Showing results by author "AR" in All Categories

These stories portray characters who believe themselves to be the heroes. In reality, they are sick, twisted villains with their own agendas. Delve deep into the six tragic tales provided to you by the following talented authors: Joann M. Shevock, Angel Blackwood, Layne Calry, Diane Drake, and A.R. Wilson.

Whoever said, ‘words can never hurt me’ was wrong. Words cut deep. Especially floating past the lips of the man who always felt like home. Cain Michaels. My ex-boyfriend’s brother. The only man who could make me feel deeper than I ever thought possible. My worst nightmare and most vivid dream. Six years ago, he shattered my soul and left a hole in my heart. Now, I’d moved on. I’d healed.

David was caught in the middle of the city when the zombie outbreak started. His wife and daughters were at home, stranded on the roof as zombies waited below. He would have to fight through hordes of undead, merciless other survivors, and a series of death defying stunts to get home. However, even if he makes it there, how can he be sure they're safe? Deadlocked puts you into David's head as he struggles to get home. Then a final confrontation occurs that could guarantee his family's survival, but at what cost?

The world's mightiest heroes face a deadly threat from the shadows, while a hunter tracks down a runaway whose secrets could change everything. All his life, Aegis has defeated every villain he’s come across, one punch after another. He deserves a break, but when word spreads of a plot to destroy the Paragons, Aegis must don the suit one more time. In the not-so-far future, Paragons run Earth with their powered abilities, governing normals and anomalies alike, and Aegis, along with a small group of other Champions, runs the Paragons. Living beneath a super-powered boot heel isn’t what ...

He fought to save humanity. Now he’s having second thoughts. After more than a thousand years in flight, Starship is crashing towards a new home. At its helm, a corrupted machine with unknown goals and deadly tactics. Scrappy human leftovers cluster in the middle, making plans to run if they survive the landing. War between man and machine, they believe, is inevitable. Best get away from the biggest machine in existence. For Gamma, that machine, that ship is his home, and he won’t abandon it without a fight. First up on that score, finding his friends, his partner. Arm up, take back the...

The authors within have freshly crafted the concept of “Alice in Wonderland.” Modernized with hardship and disease, futuristically advanced with time travel, and tangled within Wonderland itself in new adventures. Dive down the rabbit hole with these exciting characters and see where the madness takes you. Down the Wishing Well by Hui Lang Snicker-Snack by Marcus Bines Friendship by A.M. Cummins Rogue Flowers by A.R. Wilson Case of the Missing Looking Glass by A.A. Rubin Down the Hole by M.D. Kubit

He’s not from this place. He was given a guilty verdict during an unfair trial and escapes to Earth. An accident renders him unconscious. When he awakes, he has no knowledge of where he came from or who he is. During his recovery, he becomes friends with a beautiful nurse. “John Doe’s” life will never be the same. When he learns the truth of who he is, more questions come up. Did he commit murder or was he framed? Why would someone want to kill the Duke? Why would this person frame John?

The hunters are deadly. I know that now more than ever, after watching them extract another man’s soul. I mean, he had it coming, but that doesn’t make it any easier to accept.

Leaving behind a life of luxury in order to break free from my father was a decision I had no hesitation in making. The downside? I hadn’t realized what leaving behind my trust fund would actually mean for me. The term struggling college student was an understatement when I looked at how my life was currently playing out, which was me standing in the middle of the library, unable to pay for an overdue library book.

Ryder Thompson is the quarterback of the football team. The star of campus. Everyone wanted to be him, be friends with him, or sleep with him. Unfortunately, I was no exception to that rule. The problem? I was the nerdy girl who he didn’t know existed—or at least that’s what I thought, until his actions showed me otherwise.

The bomb did more than shatter a stadium: it shook the world. As the smoke settles, Celice heads off to Europe on the bomber's tail, vengeance hot on her mind. She has the tools and the tortured soul to make sure her target suffers. It's a no-holds-barred hunt, one that might carry a price higher than Celice is willing to pay. Back in Chicago, Wexley takes the helm with vicious speed. The revolution's been kick-started, and he means to carry it out, no matter the consequences. How to defeat a world-conquering super-powered team? The answer drifts by outside his office window, and Wexley ...

Taunting him was a game I had become all too good at playing, although neither of us ended up being a winner when we played it. Our game was frustrating, heart-wrenching, and wicked, but one I couldn’t force myself to walk away from.

Jennifer pours her heart out in letters to her beloved Tedward, reflecting on her faith, her life, and her unwavering love for him. Filled with hope and passion, her words reveal a love that is unbreakable. But beneath the surface lies a weight that threatens to crush her spirit.

To survive on an alien world, Kaishi must decide whether to trust the creature inside her mind, or reject it and risk everything to fight for her freedom. Ignos lied. The alien promised to take Kaishi and her friends back to Earth, to home. Instead, Ignos has brought them to its own world, teeming with other parasites that see the humans as hosts, and a potential gateway to their own survival. The Sevora make an offer to Kaishi: join with them, take their technology, and forge a new destiny for both species together. With the Sevora, of course, controlling their human hosts. Across the ...

Home. Kaishi can see Earth, but between her and her family stand a hostile fleet and Kaishi only has one ship that she doesn’t even know how to fly. Her sole chance at survival depends on a risky attempt to reach Earth’s far side, where nobody Kaishi knows has ever been. Landing there means a long journey home, but it’s better than dying in space. Except the Earth Kaishi finds when they reach the surface is far different than the one she knows, and learning why the ground is covered in ash will mean questioning everything she thought she knew about her tribe, and her species. ...

My mom never told me we were descendants of Atlantis. She never mentioned our family’s magical powers or ancient history with other immortal beings. Nope. I only learned about all of that after she was kidnapped in New York.

Two androids. One captive. A vast ship filled with deadly secrets on the galaxy’s edge. Gamma completed his mission: the Nursery and its human future is safe . . . for the moment. Dangerous mechs wander Starship, broken code driving them to destruction. Strange power draws from dark corners raise questions. And, of course, what to do with the prisoner? As Gamma and Delta comb the ship, searching for answers, they find enemies new and old, conditional friends, and a grim destiny that must be dodged at all costs. The sequel to The Farthest Star, The Flawed Design is a sci-fi adventure ...

When she’s not working at the bank or playing video games with her best friend, Ana’s nose is in a book. She is comfortable with her simple life until one night, on her way home from work, she is mugged and left for dead. Fate or luck, army medic Rafe was passing by and saves her life.

He was supposed to be dead, but the man known as Ghost still walks in the land of the living, and now he haunts those who wish to bury the terrible truth about what happened at Area 51. Battle weary, overcome with PTSD and survivor's guilt, and manifesting strange powers, Ghost longs to put his past as a nameless military operative behind him, and begin anew under the assumed identity of Ted Anderson; a man with a history best left buried.

I may have found the one who "ignites my heart," but that only leaves me with more questions than answers. And this magnificent power coursing through my veins is cool and all, but can it really help me do the impossible? One way or another, we're about to find out.