5,001 - A Science Fiction Romance Short Story

5,001 - A Science Fiction Romance Short Story

Tracy Cooper-Posey

Tracy Cooper-Posey

Caelen is the most sought-after engineer aboard the Endurance, a generation ship at least four hundred light years away from its destination. Captain Lakewood demands she resolve a riddle—the ship is losing water. Caelen’s former lover, Devar, was persecuted by Lakewood but for everyone aboard, Caelen tries to solve the riddle and learns that Devar was not the only one manipulated.
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Johnny Eleven and Les Paul Heaven

Johnny Eleven and Les Paul Heaven

Chet Belding

Chet Belding

Rock and Roll dreams. Johnny has them big time. The only problem is he's an awful guitar player. But an encounter with a special guitar made by a psychotic craftsman changes everything. For Johnny starts to become the guitar player of his dreams not realizing he's being stalked by a psychotic madman. But fate may be on his side for only the special guitar can decide who stays and who dies.
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Barefoot Heroine

Barefoot Heroine

Ann Mauren

Romance / Mystery & Thrillers / Humor

Former CIA agent Ash Ryan has finally found a stress-free dream job. But his life turns bitterly painful when he falls desperately in love with Ellery Mayne, the entrancing but clueless subject of his company’s security contract. This excerpt from the Mayne Attraction Series reveals the secret life of Ellery as seen through the eyes of a man who adores her but believes he will never meet her.
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Eat. Sweat. Play

Eat. Sweat. Play

Anna Kessel

Nonfiction / Feminism / Sports

What does it mean to be a sporty woman in the 21st century? From the launch of Net-A-Sporter, serving up sports clothing for fashionistas, to the introduction of #plankie as the new Instagram selfie for yoga bunnies; exercise for women has finally gone mainstream.But if sweating has never been so hot for female celebrities, then why are there still so many obstacles for girls and women when it comes to sport? Why do girls still hate school sports lessons? Why is sport consistently defined as male territory, with TV cameras replicating the male gaze as they search out the most beautiful women in the crowd? Will women ever flock to watch football, rugby and boxing in their millions? Or turn up to the park with friends for a Sunday morning kickabout? How long do we have to wait to see the first multi-millionaire female footballer or basketball player?Eat. Sweat. Play is an engaging and inspirational work by sports writer Anna Kessel.
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The Long-Winded Lady

The Long-Winded Lady

Maeve Brennan

Maeve Brennan

From 1954 to 1981, Maeve Brennan wrote for The New Yorker's “Talk of the Town" department under the pen name “The Long-Winded Lady." Her unforgettable sketches—prose snapshots of life in small restaurants, cheap hotels, and crowded streets of Times Square and the Village—together form a timeless, bittersweet tribute to what she called the “most reckless, most ambitious, most confused, most comical, the saddest and coldest and most human of cities." First published in 1969, The Long-Winded Lady is a celebration of one of The New Yorker's finest writers.
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A Very Naughty Lady

A Very Naughty Lady

Vicki Harper

Vicki Harper

Sometimes you just need to bang the hell out of someone. Like after a particularly tough week at work. Or when you get dumped by your girlfriend. Or screwed over by your cable company. Or after one of the million other random, aggravating things that happen on a daily basis in this fucked up world of ours happens to you. When that happens I call Kristina. She is a very naughty lady. 18+ only.
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Just For the Summer

Just For the Summer

Judy Astley

Judy Astley

Every July, the lucky owners of Cornish holiday homes set off for their annual break. They close up their desirable semis in smartish London suburbs - having turned off the Aga and turned on the burglar alarm - and look forward to a carefree, restful, somehow more fulfilling summer.Clare is more than usually ready for her holiday. Her daughter, Miranda, is hitting adolescence bigtime, and her husband Jack is harbouring unsettling thoughts of a change in lifestyle. No wonder that Clare is contemplating a bit of extra-marital adventure, possibly with Eliot, the successful, heavy-drinking author in the adjoining holiday property.Unexpected disasters occur, revelations are made and, as the summer ends, real life will never be quite the same again.
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