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"Across the Ocean" is not just any regular romantic love story. Because many people often do not specialize in listening specifically only to love stories when they listen to romance stories, this story also incorporates various other topics or aspects into its structure in order to keep all kinds of listeners entertained and engaged all throughout the tale, no matter what their personal preferences might actually happen to be.
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Anya and her sister, Dawn, grew up with their parents teaching them how to use magic. Unbeknownst to her sister, Anya is a nephadin, the offspring of an angel and a demon. Anya, being the more powerful of the two, is envied and secretly hated by Dawn.
In young adulthood, their rivalry comes to a head when they both fall in love with Seth, the prince. Anya's accident in the woods brings the prince right to their door and into their hearts. The handsome...
3) Short Story Press Presents Blind Girl Meets a Ghost: How a Blind Girl Became Friends with a Ghost
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Blindness never stops a friendship; is not just about a friendship, but also other powerful themes.
The story centers around a girl named Katherine, 15 years of age
Recently blind in a car accident which killed her mother
Now is in the care of her estranged aunt, who is hiding secrets
Katherine tries her best to make a relationship with Morgan, only it is clear that the woman is hiding secrets
Starting school, Katherine finds it difficult to make...
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Jack has recently graduated from high school with his best friend Lilac. They go back a long ways, but they never imagined they'd be working at the same grocery store during the same shift. Guise Markets is not Jack's ideal choice for a job, but there is more to the store than there seems. What might have been a typical boring job proves more exciting than Jack has bargained for. The other night employees reported seeing strange things, objects falling...
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"Little Pests" is a suspense horror story that pits a woman and her young daughter against a suddenly and violently unhinged pest control technician, who has sinister plans for the woman and the girl whose home he is working in. Although he enters their house with no ill intentions, it seems as though the chemicals he works with are affecting his mental state and thought processes. "Little Pests" includes:
An introduction and complete portrayal of...
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"Dead People's Letters" is a story that should appeal to fans of ghosts and zombies as well as fans of Fyodor Dostoevsky's classic works. It not only places the undead in the middle of 19th-century Russia, but also makes them the central characters of the story and also good friends with one another. "Dead People's Letters" is a complex and layered story that examines:
The relationship between the body and the soul and where one leaves off and the...
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Randall cannot remember a day in the last 10 years he has not spent beside his canine friend, Eduardo the Magnificento, or Ed. Ever since Rand found the pup nestled against a hot-water pipe, the two have been inseparable, spending countless hours together wandering through the woods on adventures, some make-believe and some real. But now, Ed's gone missing, and Rand takes it upon himself to seek out his four-legged friend. Unfortunately, the hunter...
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Brigitte had a rough start in life. It all began when her village was bombed when she was just a child. After being sent to the US by a refugee agency, she drifted from one foster home to another for some time. In her pursuit to find the sense of family, she is recruited by the Russian mob, where she meets up with an old friend. The mob offers them everything except freedom. She wants more. She changes her name and makes a new life for herself. She...
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Benji's Books is the tale of a young man who hates school and reading. He seeks refuge in a library to get out of a terrible storm. There he encounters a woman who would change his way of thinking and his life forever.
Elsa, the librarian, asks Benji to lend her a hand in putting books away. They immediately establish a strong connection and forge a lasting friendship. She encourages him to read from the subjects and topics he enjoys. She prompts...
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"Seven Roads to Love" is a story that is close to Christine's heart. It is the true story of how her and her soon-to-be husband met. Not only are the feelings real; but the events happened as stated in the audiobook.
It was a feeling of almost true love when she met this man and, oftentimes, they still wonder how they really ever got together. Everything happened so quickly; but the fact of the matter is that through everything they have done, it...
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What happens when you lose all hope in yourself and in the world? Well, you become vulnerable, and that's what happened to Eddie, only he does not really know what is wrong with him until a meeting that will literally change his world and, in a very real way, his life.
One day, as is his habit, Eddie has stepped in a virtual-travel cabin looking for a distraction from his bleak life, and on an impulse, he has made the journey to the era of the...
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The Tronik Gambit is the story of a rag-tag group of air pirates. Like their older, sea-borne brethren, they spent years terrorizing aerial shipping, raiding ships on the seas with float-planes, and robbing towns and remote outposts on land, and using their machines to make the fastest getaways imaginable and were a huge thorn in the side of the authorities. Operating from a massive flying aircraft carrier and using clouds, mist, and forbidding terrain...
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A parallel world, a magical crystal, a phoenix, and an invitation: These are some of the exciting things in store for you with the latest Natashiah Jansen story, entitled "Adjo and the Invitation".
You'll be transported to the parallel world of Hatshepsut's temple and learn:
Why Adjo was sent an invitation
Why his mother carried a pouch around her neck
Why his father was killed
The secret of the phoenix
Who Anub is
From where the phoenix originates
Who...
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"Who was that in the water?" She wondered as she peered at him throw the overgrown foliage. He looked amazing. She could see even his muscles had muscles. He had long brown hair, a golden brown tan, and every move he made was fluid; this man was, in one word, gorgeous. As she kept watching him, he turned around and let the waterfall run over his body. God, what she would give to be a bead of water on his body to feel his strength and touch on her...
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They were happy once, and everything was perfect. A man and a woman and a little girl. Lots of money and an American dream life. Jake was an actor, Jane was a nurse, and Sara, their little girl, was nothing short of perfect. For years, they were a happy family, until reality came crashing down.
Jake tried his best to raise Sara after her mother left, but she was destined to fall into her mother's footsteps and follow her way of life.
You never realize...
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Is an actor's life as glamorous as it seems?
Avion and Jared, two leads in a new historic play, can barely stand each other, let alone stand the horrid historical play they are both starring in. The story of Elizabeth Woodville and King Edward is well known, but they can't seem to capture each character in their acting. Each of the actors in this play is a Blist actor, headed nowhere fast. Reviews on previews are terrible, and they don't expect to...
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A new term, "empty nest divorce," has cropped up to explain the recent increase in separation and divorce among couples ages 55 and older. In years past, when married couples lived shorter lives, the norm was to stay together throughout life. But as the average life expectancy has dramatically increased, so has the percentage of divorce for older people. Experts now state one in four marriages are now ending.
Traditional family groupings struggle...
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An assassin is at the top of his field, and none of his kills are ever the same. In this way, he never leaves a signature, and that keeps the law two steps behind. It's a life full of turmoil and continuous travel, but it's the life he chose.
He gets a job that requires him to kill not only the mother and father, but also the heir apparent. The client wants this done so there will be no one to step in and take what's rightfully his.
The assassin...
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Michael is a professional photographer. He knows exactly how to take the best pictures and is desperate enough to accept any work when the rent comes due, which is slowly creeping up on him. When he's offered a new job opportunity from a high-end client, the last thing he expects is to be confronted with an abuse scandal in the midst of the cast.
He meets an extremely attractive model, someone he soon recognizes from his teenage past. To make things...
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"Kidnapped Writer" is about our melting pot here in America. The main character is Viola, and she's having a horrible day. In fact, it was absolutely the worst day of her life. After years in her newspaper job as a writer, they've cut back on everything and put her into the advertising department. On her way out of town for the weekend, she gets kidnapped by a strange family needing her help. Outraged, Viola finds herself held captive by a very old...