Newspaper Fiction

The Roaring Twenties. A prosperous era of flappers, bootleggers, speakeasies, bathtub gin, and women pushing the conventions of society. These are the things the newspapers are talking about. But that is only a small part of what is happening. Not everyone is celebrating the good times. For most people, life goes on as it always has, though maybe with a few new conveniences. With the Great War behind him, Lucas Morgan is content to return to Tinder Street and start raising a family with his wife. Still haunted by nightmares of things that happened on the bloody battlefields of France, Lucas...

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In a stately West Village townhouse, a wealthy socialite and her secretary are murdered. In the 24 hours that follow, a flurry of activity circles around their shocking deaths: The head of one of the city's last tabloids stops the presses. A cop investigates the killing. A reporter chases the story. A disgraced hedge-fund manager flees the country. An Iraq War vet seeks revenge. And an angry young extremist plots a major catastrophe.

Matthew and Raminder are young, idealistic and in love. As soon as they can they plan to leave behind the small town and small minds of Pitt Landing. They will embrace life and experience the world, maybe even change it. Man plans, God laughs. Raminder’s father has a stroke and her commitment to her family means she must postpone her plans and stay in Pitt Lake. It’s just the opposite for Matt. A family tragedy leaves irreconcilable differences between him and his father and forces him to leave. They promise to reunite, but life happens. Twelve years later, Matt is an acclaimed war ...

"Winds of Fortune" is a historical fiction book set in New York during the early 20th century. Alluring with its layered narrative, it presents readers with an intricate mixture of personal rebellion, societal critique, and nail-biting adventure.The protagonist, Clement J. Restivo, is a resilient copyreader whose life witnesses a 180-degree turn, thanks to an unexpected inheritance of $500,000. Liberated from the stifling chains of his routine work, Restivo steps into a turbulent world, dominated by his determination and the whispers of his budding adventurous spirit. Setting & ContextThe ...

Do you believe everything you read in the newspapers? Jim Mitchell doesn't. He's a journalist and the publisher and editor of a community newspaper, The Sentinel. He gave up a career with big media because he couldn't justify their choice of what to cover, couldn't tolerate the way they edited his stories and would not be implicit in misleading the public to benefit some hidden corporate agenda. When he bought The Sentinel, he thought all that would end. Being an owner of "the local rag," he could select the stories, edit the copy and make sure the interests of the community were served. He...

There's a new publisher in town...will he ruin everything? Angelica and Kevin are two reporters who have never taken part in the activities in the basement of the building where they both work. That doesn't stop them from investigating the shenanigans happening below the newsroom. Will Kevin prove his love to Angelica? Or will they both succumb to the pressures of working in the largest trans-friendly news organization in the entire world? Find out in this next exciting installment of TG Newsroom Chicago!

A MANCHESTER CRIME THRILLER CHARGED WITH THE DARKEST OF FAMILY SECRETS AND A MAN WHO FINDS OUT WHAT HE WISHED HE DIDN'T KNOW. Who murdered eighteen-year-old Nigel Slater when he and his best mate Danny Holdsworth were about to start their degree courses at Oxford University? They were from very different backgrounds. Nigel had grown up within a normal, caring, loving family. Danny had been brought up by his aunt Joyce after his mother abandoned him when he was a little kid. He never met his father or even knew who he was. Thirty years later and now an esteemed TV journalist, Danny returns ...

Things heat up in the newsroom under the watch of the new publisher... Robert is a 30 year-old graphic designer with chestnut eyes. He is kind and popular, but sometimes he can be a moron. Theresa is a 26 year-old reporter with hazel eyes. She is adventurous and resourceful, but sometimes she takes things too far. Will these two take it too far in the newsroom? Find out in the next hot installment of TG Newsroom Chicago.

