by
CJMcCormick
on Nov 2, 2020
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Chapter 20: Raising the Stakes
Author's Note: In celebration of having made it to chapter 20, I've decided to make this one a double chapter. I plan to do this for every major milestone in this story (20, 30, 40, 50). Enjoy!
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"Can I get you more wine, my lord?"
Lord Regaulfus Avila looked down at his glass, now only a sip or two from being empty. Wi...
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by
Snekguy
on Apr 18, 2018
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Author's note: this story has been re-edited to bring it up to my current standards as part of an effort to make Ebooks. It features improved editing, grammar, punctuation, and also includes rewrites and expanded scenes where necessary. Please see my bio for more information.
CHAPTER 1: SANDWICH GIRL
"You there, sir! You look like you need a sandwich! I ma...
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by
Tefler
on Aug 27, 2018
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
John's mouth fell open as he stared at the images the Vulkat had taken of the salvaged Thrall ship components. He felt an eerie kind of click as Dana named each of the forbidding black objects, her words resonating in his mind.
"They're standard issue in all Thrall vessels!" he blurted out, his eyes widening as he stared at the ship's equipment. "I know wh...
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by
msnomer68
on Sep 14, 2017
Novels and Novellas
Season of the Wolf
Part one: Running With the Pack
Chapter 1
"Grace, you can't be serious." My roommate glares at the cardboard box I've been packing for the last hour as if its public enemy number one. Impatient with my non-response she huffs and taps a manicured nail against her perfectly tanned forearm. "I mean, have you really thought this through?"...
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by
Willailla
on Sep 16, 2017
Novels and Novellas
(Age of Decadence)
Lies and deceit leading on, the maelstrom swirls us back. We return to where we began.
PROLOGUE:
Mucia Faustina was seated on the third level of the amphitheater, the maenianum summum, the section allocated to women. On the roof above her the poor, the pullati, stood to watch the games. Fortunately she was in the first row of seats ab...
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by
Adrian Leverkuhn
on Sep 16, 2017
Romance
Passegiatta
I have no words -- alas!-- to tell, the loveliness of loving well!
Poe, Tamerlane
[Log entry of the SailingVessel Springer: 31 October, 0920 hrs local time.
COG: at anchor;
SOG: 0.0 kts;
Temp: 41˚ f;
Winds: NE at 12 knots, viz +3 NMI;
Barometer 29.91 steady since 2300 hrs last night;
GPS: 44°18'11.36"N by 9°12'35.24"E.
Just anchored in...
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by
RoughRider007
on Jun 5, 2018
Erotic Couplings
© Fionna Guillaume 2016
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Prologue: The Cards
Rosemary sat in the back room of Triple Goddess Herb Shop, drinking a huge mug of chamomile tea and feeling sorry for herself. She'd just been dumped. Again. This time the sad, nascent relationship had made it all of three months before disintegrating beneath the barest discussion of a long-term future. Jaso...
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by
msnomer68
on Sep 12, 2017
Novels and Novellas
Prologue
Patrick had never wanted to kill something so badly in his life. Anything would do. Needless to say, he didn't handle what he perceived as betrayal well. And jealousy, he handled even worse. Seeing her in his arms, watching him consoling her as she cried on his shoulder, wasn't that a bitch! He'd all but practically driven her into another man's ar...
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by
msnomer68
on Sep 12, 2017
Novels and Novellas
The Native Dawn Series Book 2
Darkest Before Dawn
Live your life that the fear of death
can never enter your heart
Trouble no one about his religion...
Respect others in their views
and demand that they Respect yours...
Love your Life, Perfect your Life...
Beautify All things in your Life...
Seek to make your life long
and of service to your people...
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by
EmotionalStorm
on Sep 18, 2018
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Silvertree Chronicles Book Nine, The New Era, (Enhanced Edition)
Synopsis: Charlus's brush with death took him from the shadows and into the light; when he wished to be seen. He eventually added the Daughter of Butterfly as his fourth wife, Violet Silvertree.
***Inspired by multiple fantasy environments. Not endorsed by any of them. © EmotionalStorm August...
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