AuthorStand Novella Contest #2 — Winners!
$250 Editor's Choice! (Highest AuthorStand Judge's Score)
Father Knight by Leonard Varasano
While en route to the besieged city of Constantinople, the sole survivor of an ambushed relief brigade must rely upon his sword and wits to remain alive in a hostile, haunted land.
$250 First Prize! (Next Highest Overall Score, Bonus Points for User Ratings Included)
The Gift of Life by Don Pizzarello
Sandor Ferencz, a cynical, wealthy man learns he has incurable cancer and little time to live. Sandor is a major donor to the Catholic Archdiocese of a large US city and, at a tea given and attended by the Cardinal, hears a rumor about a woman who is supposed to be able to perform miracles and has g...
Honorable Mentions (Chosen by AuthorStand Judges)
Diary of a Catholic Suicide by Rod Boudreaux
Natural Boy by M. Gregory Robertson
Choices by Brazos Mason
Tim by James Conright
FLAME by Joshua Dickson
Congratulations to all of the winners and thank you to all who entered!
Editor's Choice winner receives $250!
First Prize winner receives $250!
Entry Fee: FREE!
Genre: Fiction
Format: Novella (10,000 to 40,000)
Entry Deadline: Extended to June 30rd, 2011!
Judging Period: Ends September 7th, 2011
Honorable Mentions Awarded: Up to 5
Full List of Entries is as Follows:
MONSTER AT MY WINDOW (illustrated) by Nancy Reil Riojas
Beasts of a social order arise from the depths of mystery to terrorize the residents on Picasso Lane, where they suffer their greatest losses. Set against the backdrop of sweltering 1995 Brownsville, Texas, a rousing tale full of conflict, anticipation, and realism depicts exhausting battles . . . a...
Diary of a Catholic Suicide by Rod Boudreaux
A middle-aged man's decision to end his life prompts an outpouring of his loss and anger.
Brody's Mission by Kasey Eriksen
Un-brave, timid, anxiety ridden, twenty year old, Brody.. finds himself in a real bind, after stupidly saving a woman’s life. Well, it shouldn’t be stupid, but, for some reason, he felt that he really hadn’t saved her. Maybe it was the other way around. Maybe this woman.. had reall...
Bud by Kasey Eriksen
Who would have thought that a ratty old pair running shoes would feel so nice? To Buddy Taylor, they felt great! Especially after a week long adventure on foot. Buddy is a caring, gentle teenager, just being himself. It may be hard for others to believe, but he’s just a genuinely nice guy. He...
Vacation Gone Wrong by Jennifer Renot
Melanie was not having any luck with men and after losing her job decides to take a vacation to see her best friend. Melanie and her daughter Tiffany decide to drive and things were going well for the trip but then they are kidnapped. Melanie and Tiffany are scared and sure they aren't g...
A Beautiful Chorus of Chaos by Alexandra Ledum
America has changed. 2012 brought upon not the end of the world, but the end of society as we know it in America. A new party called the Raptors has taken the country by storm and they’re not giving it back. Most everyone has given up and joined them, out of fear or fatigue. Penelope had given...
Natural Boy by M. Gregory Robertson
Redemption can be a hard road. In James's case, it means finding and protecting a new family after losing his first one. What he never expected was that his greatest lessons would come from an unusually gifted, if otherwise quite natural, boy.
Manic by Michael McKay
Manic’ is written in a subjective style from the point of view of its 16 year old protagonist, Billy, following his stream of consciousness as he attends an all too familiar school party.
For The Love of LIfe by Ed Delgado
For the Love of Life is a Christian novella, with an intellectual and historical twist. The story chronicles the personal and professional trials of a middle-aged corporate executive. The Story’s protagonist unexpectedly enters upon a spiritual journey, which ultimately alters the course of hi...
