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Hell's Womb

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Parts 13
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Reads 5,840
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Parts 13
Time 45m

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Chemistry happens, in more ways than one. Trapped four hundred feet down, Serge and Gayle fight to survive while preventing an unspeakable evil from reaching the surface.

"I tried cutting the tension in this story with a knife before eventually resorting to a rusty chainsaw."

Four hundred feet below the surface of company-mining-town Thurber, Texas a dangerous experiment within a clandestine lab explodes. If the survivors can't uncover the cause of the explosion while containing the monstrous threat it has released, thousands of others will suffer an even worse fate.All Rights Reserved

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Time Shift by Aurora808

An explosion in a laboratory kills several scientists and sends a man back two months in time where he tries desperately to prevent the disaster from happening. No one believes him except his beautiful new girlfriend. Now it's a race against time for the two of them to change the events leading up to the moment of the explosion and save lives. Science Fiction/Romance.

The Steam Scavengers by BarbZaneson

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Airship City by StephenWest5

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Assault on the Train by delapr007

Final story of the short steampunk, Sky Captain Victoria and her crew of smugglers have come up with the perfect plan to assault a moving train with their airships. Meanwhile, sisters Layla (a future inventor) and Elinka (a promising young reporter) will join a Cowboy and a jeweler to stop the bandits.

L.O.V.E. by denissebloom04

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Down Deep by CLJones7

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Time Shift

An explosion in a laboratory kills several scientists and sends a man back two months in time where he tries desperately to prevent the disaster from happening. No one believes him except his beautiful new girlfriend. Now it's a race against time for the two of them to change the events leading up to the moment of the explosion and save lives. Science Fiction/Romance.