Alfred C. Martino

• Oct-2006
• / General Fiction
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Ivan Korske and Bobby Zane couldn't be more different -- they come from different backgrounds, different lifestyles, and they have very different values and ways of looking at the world and dealing with people. Yet they both have the drive, determina...

• Jul-2009
• / General Fiction
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Kyle Saint-Claire is everything Jonny Fehey wishes to be: a star on and off the soccer field, a brain, and one of Millburn High s most popular students. Jonny unhappily accepts his lesser social status--but then he scores the go-ahead goal in the cou...

• Sep-2011
• / General Fiction
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Navigating high school isn't easy for Melinda Radford. She’s the lone girl on the Ashton High wrestling team, grappling with opponents who refuse to compete against her, a few who want to crush her, and a coach who's less-than-pleased having a fema...

• Nov-2012
• / Thriller
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Imagine for a moment, you’re Marcus Cooper.A slick stranger meets you in a bar. You're drunk. You talk a lot. Without you realizing it, he’s learning about you. Your desire for money and women. By night’s end, he makes you a million-dollar prop...

• Oct-2013
• / General Fiction
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Set in the mythical Wild West, an aging cowboy deals with the passage of time, while recalling a life-defining moment with a woman of his youth.Alfred C. Martino is the author of the award-winning novels, “Perfected By Girls,“ “Over The End Lin...

• Nov-2013
• / General Fiction
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A whimsical short story, set at a Southern California university, about a grad school student who daydreams and pines for a beautifully exotic woman with long legs and magnificent hair sitting next to him in class....

• Feb-2014
• / General Fiction
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A short story bubbled up from the grim violence in Los Angeles, as the protagonist explains, "I have never murdered and I have never been murdered. But I have dreamed of both."Alfred C. Martino is the author of the award-winning novels, “Perfected ...

• Jun-2015
• / General Fiction
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You're closer to the end of your life than the beginning. Each passing day has you questioning what, if anything, your life has meant. Then, unexpectedly, your best friend, who died tragically when you were both kids in high school, shows up. What ...

• Nov-2016
• / Thriller
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In this short story, a traveling businessman settles into yet another motel room. This one just like every other one. Same dull curtains. Same faded wallpaper. Same stale stink. As the world moves on in a rush outside the motel door, he assesses his ...

• May-2017
• / Women's Fiction
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Rio, a place of beauty, excitement, and wonder. A place where you are free to dance until your feet ache and sing until you can no more. A woman and her mother experience this and more during their visit to Brazil's most famous city....

• Aug-2018
• / General Fiction
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A parable about a boy and girl who build nearby sand castles on the beach....

• Nov-2018
• / General Fiction
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Requiem For An Athlete, a short story, is a somber look at the unfulfilled expectations of a once-great athlete, seeing through tear-clouded eyes the trophies and medals of a life long gone, wondering what's ahead for him....

• May-2019
• / Erotica
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• Nov-2019
• / Contemporary Romance
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At a upscale bar, a man notices from across the crowded room the woman of his dreams sitting alone. He can't let her get away. Smoothing his suit jacket, pulling his tie knot tight, he walks over to the woman and starts a conversation. Where does it ...

• Dec-2019
• / Literary
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"A Day At The Beach," is a 1730-word short story written by novelist Alfred C. Martino. It is about a man, overwhelmed by the stress of his job, who reluctantly takes a day off to sit at the beach. There he meets a little boy who changes the man's pe...

• May-2020
• / Historical
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The Day Ends Darky tells the tale of an aged cowboy looking back on his life as one of the frontier's rough men, doing rough men things, chased by Law men, outlaws and his own sins, through the badlands of the Wild West, written by novelist Alfred C....