 Short Stories by Author
by A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, U, V, W, Y
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| Becky Mackenzie |
Home Directory  (8 ratings)
"Home Directory," is set in the late 21st century and might be one possible scenario of emergency medicine in the future. The homeless have been part of the human condition for thousands of years; they are likely to be the touchstones of our social conscience for a few thousand more.
| (21. Aug 2001) |
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| Joseph MacKillop |
Trapped
The world this takes place in is where magic rules the north and technology the south. When the wizards try to get control of magic by kiling of the elves, something goes wrong. and when the leaders of the southren world try to eliminmate magic, they find out how hard it is.
| (18. Apr 2004) |
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| Marcus Maclean |
Within the great halls of Tauroman
Times are growing dim...and Sharan has become a land of hate and misery. By the folly of men - far off Haarith Duum has been forgotten: its power has been forgotten. Faradon now grows his army...soon they will attack the great gates of Bariador Saulk - soon.
| (14. Jun 2002) |
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| MacWhiz |
Part 1 - The Birth Of Girthamus  (1 rating)
This is the first chapter of Tales of a Barbarian. Girthamus is my role playing character and this is his story. The full novel is tentatively titled "Tales of a Barbarian" and this is "The Birth of Girthamus".
| (17. Apr 2002) |
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| Jay Mac |
The Escape From Falan Port (1 rating)
Its basically a quickly written beginning to a story I'm writing. It won't take long to read, tell me what you think.
| (4. Apr 2003) |
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| Shawn P. Madison |
Decisions  (1 rating)
They left him to die, to bake under the desert sun. The Others saved his life...taught him ancient skills...taught him revenge...
| (10. Dec 2000) |
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| Maggie and Lisa |
The Sotry (2 ratings)
Potato Farmers save the world from inevitable and imminent doooooooooooooom.
| (30. Aug 2002) |
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| Eric Magie |
The Prisoner  (15 ratings)
This is a story of a Vietnam vet stuck in a very strange prison.
| (19. Jan 2003) |
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| Magiius |
The Day of Treachery (5 ratings)
The elfin army travels to battle giants, when dwarves ambush it. An elf escapes to his capital, arriving to the dwarf king subverting the elfin peasants into hanging their emperor.
| (17. Jul 2001) |
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| Mike Maguire |
Transplant Transcripts (9 ratings)
This is a short piece of medical science ficition. It is an interview with the first ever recipient of brain transplant surgery.
| (24. Mar 2002) |
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| S. Elizabeth Maier |
Of Lost and Found (3 ratings)
Emma found herself lost, will she ever be found again?
| (30. Jun 2002) |
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| Michael F Mallon |
Innocence (5 ratings)
A short story based in this world or a fantasical world on the importance of Innocence.
| (6. Apr 2001) |
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| James H. Mancuso |
Mystery of The Ghost Crews (3 ratings)
A hybrid combining elements of Hardy Boys, Alien, and Invasion of the Body Snatchers, this story is about an alien invasion of rubber ball like creatures that disguise themselves as utility line crews, usually working out of manholes and some as jazz trios by using pants as their disguise.
| (9. Feb 2002) |
Hot Times In the Heights (Part 3)  (1 rating)
This is a sequel to Mystery of the Ghost Crews and like the original story, is a hybrid of Hardy Boys Mysteries, Alien, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, all rolled up into one. A Threequel, called Alien Invasion-The Second Wave is currently in the works. This sequel, Hot Times in the heights consists of cast of characters and the story itself in four sections.
| (22. Aug 2002) |
Hot Times In the Heights (Part 4) (3 ratings)
This is a sequel to Mystery of the Ghost Crews and like the original story, is a hybrid of Hardy Boys Mysteries, Alien, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, all rolled up into one. A Threequel, called Alien Invasion-The Second Wave is currently in the works. This sequel, Hot Times in the heights consists of cast of characters and the story itself in four sections.
