Did You Never Dream of Flying?

Did You Never Dream of Flying?

R. J. Davnall

R. J. Davnall

Atla's training was far from complete when he was recruited by Pevan to help her rescue her brother. Now he's got to find a safe route through the Second Realm to the Court of the Children of the Wild, and along for the trip is Chag Van Raighan, still the most wanted man in the First Realm.A modern adaptation of Aesop's Fable The Lion and The Mouse. Neil is a typical high school freshman. He follows the rules and hangs out with his friends. Neil also has a bully problem. Dennis is a senior with some anger issues. Dennis likes to make Neil's life hellish. When Dennis gets into some trouble of his own, it's up to Neil to help him out.
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Saving Dennis

Saving Dennis

Michele Cathers

Michele Cathers

A modern adaptation of Aesop's Fable The Lion and The Mouse. Neil and Dennis play out the fable in a high school setting.A modern adaptation of Aesop's Fable The Lion and The Mouse. Neil is a typical high school freshman. He follows the rules and hangs out with his friends. Neil also has a bully problem. Dennis is a senior with some anger issues. Dennis likes to make Neil's life hellish. When Dennis gets into some trouble of his own, it's up to Neil to help him out.
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Overcoming Challenges in Business and Your Self-Image

Overcoming Challenges in Business and Your Self-Image

Olufolake Stephen Adams

Olufolake Stephen Adams

Overcoming challenges in Business is a very powerful book to help, inspire, motivate and encourage new Entrepreneurs who are just starting new businesses and for those who have started and a stuck on the way and perhaps they closed up.It is to ROLL your sleeve once more as there is still hope.Learn the how in this book.Overcoming challenges in Business is a very powerful book to help, inspire, motivate and encourage new Entrepreneurs who are just starting new businesses and for those who have started and a stuck on the way and perhaps they closed up.It is to ROLL your sleeve once more as there is still hope.Challenges can either mar or make your self image in your business that you may NOT even believe in yourself any more. Reproach,ridicule and rejection can play a great deal in this.But once you know how to overcome those obstacles, your self image is boosted and you are on fire again and unstoppable.In a simple and practical steps,the Author presents the various obstacles faced in starting a new business and WHAT TO DO TO OVERCOME.in the book, you will learn:1. The Real reason why you should start your business, not because someone started it.2. The tenets or laws that govern business and how to use it to grow your business.3. The challenges faced in starting a business and the solution.4. How to build your self image with your business and lots more.it is a book worth looking into, to grow in starting your business.it will teach you the precaution you should know before launching out!STOP, READ THIS BOOK, BEFORE STARTING THAT BUSINESS!
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Lightship Chronicles Chapter 3 : The Fruity Dance

Lightship Chronicles Chapter 3 : The Fruity Dance

Florin Nicoara

Florin Nicoara

Chapter 3 : Fruity Dance Andee and Nayaa get lost in the warehouse district where their lives are almost cut short, when they encounter something truly weird before making their escape. Later they finally reach the Prave. At first it's all fun and games, dancing to the beat with the live action 3D anime characters such as light-fairies and 3D whirls that are the light show of the club.But the fun turns a twist as Andee has a mysterious encounter with a Bitani light-fairy, the sensuous Silestra, while Nayaa invents the fruity dance, to poor Gono's dismay. Lightship Chronicles is a young adult adventure set on a mysterious world. Carpatia is a harsh desert land, but one with spectacular vistas and populated by two very different yet resilient people, the Carpati and the Bitani. Both believe in competing myths of their history. Myths of great ancient battles fought over by a clan of mysterious Sacred Warriors against magical Light-Fairies. Under the glowing warmth of their red-giant sun, it's easy for the Carpati to believe in their beautiful myths. They spend most of their long 36 hour days living a simple farming lifestyle in the Township built on the lower slopes of the mighty Table Mountain. The Bitani meanwhile rule over the Carpati from their futuristic city atop the massive pillar-like tabletop of a mountain, and have a very different, and quite mysterious perspective. For the Carpati the only respite from the drudgery of their simple days are the monthly lightship races. The hovering lightships speed at more than 700kph over a 600km course that runs up the sides of mesas, through the canyons of the Crags, over the 10m waves of the Great Salt sea, over the Long Straight, the Dunes, and through the Eastern Hills and its many giant Baobab threes. It's a spectacular race unlike anything else and the favorite pastime of Andee and his little brother Mykee. Both dream of being lightship pilots while watching the race from their favorite hangout, the 1000m high Outcrop overlooking The Crags. Join the adventure now, because this is growing into an epic tale years into the making. Visit LightshipChronicles.com for more in depth details of the race circuit, including images of the course, the outcrop, and the lightships.
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The Glittering Dark: and other stories of the goblin world

