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Stevie is just a fluffy, tabby kitten, who lives in a cozy little house nestled at the edge of a great forest. Stevie has the softest fur, the brightest brown eyes, a heart full of curiosity, and not a drop of meanness. Every night, as he curls up in his… Read More

Tags: adventure, christian, literary, nostalgia, kitten

This piece of work is dedicated to Kim; Then, also in an extended way, to all of you lovely ladies who have inspired the spark of it's creation... A Happy Birthday, & blessed life to those who are so special to the rest of us all... Passionate; The act of… Read More

Tags: fantasy, horror, humor, fiction, romance, thanks, poetry, military, adult, war, religion, mystery, adventure, travel, spirituality

A surreal exchange in a frozen post apocalyptic landscape, a down on her luck courier tries to make the best of her evening in a small town. Read More

Tags: short, story, post-apocalyptic, literary, short-story

This is the first short story in my collection, Crossings: Short Fiction by Elizabeth Thomas Read More

Tags: ghost, mothers, literary, short-story, landlords

Short Story / Other

November 01, 2023

Reads: 144

Comments: 2

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

Trigger warning: Unaliving event. A story inspired by Dorian Grey, about a man's spiral into insanity at the hands of a toaster. Read More

Tags: psychological, literary, shortstory, specfic

Brutiflication is a new word for the hatred and violence inflicted on women. Read More

Tags: philosophy, literary, literary-theory, brutiflication

Tags: literary

Short Story / Other

April 30, 2022

Reads: 599

Comments: 9

Shelves: 1

The Review Chain House

This is Archia's 2022 contest prompt: Colors of the night- word count 1,498.. This is a new edited version and I some changes. Thanks guys:) Read More

Tags: fantasy, mystery, literary, contest, other

A tortured man rushes to beat a coming tempest. A battered boy finds his stregnth. Sometimes there's just no escaping the reaper. Read More

Tags: fantasy, horror, gothic, thriller, literary

The book encourages young children to feel secure as they develop, and experience their first encounters of making friends, while they explore the world and continue to become individuals. Read More

Tags: friendship, literary, development, childrens

An account of an ancient life fueled by greed and bloodlust. Read More

Tags: horror, fiction, literary, historical, short-story

New York, 1983. Karen Baxter is a New York coffee critic in Lower Manhattan. When her reviews creates a stir in the city that never sleeps, she tries to overcome her adversity, and win everyone over. The new novel by Robert Helliger. Read More

Tags: drama, coffee, comedy, literary, 1980s

Finding our purpose drives us, so continue to seek... Read More

Tags: community, literary, critique, creations, ideologies

Madeline Carter is a thirteen year old girl who has a psychotic break. When she goes to The Asylum for Mad Girls, the horror of what is in her mind shatters. The new horror novel by Robert Helliger. Read More

Tags: horror, drama, mad, literary, psychosis

A novella about a girl, Margaret Parker, who lives in a Lighthouse off Ellis Island. Read More

Tags: novel, literary, storm, youngadult

Margaret Scholes is a 1950's housewife who resents her husband, Mike Scholes. When her life is found to be boring, she decides to spice things up, with terrible consequences. The new novel by Robert Helliger. Read More

Tags: love, satire, housewife, literary, 1950s

A portrait of the artist abroad. Read More

Tags: poetry, adventure, literary, narrative, journalistic

A novel of bohemian New Yorkers in the early 1970s. Read More

Tags: drama, literary, bohemian, new-york, 1970s

Anne Welles, Nealy O' Hara, and Jennifer North, are living the Hollywood lifestyle in the late 1960's, indulge in sex, drugs, and a self-indulgence way of living. Read More

Tags: drama, literary, cult, 1960s, soap-opera

Mr Cosgrave seems such a mild mannered man but his depraved tastes offer a few surprises to a pair of hardened detectives during a candid interview. Read More

Tags: horror, crime, literary, confession, existential

Pearl Singleton, a forest ranger at the Pemberton Wildlife Preserve, is going to show eighteen year old Shawn Mariano her Osborne Smoke Finder, all six varieties of New England ferns, a beaver dam, and something he never bargained for. A straight-laced ex-nun must decide what to do with a stolen… Read More

Tags: romance, spiritual, literary, short-stories, short-fiction

Following his divorce, Dr. Stanley Gilford, chief of cardiology at Our Lady of Fatima Hospital, restructured his life on the guiding principle of maximum gain, minimum pain. So what is the well-heeled doctor doing with Ruby, a high school dropout and waitress at the local greasy spoon, and what are… Read More

Tags: spiritual, literary, literature, short-story

Nakeisha Quansah always wanted to be a legendary musician. After getting her wish, her life is nothing but a constant nightmare... Read More

Tags: horror, life, money, literary, fame

Book / Literary Fiction

July 10, 2020

Reads: 1796

Comments: 1

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

Seattle, 1973 In the city of Seattle, Washington, Karen Dempsey, a fifteen year old teenager, arrives at the Delta Phi Delta sorority house, eager to join the sorority. As she does so, she makes friends, and enemies, while she meets Jason Anderson, a fraternity house member who sweeps her off… Read More

Tags: romance, literary, girls, dorm, 1970s

Short Story / Literary Fiction

July 04, 2020

Reads: 513

Comments: 4

The Booksie Classic House

A short story about the Fourth of July. Read More

Tags: fiction, independence, literary, july

ABSENCE is a mystery, in the deepest sense of the word, about marriage, about fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, and brothers and sisters; all backed into corners and at odds with each other as they struggle with their human nature, and their dependence upon the Nature of Earth. JAMES… Read More

Tags: gothic, literary, southern

Book / Other

April 16, 2020

Reads: 908

Shelves: 1

The 'The Odd Ones' House

we'll see. Read More

Tags: experiment, literary, experimental, free-write

Chapter 1 from Romantic Guerrilla - A Novel available on Amazon (ASIN: B0812CSQZ9) Read More

Tags: romance, mystery, suspense, thriller, literary

PART 3 of my pirate series. Painting credit: https://www.art.com/products/p27973765603-sa-i8197007/jon-foster-a-16th-century-portuguese-trading-vessel-is-blown-off-course.htm?upi=POJSUY0&PODConfigID=8880742&sOrigID=192566 Read More

Tags: literary, pirate, mariner

The continuation of the Isle of Eternal Torment photo credit: https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=burning+town&chips=q:burning+town,online_chips:fantasy&usg=AI4_-kQ58j5pAtM336jLjV8bQSaI77zoRA&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiolYnN3KPkAhXUFzQIHfF4BXQQ4lYINygL&biw=1515&bih=730&dpr=1.25#imgrc=ZUBbbpZt-YtQyM: Read More

Tags: literary, pirate, mariner

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