Online Fiction

Twelve players set off through the online world of Galactogon, lured by the game owners' promise of an enormous payoff. The question is, who will survive to tell the tale? Which of the 12 is a potential hero - or a traitor in the making? Which of them will defend the weak, and who will become the ultimate evil overlord? A knight or a coward? Each of the 12 will have to choose his or her path.

Die Mitglieder des virtuellen Lesezirkels »Salomes Lesekränzchen« sind Literatur-Enthusiasten. Dass sich ausgerechnet ein Kultusminister abschätzig über das Lesen der Klassiker und die korrekte Rechtschreibung äußert, macht sie wütend. Aus Protest inszenieren sie Verbrechen der Weltliteratur. Dann geschieht wirklich ein Mord, das Opfer trägt ein mit Blut geschriebenes Hölderlin-Zitat auf der Brust. Kommissar Jennerwein soll den Fall übernehmen.

The demon king and his minions murdered our friend and destroyed our home. When it comes to saving the mortal realm, what do we have left to lose? Bebal, one of my father Paimon’s minions, killed Jacob and utterly destroyed our warehouse headquarters. The rest of us barely escaped with our lives. Now, the only hope we have of destroying the head honcho demon king - who just happens to be my Daddy Dearest - is a piece of an ancient weapon and an incomplete ancient scroll.

Everyone thought it was just a hijacking. They were wrong. It was a skyheist! In aviation's golden age of the 1960s, a late arriving passenger boards a TWA 727 minutes before departure. However, this passenger is not what he seems. As the plane is taxiing out for takeoff, the new arrival brandishes a gun. Everyone present is now part of a hijacking. Working with the authorities, the flight crew is successful in safely evacuating the passengers. However, the hijacker is equally successful in forcing the plane into the sky. Destination: Cuba.

I knew vampire Carter Black wasn’t being straight with me. Damn those sexy brown eyes. But I won’t be taken twice. I’m better off on my own, anyways. If only demon minions would quit trying to bring me to my deadbeat dad, Paimon. I couldn’t exactly be mad when drop-dead gorgeous Jacob showed up and thwarted their plans.

I just spent my 21st birthday in a coma with a head injury, while my now-ex-boyfriend, Adam, used it as an opportunity to start dating my backstabbing now-ex-roommate. And ever since the accident, weird things have been happening. Enter the gorgeous Carter Black - tall and clean-shaven, with mysterious dark-brown eyes that make my inner goddess shiver in anticipation. Oh yeah, did I mention he’s a vampire? But hey, nobody’s perfect.

I MADE IT OUT ALIVE. I'd earned my right to escape. The first boss was dead. FREEDOM. Yet, the pain remains. It's not over. I LOGGED BACK IN. Things are different. I fight not only for strangers... NOW I FIGHT FOR FRIENDS. The hacker took someone precious. I'm not leaving until he is defeated.

The day has come. The world's first truly immersive VR-MMO is indistinguishable from real life. One million copies are sent out and one million log in. But things go wrong. Players don't respawn when killed, and their violent deaths seem all too real. Because they are. No one can log out. The button is gone. In the real world those wearing the headsets are found dead. One by one, day by day, thousands die.

The first shots in the Ruballian civil war have been fired. Nodes vital to the king, captured. Sieges commenced. Unseen forces operate in the shadows to meet their own objectives while the elven queen sits in a Brusarian prison. Gemini Fowler is at the center of it all. Torn between his duty to Priya Skyy, his foundation, and the elves, he’ll have to return to where his adventure began to seek the aid of a powerful ally in hopes of restoring that which is precious to him.

Charity Daniels is at a crossroads in her marriage: Should she stay, or should she go? Although Charity loves her husband dearly, their mundane sex life has become a huge issue for her. For years, Charity has questioned whether bad sex is a deal breaker in a relationship, and she’s finally come to the conclusion that for her and her marriage, it definitely is. To get her mind off of the separation, Charity decides to take an impromptu trip back home to spend some quality time with her sisters.

