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"Ghost On the High Seas"	by Lila Sparks Oct. 25, 2010	1866 words	Read a sample
Author bio: 57 year old female. I love to read. I dabble in writing. I love to cook, and bake. I do beadwork and other artistic ventures. Mother of 4 grandmother of 7
"Outer Adventures" Preview	by Nigel Andres Jan. 22, 2012	1733 words	Read a sample
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2012 The Secret Teachings of the Next Door Neighbour	by Frauke and Simon Lewer May 10, 2011	70729 words	Read a sample
Author bio: Simon and I have been together for 18 years. We have traveled with horse and wagon, been self-sufficient on the side of a beautiful Irish mountain, home-educated our two daughters and are now living in France. Before we met I was a stained glass artist and Simon was part of the new age traveler movement.
5 Days	by Paul Sean Dec. 27, 2009	12996 words	Read a sample
Author bio: Author and musician.
9 ( Beta Version )	by David Santamaria Aug. 27, 2011	44849 words	Read a sample
Author bio: I Write the Best Blog of the World.
A Bard's Folktale: Roaming Cadenza	by Aramis Barron July 04, 2011	140197 words	Read a sample
Author bio: Aramis Barron is not unlike a spoony bard, sans spoons. And barding. He has a raison dâ€™Ãªtre, good reasons to write, and quite possibly a bag of raisins. Heâ€™s spent the last several years breaking graphite in notebooks, and at times composes pieces worth reading. In between working full-time and finishing up school, heâ€™s currently writing the second installment of the Bardâ€™s Folktale series. Major influences include Joss Whedon, Jack Frost, Shinmen Musashi, and a wide variety of philosophical literature (to includÃ© the clichÃ©sâ€“ French renaissance, Miyazaki Hayao, and of course, Anno Hideaki).
A Day of an Eternal Soul	by Steven Wilkerson March 25, 2012	14094 words	Read a sample
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A Dreaming Myth Vol 3: Infinite Discoveries	by Brandon Benevides April 16, 2012	79044 words	Read a sample
Author bio: my fantasy epic, A Dreaming Myth, is my most favourite piece of work i have ever done, and it is because i use a fictional mindset to bend the world I know to how i want it, and shape it to this fantasy. creating a new universe may not be as hard as i thought, but trying to expand it is what's hard.
A Dreaming Myth Vol. 1: The New World	by Brandon Benevides Nov. 28, 2011	100886 words	Read a sample
Author bio: my fantasy epic, A Dreaming Myth, is my most favourite piece of work i have ever done, and it is because i use a fictional mindset to bend the world I know to how i want it, and shape it to this fantasy. creating a new universe may not be as hard as i thought, but trying to expand it is what's hard.
A Dreaming Myth Vol. 2: Cascading From Beyond The Border	by Brandon Benevides Feb. 09, 2012	75979 words	Read a sample
Author bio: my fantasy epic, A Dreaming Myth, is my most favourite piece of work i have ever done, and it is because i use a fictional mindset to bend the world I know to how i want it, and shape it to this fantasy. creating a new universe may not be as hard as i thought, but trying to expand it is what's hard.
A Frequent Traveller's Guide to Jovan: Book 1	by Elle Black Aug. 28, 2011	80986 words	Read a sample
Author bio: Elle Black is Australian, born and bred. She has spent time living in the USA and Canada, and her parents live in the UK. She has a degree majoring in Avoiding the Real World As Long as Possible. Nowadays, she works the 9-to-5 in an office with a nice view of other offices. Elle has written short stories, long stories, fanfic, roleplay characters, three yearsâ€™ worth of NaNoWriMo, and an Honours thesis. Elleâ€™s friends characterise her as irritable and sarcastic and prone to passive-aggression, with an annoying habit of reminding people of their manners. Elle really, really likes travelling, knowing everything, The Weakerthans, musicals, Kara Thrace, Georgette Heyer novels, Rufus Wainwright, King Charles II of England, and Vancouver.
A Good Bowl of Ramen	by Samuel A. Mayo March 09, 2011	8018 words	Read a sample
Author bio: Sam Mayo was born the day after Christmas in 1982. He currently lives in the Midwest with his wife, an excitable dog, and an overweight cat. He writes stories of adventure that mix science fiction and fantasy.
