Little Blue Button

A poem about a little blue button brought to life, experiencing the ebbs and flows of emotion and an icy winter.

The Phoenix &The Crow

When Roselyn first hears the voice, it is clear and alluring. She is dazzled by the woman's voice and by the enchanting well sitting beside her. When Roselyn hears the voice another time, it is sharp and abusive. It is a voice she both wants to be rid of and attached to. When she first meets RayLark, she is attracte...

ALL MY LOVES

What do you do when you have a huge crush on your best friend, or in my case best friends? I've spent most of my life being the girl who tags along with the Love Triplets. Three hot specimens, identical to most, but different in every way to me. There's Alex, the high school quarterback, whose deep, blue eyes I swe...

Lightning Seeker

#2 Steampunk--- The year 2312. Robots dominate nearly every profession. But eighteen-year-old Vale is determined to prove herself and become a Lightning Seeker. After stowing away on an airship, she proves her worth by doing the impossible: outperforming an AI as a lookout. But can she pull off the same feat twice? Ma...

First There Was You

*Book One in the Every Other Memory Series* Elle Montgomery is a model daughter, student, sister, and friend with everything ahead of her. Her ambitious, A-type personality doesn't leave a lot of room for her to relax, and she struggles to find balance as life becomes more and more complicated. But when she finds her...

Til Debt Do Us Part

Millions were being invested in the Blue Shoals Resort new expansion program. The villa owned by Lillian and Mathew Patton was the last one standing in the way of the development and the sole reason for his boss beginning an affair with his wife and then firing him.

Contest entries, reviews and awards

Some new contest entries, and assorted stories and poems I have entered in various contests over the years that have achieved a modicum of recognition. I trot them out for your consideration.

The Price of Greed

A labyrinth of lies and deception and a disgraced police detective fighting for his career while pursuing a hopeless romance. A complex crime mystery drama with money and power driving the agendas of wives, lovers, mistresses and one who resorts to killing. © lyttlejoe 9/12/2012

Outside the Box

This collection contains my contributions to a unique and fun collaborative challenge designed by @silenttomorrows entitled The Box that just recently finished. The challenge was to write a chapter based on three items left in the box by the previous author. I recommend a visit to The Box to enjoy ALL the posted chap...

HARD NOSE

The surprise letter from a cousin advising Nick Roth he had inherited $1200 from an uncle he had barely known, was a windfall for his sagging detective agency business, which had suffered during the war years. The additional news that the cousin suspected a cover-up of the death only added fuel to Nick's enthusiastic...

Poems Primarily Narrative (or not)

FIRST PLACE COFFEE AFTER DARK WRITING CONTEST - JULY 2020 This collection has no particular category or message. They are errant thoughts and observations on various subjects. If interested, I hope you find some you enjoy.

Digging Up My Poetic Past

A scattered collection of works from years past resurrected mainly because I have begun to dry up creatively in the current environment

The Bride

THIRD PLACE IN HISTORICAL FICTION - 2020 SOAP AWARDS With nothing to remain for or even forget, Allison Bleeker listened eagerly to the descriptions offered by the agent who encouraged her signature on the marriage contract that would see her travelling west, dreaming of a new start in life with the man who sent for h...

Readers For Reads [ HIATUS]

This is a Read for Read book club.

Initium novum [Completed - being edited/rewritten]

©DanielHorcic All right reserved A story about a girl who is adopted by a veteran soldier. She didn't know who her real parents are and she wishes to find out. At the age of 16 she is a witness to an arrest and then the execution of her adoptive father. That makes her hate the government and the regime she lives und...

Hiraeth

"His love was everything she never knew she wanted" When Mija is abducted from her home by a group of criminals, her fate was sealed as she has to work for them as their servant. Her life was empty and vague as she had to abandon all her hopes to stay alive. That was until she meets Kayle, a man whose fate was even mo...

When We Shed Civilization

[Wattpad Editors' Choice] In a dystopian future, Beth is to marry a man she has just met. And Leo seeks revenge for his wife's murder. They start off as enemies. ---- Decades after humanity's downfall, the last remnants of civilization hide in gated communities. Gangs and fights rule the rest of the desiccated lands. ...

Amore Mio (#4)

(BOOK 4 OF MAFIA LOVE SERIES) Read Mia Regina, Escort Me Baby, and Mio Re before this. *** I woke up in a place I didn't recognize, with rowdy looking people I didn't know, and fear tingling in every inch of my aching body. I had no place to run, no one to seek help from. I was trapped in these four walls, clawing at...

Fall in May

May Belle Grimm knows only too well that the hardest falls are the ones that happen when you aren't looking, and she has all the scars to prove it. But May is not your average San Fall girl, and nothing is ever quite as it seems to be with Maybe, both the good and the not so good. So when May is having an especially d...

I'm Not Crazy

We are not the broken clichés you want us to be anymore. We have transcended beyond the "Good Girl ~ Bad Boy" boxes they tried to put us in. We are so far beyond all that now, that we are finally free of all those stereotypes. The story of us is not the usual cliche "good girl" meets "bad boy" that instantly fall in...

Peace Keeper

With a history of heart disease, twenty-eight-year-old Mirella has a constant fear of the one heart attack that will end her life. When she is given a beautiful but unusual piece of jewelry from her older brother as a seemingly innocent birthday gift, she is transported to the underworld overnight. What she finds ther...

Little Kid's Horror Stories

Lights out. Flashlight under the covers. Horror stories kids can enjoy without (too much) trauma. Easy reads and all complete.

Room with a View

When Miller Hunt lands at his all expense paid, dream vacation resort it quickly turns to a chaotic nightmare of confusion and misadventure involving swindlers, cheaters, killers and a frustrating romance. An adventure/mystery/comedy

Revenge of the Rykas

Sequel to The Azwan Chronicles. Gothag proposes a program to Belgar to bring groups of children to Azwan for education skills training so their home planet can end the cycle of decay, war and poverty. The ruler of Belgar sees it as an opportunity to avenge her father's death and the eventual conquering of Azwan.

Piracy

Cover courtesy of @BarryVosloo An action adventure pirate tale with all the expected elements. The ship carrying the governor's daughter is attacked at sea and she is kidnapped by Tortuga's most notorious pirate, Terrance Hollick. Spirited away to their haven in a hidden cavern on the rocky north coast, Alicia Francor...

StarFall (Completed)

If your life went from ordinary to extraordinary, it would be great, right? Wrong. Cursed by a fairy queen. Split into two people. Magical powers that are slowly killing her. And loads of boy trouble. Be careful what you wish for....

Bunker Bird

Tim, a garbage handler in a post-apocalyptic bunker, loses the little he has. But then he finds Amy, the redhead with an attitude. Together, they will try to change the world they live in. -- Tim is one of those who shovel the shit and clean away the waste. Life in the dirt of others is all he knows. When his father g...

The Craving - Marooned

[Complete] After a plane crash, Megan is marooned with a group of survivors on an uninhabited island in the Pacific. They find a dead man's body, and the next day it's gone. And then someone of their group disappears, too. They realize that there's something with them. Something that might be lethal. ---- Not having...

The Customs Agent

#5 in gunfighters May.2023. An undercover customs agent gets involved with the human trafficking rings in San Francisco after the gold rush of 1849

Vampire Butler

A mysterious butler takes a position at the wealthy Esante' Estate. The youngest daughter Arie, who suffers from anxiety, becomes interested in the butler, Sebastian. Can he help her figure out who is responsible for the young women disappearing in the kingdom, before it's too late...