"Nightmares should end when we wake up... but what if we see them with open eyes, fully conscious?" *** After moving to a new place, Isa wakes from a chilling dream of being bullied, thinking it's just a fragment of her fears. But when she stands before her new home's bathroom mirror, terror grips her-because the refl...
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Just a few collections of unreleased poems that I converted into lyrics that I kept hidden.
entries for the prompt : "bells are ringing all over the place, and everyone is rejoicing with the spirit of the season. everyone seems overwhelmed with happiness, but they don't realize that the soil beneath them is crumbling, Soon, the next thing you see is everyone running away, screaming, as flesh and bone crawl o...
"No. I don't want to," I answered. Our conversation didn't go well, because I wanted to be silent, and he wanted to talk. It seemed to me that it had become even lighter around, although the night was only deepening. It couldn't be dawn already, could it? I looked around and ran my eyes along the horizon. The sun was...
My research on ethical decision making, and the thought process behind our decisions. (Warning, my research contains the mention of suicide and death, etc.)
"Heavy is the head that wears the crown" Ephemera: Nothing is permanent, flowers that bloomed will die in a matter of weeks, before the trees leaf out and shade them. Everything is passing and precious. No empire lasts forever, no dynasty continues unbroken. All that matters is whether we did what we could with the...
An orphan girl makes a living for herself and her little sister, Uma, by pickpocketing off the streets of Manhattan, New York. However, her whole life flips upside down when a stranger knocks on her door one morning and tells her she isn't human-- she's Fae. ------------- He was not human. Definitely not from...
☆ 2022 ᴡᴀᴛᴛʏꜱ ᴡɪɴɴᴇʀ!! ☆ "Hell is empty and all the devils are here." On the cusp of the 20th century, blue blood heiress Lucy Penn has lost everything: her betrothed, her family and home, and even her ability to walk in the sunlight. As she struggles to acclimate to her new nocturnal existence, she makes the acquaint...
What if Harry Potter never existed? What if their great saviour was a girl called Astrea Avaline??? What if Voldemort was trying to do some good? What if Astrea was born to die and never rise again? What if Petunia loved her? What if she was Life ? But that can't be possible right... Or can it? Started - 10th Oc...
In the war-ravaged nation of Buriti Vasca, anarchic native Buritian insurgents have left the capital in ruins and the political Vascan elite slaughtered. From the ashes of their bombardment, rises HuckleBerry Vasca, exiled and unlikely heir hellbent on seizing the crumbling throne through sheer brutality. Rebuffing an...
Love shatters. That was what she believed; a widow at the tender age of eighteen, Saudamini felt she had overcome her dark past. But she was wrong. When Anirban, a happy-go-lucky and full of himself guy, eagerly proposes to her with promises of love, she finds herself resurfacing what she had tried to bury deep two ye...
In 2076 the world ended! Atomic fire swept across the globe and Humanity almost caused its own destruction. Those that remained were suddenly united by a common goal, to survive on their ruined planet long enough to find a new home out amongst the stars. On the eve of Humanities departure from Earth, the ancient dict...
All five of them smirked at Cyra, their eyes alight with amusement as they watched beads of sweat trickle down her forehead, forming a trail along her neck. Cyra's heart raced as she felt their stares bore into her, each glance carrying an unspoken threat. It was as if they were predators, toying with their prey, rev...
-Complete- A zombie apocalypse with a twist of Native American Lore. It all began from a sequence of events so absurd, complicated and uncommon as to be unbelievable but an ancient Hopi Pueblo Prophecy predicted a time when the dead would roam the earth. They called them the Sleepwalkers. Monsters created during an...
One of them is a boring, soon to be married financier. The other is a kid with a certain talent for finding trouble wherever he goes. According to the logic, their encounter should result in disaster, but life is rarely logical and the worst madness can sometimes make the most sense. A crime story with a slight touch...
Daniella thinks she has it all figured out. At age 15, she looks gorgeous, has the best grades, an amazing best friend and more money than some people twice her age. ❝ʟᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ᴜɴᴇᴄᴇssᴀʀʏ❞ Jayden has one goal-stay inconspicuous. How hard can that be? After all, he's in his final year of hi...
After a worldwide apocalypse, the very few people who survived had moved underground, to form a society known as the Revision, away from the dangers of the surface. This story follows a young Anthony Reed, a 19 year old man seeking for something to do with his life, other than being the maintenance guy and the primary...
It started in midsummer where magic rarely appears. A struggle between humans and nature by combining man-made structures with elementals, charms, flora, and fauna, all coexisting in a forced, urban manner. The only way you'll see is the solitary tree on a serene grassland alongside an old train railway. 5 Kingdoms, 4...
MASSIVE REWRITE WARNING!!! (Completed: 5/9/2024) The Dark One is on the move. Never seen, but always there. No one knows their name. No one knows if they're even a person. Some say they have been here since the beginning of time. Others say they appeared over night. One thing is for certain: it must be stopped or all...
They say history is written by the victors, but some history is a little more grey than the black and white of winners and losers. There is a large grey between hero/villain, legends begin where story and history meet, at the convergence of Myth and account. The story of Elandria cannot be told without the history, my...
In the world of Elyria, where mythical creatures roamed free and magic was a part of everyday life, the Council of Elders had long awaited the return of their Supreme One. The prophecy had foretold of a time when the great king would reincarnate, bringing balance to the war-torn lands and restoring peace to the realm...
Viraj, an emerging sensation in the portrait photography world, and Kashi, the beauty and brain of the oldest city of India - 'Kashi', are not meant to be together. Both hail from different strata of the society, becoming one is no less a chaos. When an unimaginable bond slithers between the two and coils them in an u...
Get ready for an adrenaline-pumping tale that will keep you glued to your seat. Step into "Tales from Jaxon" and journey to the lively town of Jaxon, Mississippi in 1865. This captivating story unfolds against the backdrop of the powerful Mississippi River, where a once peaceful life is shattered by a spine-chilling s...
This is a story of two 18-year-olds who vow to unravel the truth behind Officer John's murder and bring his killer to justice. Along the way they stumble upon tangled webs of mysteries and numerous questions: Do doppelgangers exist? How did a mafia gang mysteriously vanish? How on earth did a dead man come back to lif...
A robbery gone... right? On what seems to be a night like any other, Bex finds herself staring down the barrel of a gun about to be robbed. Junior, the one holding the gun, expects this to be a run of the mill robbery, but gets more than he bargined for. Both of them are seeking solutions to problems that have haunted...
Hello, folks! Welcome to Short Story Kingdom, where the imagination and creativity reigns supreme! Get ready for some wild adventures, like random people melting, women wearing thigh high boots, dead alligator encounters, some funny southern folks acting all crazy, and of course, Steven getting beat up a lot! Enjoy yo...
