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21 Damsels in Distress Rules by Ernest Bywater

Damsels In Distress
The basic rules and background on the operation of the Damsels in Distress Universe. This is posted with the approval of Lazlo, the universe creator, and is intended to help readers and writers to understand the universe better.
Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: General
Tags: Workplace, Science Fiction, Aliens, AI
Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 38KB / 7,040 words | Downloads: 1769
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22 Blind Sight by vlfouquet

A Howly-Howard Story
A girl was born who was descended from a long line of female psychics The gifts were not given to every female member sometimes they skip generation. An artifact, heirloom, of the family was alway passed on to the next female who could best used it. With the birth of this baby girl the holder of the artifact see that she will be the greatest holder of the artifact in this family long history. So the artifact was shipped as a birthday gift to be given on the first safe date it could be worn.
Premier members only
Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Coming of Age, Crime, School, Violence, Workplace, Young Adult
Votes: 666 | Score: 8.61
Size: 330KB / 63,683 words | Downloads: 15840
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23 Life Is Change by Ernest Bywater

No good turn goes unpunished. There's nothing so constant in life as change. Shortly after finishing his Australian university exams Smoky Grey learns these two sayings are true. His life and plans are totally changed by an encounter in the university car-park. For the next few years his life is one change after another. Some of them being ones he initiates. He's a catalyst for changes to improve the lives of many people.
Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Action/Adventure
Tags: Workplace, Rags to Riches
Votes: 522 | Score: 8.60
Size: 250KB / 50,162 words | Downloads: 16228
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24 The CIA Exposed: T.a.R.P. Cover Up by Ernest Bywater

Some smart people invent a way to dispose of rubbish, and a few other things. The CIA want their technology, and they won't hand it over. Things heat up. Set in Australia.
Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Action/Adventure
Tags: Politics, Workplace
Votes: 319 | Score: 8.56
Size: 36KB / 7,122 words | Downloads: 4550
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25 Rage-part IV: Desires by Celtic Bard

A Rage Story
After a hard night at Exposé, dancer Candy goes home and has a sexily strange dream that leaves her sweat-covered and worried. Going into work that night, she learns Angus never showed up at opening after being wounded the night before and the police are now looking for him, worried he might be missing. Candy sets out to discover what happened to Angus by searching his apartment only to discover the weirdness from the night before hasn't ended but only expanded to engulf her.
Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Fantasy
Tags: Romance, Crime, Workplace, Secret Agents, Alternate Universe, Fantasy
Votes: 165 | Score: 8.52
Size: 23KB / 4,589 words | Downloads: 3211
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26 Mallard Heir by Ernest Bywater

A man just out of university inherits a trust in the USA. He has to live in the house it owns, but first he has to make it liveable. He also has to worry about some old feuds in place in this rural valley in the Appalachian mountains. He has to survive his first weeks in the mountains, and in doing so he finds a wife and partner for life while they deal with old feuds and the local weather. Set in Australia.
Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: General
Tags: Workplace, Rags to Riches
Votes: 561 | Score: 8.51
Size: 246KB / 49,993 words | Downloads: 14065
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27 New Computing World by Ernest Bywater

Love or hate computers, you'll love this story. This satirical tale of the humiliation of Little Electronic Technologies and the destruction of their computer software monopoly is told from a future viewpoint, as a college assignment. Some determined computer geeks take on the global might of LET, and win! They defeat LET by getting deep inside their own software!
Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: General
Tags: Crime, Politics, Science, Workplace
Votes: 153 | Score: 8.44
Size: 76KB / 13,899 words | Downloads: 3872
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28 A Farmer's Life by Ernest Bywater

A Rivers Region Story
Farmers lives are ruled by the land they work and nature's cycles. James is the son of a farmer who's orphaned by a bushfire. He continues to live with his father's old boss, but knows he has to make his own way in life after school. Life has it's ups and downs, and many challenges for James. He leaves the farm for the Australian Army, but ends up back as a farm worker due to combat wounds. Join James as he meets many challenges and changes in his life.
Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Action/Adventure
Tags: Drama, Politics, Violence, War, Military, Workplace, Rags to Riches
Votes: 551 | Score: 8.37
Size: 240KB / 47,729 words | Downloads: 14318
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29 Echoes of a Bitter Past by Texrep

Richard Gilson lives at a time of many changes. He loses his girlfriend, Mavis to another and then his family. Even when Mavis comes back into his life, the past is ever present.
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Romance
Tags: Drama, Workplace
Votes: 423 | Score: 8.36
Size: 57KB / 11,116 words | Downloads: 6867
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30 Star Performance by Ernest Bywater

16 y/o Hal Smith is a quiet, unassuming Australian teen boy with a bad knee and no dreams. Taught to help people, he does; without thinking before acting. In Year Ten in a new city and school, it's a year of living in interesting times as he's in the wrong place at the wrong time doing the right thing. He'd once dreamt of being a world athlete and had the skills to make them true, but lost them helping a stranger; and delivered a Star Performance greater than most athletes can ever do.
Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Young Adult
Tags: Coming of Age, Crime, Drama, School, Violence, Workplace, Rags to Riches, Young Adult
Votes: 891 | Score: 8.26
Size: 292KB / 58,577 words | Downloads: 21349
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