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Superstition Mountain is Theme of New Mystery/Adventure Novel Desert Intrigue - - Linda Weaver Clarke
The lost Dutchman’s goldmine, the great Thunder God, and mysterious events begin to unfold in this new mystery adventure novel. With a blend of mystery, adventure, humor, and sweet romance, Linda Weaver Clarke creates a story based upon the adventures of a married couple and their three... Submitted 14 days ago.

Suicide - Broken Lives - Brianna Popsickle
We’d grown up together and were best friends. Rachel was always smiling and laughing, so much so she earned the nickname, Giggles. We shared a lot over the years. We had long discussions over whether or not Santa was real. We made houses out of cardboard boxes and would go for walks in... Submitted 234 days ago.

After Party: A Short Story - Melissa Swenka
The lights are up, the show is about to start, and no one is more excited than you. Music on the hi-fi system is recycled, created for mass production. You’re in a set of clothing worth more than your life, created by a man you’ll never meet, and whose name you will never be able to... Submitted 263 days 3 hours ago.

Take a Number at the DMV - Marcia Calhoun Forecki
The box suspended from the ceiling of the DMV glowed a digital green. A pattern of small rectangles formed the number 64. I watched intently, waiting to see the rectangles rearrange themselves into 165. "Next." I leapt to the counter in two steps; before the clerk's voice had risen to the... Submitted 2 years 186 days ago.

Why is Sherlock Holmes Timelessly Popular? - - Joel Gray
Very few fictional characters created long ago have remained popular to this day. Tintin, a cartoon character created by Georges Prosper Remi in 1929, has remained popular since its creation (10). One of his Tintin books has been turned into a feature-length Hollywood movie ( The Adventures of... Submitted 176 days 20 hours ago.

Difficult things - Marcia Calhoun Forecki
Blood covers the toes of his shoes. The room is only ten degrees above freezing. He exhales jets of frost from his exertions. A new carcass comes before him. He lifts an electric saw over his head. The trapezius muscle of his upper back excretes a drop of lactic acid. The drop will join with... Submitted 339 days 7 hours ago.

The Curse of Sherlock Holmes - Jack H. Schick
Sherlock Holmes is one of the best known characters in all of world literature. He is by far the most familiar character in English fiction. Holmes has been phenomenally popular since he first appeared in the Strand Magazine in 1887, and solved the case of The Scarlet Letter. Sherlock Holmes is a... Submitted 2 years 82 days ago.

Message From The Missing Piece - - Joyce Dunn
Let me introduce myself. My name is Perfecta. Jenny thinks I'm her missing piece, and keeps desperately looking for me. She is so positive that she is badly flawed without me that she tries to fool people into thinking I'm not missing, that Perfecta is really a part of her. Don't you find it... Submitted 2 years 122 days ago.

Adriana, A Short Story About A Mom Who Feels Ignored - Fran Larson
No, Mother, I don't need you to help me pack. I've called Nadine and she'll be glad to pick up the extra money." "Nadine?" "Yes, mother. Remember she cleaned house for me on a regular basis for a while. It turns out that she's between jobs now, so she'll be glad for the extra cash. She... Submitted 2 years 205 days ago.

A Caring Gesture - Marcia Calhoun Forecki
This one is new. Her touch is lighter and she hesitates before she lifts the blanket to look at what is left of me. I can not see her, of course. I haven't seen any of the others, but I can identify them by their touch, their breathing, and the words they whisper without realizing it. Certainly... Submitted 2 years 208 days ago.

The Humbled - Michael Ramzy
John lives in a very small house on a side street in a mid-size American city. He lives a very unassuming life, by himself, and spends most of his time working on his little garden and his house. He has a vehicle made in America, although to be fair it wasn't so much a buy-American thing as it... Submitted 3 years 167 days ago.

Life, Death And The Mystery of the Broken Mirror - Marty RicKard
My seven-year-old tiptoed into my study, her hands behind her back. Please dont be angry," she sobbed. Whats wrong, Susan?" She showed her hands. I gasped. She held the antique mirror I had given Carol two years before the accident. The mirror was cracked. A thin line curved across the surface... Submitted 4 years 185 days ago.

The Woman, Behind The Character In The Streets, Pushing That Decrepit Grocery Cart! - - elle kynzer
The wheel of the grocery cart was stuck in a crack in the sidewalk, and as the old woman struggled to pull it out she slipped slowly to the cold concrete. Her strength was gone and she wondered if getting up was worth it. Her hair was dark and stringy, and she hadn't bathed in weeks. The cold of... Submitted 131 days ago.

