IT’S A BAD, BAD WORLD OUT THERE - Two teenage girls who don’t even know their own names. A nightmarish town that wants to eat them alive. When fate brings them together, will a murderous town full of sin and psychotic criminals pull them apart?
Packed with tension and betrayal, horror and triumph, Jordan Wakefield’s CONFLUX: THE LOST GIRLS follows two teenage runaways with pasts shrouded in darkness as they navigate a world ruled by sex, drugs and violence. This book doesn’t pull punches.
Opening chapters of an unpublished novel.
Two single mothers a generation apart are the twin protagonists. Loretta, strong and combative, is ferociously protective of Frederick, her mentally handicapped son. Pauline, young, smart, and unsure, manipulates Frederick into committing a crime. Frederick's inability to understand what has happened saves Pauline.
A corrupted businessman, a high school basketball star, a bumbling priest, and an African saint are all caught up in the aftermath.
The familiar tale of world powers: where one falls, another is prepared to take its place. But, this shift in dominance finds the living squatting within the city of the dead. Times have changed and the fates of millions rests in the hands of the few. They must band together or face a dark age this world has never seen. Coverart by KiraLNG.
Arthur Conan Doyle's collection of 12 short stories published in 1892 introduced Sherlock Holmes to the world. Follow this flawed genius and his sidekick Dr Watson as they crack impossible cases in the work that has defined the detective fiction genre.
La Douleur Exquise (French): The heart-wrenching pain of wanting someone you can't have.
How painful is it of wanting someone but you won't have a chance to have that person?
How will I manage to forget the only person who can make my day complete?
All I ever wanted was the freedom to live life as I pleased, despite my aristocratic parents’ hopes I’d secure a prestigious husband. But my fate was far more terrible than an arranged marriage when my family became prisoners to one of the most fearsome and powerful vampires of all time, Count Vlad Dracula.
La Douleur Exquise (French): The heart-wrenching pain of wanting someone you can't have.
How painful is it of wanting someone but you won't have a chance to have that person?
How will I manage to forget the only person who can make my day complete?
The familiar tale of world powers: where one falls, another is prepared to take its place. But, this shift in dominance finds the living squatting within the city of the dead. Times have changed and the fates of millions rests in the hands of the few. They must band together or face a dark age this world has never seen. Coverart by KiraLNG.
A collection of short stories and poems of varying lengths, exploring themes of knowledge, afterlives (or alternate lives), sexual deviance, Love, responsibility, subjective perspective, mental health, and more.
Some material is unsuitable for young readers.
Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, follows a young scientist named Victor Frankenstein who creates a hideous sentient creature.
As the Alphas daughter Nadie knew she would marry the new Alpha of the pack when she turns 18. But when a common enemy approaches a new alliance is formed through marriage. Nadie must marry her rivals Alpha. A blessing in disguise or a living nightmare? *ongoing*
Arthur Conan Doyle's collection of 12 short stories published in 1892 introduced Sherlock Holmes to the world. Follow this flawed genius and his sidekick Dr Watson as they crack impossible cases in the work that has defined the detective fiction genre.
Irish author Bram Stoker's 1897 Gothic horror novel, Dracula, introduced the notorious Count Dracula and founded the vampire fantasy genre. Dracula attempts to move to England from his castle in Transylvania to seek new blood and proliferate the undead curse. He battles a small group led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing.
Jane Austen's 1813 romantic novel of manners follows Elizabeth Bennett's circuitous path to finding love. Elizabeth's mother attempts to marry all five of her daughters to rich gentlemen and secure their family's future. Pulled in different directions by an assortment of suitors, Elizabeth realizes that a certain Mr Darcy may not be as dour and boorish as he seems.
All art is quite useless. In Oscar Wilde's controversial novel, Dorian Gray is the subject of a portrait in oil by Basil Hallward, an artist impressed and infatuated by Dorian's beauty. Through Basil, Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, and he soon is enthralled by the aristocrat's hedonistic world view: that beauty and sensual fulfillment are the only things worth pursuing in life.
Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel follows Alice in her first trip to Wonderland. While playing in an English meadow, she falls down a rabbit hole and encounters peculiar creatures.
In P.G. Wodehouse's famous novel, Freddie and his uncle are in difficulties. Freddie wants to start a bookmaker’s business and to marry Eve, while his uncle wants to raise money, unbeknown to his wife, to help a runaway daughter. Freddie persuades his uncle to steal his wife’s necklace and sees Psmith’s advertisement in a daily paper.
Freddie enlists the services of Psmith to steal the necklace. There are plots and counterplots. Psmith steals, not the necklace, but Eve's heart.
Grimms' Fairy Tales, originally known as the Children's and Household Tales (Kinder- und Hausmärchen), is a collection of stories by Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm. First published in 1812, the collection includes famous stories like Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, Rumpelstiltskin, The Frog Prince, and Snow White and the Seven Dwarves that have shaped Western storytelling.
Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, follows a young scientist named Victor Frankenstein who creates a hideous sentient creature.
Wuthering Heights is a novel by Emily Brontë published in 1847 under her pseudonym "Ellis Bell". Brontë's only finished novel opens with Lockwood visiting the home of his landlord. An accident occurs alongside a supernatural event which pique Lockwood's curiosity.
