Commune Stories

Summary of the Passage: In a cult-controlled commune in Pskov, children are forcibly taken from their families and raised to serve an oppressive prophecy. Fyodor and his assigned fiancée, Irina, are one such "pair," chosen to breed a foretold child of Buer-an unnatural savior born from pain and knowledge. The cult discards unworthy children through slavery or death, enforcing absolute control. Though disillusioned, Fyodor believes in salvation and sees himself as a divine guide, starting with Irina. As she gently weaves a yarrow crown in the meadow, he rests on her lap, caught between tenderness and the dark ideology that shaped them.

She doesn't know why she was in the woods, broken and dying. She doesn't remember her past or what happened to her. But because of two boys and a camp full of refugees, she's learning about who she is - possibly for the first time. There could be a life for her here. But out there is a world full of turmoil she doesn't understand. Or maybe she understands it too well. ********** #439 in Mystery/Thriller - 9/01/17 #617 in Mystery/Thriller - 8/30/17 ********** Updated every Friday.

After a great war, a group of people tries to survive in a ruined city. This is a story about a young man growing up in an unkind world, where he manages to find happiness in his small and insignificant life.

In the 1970s, Troy joined the wave of hippies and draft dodgers going back to the land to enjoy the "simple life." When his attempts at homesteading fail as miserably as his attempts at love, Troy devotes his time instead to building life-size dinosaur replicas from the broken farm machinery that litters the Ontario countryside. The simple life indeed, until a young woman claiming to be his daughter knocks on his cabin door, and Troy is finally forced to admit that, far from simplifying his life, he had complicated it more than he ever realized. "Old Bones" won the Canadian Authors Association prize for best short story and was first published in the journal "Existere." Praise for The Wolves of St. Peter's: “This is the third novel by the Canadian team of Buonaguro and Kirk, and it’s the best so far. The setting is Rome, 1508, and Michelangelo is hard at work on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The master’s houseboy and dogsbody is Francesco Angeli and it’s Angeli who spots a body floating in the Tiber. It wasn’t such an unusual sight in those days, but when the corpse is dragged in, Angeli is astonished to find that he knows the dead woman. The writers are adept at plotting and they make great use of the grand artists who were in Rome at the time, along with the streets, smells and the brothels they attended. There are also floods on the rise to add to the suspense as Angeli hunts for a killer and attends to genius.” --Globe & Mail

"𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐭..." It had been at least an hour of running in the forest from her captors, and she wondered if she'd ever get out of this forest. She heard a noise to her left, pausing and looking over to see a teenage girl that seemed to be around her age. She watched her for a moment, mesmerized. She felt that there was something different about this girl, something in the way she moved. She soon figured out why she was different, because with 2 glances to both sides, the strange girl stretched, uncovering a pair of largely feathered wings. She gasped, sending the winged girl looking her way. The two locked eye contact, both not moving, just staring. The winged girl took flight, and the girl thought her eyes played tricks on her or something, but kept wondering about maybe if it was all real. She got her answer soon after though, as she took a glance up to the sky and out of nowhere, she was amongst the sky as well. The winged girl had picked her up and started flying through the air, a hardened look pasted on her face. What happens next? Will the strange girl be a friend, or a horrid enemy? Who knows, enjoy the story.

Leah thinks she's found the perfect escape from a stressful life in the city: Eden, a hippie commune where everything is connected to the land and community - people work together, eat together, garden together and... have their marriages arranged between members? Aren't allowed books? The longer Leah stays, the more the shining veneer of this paradise peels off. What's revealed is the fundamentalist Christian ideals which underlie Eden. Stranded, Leah has to find a way to escape. One thing holds her back: a bond formed with someone she shouldn't have, deep in Eden's clutches.

Callie lives in a commune with Tarot wielding Daisy, fish-eating vegan Jules and six other families. Her parents seem to be out sever any romantic possibility in Callie's life (full name Chamomile- yes as in the flower). She is not allowed near video games, reality TV, social media, pot noodles, all things Disney and definitely not romantic comedies. But it turns out the Callie is so Rom-Com obsessed she runs home from school just to make sure she can follow love stories online of Geordie Shore characters. Callie dreams of having a boyfriend and spends an embarrassing amount of time making up fictional love stories in her head about the new boy in school, Max.

Coming of age setting, hitchhiking around the country in 1969.

When an unexpected tragedy occurs, Frankie and her friends are forced to leave, on the run from the secrets their families kept. No where's safe, but they can't run forever. 'You say we don't have a home anymore, but I do. He holds my hand at night when I can't sleep, he lights my cigarettes, and he's stood right in front of me.'

Name speaks for itself.

Venez y faire un tour !

Today is the day, Brianne was going to be matched with her mate and be given a child. When her mate ends up being the most popular boy in her community, Colin Loris, she doesn't know how to react. Brianne was a shy innocent girl, would she be able to grow up?

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Short story of short lives. A brief contemplation by someone reaching their 19th birthday in a world where everyone dies upon their 20th.

The cult on the edge of town was more of an urban legend than a real establishment. The dwellers kept to themselves and never came down from the mountain, but their strange wails would echo at night. Overly curious, Owen Fenton, wants to get a closer look and stumbles upon a young woman covered in blood. She invites him back to her home in the woods, where he discovers the truth about the secrets and horrors of Cloudtown.

After committing the irreparable, Mischa finds himself in a brand new world, outside the closed off commune (he has heard people describe it as a "cult") in which he was raised. Everything that seems so normal to others is scary to him. He must get used to life without the Keeper, who provided all the answers and protected him, instead with his foster mother, and his new friends at school. Will Mischa ever be able to live a normal life?