A Guest for Halloween: A Lex & Ricky Mystery	by William Henderson Oct. 29, 2010	21113 words	Read a sample
Author bio: I have come to understand that happiness is a byproduct of working at something you enjoy and not a goal in itself. It can be anything, a sport, musical instrument or hobby, as long as it takes effort and discipline. Some time ago I realized that one of the things that truly made me happy was writing. Anything that gets people, especially young people to read is wonderful. However, it is tragic that we have separated and withdrawn from the real world to such an extent that we no longer see the mystery and wonders of nature that are our birthright. The Lex & Ricky Mysteries are meant to expose young people to the wonders of the natural world and our collective native heritage. An awareness of sustainability issues is provided along with questioning the cost of trading away our inheritance for short lived "prosperity," often to people who do not live in our communities. Most people cannot possibly imagine the rich natural and spiritual life they are denying themselves.
A Mind Not Worth Controlling (A Captain Rescue Short Story)	by Joshua Price June 30, 2011	4934 words	Read a sample
Author bio: Josh Price (1986-2117 [assuming the continued advancement of technology and barring any civilization ending catastrophes]) is an independent writer, specializing in short, hilarious and witty books in an ongoing series of superhero adventures. He grew up in Texas, but now spends his days in Missouri, where he has no real life friends (but oodles of internet ones) and hardly leaves the house. In his spare time, which he has an awful lot of, he writes, plays video games, listens to music, and hangs around the house naked. In that order.
A Parade of Clowns	by Francis Murgold March 28, 2012	7896 words	Read a sample
Author bio: Murgold enjoys spending time with family and friends in the Northeastern US, a good scotch, and a few hours a day for quiet focus. His perfect day would be spent at the beach with an eclectic playlist and the foam at his feet.
A shrewdness of Apes	by Garry Grierson April 13, 2011	1915 words	Read a sample
Author bio: Garry Grierson was the first of three children born to Jeanette and Tom. He came into this world on the ninth of October 1968, and is now quite old. After an unremarkable childhood growing up in a small mining village in Fife, Scotland, he mailed his first short-story entry to a competition aged twenty; receiving his very first form-rejection letter. From then on he has continued the dream of publishing that first Novel. Whenever real-life as a husband and applications developer doesnâ€™t get in the way. Although he has had some success with short-stories the dream of publishing that elusive Novell still lingers onâ€¦
A Simple Misunderstanding	by Richard Quinn Aug. 14, 2011	2451 words	Read a sample
Author bio: In everyoneâ€™s life, there are a certain number of events or decisions, call them forks in the road, that influence just about everything that happens to us from that point forward. We pick one school or career over another, we meet the person who becomes our partner, we cross the street without looking and get hit by a truck. Fate? Serendipity? Random chance? Whatever you want to call it, these pivotal moments arenâ€™t always obvious at the time, but theyâ€™re clear as a bell in retrospect, and when you string them all together, they define who we are more surely than our DNA. A case in point for me personally is something that happened in January of 1971, when I was a 20 year old student at Antioch College in Ohio. Born and raised in the Arizona desert, I was fed up with snowy mid-western winters, so I took a break from school, pointed myself south, stuck out my thumb at the side of a road, and dropped off the edge of the world. When I re-emerged, three months later, Iâ€™d covered a distance of nearly 7,000 miles, almost all of it by land. Iâ€™d crossed the Andes mountain range six times, Iâ€™d camped overnight in the ruins at Machu Picchu, Iâ€™d traveled the length of the Atacama desert with a circus, and Iâ€™d finally fetched up on the shores of a turquoise lake in southern Chile, near the ultimate end of the road in Tierra del Fuego. I hadnâ€™t planned that trip, and had only the vaguest notion of what I was getting into when I started. I just sort of spontaneously DID it, and the overall experience was literally life changing. When I got back to school, I switched my major from psychology to anthropology, and three months after that, I returned to South America. I completed my studies independently, doing field work at an "off-catalog" archaeological site on the Caribbean coast of Colombia, as well as ethnographic research high up in the snow-capped mountains immediately above those coastal ruins, among the descendants of the people who had built them, as much as a thousand years before. All told, I spent the best part of