Fiction available on Short People
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MURDER/MYSTERY
BACKSTABBERS
Complete or Ongoing? COMPLETE
Genre: COMEDY WHODUNNIT (or, more to the point, WHO’S-DOINGIT!)
Free or Paid: FINAL CHAPTERS ARE BEHIND PAYWALL
Blurb: Great Britain, 1979. Margaret Thatcher is the new Prime Minister, Blondie are number one, and the leafy suburb of Falking Hill has a big problem: Members of a two-faced amateur dramatics society are falling foul to tragic accidents. One outsider - an unpopular 18 year old aspiring playwright - has to choose between his own grab for stardom or saving the day.
THE MUTUAL
Complete or Ongoing? ONGOING
Genre: COMEDY WHODUNNIT
Free or Paid: Free
Blurb: Kitty Burtenshaw has found herself fifty-five and friendless, and wondering how it got to this point. Reflecting on her past friendships, she reassures herself that she has shed her old self, and life will now be lived on her terms.
That is until an old work friend - Zelda Pecure - contacts her, explaining that a mutual friend of theirs - Christine Lanchester - is a murderer. Kitty regards Zelda’s panic as nonsense. But then, a few days later, she receives a message from another voice from the past: Christine.
“Do you know someone called Zelda Pecure? I think she wants to kill me.”
SCI-FI/FANTASY
NOSTALGIA
Complete or Ongoing? COMPLETE
Genre: DRAMA
Free or Paid: CHAPTERS 1-16 FREE; REST IS PAID
Blurb: Struggling with his father’s recent death and his mother’s worsening dementia, Paul Angest signs up for a ground-breaking experiment that allows him to revisit his past memories. Jumping at the chance to reconnect with happier times, Paul soon realizes that the past is not as simple as he remembers, as he secretly delves into the memories of those closest to him, discovering deep-hidden truths which threaten to unravel his own mind. Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
A Black Mirror-style cautionary tale that explores the dark side of nostalgia and the power of memory.
COMING SOON
BACKSTABBERS II
Genre: COMEDY WHODUNNIT (or, more to the point, WHO’S-DOINGIT!)
Blurb: Stuart Ostridge thought he had left it all behind. The backstabbing, the screams… the death. He thought he had escaped the spotlight, the fame, the guilt. He was wrong. Someone knows his secret. And they want him to play or pay.
An old friend believes a new serial killer is on the loose, as a third-rate theatre impresario plots to exploit the events of the first murders into a musical extravaganza.
Will Stu face his past and help catch the new killer? Or will history repeat itself Either way, he’s in for a killer performance.
LUMEN
Genre: SCI-FI/THRILLER
Blurb: When her father, a brilliant but disgraced quantum physicist, dies in a mysterious accident, Veronika inherits his secluded mansion and his unfinished research. There, she discovers his greatest invention: a gateway to another dimension.
Veronika sees a chance of a better life, activating the gateway in the hope of finding a new world of wonders and possibilities. But what she finds is a fight for her sanity, as she faces the dark secrets of her father’s past and the terrifying consequences of his experiment.
DARK SUBJECT MATTER
Genre: SATIRICAL THRILLER
Blurb: When you’re no longer young, how are you even relevant?
A middle-aged divorcee becomes a “thought czar” to a Presidential candidate, but her estranged twin daughters threaten her chance of personal success and happiness when they discover her secret school-era diaries, implicating her in the murder of three of her school peers.
BORDER WORLD: THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT
Genre: FANTASY ADVENTURE
Blurb: In a hostile land where science and religion clash, two unlikely allies find themselves on the run from the law.
A thief and a disgraced lawman escape from a prison chain gang and flee into the Valley of Shadows, a perilous jungle filled with unknown dangers.
But hidden in the Valley of Shadows is a lost civilization that has mastered both science and magic. And it is on the verge of a cataclysmic war against the spirit world which threatens to destroy Border World.
FIRST DESTROYER
Genre: SCI-FI/ACTION/SPY THRILLER
Blurb: In the year 2120, humanity is locked in a cold war over the colonization of the solar system. Two rival factions have signed a fragile peace treaty to avoid a devastating conflict. But someone is plotting to sabotage the treaty and ensure mutual destruction.
An ex-soldier turned private detective is hired by the Secret Service to investigate the whereabouts of The First Destroyer, a legendary military battle cruiser that has vanished without a trace. But shadowy forces are also on the hunt for the First Destroyer, and whoever finds it first will have the power to decide the fate of the planets.
FUZZY LOGIC
Genre: SATIRICAL PARANOID THRILLER
Blurb: On the knife-edge of losing everything, the CEO of a multi-media company must find the next big thing before he is ousted. When he acquires the voyeuristic means to pry on everybody in his life, every tiny whisper and well-kept big secret becomes his to expose or wield as a weapon. But who watches the watchman?
THE SELF-PRESERVATION SOCIETY
Genre: POST-APOCALYPTIC SATIRE
Blurb: COMING SOON
GUNDOWN
Genre: ACTION/THRILLER
Blurb: COMING SOON
PERFECT HARMONY
Genre: MURDER/MYSTERY
Blurb: COMING SOON
FOLLOWERS
Genre: SATIRICAL SCI-FI
Blurb: COMING SOON
SONDER
Genre: YA Fantasy
Blurb: COMING SOON