| (22. Aug 2002) |
Hot Times In the Heights (Part 2) (1 rating)
This is a sequel to Mystery of the Ghost Crews and like the original story, is a hybrid of Hardy Boys Mysteries, Alien, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, all rolled up into one. A Threequel, called Alien Invasion-The Second Wave is currently in the works. This sequel, Hot Times in the heights consists of cast of characters and the story itself in four sections.
| (22. Aug 2002) |
Hot Times In the Heights (Part 1) (3 ratings)
This is a sequel to Mystery of the Ghost Crews and like the original story, is a hybrid of Hardy Boys Mysteries, Alien, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, all rolled up into one. A Threequel, called Alien Invasion-The Second Wave is currently in the works. This sequel, Hot Times in the heights consists of cast of characters and the story itself in four sections.
| (22. Aug 2002) |
Alien Invasion - The Second Wave (1 rating)
The Hanson Boys and friends deal with a second invasion of rubber ball like alien beings somewhat like those in Mystery of the Ghost Crews and Hot Times in the Heights but, the chaser balls accompanying the ghost crews and bands are far more vicious and dangerous than any seen before.
| (4. Apr 2003) |
Alien Invasion The Final Report
The conclusion to the series about the rubber ball like alien beings and how they terrified utility line crews, jazz musicians and others.
| (15. Feb 2004) |
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| Cathleen L. Mann |
Winter Will (4 ratings)
This is a story in poem form of a man who is given the gift/curse at birth of "All Knowing" and the price he must pay so that the World will survive.
| (25. Apr 2001) |
The Brave Scout (3 ratings)
A bard's tale of a young boy who enters into King Cahlia's service as a Scout. Watch the boy grow into a man as he meets the Druid Bular, and along with a band of elves and dwarves uncovers the Staff of All Wizards which may very well be the savior of Mytheon!
| (19. Jun 2001) |
Most Precious (2 ratings)
A short love story of an old married couple who will do just about anything to be together for eternity.
| (9. Feb 2002) |
Locked Inside Armor (4 ratings)
A Knight roams the country-side searching for the Wizard that has imprisoned him inside his Armor.
| (15. Apr 2002) |
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| Marcus |
BabySitting
What can go wrong on a night's babysitting.
| (18. Apr 2004) |
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| K.B. Marcus |
Such is life
This is the story of the boss of an organised crime organisation. He has just become the wealthiest man in the world with this girlfriend Alexandra, however she is killed by an enemy sniper. The man, who is called Mark, is very upset and is thinking of resigning from his role as boss, will he succeed?
| (1. Aug 2003) |
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| Taylor Marie |
The dark master (5 ratings)
Its about a girl who goes back in time
| (19. Jan 2003) |
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| Marilyn |
I fell in love with a falling star
This story is about a girl who fell in love with a stranger, and the result of her jealousy.
| (11. Feb 2003) |
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| Robert Marrero |
A housewarming (4 ratings)
| (7. Jan 2002) |
Of Shadows Past (1 rating)
The intrepid hero of "A Housewarming" is back in a tale of alien horror and revenge through time itself.
| (27. May 2002) |
Curiosity Killed the Temple  (2 ratings)
The third story in the life of the eternal warrior.
| (19. Jul 2002) |
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| Christopher G. Marshall |
Dangerous Evolution
Alien abduction, but with a twist...the aliens are our distant decendants come back through time to harvest untainted human DNA to save themselves from extinction after generations of genetic "enhancement".
| (30. Nov 2003) |
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| Antokin of MaRS |
Mars Time Odyssey  (5 ratings)
A Martian time dimension odyssey
| (4. Jan 2002) |
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| Richard Martin |
The Hero (2 ratings)
A story about a young wizard who goes into battle for the first time and learns a painful lesson about life.
| (11. Feb 2003) |
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| Seth Martin |
Epiphany (3 ratings)
An embelishment of my own early life. Touching of an Iron being the main theme. Family values as the underlying theme.
