A collection of short stories, scenes that won't make it to an actual book, prompt driven contest entries, and character development shorts where I'm just playing with ideas. Thought it might be fun to share some of the massive amounts of "behind the scenes" writing I get up to.

❝it's 3am, what do you want?❞ ❝there's a roach in my room, kill it for me?❞ 〤 Alvin, despite being 24 years of age, is terrified of bugs. Which is why he resorts to forcing the alluringly mysterious boy next door into killing them for him when roaches start showing up in his apartment. 〤 COVER BY: @lucidmelancholy started; 7/22/2020

After a near death experience, 16-year old Makiko Lombardi's celebrity father comes to Tokyo, but Makiko hasn't met him for almost seven years. To please her mother, Makiko refuses to see him. Ashamed about not speaking her mind, Makiko admires Cynthia, an old friend who helps teenage runaways exploited by Yakuza gangsters. When Yakuza follow them, both girls assume Cynthia's in danger, but someone powerful has a problem with Makiko's father and sees Makiko as a pawn. Meanwhile, neither girl believes rumors that a demon stalks and kills runaways. Until something sinister kills Yakuza outside Makiko's house, and a survivor warns her that the demon "likes" her. *** A first boyfriend. Yakuza with unknown plans. A killer demon who "likes" her. What's a quiet girl to do? Added to @AmbassadorsJP 's Kowai: Eerie Reads list - Sept. 2023 Featured on @StoriesUndiscovered Plain Janes? Not These Ladies - May 2022 Added to @Paranormal 's Paranormal Paramours list - April 2022 Notable Rankings: #1 meet-cute (March 14, 2022) #4 yakuza (July 14, 2022)

┃𝐅𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄𝐃┃❝𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐠𝐨, 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐝 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞.❞ •°•°•° Cassidy Benedict, the chaotic wallflower, is closeted and no one knows it except her tomboy bestie, Andrea McCarthy. But, things take a turn when Cass is caught in a flurry as she catches feelings for the new girl, Lydia Coleman. Being an open bisexual and a total tease to poor Cass, she turns all tables when she confesses her feelings for Cass, placing an offer in front of her. Either Cass joins her for the pride parade held in their town every year and comes out of the closet or stay closeted for the rest of her life. The girl is now in a dilemma to choose between her feelings and her homophobic family. Which side would Cass choose? Will she end up confessing? Or will she hold up her act of being normal forever? •°•°•° 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐄𝐃 ©𝐒𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐂𝐚𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐥//𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟏

Funtube, Grimstagram, Fakebook, Tic Tac-Welcome to the hot and happening, all emcompassing world of Social Media where the Criminal turns to a Sage and the Beggar has million dollars under his kitty, where an Idiot can solve complex Mathematics, where the Caucasians appear tanned and olive while a natural brown or wheatish African/Indian graces the covers of fashion magazines in bleached and unnaturally fair tones. This is a place of both the havs and the have-nots. Anushka Roy is an influencer who basks in the cool vibes of the charm that hides behind the flashy world of Social Media, she loves to live life king size and vlogs her culinary sojourns to her virtual family of millions. But is life the way it is manifested? Does the uber cool and posh way of living mask a tainted and tear-strained vagrant wandering aimlessly for a direction? All that glitters is not always gold, is it? Join Anushka's hands and delve deep into her struggles, her trepidations, her indecisiveness that lead her to the path of ultimate realisation. Start date: 13/10/2021 Completion date: 25/10/2021 Cover by the very wonderful @sarcastic-mess aka Sasha Cahil

Life had never been easy for Siddhartha Basu. He had always had a strong apathy towards his ruined blood which carried memories of prostitution and dangerous addiction. Since teenage, he had felt a sense of void and living in a dysfunctional family didn't quite help. What happens when the hope of finding something out there which can fill up the emptiness inside, is destroyed and turns you into a monster who feeds off yourself and the one whom you may consider to be dear? How do you deal with the trauma of having a spoilt, torn and sullied soul? How do you live when you hate your very existence? Shrestha left and Siddhartha knew he was the cause...he has but two choices now. What will he choose, that is the only question. Wanna dig deep into the twisted psychologies of an addict? Read Towards Redemption. Do not try to understand his logic, that is the first understanding you should have before going to read weird psychologies. Warning: Contains hints of sexual matters, has mentions of self-harm. So read at your own discretion. Note: This is a standalone, but to dig deep into the characters, read *SCORNED* Start Date- 1/11/21 Completion Date- 6/11/2021

"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 expectations and smothered under unrealized dreams. Beauty and the beast reside together, working in unison. When one sleeps another awakes. Every beauty has a beast, brought alive by a trigger. I was a beauty, but then shit happened. Still, I smile. I laugh. I cook. I sew. I make love. I'm a good girl. But, good girls aren't necessarily good, it's just that they aren't bad in the traditional way. ---------------------------------------------------------- "You will get used to it...just a matter of time", her mother stated. "Every girl goes through this phase." It's easier said than done. For Sreya, the statement failed to shed a warm light, never had. And growing up in Swarupnagar, a suburb in one of the most dead corners of Kolkata didn't contribute much to the situation either. Dreams aren't bound, neither by words nor by limitations. Sreya dreamt for just one thing-get out of the system and create a life of her own. But, not every dream can be fulfilled; even worse, what if they come at a cost? What happens when your past that you skilfully camouflage haunts as your worst nightmare and the institution of marriage that people hold as sacred is rigged at the very core! Set against a backdrop of Metropolitan Kolkata, this tale of lust, ambition, addiction and revenge creates a wild concoction that is sure to leave readers' minds content, fulfilled and craving for more. ---------------------------------------------------------- Disclaimer: MATURE CONTENT Start date: 13/08/2021 End date: 30/9/2021

❁ 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐈 ❁ ❁ 𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐅𝐮𝐧 ❁ ✧══════•❁❀❁•══════✧ 𝘈 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘵, 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘶𝘯𝘯𝘺 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘻𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘤 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 ✧══════•❁❀❁•══════✧ 🅲︎🆁︎🅴︎🅳︎🅸︎🆃︎: Pɪɴᴛᴇʀᴇsᴛ ✧══════•❁❀❁•══════✧ 𝑫𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒊𝒕 𝒕𝒐𝒐 𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑰 𝒂𝒎 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝑰 𝒔𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒚 𝒅𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒆𝒍𝒔𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒅𝒐, 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒌 𝒚𝒐𝒖 ㋛︎ ✧══════•❁❀❁•══════✧

In Demonology, Furcas is known as the Knight of Hell and teaches Philosophy, Astronomy, Rhetoric, Logic, Chiromancy and Pyromancy. He is known as a strict tutor. Demons and Hell seems so good to be true, right? Yea, like, who believes is all this things in these days? Besides, it's not a good thing to discuss. Let alone live your own life peacefully with family and friends. What else do you want? Grace is a beautiful health service employee of about 17 years. She lives alone in a small girls hostel, in a room with 5 other girls. Her life was always filled with poverty and she is too young to get admission in a school or college to study. She somehow, with the help of her best friend, got a job in the health service and earn a meger income but with that she could fill her stomach with daily, simple food, twice a day and pay the rent. Things went wrong when a new employee test begun and she, being a complete uneducated girl, was in a big trouble. Being crazy over her thoughts, internet recommend her with a devilish idea, the idea of summoning a demon. She knew she was wrong and she shouldn't do that but....she was hopeless. Will she really able to summon a demon? What will be her life after it or...how long will she be able to continue? Read to find out- ⭐ BOOK COVERS BY @IrysGwendolyn ⭐ UPLOADING DATE: Wednesday & Saturday