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In The Company Of Monsters

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What if the person you trusted the most suddenly became a stranger, who desperately wanted you dead? And if an hour later, they were back to normal? 

Detective Jack Arnette was a respected cop, before a hostage situation went horribly wrong. Victor Slade is a meditating, hedonistic cop-killer. When Victor makes a pickup at the Seattle docks, Jack sees a chance for redemption. A simple arrest. Respect regained. 

But events spin out of control when Jack and Victor are quarantined with the dock workers and a virus that can make anyone go temporarily homicidal. 

Trapped by a SWAT team with orders to shoot anyone who leaves the building, Jack must deal with a cop-killer who has little to lose, and a group of innocents who could become just as dangerous. Who would you trust when anyone could become a killer?All Rights Reserved

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Duby's Doctor by IrisChacon2

Winner The Crystal Awards 2016, Best Multimedia Story (3d Place). A spinster doctor rents her spare room to a brain-damaged patient who doesn't know he is a former undercover agent targeted for execution by a powerful criminal. ~o~ ~o~ ~o~ John Doe remembers nothing of his life before waking up in the hospital. He doesn't know he was a dangerous man, and he somehow has survived assassination by even more dangerous men. He doesn't even know how to speak English, or read, or count. Even after his body heals, he will need long-term supervision and care to re-learn how to live. Dr. Mitchell Oberon has been married to her surgical work for too long. So, she resists being attracted to a brain-damaged patient with the body of Adonis and the mind of a child. Agent Frank Stone, of Homeland Security, forces the doctor to take John Doe into her own home while he recovers. Stone, who knows John Doe's past history well, says it's not safe to send him back to the place he lived before he was "killed" by his enemies. If it ever becomes known that John survives, his foes will make sure he doesn't live long. Mitchell tries to protect her heart while she protects the innocent John from a hostile world. As they live together, the two begin to teach one another how to live. Hopefully, they'll also learn how not to die -- because they'll soon be betrayed into the hands of murderers.

CORONA by black-cypher

Set in 2023 on a parallel universe, fifteen patients in a drug experiment research facility have no choice but to fight against a mutated version of COVID-19 when researchers flee the building. Some patients have the placebo drug, while others unknowingly have the deadly virus mutating in their bodies. One thing isn't clear: Who has the virus, and who is killing off the rest? Best read in the dark with a black screen. Warning: This book has very disturbing content and briefly mentions suicide. Reader's discretion is advised. You've been warned. Read... or you're next. #23 in Conspiracy Theory Awards won (mostly Mystery/Thriller or Horror genre) 🥇 Creory Awards 🥇 The Pineapple Awards 🥇 The Quarantine Awards 🥇 Starlight Book Awards for Best Antagonist (Everyone) 🥇 The Quarantine Awards 🥇 The Coronation Awards 🥇 Billboard Novel Awards 2020 🎖 Most Popular Book (Library Promotes) 🎖 Library Recommends 🥈 in the Diamond in the Rough Awards 🥈 in the Library Awards 🥈 in the Discovering Elites Awards 🥈Noble Awards 🥉 Imperial Awards 🥉 The Pineapple Awards (Overall Winner) 🥉 Starlight Book Awards for Best Protagonist (Kiana) Started on: May 14, 2020 Completed: June 20, 2020 DISCLAIMER: This entire book is a work of FICTION and made for ENTERTAINMENT. Please do not misconstrue anything mentioned in this book as fact. Some of the things mentioned are based on conspiracy theories and nothing else. Please don't sue me, I only have a dollar to my name! #TheCoronation If you are reading this story on any other platform other than Wattpad, you are very likely to be at risk of a malware attack (you may have heard about the Truyen malware hack). If you wish to read this story in its original, safe form, please go to https://www.wattpad.com/story/223838014 Thank you.l

Time Consuming by Random816196

A man who commits crimes for the sake of committing crimes and enjoys it, one day loses his life at the hands of a policeman obsessed with him. And when he opens his eyes again, he finds himself in the body of an 18-year-old boy. After adjusting to the situation for a while, he realizes that everyone who turns 18 in this world is awakened and a mark appears on their right hand. People in this world never grow old. Everyone has a lifespan, and to extend that lifespan, they can use the mark on their right hand to enter a place called the game world. If they win in the games they participate in here using their own lifespan, their lifespan is extended. ---------- After talking to his parents, who seem to be the same age as him, Zane decides to play his first survival game in this fun world. And Zane is hiding a secret: he has awakened an SSS level ability. -------- The main character is a villain, but in his perspective crime is an art and not every bad thing is a crime, it's just pathetic. No reading under 18 years of age. Because I will have no hesitation in depicting violence. patreon/OLD_storage

Inquisitor by TomasBalciunas

"Death looked over her shoulder, being prepared to see what was going to come next." There is someone walking the streets. Someone who everyone is afraid of. Many lives have been taken by them, some even tortured to death. Bodies were quickly piling up, no one shown a shred of mercy. But soon, they realise that there is a force working behind their back, not wanting to give in. Not wanting to give anything away. Will they be able to survive? And can everyone be trusted?