Jules Verne: A Novelist Who Accurately Envisioned the Future - - Joel Gray
The future has been predicted by many people over the years, and some have been quite accurate in their predictions. In December of 1901, an article by Henry Litchfield West included his prediction that, “Aerial cars will ply between great centers of population, arriving and departing on... Submitted 210 days ago.

If a Children’s Book Is Appreciated Also By the Grown-Up - Francesca Tessarollo
They are called children’s books, but very often they are appreciated by a much wider public: also adults like children’s literature! Often considered as a subcategory only addressed to younger readers, children’s books are recently achieving a great success also among those... Submitted 225 days 14 hours ago.

Idaho’s Bear Lake Valley is an Inspiring Country - - Linda Weaver Clarke
Idaho’s Bear Lake Valley is a stunning and tranquil place to visit. Looking down from the crest of the mountain, one may see flat rich meadowland spread out for miles and miles between the mountains, exhibiting more shades of green and yellow than one could ever imagine; and among all this... Submitted 312 days 1 hour ago.

R.a.i.n. (story) - Jesus Villalobos
Amidst the background of the college where I learned to fight not with my hands, but rather with my wits, I met Professor Zoe. It was he who would eventually be the cause of somewhat bizarre incidents in my life which would ultimately lead to a new understanding of life, liberty, and the persuit... Submitted 1 year 77 days ago.

The Not So Beautiful Original Tale Of Sleeping Beauty - - Sydney Harrell
There are many different variants of the tale of Sleeping Beauty, but perhaps the most widely known is the one that the 1959 movie by Walt Disney portrays. Young Aurora has a curse placed upon her by an evil witch named Maleficent. The curse foretells that if Aurora pricks her finger on a... Submitted 1 year 115 days ago.

From Dark Matter to Moby Dick: “All Deified Nature Absolutely Paints Like the Harlot” - Marc Adler
While reading a recent New York Times article about NASA's quest to confirm that dark matter underlies everything in nature, I couldn't help but recall the chapter in Moby Dick called "The Whiteness of the Whale." The Times article explains that Sam Ting, a celebrated scientist and winner of... Submitted 1 year 184 days ago.

O Eve Where Art Thou? - Ella Camp
There have been stories throughout time that have wanted to be told; and yet, the intolerant temper of the times did urge the storyteller to the couching safety of the metaphor, parable and fairytale; which we are now left to decipher through the glass darkly. In this certain time and place- a... Submitted 1 year 291 days ago.

Willa's Ghost - Jack H. Schick
The first sensation was sound, a subdued, dull sound; the rhythmic beating of his heart, a muffled thump...thump...thump in his ears. There was no actual consciousness yet, just the hazy notice of the faint, almost indistinguishable pulsing of involuntary life seething through his veins.... Submitted 2 years 68 days ago.

What Alice Found There: The Question of Lewis Carroll - Jack H. Schick
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, Lewis Carroll, is one of the most complex and controversial figures of Victorian Britain. A renowned mathematician and statistician, an accomplished photographer, an amateur inventor and an Anglican clergyman, Dodgson is, of course, best know for his creations "Alice's... Submitted 2 years 98 days ago.

Wendigo (Tohanny Creek) - Jack H. Schick
The Tohanny Creek began among the thick tufts of grass at the lower end of Mumbaur's cow pasture up behind the old machine shop on the road just north of town. Brian had followed it upstream to there. It emerged from the clumps of grass at the edge of the marshy meadow as a dozen small trickles... Submitted 2 years 144 days ago.

Novel-You'll never know-Part 5 - Mulaykah
"Huh? I turned the question back on to him." Do you have a woman? "Actually, I don't, "But I did ask you first. Well, actually, yes, kind of. "You kind of ? "Have a man, I finished his sentence and my own. "Well what's this kind of thing all about? Andre asked suspiciously. ... Submitted 2 years 298 days ago.

Novel-You'll never know-Part 3 - Mulaykah
I was sitting pretty unlike he had seen me before, my braids were gone replaced by long flowing dark brown hair, and dirty pants replaced by a black fitted dress, that showed all of my glorious curves, and they were glorious to me, seeing how I was so straight up and down for years. My nails... Submitted 2 years 298 days ago.