BOOK ONE OF THE FADING EMBERS SERIES ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "The embers fade, and the Day of the Lightless shall be upon us." For the longest time, a lonely continent shrouded by Mist was all the nine races of Jordarys ever knew. They knew the Mist was to be feared. Those who were swallowed by the Mist were never seen again. The Mist birthed terrible monsters that rose from the seas, plaguing their land. The gods bestowed the inhabitants of Jordarys with a gift, the Primeval Flames, to fight the scourge of the Mist for as long as they have. However, the flames are dwindling. The inevitable day where the embers sputter and die is encroaching upon them with every rising and setting of the sun. When that day comes, the Mist shall swallow this last remaining bastion of the world whole. Not all would stand idle as the storm brews. The fate of Jordarys teeters perilously in the balance as everyone, from monarchs to assassins to scholars and warriors, fights for their survival. "For only the heir of cinders will inherit the world when the embers finally fade." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- A collaboration between VeryBigMess and @Fiona_jessie. Cover by @BlacksmithGraphics

Nora is crippled by anxiety that lurks beneath a Good Girl shell. Lucas is drowning under the weight of his rage and depression. They've been best friends since they were babies living on the same suburban street and have never needed anything but each other, until they find a new method of escape. Gus is a poly-addict whose drug of choice is meth. He's been living on LA's infamous Skid Row for months. Being on his own is nothing new, and he's survived for years on the streets of Chicago and LA, trying to avoid being put back into foster care. But the system eventually catches up to him. When he meets Lucas and Nora at a court ordered rehab center for teens, he begins to question whether or not sobriety is possible for him... if it means confronting his past. This story was inspired by the heroin epidemic in suburban America. Book 1 of 3- undergoing full revision Possible triggers: descriptive drug use, language, sex, suicide ideology, self harm, domestic abuse, child abuse, sexual abuse of a minor, rape of a minor (including sodomy) and violence with descriptions of weapons, blood and gore. I go into detail and don't hold back. You've been warned.

A mysterious figure from the past just got his memories back - everything that was important to him and everything that should have stayed forgotten. Now he's tearing through the magical underworld like a storm in the pursuit of a singular goal: revenge. My entry for the Open Novella Contest II.

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 gets arrested, he flees and ends up in the deepest tunnels of the shelter. There, he finds Amy--a stubborn, smelly, and fierce redhead with a punch, an attitude, and dreams of a better world. She scorns him, and he fears her. But together they climb in a quest to free his father and to find sunshine. -- Dystopian, post-apocalyptic SciFi with humor in unexpected places. An abbreviated version of the book was 2nd place winner in the Open Novella Contest 2019! Wattpad Editors' Pick in 2019. Major edits in September 2020 and in May and September 2021. Featured in the reading lists of the @dystopianapocalypse ambassador profile.

Life Shifted when Jed Johnson died. It was a shift which left a gaping hole Charlie's family fought their way through. Charlie locked her mind away. Her father drank more. Older brother Jake turned to drugs. Sister Kerrie snuck out at night. Charlie's mother moved around the house like a shadow. If it wasn't for Katie Callum Charlie might still be lost. When Charlie begins her final year of high school she feels her life has turned a corner. Keean Crone is around that bend with issues of his own. Charlie is lost once more. MATURE CONTENT. Winner of New Beginnings Competition-General Fiction.

A former artist is hired by a high-tech business building a mind-reading machine to be their crash-test dummy. A full copy of White Matter for e-reader (Kindle and ePub) is available for free download at https://mauricearh.wordpress.com/novels#wmnovel

Two parts space opera, one part pirate yarn. Add fragments of ghost story to taste and sprinkle with humor. Garnish with a hint of romance and allow plot to foment ... Ernest - once a starship navigator, now a recluse - is dragged back into the thick of things by the arrival of an old colleague with tales of something new in the sky.

This story is a full-length novel on Amazon (and elsewhere) and is currently (12/12/2018) a #1 best-seller in Time Travel Fiction in Australia. Though I'm unlikely to make big changes at this point, comments are always welcome and typos almost certainly squashed. Now the REAL description: What if you could go back and do it all over again? By sending his memories back in time, Arnesto Modesto gives himself a do-over. Of course, his much younger self may not be prepared to handle all that foreknowledge... Encouraged by his friend Pete, Arnesto attempts to use his limited recall to do some good - and winds up stumbling through some of the biggest events of the past quarter-century. Take it from Arnesto: Life isn't easier the second time around. (Think Groundhog Day if the main character went much farther back and only got to repeat his life ONCE.) For anyone who has ever wondered, "What if?"

Geoff and Naomi are dead, and they're depressed, but when Geoff's cat Bernie dies as well, they embark on a wild journey to find it in the underworld. ***** When Geoff dies, alongside his girlfriend Naomi, they end up sharing an apartment in the Underworld as skeletons. But after a few years, Geoff starts suffering a mid-death crisis. What's the purpose of going through the motions as a skeleton if you can't really live? Then he gets word that his cat, Bernie, just died and he can collect him and bring him home! Geoff and Naomi hurry to get Bernie only to discover that, due to a clerical error, their cat has been lost. With the hunt for Bernie giving new purpose to Geoff's un-life, he and Naomi begin a quest to get back their cat. Battling skeleton pirates, climbing the sky ladder and facing off against the villain who took Bernie, Geoff is determined to find his purpose - or die a second time trying! [[2018 Wattys Winner - The Originals]] [[word count: 30,000-40,000 words]]