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Another Place To Die
by Sam North
The
Great Flu Pandemic is coming. Are you prepared?
'Beautiful,
plausible, and sickeningly addictive, Another Place to Die
will terrify you, thrill you, and make you petrified of anyone
who comes near you...'.
Roxy Williams - Amazon.co.uk
Order Now direct from Publisher :
Another Place To Die
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New
Original Fiction From All Around The World
This Archive from 1999-2007 - Now there is also
Dreamscapes
2
for 2007/8
2007
Regrets
Andrea Moser collects Bukowski reject slips
Old Fighting Men
Quentin Bates in the tearoom
Over
the hill
Quentin Bates Icelandic mystery
'Thank
you for driving carefully through our town...'
Grace - A Texas girl
remembered
Martin Green
The Decision
Martin Green on life choices
Street Spirit
Ben Gerhardt
Sometimes we regret
Afrique - l'heure bleue
Maja Hagborg
It's a Mutt's World
Nickolay Todorov
When dogs love chickens
People of the Ice and
Snow
Caitlin Metland
When the white men come run
Dying Wish
Wesley Weyers - heaven on earth
Echoes
of a funeral drum
Mary Opaluwa
Baba
and I were at the Lokongoma crossroads to perform the sacrifice
which Nokas life depended on
Damien-
an exorcism
Tom Over - life
in Amsterdam
From The Horse's Mouth
Welsey Weyers about a mugging
The Camel
Subimal Misra (translated by V Ramaswamy)
-
trying to have the perfect dream?
Starfish
Janel Atwork
Trust him?
Trains Doors Open
Joanna Valevich - a missed opportunity?
Crossing
into Death
Joanna Valevich
on an icy road
Emma's Dilemma
Lalita
Kakanadan
goes on-line to find a man
Friendship and College
Days
David Tavernier on finding girls
Parents on Good
& Bad
David Tavernier
Dating Kate
Martin Green on relationships
Brushstrokes with time
Steven Bush
Salvage Rights
Richard Corwin in the Turk Islands
Hedera
Anna J G Smith on the ring that binds
Conkers
Quentin Bates
The
only time for a raid was a Sunday morning
Dead
Sheep
Frances Lewis
The
grass makes my feet itch
The
Yellow Triangle
Michael Internicola
Hash
and I cut through the fog coming into Barcelona
Naggerbag
Wendy Metcalfe - Kids go wild on Albert Street
Sniff
Duncan Dicks - I thought she was out of my league
Under the Covers
Ali Shaw - I had stopped sobbing now.
Observation
Jodie Corney
Kimberley Morgan is laughing too loudly
at a joke
Fickle
Finger
Colin Harris on Gulf War One
Shomoy Duhshomoy
(Time,
Bad Times)
Subimal Misra Translated by V Ramaswamy
The
Pringle Method
Martin Green
Crisis
in the office
Uncle Pringle and the
Witchs Curse
Martin Green
Are you all right? she asked.
Yeah, just another little accident. Theyve
been happening all this month. Its because Ive
been cursed.
Old in His Own Way
Mike Blake
To make the same mistake twice is failure...
Firetrap
David Francis
You cant be knocked into the middle of next week
Frederick and Millie
Alison Shaw - A date for the Matinee
Y2K
Paul Martin
Everything
had been prepared at the Hospital Records Library months ahead of
the chaos...
Making it
Mark Cunliffe
Ill make it
The man was running, fast and hard, his heart in his mouth and his
lungs ablaze, he tore through the undergrowth ignoring the long
stinging nettles that attacked his entire frame...
Knowing
Sheila Levin on marriage
There are, as Laura would put it, moments in time which are
remembered with scrupulous precision. The millions of housewives
who were washing dishes when they heard the news bulletin that President
Kennedy was shot can tell you the dish they were holding.
An Evening Out
Gina Robertson
Where does all the love go when someone dies? Mum said I was
the best thing she ever did. I was loved with such a fierce burning
love that sometimes I got scorched.
