Showing results for "Bad for Good" in Anthologies & Short Stories

It's the 22nd century. Humanity has taken its first steps into the galaxy, and we've found ourselves in a vast playground of alien races, environments, and cultures. As the newest players on the universal stage, though, our position is readily apparent - we're at the bottom of the food chain.

The world's wealthiest people don't get rich by accident. Whether by smart investment, sharp business intuition, or a combination of talent, grit and circumstance, billionaires have done something right. Or they had a whole lot of luck - a crap-load of it. Tag is the son of a billionaire, who's never had to work a day in his life. He has everything he's ever wanted, that is, until one night during a party at his lake house when a chance encounter with a stunning beauty makes him realize that he wants more. There's something about Melanie that he can't get out of his mind, or his heart.

Between These Walls tells the story of Alana, who thought renting out rooms in her grandparent’s home was a good idea. Until she learns secrets about her new roommates. Secrets that lead her in a dangerous direction. One she’ll have to fight her way out of to survive. In What I Deserved, a young woman finds herself torn after discovering her new boyfriend has a dangerous wife that wants nothing more than for him to have a fatal accident.

The Forged Coupon is a novella in two parts by Leo Tolstoy. In Part One, the schoolboy Mitya is in desperate need of money to pay a debt, but his father refuses to help him. He then changes a 2.50 rouble bond coupon to read 12.50 roubles. This one wicked deed sets off a chain of events which affects the lives of dozens of others. In Part Two, a good deed also sets of a series of events, but to the benefit of many people.

With a childhood of bitter regret, Clarissa Carter didn't stand much chance in the world. Looking back on her life, she sees her only way forward as being independent and finding a life away from her hometown. Finding solace in an imaginary friend as a child, Clarissa found that she could escape the difficulties of her reality by believing in a friend that accepted her without question. This friend was able to listen to her, while other children may have judged her.

Asher: Falls mein Bruder je wieder aus dem Knast kommt, werde ich ihn für den ganzen Ärger erwürgen, den er mir eingebrockt hat. Was für eine dämliche Idee, Koks in der Wohnung neben meiner zu verstecken - zu allem Überfluss Koks, das ihm nicht gehört. Natürlich ist den ursprünglichen Besitzern aufgefallen, dass es weg ist, und jetzt muss ich in die Nachbarwohnung einbrechen, um es zurückzubekommen. Dabei bin ich doch der Gute! Peyton: Der Verlag sitzt mir im Nacken, meine Lektorin ist verzweifelt und meine Testleserinnen sagen es mir schonungslos: Meine Sexszenen sind unterirdisch schlecht.