Novelette Stories

"O'Donnell builds a world both enticing and unsettling...The City remains full of surprises at every turn." -JRD Skinner, "Flashpulp" Winner of The 2017 Ooorah Award for Best Cyberpunk! WELCOME TO THE CITY... The City is a place beyond the real world. Created and controlled by the titanic Midas Corporation, The hyper-realistic virtual environment is the capital of an empire without borders, outside the reach of terrestrial law enforcement. When controlling interest in the company is sold to a mysterious new player, The City breaks down, trapping millions inside with feral, zombie-like avatars. And the infection is spreading. It falls to the Daytrippers, teenage hackers and rebels who don't play by Midas' rules, to save The City, and the world. A drabble novella told from one hundred and forty different points of view, The City is like no place you've ever seen before.

Arche Felion looked at Icarus Melgren the same way he viewed the stars on their rooftops-the same as Daedalus' Icarus viewed the sun-with adoration and pining for something beyond the mundane and something so out of reach. But like his winged namesake, Icarus Melgren should have known better than to fly too close to a sun, for Arche, the moon, was far more graspable than any star in the sky. -a novelette- -a Literary Lounge Gen 3 2022 Entry-

The Stray Society have been living in the abandoned house next to The Coulee for years, making it their home and fiercely protecting it and each other. One day, an evil presence enters the home, threatening their very existence. Will The Stray Society be able to save their beloved home, or will everything they've come to know and love be destroyed, along with them?

Lemao's finally free from the grips of middle school. Her label as a reject not as daunting anymore. She's moving onto a new challenge: Surviving high school. But this time she's on her own, no friends in sight. The silver lining this time? She's prepared. Or, she was, until a group of boys found their way into her life. Not leaving despite the dangers Lemao's current life possesses. She's eager to keep them around as much as she's eager to shoo them away. In the end, what will she do? https://www.tumblr.com/reject-cast-dakotafinely

The life of Minerva McGonagall as seen through teachers, students, friends, and lovers. A collection of short tales of a legendary creature native to the Highlands of Scotland.

An adaptation of the first episode of the Shannara Chronicles, blending lore and info from both Elfstones of Shannara and the show.

Life is normal for Ruby in the pretty, rural jungle. She plays with her sister. She helps her mother cook. But her heart weighs heavy with grief when a deadly virus plagues her father, forcing her to go hunting without him. ​Hope seems lost, and Ruby shuns all beckons that Jesus is good, even when her sister finds a mysterious book about him. But when her father's condition worsens, she finds herself on a mission to find an American doctor abiding in a tree fort. The trek is difficult. Wildlife isn't helping. Ruby and her sister are chased by angry gorillas who seem to be upset she killed one of theirs. To make matters worse, a raging river and sucking mud is dividing them from their destination. Ruby's sister becomes her top priority when a deadly anaconda separates the two. And even though she tries to ignore it, someone seems to be watching them. Protecting them. Maybe her doubts about Jesus were wrong. And maybe she needs him more than she thinks. Especially, if he can help her survive the jungle and get the medicine back home.

She has her favorite word, her most cherished pen, and her laptop-her personal bank of thoughts. She drifts into a trance, often lost in the vivid corners of her imagination. Yet somehow, she always remembers to smile at me, gently asking about my own favorites. My answer never changes: the lines we walk through, hand in hand, getting lost in every verse she writes. Oh, to be loved by a writer. UNO X DENILLE

My english is so bad ! Then, I try to rise my level with short stories ! I would like that you help me. How ? Correct me ! Thank you !

Xade, Cosette, and Allura go to the carnival for a fun day only to find the ringmaster is using real fae magic to run his show. He captures the three Faeries and forces them to perform in his show but they're not about to bat their wings and toss faery dust at his command. Xade is not only Fae but has the blood of a goddess and Allura honed her skills in centuries of war and Cosette will not stand idly by while her friends are in danger. The ringmaster picked the wrong ring of Faeries Word Count: 6786 Written for the Spring Fiesta Short Story Competition hosted by a @YAFantasy profile Prompts 5 Prompt 11 (Prompt 11 not listed on submission form but is listed on prompt list)

Locals swear that evil spirits inhabit Flannan Isle, where three lighthouse keepers vanished, leaving cryptic clues behind. Before Merlin became a famous magitech inventor, he was a young magus with a dark secret. Solving the baffling lighthouse mystery with one of his gadgets could secure the launch of his career. That is if the world is ready to handle what he uncovers. *** Inspired by the real-life mysteries of the Flannan Isle Lighthouse disappearance, Bennington Triangle folklore, and a prompt for Sci-Fi Holiday Contest: "We all know a time machine can't be built. But what if there was a camera that allowed filming events in the past?" This short story is a standalone prequel to The Netherspawn Series.

Robbie dreams of being a singer, but his social anxiety threatens to twist the dream into a nightmare. So instead he settles with being a ghostwriting lyricist. At least his songs are still being heard, right? But then comes along Rachel, a mute guitarist with a personality loud enough to shake up his entire world, and now Robbie has to question what being "heard" really means. As Rachel helps him find his voice, he can't stop himself from falling for her rockstar charm. But the language barrier is not the only obstacle: as always, his social anxiety urges him to stay where it's safe. Will he really be able to live up to the band's name and be Louder than Words?

Far into the future, an unstoppable alien force is unleashed on the Terran Collective. Its origins and motives are unknown, it makes no attempt at communication, and it seems that it will stop at nothing to obliterate all matter in Terran Collective space. Will these be the final days of humanity? Pandora Unlocked: Interstellar Black is a novelette that accompanies an album of the same name.

The entry spot for the second annual Dragon's Hoard fantasy writing competition!

Lady Alexandrina Charlene Stuart is the heiress to the Dukedom of Lennox Territory on Star Base 12, and she is the eldest child and only daughter of Lord Alexander Charles Stuart and Lady Josephine Isabella Habsburg, Duke and Duchess of Lennox Territory of Star Base 12.

A comic script adaptation of The Legend of Zelda; Ocarina of Time.

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Roman Stryker made a promise to himself as a child that he would never tell a lie. From that day on, he's felt physical pain anytime he or someone around him wasn't telling the truth. Many years have passed since that day, and at this point in his life, Roman is out as gay to everyone he knows but his parents. He knows they'll never understand, but when his partner Jerome asks one day to take a trip to visit Roman's parents, Roman knows he can't refuse. It would hurt him and Jerome both.

I had been granted the gift of hearing music in all its beauty, for music is truly magnificent in its way. Every melody holds a soul that is unable to see, yet can always be heard.