Moon Trance by Robert Lewis Latham
"It's like there's something in the water" when mass hysteria plagues a tiny town amid a heat wave and severe drought during the summer of 1968. Each full moon brings another gruesome killing. A newly liberated young female detective from the city and a grizzled old "country bumpkin...
Tim by James Conright
Written in First Person POV, Part One of this light hearted novella centers around Tim; a morbidly obese vampire who has fumbled through his existence as a creature of the night. Upon befriending him, the author helps Tim find other beings that are just as lost, but they soon discover ...
FLAME by Joshua Dickson
Flame exposes the secret rituals and symbols of the Olympics through what begins as a simple crime-story. Financial Analyst Richard Johnson gets rescued from a mugger by a chain-smoking stranger. The stranger pulls Johnson into a web of nighttime rites, international power-struggles, and...
Joe Louis is Coming to Town! by Leonard Varasano
The compelling story of WWII hero Burley Small is chronicled in ‘Joe Louis is Coming to Town!’ From the battlefields of Europe, where his heroics earned him a Congressional Medal of Honor, to his hometown in the Deep South after his war service to his country is completed, Burley’s...
The Second Son by Leonard Varasano
This is a story for the new Millennium, and the epic return of God to earth; not as a booming voice from the sky, but as a magnificent, radiant healing force wielded by the most saintly, altruistic man to walk the earth in 2000 years, a farmer from America's heartland, Sam Baker.
Change by Stephanie Modreske
About a girl who is in a special divition of the CIA. Durring one of her missions she was kidnapped. After she was left for dead he team finds her and tells her of what is about to change all their lives. She then has her world turned upside down after she is sent to a normal highschool. She g...
Trapper Creek by J. Lee Marshall
This is a fictional account of two women who come together by fate. One is young and running from her past, the other ran a long time ago, but is still trying to put the pieces of her life back together. When the younger girls past catches up with her, the two of them end up fighting for their lives...
Once Upon A Time In Philly by George A. Davis
Lesbian loan shark deals with two-bit hoodlums.
The Secret of San Marcos by Cathy McGinnis
A fictional mystery, about a teenage girl and her family.
#1 #2 and Me by Rodney L. Henderson
This is a copy of the log of the Super Starship "SS Constalation" Capable of travel between the stars in an instant. Controled by a biological brain.
Designs of a Slave Race by Shannon Smith
Insignia Corp have revolutionized the way Artificial Intelligence and Robotics effect and serve humans within the first world. Though at its infancy, one could buy a cleaning droid or speak to an automatic teller who actually understood what one was saying. At this pininical Insignia has...
Where Do They Bury Their Dead by Joseph P. Policape
This Story is about a young man who decided to find all the youngsters that the Haitian's Government had killed and threw away the bodies and bury them.
Father Knight by Leonard Varasano
While en route to the besieged city of Constantinople, the sole survivor of an ambushed relief brigade must rely upon his sword and wits to remain alive in a hostile, haunted land.
The Purgatory Train by Larry D. Swaffar
A man lives with a deep, unabiding remorse after his two partners trick him into a train robbery. Trying to make up for it for the rest of his life is to him, just as bad as all those dead on the Purgatory Train!
Storyteller by Lavern Merriweather
My story is about an arrogant but well liked author who uses his nightmares as inspiration for his books. The books are sell outs and all is going well until they start coming true.
Cats, Dogs by Mbonisi Ncube
The South African President is dead, assassinated by a lone gunman. All trails now lead to one man - Marcus, a former sharpshooter, who has been working undercover with a drug syndicate that virtually controls even the Government itself . Framed for the hit, and his cover blown, Marcus flees, with t...
Restful Grove by Samuel Cantrell
Its about a boy named Paul, and his adventures at a retirement home called Restful Grove
Sick and Twisted by Laniya Lumpkin
Two abused youth run away from home and meet each other. They decide to get vengeance on the world that screwed them by killing everyone who they believed wrong them.