five years in the northern Andes. Some of my field work was formally sanctioned by a Colombian University, and by the Colombian National Museum. The rest of it, quite frankly, was not, but either way, it was the real deal--Indiana Jones without the stunt doubles and the special effects. I slogged through unmapped jungles and climbed lofty peaks in search of lost ruins--and I actually found a few. I dug for buried treasure, and I found a bit of that as well. I spent time with remote tribes who were living in a world so distant from ours that it may as well have been another planet, and I viewed wild, exotic landscapes that are the stuff of mist-shrouded dreams. All of that was exciting, often exhilarating, but it most certainly wasn't an easy way to make a living, because Colombia, back in the 1970â€™s, was not an easy place to be. What started out as great good fun got pretty serious when a landslide and flood wiped out my house. Then there were the potentially deadly tropical fevers, the anti-government riots with stone-throwing mobs faced off against troops armed with machine guns, not to mention the drug cartels, the corrupt militias, and the occasional stray bullet whizzing past my ear. I wasn't looking for that kind of trouble, but when it's everywhere around you, it's impossible to avoid. There were times when the trouble got quite personal: while living and working in Colombia, I was the victim of robbery, assault, extortion, false arrest and imprisonment, and the target of an attempted kidnapping. I survived earthquakes, killer volcanoes, a serious machete wound, and at least one shrieking, screaming, blood-on-the-highway bus wreck. If what I've just described sounds more like an ordeal than an adventure, Iâ€™d have to say that every grand adventure extracts a price, and in my case, the positives I encountered were well worth any hardship I might have endured. I came to know those mountains and their people in a way touched me to my core, and I experienced beauty of an intensity thatâ€™s both rare and noble. More than four decades have passed since that day when I set out hitch-hiking south, and Iâ€™ve had many other life-changing moments in the interim, many more shiny pearls in the strand of my personal destiny. Looking back now, as I head toward retirement, I canâ€™t help focusing on THAT one. Because that one? Man, oh man, that one was really a doozy. Chivor, my first major work of fiction, draws heavily on my experience during that period of time. Guajira, the second volume in the Chivor trilogy, is well underway, and should be complete sometime next year.
A Suicidal Man	by Renee Pippens Jan. 18, 2012	1315 words	Read a sample
Author bio: I have several book titles to offer and, like every other author, I wish to sell my books, but I donâ€™t expect anyone to buy a pig in a poke. In other words, who should I expect to be willing to take a chance on whether or not my writing style is any good without the advantage of sampling its flavor? How many times have you gone into a grocery store and noticed a new product and said to yourself, â€œHmm, that sure looks yummy. Perhaps I should give it a try.â€ But then you recall what happened the last time you purchased a particular food just because the picture on the box looked appealing. -You ended up with a bulk-load of crap that made even the dog wish for a second night of Ramen Noodles. There were also times when you went into a grocery store and noticed a product, along with a friendly person sitting in front a platter full of freshly sautÃ©ed bite sized morsels. All it took was one taste to make you want to gobble-up the entire platter â€“ toothpick and all. The same goes for books because so many times readers are lured in by an attractive front cover and sometimes even an exciting back cover summary, but after youâ€™ve purchased the book, or wasted your time lugging it home from the library, you discover that it is not what you expected. Wouldnâ€™t it be grand if, before purchasing a book, you could read a few short stories by the author just to get a feel of his writing style? Yes it would, and that is why I thank Heaven for a smashwords opportunity. Enjoy â€“ toothpick and all. I am operating without an agent, and I have sole and exclusive rights to every one of my stories posted. All of my material has been copyrighted. I will be posting a new story each Monday, on or around twelve-noon eastern time. The length of each story will be at least 17,000 words, and a summary will be posted along with it. I would never post 'a portion of a story' without making it known to the reader ahead of time, and all of my Monday posts will be FREE full length stories. UPDATE... POSTED MONDAY MARCH 19TH: My Little Puppets POSTED MONDAY MARCH 26TH: When the Piper Comes POSTED MONDAY APRIL 2ND: Mister Desirable COMING SOON: My Little Puppets (part 2) Release Date MONDAY APRIL 9th. ...Look for my 'simple outline-artwork' covers.
