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Esperanza's Way

by Cindy Maynard

Motivated by the memory of her mother dying in her arms, Esperanza resolves that she will one day walk the halls of the Scola Medica at Salerno and train to become a doctor. Fate brought Amika, a talented herbalist, into her life. She rescued the orphaned Esperanza and helped her take her first steps toward gaining the knowledge that would fulfill her dream. Unfortunately, a tragic accident forced Esperanza to flee Amika's home. Her journey toward finding the path to success is littered with stu... more

Freedom's Just Another Word...

by Len Joy

Jake Doyle used to be famous. Twenty years ago, his Chicago political column was syndicated in two hundred papers, but he had an affair — and a son — with his intern, and lost it all. Now he writes a local column and drives for Uber to pay his bills. Jake is playing out the string when his tranquil world is turned upside down. His biracial son — an ambitious entrepreneur — is marked for death by a street gangster, his alcoholic daughter is pregnant and wants an abortion — which his ex-wife... more

Bland Loafer

by Billy McCoy

A young man, the bland loafer, has been traduced because of his special talent and his excessive sense of initiative.

Red Rain

by Lara Bernhardt

Olivia Montag is a professor who doesn’t have all the answers. The devastating loss of a child ended her marriage, and she’s been overlooked for a job promotion one time too many. Not sure what comes next, she leaves it all behind and volunteers to teach English to schoolchildren in India. Ten thousand miles away, she connects with fellow volunteers and finds purpose in teaching. Until one by one the girls in her classes stop showing up. Then she meets Mukesh, an Indian man with a heart for i... more

The Which of Shakespeare's Why

by Leigh Light

The controversy over who really wrote Shakespeare’s plays has been around almost since they were written. Was the genius behind the plays really that obscure glover’s son from Stratford? Or was it someone else entirely—a man whose class, background, education, and peculiarities make him a more than plausible candidate? In The Which of Shakespeare’s Why, a 21st-century playwright named Harry Haines makes the case for a major contender via a play he himself is writing for a struggling New Jerse... more

Chronicle of the Lake

by Roderick Saxey

Chronicle of the Lake is a story about mankind's interaction with nature and how it has changed through time. It starts with two modern scientists playing chess beneath a maple tree next to a lake. They speculate on how previous civilizations regarded the lake and forest and how they made use of the resources around them. Their conversation topics range from primitive hunter-gatherers to classical philosophers to medieval warlords to modern businessmen and developers. The scientists finally find... more

The Greatest Thing

by Patti Flinn

His mother told him he was God's greatest thing. Then he was stolen, sold, shipped to France, and re-named Louis-Benoit Zamor. Stripped of his esteem as efficiently as a fox's coat in a royal hunt, Zamor is reared by Du Barry—with a love as false as her smile—and a king with unsavory proclivities. He soon realizes his mother lied. Because, in this place, King Louis XV is the world's greatest thing, second only to God.

But Zamor was loved, once. This fact, alone, ... more

Saving Madonna

by Kate Bristow

Italy 1943. As the Allies bomb Milan, Elena Marchetti reluctantly gives up her coveted job as an art curator in the city to return to her family farm near Urbino. She takes up a new role assisting Pasquale Rotondi, the Superintendent of Arts in the region, in protecting works of art from all over Italy that have been hidden in the relative safety of the countryside. At a family celebration, Elena reunites with Luca, a close childhood friend. A shattering event instigated by the occupying German... more

The Quest for Avalon

by Nikki Bennett

In a world ravaged by a devastating pandemic, what lengths would you go to ensure the survival of your family? In The Quest for Avalon, follow the harrowing journey of a desperate family barely surviving on America's decimated West Coast. As a new, more sinister outbreak looms, with no vaccine in sight, their only hope lies in a daring plan: escape to a remote, deserted island where they can wait out the deadly contagion and hope for a semblance of civilization to emerge once the storm passes... more

Super Short Stories

by Mark C. Wallfisch

100 stories that are super short. None is more than 300 words. You can read one in a flash. Some are funny. Some are poignant. All are short.

Running As Fast As I Can

by John Graham

Growing up in the mill slums surrounding Pittsburgh, all that Daniel Robinson ever wanted was a family who loved him. Instead, he was ignored by a mother who hid in her room praying to an unseen God, and a drunk for a father who used everyone as a punching bag.

He thought he found love in college with Elizabeth. But she dropped him as soon as someone “with better prospects” came along. Daniel spends the next ten years wandering the country throughout the turbulent 1960&rsquo... more

The Termination of Alek Krasinski

by James McMillan

When terminated from his job of thirty years, Alek Krasinski cannot accept the change in his life and becomes embittered and enraged. Increasingly irrational in the way he regards his situation, he begins exhibiting bizarre behavior and ultimately comes to see himself as fighting for justice against the forces of evil, leading to a dramatic and unexpected climax.

One Perfect Now

by andora henson

One Perfect Now is the story of Sandy Weston’s journey through incredible love and unbearable loss. She embarks on a journey she never wanted to take and along her journey she finds the identity she thought she lost, the strength she hadn’t realized she had, and the courage to walk into the future she always wanted.

Lost Seeds: The Beginning

by Teresa Mosley Sebastian

Lost Seeds is the story of two brothers, Dublin and Timothy Brisco, born into poverty at the turn of the twentieth century to formerly enslaved parents. From birth, they witness firsthand the atrocities their parents had to endure and themselves experience the continued struggles of being Black in the South. Encounters with physical abuse, mental illness, and racism define the brothers’ lives, and despite their best efforts to survive, the seeds of slavery’s wickedness inevitably spawn and lead ... more

COACH 'EM UP!

by JEROME DEBOSE

A Tv Miniseries written in Gorgeous colorful Books.

The Peculiar Affliction of Thomas Wade Duncan: A Dark Tale

by Kip Koelsch

Thomas Wade Duncan lost a leg. A casualty of the bloody Civil War Battle of Antietam, he wants nothing more than to drift into the comfortably numb embrace of his chosen medicine—forgetting his life before the war and the one he’d planned with his fiancée for the aftermath. Instead, the former schoolteacher, stumbles through the world--fading in and out of consciousness and finding himself marooned on a stark, grey New England island at the onset of winter. Detoxing under the care of Mi... more

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