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SAND SHARK
Two boys who want to escape their difficult home lives borrow a metal detector
4Literary fiction
The Rock Fortress
A mischievous boy rides the trains across Sri Lanka, in search of purpose and meaning in life.
26Literary fiction
Little Girl
This is a story about a girl who is coming-of-age and breaking free from the comforts of childhood.
19Coming-of-age / Young adult fiction
Another Mourning
A man wakes up and wonders if human faults like a genetic traits circulate amidst generations.
7Crime / Suspense / Mystery / Thriller
Once upon a palace
Lana lives in a country manor with her family until she is invited, along with other girls of nobility, to the palace. It is a...
7Action / Adventure
The Karma Chronicles - Book Excerpt
This is a piece of a completed manuscript I have written, called 'The Karma Chronicles.' It follows the story of these powerful...
129Fantasy / Sci-fi
First Love Daydreams
The strongest force known to man would still never be enough to extinguish the fire set by that of your first love.
2Romance / Women's fiction
Flight Path - Chapter 1
The second in a series of books following two women, ex-military intelligence operators, now Private Investigators.
3Crime / Suspense / Mystery / Thriller
Illusory Control
As a man suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder, Silas is imprisoned by his own anxieties. When he begins to fall in love...
2Paranormal fiction / Magic realism
The day she ended
a young girl is taken from her mother whilst on holiday.
3Crime / Suspense / Mystery / Thriller
<Wards of the Shadowkin> Ch. 1 Part 1.
Two revolutionaries, Fellius and Raven, prepare to destroy the Porkibus estate.
0Fantasy / Sci-fi
Cultural Divide
Henry revisits the guilt he feels over his betrayal of Danica, a foreign student from the same birthplace as his mother.
5Literary fiction
Sudden Handcuffs
Genre is not exactly accurate: this is a very short story which I would call slice-of-life realism. The story is told in English,...
1Romance / Women's fiction
Best Week Ever
A young woman deals with life's frustrations in a unique way.
4Crime / Suspense / Mystery / Thriller
A Good Drying Day
Elaine and her sister have to break some tragic news to their mother
8Action / Adventure
A Tiger Called Amnesia
Struggling with nominal amnesia an elderly woman is in turn confused and confuses others with the unexpected coming and going...
0Flash fiction
Homecoming (a Translation)
An unnamed female protagonist describes her thoughts and emotions upon coming back to her hometown, which has been ravaged by...
11Literary fiction
Revenge is Necessary and Very Sweet
If you lost the love of your life - what would you do? A gruesome murder is the beginning leading to a trail of mysterious deaths....
4Crime / Suspense / Mystery / Thriller
Hell Found Me
"Hell Found Me" is a writing prompt given to me and I wanted to challenge myself into writing completely outside of my genre,...
4Paranormal fiction / Magic realism
Silence
A man has never met silence.
18Literary fiction