Online Fiction

»Lehrkraft in der Schule! Das könnte mir gefallen! Wissen Se, mit Kindern kann ich gut. Wenn man älter wird, hört man nicht mehr so gut, und die Nerven sind auch gestählt…« Renate Bergmann weiß um den Lehrkräftemangel und bietet sich in ihrem zugegebener Maßen recht hohem Alter als Quereinsteigerin an. Schließlich braucht es nicht nur überstudierte Experten, sondern Menschen mit Lebenserfahrung an den Schulen! Als ihre kleine Nichte Lisbeth eingeschult wird, gibt es kein Halten mehr: Die Online-Omi bürstet ihr bestes Kostüm auf und geht die Sache gewohnt resolut an.

Contains all three books of The Desert Sequence: Desert Runner, Desert Born, and Desert Storm. Follow NPC Maddie on her journey of self-discovery, which takes her through the deadly desert plains to the inner programming that makes her who she is.

Sie sind eingekesselt von Feinden und haben schwere Verluste zu beklagen. Clay und seine bunt zusammengewürfelte Truppe befinden sich in ihrer bisher schwersten Lage. Erschwerend kommt hinzu, dass ihr Erzfeind kurz davor steht, zum Imperator von Arethkar gekrönt zu werden, was ihm grenzenlose Macht und Fähigkeiten verleihen würde.

Kyvir and his party have officially defeated one demon with an unknown number to go, but the cost was abandonment by both Mona and Albarth. The party is significantly weakened, nothing is as it should be still, and the world is no longer as safe as it once was. Time to get killlin’. Kyvir’ll chase any path to leveling up and getting to his lost friend, meaning Emma and Sundar need to work overtime to keep him from going too far. Navigating deeper into this magical game world, he finds himself in the company of strange and dangerous new allies, but does he dare trust them?

Nach einem kurzen Aufschub durch die Schuldeneintreiber muss sich Dahlia darauf konzentrieren, die Quelle der Macht eines Weltbosses zu finden. Sie muss sich auf Madi und Alysand verlassen, die ihr helfen, eine Welle von Feinden aus allen Richtungen zu überstehen. Und schnell genug aufleveln, um zu überleben. Einen Gott-Rang-Boss erschlagen? Erledigt. Verbündete überreden, sich der Sache anzuschließen? In Arbeit.

Madison isn't a hardcore gamer, but along with her brother and two cousins, she's become embroiled in a mythic quest spanning the entire world of Koyesta Online. The ramifications of this quest may just change the entire game before it’s even out of early access.

Nobody ever said that following your heart wouldn’t take you through an obstacle course of men before you discover and could appreciate that maybe “The One" had been there all along....that the love of my life could accept everything I’d done and where it had taken me. The fact is, he had a plan all along. All he wanted was me. My only goal was to have fun. I lived for the excitement and adventure. I experienced everything and everyone. It was all my journey that lead me to where I belong. This is where my confessions begin.

Falling for your best friend's love interest is bad.... Falling for your twin's is catastrophic. As kids, Nina and Nancy were inseparable. As teenagers, not so much.... Where Nancy is popular, an Instagram star, and obsessed with boy band heartthrob Chase, Nina is shy, a talented classical musician, and shuns the spotlight that her sister thrives in. But when the wrong twin unwittingly ends up at the centre of a romantic social media storm, the bonds of twin-ship will be tested like never before....

The slippery online ecosystem is the perfect breeding ground for identities: true, false, and in between. The Internet shorthand IRL - "in real life" - now seems naïve. We no longer question the reality of online experiences but the reality of selfhood in the digital age. In The Secret Life, the essayist and novelist Andrew O'Hagan issues three bulletins from the porous border between cyberspace and IRL.

Great Uncle Winter has a dark secret - milk and cookies. He doesn't just like them, he needs them to maintain his essential goodness. When an abominable snow rat infestation devours his entire stash in the North Pole he starts to turn evil, and Justine's guild must reunite a lost tribe of elves that abandoned the North Pole centuries ago to bring the big man in red the greatest cookies in all the land.

