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Dream Weaver - Book 3 of Wizard - a Love Story by Misguided Child

Many years of peace followed Sean's rescue. Peaceful if you didn't count training, and interference by the Wizard's Council. The Council voted to delay the young Magi joining the Council and required a quest due to their immaturity. They decided to join 'normal' society with their extra time. The Prescott High School would never be the same. They could decide if the unpleasant task of completing the quest and joining the Council was really desirable. Do we always have choices in life?
Genre: Fantasy
Age Rating: Older than 7
Tags: Humor, Fantasy, Witchcraft, Magic
85.4k words,  98%,  Author's Average: 96%   More Info

Someone to Watch Over Me by Denham Forrest

Well life doesn't always go the way we would like it too. But then again it appears that sometimes life has a way of putting things, as they should be. Or maybe there is someone out there with a master plan. This is a weepy romance, so don't say you haven't been warned. Written and set in 2006.
Genre: Romance
Age Rating: Older than 13
Tags: Romance, Melodrama
17.0k words,  97%,  Author's Average: 94%   More Info

The Hangman Cometh--a Revisit by woodmanone

The continuation of the life of famous gunfighter Tyler Rawlings.
Genre: Western
Age Rating: Older than 13
Tags: Western
10.4k words,  97%,  Author's Average: 94%   More Info

Extraction by Lumpy

An old love's husband and a team from the defense contractor Northbridge have been taken hostage in Somalia and the company is refusing to pay the ransom. Instead, a rescue mission is planned and Taylor is suspicious of the real motivations behind the rescue and the men picked to attempt it. With help from his old flame, Taylor gets a spot on the rescue team, where he must face hostile warlords and an even more hostile allies, all while finding out what Northbridge is hiding.
Genre: Thriller
Age Rating: Older than 13
Tags: Crime, Violence, Military
67.2k words,  97%,  Author's Average: 95%   More Info

Justice Resurrected by Celtic Bard

When an outcast and his companion come across a village that has been razed, he unknowingly sets his foot upon the path of destiny that will take him from the haughtily civilized courts of Meikar to the wastes of the Netherlands. Stopping along the way for a betrothal he knew nothing about, encountering old friends, new friends, mentors, enemies and intrigue that seems to have gotten him in the situation in the first place, Jonar Telansson is riding towards a destiny the Gods ordained long ago.
Genre: Fantasy
Age Rating: Older than 13
Tags: Coming of Age, Politics, Violence, Cults, Military, Assassins, Travel, Fantasy, Magic, Knights, Royalty
149.9k words,  96%,  Author's Average: 87%   More Info

Warlords of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

John Carter discovers that a First Born knows the secret of the Temple of the Sun and he and the Holy Hekkador Matai Shang want to rescue the Holy Thern's daughter, who is imprisoned with Dejah Thoris and another Barsoomian princess, Thuvia of Ptarth. John Carter follows them in the hope of liberating his beloved wife.
Genre: Science Fiction
Age Rating: Older than 7
Tags: Violence, Science Fiction, Aliens, Space, Novel-Classic
57.0k words,  95%,  Author's Average: 85%   More Info

Rage VII: Awakening the Lost by Celtic Bard

How do you tell someone they belong to another species and have them not think you are completely insane? How do you give them the all of the information they need to embrace their new reality and intelligently choose the new path their life will travel? Radovan Dzerdja's existence is dedicated to the history of Homo esoterica. Part of his job as a Loremaster is to Awaken those Lost to the reality that is Homo esoterica. When he is hired to Awaken Candy and Angus, his job gets interesting.
Genre: Fantasy
Age Rating: Anybody
Tags: Alternate Universe, Fantasy
9.8k words,  92%,  Author's Average: 87%   More Info

The Contagion by Ernest Bywater

A deadly virus sweeps the world bringing dead back to life. A Think Tank Group is at the Cheyenne Mountain Complex when the alert is issued. Its senior members join in a conference with the Commander of the United States Northern Command who relays their orders from the Pentagon. Maximilian 'Mad Max' Milton, the 2nd in-charge of the Think Tank gives reason to his nickname, and the war is on with those afflicted with The Contagion. Will they win the war, can they win the war? 11,400 words.
Genre: Science Fiction
Age Rating: Older than 13
Tags: Politics, Horror, Military, Science Fiction, Apocalyptic, Zombies
11.3k words,  89%,  Author's Average: 93%   More Info

The Orchestra by Grumpy Old Man

Night sounds: a remembrance of things long past.
Genre: True
Age Rating: Anybody
Tags: True, Vignettes
960 words,  88%,  Author's Average: 86%   More Info

Waterfront Fists by Robert E. Howard

Steve has an iron jaw in the ring but a glass jaw when it comes to women. First appeared in 'Fight Stories' September 1930 and is in the public domain.
Genre: Action/Adventure
Age Rating: Older than 13
Tags: Humor, Pulp Classic
7.0k words,  80%,  Author's Average: 83%   More Info