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Every day John L Porter sinks further into despair because of his obsessive lust for his sixteen-year-old niece, Cleo, abandoned as an infant to his care. He has reached the desperate point of provoking his own death so that Cleo will benefit from the proceeds of a life insurance policy. He plans to provoke Oriel Sanborne Wells, the preacher in John L’s church and the nightshift deputy sheriff in Blue Ruby, Virginia, to kill him. John L sees this as Cleo's only salvation from both himself and Wells.

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This is a story of a missionary family who goes to the Guatemalan highlands near the Mexican border to spread God's Word to the native indigenous Mam-speaking population. The family is befriended by a local drug lord. Immediately the temptations begin. By the time reality sets in, it is too late and they are trapped in luxury. This is literary fiction despite the young age of the narrator. He is telling the story from the future.

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A work in progress. I've been playing around with this idea for some time now, and have only recently begun writing it down. This novel deals with multiple issues in modern China - child kidnapping, corruption, politics, prostitution, censorship, widening income disparities, lack of social cohesion, amorality, the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution, the peasantry, migrant work-force - among other topics. Many of the experiences and settings presented in the novel are things/places that I've actually seen. I've been living in China for a couple years now, so I can assure you that it is authentic in many respects. The following chapters have been edited once after I received some amazing reviews. I still consider this novel in the draft stage, as such any and all feed-back is welcome. My apologies to the reviewers who helped my so much in my first postings. I added several chapters and had no choice but to delete my original postings and start all over again to avoid any confusion (for myself and others!). Cheers, Matty

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Chance Of A Lifetime is a story about living life over again. The mistakes that completely decimated the life of John Riley, will be slowly sponged away. The past becomes the present, as the future becomes his servant.

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Synopsis - In Celia Reynolds eyes, life is perfect. She has a wonderful loving family including a sister that is her best friend. Her career is skyrocketing and she has more male admirers than she can keep up with. Then, her world is shattered when her sister Gabi takes her own life. As she questions her sister’s suicide and peels back the layers of her ideal life, she realizes that life is not perfect nor is it meant to be. Her journey of self discovery takes her from an elegant 20th floor apartment in New York City to Washington, DC and the Islands of South Carolina. Along the way she learns a family secret that forces her to see her self and her sister in a different light - all with help from some unlikely sources - an orangutan named Nikkee and a Voodoo Priestess named Mira. *** Requests - All I can ask for is honest feedback. Give it to me straight ; ).

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Man of means Woman of wants

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Being workshopped as a draft. THIS IS PART 2. PLEASE ONLY READ IF YOU'VE READ PART ONE. THIS story is about LOVE and desire. About moral relativity. i added to the sex scenes today. i hope they come across as i want them to -- sensual, not 'erotic'

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He died doing what he promised his brother and the town i said i would die for him so why am i still alive

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MIND PUPPETS by Odin Roark -- Where is that fine line separating imagination and what some may deem madness? Where there is no criminal act involved, has anyone the right to judge? -- "What you believe is," drives Samantha Quinlan, famous Broadway and film actress, into dangerous areas of her psyche. Ari, an award winning photojournalist who has an extraordinary talent for creating museum quality digital pictures that reveal personality layers no one has ever seen or imagined, finds himself obsessed with Samantha. His passions and stealth pursuit of the serious artist reveals much more than he expected, however. His perception of the world famous diva’s split personality, and his talent with the digital paint brush, threatens to either make her a saint, or cause an alienation of her public and a fade into oblivion.

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A tragicomic story of a mathematician's obsession with geometry as the basis for beauty and the consequences (good and bad) of that obsession. Candid reactions, please.

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I think we've all been there. The hour of doubt and the need to hope in something outside of our pain. (Let me know if the broken Spanish section sounds inauthentic. It's hard to know which words each man would select...English and Spanish...in each phrase.)

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The story of a refractory alcoholic.

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Michael Cork’s world is shattered when Mary, the woman he hasn’t seen for twenty five years, returns and reopens wounds that he thought healed. In a journey of remembrance, Michael and Mary relive the pain and disillusionment of their early years. But when Michael discovers the real reason that Mary has returned his world is thrown into turmoil. Should his loyalty to her be beyond his loyalty to the church? What of his need to quench his guilt and repay his earlier betrayal? A journey that touches upon death, immorality and family bonds lays a shadow over Michael’s beliefs, vows, even sanity. It is a path that can lead to only one end.

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Please start at the beginning, don't just dive in at the current posting. If you're a novelist you know what I mean and why. This is the follow-up to season one. Note: This season picks up right where season one left off. So those of you who start here might be totally in the dark as to what's happening and why. I highly recommend reading season one first. Note! This is something I write for fun. I have no desire to publish it and therefore, I don't stick to the rules of POV. I tried it and didn't like it. So if you're bothered by that then you probably won't like this.

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Buzzards above Looking down while flying so high Following each other’s ass around in the sky Bleached bones of beautiful things Dominoes pushed by lesser things On wings

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A story about moral relativity and love, I think. Nits, suggestions are all welcome. This paragraph is an addition to add tension -- "It is fun to have someone to dance with. Pier -- does it add tension? The story has been edited on the basis of suggestions.

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To simplicity...

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David Brandt, a mining geologist, arrives in the coffee region of Puerto Rico’s Cordillera Central to purchase property for copper excavation. Set in 1953, the area has just been devastated by a hurricane. The owner of the coffee farm, Juan Macías, is away at a political rally, and his wife, Carmela, apparently knowing nothing of her husband’s intention to sell, mistakes Brandt for Red Cross. Brandt goes along with this idea so as not to stir up trouble, but soon finds himself strongly attracted to Carmela. The deeper Brandt is immersed in the lives of the people, the culture, the land, the more conflicted he is about his role. But, things aren’t what they seem, and in the end, it is Brandt who is deceived.

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