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Isaac Schmidt and Karl Silbermann used to break menorahs together as boys--accidentally, of course. Slight, retiring Isaac had always admired his brilliant best friend, Karl, but over the years he discovered, as he likes to put it, the truth: Karl's immorality goes far beyond anything that Isaac could ever imagine. Now successful in their fields, Isaac and Karl still maintain their façade of friendship. Maybe it is out of convenience or maybe it is a longing for what perhaps can never be. Nevertheless, they are stuck together in Israel for a few months and Isaac is forced to see Karl for what he truly is: an indefinable glimmer of gold.

Laure Mynett is a budding literary sensation at the age of 25. She lives alone in her sprawling property, left to her by the people who she always called Mama and Papa. But there is another side to Laure that she has only recently embraced, no, acknowledged: she is indigenous. Laure has never understood who she is. A visit from her biological aunt and uncle confirms her worst fears: she is a mistake and a fake one at that, or so people say. To most people, she is the inscrutable, privileged, genius, living in her world of heartbreaking stories. But is her own reality any different?

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Amidst the embers of an ancient conflict where sides survive only in the shadow of strategic motives ... what secrets lurk to oppose and unite the remaining combatants?

Daniel Callahan once called the small brick home on Honeysuckle Lane his, until he died. He has had to share his home with countless others since his death. Daniel has found ways to encourage the past renters to leave, but when the Wakelin family moves in he only wants them to stay. --- Was featured on the @Ghost Reading List 📚 Die Young, Stay Pretty 💕 Highest Ranking--#75 on Ghost Hot List (05.19.18) --- *ON HOLD* Thank you so much for your time and reads. xo, Leanne ** cover created by @quietlyflourishing **

❛ In which Johnathan is given a second chance to love and to lose her again. ❜ Ranked #393 in General Fiction 【I Survived The Most Brutal Review】 【Winner of The Brigade Choice Awards for SS】 【Winner of Star Writing Awards for GF】 【Winner of The Undiscovered Awards for GF, Original At Its Core and Straight From The Heart】 【Winner of Rose Awards for GF】

What happens when a literal Professor of Coolness begins to feel like he's losing his edge? ∆ Originally published as a hypertext story on Philome.la ∆ Updated with new images in March 2016. ∆ A Wattys 2016 visual story nominee.

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Talking animals, fishing gone awry and pandemonium in the monkey house

"This is me. This is my story. This is my life," said I. "But how about me?" you asked. "This story may be about you," I replied. - One Shots of Various Topics and Genres -

After being afflicted with depression at an early age, 17-year-old Mae finds a way to cope through diary exchanges with her best friend. Using an old leather-bound journal to jot down every instance of pressure, joy, and bitter strife, even this solace seems to be no match for constant break downs. Mae thinks no one notices when she stifles tears in the back of art class. But someone does. Maybe it's high time Mae realizes that even though crying sucks when someone else sees it, that's all the more reason they deserve to know why.

Melissa and Kyle had never met until a flight they were both on stranded them on a tropical island in the South Pacific. Alone, with no one to depend on but each other, the two managed to survive on the island for more than a thousand days before finally being rescued... Sounds like a happy ending, right? It would have been, except Melissa was still in love with Kyle, who went back to his wife, Alex, as soon as he returned to civilization. Three years later, broke and with her fledgling music career sputtering, Melissa gets some news that will bring Kyle and her back together for a bittersweet reunion. We've all read or watched stories about people getting stranded on deserted islands. Sometimes though, what happens after coming home is the hardest part...

GRAND PRIZE WINNER in Margaret Atwood's The Heart Goes Last fiction competition! A prequel to Margaret Atwood's latest novel, The Heart Goes Last, and an entry in the Heart Goes Last Fiction Contest. In the days before the great economic collapse, Conor and his brother Stan share a few drinks at the local bar, PixelDust. But the differences that have shaped their past become even more clear as they face each other in a drinking showdown.

Slice of life portrait of a man living on the streets. Can his bucket drumming busking and personal rumination keep body and soul together, or will he crack under the pressure of living on the fringe?

Fisherman Joe is a classic country-side tale about a fisherman named Joe who spends his days trying to catch lampreys because of the lassie that broke his heart.

[A Psycho Thriller set in the French Revolution] Paris, 1793 It is a time when people's hearts are tainted in ghastly hues of red and black, a time when people rage and roar as the wheels of Revolution turn at a dizzying speed. Philippe Fitzgerald is thrown out of the French Army after committing a crime that everyone deems unspeakable. When he returns to Paris--his hometown-- to find even the last drops of its magnificence squeezed out by the Revolution, he struggles to make his way through the dredges of poverty. It is a time when the lowest rungs of the economic ladder bear the brunt of political tension and legislative inadequacies. It is then that he forges a deep bond of friendship with noblewoman Marie d'Aramitz, who has been ostracized by her people due to their fear of a powerful man who is hunting her down to salvage the pitiful remains of his family name. Together, in a country that smothers the fire before it is a spark, they try to set the people ablaze. [Highest Ranking: #12 in Historical Fiction] [Cover by the super talented @wifidisconnected]