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Which of the following short stories would you read first? A.) A stubborn donkey challenges a Tennessee race horse. B.) A chess match ends in bloodshed. C.) Two sisters beg a funeral director to play their daddy's favorite Johnny Cash song. D.) A shooter takes aim from a church baptistry. E.) Two astronauts survive a horrific spinout only to return to earth and find everybody else walking around in super slow motion. Why not read them all? They're all in this far-flung collection of short stories and more. Scroll up and get them now with just one click.

Marcus Kemp is a beat cop living a normal life in San Diego, California—until the day he makes a shocking discovery: a dead body in the trunk of a stolen car. Worse, the victim turns out to be the man who abused him as a child. Marcus instinctively wants to help the killer get away with murder and, disregarding his police oath, will stop at nothing to make it happen. With both his job and freedom in jeopardy, Marcus’s investigation leads him to an unexpected suspect, and he is soon faced with an impossible decision.

היא עדיין רווקה בת 30, כפי שהיתה לפני עשרים שנה בדיוק. היא עדיין גרה בבאר שבע וכותבת במקומון, עונדת עגילי פלסטיק זולים, מדשדשת ברגליה הגדולות מזירת פשע אחת לאחרת, מסתבכת בתעלומות בלשיות שאיש לא הטיל עליה לחקור. מתחת לחזותה הגמלונית והאטומה-לכאורה מסתתר מוח חד וחריף, שממשיך להפתיע את עמיתיה ויריביה. ואחרי ששת רבי-המכר שכתבה עליה שולמית לפיד - אין ספק שליזי בדיחי היא האנטי-גיבורה הכובשת ביותר בספרות הבלש העברית.

Does he love her and hate the taste? Or love the taste and hate her? Ana, a twenty-six year old lifestyles reporter at the TG Times in Chicago, falls hard and fast for Ben, a senior police reporter twenty years her senior. There's only one thing he hasn't ever done for her. He fantasizes about it so much, but he never goes through with it. Ana takes this as a challenge and vows to get him to at least enjoy the taste at least once. Can she convince him with her escape clause? Find out in the latest hot installment of TG Newsroom Chicago!

Please Note: This book was released as a stand alone story, and subsequently used as a movie in Crossover: It's a Jon Hunter Thing, Book 1 in The Hunter Imperium series. Suzy is 12, and every night she chats online with her friend. But strange things start happening after each chat. Things which bring great change in Australia, and out in the world. But who would want to talk to a 12 year old about such things? Suzy starts to form a theory, but she knows no-one is going to believe her. Besides, its fun to ask someone, "Was that you?" This is a stand alone short story, from an off-hand 'what...

Tom Hallman Jr. has won every national feature writing award in the business, including the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing. A master storyteller, he is an elegant writer with a deeply perceptive heart. Tom has the uncanny ability to see the profound in the everyday. He will make you see it, too, in ways that will remind you of what’s really important in life. This is the second collection of Hallman’s stories from The Oregonian. The first, Dispatches From 1320, was published in 2015

High school junior Jenny Greenley is good at solving other people's problems, so good that she's the school newspapers' anonymous advice columnist. But when 19-year-old screen sensation Luke Striker comes to Jen's small town to research a role, he creates havoc that even levelheaded Jenny isn't sure she can repair...especially when he asks her, and not Jenny's Luke Striker-groupie best friend, to the Clayton High Spring Fling.

You have a what?! Piper is determined to let her roommate Josh know about her secret and how she feels about him. One day after a friendly game of touch football, he learns the truth about her. Will he run or decide it’s his thing? Find out today!

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After college graduation, Jennifer Weston takes a summer internship with a newspaper in a seaside village in Oregon. She hopes sea breezes and solitude will heal her heart after a bad breakup with Vince, and the pain of her father remarrying only four months after the death of Jennifer's mother. Jennifer resolves to have a no-romance summer and to give complete dedication to her newspaper column. But life has other plans for her. On her first morning in Windridge, she literally runs into Larsen Morgan, a handsome EMT. Then there's the newspaper's publicist, Aaron Johnston, who considers ...