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11 Blind Sight by vlfouquet

A Howly-Howard Story (1)
A girl was born who was descended from a long line of female psychics The gifts were not given to every female member sometimes they skip generation. An artifact, heirloom, of the family was alway passed on to the next female who could best used it. With the birth of this baby girl the holder of the artifact see that she will be the greatest holder of the artifact in this family long history. So the artifact was shipped as a birthday gift to be given on the first safe date it could be worn.
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Coming of Age, Crime, School, Violence, Workplace, Young Adult
Downloads: 15584 | Votes: 662 | Score: 8.62
Size: 330KB | 63,683 words | Posted: Concluded:

12 Life Is Change by Ernest Bywater

No good turn goes unpunished. There's nothing so constant in life as change. Shortly after finishing his Australian university exams Smoky Grey learns these two sayings are true. His life and plans are totally changed by an encounter in the university car-park. For the next few years his life is one change after another. Some of them being ones he initiates. He's a catalyst for changes to improve the lives of many people.
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Action/Adventure
Tags: Workplace, Rags to Riches
Downloads: 15650 | Votes: 507 | Score: 8.54
Size: 250KB | 50,162 words | Posted: Concluded:

13 Waiting at the Bluebird by Forest Hunter

Roxie, has had many men. Cal has never been lucky with women. Roxie says his problem is that "he doesn't know how to howl at the moon". She's from wrong side of the tracks and waitressing at the Bluebird Diner. Cal, a farmer's son, is a lawyer and politician. A bachelor, he often takes his meals there, where small town politics are always on the menu. Their lives intersect amid a struggle against political corruption.
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Age Rating: Older than 17 | Genre: Drama
Tags: Romance, Drama, Politics, Workplace
Downloads: 19410 | Votes: 232 | Score: 8.49
Size: 1044KB | 206,035 words | Posted: Concluded:

14 Boston Solutions Incorporated by Lazlo Zalezac

The problem with beautiful women is that they are beautiful. They work their way into a man's head and turn him into a blithering idiot. Even worse, as far as Magus is concerned, stunningly gorgeous women are attracted to men of intelligence like moths to a candle.
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Comedy
Tags: Humor, Drama, Workplace
Downloads: 12839 | Votes: 169 | Score: 8.48
Size: 426KB | 79,647 words | Posted: Concluded:

15 Echoes of a Bitter Past by Texrep

Richard Gilson lives at a time of many changes. He loses his girlfriend, Mavis to another and then his family. Even when Mavis comes back into his life, the past is ever present.
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Romance
Tags: Drama, Workplace
Downloads: 6822 | Votes: 421 | Score: 8.39
Size: 57KB | 11,116 words | Posted:

16 New Computing World by Ernest Bywater

Love or hate computers, you'll love this story. This satirical tale of the humiliation of Little Electronic Technologies and the destruction of their computer software monopoly is told from a future viewpoint, as a college assignment. Some determined computer geeks take on the global might of LET, and win! They defeat LET by getting deep inside their own software!
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: General
Tags: Crime, Politics, Science, Workplace
Downloads: 3759 | Votes: 150 | Score: 8.37
Size: 76KB | 13,899 words | Posted:

17 A Farmer's Life by Ernest Bywater

A Rivers Region Story
Farmers lives are ruled by the land they work and nature's cycles. James is the son of a farmer who's orphaned by a bushfire. He continues to live with his father's old boss, but knows he has to make his own way in life after school. Life has it's ups and downs, and many challenges for James. He leaves the farm for the Australian Army, but ends up back as a farm worker due to combat wounds. Join James as he meets many challenges and changes in his life. / (Reviews)
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Action/Adventure
Tags: Drama, Politics, Violence, War, Military, Workplace, Rags to Riches
Downloads: 13847 | Votes: 540 | Score: 8.35
Size: 240KB | 47,729 words | Posted: Concluded:

18 Mallard Heir by Ernest Bywater

A man just out of university inherits a trust in the USA. He has to live in the house it owns, but first he has to make it liveable. He also has to worry about some old feuds in place in this rural valley in the Appalachian mountains. He has to survive his first weeks in the mountains, and in doing so he finds a wife and partner for life while they deal with old feuds and the local weather. Set in Australia.
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: General
Tags: Workplace, Rags to Riches
Downloads: 13446 | Votes: 539 | Score: 8.33
Size: 246KB | 49,993 words | Posted: Concluded:

19 Sam by Pars001

A man is taken then returned. He's not the same or is he? Now with a lot of questions he leaves earth to search for the only other one like himself, so far.
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Crime, Drama, Violence, War, Workplace, Mystery, Assassins, Spies, Science Fiction, Aliens, Space, Near Future, Extra Sensory Perception, Super Hero
Downloads: 15487 | Votes: 25 | Score: 8.32
Size: 616KB | 119,146 words | Posted: Concluded:

20 Star Performance by Ernest Bywater

16 y/o Hal Smith is a quiet, unassuming Australian teen boy with a bad knee and no dreams. Taught to help people, he does; without thinking before acting. In Year Ten in a new city and school, it's a year of living in interesting times as he's in the wrong place at the wrong time doing the right thing. He'd once dreamt of being a world athlete and had the skills to make them true, but lost them helping a stranger; and delivered a Star Performance greater than most athletes can ever do.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Young Adult
Tags: Coming of Age, Crime, Drama, School, Violence, Workplace, Rags to Riches, Young Adult
Downloads: 20730 | Votes: 883 | Score: 8.25
Size: 292KB | 58,577 words | Posted: Concluded:
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