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31 Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley

A scientist, Victor Frankenstein, learns how to create life and creates a being in the likeness of man, but larger than average and more powerful.
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Gothic, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 721 | Votes: 6 | Score: 6.67
Size: 408KB | 74,958 words | Posted:

32 Man in Debt by Scriptorius

'Man In Debt' is a novella-length piece in fourteen chapters. Largely in correspondence form, it concerns a battle involving a wily borrower, his lender and their two firms of lawyers. The principals move from hostility to quasi-friendliness. Their legal representatives go the opposite way, with farcical results.
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Age Rating: Anybody
Tags: Humor
Downloads: 1685 | Votes: 18 | Score: 6.64
Size: 173KB | 32,300 words | Posted: Concluded:

33 Chance Encounter by JOHNNY SACHU

A meeting aboard a star-craft on a luxury curise to New Belgium leads to an affair of the heart that one of them, will never forget.
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Age Rating: Older than 17
Tags: Science Fiction
Downloads: 1434 | Votes: 123 | Score: 6.59
Size: 18KB | 3,459 words | Posted:

34 The Corvette Road Rally by Banadin

A short story inspired by the many emails I received about Corvettes not having a backseat.
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Age Rating: Anybody
Tags: Horror
Downloads: 1114 | Votes: 66 | Score: 6.54
Size: 5KB | 1,145 words | Posted:

35 Bang by Old Fart

It started like a schoolboy's dare and nobody took it seriously. It was the start of the end of the world.
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Age Rating: Anybody
Tags: Humor, Parable, Science, Apocalyptic
Downloads: 3188 | Votes: 159 | Score: 6.50
Size: 4KB | 705 words | Posted:

36 Sir Bertram Speaks by Scriptorius

Sir Bertram Utterside issues a series of pronouncements, not always entirely serious, on a variety of burning social topics.
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Age Rating: Anybody
Tags: Humor
Downloads: 943 | Votes: 7 | Score: 6.24
Size: 70KB | 12,384 words | Posted: Concluded:

37 Origins by Short

Everything begins somewhere... A very short story about how things got started.
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Age Rating: Anybody
Tags: Humor, Drama, Science, Historical, Travel, Science Fiction, Apocalyptic, Post Apocalyptic, Time Travel, Aliens, Space, Alternate Universe, Alternate Timeline
Downloads: 2369 | Votes: 124 | Score: 6.24
Size: 2KB | 369 words | Posted:

38 Professor Jopp's Remarkable Feats by Scriptorius

A series of astounding experiments carried out by the redoubtable 'Sage of Trondheim', with caustic observations from his chief rival, the 'Swedish Savant'.
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Age Rating: Anybody
Tags: Humor, Science
Downloads: 1137 | Votes: 11 | Score: 5.62
Size: 58KB | 10,209 words | Posted: Concluded:

39 The Son Extraordinaire by Mrinalini R

The coach of a local cricket team feels delighted to have at his disposal a prodigal talent. But, there are other reasons behind this strong attachment. However, in a span of a week, things turn sour
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Age Rating: Anybody
Tags: Coming of Age, Melodrama, School, Sports
Downloads: 1300 | Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 172KB | 31,781 words | Posted:
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