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11 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: 6821 | Votes: 421 | Score: 8.37
Size: 57KB | 11,116 words | Posted:

12 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: 13721 | Votes: 534 | Score: 8.35
Size: 240KB | 47,729 words | Posted: Concluded:

13 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: 15451 | Votes: 25 | Score: 8.32
Size: 616KB | 119,146 words | Posted: Concluded:

14 Flames of Life by Ernest Bywater

A Rivers Region Story
A young man has a major change of lifestyle forced on him. He becomes a writer, and then something else again. First we read two of his stories about himself, then we follow him as he makes another change to his life and changes the lives of many others in the Rivers Region. In the process he unexpectedly meets his own destiny as well. Set in Australia.
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Drama
Tags: Violence, Workplace, Rags to Riches
Downloads: 19244 | Votes: 462 | Score: 8.29
Size: 434KB | 86,878 words | Posted: Concluded:

15 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: 20602 | Votes: 881 | Score: 8.26
Size: 292KB | 58,577 words | Posted: Concluded:

16 Interesting Times by Ernest Bywater

A Rivers Region Story
They say the Chinese have a curse - May you live in interesting times. A 15 year old boy has a major change of lifestyle forced on him. We follow along while he adjusts to the changes. However, he lives in interesting times and he must deal with them as well as rising to the challengers presented to him. Through all this his true nature shows and he changes the lives of many others in the city of Rivers, and elsewhere. Set in Australia.
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Action/Adventure
Tags: Coming of Age, Drama, Politics, Violence, Workplace, Young Adult
Downloads: 33718 | Votes: 665 | Score: 8.23
Size: 512KB | 102,472 words | Posted: Concluded:

17 Skyscrapers by The Outsider

A Story in the Enfield Undrowned Universe
Civil engineer Todd Rook feels he has little to show for his time on the planet other than a good job and a few possessions. It will take a former friend from his past to make him understand what he has, and what he still needs.
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Romance
Tags: Romance, Military, Workplace, Alternate Timeline
Downloads: 91 | Votes: 7 | Score: 8.15
Size: 82KB | 16,038 words | Posted:

18 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: 19354 | Votes: 231 | Score: 8.03
Size: 1044KB | 206,035 words | Posted: Concluded:

19 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: 15543 | Votes: 504 | Score: 7.88
Size: 250KB | 50,162 words | Posted: Concluded:

20 Christmas Detour by Pars001

A Christmas Story
A man takes a flight into a fantasy world that defies explanation.
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Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Fantasy
Tags: Violence, Workplace, Christmas, Supernatural, Fantasy, Elves, Magic
Downloads: 1672 | Votes: 77 | Score: 7.86
Size: 25KB | 4,906 words | Posted:
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