by
hammingbyrd7
on Sep 11, 2017
Illustrated
Copyright 2008, 2009 hammingbyrd7
Chapter 1.
Time: Friday, December 21, 2018 4:05 PM EST, nine kilometers northeast of Burlington, Vermont
"Are you sure you know where you're going?" Jada looked at the driver with only a tiny hope of getting her roommate to give up. Once Emily had her mind latched on an idea, she had the tenacity of a Maine lobster ho...
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by
msnomer68
on Sep 11, 2017
Novels and Novellas
Chapter 1
The drive back was long and tedious. Texas had been filled with excitement, adventure, and some scary ass shit, but the drive back to the frozen north sucked. Absolutely, without a doubt sucked. In Texas the weather had been cool, not fucking freezing. In Texas, spring was beginning to bloom. Up here, winter dug in her heels and refused to give it...
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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
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
Adrian Leverkuhn
on Sep 15, 2017
Novels and Novellas
A Somewhat Less Than Divine Comedy
Driftwood: A Prelude to the Evening
'Let me to take you down -- 'Cause I'm going to strawberry fields' Lennon/McCartney
Rogues Bay, Tortola, BVI
Today
There were a few low clouds scudding over the far horizon, yet all-in-all the day's weather was looking good -- better than good, really, especially for the time of...
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by
msnomer68
on Sep 12, 2017
Novels and Novellas
Prologue
Keene stared up at the ceiling and contemplated the darkness. He was safe, at the compound, tucked under the covers in a warm bed as snugly as a babe in its crib. He could dream the dreams long forgotten by a very different man, in a very different place and time. Dare he consider himself so lucky...to dream dreams and plan for the life he never th...
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by
sddconst
on Sep 12, 2017
Novels and Novellas
Foreword
Thanks to those of you who were kind enough to read and comment on my first submission of Realms of Eden Book 1 – Sydney comes of Age (it's in the Sci-Fi section). This is a rewrite of that book but from the story teller's perspective rather than first person.
My characters told me that they didn't think they got enough time in my first book havin...
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