Short Game

The victims are the most popular girls in school, each murdered and arranged in a grim fairy-tale tableau. To find the killer, rookie detective Callum Pederson has gone undercover where the Princes hold court. He’s found enough secrets among the bros to bring them in for questioning - but he could very well get lost in the games the Princes play.

SHORT-LISTED IN THE LICHFIELD AND DISTRICT WRITERS´ SHORT STORY COMPETITION A funny, charming and original story that will be loved by children and adults alike. In an old book of Philosophy there were once five naughty and rebellious letters. They belonged to the word: ORDER. And it happened one day that the letters were so bored and the panorama around them was so gloomy, that they decided to jump out of the line in which they were imprisoned and run and play through the yellowing pages of the book. "Come on, let's jump," shouted the "O", excitedly.

My name is Paul. I am young, dumb, and full of lust, but self-deprecative and socially perceptive enough to humorously re-tell my female escapades. Guys: laugh at my failures getting rejected. Women: get DEEP inside a man’s mind. Through my collection of real-life stories, I will be sharing my reality of pursuing women for one-night stands. Hear my harshest yet hilarious judgements of women as I face rejection (and a touch of success) trying to manipulate women into sleeping with me. I lack scruple and some might even say compassion, but you WILL enjoy hearing about it. What I'll Be ...

Her filthiest desire is to sleep with an alien, and she’s determined to make it happen. Cherise When my best friend runs off to marry an alien, I’m desperate for a sexy adventure too and I’m not above using a famous relative as my ticket onto an alien love game show. The best part is that three alien men are going to try to win my affections through a competition of my choosing. I want my new Bolan hubby to be able to feed me well, so I decide to make them cook for me. The way to this woman’s heart is through her stomach… preferably with a hot-blooded dominant alien doing the ...

Nineteen of Wodehouse's funniest stories, all focusing upon the tribulations of the followers of the great mystery that is golf. Collecting the complete text of both The Clicking of Cuthbert and The Heart of a Goof, and including such classics as A Woman is Only a Woman, Ordeal by Golf, The Long Hole, Keeping in with Vosper, and The Magic Plus Fours.

Joe Fleming, a youth of twenty, earning his livelihood as a sailmaker and supporting his mother and sisters by his trade, augments his income by prize-fighting before so-called sporting clubs. On the eve of his marriage to Genevieve, an employe' in the Silversteins' candy shop, Joe is to fight his last bout before a club, having promised Genevieve to give up "the game," which, while it seems wrong to her, is to him a clean and manly as well as lucrative occupation.

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Follow the adventures of Zippy the pippy puppy. Zippy is a brave little pup that loves to go on adventures! These are five fun stories about Zippy and the fun he has on his journeys.

In order for their team to win the gold, these two sworn enemies are going to have to learn to play nice. Anna If there’s one thing I hate, it’s those super perfect wealthy athletes who have everything handed to them on a silver platter. Nadia – or Little Miss Sunshine as I like to call her – comes from gymnastics royalty, but I’m not impressed by the blonde princess. I’ve worked hard to make it to the International Games despite my blue collar upbringing. I’m not going to let my sworn enemy and new roommate ruin my concentration, even if I find myself inconveniently attracted...

SCP means secure contain and protect. I have compiled one of the top tales from the foundation, which is SCP. I put it together as a book to bring more presence to the website. In this book, we are following the story of the subject 231 or SCP-231. Please, sit tight and enjoy the stories as it goes through the SCP universe. Tales range from mystery to horror stories. If you are looking for inspiration or creative ideas, the original website the SCP Foundation has, has tons of authors and ideas to look through.

Roll the dice, pick a card, tell a lie, hide the truth. Whatever the move, it's all just part of the game. Follow the lives of four very different characters who are all trapped in an insidious game. Each story delves into the intricate web of misaligned motives and obscured half-truths. Stories include "In This Business", "The Joker", "Dolly", and "Escaping Avila Chase".

Is two weeks in Paris long enough for these lifelong competitors to learn to play for the same team? Betsy Ever since I was a little girl, my dream was to go to the International Games. When I discovered an aptitude for volleyball, I pursued my dream with a laser focus that left no time for the frivolous things in life, like romance. Who cares if the snobby ice queen athlete who is my new roommate makes my heart race? It’s probably just the excitement of being on the world stage. Kelly I’ve fought incredible odds in my life to get to the Games. Growing up with conservative religious ...

Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game is a science fiction classic. In Ender’s World almost two dozen writers offer new perspectives on the 1985 novel, along with insights gleaned from other Ender stories that fit within the Ender’s Game chronology. In addition, military strategists Colonel Tom Ruby and Captain John Schmitt offer insight into the human-Formic war.

Can a space pirate be a good guy? Captain Gore: The outerworld shipping lanes are slim picking lately for pirate Captain Gore. He takes an Operator assignment that puts his broken-down ship, The Black Pearl, and hid degenerate crew in the path of the Mechanurge drones and quite possibly a hideous death on their Harvester ship. Operator Throd: Despite being betrayed by Gore, Throd-an infamous Operator who is half cybernetics-sets up a scenario using the pirates to help him get his assignment completed with the goal of leveling up. But this assignment could mean a gruesome death for the lot ...

Join the last vestiges of Humanity and their alien allies (the reptilian Thrynn, the insectoid Velox, and the plant-based Elowan) as they attempt to carve out their own territory in a sector of space filled with wondrous opportunity and deadly threats. Brave explorers seek out new worlds to colonize while merchants cruise from starport to starport, their holds laden with exotic goods. Not all in this futuristic setting have noble intent. For every prospector and trader attempting to make a difference, a dozen pirates, smugglers, and mobsters engage in all manner of criminal enterprise.

Follow the adventures of Tooty the tiger. Tooty is a special and adventurous little tiger. She only has three legs but that doesn't stop her from doing anything.

And through the sleepiness, Inka sensed a man in her presence. He was standing there but she couldn’t see him. He was hunting for her, but he couldn’t see her either. Inka Keto - Sexy, curvy and full of vigor, she's a bear shifter from a very close family of shifters. As open, kind, and as whimsical as she is, she's also tight like a steel trap. Her family has been trying to save shifter slaves from the powerful, yet evil regime, on Herta for some time.

The interior was dark and neither of us searched for a lamp or switch. There came a ticking of some clock or another. And the sound of a dripping faucet somewhere in the house was like a hammer to an anvil. Our breaths were loud, but my heart sounded louder to me. Interestingly enough, Holmes moved as though he'd been through here before. I had no time to ponder this, as somewhere behind us I heard a door shut and then the click of a lock.

You only get once chance to kill Mack Austin. A mysterious letter pulls Austin back to Yellow Run, a place he’s avoided for years because of a past better left buried. He’s not the only one who’s changed, but some changes are not for the better. Austin must tread lightly as who he is now—a man of conscience—is no longer welcome. But first he must decide who’s friend and who’s foe, for the woman he came back for shares her suspicions that her husband—his old partner—lives a secret life. But the debt Austin owes him plagues his conscience and he must find a way to reconcile ...

Stagehands argue about their relationship between acts, a mountain climber struggles to rise above the summit of public opinion, the man once sent to kill a princess finds her working at a diner, retired superheroes lament their new life, and a villain threatens to blow up the world if he can get the Henchman Union to end contract negotiations. These are some of the situations found in this second collection of ten-minute plays. Each one is designed to be produced with just a few actors, few props, and within a single setting. They are easy to perform or fun to just read.