Building the Perfect Man

By blondelibrarian: "Inspired by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and her quest for the perfect partner, genetic engineer Dr. Melissa Reeves sets out to build the perfect man."

Silence Droplets

By Imam Wahyudi.

Homo Vampyrus

By Kat.

Novel in progress

By Daisy: "Post-graduation people finding their way... So far I'm drawing character portraits for my five main characters: buying rollerboots from charity shops on a whim, finding out their long term boyfriend is actually married, secretly writing a sci-fi novel at work, having a deep and meaningful relationship with their coffe machine, using excessive amounts of hair gel... I'm not sure what's really going to hapen to them when I put them in a house together..."

What makes a REAL man?

By Monty Leverett: "The idea for this book came to me about a year ago when I once again heard the phrase that every boy heard all too often in school, 'be a man'. This time I wasn't the one being told that, but I simply overheard it being said, and it got me thinking, what does that mean? Everyone has a different idea of what a man is. Beyond the simple explanation of gender, what truly makes a man a 'real man'?"

Viking Novel

By Hugh Watkins: "This is where I am going to retell viking sagas."

In Another's Eyes

By Grey: "Ian and Kelly have been happily married for years. But on the eve of Kylie's wedding, Ian reflects on a choice he made years ago, and everything that could have been if he had made a different decision. What would he do if he could make the choice again...?"

jacki's as yet untitled novel

By Jacki Murphy.

The Homecoming

By Sanjay Ziddi: "About a son who returns home after a ten year absence to make peace with the ghosts from his past."

Rinpoche

By Kaili: "It's a novel about the disappearance of the Panchen Lama several years in Tibet/China. His kidnapping and a whole fictional story based around a some Kiwis who play a part in protecting the real Panchen Lama. The Panchen Lama is the next dude under the Dalai Lama in the kind of hierarchy of Tibetan Buddhism. Since this story is unedited, there a likely to be several serious errors, but hey, it's fiction."

1985

By Bill Dennis: "In the year 1985, it's 38 years after end of World War II, a conflict that finally ended after the long and bloody invasion of Japan. James Hanssler lives a life routine, plodding urban drudgery, punctuated with fear of impending doom. His best friend was arrested and sent to a work camp after the Feds raided an NAACP meeting. His license to practice journalism is in danger of being revoked. And even worse, his favorite restaurant has can't afford the black market price of eggs. Now, a very attractive young woman has been giving him the eye. If he could only be sure she doesn't work for the Community Benevolence League ...

Something just isn't right.

And when he covers a routine fire, it starts a trip into the past to fix what was wrong, a correction that can very well result in his not being born."

Learning to Be One Person

By Christine.

Light Weaves

By Brando Peter.

Rokani

By Hans Balliet: "Rokani is the title, and the story is based off of a dream that I had about a year ago, and has been mulling about in my head for that entire time. I'm not promising greatness, just a lot of words."

The Ghost of Alma Matterson

By Kevin Delaney.

Confessions Of A Teenage Superhero

By jeremy S. zehr.

Too Late to Procrastinate

By Dorcas L. Hawker: "Something about caves and water and sailboats is on my mind at the moment. Probably a mystery. Something that can begin on a 'dark and stormy night' and end 'happily ever after' but with no other formula to the in between parts. There won't be buried treasure though."

Conflicted

By Spunkz.

The Dance of the Shadows

By Shadow Dancer: "Our shadows are the ghosts of your souls...we watch them dance, we watch them writher...we watch them perish in the light..."

Thoughts and Thorns

By Rose Johnson: "Reader discression is advised as some scenes contain nudity, sexuality, violence, coarse language and probably other things that would require warnings if this was on TV."

A Love Story

By Patrick Paddock.

The Neurotic Life

By Tulip Saki.

An Archaeological Find of Tremendous Cultural, Linguistic, Historical, Scientific, Mathematical and a Host of Whatchacallit-icals Significance

By archaeologicalfind.

Rome Didn't Burn in a Day

By Doug O' Lakes.

Taber's Writer's Block

By Taber: "When I got home today I suddenly had some inspiration for a story involving a hithero unknown species, the Valkyries."

The Second Civil War

By Wild Bill: "It is Nov 2nd 2004 and it is time to vote for the next president of the United States. But a trip to the polls turns violent and it is not just an isolated incident. Riots have broken out in most of the major cities. The National Guard is activated to restore order. Lawsuits are filed all over the country, some calling for a halt to the election until order is restored, and others call for the Electoral College to elect the new president. It is decide that the votes that were cast will be counted to decide the popular vote. The major cities object because this means that mostly rural voters will decide the election. The incumbent president wins the popular vote in a landslide. The challenging candidate files to have the election decided by the Supreme Court, but one on the judges is terminally ill and the bench is evenly divided along partisan lines. The cities want a new election, but the rural voters oppose this idea. As clashes in the city intensifies the economy starts to crash. Business close down, marshal law is declared, and the president has gone missing. The challenger assumes power of the government. The new president orders the National Guard to confiscate all guns to restore order. The Second Civil War has begun."