A Tiger's Leap	by TWCaartist May 20, 2012	24911 words	Read a sample
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A Witch Shall Be Born Once More	by Roberta E. Howard July 22, 2010	16503 words	Read a sample
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Abner gets turned into a Rutabaga	by Dan Schwartz July 01, 2009	3230 words	Read a sample
Author bio: I love a good story, and I love a good joke. These two factors are my biggest influences. My writing is story telling interconnected through jokes. My debut book No Cure for Nature is a comical environmental adventure which explores the personification of Mother Nature rebelling against humankind in a whirlwind of puns, wordplay and heroism. My background is in Environmental Engineering which is where my strong fascination with environmental issues comes from. I am still unaware where my love for puns was born, and story telling most likely stems back to Sesame Street.
Acab	by Marcus Blakeston Feb. 27, 2012	12303 words	Read a sample
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Adrift No More	by Carol Marlene Smith July 01, 2011	3768 words	Read a sample
Author bio: Carol Marlene Smith was born in Springhill, Nova Scotia on a hot August day. From an early age, writing, drawing and singing were her favourite things to do. Carol was a loner who liked to imagine her friends rather than make real ones. Today Carol spends her time writing novels and short stories and painting animals. Some of her novels are Heart of Winter, Angel's Blessing, and Who Wants to Murder a Millionaire, all set in Nova Scotia. Carol enjoys writing romance, mystery/suspense and mainstream. She has two daughters and one grandson and lives in the beautiful Annapolis Valley in Nova Scotia.
Adventure Arc the First: Entity of Ascendancy	by ZÃ¼rthÃ¼ryx Qosdarlu Aug. 01, 2011	79027 words	Read a sample
Author bio: Obviously we're two people who have forged an adventure. If you want to learn more about us, please visit the links below.
Adventures in Reading	by Debra Chapoton Dec. 16, 2011	41897 words	Read a sample
Author bio: Debra Chapoton grew up in a middle class, Mid-Western, Christian family. She taught high school Spanish and English in an affluent suburb of Detroit while raising four children. Her writing career began after she and her husband built a full log lodge in the middle of a woods in northern Michigan. Her reading interests flit around through mystery, humor, suspense, thriller, young adult, fantasy, romance, christian lit. and biographies. Her writing focuses primarily on children's adventure, fantasy and mystery, but she has also written the adult psychological thriller EDGE OF ESCAPE.
Adventures of Tain Bb, Hello? And Dumb	by Andrey Nuzhdin May 04, 2012	14636 words	Read a sample
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After Life: Love	by Patrick Lee May 31, 2010	97380 words	Read a sample
Author bio: After losing both parents, I floated around for a few years until I was old enough to be on my own. I survived another 5 years traveling between cities, finding all the spots to get free food and sleep in a free bed, until I ended up in Las Vegas. In a city that never shuts down, there is no shortage of places to spend days and nights, and tourists are easy targets for making some good money. Night provided the perfect opportunity to improve my lifestyle, and when the sun roasted the desert, I hid out and banged away on a story that had haunted me for years. What started as a series of stories with nothing in common fell together with one common element...death. Once that piece of the puzzle hit me, the rest of it poured out onto the pages. A few rewrites later, and the After Life story begins. I hope you enjoy it, and let me know what you think...
Aftermath: Found	by Richard Schwarz May 12, 2012	2556 words	Read a sample
Author bio: Richard Schwarz always had an insatiable curiosity for the feminine form that started the first time he looked through one of his father's gentleman's magazine at age seven. Without the stigma of modern society to contend with, his young imagination blossomed with the possibility of engaging a woman's delectable delights. Creative story telling sprang from the fertile field of his mind and as he matured erotic day dreaming followed. Several years of discovery, escapades, and a move from the south to Missouri later, Richard Schwarz decided to pursue a dream and begin writing. The subject matter he laces each story with came easily from his earliest fantasies and his later exploits. As a responsible father and husband balancing a job and a new found career in erotica, he never forgets the most important thing to him which is his family. In the wee hours of the night, after he's satisfied his wife's insatiable lust for his husbandly duties, his mind drifts away in content as he reflects on his interracial relationship. Eventually, although the names have been changed and the scenarios elaborated upon, he begins to tell his tales so that others may enjoy them as well.