The Glittering Dark: and other stories of the goblin world

Jaq D. Hawkins

Science Fiction & Fantasy / Literature & Fiction / Religion & Spirituality

Dark Fantasy story of a post-apocalyptic encounter with ancient creatures of legend. From the collection Meat for the Storytelling: Stories of the goblin world.Dark Fantasy story of a post-apocalyptic encounter with ancient creatures of legend. From the collection Meat for the Storytelling: Stories of the goblin world.A man wanders into the old underground transportation system tunnels and is captured by hostile creatures and taken into the darkest reaches of an underground cavern system. Slowly his vision adjusts to the minimal light from crystal reflections in the stone and he begins to see his captors, but would he have been better off to remain blinded by the darkness?
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Samus' World: The Series (Season 1)

Samus' World: The Series (Season 1)

Edwin Betancourt

Gay and Lesbian / Fantasy / Fiction

An openly Gay Entertainment Writer named Samus Ortiz is fed up with his position at an LGBTQ Newspaper Outlet and decides to pitch the idea of writing a Dating column geared towards Gay men. He is given a deadline of five weeks by his boss. He goes on various dates with men he meets online and writes about them. Unfortunately, one date could change or end his life!After a date goes awry, openly Gay Entertainment Writer, Samus Ortiz pitches an idea for his own Dating column geared towards Gay men. Arguing that not all Gay men want hookups and many want to date and find love, he decides the better way to represent this would be for him to go on first dates with men he meets online and write about them. He is given a trial run of five weeks by his boss who is reluctant about the entire idea. While each date gets more awkward than the next, on the fifth and final week of his trial run, something happens to Samus that could change or end his life! Samus' World is written like a screen play with six episodes containing a major cliffhanger that will entertain readers from beginning to end. It also sheds light on everyday issues Gay men face like: Masculinity VS Femininity, Self esteem issues, body issues, monogamy, HIV and trying to find love.(TO THE READERS!: Thank you so much for taking interests in this book. Please if you have any questions concerning the characters, usage of the dialogues or even if you want to discuss this story please do not hesitate to either email me or Tweet me-all in my information is on the last page! I have been keeping this book under lock and key for so long and I am dying to talk to people about it!!! Thank you again!)
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A Story in a Flash - A Collection of 300 Word Flashfiction Stories

A Story in a Flash - A Collection of 300 Word Flashfiction Stories

Michael Drake

Business

A Collection of 50 Flash-fiction stories by Michael Drake. Each story is exactly 300 words in length. Mostly science fiction, fantasy or fractured fairy tales.A Collection of 50 Flash-fiction stories by Michael Drake. Each story is exactly 300 words in length. So you always know what you are getting into. Mostly science fiction, fantasy or fractured fairy tales (you may find yourself going back to the original fairy tales to get all the references). You'll find adventure, comedy and drama. Standing in line, sitting on the bus, on a lunch break or just need to kill some time, these stories are perfect for those who only have a few minutes at a time to read but want a story, in a flash.
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Winter of the Crystal Dances

Winter of the Crystal Dances

Angela Dorsey

Fiction / Fantasy / Children's

Evy can telepathically understand horses, a “gift” that enables her to rescue a mustang filly from certain death. Now can she let the filly she loves return to the wild?Evy can telepathically understand horses, but she’s not sure if it’s a blessing or a curse. Her secret “gift” certainly seems to get her in a lot of trouble. When some starving mustangs wander close to the wilderness cabin that she shares with her hermit mother she knows she must help them. Her act of kindness quickly snowballs into a series of events that forever changes her life and the life of a very special mustang filly.
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Behind Her Eyes