Elin's Legacy
Wendy Metcalfe
Making contact with a class one alien
After The Winter
Mike Blake
Clapton singing Have You Ever Loved a Woman in his head,
a half pint of cheap vodka in his pocket; its all he needs
to cap this hot Memorial Day weekend in his home town
Sons Martin
Green
The first thing Paul's wife Sally said to him when he came through
the door was, "Jack has another problem."
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The
Twins
Richard Corwin
The
Church
Benjamin Gerhardt
A soldier's return
Three Little Words
Lauren Almey can't sleep
My Own Eureka Moment
Lauren Almey gets a grip
The Paperclip Counter
J Giles with insights into business efficiency
Down
to the Attic
M. Joseph Hunt
A Deadly Monday
Richard Corwin
Humiliation has it's own reward
Homecoming
Maggie Tiojakin
Why come home now? What was her name?
The Summer Job
Martin Green on the best of times
The
Journey
Mark Cunliffe
some
things in life remain with you for always
Blueberry Hill
Raymond K Clement goes picking berries
My First Love
Sidi Benzahra
Bus boy's have feelings too
The Money Tree by
Subimal Misra
Translated by V Ramaswamy
Beggars come across a dead white donkey...
The Winged Ones
by Joginder Paul
Translated from Urdu by V Ramaswamy
Alls well here. Best wishes for your honours well
being. Writing a letter to his old friend Fazaldin
Writer's
Block
Mark Cunliffe
in detention with Guy Block
Head on the Block
Mark Cunliffe - Guy Block is in big trouble
Soviet Block - man
without trousers
Mark Cunliffe
Chips off the Block
Mark Cunliffe - Guy has his turn with the twins
One in Eleven
Mathew Kaufman - pick up in Soho
Three Men and a Gob of
Spit
Peter Leonowitz a bet too far
The Old Lady of San Pedro
G David Schwatz on loss and madness
Train Confessions
Jeannie Mark lost in thought
Summer of Sadness
Colin Todhunter
I couldn't hold on to her
Booboola- the black dog
Sidi Cherkawa Benzahra good dog-bad dog
Memory Block
Mark Cunliffe
Philip
Jodie Louise - contemplating suicide
Girl in a hole
Bex Wilks has a mean brother
Crystal
Moment
Tanya Hannah
on a lonely childhood
Please Mummy Don't
Eleanor Creed about a doll
The
Janitor and the Little Girl
Chapters One to Four 1.12.2006
Sidi Cherkawi Benzahra
The Purple Rose of
Baffins
Paul Martin
The Mirror and the Ghostwriter
John Whalen buys a mirror
A
Father's Promise
David Francis
misses his Pa
The
Long Weekend
Ali Shaw
- No one would suspect a thing
Diane and the Doughnut
John Demetriou
F-Train
- a literary journey
Mathew C Allison
Mind
Block: Guy Block gets some libido therapy
Mark Cunliffe
Block Out
Mark Cunliffe
It
was a crisp January morning at Trenton University.
All was normal
Block Party
Mark Cunliffe
Guy Block knew it was going to be a bad night out.
Stumbling Block
Mark Cunliffe
Guy
Block hated tutorials.
Loving and Leaving
Abi Davis
The night you left...
Appleby
Fair
Frances Lewis
back to the family, he beams, and treads softly away
Devastation
in the Nineties:
Take That Split
Sara Richardson- My tale begins on the ominous day
of Friday 13th February, 1996
The Solitary Hunter
Jessica Schnieder
"The sky is full of birds, and they are all dead..."
Antoinetta's Rosebush
Nickolay Todorov
Antoinetta resolved to stop herself from sneaking into the
crematorium furnace and joining her dead husband Myrt
Dark-Eyed
Sister
Paul Martin
She is gazing up at the night sky, her head cocked back at
ninety degrees, watching the dark. It is eleven oclock at
night and she has gone out for a walk to clear her head
The
Funeral Reunion
Quentin Bates
A scrum of hard-faced women cradling extra-long Superkings
between taloned fingers crowded around the flowers while husbands
and dads in sharp suits passed a pouch of baccy from hand to hand
in the summer sunshine.
Uncle
and the Kid
Mike Blake
When his nephew was younger, the uncle found it easy to do things
with him. It wasnt difficult to get the kids interest
up in things, get him excited, and make him laugh. It seemed that
the kid was game for just about anything with his favorite uncle.
