"Do you want to talk? You know, about everything?" Evan asks. He's staring up at the star-covered sky as he holds our brown bag of French fries. I finish my sip of my vanilla milkshake despite not wanting to stop and follow his gaze. The stars twinkle against the black and wish I had brought my camera. Somehow I thou...
We look up at the same sky and we see the same thing and suddenly, it's not so lonely anymore.
For Sawyer, Harry is the epitome of all she's never known. For Harry, Sawyer is the one chance he's willing to take.
Come on, skinny love, just last the year. (short story: #66/romance: #307)
Lennon Carter is a newly eighteen year old that's ready to get away from all she's ever known. She doesn't want to think about what happened, or even acknowledge the fact that it ever happened. Packing up the essentials and her credit card, she heads for the big open road without a plan insight. The plan...
For seventeen years, Henry’s always been content with a cup of tea and a good book. But when he decides that he wants to write one of his own, he realizes he lacks something to write about. So, when the enigmatic Winter McLane transfers to his school, he thinks he may have finally found what he’s been looking for.
Elliot Bridge is new in town: socially awkward, friendless, and an avid reader, he's not sure how to fit in at a "glamorous Californian school." Callida McAbrams is newly blind, and also newly antisocial. Angry at the world for her unlucky fate, Callie quickly turned into a bitter girl who has no care for the world ar...
"human beings are works in progress who mistakenly think they're finished" © taekth 2016
It all began so lightheartedly. One would pass notes to the other, and the other would respond in kind. Neither had a single clue that they were the other's singular tether to reality. That they were the string keeping them alive. Through their exchange, will they come to realize that there's more to the other than...
"Still she haunts me, phantomwise, Alice moving under skies Never seen by waking eyes." - Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (2012 - 2014)
Genevieve can't tell if her soulmate is a transcendentalist author who died one hundred and fifty years ago, or the person who is leaving his books for her to find.
"Cross my heart and hope to die, I'll see you with your laughter lines." a boy. a girl. you know the rest. © Valarie Rae, two thousand and fifteen.
In which a boy and a girl live on opposite ends of the city, yet still manage to find their way to each other. Their story is told through an exchange of rambling texts.
Elliot "Eli" Wesley and Lana Clarke are from two different worlds during high school. A year later after graduation, it's out with the old high school days, but Eli finds himself in a dilemma after being dumped by his girlfriend, Haley. Confused and upset by his girlfriend's sudden decision, Eli finds out that the guy...
[variant]: not agreeing or conforming; differing, especially from something of the same general kind. \\a compilation of letters from a girl to a boy who's not what he seems.// *intentional lowercase.* >> current cover is by the lovely timeisnow
Home, where my heart lies. Home, where does the heart lie? pour l'enfance. (2013 - 2014)
Sometimes you think you're over someone until you see them with someone else. And sometimes you think someone's out of your league until you get the confidence to make your feelings known. This is a story I wrote in 2009. I thought I lost it, but it turns out that my dear friend Samantha had it in a book of hers. I fo...
it was hard to love someone who couldn't even face themselves in the mirror, who believed themselves to be poisonous and worthless. but i still loved cordelia, sometimes so passionately and forcefully enough to make her wince, since all i wanted was for her to love herself. sometimes more than i ever d...
Sometimes all you really need is a place to call home. * * * Being re-written completely as of May 14, 2021
Olivia Harris has one dream: to become a professional photographer. She’s determined and even went out of her way to intern at a well known photography company. Olivia knows that doing so may give her an opportunity to pursue her dream a step further. What she doesn't know is that, sometimes, expectations don't go as...
