Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Barter System
    Barter System
    Barter System
    Ebook32 pages29 minutes

    Barter System

    By L.J. Hamlin

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Young Willow was born in the Iron Settlement, one of several save zones built after the world as we know it was destroyed by war. He’s been pining after someone, a man who will finally acknowledge having feelings for Willow.

    Handsome Jay is known as a traveler, a man familiar with all the dangers outside the safety of the settlements. This time, however, Jay’s battle is to overcome the injury that left him walking with a limp, which alienated him from people in the settlements.

    Will Jay and Willow be able to move from a steady friendship to budding romance while they explore the dangerous ruins from before the end times? How will Jay react when Willow presents him with a rare gift? Can Willow learn to barter with Jay and earn the love he craves?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJMS Books LLC
    Release dateMar 16, 2019
    ISBN9781634868785
    Barter System
    Author

    L.J. Hamlin

    L.J.Hamlin is a chronically ill writer who likes to write to escape from the pain. She loves animals and the supernatural.

    Read more from L.J. Hamlin

    Related to Barter System

    Related ebooks

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      The Truth As We Know It

      Dec 10, 2021

      Celia had just finished prepping meals for the week when she first heard the sound. She was stacking entrees in the fridge for the coming week. A mountain of dishes slid into the sink. She was wearing her apron, the one she always wore, over her stan

      15 min read

    • Article

      Human Contact

      Aug 10, 2022

      Beer tasted like wet money—or maybe just bad beer did. Viola had never tried any other kind. She preferred white wine, but there was no white wine at this party. “Drink it like medicine,” the guy manning the keg said. “It’ll loosen you up.” He wore a

      18 min read

    • Article

      Me & Davey Waters

      Jan 15, 2023

      Me & Davey Waters
      4 min read

    • Article

      This Family Saga Finds Grace And Beauty In Ordinary Lives, Fully Lived

      Jun 10, 2021

      Simon Van Booy's new novel Night Came With Many Stars follows several generations of a Kentucky family, their crossroads and choices, their curses and hard memories, their luck and their chances.

      3 min read

    • Article

      Following A Dream

      Sep 12, 2019

      THE OCEAN VOYAGER AND ME Di Beach Published by Amazon, 2014, £13.74 (paperback) and £5.63 (Kindle) Di Beach, 20, was living in Kampala in the 1960s with her architect husband, Rod Pickering, and their baby daughter, Jojo. One Saturday they were forag

      4 min read

    • Article

      Making A Movie About 64-year-old Diana Nyad’s 110-mile Swim: ‘She Wasn’t Bothered About Sharks. The Box Jellyfish We Didn’t Know About’

      Oct 19, 2023

      In 1978, Diana Nyad, then 29, decided to swim from Havana to Key West, Florida. Like everything else this endurance athlete does, she made the challenge seem like no biggie: a natural progression, even, for someone whose surname is derived from the w

      5 min read

    • Article

      Four Things You Hear

      Jan 1, 2023

      THE HOLLOW OF the oak tree wasn’t dark enough. Zoia squeezed her head between her knees, letting her wool dress mute the sunlight, the sounds of the forest, and the angry knife of grief that found her heart every time she thought about last night. Zo

      7 min read

    • Article

      Clifton’s Place

      Mar 1, 2018

      THE SIGN outside the bar had appeared only recently. It announced the bar’s name and hours of operation, clear indications that this was not just another townhouse basement. Still, despite the listed business hours, no one got in before the sun went

      32 min read

    • Article

      LOVE Is The Word

      Jan 3, 2023

      LOVE Is The Word
      6 min read

    • Article

      Changing ROOMS

      Sep 14, 2022

      Changing ROOMS
      6 min read

    • Article

      Bailey J Mills

      Mar 18, 2022

      Bailey J Mills
      8 min read

    • Article

      Left To Lose

      Jul 10, 2022

      Around the time she gives up her name, it starts to feel like this entire revolution isn’t worth it anymore. The world is probably lucky that Kelian—she still remembers Kelian, in spite of everything—is there to pick up the pieces, the way he always

      11 min read

    • Article

      Playing God

      Apr 10, 2023

      After Jack was abducted by the alien spaceship, and after the round vessel had vanished into the Milky Way, he found himself walking down a tubular corridor with white vibrating walls, escorted by a sinuous blonde who smiled graciously and said her n

      13 min read

    • Article

      Animals And Origami

      Oct 10, 2021

      I miss the sea breeze mussing my hair and the feel of cold sand worming between my toes. Even now, in autumn, the shoreline has its charms, like the squeals of the oystercatchers and the rhythmic ebb and flow of the tide. My dreams are of swimming in

      11 min read

    • Article

      Peter Mountford

      Dec 15, 2017

      Vivian spends most of the afternoon naked and strapped to the giant ottoman in the interior decorator’s office in Bethesda. When he finally unties her, the sun is low and she’s shaky and exhausted. He paddled her hard at some point, and that hot stin

      28 min read

    • Article

      Uncontrollable, Irrelevant

      Dec 6, 2022

      My sister called me the other day. She wanted to let me know that I had once more been merciless and cruel in my relations with our parents. “They say there’s a lot of anger in you,” she said. “It makes them mad. It hurts their feelings. They think y

      14 min read

    • Article

      The Elephant And The Goldfish

      Aug 5, 2021

      The Elephant And The Goldfish
      8 min read

    • Article

      Brace YOURSELF!

      Dec 21, 2021

      Brace YOURSELF!
      6 min read

    • Article

      Pin A Smile On YOUR FACE

      Mar 15, 2023

      Pin A Smile On YOUR FACE
      6 min read

    • Article

      Healing

      Apr 8, 2020

      Healing
      9 min read

    • Article

      Lev’s Pawn Shop

      Dec 10, 2022

      In days gone by, it might have been said that Lev had had a vision, that he had been struck from his horse by the voice of God and seen the error of his ways. As it was, people said that he had gone a bit nutty in his old age, though it was unanimous

      11 min read

    • Article

      The girls’ HOLIDAY

      Jun 28, 2023

      The girls’ HOLIDAY
      6 min read

    • Article

      Little CHARMS

      Oct 19, 2022

      Little CHARMS
      6 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Barter System

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Barter System - L.J. Hamlin

      |ebook_preview_excerpt.htmlUr#5~*qX.-W\H*k6 )ۚa4+i %؎)*5VK\ Y"ݍ)KG,O?vv3svt6Rr]Jt{{InBBd?dKK?3:DBg02cM/_.鋗_s鷻7_O+IohsO~]N;mcWăb;n9 _!]f_qC(BֈO2۝~ $k?,?&Rv>dʑ}%!uul CKLӒ&[#J-G'Rx^I7҉jʭ^Z sX@cHb 6r(L:.! GMYw*AuG` ~W ܆!+!MI#@B#J}QH+he)Ъ(OG)%}2Ͱiq1 ԋTS{*хu.tIo;-pѺdWa4l"ԵuEVZ_r!LF. {w)I '֓,nk뗃uxQC-$F M: #*)2x$C|W@\ ӔG_3$mQ6"-)Xm'HUf!U?bW q%'KdzV:\d;;g3z&I?֬`pYکL}%ٖɅƺa:TZvN}Ig/Ќ#9Hb
      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1