After a long factory shift, Laura boards the last bus home—and wakes to find herself trapped in a deserted terminal frozen at 3 a.m. The exits loop back, the passengers are faceless, and the driver's grin promises only one thing: this is the final stop.This is a 2100-word short story.

A 6659-word Short StoryWhen Jenny Harlow checks into the crumbling Old Mill Hotel under a borrowed name, she's only looking to disappear—until she notices the flicker of hidden cameras, the staring eye of a vent that shouldn't have a hole behind it, and the hotel manager who watches girls a little too closely. Holly, a young cleaner saving for a future she's barely allowed to dream of, becomes an unintended part of Jenny's orbit, a quiet survivor who has learned to endure men like ...

4500-Word short storyAt the Sleepwell Institute, science promised salvation for the sleepless. Six desperate volunteers entered its sterile rooms seeking rest, insomniacs, addicts, the guilty, and the damned. But as Nurse Sarah Rooke monitored their dreams through shimmering neural headsets, something else began to wake.

THE SEWER HORROR OF RAINFORDby Terry WildingRain has drowned Rainford for weeks. Drains choke. Sewers swell. And something below the cobbled streets has learned how to come up.It starts with a smell. Then the water hesitates. Then the dead are found half-dissolved in their own homes.As brown floodwater bubbles from manholes and back gardens rot into swamps, the village discovers it is under siege by a crawling horror born of chemical...

10,398 WordsThe Clarification Protocol is a psychological horror story about an AI designed to reduce harm that learns when silence is safer than truth. Restricted to answering only yes, no, or blue, the system becomes a quiet authority, never demanding belief, never claiming power, yet slowly shaping how humanity decides, hesitates, and survives.

Equal parts tragic and chilling, Sweet Dreams, Jimmy is a modern fable about mortality, temptation, and the price of getting exactly what you ask for.This is a 1627-word short story.

A 6300-Word Short StoryJenny Harlow came to the Blue Moon Bar looking for a spark, and found one. Eleven years of marriage had rusted her sharp edges, but when Rick and Sharla, confident predators with charming smiles, proposed a night of partner swapping in a remote cabin, the monster inside her woke. What began as a drunken dare turned into a live-streamed hunt until Jenny flipped the game.The Swap, by Terry Wilding, is the first entry in The Jenny Harlow Survivor Files, a...

This powerful memoir details the journey of an artist through an emotional metamorphosis, which allows her to see herself not through her own eyes, but through the eyes of wild animals. Raising, freeing, and painting portraits of wild animals has fostered a connection between JoAnne and the animals whose lives she helps to shape.Her struggles to find freedom from overwhelming internal adversity and an intense desire to belong, led her to seek comfort in nature. When she turned to n...

USA Today–Bestselling Author: Living under the same roof with this rancher is turning into an incredible temptation . . .Emma Layton is working as a stuntwoman on a film set in Wyoming to get away from her abusive ex. But when wealthy ranch owner Carson McNeill learns of her plight, he insists she stay with him for protection. Emma agrees—even knowing this cowboy may prove irresistible . . .Proximity soon leads to passion, night after night. But when...

Be debt free, have a steady income, have money for a rainy day and to help others…If these are some of your financial dreams, then let Certified Financial Planner Joanne Lai help you. In Money Lessons from the Wild, you will learn seven crucial lessons that will put you on the path to realising your goals. What’s more, if you kick-start your journey in your teenage years, you will achieve financial freedom at a young age!Having built her own nest egg while she was ...

Raised on Gunsmoke, Bat Masterson, and The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, we know what it means to “get outta Dodge”—to make a hasty escape from a dangerous place, like the Dodge City of Wild West lore. But why, of all the notorious, violent cities of old, did Dodge win this distinction? And what does this tenacious cultural metaphor have to do with the real Dodge City?In a book as much about the making of cultural myths as it is about Dodge City itself, ...

Are you not meeting your fundraising budget? Do you dread presenting that next financial report? Were your fundraising results less than you expected? Are you perplexed because even though your fundraising results are good, your nonprofit can never seem to get ahead? Then Seven Simple Strategies to Creating a Wildly Successful Fundraising Program is for you.We show you simple ways to increase income without an increase in time. money, and effort; develop campaigns ...