**FEATURED BY WATTPAD** The oldest story of falling told in 401 words. Cover by @MissBookNut

▪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 enters a room, the air shimmers. When Otto meets Max, he discovers that true love is certainly real, and it has a color. Highest Ranking: #86 in Short Story *** ONE: Hazel TWO: Home for the Holidays THREE: ♥ FOUR: Joey FIVE: Moonshine SIX: Max SEVEN: The Ick EIGHT: Poison-Ivy Green NINE: C O M I N G S O O N

Fire fighter Damion Tazzo lives life on the edge; running into burning buildings, saving lives and saving the day. He knows what it means to take risks but most of all, he knows how to be discreet. He doesn't do emotional entanglements, not when the life he has is fraught with so much danger and uncertainty, but a chance meeting with a sweet little sub at the first gay bar he's been to in years, has him throwing all caution to the wind, and taking the little guy home with him. He only wants sexual release, what he doesn't expect is the beautiful, trusting eyes, and the tenderness that washes over him when he wraps his new lover in his arms. Now he has to fight against emotions he'd rather do without, and thoughts of a life he has never wanted before. He's a man who knows how to do his job, but there are only two things he can't tame, and that's his beating heart, and the fire between the sheets.

a #FreeYourShorts WINNER ••• A short episodic story about two men who discuss the events of the previous day while seated closly together in the cab of a truck. • • • "I didn't know you were like that." • • • Author's Note: the passenger, help-hand, guest and man are epithets for the same character.

Roger Calvaruso is a business man. He lives for money, status, and reputation. He's the perfect employee and boss: hard-working, dedicated, and very, very, focused. Until one day, he wakes up in a room with no recollection of how he got there. His only clue is a note. "You know the person who lives in this room. You have one week to figure out who it is. Your time begins now." Title inspired by hazelgracewaters ~~~~ #2 in the Semi-Colon Series

[ w e a l l s e a r c h f o r s o m e t h i n g ] on the world wide web and here are the poems inspired by our searches. P L E A S E E N J O Y. P L E A S E V O T E. P L E A S E C O M M E N T. © J A Y S E / WRITTENINMYSOUL

This short series of 10 parts will be consisted of poems and short stories. "No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader." - Robert Frost

Follow Tristan as he shares his story, the story of every girl he loved, of every girl he killed, and of the one love that felt impossible to end, even for him.

"The Picture of Dorian Gray" tells of a young man named Dorian Gray, the subject of a painting by artist Basil Hallward. Basil is impressed by Dorian's beauty and becomes infatuated with him, believing his beauty is responsible for a new mode in his art. Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, a friend of Basil's, and becomes enthralled by Lord Henry's world view. Espousing a new hedonism, Lord Henry suggests the only things worth pursuing in life are beauty and fulfilment of the senses.

Bitter sun leaks through the dirty stained windows, grazing gritty floor. Illuminating the room, vanquishing any darkness. Somewhere beyond the rickety cabin cries a woman in the distance. Sobs of anguish and fear melts in the air and finds it's way into the room where Helen lays. She feels the womans vile, it attacks her skin in sharp pricks. Smoldering heat mixes with the scent of blood from their last victims and coats her in thick preparation of sweat. She inhales, exhales, and opens her eyes to the bitter gray day.