little trinkets
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The Florist | ✓ (#Wattys2016) by arcticstars
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What do you do when your best friend could be the love of your life? Two alarmingly awkward, clumsy, sarcastic individuals bump into one another in a flower shop, and find that they're just as odd as one another. Told through nine moments, this is a story of life, love, friendship, and flowers. {Written 2016.}
Snapshot ✓ by arcticstars
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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.}
Paris in the Rain ✓ by arcticstars
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"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.}
Million Dollar Woman ✓ by arcticstars
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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.}
The Secret Double-Lives of Strangers on Trains ✓ by arcticstars
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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.}
Remember ✓ by arcticstars
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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.}
Fear of Flying ✓ by arcticstars
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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.wattpad.com/story/19632442-reaper-man] Copyright S.Ranasinghe 2013 HG Wells Short Story Competition [shortlisted]
The Twelve Kingdoms by annamalities
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"It's a lose-lose situation. Only one of them is a little less lose than the other one. Your call." Twelve kingdoms. Twelve powers. Twelve lives intertwined in a dark vortex of insanity. A dark twist on different fairy tales. [contains some graphic violence/torture]
Beautiful by radbealison
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Zoey Stone never felt like she was beautiful. She never even believed that she was a hint of decent looking. She was the awkward and shy outcast that was stuck in the shadow of her popular, gorgeous best friend. Her insecurties were low and she never felt good about herself. But that suddenly changes when one unfortunate day at the park turns into a happy ending.
The Happy Birthday Song ✓ by northbynorth
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❝You and me,❞ he whispered, ❝until the end of time.❞ // A chronicle of Junie Bennett's birthdays from the ages of ten to twenty one.