| (1. Nov 2002) |
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| Tiger Marty |
The Edge (10 ratings)
Having just discovered the shape of the world, Storben wants to explore. Preferably via every single pub in existence. If the world will let him...
| (18. Dec 2001) |
Jeb (2 ratings)
Trapped in a cumbersome body, Jeb plans his escape from an entity that uses dreams to kill.
| (13. Jan 2002) |
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| Barbara Mather |
Fortune in a cookie (2 ratings)
A story about falling in love and the permanence of those feelings.
| (4. May 2001) |
Life Or Death
| (18. Apr 2004) |
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| Leona Michelle Mattox |
What If
A girl saved from a life of abuse.
| (18. Jul 2004) |
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| Mavis |
Memory
A psychological tale from the perspective of a man involved in the destruction of a village.
| (30. Nov 2003) |
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| Paul May |
Mr (6 ratings)
A story about a teams mission to reclaim ancient lost technology from an abandoned and once lost facility in space. But technology isn't just the only surprise in store for them.
| (3. Sep 2001) |
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| Chris Mazzolini |
Who Is David Draiman?
Anselm the Vagrant is a man with no memory. Haunted by a strange being known only as the Creature, Anselm is driven by one question: Who is David Draiman? His hunt for the answer will lead to the realization that David Draiman is an author and that Anselm is a character trapped within his story, forever repeating its events.
| (30. Nov 2003) |
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| Joe McArdle |
W I N O (1 rating)
A care in the comunity multimedia brodcast show. Live from Downtown Europe. Somebody needs your life.
| (11. Feb 2003) |
Sir Bob Wires
Hovering the boards.
| (4. Apr 2003) |
Downtown Area 51
File under X.
| (4. Apr 2003) |
Coalboat Cadbury
In-house entertainment
| (4. Apr 2003) |
Rams Face
Keeping up appearances.
| (4. Apr 2003) |
Charity Hall
Charity begins at homes.
| (4. Apr 2003) |
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| Snookie McBinkerson |
Dangerous Adventures (Part 1) (4 ratings)
Swashbuckling, ale swilling, adventures, in a forgotten antediluvian age, when men shared the world with giants, leviathins, and creatures of a prehistoric age.
| (11. Jul 2001) |
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| Gene McClellan |
Nightmares of the Mind
After John looses his daughter in a fatal accident John and his wife are really depressed. The only thought on either of their minds is death. When John looses his wife right after his daughter that was the last string. John decides to end it...if only the nightmares would go away.
| (18. Apr 2004) |
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| Andy McCrackus |
Redemption
This is the story of a history teacher in a post-apocalyptic future. His desire to know about the past, not just on a factual level, but on an emotional one, overpowers his outdated recources, and he is sent on a search for the truth. But is his world really that different?
| (30. Nov 2003) |
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| Aaron McCray |
And Then There Was One (6 ratings)
In this game of the future, there can be only one winner.
| (19. Jan 2003) |
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| John McCullough |
Night Storm (Part 1) (17 ratings)
This is the introduction of Kensho, the main character and it gives the reader a glimpse into his thoughts...
| (27. Jan 2002) |
Charlie (4 ratings)
I grew up in a rural area of Southeast Texas, which means I got to spend the majority of my time outdoors exploring acres upon acres of piney woods, streams, fields, lakes... My partner in all of these wondrous adventures was my ever-present sidekick Charlie. Charlie was just an average size plain brown dog, nothing special at all about him...
| (17. Feb 2002) |
Night Storm (Part 2) (5 ratings)
"Wake up." The darkness cradled his tired soul in fold upon folds of wet, thick liquid ice that sent tendrils of chills deep into his spine. His head ached and throbbed in time to the primal rhythm of his slowly warming heart.
| (22. Mar 2002) |
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| C. A. McDonough |
The Hottest Guy I Ever Went Out With (4 ratings)
Okay, so like, I met this guy at a party and... a bunch of stuff happened. It was soooo freaky.
