Forum: Member Stories

My recommendation is everyone should read this book. It is really excellent and another view of what the US might descend into one day. My question is: does anyone know Jeff Stanfield? Does he intend to write a sequel to this book? It is excellent and can be a stand alone book but kind of...

There have been several posts over the last few months of people wanting help to find the name of a story from the old fiction section at FS. Well, I decided to see if I could find the names of those stories since I knew which ones they were talking about but the name was at the tip of my tongue. ...

Since the last story was found so quickly, and our collective brains are on this topic... There was a very good story about a man who lived at the top of a hill in his community and his best friend was killed by river raiders. He eventually took in a brother and sister and they became traders in a...

Context to the story... For many people the S--- long ago Hit the Fan. The borders of North America are not now as they used to be. Land was seized. Red men and white forced off their land in favour of those with more political pull. The men, who ruled well in one decade, were given the...

Hi all - here is a non-historical story I am mulling about and would appreciate your comments. ****************************************************************** Listen children to a story That was written long ago… I had learned to listen to the still quiet voice - the one in my mind...

is the title of the ad in the National Geographic Mag for this month...... Vantage Press Inc. 419 Park Ave South, New York, NY 10016 Phone 1-800-821-3990 www.vantagepress.com All you aspiring writers might want to contact them.....good luck.....Laurane

Some of you probably already know about this, but we have lots of great writers here and I thought some of you might want to take a shot at winning this contest. http://www.survivalblog.com/contest.html The winner gets a prize that is valued up to $2000. The contest is for a story about ...

I am amazed at the talent on this board. A few of you should write professionally. I'd buy your paperbacks. Patriot Aid is a gripping and believable story. I am really enjoying reading it. Thanks.

Will we ever find out what happens in South FL? Or at the ais station? Or to the old farts drafted into the spec ops team? Inquiring minds want to know. Those were some good stories gents. it would be a shame for them to fade away unfinished. Can you hook a brother up? On man, I'm jonseing bad....

We need to read each other's timelines carefully. As Alan brought up we should try to avoid conflicting tales. After my diversion with a short border war in late November/early December and the breakup of the US in mid-December 05 , I plan on having a war with Mexico as retaliation for their...

So far so good. I wish that I had a hig school buddy with a Hobbit hole like Daniel Cox has. Perhaps I'll win the lottery and build one of my own. (Now to go learn all about machining tools...)

Jill is a prize bitch who doesn't deserve the chance she was given by fate. She enbodies the liberal mindset so well that I already dislike her. This is a very believable scenario. I was outside of Detroit in the 68s riots. I moved to DC right afterward and saw the gutted buildings as we drove...

Does anyone know what happened to those two stories. I was reading them and suddenly, about four months ago, the authors quit updating them. There has been no new posts on either story. I can't find a link to ask the authors directly so I thought I'd ask here.

it looks good so far. I didn't have time to read more than the first few paragraphs yet but I have copied it to notepad so I can read it later. I hope more is forth coming.

Does anyone remember reading a homebrew survival story that was written in (what I remember as) a homesteading forum, in a series of posts several years ago? I never finished reading it and can't find it in my bookmarks. I recall that is had a community banding together to develop and till...

a work in progress :) your comments, suggestions and critique of writing and the info and actualy, any aspect of the story would be appreciated on the Comments for Some Days thread Some Days Aren’t So Bad By LMonty911 Copy write reserved to author

all help, suggestions, corrections and ideas would be appreciated.

I wrote most of this in a PM to a dear friend and member here and I felt it would make a good story. So, here it is ... Oh, she is/was a tiny flying squirrel ... It worked for a while. She was still in her nest box sleeping and would come out at night to eat and play. It stopped working a few...

Harold's Winning Pitch (a child's story about the continued adventures of Harold and Martha, an elderly couple) By Maiden "Let's go, Harold," said Martha. "The big sale is beginning at the shopping mall. I want to get there early before everything is picked over." "Just like a woman," Harold...

My uncle, Lloyd D. Lindsey, is 92 and still kicking! He's a quiet, kind-but-tough ol' Missouri Boy who still rolls his own cigarettes and, from age 12 until the day he retired, only worked for one employer, the International Shoe Factory. Like most good ol' boys, he never said much. When my...

Chapter 1. Damn it was cold. Jake shivered as he huddled under the fallen Aspen on the side of the mountain. He rubbed his hands together and then cupped them and breathed into them in a vain attempt to warm his hands. The moisture from his breath froze instantly to his mustache and left a cloud...

Trail of Vengeance Chapter 1 It was a cold morning today. The date was January the twelfth; it was snowing lightly with a slight breeze as I stood before the tombstone again for what must have been the thousandth time. It never got any easier and I still had not been able to come to terms...

Please feel free to say whatever you want to about this story.

This is just something I was experimenting with. It may go somewhere, it may not. If it dies, don't say you weren't warned. Don't expect fast chapters either, I'm still trying to wrap up ToV and I am going to be moving, and it's summer, and yada yada yada.... Mostly I'm just looking for...

*Mods please delete the other thread* This chapter has been edited and revised and added to. The Rift: Hell Opened Chapter 1 “Ladies and Gentlemen, the President of the United Global Federation.” The announcer spoke boldly into the microphone and then stepped aside as the President...

I'm going through a bit of personal hell right now. No more writing for a while. Sorry.

The prize isn't much. The winner gets to be interviewed and have his or her story read on National Public Radio, and also gets an autographed book on "How Fiction Works." But on the bright side, there's no entry fee. The entry must be sent in by August 25th (this Tuesday). Link to the...

Here are some links to a short short story contest with a $100 first prize, a $50 second prize, and a $25 third prize: Contest Page Contest Guidelines and Submission Page 500 word maximum, no entry fee, and you get to retain all rights. Deadline is September 1, 2009, which gives you just...

Not saying that anyone's writing is deficient. Just sharing something I stumbled upon while perusing Google News today: Ten Rules for Writing Fiction Ten Rules for Writing Fiction (part two) More Rules for Writiers

Came across some writing-advice links today I thought I'd share: 12 Secrets To Being A Super-Prolific Short-Story Writer 8 Unstoppable Rules For Writing Killer Short Stories And Much More

Hey writer's, here are the details ~ good luck to everyone!! Mary (no garden, no lamb) :scn:

Load up for the holidays, or for that matter, the next six months of reading. Amazon's new select program lets the authors give away copies of their e-books for five days as a promotion, every 90 days. Everyone (yes, including me) is jumping on the band wagon, here at the start. So search for...

This is a conversation that takes place in a series of dreams. Mo Ride the Breezes She: “Heard in whisper, come in stealth upon the nighttime breeze’s tail,

I scanned through that thread about what's allowed on the front page and decided, after scanning the sigs, that this was the best place for this bit of humor. Sometimes, it's just possible that other folks can get a much needed belly laugh out of some 'homegrown' and fairly colorful family history...

PM me for details on the full story. As human interest stories go, this one is one you really need to read in order to prepare yourself for the coming hard times. I kid you not. :sht: The characters in this story will remain anonymous for privacy reasons (the story is entirely true). But reasoning...