Tha' Pimpstress by Kelly Smith
THA' PIMPSTRESS IS ONE BIG POEM AND I SAY THIS BECAUSE THE WHOLE BOOK RHYMES FRONT TO BACK. IT STARTED OFF AS A POEM ACTUALLY ABOUT A PROSTITUTE TELLING HER STORY AND HOW MUCH SHE HATED WHAT SHE ENCOUNTERED EVERY NIGHT..AFTER LETTING SOME CO WORKERS READ IT, THEY SUGGESTED I KEEP WRITING.. JA...
The Gift of Life by Don Pizzarello
Sandor Ferencz, a cynical, wealthy man learns he has incurable cancer and little time to live. Sandor is a major donor to the Catholic Archdiocese of a large US city and, at a tea given and attended by the Cardinal, hears a rumor about a woman who is supposed to be able to perform miracles and has g...
The Sword Mistress by Josh Schwartzkopf
Abigail Silventar dabbled with the sword to appease her husband and to compete in the Sword Mistress contest during the annual Harvest Festival. But, when a wicked man threatens her family, she may be the only one who can stop him.
Spider Blood by D.T. Jones
At sixteen, Janette Knox has to battle with highschool, crushes, and countless other issues of a teenager -- as well as the difficulties of the Spider Bloods, a secret race of humans that can transform into Nature's dreaded black widow. Caught in a war between the Spiders and their predators, the Da...
Julian Island by Gillian Scott
Julian Island caters to the wealthy and affluent. By day, it is a vacationer's dream. At night, parties rage. It is a world away from life's uncertainties. It is a life we aspire to share in, a reality for few.
The Psyco-Olgy of the Unemployed by Rene Esparza
This is a book concentrated, though darkly humorously on the human condition of unemployment, rather then like most materials base their efforts to self help. It is a very good attempt, if I say so myself into the psychic of purpose and futility and our pursuit to try to match it against work in gen...
The Magical Menagerie of Isador Kruskle by Bryan C. O'Connor
This 142 pg. manuscript tells the tale of young Toby Truhart, a lonely, bullied student at Hadley K. Haglewood Middle School who crosses paths with fellow outcast, eighth-grader Lydia Lockhorn. The two form an instant friendship through their grudges against adolescence hardships and the longing for...
DUPLICATES by L. H. Lewis
This story takes place during the cold war between the USSR and most of the free world. Space ships arrive on earth and the aliens build a base near the North Pole. They begin abducting people from Russia and replacing them with duplicates. The reluctant hero of this adventure, Stan Plyshnyk l...
When Dead Men Walk by Rachel Devin
Reagan Smith, once an indomitable optimist, undergoes a grueling transformation into the gloomiest of pessimists when his darling Victoria dies. His life of misery is drastically thrown into chaos when he is blackmailed by a nameless young man, forced to seek the hand of the Earless o...
Destined For Greatness by John M. Marra
Misanthropic veteran seeks to escape reality only to discover that he must battle crazed Puritans, futuristic Guidos and Roman soldiers. Along the way he finds love and Jesus.
D by Fawn Bonning
A woman decides to help a stray dog in need. How can this good deed go so bad? Based on a true story.
Killing Messalina by Peter Amadi
In the oppressive humid heat of the delta night a new kind of evil lurks… Tension rises in the small oil community of Kebby Creek in the Niger Delta when the raped and mutilated bodies of young women are found in the marshland bordering the town. The locals are blaming the white oil workers ...
Searching for Blouse of affection by Binaya Ghimire
He tried to kill himself twice. But will he survive similar circumstances for the third time. The novella, set in Kathmandu, is about a man whose life is at the crux because of love.
The Demon Raid by Breanna Geyer
This is an adventurous story of a young girl who's name is Sophia. She has lived a very interesting life through her seventeen years. Ever since she came upon a demon in Suriname's forest that so happened to be Suriname himself, the path of her life has had many twists and sharp turns that may lead ...
