Novel excerpts: Facing death 20 Articles

by R.J. Jones

[CONTEXT: This is a short extract from a novel I am writing "The Chains Of Reflection". It is about a narcissist and his struggle to overcome the disorder. The main character, Kai, has been infatuated with this girl for ...read more

by M Sitton

"Nearly Finished" "Because of fatigue, she was unable to sustain the effort needed to finish the marathon." Lexy peered through the dirty dampened, grayed screening. Tall shading cedars towered over her head up into a da...read more

by Victoria R.

Alright, so now I'm hallucinating. Dead mothers everywhere. Dead mother slouching on my couch with her finger hooked around a bottle of beer, dead mother in the subway listening to rap music while knitting, and dead mother...read more

by Jennifer Farquharson

God's creatures come for me, with their mass of little flaming sticks. They will abuse me in the worst of ways, with hands and tongues and all manner of remorseless pieces of metal that they have locked away in that little...read more

by M. D. Kaye

"Nothing to it, they said," James Rogers mumbled as the car rolled past the security entrance to Andrews Air Force Base. To say they had misfigured this one would be an understatement. Cutting his eyes briefly toward the...read more

by Brownshugar

Living to die Dieing to live Don't die yet Bitch Her eyes rolled back in her head she could hear the sirens in the distance, but she wished they were not coming. She wanted it all to be over," no ...read more

by Tomira L. Rosser

Jodie felt her ears tighten as the pressure in the room dropped. The floor shifted beneath her as the house began to tremble viciously. The books fell off the bookcase, the windows imploded, and the floor cracked under th...read more

by Jack Denton

It was surprisingly bright for two minutes past midnight. The moon shone vividly, piercing the cloudless sky, illuminating all in its path and giving everything an eerie electric-blue glow. The taverns had long since throw...read more

by Janet Doggett

Nicole walks around the back of the trailer-turned-diner, following the creeping vines and the crooked pink brick path to the lone tree down the hill. Before she gets to the tree, though, she notices something's wrong. In ...read more

by John Graham

In the 16th Century, Petrus is a pajnter, Neelke is his wife. Three days later, however, a stranger rode into town with a pike-man. Neelke saw him ride to the church and go inside. Then he came out and mounting his hors...read more

by Steven Vryce

"I'm sorry Mr. Burton, but your MRI scans reveal that you have an inoperable brain tumor." said the doctor in a matter-of-fact fashion that seemed to plainly state, I have dished out this news more times than I care to cou...read more

by Melody Joseph

Born in California on a large plantation has always been the life for me. My father inherits the plantation from my late grandfather. My grandfather was known as Mr. Richie Bill because he was the riches man in Californi...read more

by Bradley Dion

Paris. The city of lights. In the middle of the city there's a small club called Rouge, it's an up scale club. The usual haunts are normally dressed in black pants with white a-shirts. The casual dress for the most common ...read more

by Chris Pearce

Albert ran through the crowd to the open gate and sprinted across the yard. Those trying to rescue the master and his orphans saw him and called out to him to stop. He paid no attention. At the side of the building, he fou...read more

by Linda C. Turman

It was the year 1976. I was to be scheduled for a partial hysterectomy. I say partial because I needed this done and I was at a young age.Just the uterus was removed. Though I was young, it would save me from going throug...read more

by Daniella Tatang

The salty smell of the sea wafted through the air. A warm ocean breeze rippled through the numerous palm trees' leafy arms, and bent their rough spines towards the clear blue water. A ways back from the shore, stood a prou...read more

by Frank Hayslip

From the novel "SHOOT THE MAN DOWN" CHAPTER TWO Flashing images roared through Ned's mind. He was down near the Red River tracking two horse thieves in the breaks when he got the word. It took him eighteen hours of...read more

by Laney Rowland

Project Free Bird - Chapter 4: Sid & Tony The elderly man listened carefully to his cohorts. His glasses with their thick, black rims, rested snuggly on his thin-tipped nose. Blue eyes gazed from one man to the other....read more

by Mildred Lampley

01(Tied up.) My mother is getting married. Dad left us when I was 13. I haven't seen him in 5 years so to speak. It didn't seem to faze mom one bit when dad left. As if she didn't even love him, the way they always to...read more

by Mepersoner

This is from a novel I'm writing, it's a fan fiction of something I'm not a fan of. Wrath of a Mortal: Chapter 3: Life or Justice Kenneth felt like he had been walking for days. He was walking south towards the o...read more