Read New Literary Fiction Books

June 13, 2017

Shelves: 1

Tags: taiwan-white-horror-martial-law

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White terror in Taiwan, the terrible oppression of freedom of speech, was followed by the 228 clash in 1947. The number of death of the conflicts during the clash and in the martial law period(1949~1987) afterward is still unclear. This collection of short stories is about how it impacted the life of ordinary people.

101 Words Book

Chapter 51

by jeffrey a paolano

June 11, 2017

Comments: 18

Shelves: 1

Tags: varied-life-situations

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A collection of varied stories concerning everyday life occurrences.

greenfeild lane

Chapter 15

by dhebb

June 10, 2017

Comments: 2

Shelves: 1

Tags: fiction, progress, work, dusty, town, bar, dylan, noah, dhebb, hebb

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back from a few years break and back at it with some fresh ideas hoping to finish it off soon as i have a new idea i would like to try but for now i must finish the task at hand sorry for some of the errors in punctuation as im writing on the fly and it does get a bit frantic by times to be truthful i use spell check alot but i digress. SUMMERY let me take you to Greenfeild lane, a mysterious little town with a secret we will be following 3 people and their journey through their new life on Greenfeild lane i wont give much here so youll have to read to find out anything more. happy reading

THE TABLE IN THE BASEMENT

Chapter 3

by dt84

June 08, 2017

Comments: 2

Shelves: 2

Tags: fiction, novel, mystery, thriller, literary

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Running into the father who abandoned him sixteen years ago isn't what David expects when he stops at the liquor store to buy some booze. Now he finally has a chance to exact his revenge, but if he kills the man, will his choice really free him, or ruin him? With his father safely tucked away in his basement and the outspoken, bipolar Melanie as a new love interest, David finally feels he can realize his dream of normalcy. Yet remnants of his father's abuse continue to fuel acts of self-destruction. Barely eighteen, Melanie finds herself caught between parenting her much older boyfriend and fighting to maintain her own integrity. When it's discovered that the man in the basement isn't David's father but only an innocent stranger, the realization forces David to once and for all confront the truth about his past. And Melanie must at last decide if remaining loyal to the man she loves is worth being swallowed up by his darkness.

Evening Stars

Chapter 3

by MoonRise

June 06, 2017

Shelves: 1

Tags: fiction, truth, dailylife

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"It's because when I look at the stars I look at the past.. I like past.." "Past? I like future, because you can change it!" "And I like past because you cannot change it.."

dark storm from the carolinas

Chapter 1

by Darklady

The Encourage Writing Inc. House

May 24, 2017

Shelves: 2

Tags: fantasy, fiction, vampires, pirates

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this is a story about vampires and pirates and how the fate of an ancient vampire is bound to the life of the pirate she wants to kill.

Eighal

Chapter 6

by Phillip

May 17, 2017

Shelves: 1

Tags: horror, science, action, chapter, prologue

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A coming of age story in a world of horror. This is the first chapter/prologue and I'll probably even add more to this. The story happens years after the last paragraph, and follows Eighal's disciples.

Benjamin's University Days

Chapter 2

by Salaudeen Akeem Babatunde

May 17, 2017

Shelves: 2

Tags: but-endes-up-tragically

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Thr story portrays violence and its reward

Voiceless

Chapter 5

by Scene Cipriano

May 08, 2017

Shelves: 4

Love Is What Will Make an Immortal Die: Also Includes Waiting for Godotal and Future Uncertain, Self-sedition, No Reason, Rhyme and The Mystery of the Missing Dead and Sojourn Within the Shadow Night

Tags: abuse, rape, syndrome, stockholm, reverse

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He hurts me. He claims to love me. I hate him with a passion, but I can not say anything because I am voiceless.

Chapter 4

May 07, 2017

Shelves: 1

Tags: loss, despair, immortality, cthulhu, ancient-ones

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"Love Is What Will Make an Immortal Die", the follow up to "Dawn" and the story of the man. How has he been? How will he be? How was he ever? "Waiting for Godotal", waiting for salvation, happiness, the answer to the meaning of life. Does Godotal show this night? Well, I won't give that away but there may be an appearance by Oscar the Grouch. "Future Uncertain, Self-sedition, No Reason, Rhyme, Trapped Within the Demise of Time", what would you do if you were a 98 year old man thrown back in time to encounter a younger version of himself, thrust into an entirely nonsensical sequence of events? Would you consider the John Smith way? By the renowned John Smith. This is followed by a mystery, "The Mystery of the Missing Dead". The book ends with the short story "Sojourn Within the Shadow Night". What is the shadow of a shadow when there is no light?

Saltwater Heart

by herwriteness

May 07, 2017

Shelves: 1

Tags: love, poetry, heart, ocean, switchfoot

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To the Sea, to the Sea! the white gulls are crying, The wind is blowing, and the white foam is flying... - J.R.R. Tolkien, "Song for the Sea" Moriah has always lived in the mountains, and without snowboarding, she is nothing. Then she visits her cousin who lives by the ocean after her high school graduation, and everything changes. Captivated by the sea, she is reluctant to return home. She does eventually go back to her mountains, the longing for the Sea following her until she succumbs to its call. The story of a girl's love affair with the Sea.