Whatever they did turned out to be fun
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Congratulations
- You Are a Winner!
Thomas Healy
Later
than usual for work, Gus Chesney rushed out to his Subaru wagon
and started to unlock the door when he noticed the left front
tire...
Research and
the Novel
Sam North - a paper on creative research
Never Look Back
Hawk
Footsteps falling on the icy ground. Shallow breaths echo
round the air. She could feel her heart pounding in her chest.
She had to run, had to hide, had to get away
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Diamonds
- The Rush of '72
by Sam North
Buy this novel direct
or Amazon.com
or
Amazon.co.uk
'a
terrific piece of storytelling'
Historical Novel Society Review
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The
One
Gemma Ayres
The
moment I saw him, I knew. He was the one
I
am Godfree
Sidi Cherkawi Benzahra
A Love Letter
Suzanna Brooksbank
Atomic Dream
David Tavernier disintegrates
Meeting Water
Tolu Ogunlesi under fire in Lagos
Bloodline
Nick Walker
The
Ballad of the Lonely Cowboy
Jennifer York
The
King of the Dustmites
Mary Wilson - are you in my notebook?
Whispering
October
David Tavenier
You'll
never see him coming
Rosebush
David Tavernier
The
Pig Hole
William Starr Moake's adventure in the Everglades
Ruby Moon
The whore, the hitman and Hawaii
Bill Moake
The
Adman & Olga
Martin Green NY '63
The
Lament of the Freelancer
The horror of the blank page
Brodie Parker
Spire
Brodie Parker - Kill the Monster
A Very Darling Christmas
Sarah Richardson
My Mother Was A Sex-Crazed
Pill Popper
Alan M Danzis
Flint - Bringing the Past to
life
Alex Hillman
Lum
Luc Hue -The Life of a Vietnam taxi driver
Black Roots and A
Red Heart
Bonnie Nish
Levitation
Richard Meyer
Torah,Torah, Torah
Richard Meyer
Purgatory
Douglas N Kimball
Missing Time
Roger Duncan can't stand the white lights
Rendered
Roger Duncan on the streets at night
Lost
Jeanette Harris
Murmurings of Return
Richard Meyer on USA 1967
The Ark
Mary Wilson down on the farm
What I want to be when I grow
up
Tolu Ogunlesi on being a poet
Symbols and Democracy
Kane X Faucher
All the same
Will Carpenter is having an identity crisis
Whiskey Walking
M. Blake - about the man at your door
Curve
Erica J Thinesen - Going Bi-Polar
Cigarettes
Mary Wilson
"Need
some help there, little lady?"
The Tennis Boom
Martin Green and the swingers
The Elevator
Sam Barnes
Shopping with temptation
The Girl in the Baseball
Cap
John Ludlam
Betrayal and the doorman
Ice Cream
David Tavernier - a tale of three parts
Wild,
Delicious, Dead
Phil Mershon investigates a squeaky clean girl
Part Two begins here
Hot Gossip
John Bradshaw down the pub
Teacher's Power Trip
Gemma Williams in the classroom
Paying
The Bills
Martin Green
Never enough
Jack
Ruby
Jim Parks
'That
guy Jack Ruby you used to talk about - he just shot Oswald'.
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The
Great Beyond Chapters 1 & 2
Brodie Parker in the afterlife...
