Take a ride with Arturo and Miguel and experience the fear and anger that a stranger forces into their vision of a fun night. Consider with them the decisions that must be quickly made when anger speaks. This is a short story that you will enjoy reading with a short investment of your time.

Why does one travel from a well known neighborhood to another where the outcome of the visit is not yet understood? I could name the streets and places in my neighborhood. There was a well defined map in my head that used comfortable explanations for what to expect. Then, everything changed. I drove up the hill, parked the car in a familiar place. When I walked into the house all the furniture was the same. Yet, when I sat beside him everything I knew went away. My mind was empty, only able to engage in superficial talk. I was afraid of his cancer. I didn't know what to say or how to help. I was lost in the whole sorry business. I gave him what comfort my presence was good for and, he gracefully accepted it like a brother would. Behind the warmest smile I could draw up was a deserted beach, waves of questions washing against my feet. A great ocean met the horizon and disappeared somewhere beyond where eyes could take a mind. Where would the questions take me? Where do you start such a quest?

A short story written for the Red Feather Award Summer 2019 Writing Contest - To love a man to the point where he's all you can ever think of, is Arraya Templeton's problem. Except the man in question is a fictional character in her own novel. But what happens if he's real? Travel into the world of a writer, who discovers how powerful writing a book can be, when she learns her characters have come to life, and their lives are in jeopardy, because of her. GALSYR brings back the meaning of true romance as two people learn that there is not always rhyme or reason to falling in love. 'Sometimes, it just happens.' Three prompts: Broken Key, Old Book, The Smell of Rain.

Like us all, Kate is on a journey. We all have to walk in our own shoes, or, on our own bare feet. Kate has many secrets, as does the man of her dreams who turns out to be someone entirely different from whom she had imagined him to be. From being kidnapped, to amnesia, confusion, misunderstandings and rejection, Kate will search for understanding, acceptance and love. Bunkers and Palaces ... A story that includes Someone All-powerful, with All knowledge, greater than us all. ©2023 CarolynAnnAish All Rights Reserved. Plagiarism is a crime. #marchofthethumbschallenge

THE AMBY AWARDS 2022 WINNER (Best Series) Book One (Book Three of the trilogy is on the WATTYS 2022 SHORTLIST) Wattpad featured story. The Adept Pen 21 finalist. Samara, a young woman from London, visits Bran Castle in Romania during a Halloween night. Somehow, she's always felt drawn to the story of Vlad the Impaler, the historical character who allegedly inspired the writer, Bram Stoker, to write his Count Dracula. Annoyed by her noisy friends, she strolls behind her group when they enter the castle and thus gets approached by their tall dark and handsome guide. Samara can't fight the attraction she feels for him, even after he claims to be Vlad Dracul himself, obviously making fun of her...or? At the end of the tour, unable to resist her curiosity, she follows the guide through a dark corridor and time travels to another time, a late medieval world populated by very unusual vampires, where she had once belonged. The mysterious guide turns out to be her husband, none less than Vlad III, the Prince of Wallachia, the Impaler... Dracula. Samara's memories start to trickle back slowly, both good and bad. The man she loves so much that she feels overcome by her feelings for him is not exactly as he was when she left him before, when she... died. A lot of things have changed in her absence, in six hundred years. But she is changed too, having grown up in the 21st century this time around, she is not quite the same girl as when she lived in Vlad's castle, in the late medievals. Will the great love they feel for each other despite their long separation be strong enough to overcome all their differences? Will Samara and Vlad accept each other as they are now and fight for their love? Will they defend it in the dangerous world they live in, full of people, or better vampires, who would rather see them apart? In this place where nothing and no one is what they really seem to be at first sight? Cover: @WakeWriteWrath

Drama in every chapter! Jobyna has ridden to Valdemar Castle to confront 'Elliad John' as to where her parents are... King Luke cannot get to his own throne room! Prince Dorai has turned to be a traitor to his nephew King Luke, whom he had affectionately called 'Son'... King Konrad and Crown Prince Haroun are missing... His Imperial Majesty, Czar Kenrik, is heading to Frencolia to confront King Luke and also to compete in the Horse Race for the hand of Princess Jobyna! But, as in life today, circumstances might seem to be so against us, yet, often, things are NOT as they seem...

Wattys shortlist 2021. One morning the sun rises a few hours early, striking levitating skyscrapers in Soliara ahead of schedule. People in the streets stop to look up at the sky and then down at their watches. Most of them, puzzled but disbelieving, adjust the hour on their timepieces, hoping they aren't late for meetings. Constellation invented magic. It fuels Soliara's stellar teleportation system, rapid civil expansion, and skyscrapers that soar. After a takeover at Constellation, elite executives control the power of the stars. The son of a wealthy exec, Cristo feels entitled to a better future. To most, the early sunrise is the only indicator that today is any different from those that came before it. To some, it is a portent of their fears that an empire at its pinnacle has no way to go but down. To Cristo, the sign couldn't be clearer. He is the perfect candidate to change the results of the takeover at the Constellation company, but the early dawn is telling him to stop. "If the world didn't want to change, it should never have allowed him to speak." Words and magic compete for power in Soliara, an empire full of magicians who can channel the magic of the stars. Welcome to a novel in the Constellations universe. Rankings: #3 in Contemporary Fantasy 10/09/2020 #12 in Magicians 08/09/2021 #125 urban fantasy 03/01/2020 #448 in fantasy-romance 10/02/2020 #413 paranormal 08/11/2021 Fantasy: Somewhere over the rainbow. If you love this story, help it rank in Fantasy by sharing and voting on each chapter :) A girl can dream! Thank you!

Collection of Flash Fiction story most around 100 words some shorter, and some longer. Nothing over 1,000 words. I hope you enjoy.

After ex KGB Roald Popov's cover is blown, he goes on the run trying to evade the assassins from the White Nights who want to kill him. His only chance is to get out of Russia alive with the intel he has on the flash drive. Non official cover CIA operative Lex Jackson is assigned to Copenhagen to find out who is the behind the White Nights. **Cover by SydPanda5** Newer cover designed by Chessa Anderson and will be on my book when I get it published by Kindle Direct Publishing

Eylysia, is a world of magic and wonder. Humans and beasts live side by side as equals and depend upon the guidance of the Council of Wizards to insure their prosperity and safety. The Kahlisian Wars have ended and all seems peaceful in Arishamal until a group of violent zealots in a forbidden land raise an ancient evil to fulfill an apocalyptic prophecy. It is in the paws of the first animal wizard, Robbia Veritus, and her comrades to save not only Arishamal, but all of Eylysia. She will seek the help of the great mother- goddess, Arisha, the golden spider, to combat deathless warriors, a doomsday cult, and an evil monstrosity from the dark past. Only the courage and ingenuity of Robbia and her loyal friends can prevent the complete destruction of this magical world. This is the second novel in the series, but it is a standalone piece and can be read as such.