Airborne	by Alexander Dowidar-Jackson Feb. 14, 2012	2266 words	Read a sample
Author bio: I am a writer who will publish books of all genres and categories. I hope you will enjoy my work and look forward to hearing your feedback.
Aloha Mannequins	by Raymund Hensley April 10, 2011	38356 words	Sample 15%
Author bio: Raymund Hensley is the author of "Filipino Vampire" and "Transdolphin". He lives in Honolulu, Hawaii. Follow him on Twitter or Facebook to get updates on future books. http://twitter.com/RaymundHensley http://raymundhensley.blogspot.com/ http://www.facebook.com/BossHospital
Amanda Ackers and The Deep Forest Elves	by GlennAndSasha Gabriel Jan. 03, 2012	244305 words	Read a sample
Author bio: Update Notice: Hello everyone, and thank you for visiting our Authors Page. We have now published for FREE, Book Two of our Amanda Ackers Novels, "Amanda Ackers and The Realm Of The Witches"! Having published Book One, "Amanda Ackers and The Deep Forest Elves" for FREE on January 3rd, 2012, and having that Novel downloaded just over 3,165 times by March 29th, 2012, we are blown away! Sasha and I are working on Book Three of the series, "Amanda Ackers and The Thirteen Shards Of Legend." It should be available sometime in 2013, as we are both working on other novels as well. Several people have requested reading Book Three, prior to its publication. Should any like a pre-release version when we get to the editing stage, please let us know. As you may know, we do require you to sign a non-disclosure agreement and fax it back to us... itâ€™s just good business practice after all. Adding up the downloads from our novel and all our short stories, the first short published on November 14, 2011, our total downloads have now reached over 11,443 as of March 29th, 2012! We are very thankful to you all, for supporting our work, which we do for the enjoyment of it. Our thanks also, to the many of you who have emailed us with kind comments on our stories and the first two books of our novel series, and those who have requested receiving a pre-release version of Book Three. We had never thought of doing a pre-release, but what a great idea! It gave many a chance to read the novels before we actually published them. Thanks to all of you! We are most humbled by the response we have received, and thank you from the top, middle and bottom of our hearts! If anyone would like to correspond with us, please shoot us an email when you get the chance, we would love to hear from you. Email us at: GlennAndSasha@gmail.com -------------------------------------------- Hello and thank you for visiting our Smashwords.com page. My name is Sasha Gabriel, and I would like to take a few moments to say a little about Glenn and myself. They say that creativity belongs to the young. Well, not always. Young at heart, Iâ€™ll buy, but nothing else. Writing is relatively new for me. Iâ€™ve been an avid reader for most of my 60+ years. But writing seemed daunting. How do you write an idea to get over to other people without boring them to death? How do you write conversations that sound like the people who are speaking them? Once I studied the â€œhow toâ€™sâ€ a bit, and with the encouragement from Glenn, my wonderful husband and best friend, I started writing. And I love it. So does Glenn. Writing has opened a door for me that nothing else has â€“ my imagination has soared and Iâ€™m absolutely thrilled and thankful, from the bottom of my heart, that others like my writing, as well. Both Glenn and I have been submitting very, very short stories (no more than 600 word stories) because these are also being entered into a writing contest with that directive. At the same time, both Glenn and I are writing novels (Glennâ€™s is awesome!!!! Think the depth of Lord of the Rings with the immediacy of Harry Potter and youâ€™ve got it!). But I want to share something with you allâ€¦ Glenn has battled Dyslexia, Dyscalculia and Dysgraphia almost his entire life. Thatâ€™s a mouthful, for sure, but try living with them on a daily basis! Even so, Glenn has worked to overcome the more serious side effects and his talent in writing, painting, and all over creativity is nothing short of staggering. Honestlyâ€¦ Iâ€™m running to keep up with him but Iâ€™m mostly just out of breath! Soâ€¦ the bottom line isâ€¦ weâ€™re all just human with all our challenges and itâ€™s those challenges that make what we create that much better. Pleaseâ€¦ If you like to readâ€¦ then write. If you like to paintâ€¦ then paint. Pick up that paintbrush and start. For writing, get to your keyboard and begin. We think youâ€™ll surprise yourself at your talents. And, againâ€¦ Thank You all for your kind and generous words of appreciation for our stories! It means the world to us! ----------------------------- Glenn