(OF 60 CHAPTERS)
Lexi Crane has just suffered through the loss of her soulmate. Her world shattered, she finds herself at the center of a plot to keep her a prisoner inside her own mind. What the schemers and assassins don't know is that Lexi's formidable madness has plans of its own.

(OF 109 CHAPTERS) New chapters posted every Tuesday and Friday!
Lexi Crane starts a bit of a war with her self-styled arch-nemesis Danny Packard, becomes a member of an automotive secret society called the Road Associates and finds herself tumbling into a grudging friendship with Dobie Cassarell. But Dobie has a secret--the mystery of Ren's last birthday present to her. Thrust suddenly into a world of Rich Bastards she can't resist the urge to bait and offend, Lexi finds herself sailing the seas of bittersweet memory yet again. Nothing could mean more to her than whatever's in Ren's briefcase--but will Dobie, Danny and the Ile du Soleil government let her keep it?

(current ongoing novelization - final chapter count to be determined)
A missing dinner date, a psychotic geriatric bounty hunter, a mysterious antique book that everybody wants, a tinfoil hat-wearing DJ with a roll-top desk full of Ecstasy and an Alfa Romeo GTV.  Lexi Crane knows how to have a good time in New York City.

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Liz Bahti wakes up half-dead from her latest alcoholic binge and declares it will be her last. She discovers that it's not as easy as moving two thousand miles, shaving her head and rebuilding old friendships. Stalked by demons both human and mental, she learns that there's just one crucial question she needs to answer: does she think she's worth saving?

In which Dori Thomasson learns that her grandfather was a war hero, and tries to reconcile the loyalty and bravery in her genes with her own sedentary and emotionally solitary life. It's not just that she wonders how it's possible, but she finds herself wishing she could inspire the kind of fraternal loyalty and friendship that Pete Thomasson did so long ago. But how can a waitress at a pizza parlor manage that, especially when she keeps getting hit in the head?

(OF 59 CHAPTERS)
Nikki Saxen would be really happy to go a week without having to return from the dead again. A kidnapped runaway trained as a killer, Nikki discovers that she might have a spark of humanity left in her after all when she befriends her latest target. The arrival of her mentor and master throws gasoline on that spark, and sets up a showdown between Nikki...and anyone who gets in her way.

In this recurring feature of Looking for Strange, Emmy prompts fellow writers with a thought-provoking or macabre sentence that's to be used as the basis or inspiration for a short story of 500-5000 words.  The latest challenge and its deadline can be found at one of the forums I frequent, or by dropping me an email.  I post the best entries in this section, with links to more of each author's work where available.  All of the stories in this section are the copyright and property of their various authors, and are posted at Looking for Strange with permission.