The Choices Michael Graeme http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2974 en 2006 A fifteen minute read: I am sitting here in the lounge-bar of the McKinley Arms Hotel, by the shores of Loch Lomond, and I am staring out into the twilight at my choices. I have been this way before many times and I always seem to go wrong at this point, so you must forgive what must seem like fastidious caution, but I simply have to get it right this time! fiction meaning short story speculative metaphysical http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2974.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2974.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2974.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2974.mobi The God Chord: String Theory In The Landscape of the Heart Robert L. Schrag, Ph.D. http://feedbooks.com/userbook/624 en 2008 String theory [ST] is a relatively recent development in theoretical physics that reveals the fundamental, irreducible building block of the universe to be an inconceivably tiny vibrating string. Everything is built of these strings. Hence, ST posits a universe made of music. This work examines the implications of ST in a landscape seen as remote from physics, the human heart. As such it is an exploration of ST in the harmonic nature of life, existence, love, God and the universe. healing Zen Spirituality theoretical physics string theory metaphysics nature of the universe super string theory brane theory peace of mind universe theory of everything harmony meaning http://feedbooks.com/userbook/624.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/624.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/624.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/624.mobi The Man Who Could Not Forget Michael Graeme http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2857 en 2008 A Short Story by Michael Graeme (a fifteen minute read): ...I have a problem with my memory. It isn't that it ever fails me - quite the opposite in fact. Indeed, my recall of events from all but the earliest years of my life is truly photographic, so there was little doubt in my mind the woman before me now was the one who had stolen the book.... fantasy fiction romance short story speculative http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2857.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2857.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2857.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2857.mobi Love is a Perfect Place Michael Graeme http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3074 en 1999 A short story by Michael Graeme - a twenty minute read: He scooped some water up and drank. It astonished him. It tasted like he imagined the most perfect water should taste, but it was a sensation spoiled by the queer fact that he wasn't thirsty even though he had walked for hours under a hot sun. "Perhaps we don't need food,... or water," he said. "Only when it pleases us." He looked around then at the land and he felt a chill. What manner of place was this? And what manner of being had he become? fantasy mystery romance short story speculative http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3074.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3074.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3074.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3074.mobi Lively Custard Michael Graeme http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3299 en 2004 Short Story - a 25 minute read: Rogue trees are popping up all over the little town of Frinton-cum-Hardy and the residents have begun speaking in metaphors so mixed and mangled, poor Armitage, connoisseur of all things bookish, finds he no longer understands his mother tongue. And if all that isn't enough his young protege, Jenny, from the Books Galore Emporeum is having "uncle trouble"! fantasy fiction Satire speculative humorous romantic http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3299.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3299.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3299.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3299.mobi The Enigma that was Carla Sinclair Michael Graeme http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2822 en 2004 A short story by Michael Graeme (a 45 minute read): I was not completely unhinged. She was just a computer program, a crude simulation - at best a never ending animated cartoon with only one character and no story line. But she was "something",... a hobby I suppose you might say. Other young men had hobbies, equally obscure, though perhaps more socially inclusive. They collected camera gear, they went fishing, raced cars or drank themselves stupid. Me? I coded in my bedroom. Same thing? Well, not quite. You see, while other people's hobbies took them out of themselves, mine enabled me to climb deeper inside. science fiction fantasy meaning short story speculative metaphysical http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2822.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2822.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2822.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2822.mobi The Magician of Monkton Pier Michael Graeme http://feedbooks.com/userbook/5030 en 2009 Short Story - a twenty five minute read. Joshua is navigating his eco-boat, The Mattie Rat along a dark and stinking stretch of the old canal through Monkton - a city overwhelmed by gangs and gun toting Militias. Joshua's seen it all before: urban decay, corruption and the death of hope. Living on the water, and with no need for money, he's usually able to slip unnoticed through these town stretches and into the green beyond. But when he's tricked into picking up a pair of enigmatic hitchers, Joshua knows there's going to be trouble in Monkton. In spite of his best efforts, the wily old Waterman is about to become an accomplice in the biggest magical stunt of all time. And if the world no longer believes in magic, well, it only has itself to blame. Magic short story speculative romantic new age philosophical http://feedbooks.com/userbook/5030.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/5030.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/5030.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/5030.mobi Escape From Paradise Island Michael Graeme http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3739 en 2007 A 25 minute read by Michael Graeme: Crime doesn't pay. That's what they try to teach you in prison, and fair enough, I might even have left there one day determined to go straight except, suddenly, I was on an island in the China Sea, gazing at a beautiful girl in a yellow Bikini. So maybe it had been worth it after all. But careful now! You had to avoid thinking things like that because they'd a nasty habit of dissolving back into reality and you'd wake up right back in that stinking grey cell: five years of your life already erased, with another two to go, and all because you'd never been able to resist the puzzle of a pretty motor car! fantasy mystery romance short story speculative http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3739.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3739.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3739.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3739.mobi Beautiful Red M. Darusha Wehm http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2548 en 2007 The future is boring. Technology has solved most of the world’s most pressing problems, leaving people with tedious work and mundane play. Jack is a Security Officer Class 5, which sounds important, but isn’t. However, her banal life as a cubicle worker by day and tinkerer by night is interrupted when she discovers that her employer’s computer system has been invaded. Jack enlists the help of her only friends – her co-worker, Gilles and Adrian, an online friend she’s never met – to help her track down the source of the invasion. Her investigation leads her to a shadowy group called the Red, where Jack learns that not everyone lives a life of quiet servitude. Even though she believes that the Red are responsible for a series of gruesome attacks, Jack begins to become attracted to their worldview. In her search for the people responsible for the attacks, she confronts the leaders of the group as well as her own burgeoning sense of self-awareness. science fiction thriller computers ai mystery cyberpunk future women http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2548.