Charlotte Brontë's novel follows a young woman as she attends boarding school, graduates, and finds work for a wealthy widower named Mr. Rochester. The novel is the first work of prose to focus on its protagonist's moral and spiritual development through an intimate first-person narrative.
Una misteriosa ragazza infesta un incrocio nel Texas Hill Country. Una famiglia vive nella paura di incrociare il suo sguardo, ma a volte i ragazzi innamorati prendono decisioni folli.
Un racconto breve spettrale.
A mysterious young woman haunts the crossroads in the Texas Hill Country. One particular family lives in fear of her, but sometimes young men in love make foolish decisions.
A short ghost story.
All I ever wanted was the freedom to live life as I pleased, despite my aristocratic parents’ hopes I’d secure a prestigious husband. But my fate was far more terrible than an arranged marriage when my family became prisoners to one of the most fearsome and powerful vampires of all time, Count Vlad Dracula.
Vanora is torn between the man she loves and the man who would destroy the world to claim her. Can she escape the power of an ancient prophecy, or will she succumb?
An unintelligent boy finds himself in a world filled with magic and cultivation. The villagers around him have given up on trying to help the boy cultivate as he is too idiotic to learn. Join this boy on his journey to discover the wonderful effects of Ethu as he unlocks his ability to see the world anew.
The familiar tale of world powers: where one falls, another is prepared to take its place. But, this shift in dominance finds the living squatting within the city of the dead. Times have changed and the fates of millions rests in the hands of the few. They must band together or face a dark age this world has never seen. Coverart by KiraLNG.
My entry for Kinktober 2019. Prompts used were created by idrabbleincrazy on Tumblr. Rated M for obvious reasons. Mostly canon couples, some not (Embry/Bella and Leah/Bella).
Opening chapters of an unpublished novel.
Two single mothers a generation apart are the twin protagonists. Loretta, strong and combative, is ferociously protective of Frederick, her mentally handicapped son. Pauline, young, smart, and unsure, manipulates Frederick into committing a crime. Frederick's inability to understand what has happened saves Pauline.
A corrupted businessman, a high school basketball star, a bumbling priest, and an African saint are all caught up in the aftermath.
A collection of short stories and poems of varying lengths, exploring themes of knowledge, afterlives (or alternate lives), sexual deviance, Love, responsibility, subjective perspective, mental health, and more.
Some material is unsuitable for young readers.
La Douleur Exquise (French): The heart-wrenching pain of wanting someone you can't have.
How painful is it of wanting someone but you won't have a chance to have that person?
How will I manage to forget the only person who can make my day complete?
As the Alphas daughter Nadie knew she would marry the new Alpha of the pack when she turns 18. But when a common enemy approaches a new alliance is formed through marriage. Nadie must marry her rivals Alpha. A blessing in disguise or a living nightmare? *ongoing*
Lavinia is the daughter of the infamous, but aging mob boss Don Maccario of Montreal. As her father's time draws to an end, he upsets his entire organization, especially the driven and handsome Arturo Murano, by naming his daughter as his heir.
A young man falls in love with a Norwegian singer named Raina. Despite the ocean that separates them, his love grows as he listens to her music. Will he maintain his idyllic image of her when they meet?
A Necromancer Cleric must deal with hordes of the destructive undead as they threaten a settlement in a futuristic world…A prologue to the Hidden Necromancer Series.
Addison, a 16 year old girl gets stuck in a dark, creepy room, kidnapped and scared. Trying to stay alive, Addison tries to find different ways to escape but ends up failing. Little does she know, the kidnapper has a surprise for her.
The world has been conquered by an alien civilization, and it has brought with it sweeping changes. Now, everything is quantitative. Want to know how strong you are? There's a number for that. Sadly, there are no numbers that tell you exactly what to do. Join Jack as he deals with the horrors now plaguing his world.
IT’S A BAD, BAD WORLD OUT THERE - Two teenage girls who don’t even know their own names. A nightmarish town that wants to eat them alive. When fate brings them together, will a murderous town full of sin and psychotic criminals pull them apart?
Packed with tension and betrayal, horror and triumph, Jordan Wakefield’s CONFLUX: THE LOST GIRLS follows two teenage runaways with pasts shrouded in darkness as they navigate a world ruled by sex, drugs and violence. This book doesn’t pull punches.
Tiara, a single, lovely, caramel-complexioned Venezuelan American, accepted an invitation to a masquerade party. Little did she know, she would come face to face with her past, as a night of masked anonymity and naughty flirting leads to uninhibited acquiescence of hedonistic shenanigans.
Scattered bits of stream-of-consciousness prose and other works. Raw and decidedly unprofessional, enter strange places in the mind and heart across the U.S. and in southern RI and Block Island.
Read more at: http://jordanwakefield.com/prose-fantastical-imaginical-streams-of-consciousness/
COMING SOON: The sequel to Conflux: The Lost Girls – Conflux: From The Grey is currently being rewritten to better standards.
A paranormal thriller, Conflux: From The Grey is the beginning of Leeroy Arthur’s story, a mentally-gifted sixteen year old with a past haunted by his parents’ loss.
Leeroy’s dreary life is both renewed and confounded when he happens upon a seemingly simple monocle with the power to see the lifeforces of those around him. It will change his life forever.