| (11. Feb 2003) |
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| Phillip Mcelraft |
Meeting (2 ratings)
This is a story about sentients.
| (17. Aug 2001) |
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| Bob Mcgee |
Marxm's Plight  (4 ratings)
Marxm, a wizard, is called to defeat the evil Demon King Demantia.
| (18. Dec 2001) |
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| Theresa McGinity |
The Path of Exiles
What would you do if your forbidden love cost you everything including the one you loved? What would you do if a single accident made your entire family turn on you? These two women now share a familial bond, one that may be broken when one of them returns to her family in the hopes they'd forgiven her.
| (15. Feb 2004) |
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| Kevin P. McGinn |
The War of the Races: 1. The Obsidian Sword (3 ratings)
Daerkin was a fairly simple gnomish sorcerer, working for a mysterious Magical Compound, peacefully studying his Art...Until an old foe from his past turns his life upside down and brings back painful memories...
| (24. Mar 2002) |
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| Adam McGrath |
Mr
One of the architects of a biochipped world realises the consequences when he falls fouls of the new society, and resolves to undo the harm no matter what the consequences.
| (30. Nov 2003) |
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| Raven McGraw |
The Riverlight
This story is small possibility about events in the marine environment occuring at the right place and time. The living things are already present on this planet, what is needed are just the right factors to come together, the most important can well be the light from the river.
| (1. Aug 2003) |
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| Matt McGreggor |
Demons from the Dark (3 ratings)
An infantry platoon is sent into a very old hall, whose existence has only recently been discovered. With vague orders, they march in silenty, only to be confronted with something not of this world.
| (16. Aug 2002) |
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| Andrew McIntosh |
The Human Condition
The touching tale of mankind's deperate flee from the world it has destroyed, not realising that it has taken a stowaway with it . . .
| (15. Feb 2004) |
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| Elizabeth J. McIntosh |
Leaves of Rustin (chapter 1. The Meeting)
This story isn't completely finished, I've only wrote the first chapter but I believe it turned out the way I wanted it. This is about a boy is great friends with an old wizard who is in need of a certain type of herb. He's not able to get them himself so the wizard sends the boy.
| (4. Apr 2003) |
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| Hurricane Jean McKrakken |
Fault? Not mine! (8 ratings)
A forgetful man trapped in a cell, wonders why. He hears terrible frightening sounds. What is out there?
| (18. May 2001) |
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| Shaun McLaughlin |
Society Man (9 ratings)
This is a fun story with a serious edge. Manny is a undercover agent for an intergalactic agency that enforces environmental law. He arrives on the tourist planet of New Tahiti knowing he'll probably have to shut the planet down. In the days that unfold, he meets a chatty and slightly wacky distant cousin to Flipper and the girl of his dreams. He also gets a lesson in alien civility.
| (2. Mar 2001) |
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| Dave McMillan |
Handsome (3 ratings)
Ray Smith was born disadvantaged. He was made an offer which would change all that, it was an offer he could not refuse.
| (4. Jan 2002) |
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| Mike McRae |
The Haunted Castle (18 ratings)
| (21. Feb 2000) |
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| Carrie Meckler |
Still Not Over
This is a story about a girl who has just lost her sister. Her family now does not talk to her. She decides what to do.
| (18. Apr 2004) |
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| Matthew Medina |
The Imprisonment
A 1st person account of an imprisonment within a block of cement.
| (30. Nov 2003) |
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| Bonnie Mercure |
Squiggle (2 ratings)
When Maddy sees squiggles, she fears she is going insane...but is she, really?
| (9. Jan 2002) |
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| Michael |
Heroes of Light (2 ratings)
This story takes a snapshot of an elf's life as he tracks down his wife's killer, he is joined by some strange companions as they all attempt to save the world in the process.
| (11. Feb 2003) |
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| Mark Mico |
Guru
A small outlook of a boy with the power to see into the future, but has a terrible price to pay for it.
| (19. Oct 2003) |
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| B. Midnight |
The Four-Dragons of the World
A tale of war, dragons and predujice, which goes beyond anything that can be imagined.