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2548.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2548.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2548.mobi Mars Girl Jeff Garrity http://feedbooks.com/userbook/1206 en 2008 "Mars Girl is reminiscent of Kurt Vonnegut's early satire ... [It's] a bizarre, satirical romp that offers a glimpse into the media and politics of a future that is probably nearer than most would like to admit." -City Pulse, Lansing, Michigan Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License. You are free to download and distribute "Mars Girl" with attribution for noncommercial purposes. www.marsgirl.us science fiction politics Satire media http://feedbooks.com/userbook/1206.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/1206.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/1206.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/1206.mobi Black Silk Jan Gordon http://feedbooks.com/userbook/6555 en 2009 Victoria Hudson is 29 and lives in the kind of small town where everyone knows everyone else. She has two great loves in her life -- her cat, Mister, and reading books from her used bookstore. She doesn't see her life changing much in the future. She's stuck. Until one night when she's saved from probable danger by a mysterious stranger. ****** Steven Colburn has moved around quite a bit during his lifetime, never really finding a place where he felt he could be comfortable. Until he buys an old homestead, and fate steps in to forever change his life and that of one of the town’s quiet entrepreneurs. **** A light romance with a paranormal twist. romance paranormal romance http://feedbooks.com/userbook/6555.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/6555.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/6555.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/6555.mobi Red Riding Hood Naomi Kramer http://feedbooks.com/userbook/7104 en 2009 Rosie dresses as "Little Red Riding Hood, all growed up" for a party at an exclusive adults' club. Roger dresses as the wolf. When they meet... sparks don't exactly fly. This isn't a romance or erotic fiction, but it DOES contain adult themes. Consider yourself warned. :-) remix adult fairytale http://feedbooks.com/userbook/7104.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/7104.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/7104.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/7104.mobi Tokyo Zero Marc Horne http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3501 en 2004 Michael Blake is in Tokyo to help out with the end of the world. Living in the Tokyo of the gangs, the losers and the outsiders, Blake and a cell of Japanese psychopaths plot to unleash a new kind of bio-chemical horror on an unsupecting populace of daydreaming salary-people. science fiction fiction Creative Commons Post-1930 http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3501.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3501.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3501.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3501.mobi How To Disappear Completely David Bowick http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3115 en 2009 www.bowick.net/books/ Sitting at the top of a Ferris wheel overlooking the Boston skyline, Josh’s life takes an unexpected turn, and things will never be the same. Along with the many surprises on his life’s new path, he’ll come to take life advice from a family of ducks, get in a bloody war with a dog, lose his job over a spilled drink, wake up in the hospital, apply to work at an adult-themed novelty bakery, and find out that people often aren’t what they seem. When you're at the top of the world, there's nowhere to go but down. fiction Contemporary comedy David Bowick how to disapear completely http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3115.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3115.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3115.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3115.mobi Herman Marmaduke Small Stories http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3512 en 2009 Herman Marmaduke is a micro-novel about identity and loss. fiction short short story Story short fiction micro-novel http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3512.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3512.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3512.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/3512.mobi He'll Always Have Paris Joseph Devon http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2779 en 2007 Dorian is the head of a lab researching a breakthrough technology for the treatment of those suffering emotional trauma. But one night he decides that this not-quite-ready-yet treatment would be the perfect thing to fix his failing marriage. Mix The Matrix with the set from the original Frankenstein movie, add a dash of couples therapy, stir, then pour into a tall glass made out of old Twilight Zone episodes and you’ll have a sense of some of the flavors this story calls to mind. science fiction fiction Creative Commons marriage Emotional sci-fi dark fantasy urban fantasy twilight zone divorce matrix frankenstein paris modern fantasy http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2779.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2779.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2779.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2779.mobi Probability Angels Joseph Devon http://feedbooks.com/userbook/4688 en 2009 Matthew Huntington’s problems seem to keep growing. Not only is he seeing things in garbage cans but his mentor doesn’t think he’s working up to his full potential, his best friend can’t offer any solace but drunken confusion, and his wife is dying in Central Park. Of course, the fact that Matthew himself died over two decades ago isn’t helping things. And then things start to really go wrong. Come explore the world of Matthew and Epp and see what a samurai from Feudal Japan has to do with the course of modern physics, what a two-thousand year old Roman slave has to do with the summit of Mount Everest, and what a dead man from Brooklyn has to do with the fate of the world. science fiction fantasy Blog fiction Creative Commons 21st Century devon “New York” brooklyn “physics” “murder” “angels” “dark fantasy” ”immortal” http://feedbooks.com/userbook/4688.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/4688.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/4688.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/4688.mobi You are in the Matrix, Charlie Brown Stupidfic http://feedbooks.com/userbook/6432 en 2006 Charlie Brown in the Matrix matrix Charlie Brown http://feedbooks.com/userbook/6432.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/6432.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/6432.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/6432.mobi Segue Wiley Davis http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2022 en 2008 A segue. A short story about a transitional moment. short story literary fiction wiley davis segue coffee dreams http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2022.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2022.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2022.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2022.mobi Small Stories Small Stories http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2705 en 2008 101 very short stories, some comic, some dark - each one written to provide a quick entertaining read. Great for reading on any mobile device. funny fiction short stories comic stories dark weird comedy surreal nanofiction microfiction absurd strange collections computer games http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2705.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2705.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2705.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2705.mobi