2026 Best True Story Unpublished Manuscript
Inspired by a true story, an elderly woman recounts the tales of her ancestors from the age of the Romanovs through today and how their struggles, sacrifices, and perseverance influenced her decision to have an operation to save her life.
Gripped by her grandmother Lucy Ker’s dramatic stories of her life in China from the Boxer Rebellion to the deposing of the Last Emperor, Kate follows in her footsteps a century later.
This is a story where I express how the St. Louis Mercy Hospital and my mom’s stroke affected my life at the age of fifteen.
What would you do if a person you had never met, came from nowhere, unprovoked, and created a situation that turned your life and your morals upside down? Intent on taking everything you have earned, much of what you value, and they see no reason why it shouldn’t be theirs. It happened to me.
When I was twelve years old, on the cusp of puberty and all its delights, I lost my six year old little brother and perhaps even my own mind; however, with Sean’s continued silent, but now invisible presence, I found enduring sibling love.
Born at the dawn of the Second World War, a German girl comes of age between two opressive regimes, her quest for freedom carrying her from behind the Iron Curtain to the shores of California.
During my father's very futile, and brief battle with prostate cancer he cycled through many of the devastating, typical changes that accompany cancer. What wasn't typical was also his biggest change. His personality, and who he was changed dramatically. Or did it?
Fanny Herbert is a naïve young girl who becomes pregnant by a Primitive Methodist Minister. Three months after starting work for the Reverend’s family, he seduces her. She consents to a sexual relationship believing that the Reverend is in love with her. His wife, Elizabeth, discovers Fanny is...
After three marriages to three men named David—each “beloved” by name—a former beauty queen ricochets through betrayal, addiction, and loss to stop chasing love outside herself and discover the Beloved within.
All my life I had either been missing my mother, or looking for her. The irony was she was right there in front of me the whole time.
In the post-COVID era, a nineteen-year-old law student clings to denial and substances to ignore her crashing academic performance, and the notion that this bizarre party across the street might have noticed her.
Faint, distant, a warbling fragment of what sounded like a 1960s rock song, distorted as if drifting through miles of jungle air. The collector frowned. That was impossible. The US Vietnam War radio's frequencies were long obsolete. It shouldn't be able to receive modern transmissions—if any at all...
