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Messenger of the Night

Denise Glickler

It's 1940 in Poland and young Golda has just turned 18. Her family has been taken without her to the ghetto, she's alone and scared, but determined to help rescue them, and other Jewish people, in any manner she can. Her adventure begins when she ...

GOD ATE MY LUNCH

E. C. Wells

A story of child abuse and its horrific consequences.

The Time Free Zone

Gregory J. McKenzie

This is a fast story about something that may or may not exist outside our galaxy.

Smile for the Coup D'état

Sean R. Cameron

Broke, drunk, and caught up in the mayhem of a military coup d'état in Thailand, Peter and his dangerously charismatic friend, Joseph, pursue destructive obsessions. But the crimes that they have committed together become increasingly hard to hid...

Duvall Osteen: Advice from an Agent

Duvall Osteen, Literary Agent from Aragi in NY, gives the lowdown on agenting with some gems of advice for aspiring writers.

Roadkill

A bizzare encounter on a back road leads to both tragedy and regret. A short story from my collection (published here) entitled "The Comfort of Secrets"

GOD ATE MY LUNCH

E. C. Wells

This is a fictional autobiography about an abused child.

The Memory Bones

Amanda O'Callaghan

This short story was a finalist in the Carmel Bird Short Story Award, selected by Amanda Lohrey (2012). An elderly lady, afflicted with dementia, reveals the answer to a decades-long murder mystery.

The Paper House: First Chapter

Anna Spargo-Ryan

Heartbreaking, fearless, and ablaze with a coruscating beauty all its own, The Paper House tells the story of a woman sinking into the depths of grief, and the desperate efforts of her loved ones to bring her up for air. A sharp-eyed, bittersweet ...

Julia

Heider Broisler

Psychiatrist Robert does not believe in intimate relationships; that is, until he meets Julia, an enigmatic and seductive book publisher. They fall in love and end up kissing passionately at a gazebo in the park at the end of a rainy day... Julia ...

The Life To Come

Michelle de Kretser

The dazzling new novel from Michelle de Kretser, recently shortlisted for The Stella Prize. 'I so much admire Michelle de Kretser's formidable technique ... she can create a sweeping narrative which encompasses years, and yet still retain the shar...

Mossy's Family

Gregory J. McKenzie

This is a prequel to my first book SNIPERS! It tells a Christmas story about the birth of the youngest character in the first two books of the SNIPER series. There is a young woman, well young in Twenty-First Century terms, an older man but not to...

my abbr.d life- the story of the story

Michael Giacometti

This essay tells the fraught history of the microfiction, my abbr.d life. The following essay was originally published by Spineless Wonders in Cracking The Spine: ten short Australian stories and how they were written.

ADNARCHY

At home Kevin is a reluctant carer for his brother; on the street he's a suburban soldier, armed with an Artline

The Revolution of the Moon

Andrea Camilleri

From one of Italy's greatest living writers comes remarkable account of an exceptional woman who rises to power in 17th century Sicily and brings about sweeping changes that threaten the iron-fisted patriarchy, before being cast out in a coup afte...

Sweet Emptiness

Roger Wells

Oliver is a wealthy artist known for his perfectly crafted paintings. Now he cannot work anymore and we find him drunkenly destroying his marriage and reputation as he waits for the muse to return. Helen is a retired ex-cop. Morbidly obese and s...

The Paper House: Grace

Anna Spargo-Ryan

A deleted scene from The Paper House (Picador 2016).

The Gulf - Chapter 1

Anna Spargo-Ryan

Skye’s sixteen, and her mum’s got yet another new boyfriend. Trouble is, Jason’s bad news. Really bad. Now Mum’s quit her job and they’re all moving north to Port Flinders, population nobody.

A Night in Castro

Osvaldo Quintanilla

A short piece about on a small town I visited years ago called Castro, Chile.

A Serialized Killer

The most successful serial killer ever, or so she maintains, writes a memoir in serial form and online

The Discovery of Recovery from Sam Beady

Five discrete stories, each an act in a longer work about the vagaries of dominance, inducement, submission, and compliance; a novel in five parts ... Act I: “Acts of Dominance” Act II: “The Elegance of Escape” or “Two Proud Junkers Digging to t...

Da Mi’sippi Tet

Act I: "Briseis Unchained," wherein a young lit grad student navigates the perils of dating her dealer ... Act II: "Limbo, Mississippi," in which newlyweds Johnnie and Margy hold out in a cabin in the woods and become entangled in a drug-induced ...

Sue

A roman a clef about a frustrated writer living a frustrated life in an otherwise content world.

New WIP

Anna Spargo-Ryan

A historical fiction story based on rights for women in SA in the 1890s. (Pregnancy/loss content)

New Novels from Publishers We're Excited About

Force of Nature

Jane Harper Thrillers

Once you start reading this you won't be able to stop...The new book from the author of The Dry, Jane Harper. Five women reluctantly pick up their backpacks and start walking along the muddy track. Only four come out the other side. "Harper's mast...

