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172 Stories

  • A Carnival of Small Apocalypses by inkstainsdaydreams
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    A Carnival of Small Apocalypses These are poems for the hours after midnight, when the neon hums louder than reason and the world briefly forgets how to pretend. Inside these pages, goldfish learn theology from television screens. Ghosts linger in diners. Prophets miss their exits. Machines dream of salvation. The faithful wrestle with doubt, the doubtful wrestle with faith, and ordinary people carry the quiet weight of living through strange times. Part witness, part confession, part roadside sermon, these free verse spoken-word poems wander through forgotten towns, crowded headlines, broken promises, flickering screens, and the stubborn mysteries that refuse to leave us alone. Some are angry. Some are mournful. Some laugh in places they probably shouldn't. Together they form a carnival of small endings and unexpected beginnings-a collection of voices searching for meaning beneath neon skies, beneath static, beneath the noise. Step right up. The lights are already flickering. The ride has already begun.
  • Welcome to Beauchêne by MiddlecoastDan
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    A dying town launches a rebranding campaign that no one seems to be running. The billboards appear overnight. The slogans don't explain themselves. A diner waitress says nobody puts them up, and nobody takes them down. A couple arrives expecting ironic tourism and finds something closer to a live experiment. Beauchêne doesn't ask visitors to believe anything. It only asks them to stay. To notice. To participate. What begins as small-town decay becomes a slow, sideways unraveling... murals that feel instructional, civic programs that behave like dares, and a town that seems increasingly aware of the people passing through it. A surreal, slow-burn satire about American decline, anti-branding, and the strange comfort of entropy. Meaning doesn't collapse here. It rebrands. Entropy is a vibe. Decline tastes like caramel. Welcome to Beauchêne. You're here now.
  • Over the boulevard by ElizaSamuels
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    Kate Spencer is and has been a pariah for most of her high school experience She strikes up an unlikely friendship with the weird little brother of the basketball captain
  • There's Something in the Water... by EMWebb
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    two fishermen in the San Francisco bay pull a very frightened convict out of the water...
  • World Ending War by christiany914
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    When World War I started, it was fought between the great countries of our world. Britain, France, Russia, Italy and the United States against Germany, Austria, and Bulgaria. If lasted for 4 nightmarish years. Over 16 million people died. About twenty years later, World War II broke out. Over 60 million people died in that war. And, over 80 years later than that, the first battle of the greatest war commensed. World War III.
  • The Unveiling by eeee00
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    Dusty, throwback short story set mostly in a sleepy Arizona town. This short story centers on a protagonist who has bigger dreams for her life than her hometown can provide her. There are a number of rhetoric/literary devices scattered throughout story, so keep an eye out. This is my first story ever. The cover is not mine.
  • 𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐍𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞 by EndangeredEngel
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    Joey is your average eighteen year old, for the most part. School feels meaningless. The future feels like its coming too fast. Violence is so normalized it hardly registers anymore. The only thing that keeps Joey tethered is Ben. His friends charm and recklessness make it far too easy to ignore how serious their conversations are becoming. Nothing Noble is a story about alienation, teenage nihilism, and the thin line between joking about something and meaning it.
  • Mitología by Cristinarr4
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    Desde tiempos remotos, cuando el ser humano necesitaba dar una explicación a todo lo que no entendía, ya fuera un fenómeno natural o todo lo relacionado con los grandes temas (el amor, la amistad, la guerra, el dolor y la enfermedad, etc.) buscaba una respuesta fabricando a medida un relato mitológico. Esta es la razón por la cual casi todas las civilizaciones coinciden en muchos mitos y por la que ese conjunto de narraciones forman un corpus que resume el pensamiento de la Humanidad. Nuestra recopilación reúne los principales relatos y protagonistas de la mitología griega y romana, la egipcia, la hindú, la china, la americana, la celta y la nórdica, en un intento de abarcar el máximo pensamiento posible, enlazando culturas en busca de un denominador común.
  • Princesa Mormona by YellowTinkerbell
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    Lucía es una joven estadounidense proveniente de una familia mormona en Utah. Desde la niñez sintió que no encajaba en las tradiciones de la familia por lo que se refugio en sus estudios. Decidida a cambiar la religión por ciencia logra ser aceptada en sicología en la Universidad de Oxford, Inglaterra. Todo parece ir acorde al plan hasta que conoce a un peculiar compañero...
  • OLD RICHARD by AdakJon
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    A man goes on a killing spree to save his daugther Ill be posting two chapters a week.
  • Ficção Americana (Filme) by FotosComLegenda
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    Ficção Americana (Filme)
  • Recursion Event by ExtraNoise
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    Part Two of The Chronology Division series. Chronology Division officer Melissa Santiago makes an arrest in 1840s Oregon only to discover that, after returning, she's being sent back to 1987 to find a suspect hiding in a New Jersey mall. Accompanying her? A fresh-faced rookie straight from the academy who has a sordid past. If you enjoy, please remember to vote! Thank you!
  • Blue Hearts by elliereads
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    It's life at the library in the small town in the midwest, close to Omaha. It's got romance, bromance and all sorts of couples..but the main two characters in this novel Is Bex & Oliver.
  • From Florida to Firearms: Told in His Own Words by CarmelitaRose
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    This is a creative nonfiction piece told from the POV of my late grandfather. It's based on a true story he lived through and later told me in the way only he could. I did my best to capture his voice, his cadence, and the wildness of his storytelling. If this gets any attention, I might turn it into a series. He had more stories than I can count, each one stranger, funnier, and more unbelievable than the last.
  • Millicent Get Your Gun by AEDarrowby
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    Spinster schoolteacher Millicent is alone on the family farm - her parents being away at the 1912 Republican convention - when a well-featured, hatless salesman appears at the door - and, instantaneously, she hatches a plan!
  • Tom Gates: Mystery of the Shallow Grave by AuroraMandeville
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    When word gets out that a soldier known to the boys is arrested for the murder of Doctor Langley, they believe that he's innocent and set out to find the truth.
  • Tales from Possum Holler by DYeager
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    A collection of short stories set in the foothills of the Appalachians.
  • Ride - A Novel by Rae Blair by RaeBlair
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