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31 Last Night at the Last Chance Diner by Number 7

Christmas Eve - 2012 The predicted Apocalypse of 12/21/12 never occurred. Those who believed breathed a sigh of relief. While families all over the world gather to celebrate Christmas, a group of misfits gather to ward off the loneliness, and sorrows of wasted lives, in an out of the way diner, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and witness the beginning....
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Age Rating: Anybody
Tags: Christmas, Apocalyptic, Angels
Downloads: 8017 | Votes: 141 | Score: 7.40
Size: 179KB | 32,671 words | Posted: Concluded:

32 An Empire's War by James Douglas

What if the Roman Empire didn't die? What would they be like today? Rome and its allies are threatened by a old enemy. Who will live and who will die?
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Age Rating: Older than 7
Tags: Romance, Military, Alternate Timeline
Downloads: 5232 | Votes: 217 | Score: 7.39
Size: 203KB | 37,776 words | Posted: Concluded:

33 The Western Rim by JOHNNY SACHU

Landing on a dinosaur world, two crew members take separate vacations but one disappears into the jungle and ends up missing.
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Age Rating: Older than 17
Tags: Science Fiction
Downloads: 1495 | Votes: 130 | Score: 7.35
Size: 21KB | 3,815 words | Posted:

34 A Call in the Night by Jerome Norris

Four a.m., awake in my bed, waiting for the familiar call over the bedside monitor. It would come soon, as it did every night.
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Age Rating: Older than 13
Tags: Spiritual
Downloads: 1153 | Votes: 101 | Score: 7.35
Size: 2KB | 504 words | Posted:

35 The Pickanick Basket by GT Dodge

In a grim future, the Loggin Folk have always scraped by. Now hunted by a terrible foe, they flee into the mountains that they know better than anyone else. They have no modern weapons, no transport, little food. They’re down to eating tree bark for most meals but still managing to move the tribe. No worries, the Loggin Folk have never been totally out of food. They have their PickaNick basket. There’s food in it.
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Coming of Age, Romance, Dystopian, Cannibalism, Post Apocalyptic, Near Future
Downloads: 436 | Votes: 10 | Score: 7.34
Size: 40KB | 8,049 words | Posted:

36 The Disappearance of Sir Oliver Plumb by normist

The World of Robert MacLeod (4)
Sir Oliver Plumb has disappeared. Has he been kidnapped? Has he been killed? Is it a political ploy. Robert MacLeod, a Special Investigator of the New England Bureau of Investigationis given the task of investigating the disappearance. What will he find?
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Age Rating: Older than 7
Tags: Crime, Humor, Science Fiction, Alternate Timeline, Magic
Downloads: 3667 | Votes: 287 | Score: 7.33
Size: 31KB | 6,010 words | Posted: Concluded:

37 Command Decision by JOHNNY SACHU

In the midst of war, a young officer is required to think for herself in any situation, no matter how trying.
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Age Rating: Older than 13
Tags: Science Fiction
Downloads: 3115 | Votes: 216 | Score: 7.30
Size: 57KB | 10,347 words | Posted:

38 Seed of Doubt by papatoad

An old story that is quite gloomy and has no redeeming features.
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Age Rating: Older than 17
Tags: Romance, Tear Jerker, Aging
Downloads: 1817 | Votes: 9 | Score: 7.26
Size: 12KB | 2,454 words | Posted:

39 Rescue by The Mage

The story Of an old man and a young woman, an unusual love story
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Age Rating: Older than 17
Tags: Slavery
Downloads: 2752 | Votes: 191 | Score: 7.26
Size: 34KB | 6,764 words | Posted: Concluded:

40 To the Royal Academy of Farting by Benjamin Franklin

Franklin wrote this humorous response to a call for scientific papers from the Royal Academy of Brussels while United States ambassador to France around 1781. He was also a respected scientist at the time. It was never sent (so as not to raise a stink) but was included in a letter to a friend.
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Age Rating: Older than 13
Tags: Humor
Downloads: 880 | Votes: 39 | Score: 7.26
Size: 5KB | 1,001 words | Posted:
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