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If Elvis hadn't latched on to African American rock 'n roll, we wouldn't have had the civil rights movement or the next President of the U.S.A., Barack Obama. Any opinion welcome.

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I know what you're thinking. Who's going to read a story about PMS? But I think this idea is just unique and quirky enough to work. Priscilla Maxine Sumner is twelve. For five days a month, she is a super hero. She fights crime, gets revenge on bullies, tries to fix the world. For the rest of the month, she’s a normal 7th grader. Even though she has these great powers, there are certain things she can’t fix; like her parents’ divorce. She also can’t help her best friend land the boy she’s been in love with since third grade. And she hasn’t quite found which of her powers allows her to make annoying little brothers disappear.

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Everyone wears masks of some kind to hide secrets or protect us from judging eyes...This is actually a novelette in two parts. Please read both parts before offering summary comments. Any thoughts or comments are welcome.

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This is the first draft of Full Blown Addictions:The Raw and Uncut Edition. The first draft. First edit. Thanks.

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Love has many faces...

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Blood Moon is the story of Pontius Pilate's spymaster, bagman and all round political fixer, the complex, unbalanced, superstitious and worldly Artemidorus Scipio. He narrates his version of the Gospel period in the Roman province of Judaea and his deadly encounter with Jesus. In terms of style and genre, Blood Moon sits somewhere between The Name of the Rose and Ben Hur. (It is in the Ben Hur period but more in the postmodern style of The Name of the Rose.)

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Facing the end, forgotten moments surface.

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I plan to enter three of my stories into a British mystery contest. I would love feedback. As usual, my first chapter begins with the death of the victim and the second chapter introduces the main characters. This was the first novel I ever wrote...it's raw. Please help. ann

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I'm a 32 year old, moderately wealthy heiress ridin' dirty in Boise, Idaho. This is my life.

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My story is for the droubble writing competition about the old man leaning against the storefront during the depression. Any feedback on my story is welcome.

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I want to try once again to do a Southern Novel. This is my first chapter. I need your help.

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Kat Ruzinowski moves from her hometown of Chicago to accept a painter-in-residency slot at the Indianapolis Arts Lofts, and to be closer to her long-term friend, Jeanie. The problem is, Jeanie's psychiatric career and family keep her as distant from Kat as when they lived in separate cities. It's been thirteen years since their artsy college band, but when Jeanie suggests the two of them play guitars again, Kat jumps at the chance to re-connect. But she's not the only one interested in joining Jeanie's basement jam. An Indy socialite wants to sing lead, and a talented yet troubled guitarist also signs on. Kat's career and love life intertwine with the band while relationships with friends outside the group suffer. Some of the mysterious behavior of her art friends clears up at a gallery opening featuring her work—an evening in which all of her dreams seem in reach. However, will a disastrous debut of Female Trouble mean a finale for her and Jeanie's friendship, her skyrocketing art career, and romance; or will Kat dare to accept the truth: that life and relationships involve change?

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Simple words that tell a story each reader will picture differently in his own mind (I'm hoping...)

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When Angel Lafayette, a female Lieutenant of mixed race in the US Air Force, volunteers for a top-secret DARPA time travel experiment, she expects to be fast forwarded five minutes in 2008 not sent hurtling to a distant time. Before long she is in trouble, in love and history (as we know it) is gone with the wind.

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A little fun haiku for Elvis' birthday

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This is a Veronica's story and a story of Guatemala. She grows up on a coffee farm in a small town, daughter of a prosperous Guatemalan father and American mother. She returns as an adult, after leaving the country at eighteen, hoping never to return. When her father is murdered by extortionists he leaves her the farms. The corrupt mayor of the town of Moyuta has been calling her in California wanting to buy Las Marias. She returns to Guatemala to decide whether or not to sell and finds a diary that she had written at 14. She relives that year through her memories, which hold the key to her future.

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It may seem like nonsense in a way, but what if? What if there was a place where things were as different as night and day. . .

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The lives of three men and the women who love them fatefully intersect in this story of obsession, revenge and murder. It is the prequel for my novel, "Get the Picture?" In it we first meet the protagonist of that tale, Jack Lansing, as a young man, in 1969. Events involving him and the other characters, each from a different background and a different part of the country will then bring them together with disastrous consequences.

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Another small section from my manuscript, Chapter 7, California Living on the San Andrea Fault. All feedback is good feedback at this early stage in my "career."

