For every sucess, there is a failure. Probably more failures than not when a writer is just starting out. Here are a few that didn't quite get off the ground, or just weren't good enough to put on this site.
Missile Command The working title of something I wrote while In junior high about a businessman's privately-finaced secret anti-missile system that soon gets put to the test. It was never finished as some parts of the story seemed a little weak, and it was put aside.
Island of Challenge After reading Lord of the Flies in high school, I was inspired to write a story in which a group of students stranded on a deserted island manage to keep themselves more-or-less in order. The reason for their stranding: they're part of a social experiment set up by a dictorial power to "prove" a democracy cannot be set up by modern young adults. After I finished, it looked weak in places, so I began again, only to eventualy drop the project. Still, the initial plot was good enough. I may go back to it someday.
The Third World War The working title of something I wrote while in community college about American and Russian soldiers in a Red Dawn -like scenerio in which the United States and it's allies are taken complete off-guard by a Communist Block invasion. This was suspended after I got some heavy assignments, and found too many plot weaknesses to continue. After reading Team Yankee and The Third World War: 1984 , I never thought about doing it again.
Soldier's Journey This was a story I wrote a few years ago about a soldier from an Industrial-Age alien world who finds his way to Earth. Among the things that happen, when the soldier comes across someone, he thinks it's a forgiener on the way to a science-fiction convention, and takes him there. I never put it up here to to some things I felt needed improving. Perhaps I'll get back to it someday.
When the Lights Went Out Ever wonder what would happen if almost all modern technology in simply stopped working? I came up with a story plot, and even a chapter for a story in which thanks to a few nuclear explosions in space, electronics and motors come to a halt.