The Epiphany by David Lessoff
The Epiphany is a cathartic journey of great pain and suffering. Filled with moments of echoed joy and laced with insurmountable torture, it is more than any one-man can endure. Jake Marsh, a forty something extremely successful corporate attorney, is about to come face to face with a mirror in his ...
A Fare For The Ages by David Lessoff
A Fare For The Ages is a story of inscrutable pain, which is inextricably linked with impossible dreams. Johnny Williams, a 21-year-old man, finds himself in a mental institution on Christmas Day after a botched suicide attempt emanating from the brutal murder of his mother. It is within the confine...
Wickie by Don Bull
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Three of Hearts by Barbara R. Lewis
Here's is the third and final short story in the mystery fiction in the trilogy. Enjoy.
I, Me, and Myself by Ajita Jabal Shah
I, me, myself is a work of fiction, written in first person narrative. It is worded in colloquial English and is a light-hearted humorous account of the life and travails of an Indian woman named Malini Jagatbhai Patel. Malini is a vibrant Indian, Gujarati girl, born and brought up in Ahmedabad. The...
Consecutive by WilliamChele
CONSECUTIVE takes you below the surface to hear these characters true thoughts and show their true faces. To show why these Georgians go about life the way they do. Desire, she's a luscious young exotic dancer at Magic City, with a strong need for much more than her customers' tips. Scotty is a blue...
The Fall of 1100 by London Haines
A bio terror threat from enemy countries, a World Peace coalition from the United Nations, rogue government agents and the kidnapping of his son leaves the President of the United States in conflict with himself, his family and his country.
Choices by Brazos Mason
A novella in the genre of Science Fiction that follows the steps of two adventurers as they explore what the Earth has become thousands of years from now. Should be rated "adult" or "mature" for some sexual and language content...
Dyomis; The Shadows Alive by Hannah Aronson
It's all confusion for our friend who can no longer remember her name. Waking up in the middle of a plane wreck isn't exactly what would be considered your everyday experience. All our friend can remember are two things: her age, and an interesting word..... Dyomis. What does this word mean? W...
Where the Light Shows by Hannah Aronson
As fifteen year old Audrey is fighting to care for her dying family, she must also fight to overcome her darkest fears and the feeling of hopelessness. Life didn't seem like it could get anymore weird, but that was before she met a tree nymph who gave her an interesting bit of information..... Audre...
Number One Fan by Juan Mendez Scott
Syndey is an NBA Allstar, and like many, has several fans. Kim was Syndey's Number One Fan and had all intentions on just being his number one, by any means necessary. Debbie, Sydney's wife was just determined to get paid whether she was with Sydney or not. Through a tangled...
INANIMATE? by Michael Fox, Sr.
As humans, we all do it. Who hasn't 'talked' to 'things'? Ever told a car exactly how you felt when it didn't perform as intended? Ever play a new musical instrument and compliment it on how well it played? Ever curse a tool when it slipped and caused ...
Those Who Fell (Part 1) by Nikko Ortiz
A thick evergreen forest wrapped itself around two men. Two men who had been boys once, who had shared a friendship in a time that now, seemed so long ago. Comrades now look upon each other as foes, swords drawn, both wearing the Zurithen army uniform...
Stranger on the Outside by Sara Pearl
A young teenager, sheltered for many years from the outside world, is thrust suddenly into a high school filled with teens. Confused, shy, and hiding a huge secret, she slowly learns about being true to herself and others.
The Search for Destiny by Timothy Bartlett
A boy named Tristan is chosen by the king to go on a special quest to rescue the king's daughter. Along the way he meets new and old friends, and encounters many foes before finally completing his quest.
The Lion by Robert English
In the late twenty-first century, athlete are more than human, more than machine. They are the perfect synthesis of both - TECHs. Doug is one such athlete and his sport is football. He rises to the challenge to show that an athlete with true heart can be a champion even in a world ..
CORRIDORS TWO - Saving Ron, Saving Us by L. H. Lewis
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