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Picture of A Collection of Short Stories
Date Added: January 26, 2011
Word Count: 428
There are four short stories and each with a different theme etc.
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Picture of A Freak's Journey
Date Added: April 11, 2011
Word Count: 117,300
Jimmy's Mum throws here six-year old son out of their apartment while she services clients. The boy runs from his 1890's London slum and joins the circus. Jimmy grows into James as he meets the circus owner's challenge to become a "freak" of some kind to earn his keep. Initial success as a...
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Picture of A Handful of Dust
Date Added: August 14, 2010
Word Count: 82,269
Take one of the most famous missing persons of the 20th Century, a renowned New York State Governor, a 21st Century crazed Navy Captain, and place them in 1930 depression-riddled New York City, then toss in a 21st Century hotshot FBI undercover agent and you have the ingredients of a fast paced thri...
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Picture of A Hard Life to Bare
Date Added: October 26, 2010
Word Count: 1564
It is told in first person point of view. It is set in the late 1700's to the early 1800's and is about a young woman names Agness Jenning who has to go though many hardships. Although Agness and her family do not exist the events are real.
Current rating is 2.33. Total votes 3.
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Picture of A Story in a Hole
Date Added: February 13, 2012
Word Count: 19,421
A young man gets lost in a huge desert and wanders around for three years until he meets an old man named Melek that lives in an underground house. He has forgotten a lot of things from his past life so he is forced to make a new life for himself. He learns a lot of things from Melek and Melek's wif...
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Picture of A Walk on the Ridge
Date Added: March 14, 2011
Word Count: 1504
An historical fiction about a young native American girl trying to find her place within her family and a new home.
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Picture of Achaeus of Athens
Date Added: February 5, 2012
Word Count: 10,106
Strange things begin to happen in the city of Athens in 52 A.D. It all starts with a stranger that comes and starts talking about new things from a far country that they have never heard of before. Some of the Athenians begin to follow him, and he touches the lives of many of the slaves and poor peo...
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Picture of An Affair to Forget
Date Added: October 18, 2010
Word Count: 1144
The excesses of the early 80's undo an arrogant man who only lived to please himself.
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Picture of An Old, Old Treasure
Date Added: January 9, 2012
Word Count: 7,049
Canada, in the 1800ds is a rough place to live. An eleven-year-old named Katy lives with her family in Alberta, until a horrible accident destroys her home and family. The man that is supposed to take care of her, abandons her in the forest and she is saved by a young mountain man that is running aw...
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Picture of An Unexpected Answer
Date Added: January 9, 2012
Word Count: 1,151
Ruth is a 3d class passenger on board the Titanic, she awakens to find the ship nearly deserted and water flooding the the ship but is unable to get out. Then a stranger gives her much needed assistance and comes up with a plan to get them off the sinking Titanic. Will Ruth trust him enough to go al...
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