It's 1995, and Castiel's high school years are destined to be difficult: home-schooled until eighth grade, he is awkward, shy, and socially inept. The weird kid with the funny name would rather isolate himself and draw in his sketchbook than deal with the constant bullying he faces every day. Things only get worse in his junior year when he excels in home economics class, leading the captain of the baseball team, Alastair, to start taunting him for being gay. Then new student Dean Winchester arrives at Flour Bluff High School, sharing many of Castiel's classes. Castiel has seen his type before -- handsome, athletic, arrogant, and sure to be the most popular kid in school. But Castiel eventually learns that he and Dean have more in common than he thought, and they form an unlikely friendship. This story was originally published October 20, 2010 as part of the Dean/Cas Big Bang Challenge. Warnings: Bullying, homophobic language, some violence related to bullying. Cover for this story comes courtesy of @_thebat

In this futuristic novella, Lace Heavensmall is trapped at her high school during Freak Week, a global warming side effect that makes weather -- and people -- act completely nuts. Written by: Grace Helbig and YOU Want your chapter to be included? Check back each Thursday for a new "Writing With Grace" episode and chapter prompt. Make sure to tag your submission with #WritingWithGrace. Read the full Rules & Regs on the @writingwith profile page!

Percy Jackson wasn't only child of Poseidon born in the past two decades.There was one other, also destined to either doom or save the world,with two others at her side. Yes, her. It's about time the spotlight was taken off the male heroes. Anyways,in order to protect her, Poseidon hides the child. But where? Where does she grow up,completely hidden,removed from the wars? Why,the underworld of course. And surprise, surprise,the other children of the prophecy are there too. Oh,in this story,Annabeth and Piper died in the Giant War and Calypso was never found

He had warned her about the book. Now it was too late. It's the summer of 1958, and unlike most girls her age, who do lame things like rollerskate and jumprope, Didi reads during the summer. However, she's lonely and bored, and she wishes for an escape. One day at the library, she notices a book with her name on it, so she checks it out and discovers a library within the book, a grand library that takes Didi far beyond her hometown of Louisville, Kentucky...

[COMPLETE] A potato can be a powerful thing. Do you ever wonder what happened to the potato that flew around your room before you came to? Well, it evolved. Its name is the Leep, and it has made it its mission to travel the world and interact with humans. However, humans don't seem to like things that are different, like the Leep. And that's how it finds itself in a zoo, surrounded by curious creatures, wayward wizards and witches, and other living things that defy all rhyme and reason. And let's not forget the megalomaniac madman who wants all of the zoo "exhibits" dead. Including the Leep.

In both Mara Tussen and Lucy's world, there are three cities: Metal City, the Perimeter, and Paradise City. No matter what, Paradise is the place to be. It's colorful, warm, and...Paradise. But in Mara's world, all she knows is the cold and colorless city of Metal. She doesn't remember why or how she got to Metal, but she knew she had to seek Paradise, or be stuck in Metal forever. In Lucy's world, all she knows is the Perimeter's hospital. A dull, semi-colored place where she and other children go through "treatments", even though nobody gets sick in their world. Lucy could remember Paradise, and she knew she had to escape the awful hospital and get there, or else bad things would happen. All they know is that Paradise will save them. But what they don't know is the buried secrets of their pasts that lay not in Paradise, but in the surrounding areas of Metal and the Perimeter, and that perhaps knowing these secrets isn't the best thing.... Sometimes ignorance really is bliss. (Cover credit: @watermills)

Dear Diary, Life's a bitch. Tyler NightLock is a closeted gay boy who starts the 7th grade and is only worried about making it all the way through the middle school so in 9th grade he can "explore the endless possibilities of being out of closet gay boy. " But his plan to survive middle school will have to wait when a boy named Demetrius moves in across the street with his gay parents along with himself, who is openly gay. But when his friends find him hanging out more and more with Demetrius will they start to find out his secret? Also what will Demetrius say when he finds out Tyler is gay too, will his feelings change towards him.? Like Tyler says there's always problems with being gay at 13. *** Cover By: @wannagobackstage

Calum can't eat and Katy can't stop.

** PREVIOUSLY A FEATURED HORROR STORY** The dead have risen. You wake up in the middle of this violent, rotting new world. The putrid stench of carnage is in the air. You flip on the news to learn that dead people are coming back and cannibalizing every living creature in sight. A never-ending cycle of death and the rise of the undead has begun. Will you fall prey to the undead, or have you got what it takes to survive? Females and males can participate! In Guts you control your fate. You will choose your own path to survival or death, so choose wisely. Good luck . . .

blot - noun; a dark mark or stain verb; mark or stain (something) "Imagine this. You wake up one morning. It's a morning like any other. Except today, you love someone. YOU, Mr. Impossible, have feelings for someone else. And not just any someone, a perfect somebody. And they have those feelings for you, too." "That's a load of bullshit," I scoff, watching as she sets the magazine down. "Not for us," she replies. "This fits you perfectly!" "Are you calling me 'Mr. Impossible'?" I ask her, snatching the magazine. It's blank. "You are!" I grin and she smiles back. "But you're my Mr. Impossible. And that's all that matters." "Whatever. How does it end?" "With you waking up." And just like that, I awoke from my dream. *** Ash is alone. He makes more of an effort to clean his roof than he does communicating with other humans. And that's saying something. All he has is a sister who stops by every Friday to raid his fridge. But then Alice comes along. She's a breath of fresh air. She's everything he isn't. She's happy. And it becomes her goal to make sure he feels the same, despite him hating her at first glance. But then feelings get involved, people get hurt, and happiness becomes complicated.