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 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 The Man Who Talked to Machines Michael Graeme http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2783 en 2001 A short story from web-author Michael Graeme (a half hour read): "You have to talk to them, counsel them, mesmerise them into stillness before you set foot anywhere near them. And, though I may not be considered wholly sane, at least I have a reputation for the way I talk to machines." science fiction fiction short story short read http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2783.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2783.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2783.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2783.mobi 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Beasts of New York: A children's book for grown-ups Jon Evans http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2976 en 2007 An urban fantasy about the wildlife of New York City, starring a squirrel protagonist who has to find his way from exile in Staten Island back to his home in Central Park. http://www.beastsofnewyork.com/ fantasy animals urban fantasy http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2976.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2976.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2976.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/2976.mobi Forever In Time Charlie http://feedbooks.com/userbook/7906 en 2009 If Stephanie Fields was asked to describe herself, she’d say she was ordinary, calm and cautious. Her quiet life was exactly as she wanted it to be, or so she thought, until a mysterious stranger entered her shop. He had a knack for drawing her out of herself, for pushing her buttons, for making her feel... But now, just when life was getting interesting, someone was stalking her. Excerpt: She was in there, he knew it. He’d followed her that morning as she left her house, keeping a discreet distance, doing nothing that could alert her or anyone else of his intentions... Time was on his side. He could wait. Wait until his target appeared... “I’m waiting for you Stephanie,” he whispered as she exited the grocery store and put her purchases into her sensible grey car. “I’ve been waiting a very, very long time.” romance suspense paranormal http://feedbooks.com/userbook/7906.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/7906.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/7906.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/7906.mobi A Moth on the Moon Michael Graeme http://feedbooks.com/userbook/7588 en 2004 A twenty minute read, by Michael Graeme: Conspiracy theorists excepted, most people know the United States landed a man on the moon in 1969. What's less well known however, is that the British beat them to it, in 1947. science fiction Satire moon landings conspiracy theory http://feedbooks.com/userbook/7588.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/7588.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/7588.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/7588.mobi The Time Machine H. G. Wells http://feedbooks.com/book/32 urn:isbn:0812505042 en 1895 Novels Science Fiction <p>The book's protagonist is an amateur inventor or scientist living in London who is never named; he is identified simply as The Time Traveller. Having demonstrated to friends using a miniature model that time is a fourth dimension, and that a suitable apparatus can move back and forth in this fourth dimension, he builds a full-scale model capable of carrying himself. He sets off on a journey into the future.</p> This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/32.png http://feedbooks.com/book/32.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/32.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/32.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 His Robot Girlfriend Wesley Allison http://feedbooks.com/userbook/5854 en 2009 Mike Smith's life was crap, living all alone, years after his wife had died and his children had grown up and moved away. Then he saw the commercial for the Daffodil. Far more than other robots, the Daffodil could become anything and everything he wanted it to be. Mike's life is about to change. science fiction future robot girlfriend http://feedbooks.com/userbook/5854.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/5854.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/5854.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/5854.mobi Mortal Ghost L. Lee Lowe http://feedbooks.com/userbook/120 en 2007 It's a fiery hot summer, and sixteen-year-old Jesse Wright is on the run. An oddly gifted boy, he arrives in a new city where the direction of his life is about to change. He's hungry and lonely and desperate - and beset by visions of a stranger who is being brutally tortured. And then there are Jesse's own memories of a fire ... Further information: http://mortalghost.blogspot.com/ Podcasts (audiobook) of the novel: http://lleelowe.com fantasy Young Adult YA Teen YA Fantasy Novel Online Novel http://feedbooks.com/userbook/120.png http://feedbooks.com/userbook/120.pdf http://feedbooks.com/userbook/120.epub http://feedbooks.com/userbook/120.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 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Francis Scott Fitzgerald http://feedbooks.com/book/3431 en 1922 Short Fiction <p>This story was inspired by a remark of Mark Twain's to the effect that it was a pity that the best part of life came at the beginning and the worst part at the end. By trying the experiment upon only one man in a perfectly normal world I have scarcely given his idea a fair trial. Several weeks after completing it, I discovered an almost identical plot in Samuel Butler's "Note-books." <br />The story was published in "Collier's" last summer and provoked this startling letter from an anonymous admirer in Cincinnati: <br />"Sir-- <br />I have read the story Benjamin Button in Colliers and I wish to say that as a short story writer you would make a good lunatic I have seen many peices of cheese in my life but of all the peices of cheese I have ever seen you are the biggest peice. I hate to waste a peice of stationary on you but I will." </p> This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/3431.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3431.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3431.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3431.mobi