F. Hampton Carmine

• Apr-2021
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Oana Mircea has it great; school nearly over, eighteen in two of months, adopted by a prominent family, a great home, great friends, and a best-friend step-sister. She knows of the feud between her family and the Dinescus only as private vitriol and ...

• Aug-2018
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Francine Barrowman, Jeanette's mother and manager, was a business suit with high heels clicking. Her eyes empty of feeling, black holes into an abyss where Jeanette had never seen feelings for her in those cold depths. Now she was speaking of ‘our�...

• Jul-2018
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Fifteen year old Katrina had always felt her family and life were perfectly normal. Her loving father worked as a software engineer and her mother's amnesia of her own childhood was little more than a topic of conversation. They were happy. Then it a...

• May-2018
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Teela of Kolander is a science fiction YA novel of Teela's journey through a year of personal discovery, taking her from a servant to the royal family, to Empress of the far flung Barkol Empire, and finally to an independent young lady ready for her ...

• Jan-2018
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April Showers looks like a fairy, but she doesn't feel like one. She's small and delicate like her friends and family, but they can use magic in the fairy and human worlds but she can not. She has no magic. How will she open the portals between the d...

• Feb-2017
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“Child's Femur Found in Memorial Park.” He read the headline and threw the paper down onto the table knocking his steaming cup of coffee into his crotch.   “Shit. Shit. Shit!” Spencer Grier jumped up and danced aroun...

• Feb-2017
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Maxwell Borodin stumbled along, trying to coordinate his faltering steps with the swaying motion of the sidewalk. He didn't have time to ponder why it was moving. The entirety of his efforts were concentrated on protecting the half empty bottle of ro...

• Feb-2017
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“But it's a primitive planet. The dominant species has barely conquered gravity enough to put satellites into orbit,” a scientist at the conference said. “They have no control over the weather and their world's oceans show high levels of toxici...

• Feb-2017
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Jon had never felt so utterly alone, so isolated. Tears blurred his vision as the absoluteness of that isolation finally became real to him. His fiancee had broken it off two hands of periods ago, telling him there was no point in continuing. He had ...

• Feb-2017
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Moira stood unmoving on the highest prominence outside the cliff-side entrance to her cave home, a hundred long strides up the cliff in tier fifteen. She watched some of her friends as they leaped unfettered into the bright and clear air to hitch rid...

• Feb-2017
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The Life Science Research Group facility on Europa was silent. The drilling command center had become hushed as they reached and passed the depth of eighty kilos through the solid ice crust of Europa. They had been drilling for three long Terran y...

• Oct-2015
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Aislin and Caitrin's birth, marked the onset of a time of great change, the endings of false paths, and the beginnings of new and true paths, as Destiny pressed forward with her revised prophesy for The Dragon Isles. Many would become witting or unwi...

• Aug-2015
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Follow Rebecca as she navigates the pitfalls of the seventh grade while dealing with her class and becoming an elf, pointy ears and all. Rebecca must navigate around a clueless school administration, resolve a feud with a former friend, hide a growin...

• Jul-2014
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Mariposa was always surrounded by butterflies, even more so when she healed the sick and dying. But her gift of healing was not her main purpose on the earth. She had another even greater gift to give and finally it was time....

• Jul-2014
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Greg Pattersen took a chance for the mere image of a distressed women in a thick fog. He donned a spacesuit and allowed a monstrosity of a franken-ship to collect him as it destroyed the beach and all around it. He had to find her, had to find the se...

• Jul-2014
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John had long ago found a philosophically neutral ground between his own christian upbringing and his chosen field of study; evolutionary biology. He had struggled for many years over the disparity between the Bible's explanations of the origins of l...

• Jul-2014
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David Rheinbrücke had been called a throwback, a caveman, a Neanderthal as well as brows and Kong. His father had abandoned him when he was ten and his mother had died when he was a teenager. Now, as an adult and a college professor, he had to find ...

• Jul-2014
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Mary Katherine and her daughter, had just moved into her deceased husbands house on the Isle of Anglesey, Wales. Each night she is awakened clawing her way up through layers of sleep, driven by the anguish and terror in her daughter's screams. When s...

• Jun-2014
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Abby and the Magic Key is a middle-grade magical romp through time and space with thirteen year old Abigail Stewart and her royal ancestor, Princess Elizabeth of Scotland. To mend their broken lives, these princesses, one lost to fear and privilege, ...

• Feb-2014
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The fog ate the white sanded beach, a giant amoeba, undulating over the water and sand. The setting sun shone dimly through the its swirling mists and provided no warmth to offset the chill wind that blew across the sand. Huddled under his hood, Greg...

• Oct-2013
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Sue wanted to go home, she always wanted to go home. The teachers and staff here were nice enough but it wasn't home. She did not feel that different. Not different enough to have to live here in this place. It seemed like a school some times and...

• Oct-2013
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This is a 5000 word short story that introduces the world of The Dragon Isles through the eyes of Liadan, the most powerful seer of her time.Liadan had foreseen her abduction in a vision only moments before and she knew she had to allow this kidnappi...

• Oct-2013
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Second Edition with expanded content.Five missing years, an unexplained mark between his eyes and a brutal and barren childhood had not prepared Tom Bradon for his destiny but here it was and it had him by the short hairs; become a wizard and save th...

• Oct-2013
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The wheeze of his own breathing was the only sound inside his spacesuit's helmet. The only sights were the cyclic views of stars, the moon, and the large blue ball of the Earth through his visor as he slowly tumbled in a rapidly decaying orbit. His e...

• Jul-2012
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A 4600 word short story.Alexander Browning looked in the mirror. Looking back at him was a zombie from a horror show. His hair had not been cut in a year and hung uncombed in a riot of brown and gray tangles. His beard grew wild and matted with bits ...

• Jun-2012
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A 5000 Word Short Story.From the chaos of the emergency room, a young mother, and amnesiac, is pulled back from death's door only to discover her lost childhood memories have been restored by the electric shock. A childhood like few others; filled wi...

• May-2012
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Three short stories exploring man's journey with and towards the machine. “Life is But a Dream” explores human intelligence and soul in a machine. “More Machine Than Human” explores the move towards Cyborgs and beyond. “...

• Jul-2011
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How bright her eyes had been. A solitary tear dripped from Mark Fields’ stoic chin onto the lifeless form below. He sighed heavily, his shoulders sagging as his strength flowed from him with his breath. His hand crept along the silky lining of ...