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19-year-old Eva has a boyfriend back home in Oregon, but what American girl can resist a Scottish accent? Romancing an Edinburgh barkeep while working abroad, she knows she's taking risks. What she doesn't expect is the third guy entering the picture: a sarcastic fellow traveler who discovers her secret and becomes her unlikely confidante. Meanwhile her best friend scares herself witless ghost-hunting in Edinburgh's medieval streets, and Eva's boyfriend gets it into his head to come visit without advance warning. It will be a miracle if Eva can leave Scotland with all her relationships, and her sanity, intact.

Types of feedback? Any! I'm still tinkering with this story, but hope to get it posted this year and shape it into the type of Young Adult novel that adults enjoy too.

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Facing the demolition of their lovely little granite church, deceased members of a ladies church circle haunt the orphaned grandaughter of one of their own in an attempt to save the landmark. Charlotte Bell, the object of their visitations, is now grown and living with her eccentric best friend in Chapel Hill, NC. This is a light hearted story, I just want to make people smile.

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Teller had spent many years as a security guard, but his new job at a high-end luxury hotel was more than just being a security guard. He was now a Loss Prevention Officer. Maybe he should have just left well enough alone. Sometimes ambition can be a bad thing.

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Second submission of this story, with edits based on comments received. Please pick all the nits you can. I wrote this specifically for the Haunted House competition, my first attempt at writing to a theme instead of just writing what comes out. It's more suspense than horror, but I couldn't find suspense on the list. 2630 words

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Every Halloween they conduct a dare, the local haunted house was the perfect choice ... or was it? I welcome whatever comments anyone is kind enough to make!

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When Lina, a thirty-two-year-old nurse, takes a live-in job in a Seattle retirement home, her life acquires two disturbing twists: she learns that ghosts have haunted the old house since a manslaughter-suicide in the 1930s; and she finds herself falling for her mysterious twenty-something coworker Ren, who seems to know more about the strange house than he is telling. Genre note: I've recently switched the genre from "romance" to "literary fiction," but really it's a mix of those and "paranormal" and a few others--just plain old "commercial fiction" would probably be the best label. Thanks to those who have commented with the suggestions!

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America's fascination with the coffeehouse is second only to the elixir they purchase inside. Deep down they are searching for something much more gratifying than a place serving fragrant beans and yummy muffins. The Java Pump is a coffeehouse where priests, rabbi's, agnostics and atheists discuss politics and God, and walk away as friends. Live music on Friday and Saturday nights, brings them together on the outside patio for camaraderie and entertainment. The Java Pump draws a vivid cast of characters, each with a story to tell, all anxious to solve an 80-year-old murder--much to the delight of the two ghosts who live there--and have since 1928.

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This story is how a 14yo boy deals with moving from a Chicago suburb to small southern Illinois town. He has to deal with being the new kid in a town of 800 and be a freshman in high school, a double whammy. On top of this the only person he connects with is a neighbor girl who seems to be obsessed about the death of an Old Man. In an effort to develop some sort of relationship with this girl the boy assists the girl in her investigations. The story opens with a prologue that recounts a Civil War era event that occurred near the southern Illinois town.

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Flash horror. 520 words. I used alot of the suggestions given to me to re-write this, let me know what you think.

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