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Love can happen, at any place, any time, with any given person. Many people dream of having a rendezvous with a foreigner in a foreign country and have the romance of a lifetime. And that's exactly what Sophie got when she traveled to Firenze for a short vacation while work-studying abroad.
In the outskirts of Tuscany, a fuse sparked, leaving behind the entrails of an undesirable fire, slowly burning away the remains of those left behind. The love...
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The plot of "Jacklighters" unfolds in the fictitious small Illinois town of Silverton, where life is normally quaint and peaceful. When Riley Jensen hears that Len Wilkins, a family friend who also employs her father as a farm hand, has been found dead with his eyes burned out of his head, her latent but innate heroism emerges.
When news of several deaths of the same nature as that of Len Wilkins' travels throughout Silverton, Riley becomes gripped...
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Tub the ogre is tired. Tired of the unfounded stereotypes placed upon ogres by humans. They parade around his woods, hunting his prey and gathering his berries, all the while assuming that ogres are a bunch of stupid, ugly, smelly (okay, maybe that one's not "unfounded", per se) human-eaters. He also happens to be bored. Bored of the same menial tasks day in and day out; hunting prey and gathering berries to help feed the village until they move on...
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Archer, a hunting dog bred solely to devote his abilities to catch his prey at any cost, is taken on the strangest hunt he's ever experienced. Hagar, his master, is set on catching the elusive legendary creature, the unicorn. Once caught, Hagar plans to cut off her horn and use its magic for his own purposes.
At first, the prospects of catching a mythical creature seem laughable to Archer, but after he encounters the unicorn firsthand, it is no...
5) Short Story Press Presents Blind Girl Meets a Ghost: How a Blind Girl Became Friends with a Ghost
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Blindness never stops a friendship; is not just about a friendship, but also other powerful themes.
The story centers around a girl named Katherine, 15 years of age
Recently blind in a car accident which killed her mother
Now is in the care of her estranged aunt, who is hiding secrets
Katherine tries her best to make a relationship with Morgan, only it is clear that the woman is hiding secrets
Starting school, Katherine finds it difficult to make...
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Randall cannot remember a day in the last 10 years he has not spent beside his canine friend, Eduardo the Magnificento, or Ed. Ever since Rand found the pup nestled against a hot-water pipe, the two have been inseparable, spending countless hours together wandering through the woods on adventures, some make-believe and some real. But now, Ed's gone missing, and Rand takes it upon himself to seek out his four-legged friend. Unfortunately, the hunter...
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What happens when you lose all hope in yourself and in the world? Well, you become vulnerable, and that's what happened to Eddie, only he does not really know what is wrong with him until a meeting that will literally change his world and, in a very real way, his life.
One day, as is his habit, Eddie has stepped in a virtual-travel cabin looking for a distraction from his bleak life, and on an impulse, he has made the journey to the era of the...
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"Little Pests" is a suspense horror story that pits a woman and her young daughter against a suddenly and violently unhinged pest control technician, who has sinister plans for the woman and the girl whose home he is working in. Although he enters their house with no ill intentions, it seems as though the chemicals he works with are affecting his mental state and thought processes. "Little Pests" includes:
An introduction and complete portrayal of...
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Benji's Books is the tale of a young man who hates school and reading. He seeks refuge in a library to get out of a terrible storm. There he encounters a woman who would change his way of thinking and his life forever.
Elsa, the librarian, asks Benji to lend her a hand in putting books away. They immediately establish a strong connection and forge a lasting friendship. She encourages him to read from the subjects and topics he enjoys. She prompts...
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Jack has recently graduated from high school with his best friend Lilac. They go back a long ways, but they never imagined they'd be working at the same grocery store during the same shift. Guise Markets is not Jack's ideal choice for a job, but there is more to the store than there seems. What might have been a typical boring job proves more exciting than Jack has bargained for. The other night employees reported seeing strange things, objects falling...
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"Seven Roads to Love" is a story that is close to Christine's heart. It is the true story of how her and her soon-to-be husband met. Not only are the feelings real; but the events happened as stated in the audiobook.
It was a feeling of almost true love when she met this man and, oftentimes, they still wonder how they really ever got together. Everything happened so quickly; but the fact of the matter is that through everything they have done, it...
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Scandal forces Maria Posaltakis out of her job as a celebrity reporter. The paparazzi blacklists her, but media mogul Mark Bannerman takes her under his wing, intent on making Maria the newest addition to his politically charged network, AmeriPress News.
He brings her to Isla Loci, his private resort, to personally train her on sticking to the channel's message. Then Chester, Mark's youngest son from a failed marriage, comes to the island. He's...
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Michael is a professional photographer. He knows exactly how to take the best pictures and is desperate enough to accept any work when the rent comes due, which is slowly creeping up on him. When he's offered a new job opportunity from a high-end client, the last thing he expects is to be confronted with an abuse scandal in the midst of the cast.
He meets an extremely attractive model, someone he soon recognizes from his teenage past. To make things...
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"Inside Melting House" is a creepy and suspenseful story that will draw you into its mystery. It introduces you to sympathetic characters over two generations who, even in the short space of the story, you come to sympathize with and understand.
When you listen to it, you will experience:
An atmospheric and effective story that elicits curiosity and dread in equal parts
The story as told from the point of view of a complex and sympathetic narrator/main...
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"Who was that in the water?" She wondered as she peered at him throw the overgrown foliage. He looked amazing. She could see even his muscles had muscles. He had long brown hair, a golden brown tan, and every move he made was fluid; this man was, in one word, gorgeous. As she kept watching him, he turned around and let the waterfall run over his body. God, what she would give to be a bead of water on his body to feel his strength and touch on her...
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A parallel world, a magical crystal, a phoenix, and an invitation: These are some of the exciting things in store for you with the latest Natashiah Jansen story, entitled "Adjo and the Invitation".
You'll be transported to the parallel world of Hatshepsut's temple and learn:
Why Adjo was sent an invitation
Why his mother carried a pouch around her neck
Why his father was killed
The secret of the phoenix
Who Anub is
From where the phoenix originates
Who...
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The Tronik Gambit is the story of a rag-tag group of air pirates. Like their older, sea-borne brethren, they spent years terrorizing aerial shipping, raiding ships on the seas with float-planes, and robbing towns and remote outposts on land, and using their machines to make the fastest getaways imaginable and were a huge thorn in the side of the authorities. Operating from a massive flying aircraft carrier and using clouds, mist, and forbidding terrain...
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Her father left them when she was just five. Now in her early 20's Lucy knew better than to concentrate on her academics alone. She did every menial job she could lay her hands upon so as to support herself and (hopefully) relieve the burden on her mother...she did this despite the fact that her mum was against her being a student-worker.
The problem, however, was not her mum, rather, the jobs were taking much of her time and weren't bringing much...
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A young and beautiful woman, Sharon Latham, ducks into a storefront to escape the weather and witnesses a crime. She has placed herself in the path of a dangerous murderer. She is overwhelmed by the gravity of the situation and fears the murderer may come for her next. Her only chance is a young and inexperienced detective named David Granger. This is his first homicide case in which he is flying solo.
The victim of this terrible crime, Mr. Patrick...
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"Hello, my name is Aura Smith; we are here to take you back to your time. I do not exactly why you think killing, what was his name again...oh yes, Stalin was a great idea, but you can't just go around fixing things like that. Without Stalin, the world would have been a very different place, you see. I understand he was evil for whatever the historical context is, but we just can't go altering all the bad things in history. The Fates do not like it....
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