| (1. Aug 2003) |
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| Andrew Miladin |
Swirls of Blue (4 ratings)
A moral horror story that traps the mind in a tapestry of rich dialogue and suspense.
| (11. Feb 2003) |
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| Agnela Miller |
For the Temple
Mage from a distant star system discovers a magically talented young woman making a living as a soldier. The first short story in a series.
| (1. Aug 2003) |
The Dying Village
Second in a series of Short Stories about Kara Fortuyn and the Trine.
| (30. Nov 2003) |
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| Justin Miller |
Life On Mars (4 ratings)
Future tour of the future of science and its source of benefiting the world of tommorrow.
| (11. Feb 2003) |
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| Sven Mills |
The Barfly (6 ratings)
A not so everyday story of life in the human era.
| (17. Feb 2002) |
Confession (4 ratings)
For which there is no atonement. All evil things....
| (17. Feb 2002) |
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| P. Mine |
Chronicles of the Forgotten - The Beginning (5 ratings)
How one becomes invisible by being forgotten
| (4. Jan 2002) |
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| Vera Minshall |
The Box (2 ratings)
Fond childhood memories about a brown box that fascinated me as a toddler 56 years ago.
| (30. Aug 2002) |
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| Jason Mintel |
A Blight Welcome (2 ratings)
The answer to world peace, subliminal happiness ought to make you smile...
| (20. Dec 2001) |
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| Edward Moncayo |
Loadica's Peak (1 rating)
How strong is a mother's love?
| (6. Apr 2001) |
The Ferry (6 ratings)
Commuting to work can often be Hell.
| (3. Sep 2001) |
Black Aggie (11 ratings)
Does the darkness hold any truths?
| (3. Sep 2001) |
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| Jay Moncrief |
The Sentence (1 rating)
Do cruel and unusual criminals eventually lead to cruel and unusual punishments? Will technology offer a possible fate worse than death?
| (12. Dec 2002) |
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| T. Monoogan |
95 Z28 (29 ratings)
A man faces his mortality and the death of his wife with the help of his machine
| (20. Aug 2001) |
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| Silas Montgomery |
The Trinity (1 rating)
The year is 2751AD and the galaxy is in chaos. Systems are warring with Systems and revolutions rage within Systems. Will the powerful and moral faction, "The Trinity" unite all? Is consolidation always best?
| (11. Feb 2003) |
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| D.S. Moon |
Too Many Cooks! (10 ratings)
'A Molecular Biologist Chef puts one over on organized crime.'
| (30. Jun 2002) |
Self Defense (5 ratings)
A young group minds defense the Earth making its best judgments using the facts it has at the time, it may or may not be the best thing to do.
| (22. Aug 2002) |
Quality Control (7 ratings)
Consumer technology's accidental creation of a Group Mind by corporate inertia. Being and making Big Brother; he just keeps getting bigger. Some thing happens, people worry more than act and then at some point the world responds.
| (22. Aug 2002) |
Self Defense: Part II (4 ratings)
Being too good can get you into trouble, big trouble. Being too good at something makes the corporation or government nervous, better you disappear than show up everyone else. The Group Mind PAT and Yves Gorman find out that they are just too good.
| (30. Aug 2002) |
Clownworld (2 ratings)
If you woke up on the Earth 40,000 years into the future and it was vacant of people, what would you do for a living. Alien Entertainer is always an option.
| (30. Sep 2002) |
Time Limit (2 ratings)
Sometimes your are as important as you think you are, temporally speaking, that is.
| (1. Nov 2002) |
The Gnome Genome Project (4 ratings)
In Biological research you have to take advantage of what Mother Nature throws at you.
| (1. Nov 2002) |
Jack and the Beans of Immortality (1 rating)
A very grim faery tale
| (12. Dec 2002) |
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| Kenneth Moon |
The Debtors (2 ratings)
The story of the two deaths of a rich, young man and the demons that won't leave him alone.
