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Period Romance

The Shadow of a Man

The galvanised roof ticks in the heat, pines break the salt-bush horizon, and Moya Bethune sits on the verandah as if it were a Melbourne balcony.

Preview · 1 chapter so far · Mature

Literary Drama

The Shadow of Ashlydyat

Prior's Ash gathered on an autumn common for the season's first meeting of the hounds.

Preview · 1 chapter so far · Teen

Mystery

The Shadow of the Rope

You are Rachel Minchin, leaving a marriage, when your husband is found shot in his study.

Ongoing · 6 chapters so far · Mature

Coming of Age

The Shadow-Line

You resign from a good berth with no reason you can defend, stinging your friend John Nieven, who assumes you're running home to marry some girl.

Ongoing · 6 chapters so far · Teen

Money & Power

The Shuttle

You are eight-year-old Betty Vanderpoel, and you distrust the English baronet courting your sister Rosalie, though you can't say why.

Ongoing · 6 chapters so far · Teen

Mystery

The Sign of the Four

You are Watson, watching Holmes reach for the cocaine again, when a client arrives with a pearl that has come in the post every year for six years.

Ongoing · 6 chapters so far · Mature

Adventure

The Silver Canyon

The last antelope steaks had been cleared when Dr Lascelles asked Joses whether fear would turn him back.

Preview · 1 chapter so far · Teen

Comedy

The Simple Adventures of a Memsahib

You are Helen, engaged to George Browne after a summer of tennis, and left in Canbury a year while he returns to India.

Ongoing · 6 chapters so far · Teen

Period Romance

The Small House at Allington

Ongoing · 6 chapters so far · Teen

Adventure

The Snake's Pass

Ongoing · 6 chapters so far · Mature

Gothic

The Sorrows of Satan

You are Geoffrey Tempest, a rejected writer with no coal and rent due tomorrow, holding three unopened letters.

Ongoing · 6 chapters so far · Mature

Period Romance

The Sorrows of Young Werther

You play Werther, in the valley on family business you are glad to neglect, writing your choices into letters to a friend.

Ongoing · 6 chapters so far · Mature

Gothic

The Soul of Lilith

Ongoing · 6 chapters so far · Mature

Adventure

The South Sea Whaler

The pilot left the Champion below the Mersey, blessing Captain Tredeagle and the two children who would share a three-year Pacific voyage.

Preview · 1 chapter so far · Teen

Money & Power

The Spoils of Poynton

Ongoing · 6 chapters so far · Mature

Social Protest

The Sport of the Gods

Ongoing · 6 chapters so far · Teen

Comedy

The Squirrel Inn

At nine on a July morning, you watched freight cross the Manasquan's pier while waiting to leave for a country writing retreat.

Preview · 1 chapter so far · Teen

Sci-Fi & Gaming

The Star Rover

Ongoing · 6 chapters so far · Mature

Coming of Age

The Story of a Governess

Janet Summerhayes was sorting linen at the Clover vicarage, but she did not look like the resigned governess of a cautionary tale.

Preview · 1 chapter so far · Teen

Coming of Age

The Story of a Modern Woman

Your father, a famous scientist, has just died, and a reporter is already at the door asking for his last words.

Ongoing · 6 chapters so far · Mature

Literary Drama

The Story of a New Zealand River

A punt loaded with furniture and children leaves a rotting landing at dawn, because the river is the only road to the new house.

Ongoing · 6 chapters so far · Mature

Coming of Age

The Story of an African Farm

Moonlight makes the Karoo farm look like somewhere else, which is why you are still awake.

Ongoing · 6 chapters so far · Mature

Adventure

The Story of Hong Gildong

Ongoing · 6 chapters so far · Teen

Adventure

The Story of Sonny Sahib

Ongoing · 6 chapters so far · Teen