Short Short Story: 4 pages, ~2,200 words
Genres: scifi, horror, suspense
Summary:
Edgar Sealock and Wyatt Keaveney are convicted criminals. They've been sentenced to prison and bussed out to a new, experimental facility, located in the American desert. In his years in the prison system, Wyatt has heard stories about Rothrad Penitentiary, but they can't possibly be true--can they? He and Edgar are doomed to find out. What is the secret that makes Rothrad Penitentiary so terrifying?
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Short Short Story: 4 pages, ~2,100 words
Genres: mystery, comedy, crime
Summary:
An Olive Garden waiter delivers a note to Nalini Banagher and unknowingly alters the course of Nalini's pleasant evening. When the notorious Venetti family crosses paths with this spunky yet scatterbrained real estate agent, Nalini's poor friend Kaden is in for quite an adventure. Too bad he has no idea what's going on. Based on a writing prompt from writersdigest.com.
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Traditional Short Story: 9 pages, ~5,500 words
Genres: young adult, crime, suspense, psychological, journal
Summary:
Brian Ezhno believes his deceased brother Henry wanted him to read The Diary of Anne Frank, so that Brian would begin to communicate with him through a diary of his own. In his journal, Brian laments Henry's death, and accepts the blame for that accident that he perceives his parents and sister hold against him. At the same time he chronicles his intensifying break with reality, a crack that became a crevasse that's pushing him to commit a terrible crime.
Was rejected, will link it back up soon.
Novella: 42 pages, ~26,500 words
Genres: dark fairy tale, fantasy, young adult fiction, romance
Summary:
Marina Calder, a simple witch from a forest village, is arranged at a very young age to marry Prince Brennan Zeraphath, heir to his father's industrialized empire, who is fourteen years her senior. When Marina moves to the palace, Brennan's brother Dmitriy, who chose Marina as his brother's bride, falls in love with her as she tries to learn to love her husband-to-be. Marina becomes entangled in a web of lust, love, and deceit as the new empress of a long-respected empire. She must rise to the favorable reputation as its empress, or fall in disgrace under the weight of an imperial love triangle.
This story is incomplete and I have no idea when it will actually be finished. You can click here to read the first section.
Traditional Short: 10 pages, ~6,300 words
Genres: scifi, cyberpunk?, mystery, paranormal
Summary: Ellysia Emery dies – but she can't remember what happened to her. All she can tell is that she seems to be losing her affect, her ability to feel and express emotion. She begins to have strange, supernatural experiences - including being contacted by the spirit of a murdered woman. Claire beseeches Elle to catch the man who murdered her and six other women. Ellysia undertakes the search while trying to find an explanation for her own emotional death. Claire's killer might be the key to it all, but Ellysia has to find him first. Just started on this in December '09. Posting it here.
Novelette: 18 pages, ~11,800 words
Genres: young adult, crime, suspense, psychological
Summary:
It's not that Andrew Keaner was a bad kid; he got a few bad breaks and tended to lose control sometimes. First it was kids at school--there could be no normalcy after that. He leaves his family behind only to witness a murder-robbery and get himself kidnapped by a small gang of outlaws. This trauma changes Andrew-- he becomes Thorne, and what before had been misery starts to seem like a nightmare he can't quite remember marked with a deep sorrow he can't recreate in himself. Now Thorne has the gun. And Andrew has to stop him from ruining their last chance at innocence. This summary is for the revised version of the story, which hasn't been written yet. Hence it's a little poetic and vague. Page 1 of the original version
is here if you want to read it.
Novelette: 39 pages, ~15,100 words
Genres: young adult, historical fiction, letters "in translation"
Summary:
Aleksandr "Shurik" Kalmakoff goes to sea after his parents are killed during a pandemic. He eventually becomes a member of the crew under Kapitan Vladislav Monrova, aboard his trade ship the Moraya Koshka (the Sea Cat). This is the story of Vladislav Monrova and his beloved ship, his last remnant of the passion he felt when his wife and daughter lived, told by Shurik through letters to his boyhood friend Yuriy Chernov, whom he will see when they reach port in England in 1828. The letters have been translated by Yuriy. Unfortunately, "Moraya Koshka" is on standby, because research for this story has been really hard. I think there may not have even been a sea trade from any part of the former Soviet Union in the 1820s. You can click here to read the first letter.