A Knox Family Story (1) Part of the Enfield Undrowned universe
Will you be content to drift from situation to situation, to sail the course charted for you by others, or will you take charge of your life and chart your own course?
For Jeff Knox, a teenager about to start high school in Enfield, Massachusetts, choosing to take charge of his life will affect more lives than just his own.
Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Biography Tags: Coming of Age, Romance, School, Military, Workplace, Alternate Timeline Week's Downloads: 138 | Votes: 1082 | Score: 8.43 Size: 1385KB | 261,818 words |
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You Can't Go Home Again. Henry Brewer's life has fallen to pieces. His NFL dreams disappeared years ago and now so has his life in the NYPD, along with his soon-to-be ex-wife. Forced to return to the small West Virginian town he grew up in, Henry comes face to face with his past, seeing it through the eyes of an adult. As if this wasn't hard enough, he must figure out who he is now and what he wants at the same time. Is it possible to reinvent yourself as an adult?
Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Drama Tags: Coming of Age, Drama, Restart Week's Downloads: 92 | Votes: 149 | Score: 8.20 Size: 606KB | 122,157 words |
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If happiness was measured in money there would be very few millionaires. This is a story about Dan Parker, a young man who starts his life as an adult with the odds stacked against him. Follow his journey of self discovery as he tries to achieve happiness. His story might make you wonder if you live next door to a millionaire. CHAPTERS WILL BE POSTED EVERY OTHER DAY!
Age Rating: Anybody | Genre: Drama Tags: Coming of Age, Humor, Workplace Week's Downloads: 57 | Votes: 348 | Score: 8.89 Size: 1474KB | 287,124 words |
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Benny Baker went from being a smarter than average, fourteen year old kid, to being a super genius. It was an overnight transformation in which his speech patterns become more precise, his mannerisms became muted, and his opinions matured. He has a chance to make things right, but he's not sure what that means.
Age Rating: Anybody | Genre: General Tags: Coming of Age, School, Rags to Riches, Do-Over Week's Downloads: 56 | Votes: 329 | Score: 8.75 Size: 1328KB | 256,548 words |
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A Destiny Saga Story (4) Things are looking up for Caspian Grey and his Family. It's a new year with new opportunities. While they work to complete 'the plan', a new enemy makes itself known and new challenges stand in their way. Can Caspian and his girls keep the family together?
Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction Tags: Coming of Age Week's Downloads: 47 | Votes: 262 | Score: 7.83 Size: 440KB | 87,176 words |
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Jamie was a widower living near Orlando, Florida when circumstances resulted in him being the last man alive. Follow along as he struggles to survive and seeks someone, anyone, anywhere...
Age Rating: Older than 13 Tags: Romance, Drama, Spiritual, Post Apocalyptic, Novel-Classic Week's Downloads: 47 | Votes: 425 | Score: 7.04 Size: 230KB | 44,305 words |
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The continuation of the story of Legacy. Please read The Ministry of Fire, Part 1 before beginning this. Part 2 picks up right at the cliffhanger ending of Part 1. Ryan sets off to stop the war between the Ministry of Fire and Water. With the help of his friends, he confronts a corrupt nobleman called Lord Gregory who set the two Ministries against each other. However, his greatest threat comes in the form of two mysterious Goblin assassins working for Lord Gregory.
Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction Tags: Coming of Age, Romance, Assassins, Science Fiction, Space, Futuristic, Robots, Shapeshifters, Extra Sensory Perception, Supernatural, Fantasy, Dragons, Magic Week's Downloads: 46 | Votes: 13 | Score: 8.56 Size: 1047KB | 194,389 words |
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A Knox Family Story (2) Part of the Enfield Undrowned universe
Terrorist rage pierces the heart of the United States in a shocking and brutal attack. The attack jolts the country from its naïveté in one, horrifying instant; Jeff Knox, his family, friends, and neighbors are shaken from their comfortable lives in that same moment. How does a nation of three hundred million respond and how does it change one man?
Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Biography Tags: Romance, War, Military, Workplace, Alternate Timeline Week's Downloads: 45 | Votes: 567 | Score: 8.72 Size: 844KB | 158,781 words |
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John Taylor (1) John Taylor walked out of the desert a different man than he was going in. After three years of torture Taylor is now an ex-soldier with a life in shambles facing a world that gave him up for dead and moved on in his absence. Taylor is forced to pick up the pieces when he steps in to help an outgunned Federal Marshal against unknown assailants. Now Taylor is on the run and saddled with a witness marked for death. Can saving the witness's life give Taylor back his own?
Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Action/Adventure Tags: Crime, Violence, Military Week's Downloads: 45 | Votes: 497 | Score: 7.93 Size: 277KB | 55,196 words |
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A Rivers Region Story A young man with a unique heritage that guides his destiny has to deal with many hard issues starting with the murder of his father while 10 years of age. We follow his life for the next decade while he works to survive, protect his heritage, and fight the man he holds responsible for his father's death. He's more than what he seems, and strives to meet all his responsibilities. Set in Australia.
Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Young Adult Tags: Coming of Age, Drama, Politics, School, Violence, Workplace, Young Adult Week's Downloads: 45 | Votes: 492 | Score: 8.22 Size: 656KB | 130,826 words |
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A man scarred by injustice, a lost love, and wounds of combat, finds himself volunteered as a foster father, a protector, and a combatant in a lethal struggle against a past bully and a vengeful cartel lord.
What if Fairies and Dragons weren't legends, but aliens visiting our planet and inspiring our myths of old. After discovering intergalactic travel, humanity now lives alongside these fairytales and accepts them as a part of everyday life. Legacy is the perfect blend of science fiction and fantasy. It tells the story of Ryan Uruks, a human/dragon hybrid seeking to avenge his family by training in the ancient magic passed down by the Great Golden Dragon. This magic is called Elemency.
Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction Tags: Coming of Age, Romance, Drama, Politics, War, Rags to Riches, Science Fiction, Aliens, Space, Futuristic, Alternate Universe, Dinosaurs, Robots, Shapeshifters, Fantasy, Dragons, Dwarves, Elves, Magic, Super Hero, Knights Week's Downloads: 38 | Votes: 21 | Score: 7.79 Size: 944KB | 176,941 words |
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Tim and his father, James McKenzie, have just been through a year of heartache. Together they decide that there's no better way to move forward than to embark on an epic journey of discovery, growth, reconciliation and healing. Join them as they find that life goes on, that broken relationships can be mended and that a lost love can be rekindled.
Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Romance Tags: Coming of Age, Romance, School, Young Adult, Tear Jerker Week's Downloads: 37 | Votes: 210 | Score: 8.42 Size: 1791KB | 351,369 words |
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John Taylor (9) When a federal witness is killed by an impossible shot shortly before testifying against a New Jersey crime family, Taylor is sent to protect the remaining witness in the case. Realizing that the murder was more than a typical hit, Taylor does what he always does... he takes the offensive. In tracking down a hit man that no one has knew existed, Taylor is taken on a journey across the country and directly into the assassin's crosshairs.
Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Thriller Tags: Crime, Violence, Assassins, Detective Week's Downloads: 36 | Votes: 88 | Score: 8.30 Size: 291KB | 56,773 words |
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A coming of age story with a twist. Addle-brained Tommy works down at the feed store, stacking Purina and sweeping the floor. A Vietcong rocket scrambled his brains so thoroughly that was all he was capable of... or was it?
Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Drama Tags: Coming of Age, Romance, Drama Week's Downloads: 36 | Votes: 146 | Score: 9.01 Size: 586KB | 110,000 words |
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Imperium (1) An Uncertain Future in a New Past. During the test flight of a prototype faster-than-light craft, Lt. Commander Ky is flung into the ancient past that never existed. Rome has fallen, defeated by the mighty Carthaginian Empire. Hounded by the Carthaginians bent on conquering the known world, Rome is on the verge of destruction. Stranded and alone, except for a tactical AI implanted in his head, Ky has lost everything and must find a way to live in a world different than anything he's ever known.
Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction Tags: Historical, War, Science Fiction, Time Travel, Alternate Timeline, Nanotechnology, AI Week's Downloads: 33 | Votes: 167 | Score: 8.39 Size: 1007KB | 188,611 words |
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Damsels In Distress
Professor Edwin Jackson taught history, for the simple reason that he had a desire to live in historical times. Although offered many times to go to Chaos, he had always refused. He knew that the suggestion of a medieval world with Damsels in Distress was a result of the misguided imaginings of his good friend Gerald Jones. Better late than never. {5 chapters}
Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Action/Adventure Tags: Romance, Humor, Violence Week's Downloads: 33 | Votes: 117 | Score: 7.96 Size: 86KB | 16,505 words |
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Paul McAllister wants nothing more than to put the wars, cancer, and death of his wife behind him as he numbly glides into his final years doing the only thing he still enjoys - selling weapons and his services as a gunsmith on the gun show circuit of the American southwest. Driving down the road in the Mesilla Valley of southern New Mexico Paul loses consciousness while returning home from a gun show. An hour later, he awakens, finding himself swept away on the tides of time.
Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Western Tags: Historical, Western, Science Fiction, Time Travel Week's Downloads: 33 | Votes: 377 | Score: 8.31 Size: 1018KB | 199,219 words |
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Due to family matters a teen boy moves to the USA, where he learns to play, and like playing, baseball. He works hard and enjoys his baseball. To him it's a fun sport, but he can't resist when they offering him good money to play professional baseball. However, there's one problem, few paid ball players are true professionals. He must choose between playing in a situation he doesn't like, or walking away from good money, and playing where he likes to play for the fun. 76,000 words
Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Action/Adventure Tags: Workplace, Rags to Riches, Sports, Baseball Week's Downloads: 32 | Votes: 388 | Score: 8.15 Size: 381KB | 77,605 words |
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Joshua loved Lindsey with all his being, so when she kicked him to the curb on their fourth anniversary he was devastated. Josh didn't think his broken heart would ever heal, but with the help of a few extraordinary women, and the healing hands of time, he discovered that life could be better than he ever imagined.
Age Rating: Anybody | Genre: Drama Tags: Romance Week's Downloads: 30 | Votes: 1209 | Score: 9.07 Size: 223KB | 43,198 words |
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Pudgy, out of shape, divorced, and laid-off; Colin thought he had hit rock-bottom. Then came the landslide that almost sent him to his grave. In the depths of despair, miles from nowhere, he searches for a way to get back to civilization and finds that his service is required in a totally unexpected role - as the person who will save the human race from destruction. / (Reviews)
Age Rating: Anybody | Genre: Science Fiction Tags: Aliens, Space, Nanotechnology, AI Week's Downloads: 29 | Votes: 1712 | Score: 8.88 Size: 446KB | 80,245 words |
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Mike lives through "interesting times" that follow when terrorists bring the 'War On Terror' to the United States. "This was what he was fighting to preserve — mothers taking their children to the park where they could play without fearing for their lives. {[I hate the fact that I can find no way to deal honorably with dishonorable people. I find it disgusting that in order to save what I value most, I must lower myself to their level.]}"
Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction Tags: Romance, Politics, Violence, Science, Religion, War, Military, Spies, Science Fiction, Near Future, Robots Week's Downloads: 28 | Votes: 257 | Score: 8.81 Size: 1087KB | 204,450 words |
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Long trips, new attacks, growing pains, spies in their ranks, and increasing violence between anti-slavery and pro-slavery groups, stretch Paul and Anna's resources in every direction and at every turn. With the help of their family and friends, new and old, they race against time to complete their plans before the incessant drum beats of war begin in the east.
Age Rating: Anybody | Genre: Western Tags: Western, Science Fiction, Alternate Timeline Week's Downloads: 28 | Votes: 150 | Score: 8.30 Size: 977KB | 188,095 words |
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Country Roads (2) Music, Baseball and Bullies. Charlie's life is busier than ever as he continues to put down roots in his community, making friends and enemies, and explore who he wants to be. Charlie decides to follow the two things he always loved when he was a kid, music and baseball. Joining the school team and forming his first band both pull him in different directions, adding to the pressures he already faced with school, bullies, making friends, and trying to become his own man.
Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: General Tags: Coming of Age, Romance, School, Rags to Riches, Sports, Baseball Week's Downloads: 27 | Votes: 155 | Score: 8.03 Size: 1053KB | 213,283 words |
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An Unwanted Visitors Story (1) "Never Leave Anyone Behind" is a familiar refrain for Servicemen. A crew is incapacitated in a strange land and a hostile government tries to capture them and steal their resources. What if you're not in the military? Do you put your family's lives at risk, especially if they might not live. Josh Evens discovers a shipwrecked alien and tries to protect it and it's crew from his government.
Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction Tags: Drama, Science, Science Fiction, Aliens, Space, Near Future Week's Downloads: 27 | Votes: 601 | Score: 8.46 Size: 638KB | 114,862 words |
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A Destiny Saga Story (1) Caspian Grey's life was already pretty weird, and then he started high school. He must cope with the bizarre changes in his life while trying to find the family he always wanted. A sci-fi coming of age story.
(A note, there is a slow build here. Sci-Fi elements don't show up till around chapter 20)
Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Young Adult Tags: Coming of Age, Romance, Violence, Science Fiction Week's Downloads: 27 | Votes: 400 | Score: 7.78 Size: 480KB | 94,411 words |
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A Destiny Saga Story (2) Three short months ago Caspian Grey was a loner, with a family that regretted adopting him, no friends, and little idea of what his life would be. He was a soul lost in the world And then everything changed. His life has a purpose, a reason for being. He has his girls and a family, of sorts, that loves him. He has friends that will stand with him. But even this new road will have some some sharp curves to navigate. But there is a secret that he and his family must keep.
Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Young Adult Tags: Coming of Age, Science Fiction Week's Downloads: 25 | Votes: 407 | Score: 7.70 Size: 491KB | 97,746 words |
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A Not-Quite Human Story (1) Al and Betty have peculiar skills which set them apart, and which leads them to search for others like them. As they discover who they might be, they become alienated from friends, family and humanity in general. They must discover who they are and where they belong, as there no room for them in their world. Between walking into disasters, ungrateful rescues and government agents tracking their every movement, they're searching for a way out and a way home, wherever that might be.
Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction Tags: Science Fiction, Space, AI Week's Downloads: 24 | Votes: 171 | Score: 7.37 Size: 336KB | 63,152 words |
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A Rivers Region Story They say the Chinese have a curse - May you live in interesting times. A 15 year old boy has a major change of lifestyle forced on him. We follow along while he adjusts to the changes. However, he lives in interesting times and he must deal with them as well as rising to the challengers presented to him. Through all this his true nature shows and he changes the lives of many others in the city of Rivers, and elsewhere. Set in Australia.
Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Action/Adventure Tags: Coming of Age, Drama, Politics, Violence, Workplace, Young Adult Week's Downloads: 24 | Votes: 612 | Score: 8.04 Size: 512KB | 102,472 words |
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Paul and Anna McAllister, along with their family and friends want nothing more than to be left in peace as they continue building Estancia Dos Santos into their querencia, a retreat, a place to rest and relax free from all worry. Using the wealth they've accumulated, they begin to right historical wrongs and lay the foundations for seeking statehood. The mysterious 'Boss' has other plans for Paul, Anna, and the Estancia. Two Chapters every Friday until complete.
Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Western Tags: Historical, Western, Alternate Timeline Week's Downloads: 22 | Votes: 163 | Score: 8.54 Size: 784KB | 151,260 words |
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An angry young man grows up to be an angry middle-aged man. Now he's stuck in a dead-end job, married to a woman that detests him, and has children that don't even know him. A close encounter with death makes him realize that he deserves more than what life has dealt him thus far. Can he get it? Concluding Chapter has been posted. Enjoy!
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A Destiny Saga Story (5) Caspian and his family are back and are the targets of an criminal organization that wants Caspian dead. The family must face their opponents, both new and old, while continuing the work to move their plans beyond one small Texas town.
Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction Tags: Coming of Age Week's Downloads: 22 | Votes: 210 | Score: 8.02 Size: 620KB | 122,733 words |
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'Once a Marine, always a Marine.' was the code he lived by. His dictionary had no definition for 'impossible:' an exceptional man who wouldn't let his superiors stop him from doing what he saw as his duty, even if it's by himself after being retired. The story is told by his niece who's concerned about how the authorities are trying to rewrite his life for their own purposes.
Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Action/Adventure Tags: Violence, War, Military, Near Future Week's Downloads: 21 | Votes: 271 | Score: 8.06 Size: 176KB | 33,618 words |
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A Rivers Region Story A retired soldier's farm is attacked. When his weapon is damaged the 11 year-old son is told to take is almost 2 year-old sister and escape out the hidden exit after promising to care for his sister until she can care for herself. Their parents are killed while they travel down the tunnel, so he sets off the final defences as the enemy moves in, and kills more of the attackers. He's faithful to his promise as they live through 'interesting times' while his sister learns to care for herself.
Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Action/Adventure Tags: Crime, Rags to Riches Week's Downloads: 20 | Votes: 200 | Score: 8.28 Size: 493KB | 96,448 words |
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A fire destroys a farm in Virginia, so the family is moving west. Except the youngest is too ill to travel when it's time to leave. The boy and his grandmother stay behind to follow later. It takes so long for him to recover the two don't go west, and find local employment. A decade later rising political problems cause the young man and his grandmother to make a decision about their future. They'll go west, but it isn't that simple, or an easy journey. Written in US English - 72,700 words.
Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Action/Adventure Tags: Politics, Violence, Historical, Western, Rags to Riches Week's Downloads: 20 | Votes: 454 | Score: 7.90 Size: 368KB | 73,845 words |
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A Destiny Saga Story (3) A Destiny Saga Short Story. After a long year Caspian and his family decide to take a relaxing summer cruise through the Caribbean. Sadly, it seems things never go as they are planned for Caspian. His summer vacation is interrupted when some new friends need a helping hand.
Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction Tags: Coming of Age, Romance, Crime, Violence, Travel, Science Fiction Week's Downloads: 20 | Votes: 219 | Score: 7.32 Size: 77KB | 15,474 words |
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It started with a botched robbery in which Sonny Daniels was shot. All that his family wanted was for the robbers to get put in jail, but they were in Los Angeles and things work a little differently there than in the country. When cultures collide, the potential for misunderstanding is huge.
Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Action/Adventure Tags: Crime, Drama, Violence Week's Downloads: 19 | Votes: 199 | Score: 8.34 Size: 473KB | 92,482 words |
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