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Under The Bakula Blossoms

Sometimes, what defines love for everyone else may not be our way. But love always finds it's way. Today, she walked down the same lane, after a very long time. The Bakula still stands there, just ...

Dance Of The Damned : Midnights Requiem Book 1

Can Gods know love? Fear? Pain? What of the fae? What are the fae? Can predators love? Do cattle care? Look within for the answer and new questions to amuse.

Uprising

A short poetic story about a populace who went through the uprising ritual. A populace who dreamt, a populace who hoped and a populace that marched forward bravely.

The Picking of Aurora Richter

Aurora Richter’s life was always predestined. According to her mother, Aurora will be a Light witch. Exactly like the other witches from the long line of Richters before her. This year it’s Aurora...

MEHJABEEN

Blessed with a good life and the perfect lover, with the crown prince of Elffenda, Edwina couldn't be happier. On a trip date with her adoring childhood love, she is convinced that everything is ex...

Better Devils

Rachel "Wreck" Reckland is a Private Detective for Ordained Occult Services. She bound the Hellhound Rook to her, and now ex-lovers, Rachel must still rely on him for her power. Inseparable, they...

Ballad of Cassidy

Cassidy Bullock travels around post Civil War America. Horrors wait in every shadow, and monsters haunt the dark corners of the Wild West. After the horrors of the Civil War and death of his fami...

JORDAN BOYS' LEGACY

The Jordan Boys’ were created out of hatred. Justice was served, Lives were put at stake, A lot was lost, And a lot was gained, Not much survived, But one promise will be fulfilled. The Jordan...

Our Eternal Love - Published

Power, possession, and a shattered concept of Love. A crime story that tells the different tales of three women and the struggling mind of a guilt-ridden detective, who is trying to avenge them. ...

Tempting Trouble

Claire Lions has three rules: work hard, stay out of drama, and never, ever trust Andy Stephenson. For as long as she can remember, Andy has been the definition of trouble—loud, cocky, and always ...

'Gone Swimming'

'Gone' Swimming is a 2016 unpublished English novel by two 5th Graders. It details the story of two young girls named Mariya and Angelina who sneaks out of detention and tries to investigate on the...

The Retired Detectives Club: See No Evil

Meet retired police detective Robert Raines. After devoting forty-three years of his life to serving and protecting the streets of Chicago, he has called it a career. But good cop instincts die har...

Purple Haze

After the nurse administered the second dose of the Covid vaccine, I stood up quite disoriented from the black chair behind the CVS pharmacy divider. I stumbled back home during one of the hottest ...

Status Quo

A strange new creature of the night emerges, consuming citizens indiscriminately. At the heart of shifting political turmoil, some folks try to make sense of the thing that haunts their nights.

Lucky Manny

Antihero Manny works at Lucky's, a gas station located in Hartsville, South Carolina. He offers nothing but kindness and smiles to customers, but secretly, he hides a bad habit. And let's just say ...

SEND TO KILL

This mysterious man, the newborn killer had the best training one can get, he’s an expert in stealth, and what made it worst is that Abigail knew him too, so it was hard to notice that he was actu...

The Soul Eater

This is also one of my older style of writing from the web novels. 10 years earlier, Jason drives down a dark deserted road on his way home from a birthday party, when he sees a red haired woman w...

Dropping The Peppermint

What if the entire history of how World War Two concluded is a lie? We follow Marshall a former advertising executive turned OSS spy as he discovers the truth behind the war's most guarded secret I...

Dead Angels

A young woman turns up dead but there is something unusual in the way her body has been left. Disturbingly, the blood on this body isn't the victim's. Detective Jay Fox is on the case with his part...

Little, Pretty Assassin

"Little, Pretty Assassin: I’m a Vampire" (Book 3) Dylan, her cat Matilda and grandmother are forced to leave Kyiv that night. That night there were neither stars nor moon in the sky, complete darkn...

Transparent Sunrise

“Transparent Sunrise: I’m a Vampire” (Book 2) Dylan is planning to visit her best friend’s wedding. During travelling across Europe, she confides her thoughts to her diary. However, another reality...

In the Embrace of Darkness

“In the Embrace of Darkness: I’m a Vampire” (Book 1) Disappointed with her boyfriend, Dylan flirts with an attractive new teacher of foreign literature, Mr. Wellington. Greg easily reciproca...