unspoken stories in only six words. /// 11.11.15 #2 in Short Story ///

"Aloo--" "I'm hungry." "Problem solved! We deliver donuts, where do you want that?" "I don't. I'm craving McNuggets." "..." "And you." #14 in Dialogue (13 July, 2018) #68 IN SHORT STORY - 30/4/2017

At 00:00, Cinderella ran away from her prince, leaving a glass slipper on the marbled steps of the grand staircase. At 00:00, I ran away from him. Unlike Cinderella, I didn't leave a single thing behind. © sonderingly

Seventeen-year-old Nora isn’t one for celebrations, but her family is. It's Fourth of July and they have been invited to an old friend’s fancy picnic party. Even if she doesn’t want to, Nora agrees to go, hoping to hide behind a tree with a book all night. Just when she realizes her plan is failing, a frantic and handsome boy asks for her help. He needs apple pies and she wants to leave the party. Together, they embark on a journey through the city on a mission that seems just as impossible as trying to buy turkey on Thanksgiving Day. Get ready for a hot summer night filled with tons of BBQ, historic figures, watermelon eating contests, headaches, fireworks, romance and apple pies.

"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.}

Shelley Touris needed a change. With America long gone and a castle filled with evil and hate, she knew something needed to be done. She was finished with just watching all the malicious acts in the palace grow worse and worse. All of her life, Shelley's had a front row seat at the horrors that occur in the castle walls when all the cameras are gone. Her heart-aching experiences there, opened her eyes to see what everyone else was too blind to notice. After years of planning strategically, she finally was prepared to take action, but it could risk losing her loving son and her dear husband. Shelley makes the decision to follow her heart and stand up for what she believed in, but she soon realized that following her heart wasn't the right decision.

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.}

Where a girl can't help but notice him from afar, and he can't help but have his sights on someone else.