PLA
Dirt Nap in Santa Barbara is a cheerful mystery, as close to the noir detective genre as any mystery set in Santa Barbara can expect to be.
Scott Grossman
This is how it all starts, my rationale for literary evisceration. Sometimes it hurts more to keep it in.
Scott Grossman
Excerpt from a memoir detailing the train-wreck that was my childhood. My goal here is to win publication in literary journals. It encompasses my life up to age seven. Pass slowly, be sure to gawk.
Jaw327
A boozy look at an interaction between a guy and a girl at the bar one night and how expectation and reality stack up against one another.
Misty_Reader
Chap3 follows Fallon to Waterbury where we encounter allies and perhaps a love interest.
Chap 4 brings us back Piper and her adventures with twins and a magical wooden spoon.
SokainStorm
This is the first two chapters of a book that has no name yet. The main characters are Sokain, a race of people in my world. Hayden is the crown prince of them and has a lot to learn to become king.
Hannes Hummus H...
The Skyborn says farewell to her fiancé before riding into war in the rebelheld swamps of Baski
Hannes Hummus H...
A general returns home from war to find his youngest brother missing
Hannes Hummus H...
Leve has set out before the break of dawn looking for his fourteen year old brother at a brothel when he overhears a sailor talking to his slaves
Ekate
In a world similar to ours not everything is what it seems. A drifter is looking for peace and tranquillity while chased by a military organisation; she has to use all her skills to hide and survive.
Misty_Reader
Fallon Thatcher begins her journey to trade with other survivors of the Flares.
McBryde
This is part of a novel geared toward YA/Middle Grades - Chapters 1 & 2 introduced Evie and gave some background - she's lost her best friend but is excited due to a party invitation...
McBryde
First 2 chapters of a novel for Middle Grades/YA. Evie is finding navigating middle school challenging, especially since she doesn’t seem to fit in and has just lost her best friend.
Misty_Reader
Prologue to my first novel, Seventh Fire.
The Universe has come full circle. Myths, legends, magic, and mayhem are in abundance as the dimensional barriers between our reality and our past collide.
BellaL
Tia's past and future are turned upside down when she joins the world of witches, warlocks and demons to develop her own powers and try to take her place beside the Coven's Leader.
Ninanna Fox
Approx: Chapter 1 of a M/M version of Beauty and the Beast. If you have no idea what the tag M/M means I suggest you look it up before going into this.
Sarah Shafer
possible 1st chapter of a short story I'm trying to turn into a futuristic dis-topia novella.
dollface993
A mom tries to draw the line while helping her children conduct prank phone calls
Nick Tardive
The President of What Was, newly elected and frustrated at a century of inaction by the Federal Government, is determined to take back what used to be America. Starting with New Orleans.
BGKinney
Nazi Germany, 1941: As World War II grips Europe, a young SS officer working in Berlin discovers that his girlfriend back home in Bavaria has disappeared.
Hanna Wattendorff
Girl meets boy on vacation in Thailand. Hiking on an island, they get lost and spend a night in the jungle.
bethwenn
Excerpt from a longer work. The drug-addicted, shellshocked son of a New York mobster wanders through dark psychological fairytale territory on acid.
Nick J Jones
The summer of '98 saw a horrific series of events bring four children together in friendship.
But now only three remain and the forth lies dead in his coffin.