by
davebccanada
on Apr 27, 2020
Novels and Novellas
Murder on the Mainline,
another Mike Claymore Mystery: Florence
A novel by: Dave Horton
Copywrite: 2000
CHAPTER ONE
1st TUESDAY
It's a cold grind as Mike pulls away through the stoplights in Revelstoke and starts the climb towards Golden. He isn't in the best of moods this trip. He misses a gear and curses, glaring at a tan Cadillac with Oregon plates...
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by
msnomer68
on Sep 11, 2017
Novels and Novellas
Native Dawn Series Book 22
After Dawn
What Came Next
Prologue
Twenty-five years is a long time when measured in terms of a human life span. Twenty-five years to a vampire or a wolf is nothing but a drop in a very deep well. Time passed and kept passing. It moved inexorably forward with each swing of the pendulum and the tick of the clock. The town chang...
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by
msnomer68
on Sep 11, 2017
Novels and Novellas
Chapter 1
The long hard winter had taken its toll on the city and its inhabitants. The streets were a slushy, wet mess thanks to a sudden spike in the temperature. Rivulets of melted sludge from the snow piles heaped against the curbs dribbled into filth plugged storm drains. Eager for the reprieve from winter's icy siege, dwellers of the magnificent city a...
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by
LopendVuur
on Sep 15, 2017
Novels and Novellas
Chapter 1
As Lukas rolled out of the portal, he landed on his feet and took a good look around, all his senses primed for danger. The place hit him with its hot and stifled air and sulphurous stench, and a dozen memories, all bad.
Still he felt excited rather than afraid or lost in the past, not in the least because of the weight of the gun tucked in his b...
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by
Snekguy
on Apr 27, 2020
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Authors Note: It took a while, but here's something substantial to read through while you're all in quarantine. Remember to deploy chemical countermeasures against hostile organisms, and wear your rebreather if you go EVA!Special thanks to my buddy SketchyWarrior for his help with the UNN armored vehicles and their tactics.
CHAPTER 1: PREEMPTIVE STRIKE
The...
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by
Ozma12533
on Dec 3, 2019
Novels and Novellas
Hello all, for those who remember me, it's been a while.
While I was writing The Loners, I mentioned that I was working on a very large project. This is that project.
This is the first few hundred pages of the first of four books, which is currently vastly incomplete at this time, so I apologize for the abrupt ending this has. (This is also my 4th rewrite of...
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by
msnomer68
on Sep 11, 2017
Novels and Novellas
Chapter 1
Erica shuffled nervously in her seat. The cordiality of the greeting had dissipated into an awkward, uncomfortable silence hanging heavily in the air between them. Her eyes fixed on the man's neatly groomed nails, on his soft, chambray button down shirt, on the tiled patterns beneath her feet, on the brilliant sunny afternoon outside of the coffee...
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