| (11. Feb 2003) |
Blessed by the Plague
Gregory sees death all around him. But the savage plague never strikes him, and he doesn't know why.
| (19. Oct 2003) |
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| Wil Moore |
The Adventurists (2 ratings)
Very short dialogue set in what seems to be a deep jungle-like environment.
| (4. Apr 2003) |
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| Daniel Morgan |
John's Shadow
There is something that lurks in your room at night waiting for the lights to go out.
| (20. Jan 2004) |
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| David Morgan |
Any Other Business (3 ratings)
Driscoll hated the monday afternoon team meeting. But nothing could prepare himself for the horrific discovery he was going to make today. A short tale of sleep and demonic goings-on which is unlikely to be detailed in the meeting minutes!
| (4. Jan 2002) |
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| Nicholas Morgan |
The University of Earth
A ship full of college students on a field trip through the cosmos is held hostage by a team of intergalactic hermaphrodite terrorists in the year 2500. Against all odds, love blossoms from this act of piracy.
| (18. Apr 2004) |
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| Glenn Morris |
The End of War (9 ratings)
Man has gone to far, humanity is using robots(Warbots) to do its killing. But will this be the beginning of a new form of warfare or the end?
| (19. Sep 2000) |
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| Pasquale J. Morrone |
Slavering Jaws - Part 2
| (15. Feb 2004) |
Slavering Jaws - Part 1
A group of friends take a trip to the Saskatchewan Badlands (The Big Muddy) some call it. At one point they all split up into two groups.
| (15. Feb 2004) |
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| Adriana Mosoiu |
Waves
I know shes with me, I can feel it. Sometimes, between the cold gusts, I can feel the shampoo on her wet hair. The more I suffer the closest I feel her. And this pain will purify me. Ill become a better man for her, Ill love her even more. And I know well be together till the end of time.
| (19. Oct 2003) |
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| Veronica Moss |
Marthello's Angel (Part I)
An excerpt from the story about a young girl who goes to Britain to babysit two children but meets a boy who is a shape shifter (wolf). They fall in love, but he bites her and turns her into a shape shifter too. When the girl returns home, she eventually bites her exboyfriend.
| (11. Feb 2003) |
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| Tom Moulton |
"MYSTERY UNEARTHED AT PINA,PANAMA" (6 ratings)
WHAT WAS A CHANCE ARTIFACT FIND ON AN ISLAND IN A TROPICAL SWAMP,BY A U.S. SOLDIER DURING W.W.II, LATER BECOMES AN ENIGMA.
| (12. Dec 2002) |
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| Mathew Moura |
The Kobalt Rose (6 ratings)
An apalouge dealing with people's inability to let go of the past, and the dire search in each and every one of us to claim what we believe is ours.
| (30. Aug 2002) |
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| John Moyles |
The lost summer of Mary Alphabet
A romance story from the coal regions of Northeastern Pennsylvania. A lifetime of living with the experience
| (4. Apr 2003) |
Meet Mr. Prospero Miranda
A man appears suddenly and doesn't know exactly who he is or what he is. His phenominal talents show him that he is different from human kind and after several years he figures out why.
| (30. Nov 2003) |
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| mul |
Tales of the Midrealms: The Road (14 ratings)
A brief encounter played out upon a road set in an imaginary world of sword and sorcery.
| (26. Feb 2002) |
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| JP Munger |
Escape from Mt. Flame (3 ratings)
Some wolves under a volcano must leave thier home and find shelter. The volcano erupts.
| (18. May 2003) |
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| mush97 |
A Greater Devil (4 ratings)
A romantic horror Story
| (10. May 2002) |
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| Dani Myrick |
Chessie: A Story of the Webbed Worlds
In a pastoral community, Chessie, a young village girl, faces certain death with the coming of the first storm of the spring season. But the storm also brings to Chessie other opportunities and the chance to experience more than she had ever imagined.
| (30. Nov 2003) |
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