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A Muzzle For The Lamb: A Novel, Scott Beggs
A Muzzle For The Lamb: A Novel, Scott Beggs
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The Homecoming Game, Olivia Dorothy Daras
The Homecoming Game, Olivia Dorothy Daras
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The Homecoming Game follows 16-year-old Ellie as she discovers that growing up is a lot more difficult than she thought it would be. To her horror, high school has become less about getting good grades and more about your popularity status — or so that’s what her best friend tells her. The growing pains of being a teenager and dealing with a not-so-perfect home life culminate when something utterly insane happens: she’s asked to the Homecoming Dance by someone other than the guy she’s been kind of dating. With her social life and personal life in flux, Ellie has to …
Only The Eyes: A Novel, Jason Michael Palomo
Only The Eyes: A Novel, Jason Michael Palomo
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Only the Eyes revolves around a series of murders that take place in the oil-rich United Arab Emirates, the government of which suppresses the media to maintain the nation's reputation as a safe, innovative tourist destination. After the murders are leaked to the international press and can no longer be ignored, the Sheikhs of the country. decide to procure an investigative consultant through manipulative means to help them capture the unknown suspect. Former-Special-Agent Ramon Del Toro is now a true-crime writer, and he reluctantly takes on the difficult task of creating a psychological profile of the suspect, much to the …
Black River, William Ramon Daugherty
The Healer, Crystal Hurd
The Healer, Crystal Hurd
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This fictional work explores the friendship between a girl with healing powers and a boy disfigured in a farm accident.
Hedgehogs, Oscar Antonio Moreno Huizar
Hedgehogs, Oscar Antonio Moreno Huizar
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An anxious college freshman who befriends a party-loving junior girl and both hatch a plan to escape from the border to California, trying to save a mutual friend and escape their dark pasts.
The Geometry Of Loss: A Novel, Elidio La Torre La Torre
The Geometry Of Loss: A Novel, Elidio La Torre La Torre
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In the year 2025, Orlando Aniello, nicknamed Or, a Puerto Rican poet with a broken life, becomes a consciousness in virtual space. Tricked by a couple of goons that devote most of their duties to bootleg memories for people who lead dull and meaningless lives, Orlandos personality splits into fragments. As consequence, his actual experiences blend the hosts own recollections, which accidentally upload to Orlandos brain. If bootleg mnemonic technologies glitch, Orlando does not know who he is anymore. Indeed, Orlando/ Gogo/ Alejandro suffers anterograde memory loss, and the narrator becomes merely a voice without a body. A geometry of …
Only The Aperture, Katherine Elizabeth Seltzer
Only The Aperture, Katherine Elizabeth Seltzer
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Only the Aperture is a collection of ten short stories. Each story renders a moment in a different famous photographer's life.
The Weightless Machine, Justin David Stone
The Weightless Machine, Justin David Stone
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The Weightless Machine is an original novel by Justin David Stone written to satisfy the Thesis requirements of a Master's in Fine Arts from the Bilingual Department of Creative Writing at the University of Texas at El Paso.
And Second Comes The Son, Matthew Phillips
And Second Comes The Son, Matthew Phillips
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'And Second Comes the Son' is a post-war noir novel.
The Man Who Took A Breath, Robert Allen Crowl
The Man Who Took A Breath, Robert Allen Crowl
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The Man Who Took A Breath confronts the ongoing battle of good and evil and its connection to humanity's search for and defense of personal truth, mainly as it's revealed within and through human relationships. Blurring the line between right and wrong can force readers to take a breath before condemning someone else's brand of truth. People from all walks of life endure familial relationships, which estrange and comfort, tear down and build up. These stories are a series of snapshots into a variety of relationships and spiritual crusades meant to depict humanities' deep well for compassion, empathy, and love …
Living With A Hero, Grayson Edds
Living With A Hero, Grayson Edds
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Living with a Hero is an original fiction piece. It tells the story of four military wives who have to rediscover their husbands after return from deployment. The Marines come home and display different symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder.
Reckless Anxiety, Hugo Esteban Rodriguez
Reckless Anxiety, Hugo Esteban Rodriguez
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Preface
SCOPE OF PROJECT
Reckless Anxiety will focus on fourteen short stories that have characters who all suffer from some form of mental illness, compulsion or disorder. The title is itself a paradox, because anxiety in its general sense could make someone with it more cautious than normal. I wanted to take it to an extreme level and approach writing with the recklessness of an artist afraid of what could happen should he ever stop moving or stop dancing.
PROJECT BACKGROUND
Before I started developing my Thesis, as a writer I felt as if I was on a path with …