Remi Russell knows this playbook all too well. She’s seen it unfold five times over her six years at The Sophisticate, a once prominent but now struggling women’s magazine. So when the publication needs rescuing yet again, an intriguing new chief digital officer, Jason Ashbloome, arrives with a revolutionary plan beyond the usual workforce cuts. He proposes integrating MAUDE, an innovative AI software, to make the magazine more efficient. Remi fears she could lose her job to a machine, and worse, the magazine she loves might lose its humanity altogether.

Trapped in a vintage fantasy reality, he's a sickly dark elf, too weak to lift a weapon. Can he win a brutal battle before he's lethally logged out? Temor has been an underdog all his lowly life. Obsessed with old-school gaming, he risks his neck to mine virtual currency for the mob. But after he's arrested and awakens inside a simulated online arena, he'll have to fight to the death or watch his sister perish. Assigned a weakling build in a combat-heavy world with no respawns, Temor relies on his outlandish plans and magical stats to outwit his burly enemies.

Healani was born into a world where she doesn't fit in; a world full of wolves, yet she is not one. The Moon Goddess has never gifted her with a wolf form, and she wishes to do nothing but escape the feeling of inferiority. While away at college in her new, human life, mysterious deaths begin to happen, forcing her back to the home that never felt like it should. Only, Healani will find that she is so much more than any human or wolf. She was a specially made being, and she has a mate out there who has been waiting a long time for her.

Es ist schon Wochen her, dass Hall und seine neu gegründete Gilde, die Breakridge Freischärler, nach Skara Brae zurückgekehrt sind. Das Dorf wächst weiter, steht aber jeden Tag vor neuen Herausforderungen. Mit dem Erreichen eines neuen Levels erhält Hall neue Quests und führt die Breakridge Freischärler auf ihre erste Dungeon-Reise in einem aktualisierten Sky Realms Online.

After committing his life to Christ, WD, aka Woodrow Dawson, sets in motion events which will echo through eternity. Haunted by grief over his past failures, he decides to make things right between him and his aging father. But first, he needs to escape from the mental health facility where he’d been incarcerated for attempted suicide and alcohol abuse. The spiritual conflict unleased against him threatens to destroy the very foundation of his faith. Were it not for ministering angles, all would be lost.

In the hedonistic world of Vauxhall Gardens, a place where London's aristocracy pursues daring entertainment and sensual pleasures, desire overrules status, prejudice, and societal censure. When Lola York meets Theodore Coventry, Earl of Essex, their chemistry is undeniable, but she knows better than to yearn for forbidden love. That is, until their involvement becomes unavoidable and Lola realizes the most dangerous risk of all is the one that threatens her heart.

His wish led to the addition of a new system to Genesis Online: siege mechanics. Rival guilds can now declare war and attack each others' cities. If the attackers win, they take ownership of the defeated settlement. With few details on how the new system will work, Kevin must build up defenses to protect the town of Prosperity. He will need to train hard with his guild members and recruit allies to ensure they will have enough defenders when the attack finally comes. Will they be ready to withstand the forces of an enemy determined to get revenge?

Genesis Online has added a new feature that allows players to purchase land and build homes or businesses. Using the gold he collected while fighting Itrix, Kevin buys a plot of land with visions of creating a settlement that will help him make money playing the game. He plans to buy a neural interface, hoping it will help with his recovery from the accident that left him unable to walk. Unfortunately, other players, both within his guild and outside of it, have other plans.

When Fourth of July weekend coincides with Wenonga Days—the annual celebration of a locally famous Ojibwe leader—the town of Battle Lake double-dips on the tourist trade. This year the hullabaloo hasn’t even started and there’s already a story for reporter Mira James. The Chief Wenonga statue has disappeared, leaving behind drops of human blood and a big question for Mira: How and why would anyone steal a twenty-three-foot monument? Things go from curious to worse when a local man is kidnapped.

Können Dahlia, Madi und Alysand eine Armee rekrutieren, die mächtig genug ist, um die Pläne einer bösartigen Gottheit aufzuhalten? Nachdem sie Quinn und die Stadt Taelman's Teich gerettet hat, wird Dahlia in eine weitere Schlacht in diesem endlosen Krieg verwickelt. Sie erfährt mehr über ihre Abstammung als Halbblut im Spiel. Sie muss die Waldelfen für sich gewinnen und ihnen helfen, die Karinoth abzuwehren, die Dunkelelfen, die zu ihrem Blut rufen.