North by North

"Go north. When you think you've reached the end of the world, keep going."

The Quiet Man

"Do you just carry on talking when I'm away?" A post-Reichenbach BBC Sherlock story. First person present tense.

Drawing with Matches

Avery Wilson likes to light matches. Not light matches as in light-matches-and-set-things-on-fire-like-Matthew-Trinson-down-the-street, but lighting matches. Just lighting them. And then blowing them out. Avery loves the sounds of the head of the match scraping against the side of the box, the sound of fire being brou...

Paris in the Rain ✓

"Every fairytale begins in the rain." When you run into an old bookshop in the middle of Paris to escape a storm, who knows who you might meet there. {Written 2014.}

Dreamscape

[Camp Nanowrimo Project] They watched him grow up from the gaps in the floorboards. They waited for his dreams to die and his hope to wither. They fed on his dying childhood. They. The monsters.

The Secret Double-Lives of Strangers on Trains ✓

There is an intangible magic to the secret double-lives of strangers on trains. She spends her journeys gazing out at city lights outside the window of the train. He watches strangers on the seats around him. Two strangers living off the stories of strangers, with only one journey to find their own. {Written 2013.}

Fear of Flying ✓

A fear of flying is one thing. Being seated next to a Tetris-addict who claims to be the Reaper is quite another. "He pulled out a business card. Where his profession should have been stated, the card read 'Destroyer of Worlds'. Nodding slowly, I pocketed the card." [check out the new spin off: http://www.wattpa...

Superior

Delaney Escott lives in a world where popularity reigns supreme. If you want to be noticed, social status is everything. The government is run by the Superiors: a very exclusive group of individuals who are virtually flawless. They are smarter than us and stronger than us, and to join their ranks is the highest honor...

Roommates || Calum Hood

"Hopefully being roommates will settle your arguments."

2537 ☯ muke

Luke is infatuated with the boy with locker number 2537.

December

They met in December.

Polaroids

❝He was shooting pictures❞ After six years Helen can't wait for her husband to come back home from the army. Instead all she is left with a bluebird mantelpiece clock that he gave and some polaroid shots of them together shot by him. Based on the Ed Sheeran song Photograph. [cov...

Internet Addict

Every teenager is an addict. Whether they're addicted to shopping, texting, sleeping, playing video games or simply just hanging out with their friends, every teen has that one thing that they can't get enough of. Elsa King was no exception. She would stay up all night chatting away with her new found friends across t...

rainy.

A story about a girl, a boy, a coffee shop, and lots of rain. Because clichés are sometimes a necessity to dream a little higher.

Iridescent

They weren't supposed to meet. But life does that sometimes; it throws in a couple of new faces that bring you the utmost of joys in the most unlikeliest of places, and every now and then, you'll come across someone who changes you - someone who's genuine and wonderful and full of hope; someone who changes your perspe...

infatuation // lashton

in·fat·u·a·tion (inˌfaCHəˈwāSH(ə)n) noun an intense but short-lived passion or admiration for someone or something. "he had developed an infatuation with the boy" {based off the song A Sky Full of Stars by Coldplay}

Million Dollar Woman ✓

She was invincible and unfixable. She was the woman you'd been warned about since you could walk. She was the smile that robbed a million dollars, and twice as many hearts. {Written 2013.}

Remember ✓

A young man and a woman sit on a hilltop, doomed to watch the same scene play out before their eyes again and again. For how long? Until they remember. {Written 2013.}

Story Ideas

Basically, I think of a lot of things but never get around to write them because I'm busy so I write them here to remember them

The Reaper

As far as lazy roommates go, Death is probably as bad as they come. Rosa Delgada only wants a nice, ordinary weekend. When some guy claiming to be the Reaper comes knocking on her door, any plans of normality are thrown straight out of the window. Now she's got to worry about Death sleeping on her sofa, the forces of...

Write Well or Die

Write Well or Die is purely written to help those who are learning to write creatively, or those who need a dictionary shoved down their throat.

construing sentences

things can't always be bottled up. [lowercase intended // may contain second person point of view // trigger warning]

Snapshot ✓

This woman could have been a spy, a duchess and the lover of a young cameraman all at once. She was a conjurer of a thousand stories, each unique to every observer; the elusive face behind any tale you put to her. {Written 2013.}

Beautiful Dreamer

Parker Elway is having dreams. Strange dreams; waking dreams; dreams in which she opens her eyes in the darkness to find herself paralyzed and surrounded by shadows from her deepest nightmares. The doctors call it sleep paralysis. But is it really so simple? As the waking terrors worsen and strange people begin to app...

500 Words in a Chapter

Let's face it. There are way more cliché books on this website than there are unique ones. Even the ones people say are unique tend to have some kind of cliché undertone. And then the ones that really are unique almost never ever get discovered. And it sucks. But for those of you who don't know your book is cliché, th...

Thin

When kids are young and full of innocent wonder, they're asked the question that will haunt them far into their adult lives: what do you want to be when you're older? Kyleigh Frost's answer to this very question was that she wanted to be thin. Ever since she could remember, all she wanted to do with her li...

smoking by eleven : the 1975

❝in which two confused boys fall in love with the same confused girl. ❞ © cruelinks | 2014

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