here. Just wanted to add that we never thought anyone would even read our work, let alone have downloaded our little stories thousands of times in such a short time. Because of the kind words from you all, I will continue to write. I have, as Sasha had mentioned, been writing the Amanda Ackers novel series, with Sasha contributing several chapters to each book. I had only begun writing the novel for fun, for our grandson Logan. I was not going to publish it, just print it out to give to him. However, with all the encouragement I have received via email, from those reading our little short stories, I have decided to publish the first two books of the Amanda Ackers series for FREE. Everyone keeps telling us we need to charge for them, so, should we decide to do so, they will be no more than $0.99 cents in U.S. Dollars :) My many thanks to all of you, for your continued support. Please feel free to contact Sasha and I at the following email address. We would love to hear from you, even to just say hi: GlennAndSasha@gmail.com
Amanda Ackers and The Realm Of The Witches	by GlennAndSasha Gabriel March 28, 2012	180810 words	Read a sample
Author bio: Update Notice: Hello everyone, and thank you for visiting our Authors Page. We have now published for FREE, Book Two of our Amanda Ackers Novels, "Amanda Ackers and The Realm Of The Witches"! Having published Book One, "Amanda Ackers and The Deep Forest Elves" for FREE on January 3rd, 2012, and having that Novel downloaded just over 3,165 times by March 29th, 2012, we are blown away! Sasha and I are working on Book Three of the series, "Amanda Ackers and The Thirteen Shards Of Legend." It should be available sometime in 2013, as we are both working on other novels as well. Several people have requested reading Book Three, prior to its publication. Should any like a pre-release version when we get to the editing stage, please let us know. As you may know, we do require you to sign a non-disclosure agreement and fax it back to us... itâ€™s just good business practice after all. Adding up the downloads from our novel and all our short stories, the first short published on November 14, 2011, our total downloads have now reached over 11,443 as of March 29th, 2012! We are very thankful to you all, for supporting our work, which we do for the enjoyment of it. Our thanks also, to the many of you who have emailed us with kind comments on our stories and the first two books of our novel series, and those who have requested receiving a pre-release version of Book Three. We had never thought of doing a pre-release, but what a great idea! It gave many a chance to read the novels before we actually published them. Thanks to all of you! We are most humbled by the response we have received, and thank you from the top, middle and bottom of our hearts! If anyone would like to correspond with us, please shoot us an email when you get the chance, we would love to hear from you. Email us at: GlennAndSasha@gmail.com -------------------------------------------- Hello and thank you for visiting our Smashwords.com page. My name is Sasha Gabriel, and I would like to take a few moments to say a little about Glenn and myself. They say that creativity belongs to the young. Well, not always. Young at heart, Iâ€™ll buy, but nothing else. Writing is relatively new for me. Iâ€™ve been an avid reader for most of my 60+ years. But writing seemed daunting. How do you write an idea to get over to other people without boring them to death? How do you write conversations that sound like the people who are speaking them? Once I studied the â€œhow toâ€™sâ€ a bit, and with the encouragement from Glenn, my wonderful husband and best friend, I started writing. And I love it. So does Glenn. Writing has opened a door for me that nothing else has â€“ my imagination has soared and Iâ€™m absolutely thrilled and thankful, from the bottom of my heart, that others like my writing, as well. Both Glenn and I have been submitting very, very short stories (no more than 600 word stories) because these are also being entered into a writing contest with that directive. At the same time, both Glenn and I are writing novels (Glennâ€™s is awesome!!!! Think the depth of Lord of the Rings with the immediacy of Harry Potter and youâ€™ve got it!). But I want to share something with you allâ€¦ Glenn has battled Dyslexia, Dyscalculia and Dysgraphia almost his entire life. Thatâ€™s a mouthful, for sure, but try living with them on a daily basis! Even so, Glenn has worked to overcome the more serious side effects and his talent in writing, painting, and all over creativity is nothing short of staggering. Honestlyâ€¦ Iâ€™m running to keep up with him but Iâ€™m mostly just out of breath! Soâ€¦ the bottom line isâ€¦ weâ€™re all just human with all our challenges and itâ€™s those challenges that make what we create that much better. Pleaseâ€¦ If you like to readâ€¦ then write. If you like to paintâ€¦ then paint. Pick up that paintbrush and start. For writing, get to your keyboard and begin. We think youâ€™ll surprise yourself at your talents. And, againâ€¦ Thank You all for your kind and generous words of appreciation for our stories! It means the world to us! ----------------------------- Glenn here. Just wanted to add that we never thought anyone would even read our work, let alone have downloaded our little stories thousands of times in such a short time. Because of the kind words from you all, I will continue to write. I have, as Sasha had mentioned, been writing the Amanda Ackers novel series, with Sasha contributing several chapters to each book. I had only begun writing the novel for fun, for our grandson Logan. I was not going to publish it, just print it out to give to him. However, with all the encouragement I have received via email, from those reading our little short stories, I have decided to publish the first two books of the Amanda Ackers series for FREE. Everyone keeps telling us we need to charge for them, so, should we decide to do so, they will be no more than $0.99 cents in U.S. Dollars :) My many thanks to all of you, for your continued support. Please feel free to contact Sasha and I at the following email address. We would love to hear from you, even to just say hi: GlennAndSasha@gmail.com
Ambushed! (Last Plane out of Paris, Part Two)	by Paul Moxham March 11, 2012	15426 words	Read a sample
Author bio: Paul Moxham hails from Australia. He has written three novels thus far, two YA and one childrens. The first, The Secret of Smugglers Cove is a childrens adventure book that is set in 1950's Britain and set in the style of Enid Blyton's Famous Five series. His second book, The Florida Chase, a young adult novel, is an action packed novel that is along the lines of The Hardy Boys. The third, Last Plane out of Paris, a young adult novel, follows two British officers as they parachute into France and attempt to rescue and aircraft designer just as Hitler invades the country. He has also written a number of screenplays which led to him being signed to a Los Angeles based manager early in 2011. One of his scripts, Blizzard, won the Gold Prize Award at the 2011 PAGE AWARDS.
Anger	by Kennie Kayoz Sep. 08, 2011	418 words	Read a sample
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Animal Tales The Journey Begins	by Rhia Roberts Feb. 29, 2012	8376 words	Read a sample
Author bio: Dr. Rhia currently teaches graduate classes for an online university. She has taught k-graduate school on four continents. She earned her Ph.D. in Special Education with a focus on reading, writing, and dyslexia. She has numerous professional publications including a phonic reading program featuring leveled readers. Dr. Rhia is married with three multi-ethnic, adopted children. Of all her accomplishments, she considers forming her family her greatest.
Annalea, Princess of Nemusmar	by Stephen Shore Feb. 26, 2009	92818 words	Read a sample
Author bio: A lifelong resident of New England, Stephen Shore has worked in public education and in business. As an undergraduate, he studied history, music and education at Bridgewater State. Steve was a Graduate Fellow, in the History Department, at Northeastern University. As a single parent, he has raised two fine sons andâ€”through their acquaintancesâ€”a plethora of quasi daughters and sons (the characteristics and namesakes of many appearing in his novels). At this writing, Steve has all three novels in the Annalea Series in publication. He also has published a mystery/crime novel entitled, Sinful Images, and his first western novel, How I Became an Outlaw, by â€œChili Beansâ€ Bartlett. He has recently completed a literary novel, Mr. Bithersbee. Another novel, A Hare in the High Grass, is nearly finished, and other works are well begun. Steve obviously lives to write. Please contact at writeabout@stephenjshore.com. And visit the Website: www.stephenjshore.com
Anti-Supernatural Assault Team- Book 0- Fresh Blood	by Michael Keyth Feb. 12, 2012	38812 words	Read a sample
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Apex	by Phillip McCollum March 06, 2012	1743 words	Read a sample
Author bio: Phillip McCollum hatched from the sleepy, but always interesting, Mojave desert in Southern California. He currently lives in Orange County and spends the majority of his day looking at network packets and plugging in cables. When he's not working, his time is divided between writing fiction, writing electronic music, playing video games and spending time with his patient and lovely wife.
