Free Me" von @jinnis. (Ich kann jedem empfehlen, bei ihr reinzuschauen. Ihre Bücher, in Deutsch und Englisch, sind...

  • The last one of the 1000
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    After generations, the spaceship Night has arrived at its destiny and orbits a planet to be settled. The passengers prepare to disembark. A short tale inspired by @jinnis' story "Free me!". Check out her great writing. (Bemerkung: Das Buch gibt es auch in Deutsch, "Der Letzte der 1000")

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  • Emerald
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    The planet seems perfect for human settlement: water, an earth-like atmosphere and a lush vegetation. Mil plunges into the study of the biosphere with professional enthusiasm. But one detail slips her attention...

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  • Hope
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    One turtle searches for help. A contribution to @NationalGeographic's #PlanetOrPlastic contest

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  • Teri und Siva
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    Die Fledermaus Teri lebt allein in einem alten Dachstock. Die Erzählungen der Spinne Mara wecken Teris Neugier auf das Leben am Tag. Als er die verletzte Schwalbe Siva kennenlernt, ergreift er die Gelegenheit, endlich bei Tageslicht auszufliegen. Aber nicht alles ist so schön und farbenprächtig, wie Teri es sich in se...

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  • Tales Between the Lines
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    Destiny, Time, Schroedinger's Cat and Butterfly are on the loose! As the Four Metaphors of the Apocalypse, they are ready to take revenge on their captor, Universe himself. *** Respectable stories are born in a writer's cunning mind. Their less esteemed cousins are perceived in a heightened state of said writer's...