Left For Dead [malec fanfiction] [complete] by Kersten_Noelle

"Are you coming with me or not?" "To where? Where are we going to go, Magnus? We're in the middle of the goddamn zombie apocalypse. Everyone we know is dead. Dead or Turned." Magnus fixed his gun over his shoulder and smiled broadly. "We can go wherever we like, Alexander. There's no rules anymore. We're all just skin and bones." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The year is 2025. Five years ago, a deadly disease was released worldwide that reanimates the dead and turns them into flesh eating corpses. Once bitten, you turn into one them. First comes the fever. Then comes death. Then the reanimation. The news will tell you to stay inside. Don't listen. They will tell you to go to an evacuation center. Don't go. They will tell to stay in large groups to ensure safety. That's not always the case. No place is safe, only safer. Either you survive or you die. Or else you're left for dead. Your choice. All characters besides my own © of Cassandra Clare. They deserved so much better.

The Altered. by _fiinch_

guys please don't read this anymore lmao i write totally differently now💋 _________________ In a future where humans are genetically modified -- 'altered' -- at the age of sixteen, the world has been, until now, a safe place. Without changing a person's personality, undergoing the Alteration perfects their appearance, IQ, and even their immunity to diseases. No human passes the age of sixteen without being Altered. In the blink of an eye, things change. An ominous message is sent out to all of those below the age of sixteen, providing precise instructions that suggest they flee. Simultaneously, a deadly virus starts to spread all about the world, attacking only the Altered -- every human over the age of sixteen. The virus eats at the modified human brain, and soon the Unaltered begin to realise that the Altered are losing their minds. Home is no longer safe. Friends and family turn on one another, losing control of their own minds and bodies. The Unaltered aren't safe. Even if the virus isn't attacking them, the ones with the virus are. Set on a pristine, futuristic Earth, this is the apocalypse like you've never seen it before. (Rated mature for graphic depictions of violence and mild language.) Banner credit to @itsnothardtodreamx 1st Place winner in the 2020 Spring Awards! Runner up in the 2020 Harmony Awards! 2nd place in the Belle Amé Awards 2020! [This piece was originally for the Open Novella Contest 2020, but has now surpassed the length of a novella and is a novel.]

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Ever wondered what hides in the shadows of the quietest minds? In a small, unsuspecting town, people start disappearing-first one, then another. At first, it seems random, but every victim has something in common. Each carries a secret so dark, it could ruin their lives... if they were still alive. Meet Eren. The charming barista who remembers your favorite coffee order. The polite neighbor who waters your plants when you're away. The guy everyone trusts. But behind his warm smile is a mind that thrives on chaos and blood-a predator hiding in plain sight. As Detective Mira Lane digs deeper into the cases, her gut tells her there's more to these murders than meets the eye. But how do you catch a killer who knows how to blend in so perfectly? Someone who could be the person you'd least suspect? Dark, twisted, and chillingly personal, "Whispers of the Crimson Shadow" will make you question the faces you trust and the secrets you keep. Care to step into the mind of a monster?

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Duby's Doctor

Winner The Crystal Awards 2016, Best Multimedia Story (3d Place). A spinster doctor rents her spare room to a brain-damaged patient who doesn't know he is a former undercover agent targeted for execution by a powerful criminal. ~o~ ~o~ ~o~ John Doe remembers nothing of his life before waking up in the hospital. He doesn't know he was a dangerous man, and he somehow has survived assassination by even more dangerous men. He doesn't even know how to speak English, or read, or count. Even after his body heals, he will need long-term supervision and care to re-learn how to live. Dr. Mitchell Oberon has been married to her surgical work for too long. So, she resists being attracted to a brain-damaged patient with the body of Adonis and the mind of a child. Agent Frank Stone, of Homeland Security, forces the doctor to take John Doe into her own home while he recovers. Stone, who knows John Doe's past history well, says it's not safe to send him back to the place he lived before he was "killed" by his enemies. If it ever becomes known that John survives, his foes will make sure he doesn't live long. Mitchell tries to protect her heart while she protects the innocent John from a hostile world. As they live together, the two begin to teach one another how to live. Hopefully, they'll also learn how not to die -- because they'll soon be betrayed into the hands of murderers.