India
It's India's last day on earth. The day before a nation disappears, a man meets a mysterious woman who knows his past better than he can remember. Who is she? And why does she insist her name is India?
It's India's last day on earth. The day before a nation disappears, a man meets a mysterious woman who knows his past better than he can remember. Who is she? And why does she insist her name is India?
This is Stories from Random Thoughts, and some new stories Team Alpha takes place circa 1980 South America and Central America. is it History or Fiction?
BY @CuriousGeo A dirty retelling of the classic Cinderella story. Fairy godmother Hwan gets more than she bargained for when she pops in to see how things are going for Cinderella at the ball.
Two millennia have passed after a catastrophic event that killed most of the population on earth. The survivors are rebuilding a society where, perhaps unsurprisingly, human relations feature the same prejudices and conflicts that are familiar to us. Fortunately, not everyone is of the same old mold. Betula and Lir...
"Forever, I had stayed silent, closed off, cut by the doldrums of family politics and societal pressures. Buried under biased judgements, I dwarfed to insignificant heights. But, inside the blaze fought to seize power-an inferno. Raging flames fuelled to perfection-burning hot with wrath, scorched by hindered expectat...
Writing songs in his bedroom, 24 year-old Tai Vuong wonders if there's a day he can share his music without pretending to be someone he's not. His power to manipulate people's opinions doesn't help-it's a reminder that he would never meet the expectations of others. But as Tai meets more people and ordinary things ad...
Maya is caught between a rock and a hard place. Her family of witches are loud, eccentric and downright embarrassing and her classmates in her small village school all view her as a freak. With so much external pressure, how is a girl supposed to figure out who she really is and whether she can handle a future as a...
Mostly transcribed from a chapbook I made in 1982 and updated in 1991. Original contents were simple rhymes, sonnets, Christmas poems, light verse and others.
Global warming, global cooling, what if all the predictions are right? Or worse, what if all the predictions are wrong? Can humans truly hope to understand the complexities attendant on such changes, never mind explain their relationships and predict their effects? The people at WBI - Walden Bi...
Becky Bridgestone isn't the girl she pretends to be. She has secrets. Dark secrets that she doesn't want anyone else to know. There's something about the new boy that scares her. When he looks at her, it's like he can read her thoughts. Rob's move to Kalara High had only one positive. The hockey team. It ranked...
A plaintive melody's famous verses by the French king Francois 1st "Plaisir d'Amour Ne Dure Qu'un Instant / Chagrin d'Amour Dure Toute Une Vie" were written at the dawn of the Sixteenth Century AD. They have been well known ever since as a warning about the everlasting misery too shallow an affair can cause. Some t...
A Valentine Day tale with uncommon, but not unknown events in a story of love on a dead end road
Ben never wanted to write a book. Being autistic, troubled, and the fourth child? It just doesn't sound like a very interesting story. That doesn't stop his therapist, Dr. White, from giving Ben a blank journal. And when Dr. White's mysterious (and slightly annoying) daughter, Julia White, blackmails Ben into joining...
A re-telling of the true 12th century love story of Heloise and Abelard. Abelard is a great philosopher and theologian who has taken, like many academics of the time, a vow of celibacy. When he is hired as a tutor for the brilliant and beautiful Heloise, whose mind he finds is his only true equal, a series of tragic e...
Mercy Reid is not a perfect person. She's reckless, bratty and a self-proclaimed party animal. Trouble and mayhem have always followed her wherever she goes, and Mercy has always welcomed them. But when her friend is killed by monsters she's been dreaming about, Mercy begins to realise everything in her life is not as...
Selena is found dead one early morning. Odd thing is, her ex-best friend Sunny is next to her, with bloody hands. What happened between them that lead to this tragic end? Can Sunny escape her secrets? This is a story about two girls in a rich, white, poisonous town. Sunny, the only Chinese girl in Wrestler High, is si...
On steamy, hot summer days, the parched soil cracks like ice into jagged lines resembling lightning blowing up the midnight sky. Summer craves to be quenched and begs to feel the invigorating shower that only rain can douse. It takes what it can get from rain without considering the possibility of destruction. Rain i...
Inola is in a wheelchair because she is suffering from an illness that left her lower body in a semi-paralyzed state. For a sixteen-year-old girl, this is quite a challenge, what does the future hold for her?