Central Marx

by Central Marx

May 01, 2017

Shelves: 1

Tags: romance, drama, communism, individualism, colectivism

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Viviendo desde hace cientos de años bajo el sistema de la Iquademarquía. Pueblo Nuevo es un lugar atrapado en el tiempo, organizado por cinco comunas básicas donde se trabaja día a día arduamente por el bien común del colectivo: todos para uno y uno para todos. Dagny, joven cazadora de Pueblo Nuevo, con ciertas incertidumbres, cumple los 21 años, lista para poder formar parte oficial de las elecciones iquademárquicas llevadas a cabo cada año en el centro de todo, en la Plaza Central Marx, es elegida por otro año consecutivo en la Comuna de los Cazadores, lugar liderado por Conan donde vivió el peor año de su vida. Pero nada de esto importa, el sistema es perfecto, apunta al bien de todos y por el todo. Los problemas comienzan a llegar. Una explosión por algunas obras públicas cerca de Pueblo Nuevo logra que algunas cápsulas en forma de ootecas que llevaban siglos enterradas fuesen descubiertas quedando a la luz de todo Pueblo Nuevo. De ellas salen 200 personas lideradas por Albert Curs, Doctor y filósofo de la Suecia moderna quien hibernó junto con las mentes más brillantes de su sociedad para escapar de las guerras que los azotaban en su época. Lo diferente es malo, el orden debe ser prevalecido. Pueblo Nuevo, liderados por Henry Tagara, encontrarán la forma de mantener la Iquademarquía y el pensamiento colectivo. Curs por su parte buscará el correcto camino de liberar la opresión del pensamiento que atosiga a los pobladores de este pueblo en la gran Plaza Central Marx. Central Marx es una novela que invita a la reflexión, a filosofar sobre las principales corrientes políticas que hoy recaen en los gobiernos del mundo. A través de sus personajes, conocerás las posturas, opiniones, criterios y tendrás desarrollarás tu propio criterio sobre los actuales problemas de la sociedad.

Postcards from the Wasteland

Chapter 5

April 27, 2017

Shelves: 1

Tags: void, nihilist, existential-meaninglessness, road-to-nowhere, irreconcilable-angst

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Sorry, on vacation from my disastrous vacation from life. Can't write the book description at this time. Check in again later when the answer will still be the same.

O filho criado por dois pais

Chapter 1

by castle Malandzele

April 27, 2017

Shelves: 1

Tags: odio-amor-acao

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Dawn

Chapter 4

April 23, 2017

Shelves: 1

Tags: blackouts, unreality, march-through-nothing, dreamscope, suicidal-ideology

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Dawn is the story of the man as he crawls through his, quote, life, close quote, through what he sees as an ever ugly world, encountering characters along the way, all of whom he very much wishes he had never encountered at all...except for one. Right away it is evident something is amiss as the man eventually finds his way back home only to find he in no way knows the people inside and recognizes none of the belongings within it. At some point he encounters the woman who is upon a beach that is atop a cliff, the man having no memory of how he got there. But, who is she? Who is he? Through a wasteland the man he crawls, from nowhere to nowhere, sardonic commentary of the dark comedy of a broken record. Existence? Persistence? And on he crawls, but remembers the one beauty as he does. Crawling and crawling, but leading to what...Where is it all going?

Welcome to Nowhereland (5 Stories)

Chapter 2

April 20, 2017

Shelves: 1

Self-extermination. Sounds Like a Plan: Also Includes Give Me a Burger and Hold the Fries and Brain Circus and (3 Essays About Donald J. Trump) and The Adventures of Man-Man and Soliloquy to My Soul

Tags: trapped, born-to-lose, soul-murder

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They say that life is what you make of it. That it can be whatever you want it to be if guided by the right hand. They say that you make your own luck. They say that all dreams can come true if you just want them bad enough. They say you can do whatever you want to do if you just set your mind to it, that anything is possible. You know, sometimes they should really shut the hell up. Sometimes they really don’t know what the hell they’re talking about. And sometimes, they can go to hell. But would somewhere over the rainbow any of those statements be fitting? Five stories, “Cursed”, "Somewhere Over the Rainbow", “No Doors In, No Windows Out”, "Hell Is Where the Heart Is" and "Trapped". We’re all put here for a reason aren’t we? But maybe sometimes that reason doesn’t make any damn sense at all. Reach for your dreams and all will be well, or maybe you’ll just find yourself trapped in hell.

Chapter 5

April 14, 2017

Shelves: 1

Tags: reincarnation, time-travel, neurological-illness

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So you’ve decided to journey back through time and kill every single reincarnation of yourself that has ever been in an attempt to prevent yourself from ever having been born. What could possibly go wrong? Um, pretty much everything does. The book also includes "Give Me a Burger and Hold the Fries", a story where the main character is engaged in an epic battle, squaring off against an eight foot tall homicidal potato. Um, things may get a little strange. Maybe? There is also an extremely short play "Brain Circus" which is a representation of the absurdities of attempting to decipher neurological abnormalities within the medical system. There are then three essays regarding the ludicrous words and actions of Donald Trump's presidential run. Following this is the story, "The Adventures of Man-Man, Defender of Man. Episode 1: The Battle Against the Evil Tree". It is the first story involving the legendary superhero Man-Man, who may very well be the greatest superhero. Or so help me the absolute, without any possible question, the worst damn superhero ever. Which is it? I leave it up to the reader to decide. The book concludes with "Soliloquy to My Soul", which in terms of classification of what it is, I do believe it would fall under the label of Other.

For Love

Chapter 7

by Anna C. P. Moore

March 26, 2017

Shelves: 1

Tags: love, quest, sister, reconciliation, cruelty

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Lillian Quinn never truly understood herself. Her mother had died after giving birth to her younger sister, Primrose, and so Lilly had acted most cruel and most unreasonable with her for many years. But there was another side to the story. Primrose was better, prettier, more talented than Lilly could ever have been. She, instead of Lillian, was the recipient of all the attention; she was going to marry a rich man; she was more like her mother than Lilly was. Jealousy, then. It was jealousy that drove Lillian's hate. But what will happen when they embark on a journey to Ireland together? Will Lillian discover a new side to herself?

It Might Be Me

Chapter 24

by L.J. Sirett

March 20, 2017

Shelves: 2