Bits & Pieces

these are little stories that i've written for a class i'm currently taking. they're not related to my other stories and are usually purposely short. please enjoy and share your feedback! cover: @firebrick © 2016 Virgo Rose Edwards.

Finding Love in a Coffee Shop

Katie Holmes is a caffeine addict. Between college, and taking care of her brother, it's acceptable. Though, it doesn't help that the cafe down the street is full of handsome baristas, including one William Cerak in particular who has a mysterious scar on his wrist. Synopses will be the death of my publishing career.

Paper Stars

Sara is the temperamental, quick-to-judge daughter of an upstanding Protestant family in the countryside of Cologne. To her, the war has always seemed a far-away nuisance. That is, until a warm night in the summer of 1944, when a jarring dose of reality is dumped upon their doorstep: young, fraught, and Jewish. Enter...

The Dragon Oracles. Part One: The Call of the Crown. (Sample)

The Dragon Oracles THE NEW EPIC FANTASY SAGA A continent on the brink of war. A journey to save a kingdom. Forced onto a path he does not wish to follow, a young man finds himself the focus of ancient powers. When Gialyn accompanies his father on a dangerous trek across their homeland, he attracts the gaze of an ancie...

DarkWeb (TEASER ONLY)

Hello lovelies! After a million (!!!) reads, I've taken DarkWeb down. Thank you for all the comments, votes, and reads! UPDATE: DARKWEB IS NOW FREE IN KINDLE UNLIMITED. A revised, improved, totally portable version of DarkWeb is on sale at Amazon for a couple of bucks if you want your own shiny new copy: https:...

The Misadventures of Owen Bonner

❝I swear, people are the cause of cancer.❞

Here Comes the Sun | ✓

A girl and guy with their own set of complications fall in love when she kisses him in Times Square. Cover: @flieur Trailer: @metropolis- Copyright © 2012 C.

The Dragon's Heir [Beta][Complete]

COMPLETE #1 in Fantasy #1 in Adventure #1 in Historical Fiction ---------- Sometimes, believing helps us to see truth. Other times, we need a little evidence to believe. But there is truth behind everything; every false manoeuvre, ever little lie...a small piece of truth is hidden. Just like truth is wound into le...

A Tale of Two Cities (1859)

The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralized by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution, and many unflattering social parallels with life in L...

Pride and Prejudice (1813)

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 Hertf...

The Many Imperfections Of Parker Strange

[on hiatus until further creativity] PARKER STRANGE: Insecure, (recently) single, looks like a puppy who has just been kicked. SAM MCGALIGUR: Ex-girlfriend of Parker Strange, massive tits. Bitch. AERYN CLARKE: Real-life personification of Greek God Narcissus, pink hair, also a bitch (in a good way, though). HENRY KALL...

Tales From Otherside

The story of Otherside.

Fission

The diary of a girl who wants to blow up the world.

Persephone

A wife goes mad on the night of her marriage and her husband is left alone in an empty house. Filled with despair and longing, he sets out on a dream-filled voyage to find her. This text was written while listening to the first three minutes of Beethoven's Symphony No.7 in A major op.92 - II, Allegretto. In each secti...

THE FÜHRER'S DAUGHTER

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Joshua Graham teams up with bestselling author Jack Patterson for an alternate history saga that will rock your mind. "A clever, imaginative tale of what if, rooted in secrets, believable and evocative, that will keep you guessing." —Steve Berry, New York Times bestselli...

2173

In 2093 crime rates in America were at 93% and showed no signs of lowering, so Congress decided that the laws had to be started over, and needed a new name—The Society. Every year, all sixteen-year-olds would be given an assigned job, a small apartment, and would be given an independent life. At eighteen, you are alou...

Rosehead

Misunderstood and overmedicated, twelve-year-old Lilith Bloom finds the prospect of a grand family reunion decidedly dull... That is, until she discovers that the rose garden surrounding her grandfather's Berlin mansion is, well, completely and utterly carnivorous. Armed with Panther, her talking pet whippet, and the...

Chosen : Assassin Book 1

Chosen when a child, Lady Joselyn is trained to be a ruthless killer. She is destined to be the English king's assassin and protector. Only he and the guild master are supposed to know. It's a life and death secret that must be kept. For an assassin survival is precarious. Life is something you simply cannot take for...

The Invincible Summer of Juniper Jones

WATTPAD ORIGINAL EDITION In 1955, mixed-race Ethan Harper leaves his progressive hometown for a summer in Alabama where he's not welcome, except by resident free spirit, Juniper Jones. ***** After getting himself into a bout of trouble, 16-year-ol...

The Things Our Parents Left Us

Ramona "Mona" Gray only wanted to catch a big fish. Instead she caught a boy the same height as herself. Adam Fink was trying to catch a girl to take home to his grandpa that only wanted him to fall in love... With anyone, he didn't care as long as Adam was happy like his parents had been when they had met. Ramona did...

Hello Gorgeous: An Enzo Origin Story

What do we know about Enzo? He fought in World War II. He was held captive and tortured by the Augustine Society for ten years. He's fiercely loyal, holds grudges, and has a thing for blonds. But that's the Enzo who's been a vampire for . . . we don't even know how long. This is the Enzo from before. NOTE: This was wr...

brown haired boy ✓

you said it would sting. //train tracks with miles// © 2015 flawed-

Of Forests & Clocks & Dreams (A Literary & Art Collection)

[Literary, Short Story, Poems, Art, Philosophy] (In Editing) Strange conversations, ringing phones, umbrellas, talking birds, a girl with a top hat, grandfather clocks, transfigured stones, a missing archaeologist, bowls of rice, a man with twelve toes, and more. His published collection unveils dazzling surreal visio...

Quick

A fantasy short story.

After and Before

A journey through the love of a young couple told in reverse – starting from where it all fell apart and ending in where it all began. Copyright © 2014 CrayonChomper cover by lydiarse

When Darkness Falls (Book 1, the Darkness Falls Series)

When darkness falls, the vampires come out. Sixteen-year-old Kiara Morrow knows that better than anyone. She's been trained her whole life to wipe bloodsuckers off the face of the earth. But then she meets Luke. He's a vampire but he's unlike any vamp Kiara's ever known. ...

The Darlings of Suburbia

A story about a girl who sends letters to a neighbor.

Samantha75

This short speculative fiction story originally appeared on the Canadian website, Ascent Aspirations way back in 2007.

Jo Goes To Paris

Dumped by her boyfriend, unemployed, middle-aged and chocolate addict. That is Johanna's current situation. To turn the situation around, she decided to go to Paris with her best friend, a dream she had always had. Little did she know that the beautiful city held many surprises for her... - Edited by Steven Clapp