First there was the world of Divergent, full of romance and breath-taking risks. And then came Carve the Mark, a fantastical, re-imagined world. Now, Veronica Roth introduces readers into various new worlds in her anthology The End and Other Beginnings. With disturbing and moving accounts of the effects of technology and life in the future, […]
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Victoria Lee’s The Fever King delivers a powerful, haunting, and inventive new perspective on a possible future for America, one filled with death and magic. From the perspective of a teen named Noam, Lee takes readers on a journey that is both relevant and otherworldly, a truly original and thoughtful fictional tale. Noam is alone […]
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Alex’s life is about to unravel. His family dynamics are complicated at best, the men in his family have begun dying at young ages without explanation, and a series of unexplained disappearances have appeared around the world, supposedly due to aliens. In Constantine Singer’s Strange Days, readers are brought into a dangerous world full of […]
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This story is one of the October Writing Challenge entries chosen to be a featured story. . Dark. Cold. Unsafe. Three words that perfectly describe my surroundings as I sit in the farthest corner. Swirls of dull color float in my vision, with my eyes tightly shut… I hear footsteps, slow yet nearing; my heart’s […]
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This story is one of the October Writing Challenge entries chosen to be a featured story. . Green eyes. Golden flecks swirled in a sea of emerald, centred around a black void. Ashen skin. Icy charm ridden with frostbite. Brown hair. Waves tangled complexly in a mahogany hurricane. Glossed lips. Gleaming strawberry poison. The moonlight […]
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These entries from October’s challenge were selected as Honorable Mentions. Those who completed this challenge are now encouraged to share their stories in the comments section of the “October Writing Challenge.” Molly Pitt 15 UK Knowing this was a terrible idea from the moment it was brought up clearly didn’t stop me from going through […]
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Jennifer Brody, author of The Continuum Trilogy, was kind enough to meet me for an interview about her current young adult sci-fi series while also providing insight into her time in the film industry and her view on the writing world. Brody is sure to intrigue readers with her fast-paced novels and her true love […]
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The following is an excerpt of a novel by Jasmina Kuenzli. He let the steel harden his hands, flow over his fingers like liquid silver. In the streetlights, she’d thought his eyes had looked curious. Something was off about them. He turned toward her, and that’s when she realized that his left eye glowed red. […]
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Nemesis was made for two things: to protect her master and to kill her foes. Released on December 1, 2016, S. J. Kincaid’s newest novel, The Diabolic, is sure to please anyone who enjoys complex YA novels and characters that are impossible to forget. Vanity, violence, and revenge are all highlighted in this fast-paced, sci-fi thriller. With an […]
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