Set in the Pacific Northwest during a cold December, Blue Decembers follows a mentally ill young man who believes he is dreaming-only he begins to question if that is true. He wakes in his childhood home surrounded by the absence of life, and while wandering its desolate streets, he encounters his younger self. A quiet and emotionally distant child waiting at the school gates who struggled to adapt to the world around him. As the day unfolds, memory and guilt blur. Faith is questioned. Anger simmers beneath silence. The distance between who he was and who he became begins to collapse as he searches for closure. Will he get what he's looking for? Or is it too late? Blue Decembers is a short introspective story about trauma, the need for closure, faith, and the things carried long after childhood-told with quiet grief.

Everyone has challenges in life, and as one grows, they learn that one of those challenges can be ones self. Humans deal with doubts, hesitation, struggles, insecurities, sometimes not even trusting ones self. This book will cover poems, with each of the emotions a human deals with. Hope o'are doing this journey with, see if you find a poem that you relate too.

After Lossing her kid sister in a car accident, and witnessing the divorce of her parents. A teens life shattered with no one there to turn to. Her best friend take her to new York, offering her a chance at a new life.but can she heal from the pain and find hope again

Tracey West thought she had finally found a quiet life. After leaving the military, she accepts a high-paying nanny job for the wealthy Winthrop family. The job seems simple: care for their ten-year-old daughter, Isadora - a quiet girl who never leaves her room. But something inside the house feels wrong. Isadora doesn't behave like other children. She doesn't eat normal food. And the last three nannies disappeared without explanation. As Tracey grows closer to the lonely girl, she discovers a terrifying truth: Isadora is the result of a secret experiment meant to create a real-life vampire. Now Tracey must decide how far she is willing to go to protect a child who was never meant to exist. Even if it means destroying the people who created her.

Edmund comes to the remote village of Black Thickett to escape the life grief has carved out of him. He wants silence. Distance. A place where memories can't follow. But Black Thickett is wrong in quiet, unsettling ways. The broken road becomes perfectly smooth the moment he crosses the boundary. The cottages are too neat, too deliberate. And on a noticeboard full of dry flyers, only one poster is wet. A missing boy, smiling as if he doesn't know he's lost. The villagers won't talk about the disappearances. The forest at the edge of the village seems to breathe, and the deeper Edmund goes, the calmer he feels... dangerously calm. The forest can quiet his pain. It can ease his grief. It can make him forget. But not everything that heals you wants you to survive. Welcome to Black Thickett, where you'll find my entry into the ONC 2026.

Osvojila me bez riječi. Ostavila me bez glasa. Pitali su me tko je ona. Rekao sam: "Ona je bez imena." 20.02.2019.

The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertfordshire, near London.

More than eight years before the novel opens, Anne Elliot, then a lovely, thoughtful, warm-hearted 19 year old, accepted a proposal of marriage from the handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth. He was clever, confident, and ambitious, but poor and with no particular family connections to recommend him. Sir Walter, Anne's fatuous, snobbish father and her equally self-involved older sister Elizabeth were dissatisfied with her choice, maintaining that he was no match for an Elliot of Kellynch Hall, the family estate. Her older friend and mentor, Lady Russell, acting in place of Anne's late mother, persuaded her to break the engagement. Now 27 and still unmarried, Anne re-encounters her former love when his sister and brother-in-law, the Crofts, take out a lease on Kellynch. Wentworth is now a captain and wealthy from maritime victories in the Napoleonic wars. However, he has not forgiven Anne for rejecting him. While publicly declaring that he is ready to marry any suitable young woman who catches his fancy, he privately resolves that he is ready to become attached to any appealing young woman except for Anne Elliot.

It doesn't matter how she ended up in this four-walled room. What matters is she gets out. ***** After a night out in New York City, Liliana Rossi wakes up in a windowless room with no recollection of how she got there. And she's not alone. The dark and tattooed Mateo Aguilar is also held captive. As the two struggle to survive and hatch an escape plan, they also struggle with growing attraction toward each other, facing Lili with the biggest question yet: is Mateo the reason she's here, or the one who's going to save her? ✨ Wattys 2018 Shortlist & Featured Story ✨ Content warning: this story references themes that readers might find triggering, including drug use and sexual assault. [[word count: 60,000-70,000 words]] Cover designed by Stefanie Saw

a story in which a lonely girl is not afraid of her stalker. 🖤 | dark romance + mature themes | (previously "psychopathic")