Apocalypse Jones And The Race Against Time (a Local Heroes story)	by Al Bruno Nov. 25, 2011	6899 words	Read a sample
Author bio: Al Bruno III is a writer of comedy and horror with almost twenty years experience in crafting stories that as unforgettable as they are strange. Or then again, maybe he's just another unpublished author with a blog.
Archan	by B.A. Savage Feb. 01, 2012	12766 words	Read a sample
Author bio: I plan on writing 30+ books, but I need help from you, the readers. Motivation is a tool that I lack. Creativity is a resource where "my cup" runneth over. So, please, if you have anything positive to say, polite criticism to give, or you simply want to say hi, feel free to. And remember, a review can be a detailed essay or a simple "I loved it". So far, there are a total of six books completed. The other four will be added to this site, if you show me some love! I have created a Marvel like universe. I love the X-men, yet didn't want to create a world that is too open ended and simply explained by a 'mutant' gene. My characters are more works of human curiosity and human stupidity with a twist of twilight zone humor. Thank you for reading this, reading my works, and I'm out like last night's bathwater!
Arms Around You	by Alfonso Borello April 14, 2012	9165 words	Read a sample
Author bio: I'm the author and the main character of my own life stories. Why? Because I'm lazy and don't like to manufacture puppets.
Arrival	by V.H. Folland Dec. 14, 2010	1568 words	Read a sample
Author bio: Interested in aircraft from a young age (including a notable school trip to Kew where most children looked at the plants while one was watching the Heathrow flightpath) VH Folland has worked in consultancy for sectors including the media, engineering and information. My first novel, Fire Season, is now available in paperback and ebook worldwide, published by Ragged Angel Ltd. The Docks, a smaller crime novellette, followed in 2011 with its sequel, Conflict of Interest.
Attacked! (Last Plane out of Paris, Part One)	by Paul Moxham March 11, 2012	9882 words	Read a sample
Author bio: Paul Moxham hails from Australia. He has written three novels thus far, two YA and one childrens. The first, The Secret of Smugglers Cove is a childrens adventure book that is set in 1950's Britain and set in the style of Enid Blyton's Famous Five series. His second book, The Florida Chase, a young adult novel, is an action packed novel that is along the lines of The Hardy Boys. The third, Last Plane out of Paris, a young adult novel, follows two British officers as they parachute into France and attempt to rescue and aircraft designer just as Hitler invades the country. He has also written a number of screenplays which led to him being signed to a Los Angeles based manager early in 2011. One of his scripts, Blizzard, won the Gold Prize Award at the 2011 PAGE AWARDS.
Ayos (The Heir With The Crimson Eyes)	by Justin Parks Aug. 15, 2011	38264 words	Read a sample
Author bio: I'm just a man tring to find his way in the world. I'm a dreamer and a writer. I hope you enjoy. . .
Bad Luck Bilby: Can You Survive Him?	by Christopher Stone Feb. 16, 2012	494 words	Read a sample
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Bad Spirits Books 1-5 (The Series)	by DV Berkom June 01, 2011	24174 words	Read a sample
Author bio: DV Berkom grew up in the Midwest, received her BA in Political Science from the University of Minnesota, and promptly moved to Mexico to live on a sailboat. Several years and at least a dozen moves later, she now resides outside of Seattle, Washington with her sweetheart Mark, an ex-chef-turned-contractor, and writes whenever she gets a chance. You're welcome to email her at dvb (at) dvberkom (dot) com or chat with her on Facebook or Twitter- she loves to hear from readers as well as other writers.
Battle for New Thesnia	by Jake Hamilton April 07, 2012	4865 words	Read a sample
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Beds of Kelp	by Dave Riessen April 25, 2012	874 words	Read a sample
Author bio: Dave's work revels with the fanciful, ponders the enigmatic, and examines the human character.
Behind The Nazi Line	by Caleb Donaldson April 01, 2012	1188 words	Sample 10%
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Beyond the Black River Again	by Roberta E. Howard July 03, 2010	22501 words	Read a sample
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