Great Beyond - Chapter
Three
Brodie Parker - picking up styx
Great Beyond - Chapter
Four
Brodie Parker in the cold black dark
Great
Beyond - Chapter Five
The Sword above my head
Great Beyond - Chapter
Six
Confusion and a vision
Great Beyond - Chapter Seven
Shrugg is set a task. Find him or else
The
Great Beyond - Chapter Eight
Learning
to live or die by the sword
The
Great Beyond - Chapter Nine
Mark Twain has some advice
The Great Beyond Chapter
Ten
The Revenge begins
The Great Beyond Chapter
Eleven
Battle Commences
The
Great Beyond Chapter Twelve
Flee to safety
The
Great Beyond Chapter Thirteen
The Gray Area
The Great Beyond Chapter
Fourteen
Back to Reality
Great
Beyond - Chapter Fifteen
Alive again
Great Beyond - Chapter Sixteen
Alaskan Storm
Great
Beyond - Chapter Seventeen
The
Gathering Army
Great
Beyond - Chapter Eighteen
Slaughter
Great
Beyond - Chapter Nineteen
Penultimate Chapter
Brodie
Parker's serialised novel about life after death is here - only
in Hackwriters
Goddess
Gary Glauber on a romantic lost cause
Gretchen- Queen of Nightmares
Sidi Benzahra - she's dead sexy
The
Snake House
Sidi Benzahra
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Hate
Drives a Mercedes Benz
Sidi Cherkawi Benzahra
A Tale of a Singer and his Lover
Punkerslut
Soldier to Life's Battles
Punkerslut
Exile in Buenos Aires
William Moake
Running Away
Anne Benjamin
The
Story of a Girl
Rita Sidhu (Fiction
A Sweetened Memory
Richard Meyer
Lush Life
Authur Blake needs a drink or two...
A Man Outside
Authur Blake on the streets
The Temple: Going Native
Mary Wilson
Ninety-Five Steps to
Paradise
Eric D Knapp
Mutiny
Paul H Schnaars on a journal of space madness
Gramps
117 and fading fast
Brodie Parker
Driving Home
Bonnie Nish and a search for a birthplace
The Lost Books of the
Bible
G David Schwartz on the process of creating the bible
Oakland in Black and White
David Tavernier
"Empty
out yer pockets and gimme yer wallet kid," he had said.
Black Buffalo Woman
Jeffrey Beyl
This
pain told him that he was still alive - the prophecy of his vision
had not been fulfilled.
Zwolf
the wonder dog
David Tavernier - about a dog who could save marriages...
The Gingerbreadman
and Cheese
Phil Mershon
"It's
the Feds, Park, hundreds of 'em'
A Babershop Conversation
David Tavernier
if you want to hear a little personal truth, I've never once
had a haircut I liked
A Gazelle is an Antelope
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The
Shotgun Incident
Daniel Thant - protecting the one you love
House of the
Sun
William Starr Moake in Hawaii
Hotel Tajikistan
Larry Thompson & a piano player
Day One
Gabriel Ricard: the first day of Ninth Grade
Pod's Luc
Helen Weston
Short Story of the year -2003
The Curse of the Swiss
Chocolate Tax
Terence Kumpf
Deception
Robin Slick
a story about lust and trust in a marriage
Song
Bird Deflated
Heather Neale
The
Ostrich & the Fog
Jeffrey Beyl
Circus Girls
Zaak Fresh
The
Swing
Janice Slater playing with tigers
A Fallen History
Judy Randano on being a klutz
My
Brilliant Game Plan
Justin
Jacob '
rules of attraction'
Jennifer
Sam North
'...I need
your help, now. '
Estrella
Skeeze
Whitlow
The
Sisters whispered that she was touched by tongues of the Holy Spirit.
Daddy's Little Girl
Learn's To Drive
Mary Matsumoto
The
Suicide's Dog
J.
N. Krause
A typical
lower class morning
D. G. Harris
About
a Dog
Dominic H gets a ransom note
Me-Child
Warren Vanderpool on spectres
Sundays
in Vancouver with dog
Sam North
The
Prophet of The Night
Warren Vanderpool
Just
Sit there and do Nothing
Kira
Pirofski
The
Great Pretender
Warren Vanderpool's horror story
Rainy
Nights in New York
Smitha
Parigi
The
Whole Truth
Amy
Chan
Spink
Marcel d'Agneau
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A
Stranger in Sweden
Sidi Benzahra and stolen kisses
Woman
with Hoofed Feet
Sidi Benzahra
The Woman with hoofed feet
- part two
Sidi Benzahra on lust and revenge
Happening
Simon Walker - What is Art?
Good
Afternoon, Miss Garsha
Marcia
Mascoli
has singing lessons
A
Regular Day (behind the bar)
Jeffrey Beyl
Human
Puzzle
Heather Neale
Meesha was
sick, Charlie knew it.
