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Sometimes the truth is just too terrible to ever be guessed... Readers' comments: 'Excellent story', 'gripping page-turner', 'marvellous read', 'great writing', 'simply remarkable', 'a fabulously emotional ride', 'wow', 'what a great book!', 'had me engaged right to the end' Wattys award-winning author (The Painted Altar, literary fiction 2020) When two British brothers are reported missing whilst on holiday in southern Italy, the local carabinieri turn to retired detective Jim Jacks for help. Still pained by a recent divorce, he has started a new life for himself as a small-scale wine producer. Along with commander Nuzzo, he will slowly unravel a mystery which is even darker than it had first seemed... Genre: murder mystery Length: 75,000 words (300 novel pages) Target audience: adult, fans of crime fiction, anyone who likes mysteries full of twists and which are populated by three-dimensional characters Extract: I stayed there at the holiday bungalow with Sarah and Olivia for the rest of the afternoon and evening. Would return again the following morning. An analyst would no doubt conclude that my actions weren't entirely selfless; that as a lonely old divorcee I found a nostalgic comfort in female company. And yes, this might have been part of it. But there was a very practical reason too for my more or less continued presence in the house. I just didn't want to leave them to themselves I suppose, was afraid of what might happen. Yes, the thing I remember most about that forty-eight hour period is the silence. There was something brooding to it. Something ominous, almost delicate, like if it cracked you feared it would explode. An edgy, precarious silence stretching on and on, minute after minute, hour after hour... About the author: I'm a 47-year-old English teacher who has lived in Italy for the last 15 years. I have two other novels on the site, The Painted Altar and Kill Who You Want

watch as i drown; watch as i turn feelings into words on black and white

Poetry on love and relationship.

[Spoiler alert] Supplementary bonus content for flagship literary fiction novel, "Espresso Love" in the form of short stories including prequel, sequel, memoir, alternate-universe, spin-off, collaborative and interactive fun! Please read Espresso Love prior to this project. Copyright 2014 Takatsu

A man wrestles through internal conflict while taking out drywall.

Snippets is a collection of random short stories and anecdotes that is not bound to any genre and written to amuse, inform and entertain.

It's only questionable because it should have never been recorded in writing.

"One day my heart will stop mentioning you." "Is that what you want to happen?" "It's what I need to happen." Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great. safe for all ages.

He might have lived an ordinary life. If his family hadn't died in an accident due to a military-based experiment when he was four, he might have had a normal childhood, too. That wasn't the only upset in his destiny, however. The government--in a hasty attempt to cover up the accident--sent him to a children's home for the mentally insane. That wouldn't be such a problem now, if he wasn't overage, and if child protection hadn't recently dug up some information concerning his intact sanity. So at the age of nineteen, Daniel Starr is being forced into a different prison--a counseling home for troubled young adults. .................. She would never have lived an ordinary life. Having been impounded at age 15 for suspected murder, she never had much of a chance at a good one, either. And after being moved to the home a month ago--due to being diagnosed with bipolar syndrome, insomnia, and depression--that chance is dwindled even smaller. In the middle of discovering what life is like, and the existence of a man named Jesus, Daniel is found to have something going wrong with his brain stem--possibly from complications of the accident in his childhood--he decides for the first time in his life, to have a friend. He chooses Riley. So will things work out? Or will her complicated problems send Daniel and his illness up in a cloud of smoke? Copyright Alyssa Tidmore 2015 All Rights Reserved Cover by Jenny20

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A story about a prince an abandoned one. And a cute girl of the same age as his .

Freya wakes up in an empty building. Every door she opens leads to another memory. Fragments of her past flash before her eyes. Each room pulls her deeper into her thoughts. But something feels off. The building isn't just empty. It's alive. It watches her. Freya begins to question her sanity. Is she dreaming? Or is this a twisted reality? She finds clues, left behind-notes and drawings. They hint at a hidden truth. As she unravels her memories, the line between reality and dream blurs. Who is she really? What happened to her? The answers lie within the building. TW: This story contains themes of trauma, dissociation, psychological distress, and implied self-harming behaviour. Reader discretion is advised.

Evil lives in the back woods and swamps of the Deep South. From the dark corner of a decadent plantation mansion to the soggy decay of a one-room swamp shack, it breeds and festers, grows and blooms. It lies in the recesses of small town ignorance and poverty. Waiting. Waiting. Always waiting. Watching patiently like a hidden viper coiled and ready to strike! And when it does, its venomous fangs show no mercy and suffer no remorse. Who will be Evil's next victim? *** Five Miles to Paradise is the second installment of this series. Pale Moon Over Paradise is the first installment.

Things are not going well for Carey in this first story of a new collection. Carey has grown tired of group sex with her boss and fellow waitresses at the raucous bar where she works until 2 each morning. She avoids her righteously religious family while struggling to finish college. Fed up with obnoxious drunks, she walks out one hot summer's night and drives down a dark, lonely road. That's when the fun begins....

In the spring of 1900, ten teams set out by canoe on a government-sponsored expedition to survey the wilds of Northern Canada. Their four-month mission: to record an inventory of the resource potential of the Province of Ontario's untouched frontier. Renowned athlete and lumberman George Reginald Gray commands Expedition Party No. 3, a team of scientists, surveyors, canoe men and a Native guide. Following the lead of the enigmatic Cree elder, the party delves deep into the heart of the Temagami wilderness where they awaken the true spirit of the land. "The Line in the Sand" draws upon primary source and archival documents to reveal the untold story of the odyssey of Expedition No. 3 and imagines what lies beneath the few surviving records of the journey. This novella originally was published to Wattpad as part of the anthology "Nine Lies of BG Davies."

After a devastating family tragedy, Theo finds himself living in the sleepy town of Morrisville, in a new school with no friends. When he is recruited by a group of outcasts to join their annual Halloween quest to the town's infamous haunted house - rumored to be home to a wicked old woman and her imprisoned granddaughter - he reluctantly joins. What Theo doesn't realize is that this one night will lead him down a path of no return. M is no ordinary fifteen-year-old girl. Cursed and living in the attic of Old Lady Laurel's house, the local teens believe her to be a hideous creature, labeling her "The Monster," despite never actually setting eyes on her. That is, until that Halloween night. As Theo continues to seek M after their encounter, he is drawn into a world of parallel time and space, developing an unlikely friendship along with an unhealthy obsession with trying to save her. But when details from his past start to resurface and his relationship with M gets more complicated, Theo is forced to face his demons and make a difficult decision. One that not only risks his life but also puts M's life in grave danger.

A journey into the mind of a man in the dark.

| Short Story | Him. Quiet. Sarcastic. Shy. Dreamer. Her. Loud. Impulsive. Beautiful. Unpredictable. All along, they knew. It wouldn't last forever.

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A man, a woman, two people, talk, about the future, so near, so far, and, about, love.