Join us on a literary world trip!
Add this book to bookshelf
Grey
Write a new comment Default profile 50px
Grey
Subscribe to read the full book or read the first pages for free!
All characters reduced
New Year's Eve - cover

We are sorry! The publisher (or author) gave us the instruction to take down this book from our catalog. But please don't worry, you still have more than 500,000 other books you can enjoy!

New Year's Eve

Trace Brenton, Amanda-Lee Charman, Sueanne Gregg, Louise Guy, Mark J. Keenan, LM Joannides

Publisher: AWC Online Workshopping Group

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

Summary

New Year's Eve is a collection of short stories produced by an online workshopping group formed by the Australian Writer’s Centre. The stories are based around the theme of New Year's Eve and span different genres; some embracing celebration, others following a darker journey into the New Year. 
The Anniversary - Louise Guy 
Jason's New Year's Eve plans reignite family heartbreak. The significance of the day has the potential to either heal or destroy his family. The clock is ticking. 
  
Happy New Year Richard - Mark J. Keenan 
Richard’s life is not how he imagined it would be. It is the last day of the year and he is finally pushed beyond his limits by a controlling wife and an overbearing mother. Richard decides it is time for change; out with the old, in with the new. Happy New Year Richard. 
  
Pieces of Me - Amanda-Lee Charman 
Tommy is in his prime. School’s finished for the year and he’s found the love of his life. With both his new love and best friend by his side, an invitation to a mate’s party guarantees New Year's Eve will be a cracker of a night.  However, as the hours count down to midnight, welcoming in the New Year doesn’t go as planned. Events unfold that will change all of them, forever. 
Should Old Acquaintance Be Forgot? - LM Joannides 
Sarah's New Year's Eve bash is shaping up to be the social set's party of the year. At least she hopes it is. Wanting to cement her place in the pecking order she needs everything to be perfect. There's just one small detail she hasn't counted on, her unorthodox family. 
You Only Live Once - Sueanne Gregg 
When an older boy invites fourteen year old Meaghan to a New Year’s Eve party via a Facebook message, neither the knowledge of a missing girl nor the pleading of her best friend dissuades her. But will her actions lead to the happy New Year she so desperately seeks? 
Out With a Bang - Trace Brenton 
It’s New Year's Eve and Zombies have over-run Sydney. But some of them have evolved… into Vampires. 
It’s not easy to work ‘I wanna suck your blood’ into a conversation. 
Will zombie-turned-vampire Luke be able to save his hot neighbor Liv from the horde and convince her to help him?
Available since: 11/20/2016.

Other books that might interest you

  • Creepy Christmas 2022 - 12 Twisted Tales - cover

    Creepy Christmas 2022 - 12...

    Artemis Greenleaf, Holly Dey,...

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Black Mare Books presents twelve twisted tales from Artemis Greenleaf, Holly Dey, and A.B. Richards. 
    In this Santa’s sack of Christmas yarns, you’ll find an array of monsters of all stripes. You may want to keep a lookout for a possibly rabid coyote when you stop to play with a dolly. Perhaps enjoy a little shopping before you head into the woods to fell a Christmas tree? Or maybe you’ve wanted to go on a holiday cruise? And whatever you do, don’t look a gift bear in the mouth. 
    And be warned: it’s best to let sleeping babies lie. 
    Show book
  • Eight Pillars of Prosperity - cover

    Eight Pillars of Prosperity

    Chelsea Murphy

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1894, by Arthur Conan Doyle.
    Show book
  • Never a Bridesmaid - A Year of Weddings Novella - cover

    Never a Bridesmaid - A Year of...

    Janice Thompson

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    They’ve helped orchestrate the perfect day for countless couples. Now twelve new couples will find themselves in the wedding spotlight in the second Year of Weddings novella collection. 
    Mari wants her sister Crystal’s wedding to be perfect. But a poorly-chosen maid of honor may turn it into a disaster. 
    Mari Hays’s older sister Crystal is getting married, and Mari is ecstatic to be part of the wedding. But she soon finds her expected role of maid of honor has been delegated to the worst possible choice: Sienna Jameson. She’s catty, selfish, and totally into herself, and when Sienna discovers handsome professional baseball player Derrick Richardson is the best man, she sets her sights on her next boyfriend instead of on the wedding plans. 
    Meanwhile, Mari is determined to keep the glamorous event afloat. Wrapped up in dress fittings, bridal showers, and baking teacup-shaped cookies, she is shocked when Derrick has taken notice of her. In fact, he treats her like she’s a home run. 
    With the wedding day looming, an emotional and sensitive sister, a selfish maid of honor, and intense pressure from Crystal’s soon-to-be in-laws, Mari fears her attempts to make her sister’s wedding perfect will be for naught. Can Mari keep the waters calm until the bride and groom jet off for their honeymoon? And will she allow herself to be caught by Houston’s most eligible bachelor?
    Show book
  • The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain - cover

    The Haunted Man and the Ghost's...

    Charles Dickens

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    In this story, Dickens narrates the hair-raising experiences of a professor. As the protagonist dwells on his past sorrows and mistakes, a phantom visits him. It offers him a bizarre escape from painful recollections of yesteryear by offering to eradicate his memory. On seeing the professor turn into a man devoid of emotions, the reader realizes how empty one becomes without a
    Show book
  • Don Quixote Vol 1 - cover

    Don Quixote Vol 1

    Miguel de Cervantes

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Don Quixote is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Published in two volumes, in 1605 and 1615, Don Quixote is considered the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon. As a founding work of modern Western literature and one of the earliest canonical novels, it regularly appears high on lists of the greatest works of fiction ever published.... The story follows the adventures of a hidalgo named Mr. Alonso Quixano who reads so many chivalric romances that he loses his sanity and decides to set out to revive chivalry, undo wrongs, and bring justice to the world, under the name Don Quixote de la Mancha. He recruits a simple farmer, Sancho Panza, as his squire, who often employs a unique, earthy wit in dealing with Don Quixote's rhetorical orations on antiquated knighthood. Don Quixote, in the first part of the book, does not see the world for what it is and prefers to imagine that he is living out a knightly story. Throughout the novel, Cervantes uses such literary techniques as realism, metatheatre, and intertextuality.
    Show book
  • I Was a Teen-Age Secret Weapon - cover

    I Was a Teen-Age Secret Weapon

    Richard Sabia

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Poor Dolliver Wims is a terribly misunderstood teen age boy from the backwoods. Is he mean or evil? Quite the opposite: He does nothing wrong, hurts no one and wants only to be liked and to help, yet he seems to be blamed for every accident that ever happens to anyone in the University research facility where he 'works' as a porter. Why does disaster seem to swirl around him like a tornado whips around it's eye. He never is hurt in the slightest way while others slash themselves with previously innocent knives, are smashed by falling bookcases that had no cause to fall, and are shot by guns that are safely tucked away. And of course when he enters the army, with it's concentrated availability of destructive equipment, the situation only seems to get worse. Why? Listen to this delightful tale of future wars and a secret weapon named Dolliver Wims and how he may be the key to world peace. Or perhaps it's the other way around .... (Summary by Phil Chenevert)
    Show book