Untitled, As Yet

By Jon Muggleton: "1989: After winning the Connecticut state high school hockey championship, five friends face up to their vastly different futures over the course of a tumultuous weekend house party.

2004: The five re-unite after 15 years for a wedding and a funeral, and deal with all that's gone under the bridge since."

Untitled

By Runs With Scissors: "Earth. A billion years from now. Maybe. Who can tell how far into the future, or the past this story will flow. For better or for worse, mankind has survived. Earth's resources have been completely consumed. Earth is no longer a planet, but a man-made satellite that happens to orbit a slowly dying star where once a planet roamed.

Genetically engineered computers manage the “Earth”. Constructed from human genes, these nearly humanoid thinking machines govern the satellite's existence.

Really, the story is about a power struggle between one of the thinking machines and the rest of mankind, and how both actually survive. Power was not something that was designed into the machine. At some point, something has gone awry."

Something Ambiguous

By C.X.: "My novel, so far, is two completely different storylines. Who knows which one will win? Only November 1st will tell."

He Never Said Sorry

By japanfan: "She thought he was heartless. He thought she was blind."

The Backward Seat

By GlibGal.

The Cloud Tree

By Violet: "I have a new story to tell you. It's called The Cloud Tree and it's about a girl who creates weather with her emotions."

The Ancient Ones

By Megan Rose: "Fantasy story of a young teenage girl on her journey to find her past. She searches for the almighty power ((which just happens to be evil)) and the closer she gets to it the more she finds out how much they have in common. Through this journey she also goes through many other teenage experiences for someone of her time, first kiss, first lay, challenges to her female status, ect."

Bruce Napoleon, Vampire Veterinarian

By Chris DiBona: "It's the heart warming story about a small animal veterinarian, who helps keep the rural counties furry denizens healthy and happy. This is not your average vampire story, all scar, sex and leather obsessed. Bruce drives a Volvo, likes his cat, Buttons, and is just trying to get by in a world rapidly coming to terms with the undead among them."

That Old Gang of Mine

By L. Elisabeth: "Claire, a self-proclaimed 'athazagoraphobic' (someone with the persistant fear of forgetting), never thought that moving to Nashden Falls would change her life. After all, she had lived in Melbourne, Tokyo, Los Angeles and Berlin- how could a small Ohio town make any difference? But ten years after spending her sophomore year at Nashden Falls High, Claire realizes that life's most important moments can never be forgotten."

This Month In Authorship

By Elise Haskell: "The main characters just returned from another dimension to their own."

The Shadow Path

By Francesca Gray.

Beautiful Atomic Karma

By Vince Tardy: "A road novel about desire, velocity, infidelity, and a worn deck of playing cards in the breast pocket of a three-button tweed jacket. With suede elbow patches. And a tiny cigarette burn on the left lapel, nearly unnoticable, but you know it's there; it was that way when you bought it."

Trepaul Reston

By Thad O.: "Well, as it is currently planned, it follows the story of Trepaul Reston, a young man, who is also a computer wizard.

Cleverly deducing the presence of aliens living among us, he tracks them down, and becomes their friend. Friend until the commander turns up dead.

Who killed the commander? What is this special 'gift' that was given? Who else knows about the aliens? We shall see..."

Fishkiss

By L.A. Snyder: "I have decided that I will definitely post daily word counts (1667 a day???!???) and then I will periodically post excerpts."

Chimera

By Shannon Hubbell.

Magic and Science

By Vampire Chick aka CXer: "Aurora University isn't a normal university by human standards. When a human is hired to be the science teacher, everything and anything could go wrong."

Lost in the Desert

By Steven Perez.

Nulla dies sine linea

By Idahoblackberry: "Or, in English, ''Never a day without a line.''"

The Mis-Adventures of Miss Molly Rose

By Molly Rose: "These are the Missed Adventures of Miss Molly Rose. Born in 1918 by most accounts, Molly really has no idea how old she is. Besides, 86 seems like such a LOVELY number!"

Back Page Ads

By Erpy: "It'll be a hoot, like drinking a lot of booze and trying to do the NY Times Crossword Puzzle. You won't understand a thing, but unlike drinking, you won't have a hangover when you leave the site."

The Great Canadian Ever-Shifting Novel

By Dan Corbear: "I can't promise you a coherent novel, probably shifting between posts depending on my current mood, but I hope it'll be entertaining. "

Love Is a Many Splintered Swing

By Sharon Kelly: "About having loved and lost, which means he got the house"

Hindsight

By Daniel Browne.

Domesticated Dragons

By April Vannatta.

Moonmadness

By Dave Goodchild.

As Yet, Unknown

By Lourdan Hazei: "Okay, we're going with the post-apocolyptic romance/thriller/horror-style story. Its not really... ready for a label. I'm not sure exactly how it will play out. Currently, Thea & Bart are a pair of lost souls. I suspect (that's why I'm calling it romantic) they will meet and hook-up as the story unfolds. Then again, perhaps not. We shall see where the characters take us. "