Claudia Marcucetti Pascoli
Bingo! Stories from Daily Gambles
Life is a gamble: unpredictable, capricious, luminous, and brutal.
Within these pages, each card is a story, and each story leads to another: love that hurts, desire that burns, loneliness that lingers, and human beings searching for meaning amid the chaos of everyday life.
Here dwell the woman who slips into someone else’s dress to imagine an impossible wedding; the man who falls in love with the abyss; the princess who flees an inherited destiny; the single woman surviving on chocolates and fantasies; the bastard who promises and slips away; the couple that breaks apart, the one that reinvents itself, the one that lies to itself.…
Arin Lee Kambitsis
SPARKLE
Something evil is hidden in the woods outside of the beautiful town of Sparkle, PA, the kind of thing Peter Huffy, newly arrived in town, does not believe in. Little does he know that something is happening in Sparkle, something that hasn’t occurred on Earth since the destruction of Camelot a millennium and a half before, and the forces of good and evil are going to collide. Twelve-year-old Derek Windward is the sole keeper of Sparkle’s oldest secret. He is the only one who has witnessed the evil hiding in the darkest part of the forest, and how terrifying the power it wields truly is. It is the Bunyine - a giant, tormented creature born eight-thousand years ago in the Garden of Eden and harboring an ancient grudge for the betrayal of its masters Adam and Eve. One morning, Derek receives…
Purpurno Sonĝoj
Sir Screech of Clereford Thwaite *First Edition*
Tom is a majestic tortoise shell cat resident in the village of Clereford Thwaite, living without a care in the world until he finds himself involved in a fight between a dark raider and a bright wizard. As a consequence he finds himself dubbed 'Sir Screech of Clereford Thwaite' and charged with defending the village. He does get a little magic to help him though...
F. S. Clock
Confessions of a Thought Daughter
a collection of Prose and Poetry that explores gender, love, sex, and feminism.
Purpurno Sonĝoj
Sun Child *First Edition*
A short story based around a sequel to the classic King Crimson song Moon Child.
Note - 3 chapters, around 3,500 words
JC Reardon
The Illuminati
The Illuminati refers most commonly to the Bavarian Illuminati, a secret society founded in 1776 in Ingolstadt, Bavaria, by Adam Weishaupt.
It aimed to promote Enlightenment ideals such as reason, secularism, and opposition to religious and political oppression. Members operated in secrecy, using coded language and rituals to avoid detection by authorities, which eventually led to the group being banned in the late 1780s.
Despite its short existence, the Illuminati has become a powerful symbol in conspiracy theories, often portrayed as an unseen force manipulating global events. Modern references to the Illuminati in popular culture blend historical fact with myth, music, film, and internet lore.…
JanayJourney
Shiver
On a rain-slick street, Emily sees something she was never meant to see — a shadowed figure with glowing eyes, standing perfectly still under a flickering streetlight. It doesn’t follow her in the way people do. It follows in the spaces between blinks, in the corners of mirrors, in the silent pauses of the night.
When the presence crosses her threshold, Emily’s quiet life unravels. Her cat hisses at empty air. Old photographs reveal it has been with her far longer than she remembers. And every day, the cold grows stronger.
Others have seen it. None have escaped. The only way to be free is to pass it on — but condemning someone else means damning them to the same endless fear.…
SGPotter
The Silence Between Sirens
A boy caught between silence and survival. A mask that remembers more than he does. A story that refuses to look away.Seventeen-year-old Jake Ellis has learned to disappear. Between an abusive father, an empty fridge, and a city that swallows the unseen, his best skill is staying quiet.But when the sirens come and his father is arrested for murder, Jake’s world fractures. Placed in a group home with no family left and no answers, he begins to unravel—until he’s handed a flyer for a youth art program that changes everything.At Firehouse Arts, masks are more than art. They’re memory. They’re legacy. And they don’t just hide the truth—they show it.As Jake sculpts and paints his way through grief and rage, his drawings begin to bleed with images he doesn’t remember. Dreams twist into visions.…
Whitney LeShay
Crimson Tides and Moon Shadow
Crimson Tides & Moonshadow is a dark fantasy novel set in the enigmatic and treacherous world of Black Cliff Academy, a boarding school built on ancient secrets and a fragile supernatural truce. The story follows Grace Vance, a seventeen-year-old orphan and scholarship student who arrives at the isolated, storm-lashed school carrying a mysterious past and an even more mysterious locket, the only link to the mother she never knew.…
Jane Doe
Que Dios reparta suerte
Una historia de pasiones imposibles. ¿Maternidad o profesión? La tragedia del cuerpo femenino, maravilloso y al mismo tiempo, implacable, enmarcada en la metáfora del mundo taurino sin hacer apologia del mismo: Elsa ha perseguido un sueño toda la vida: ser torera. Triunfar en el mundo machista del toreo es casi imposible, pero no para ella que tiene arte. Con el amor y el apoyo de Tomás, un torero fallido que la ama sin control, parece estar a punto de lograrlo. Pero la suerte que les reparte la vida los pone entre la espada y la pared: teniendo el triunfo muy cerca, Elsa descubre estar embarzada. Están obligados a tomar una decisión que preferirían evadir. ¿Perseguir el triunfo y que Elsa salga al ruedo a la corrida más importante de su vida o abandonar todo lo que han logrado para ser…