The Gulf - Chapter 1

Anna Spargo-Ryan Literary Fiction

Skye’s sixteen, and her mum’s got yet another new boyfriend. Trouble is, Jason’s bad news. Really bad. Now Mum’s quit her job and they’re all moving north to Port Flinders, population nobody.

Two Kinds Of Truth

Michael Connelly Crime Fiction

Harry Bosch searches for the truth as an old case from his LAPD days comes back to haunt him in this gripping thriller from mega-bestseller Michael Connelly. The 20th Bosch novel.

MIKHAIL AND MARGARITA

Julie Lekstrom Himes Literary Fiction

“This richly imagined retelling of [Bulgakov's] lean years—which gave rise to his phantasmagoric novel The Master and Margarita—mixes fact and fiction to create a narrative that is both foreign and familiar.” - The New Yorker. Published by Europa ...

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Starkbeauty

T Van Santana Short Stories

Beauty isn't always pretty. Sometimes it's stark.

Flashes

T. Van Santana Short Stories

A collection of flash fiction, sentence stories, prose poems, and microserials.

Tales from a Nineties Jungle

T. Van Santana Fiction

Da Mi’sippi Tet

T Van Santana Literary Fiction

Act I: "Briseis Unchained," wherein a young lit grad student navigates the perils of dating her dealer ... Act II: "Limbo, Mississippi," in which newlyweds Johnnie and Margy hold out in a cabin in the woods and become entangled in a drug-induced ...

Lisbon in a Poem

Hugo S. Morgado

A sole poem about Lisbon city throughout the past, present and future. What was of this city, what it became, what it will be!

Enter Sandman, Exit Light

Guy Salvidge Crime Fiction

When Rufus knocks off on Friday arvo, all he can think about is where he's gonna get his hole. He gave Kristy a serve last night so he flicks her a text as he's walking to his car. But the Falcon's gone. It's on its last legs and he hasn't bothere...

The Not-Bird

Guy Salvidge Fantasy Fiction

Aurelia has never in all her nine years seen such a thing as the not-bird—it hovers before her like a mechanical hummingbird, its wings oscillating madly. Its glowing eyes project an aura of benevolence and the beat of its wings makes a sound so f...

ALPHA OMEGA

Hugo S. Morgado

Citations about existence, religion, lies and truth. Deconstructing the axioms of life, its rules such as the ancient pillars of society and history. A never ending process. Move along, if you’re not ready to face real life.

CHIMERA

Hugo S. Morgado Crime Fiction

Lucy’s life was perfect, until her husband died. Searching his phone, she finds that he was having a double life, decides to find that woman. Lucy will absorb her emotions in a wickedly and erotic relation. Twisted, out of control, blood will pour...

On The Run

Hugo S. Morgado Fiction

just writing the f@ck I want, no anchor for the start, no leading point for the end. Just stay for it, don't expect too many answers, or any, for I can't give them, for sure. Story is in auto combustion mode!!!

NO LOVE LOST (no love found)

Darcy Prince Poetry

Descendants Of The Moon

A girl who once was left and lost, found a way, a magical way. Keep reading for the magic to happen....

The Willow

Hugo S. Morgado Philosophy

Tales about the inexorability of Time, the fourth dimension whose cradle carries everything that was, all that is, all that will be.

This is Not a Tragedy

Lena M. Young Adult

Despite being gifted with brains and good looks, Natsu has no desire for relationships and no aspirations. His only directive in life: stay a loner to keep his mentally ill mother stable. But when his 18th year rolls around, an eccentric boy who c...

This Crazy City

Hugo S. Morgado

The bleak city through the unclouded eyes of an outsider, one amongst many strangers...

GOD ATE MY LUNCH

E. C. Wells Literary Fiction

Child abuse and its consequences. Multiple personalities—each with a life of their own.

The Scandalous Relative

J.R. Bancroft (M.Wellman) Fiction

Murder, hidden family secrets, a car fortune and blackmail. A trio tries to bring their successful car company to america, a competitor to the Model T, though their progress is deterred by a murder.

The Girl in the Blue Shoes

Shaun Hume Thrillers

A former Oxford college professor returns to his old home town for a pleasant day out, only to twice cross paths with a strange girl in identical circumstances. When a third meeting occurs he pursues her, and is swept into a mystery of alternate w...

Soar

When I’m upset, I skate. It helps me forget. What do you do to forget?

Slumber

You’re in pain. The same thing happens again and again. You can’t solve it. You can’t run away. So you choose to put an end to it by erasing it from your head. Tuck pain in bed. Lock it in till it’s dead.

Sacred to the Memory

Hongkonggraeme Short Stories

The first in a collection of linked short stories all set in the former Portuguese colony of Macau

The Sportsmen's Thousand.

Nicholas Koehne Fiction

Two young teenagers join up to fight in World War One. They form a close bond as their lives are changed forever.