'Love
- Nothing'
Malina
Sarah Saval
She had it down cold, that thing that made people fawn
The
Haunted Dog
Marcus
Destorm
- Notes
from Seacliffe Police Headquarters
Next
Christmas Will be Different
Kristi Siegel
The
Power of Nothing
Robbin Yager
'To be still was impossible for her. They weren't living with a
ghost...'
Between
The Lines
Will Bombs drop on Vancouver?
Bonnie Nish
Jess
Linda
Spendley
"Well
Jess," he said, when he was finally able to speak, "that's
it. It's all over."
Cold
- A Squatter's Tale
Punkerslut
Improper Strangers
Joseph
Grant
What Goes Around...
Amy chan
A Tale of a Love Apart
Punkerslut
The Bonfire
Jim Curtiss on love across boundaries
Driving
Up the Malaysian Peninsula
Zia Zaman
Can we, I ask, stalling, stop somewhere and get
a drink?
My
First Kiss
Sidi C Benzahara
First
Time
Ami
N. McDermond- about falling in love
Public Bath
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Hard
17
David
Whelan
We take a very dim view of any and all forms of cheating.
Long
Haired Disasters -
Heather Neale on mother/ daughter/ boyfriend relationships
Reconciliation
-watch your back on the road
Thom Gabladon
F-18
Breaking
Down The Walls Of Heartache
Alex Hay
UNCLE
SAMMY
Robin
Slick meets
'The Candyman'.
KING
A dog and a very devoted owner.
Christine Wieser
BENDING SPOONS
D.M. Hendricks
a
shared realization that the universe is much, much more than they
previously imagined.
HOLIDAY
(Romance)
D.M. Hendricks
Lost,
until I met you. It was how I met you.
THE REDEMPTION CENTRE
Judy Radano
Wouldnt
that cut crystal ash tray look nice in the living room?
she would ask
BOY WITH A FISHING
POLE
C. J. Spataro
Its
the boy from the dock. Two summers ago
THE
GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Harry
Dade - She smoked the same way you did; incessantly,
ONE DAY
Robin Black
In
another life, he might have been my love.
CANON in D
James Burnett
He tells me to quit trying to get loose; theres no escape.
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THE
BONE WHITTLER
Nathan West
We're doin' this one step at a time, son; there's no fancy schmancy
Tokyo assembly linefor this kind of work."
LANDSCAPES GREAT AND SMALL
Karel Sloane
I have no answers, I just ask questions.
THE RABBIT GOD
Jeremy Young
Paul had developed a keen understanding of the female mind.
VIETNAM
WAR STORY
Robert Flynn
'I just stood there in a stupor unable to move or think
FLAT LINE ON A CLIFFTOP
Matt Fallize
I have only just remembered that my brother tried to kill himself
WEST OF WORLD
August 02 Story of the Month
Christopher Daniels
She had not told any other students, as far as he knew. Of course,
she might have.
BANGKOK
LOVE HAPPY
Summer Fiction alt choice
Kelvin Mason
Pinyo pulls Harry close, snuggles into his neck.
HIDDEN DISPARITY
Robert Cooper
September
2002 Story of the month
She wasnt in the mood for anything much, even conversation was proving difficult tonight,
THE DROUGHT October
'02 Choice Fiction
Veronica
L. Harryman
...she could see the brittle, wheat-colored wasteland that used
to be her garden.
The Blue Why
Esther Lydall
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The
WHITE SHACK
Sidi C. Benzahra
I decided to confront my fear and go to the white shack - see all
that blood and gore.
FIFTY-TWO WHITE THIRTY-SiX
BLACK
Amy
Chan
... a flash of nubile, female thigh or a snugly encased bottom would
be far from convivial to maintaining a chaste and celibate, male
state of mind.
THAT
DAY
James Carey takes a road
trip to nowhere
UNFORGETTABLE
Richard Meyers in the ballroom |
An
Alternate Reality
Robin
Slick
There
are times I wonder if hes even real. If he could possibly
be the man I believe him to be.
Obsessions
Colin
Todhunter in
India
He
had met a woman in the hotel, and was totally mad about her
Aging
Angry Young Man
Colin
James Haslett
'Mostly
Ive been the kind of person who walks around wanting to punch
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