New Stories posted in the last 30 days

A romantic dinner, a charming entomologist, and one very enthusiastic off-menu dish. Technically Edible is a comedy of manners about the distance between good intentions and good judgment. Measured, in this case, in legs.

A small town laughs at the first automobile as a noisy nuisance, but over a decade the joke slowly reverses itself: blacksmiths, bankers, farmers, doctors, and even the town’s fiercest horse loyalists discover that the motorcar is not a passing toy, but the future arriving muddy, loud, useful, and inevitable.

WWBCE follows a fourteen‑year‑old kid who stumbles into the wild world of invention, hustling, and accidental entrepreneurship. Blending coming‑of‑age misadventures, off‑beat humor, and a rags‑to‑riches arc, the story traces how a curious teenager with more imagination than resources manages to build a future one bizarre idea at a time. It’s part nostalgia trip, part tall tale, and part tribute to every kid who ever believed they could change the world with duct tape, and determination.

A failed writer builds a fortune by letting machines tell stories for him. Then one impossible phrase begins appearing where it shouldn't, and a routine audit becomes a reckoning. As the line between creator and creation disappears, Daniel learns that every algorithm eventually traces its source. A chilling tale of technology, ambition, and poetic justice.

Her name is Twix. It's the one she picked. She pulls espresso, keeps the tip jar exactly one hand's width from the edge, notices what everyone's hands are doing, and does not explain herself. It's a good life. She chose it. The rest is her business, and she is very good at keeping what's hers.

In a czarist city of spies and informers, a timid student is coerced into betraying a fiery revolutionary and then driven abroad to face the exiles who trusted him. Torn between cowardice, guilt, and a desperate need to be understood, he stumbles through plots, interrogations, and doomed love, seeking a truth that may destroy him.

The novel tells the story of Rev. Gavin Dishart, a young and idealistic minister recently assigned to the parish.

New roles, new challenges, new, more subtle, dangers. But dead is still dead.

A shy child longs for a friend and finds one in a tumbledown basket: a black-eyed puppy with more mischief than manners. From toppled milk pails to moonlit searches, each scrape becomes a lesson in patience, courage, and care. As the pup grows from scamp to steadfast companion, the child discovers that loyalty is trained as much by love as by rules.