Behind Her Eyes

RB Schalin

Thriller / Suspense

John meets his dream girl and what starts off as a beutiful relationship soon turns dark. Brooke has a family secret and when it shows it's dark side John and his family is in deadly danger.John is a regular sixteen year old who falls in love with a girl,but it doesn’t take long until he notices her darker sides at the same time she becomes more obsessed with him.Brooke is a victim of incest but has her own dark desires,and when she meets John, she knows he is the only one who can replace who shelost so many years ago.Behind Her Eyes tells the story of a dark family secret andmisplaced love.
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Scheralt: Marooned

Scheralt: Marooned

Marel Lenmen

Marel Lenmen

Marissa and the traders arrive on the planet Ninovan to trade for crystals. A simple trade but nothing is simple on Ninovan. They find there is no trading at the spaceport. Instead, the crew must travel to a native Trade Center. The natives hate offworlders. Xeres want something from the natives. Marissa finds herself caught between the natives, the military, Xeres, and the rest of the traders.The big corporations have a monopoly on the lucrative planetary trade along the densely traveled trade routes. The Celeste travels on the fringes with the lucky exception of a trade permit recently acquired by the captain. He refuses to tell how he managed to obtain the permit just as he refuses to tell his sources for the cargoes. Thus, it is no surprise that traders consider the Scheralt system as dangerous and a morass for ships. The captain outlines the trade to be a simple short stop. The Celeste is to trade ore for crystals. Problems arise before the crew even lands on the planet. With magnetic storms capable of destroying the ship, Captain Jerupt must drop the crew then break orbit moving to the star system’s perimeter to avoid the magnetic stormsAfter landing, the crew finds they must travel to the native's trade centers to trade for the crystals. The transportation is primitive riding on animals unpleasant normally but exhausting for the crew caused by the planet’s gravity being nearly double the ship's gravity. The trade will just take longer to complete but more than just trade is being plotted and everyone has a separate agenda.The starport commander under the guise of improving port and native relations plants a spy with the traders. Xeres Corporation manipulates and bribes the traders into spying for them. Xeres Corporation wants to learn the shielding manufacturing secretes and to takeover the natives processing plants. The natives, Klarn, will not trade with the Xeres Corporation or cooperate on any level. The other faction is the Kirch. The Kirch came into existence from the Klarn that Xeres forced to work in their plant. They avoid offworlders and hate all offworders wanting them eliminated from the planet.Celeste's crew finds themselves caught in the middle of a power struggle. Xeres Corporation is more than willing to kill to achieve their goals. The natives are defending their sovereignty. The commander wants promoted off the planet and is willing to sacrifice anyone to achieve her goals. The Celeste's crew wants to live long enough to get off the planet. Who will win? The power struggle divides the crew and tests their loyalties. One thing is for certain, trade is not anyone's primary goal.
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Short Scripts Collection One: Thirteen Short, Original Screenplays

Short Scripts Collection One: Thirteen Short, Original Screenplays

Richard Alexander Hall

Richard Alexander Hall

Thirteen wacky, original, short screenplays, including the one-pager-most-violent-highest-deaths-to-time-ratio film script ever, "The End!"Thirteen wacky, original, short screenplays:THE END: This script for a five-second film (and the film produced from it) is the most violent film script EVER, as measured by a number of deaths to film length ratio!A PERFECT WORLD: The NSA has nothing on you, your Boss, and your boogers.CHERISH THE BACON: Cherish it, Jimmy.GREATER MINDS: With whom do our post-apocalyptic discoverers sympathize, and are they indeed superior?IN THE FOUL SACRILIGE OF THY OATH: Santa?TIME TRAVEL MOUTH: What?!FLAVOR ARCHEOLOGY What??!THE FOOD TRILOGY, EPISODE I: TACO: Paulo believes that song may alter the menu.THE FOOD TRILOGY, EPISODE II: HAMBURGER: Ethan also believes that song may alter the menu.APPLICANT TO HELL: An anonymous victim of Hell's lower echelons examines the contract more closely.THE OTHER: What???!THE CRIME OF PASSION: What results when the Traveler introduces Beethoven to music from beyond his time?THE DARK LORD SINGS, EPISODE I: THE SWIPED AIRS: Darth Sonar discovers and recites the secret lyrics to the STAR WARS saga.
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That Year

