For my students: While reading "Story of an Hour," add at least one comment to each part of the story that analyzes character traits, symbolism, theme, or another short story element. Make sure your comments include explanation of why this particular point in the story is important. All italicized words are vocabul...
How does your night go from a game of Hide and Seek with your best friend, to your parents being murdered the same night? On top of that, you're sent to live with your mother and father's best friend, Mrs. and Mr. Harmon. Although Emily and her brother have no idea who these people are, they're given the luxury life a...
"You see love I'm about as straight as a circle." "Circle's aren't straight." "Exactly." --- In which a good girl falls for a bad girl. (book one of PRIDE series)
▪WATTPAD FEATURED STORY▪ Otto is a young artist, blowing where the wind takes him in life. He can see sounds, expressed as bursts of color. His art is good, yes, but it's missing a muse. Max is a cheerful waiter with curly crimson hair and hazel eyes. He is hardly ever seen without a smile on his face, and when he ent...
Get ready to relate. Book #37 in the random category 01/22/17
Devon Pine and Kyle Carter are two of the biggest stars of their generation. They have sold millions of records each and have girls chasing them from all around the world. They're also sworn enemies; each others' biggest competition. They've never met, but aware of the other's success, and are determined to beat each...
The gang is back, and they're in more danger than ever. After all they've been through, Angel, Gats, Heaven, and Jay just want to kick back and relax, but that may not be possible. The world of supers around them is about to plunge into chaos, and Syndicate and Snare have their eyes set on the group. While petty...
"Every time I knock you out, you drool," Phantom points at my black shirt sleeve with a gloved finger. I groan in frustration, there's a puddle of drool on it! Talk about embar-ras-sing... "Then here's an easy solution: Don't knock me out," I say snidely as an attempt to keep my nonexistent pride. "What makes you thin...
After losing her memory in an explosion, Marine Sergeant Julia Langdale has recovered the life she lost and returned to active duty. On leave with her husband, they must both learn to adjust to the murky waters of married civilian life whilst battling the parts of their pasts which refuse to stay buried. With their re...
If you told sixteen-year-old Maeve McMilland parties kill, she would agree. What she wouldn't agree is to go. What will it take to break her "No Party" rule? Mix together one part mysterious party flyer, two parts missing brother, three parts best friend, four parts long-time crush, and cash, something around the tune...
Magic is supposed to be easy; there's Black, White, and Green Magic, and once a Witch picks a path, that's really all she has to worry about. But for Darlena Agara, things just keep getting harder. She's torn between her best friend's choice of the Black path, and her on-again, off-again boyfriend's choice of the Whit...
#1 Humor P A U S E 'Moments of hesitation make us human.' ~ Aqueela Lawson 'Moments of hesitation make us weak.' ~ Jay Taylor *~**~* ...
Calina remembered very little from her life before it was stolen from her. As she cradled the sleeping boy in her arms, she tried to recreate the one thing she could never forget: the feeling of being a mother. She hummed softly the way she had for her own children and kissed his cool cheek. When she had spent ever...
When you're reborn into a universe with beings that eat humans, the logical choice is to stay in a place where they cannot find you. But, I'm Yukiko Maki, the number-one ghoul lover, and I fuck logic. 〈 Tokyo Ghoul / Toukyou Kushu 〉
WATTYS 2016 WINNER Untouchable. Stone. Jewel - these are some of the names used for people who are born with a gemstone at the centre of their forehead. This unfortunate phenomenon cannot be detected before birth, it cannot be prevented, if a family has a Jewelled child, there is only one outcome: Before they're sixte...
This is the story of Axel and Tuck: a tale of debauchery, douchebaggery, felony, and plain stupidity. It is a tale written by two best friends with nothing better to do with their law degree than write the story of their anything-but-monotonous life. (Boyxboy) Message from the writer: Before you read I have a quick d...
“To die would be an awfully big adventure.” – Peter Pan Death holds a grudge on Anastasia Elwood. The reason being that she cheats him. The first time she cheated Death, she had just been born. As a newborn, she had cancer. Somehow, she survived. The ice blue eyes she saw whenever she cheated Death might have had some...
"Those whom the gods love grow young." - Oscar Wilde. Ash is a young god, next heir to the throne of her home world. But when her father decides she needs to learn a little humility, she is sent down to Earth to live as a mortal. It is on Earth that she meets Violet - a lonely and troubled girl who takes her in and s...
Nathen Dawson is so in love with his girlfriend, Tracy. The two of them are as happy as any couple can be, and there is literally nothing that can get in the way of their love. Well....at least that's what Nathen thought. That's what he thought until someone who has been there for him his entire life starts to end up...
*COPYRIGHT* When the world falls into ruins due to a strange, spreading illness, Violet isn't sure what's going on. She and her little sister, Aya had been left with a babysitter while their parents go away on a trip to California. Violet is your typical internet-addicted teenager. She's played almost any horror/zombi...
It was pitch black outside, the only light came from the lantern at the front of the coach, bobbing crazily over the road. The coach picked up speed again, and Jonathan remained at the window, waiting to catch a glimpse of Castle Blackstone, the place that would be his home for the next six years. Romance / Historic...
There's one rule shared between the island's tribes: don't touch the water. When Cressa-la breaks this law, her world, and body, changes. Sure, change is normal... but when has growing scales ever been normal? • • • Watty Award Winner 2015: Best Use of Visuals • • • Every human baby is killed beneath the waves-with o...
What happens if you were the first girl to ever get acppeted in The All Boy Element Academey. In this world only boys have a chance to be special. When they descover there powers they get sent to a special academy. But what happens a girl shows that she has powers how will she react to having powers. Along with going...
I just smirked at the way they all looked down on me. The way they all try to trip me down and glare like they can kill me with one look. I could easily laugh their stupidity and small minds as I make it through the day the way I've always done it. By myself. With no friends. No family. I don't cry myself to sleep ho...
Full version of Second Edition available on Amazon and via Kindle Unlimited. Chris Sinclair fades under a dark cloud after losing his mother to cancer. On the cusp of adulthood, he doesn't know where he should go or how to get there. But watching life pass him by was never the plan, and when he is forced to attend a c...
"Your challenge is to be gay for one month. That includes finding a boyfriend." These words are spoken when Jake Hanson loses against his best friend, Jensen, in a not-so-friendly soccer game for the first time. Jensen wants to make his friend suffer the consequences and manages to think up what he feels is the best...
Luke Adams is everything your girlfriend wants you to be. He's smooth, charming, insanely attractive, and undoubtedly the best guy on the basketball team. He treats dating almost like another homework assignment he's required to complete. Until Emery Scott comes along. A transfer student from Indiana, Emery is quiet...
WATTPAD FEATURED STORY Daniel Evans is trying not to let his crush on Jonah Clarke get in the way of their new found friendship, because Jonah Clarke is definitely not gay. Placed third in the Valentine's Day Contest hosted by @taygetsthegay