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This VERY short story is just an email I sent to my regular list of contacts. As I went into the city to celebrate a victory, I was surprised to find that amid the celebration, there was a soulful peace.

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Another short portion from my manuscript from Chapter 6 on travel entitled, "A Turk, A American and a Colombian Go into a Australian Pool Hall in Milan, Italy. Any and all feedback is welcome.

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Don't be afraid to tell me what you think. I need to know what is not working!

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I'm really not sure about this summary business This is a short story please let me have all observations recommendations - its up to you. This one started life as a comedy not certain of its classification now. Looking forward to comments

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This is the revised, new version of THE YANK GIRL'S GUIDE TO CHEATING ABROAD. It may take a while to post, as I'm rewriting practically the whole thing. All readers and feedback are welcome, whether you read the old version or not. Thanks!

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Think your life’s boring? Try living in a town called Dullindreary, where the Mulligan’s fast growing lawn is front page, second and even third page news! That’s the plight of 13 year old James Daniel, an orphan living at the Duffet Home for Disadvantaged Boys & Girls who dreams of nothing more than a life of adventure. Much like the life of his next door neighbor the wildly eccentric Stanley Umpert, a former “treasure hunter” turned shop keeper. In fact, Mr. Umpert invites all of the children in the town, to sit and listen to the stories (without permission of course, most of the adults think he’s completely off his rocker and wouldn’t knowingly let their children within 50 feet of him) about his days exploring the truly fantastical world just on the other side of the mirror in his cellar.

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The agent who requested I rewrite as YA, has signed me. Now we're making some changes to the back half of the book to add tension. I want to keep it ramping up, as opposed to dropping and rising as I did in the old draft. I won't be reposting the full novel, only the sections I'm currently working on. Those who have read MDs, great! I could really use you. New reviewers are welcome, as long as the feedback doesn't say, "You need to develop the characters more..." since there are eighteen chapters prior. Thanks in advance... ### Meet the MOTOR DOLLS: Jeda, a thrill seeker who believes she’ll be dead by her eighteenth birthday, and Benny, an emancipated teen who finds her calling documenting her friend’s final days on film.Jeda pushes the boundaries of normal behavior: luging down a steep hill on a skateboard, flying off the Santa Monica Pier with a handmade kite, and plunging into a vat of dye at a T-shirt factory. Why? Because all of her life, curious items have been left to entice her. Even though Benny goes along with Jeda, she doesn’t believe the “death by eighteen” thing. Benny's opinion shifts, however, after spotting a mysterious, grey-suited man in many of her photographs. The man always appears when Jeda is at the apex of danger. That observation, coupled with Benny’s secret knowledge that their meeting had not been random, leads Benny to believe Jeda’s life must be more than it seems. Enter Mary Jane Goldberg, a forlorn gold-digger chasing any guy with a buck while her self-image plummets like a penny to the gutter. She crosses paths with the Motor Dolls, taking from Benny the things she treasures most, her cameras. Now Jeda is on a mission for vegence, and Benny a quest for her identity.

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I wrote this from Selah's challenge to me to write a story starting with the line "The last time a saw Elvis..." This is a true story and I hope I did justice to the retelling of it for you guys to enjoy.

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Written by Greg after the loss of Kate. Would like to know if you, the reader, can feel his pain.

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This is the beginning of Chapter 8 of my work in progress. The book is a sort of humorous, philosophical memior. "Fish" is a Four Letter Word, posted earlier is also a piece. I would appreciate any feedback as I am a literary amatuer. The Chapter from which this piece originates is called "Meleagrisphobia," which means fear of turkeys.

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This a novel of murder, lies, abuse and excess. One man's crime leads to anothers crime and success. This a working rough draft all feedback welcome.V

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I sincerely hope I don't offend anyone with my thoughts - I absolutely appreciate the sensitivity of the issue. I just feel we're all responsible for the fate of others. It's unbearable when any child dies. In my 20s(1990s) I lived and worked in Israel and spent time on West Bank to see for myself. Maybe the message is too simplistic, but its heartfelt at least. Children of Abraham equates to followers and descendents of the three med. faiths - jewish, christian and muslim. I purposely employ Eastern terminology here. I feel that Eastern thought is very worthy of conideration! And has had a major impact on whole world thinking.