That Year

M.J. Fontana

M.J. Fontana

Freshman Matt James attempts to unite his high school to bring down the villainous Joey FontaneQuiet and reserved student Matt James is preparing to start his high school career. Though anxious about beginning high school and getting closer to entering "the real world", he feels at ease knowing that he won't be facing high school alone, until his first true love Victoria unsuspectingly breaks up with him a week before the new year begins. Matt will be tested in his freshman year as he tries to unite the school against drug dealer Joey Fontane and his gang, who have control of the school out of fear. Uniting the school against Fontane won't be easy and will test him and the entire school, but stopping Fontane is something that must be done. Only question is at what cost and how far do you go in an attempt to do what's right?
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Death of the Magpie

Death of the Magpie

William McMurray

William McMurray

In this second story of McMurray’s trilogy, Janet Gordon, a young professor of biology, has been invited to a prestigious conference to present her work on the isolation of a cell growth factor. A recently appointed colleague, a “hot shot” protein chemist,who has helped to purify the growth factor turns out to have some unpleasant personality traits which lead to a tragic consequenceFrom Jan Moran, the author of The Winemakers from St. Martin’s Press, comes a riveting novella that’s as rich and irresistible as a fine cabernet wine.Napa Valley, 1956: Years ago, after Juliana Cardona’s fiancé was killed in an army ambush, she didn’t know if she could ever find the strength to risk love again. Now Juliana, who has a passion for winemaking, is determined to build her own business as a wine publicist and create an independent life. But when Juliana holds a press event in San Francisco, she meets a mysterious winemaker, Henri Laurent, who is everything she never thought she’d find again. However, Juliana is shocked to discover that Henri is hiding a long-buried secret that threatens to devastate their budding relationship. In order to find happiness and the life she’d once thought was gone forever, she must find the strength to uncover tragedies and face the troubled past with the man she loves—but only if her heart can risk the chance of love once more.Life is a Cabernet is a companion novella to The Winemakers, a full-length historical romance novel from St. Martin's Press.“Absolutely adored THE WINEMAKERS. Beautifully layered and utterly compelling. Intriguing from start to finish. A story not to be missed.” – Jane Porter, USA Today and NYT Bestselling author of It’s You and The Good Woman“Readers will devour this page-turner as the mystery and passions spin out. VERDICT: A solid pick for fans of historical romances combined with a heartbreaking mystery.” – The Library Journal
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Nothing Left of Engle

Nothing Left of Engle

Greg Wilburn

Greg Wilburn

Renee Engle never expected to be bitten, to become a monster. But when five year old Jenny clamped rotten jaws onto her left wrist, the infection couldn't help but take hold. Jake couldn't understand, only able to slow the transformation as much as possible. And as the woman he loved turned into a monster from her own nightmares, there would soon be nothing left of Engle.The moon is falling. The shift is tearing apart the transportation infrastructure, and the population is stricken with "moon sickness" - literal lunacy.Charlotte, Lawton, and Fisk are friends. They met in a writing workshop when the news of the moon's fall was only mentioned on the late-night conspiracy shows. While lunar cults pray for the intense celestial coitus of Luna's impact with Earth, all Fisk wants is Charlotte.MOON SICK is a surreal short story by Aniko Carmean, author of MIXED MEDIA and STOLEN CLIMATEs.
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When Cithians Attack

When Cithians Attack

Wyatt Jaymes

Fiction

what if you had the power to shoot beams of power out of your hands? Skyrid was just an autistic boy until Cithians attacked his hometown, Siraka. Unknown to Skyrid, there is power inside him just waiting to come out. What will happen when his power is released? And, will Siraka ever be return to it's former glory?The moon is falling. The shift is tearing apart the transportation infrastructure, and the population is stricken with "moon sickness" - literal lunacy.Charlotte, Lawton, and Fisk are friends. They met in a writing workshop when the news of the moon's fall was only mentioned on the late-night conspiracy shows. While lunar cults pray for the intense celestial coitus of Luna's impact with Earth, all Fisk wants is Charlotte.MOON SICK is a surreal short story by Aniko Carmean, author of MIXED MEDIA and STOLEN CLIMATEs.
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