Still stranded in the virtual world of Freehaven Online, the Toxic Muffins, lead by Justine, are given new hope after a beloved guild member died upon failing digitization. Mirae has come online. No one can message her, but they have a quest leading them into the depths of Hades, an underworld that serves two planes of mortal existence, to retrieve a lost soul and escort it back to the living.

Thrown into a conflict beyond the scope of anything Bye-Bye ever imagined, he will be tested in ways he never imaged. Whether that means stopping a war or just taking the girl he likes on a date, he certainly has his work cut out for him. Tensions are rising and if Bye-bye and his friends can’t put a stop to a brewing war, Anvilton and Hammerton might just destroy each other. That is, if the other adventurers don’t destroy them first. With the odds stacked against them, will Bye-bye and his friends survive the Mountain Valley War?

Freddie O'Neal is hired by Joan Halliday to investigate the drug-dealing caretakers of Joan's elderly father. However, when Joan's sister is killed in a hit-and-run and Joan is named the prime suspect, Freddie must figure out if the crime was committed by the caretakers, by Joan, or by Joan's father, who appears to be involved in a shady real-estate firm.

Despite her name, Lucky Pierce has always felt a little cursed. Refusing to settle for less or settle down, she changes jobs as often as she changes boyfriends. When her celebrity chef mother challenges her to finish something, Lucky agrees to help her launch Boston's next hot restaurant, The Star. Even if it means working with the infuriating, egotistical, and undeniably sexy head chef.

"Gertrud und ich sind unter die Laubenpieper gegangen! Der Gunter Herbst, Gertruds Lebensgefährte, musste nämlich unters Messer. Und da ihm seine Kohlrabis so am Herzen liegen, haben wir uns um seine Parzelle in der Kolonie 'Abendfrieden' gekümmert. Ach herrje, so ein Garten ist ja niemals fertig! Wenn Se hinten gejätet haben, sprießt vorne schon wieder das Unkraut... Und als dann das Ordnungsamt wegen Hanfanbau kam, da hatten wir dann richtig Ärger!" Renate Bergmann zieht die Gummistiefel an und packt die Heckenschere ein.

"Gertrud und ich sind unter die Laubenpieper gegangen! Der Gunter Herbst, Gertruds Lebensgefährte, musste nämlich unters Messer. Und da ihm seine Kohlrabis so am Herzen liegen, haben wir uns um seine Parzelle in der Kolonie 'Abendfrieden' gekümmert. Ach herrje, so ein Garten ist ja niemals fertig! Wenn Se hinten gejätet haben, sprießt vorne schon wieder das Unkraut... Und als dann das Ordnungsamt wegen Hanfanbau kam, da hatten wir dann richtig Ärger!" Renate Bergmann zieht die Gummistiefel an und packt die Heckenschere ein. Freuen Sie sich auf ihre Abenteuer in der Kleingartenkolonie!

Eternity Online ist das größte Online-Rollenspiel der Welt. Aber nicht jeder darf hinein: Erst nach dem Tod in der wirklichen Welt kann man das Nachleben in einer virtuellen verbringen. Abenteuer erleben, Monster bekämpfen und gemütlich in Tavernen abhängen bis in alle Ewigkeit. Rob ist nur einer von zahllosen Frischlingen, die in Avataris ihr neues Leben beginnen – natürlich ohne die geringste Erinnerung an ihre Vergangenheit. Doch irgendetwas stimmt nicht mit ihm. Die Bewohner reagieren seltsam, die ganze Umgebung scheint ihm feindlich gesonnen.

Jason was looking for the next big thing in his life. He successfully created a corporation and now he needed something new. He did not expect to find it in the next biggest gaming craze. Now he is trapped with no way out. How will he survive and what will his new life bring him in the process?

The fight for survival continues as Matt and his friends realize that soon they'll need to take to the zombie zones to find more resources. The search for water is more dangerous than they could have ever imagined. With the odds stacked against them, will they be able to find enough water to keep the entire group alive?

A demon uprising from the Plague Barrens threatens the city of Trowlsby. The elves are under attack. Gemini Fowler's new home is barely holding on. And Underlord Caym beckons. But Gemini has a plan, and it's unfolding before his eyes. Having come into his own and gathered a loyal and faithful family around him, Gemini is ready to take on the biggest challenge of his life so far in Enora.