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This revision of "Lost Grandmother" includes a more serious plot element as well as other features added to the original. An agent suggested a more compelling plot and I decided that grief was just the thing. The main characters live in Amherst, the town where Emily Dickinson spent most of her life. It's a town famous for having its own foreign policy. The kids are not typical American teenagers. They are the children of Ph.Ds so don't expect typical behavior. I'm interested to know if the story would be sufficiently engaging for readers from 12-15 yrs. Since none of the reviewers fit that group, you'll just have to guess.Please don't compare this book to anything written by John Grisham, as one reviewer did already. This is not a thriller. It's philosophical and spiritual, with a little nonsense thrown in to throw you off. Accept it for what it is. Thank you.

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This is my first edit so I still need all the advice you can give me. Do the prose flow as well as they can or is there still any excess wording? Is there anything you weren't clear about and that you'd like me to explain further? Are the characters well-drawn and believable, and does their dialogue sound natural? Give it to me straight and thank you so much for all the feedback you've given me so far. It's been invaluable.

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His babysitter's dogs mauled his child to death today and,in a supreme act of forgiveness he said, it's Nobody's fault.

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I subconsciously switch tense between chapters and then tell myself it's just another way to keep things interesting. We'll see. HA! Also, since I haven't worked out the entire plot at this point, I basically write a bunch of loosely connected scenes and then tell myself it makes for experimental structure. We'll have to see about that too. The first four chapters (actually seven) are all prologue. At first, I planned on writing a full-length novel that was entirely a prologue to a story that never happens, but have since shelved that idea in favor of no idea at all. Well, maybe that is the idea after all. Anyway, have fun suckas!

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Sorry - no optimism here. TOUGH-drabble Sometimes life's shit and there's no sunshine to surround it with.

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A very short piece exploring ignorance and depression.

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My second poem any and all feed back appreciated.

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Three months before her sixteenth birthday, Ellia Jacobson's quiet life is coming to an end. When Ellia’s parents become scarce and her favorite neighbor moves away, she adjusts to the losses but feels more adrift than ever. Unaware that her new neighbors have orchestrated the isolation, she turns to them for companionship. The secretive Braeburn family seems too perfect and alluring to be human. Despite the alarms that go off in her head she feels more drawn to them with each passing day. Especially, the older brother Tony, who has an unsettling effect on her mood. However, when Ellia learns that Braeburn’s have a plan for her, she doesn't go quietly. To complicate matters, even though Nicholas has a claim on her, Tony finds that he wants her for himself.

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Having spent many a year on the therapist couch I think I am well qualified to write on the subject. However I will be writing from the side of the Therapist who by stroke of good fortune for him, bad fortune for the other guy winds up with a practise already set up and a building to practice in as well. This will be full of sarcasm,cynicism,legal ethical and moral lines are blured so far out of porportion that our protagonist no longer has a sense of what is normal and morally and ethically right. Would love to know how I rate on the funny scale 1 being not funny at all and 10 being hillarious. I would also like to know if you are hooked or when you got hooked, or does it hook you at all. Thanks, Lost Soul

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The person who's confidence I have kept has authorized me to explain but I will be brief. "Mrs. Jones" had a husband (step-dad) who abused her two young teenage daughters and she didn't realize it until the Child Protective Officers came and took all her children away. When she asked why, they explained that she hadn't protected them. She was stunned. There was great love between Mrs. Jones and her children and she would have protected them from anything. But she didn't suspect the wolf from within. When she realized what they said was true, that she hadn't protected them, she crumpled inside, no longer believing in herself as a good mother. Her only concern was the safety of her children. If that meant them staying in foster care she would have to let go, even if it shattered her heart into a 1000 tears. The husband had skipped the state and she went to find and confront him. That is when she was arrested. It was in jail she turned to God for help. She later testified against her husband. But it was too late. The sad thing is she can not see or have any contact with these children. There is a vast hole in her heart…It has been nearly five years.

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This is from my first book, the Ballad of the Bullet.This book is in print with PublishAmerica but I intend to edit and republsih myself in the near future. Thus, all feedback, advice, pointers and technical support is very much appreciated. The first few chapters describe the character, the setting and the motives behind his actions. Tony Ransom is involved in a drive-by shooting that isn't his fault. He is targeted by an underground cult that is something like the Alluminati. They are only interested in forcing others to repent from their actions. Tony is jumped, dumped by his ex then drifts alone in poverty before committing an unbeleivable crime. I will start it here. Thank you.

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