Non-fic #33

I am Prince Laen Braed. If you are familiar with the stories of @LaDameBlanche, specifically The Dark Series, The Dark Prince etc, you will already know much of my story. These are excerpts from my diary beginning in 1842 shortly before my sixteenth birthday. I am doing this under protest as apparently it will be "good for me". I heartily disagree and hope you will leave well alone and not read a word and we can put this behind us. Anyway. Here it is. Do as you will. Laen.

*Featured in the Creepy Camping Tales reading list for the Blair Witch movie!* What if you could steal the final moments from the dying? What if you had the darkest secret, but couldn't think what it might be? What if you entered the forest in the deep of the night. Who is the melting man? And are your neighbours really whom they appear to be? So many questions. To find the answers, you must enter a darker place. Thirteen stories. Thirteen poems. Thirteen more doorways.

**PUBLISHING 6/20/2017** Mermaids are soulless, flesh-eating monsters of the sea, wicked in all ways-but some are born with more humanity. Nathaniel Thomas believes in monsters. He's seen his share since joining the pirate crew of the Blood-Red Siren. Tales are rampant, especially of mermaids-the deep sea nymphs. With their hypnotic songs, they lure ships to crash and then feast on those aboard, stealing the seed from a man's loins while drinking down his blood. But Nathan has learned not to believe in things he hasn't seen with his own eyes. All of that seems foolish when he witnesses hideous, scaly-skinned abominations peeling the flesh from his shipmates, but Nathan manages to avoid death. He is rescued by a similar creature, and though he is wary of her, he soon finds that she is nothing like her kin. He calls her his Treasure, and she is beautiful beyond anything he's ever seen. There is goodness in her. He knows they do not belong together, but she will not leave him. Likewise, he cannot purge her from his thoughts. Nathan is introduced to truths he never would have believed, to a love he never thought possible, and to a war that he could not anticipate. There are secrets and horrors in the dark depths, and he is out to uncover them, even if the truth costs him his own humanity. Dark, frightening, and erotic, DARK DEPTHS is a retelling of The Little Mermaid.

This is a collection of short stories involving relationships, love and all of the trials and tribulations that make up life in general. Each new story is built off of the last story. Friends, family and lovers tell their tales.

After the war, London is in chaos. Packs are battling it out for dominance in the streets, lycans are killing each other in illegal fight dens. The Royals are being murdered. All Juliet wants to do is forget - forget Sebastien, forget the war, forget everything she's learned about her parentage - but fate has other plans. At 21, she's the sole guardian of her royal, half-brother Theo: a boy she almost killed but is now sworn to protect at all costs. But Theo's blood has painted a shiny target on his back and Juliet knows it'll take a miracle to keep him safe, which means dragging herself back to the old motley crew, once led by Sebastien, for help. But the war has changed a lot more than pack territories in London and protecting Theo might come at a higher cost than she's willing to pay... Like her life.

"With him, it wasn't exactly love at first sight. More like it wasn't love at first anything. I hated him so much I could die - but if only he allowed me to. So naturally, instead, I disappeared." Tori Everett was perfectly content with her quiet, walk-though-the-mud life. She didn't run after danger, and danger didn't run after her. Despite years of avoiding trouble, it comes to her in the form of Christopher Bale - a mysterious, alluring man that she can't help but loathe with a passion. What she doesn't know is his past, and eventually it must return to haunt them both. [ W A R N I N G : This is my NaNoWriMo novel, so I apologize for any mistakes I've possibly missed. ]

Hadley Crow was on the brink of death when a mysterious and handsome stranger rose from the shadows to save her. He infiltrated her blood stream, overriding her senses and throwing her into a life of never-ending insomnia. C A M P N A N O W R I M O | 2 0 1 4

sometimes there is nothing worse than an apology. - cooper

Under the city lights, we find five teenagers drowning. An intellectual, a poet, a self-fulfilled prophecy, an ex-cheerleader, and a ghost.