The story is about an orphan, Oliver Twist, who endures a miserable existence in a workhouse and then is placed with an undertaker. He escapes and travels to London where he meets the Artful Dodger, leader of a gang of juvenile pickpockets. Naively unaware of their unlawful activities, Oliver is led to the lair of the...
Anne of Green Gables recounts the adventures of Anne Shirley, a young orphan girl mistakenly sent to Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a middle-aged brother and sister who have a farm on Prince Edward Island and who had intended to adopt a boy to help them.
The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralized by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution, and many unflattering social parallels with life in L...
A dark retelling of Beauty and the Beast... When Sonja's father sells her to settle a debt, Sonja vows to escape by any means necessary. It doesn't matter who she hurts. She wants her freedom, no matter the cost. They call him "The Beast." With cruel eyes and a body covered in tattoos and horrific scars, he's everythi...
Gaul. Julius Caesar went on a campaign through Gaul 58-50 BC. The Gaulish people fought like barbarians, but the supreme Roman discipline easily brought them down. Captured from his small home in Gaul, Searix and his older brother Dago must adapt to the new life laid out before them. They're prisoners of war now, hard...
Burning for someone isn't the same as loving them. He knows that all too well. Marcel Styles was a name everybody knew, but nobody really understood. He's a nerd with a past and a bad boy with a secret. After spending two years over seas, Marcel returns to the states, forcing him to confront the very people he was...
REWIND He was the boy that ran. PAUSE She was the girl that waited. FAST FORWARD “Ten years later.” Addison couldn’t believe who she saw standing in front of her, leaning against the tree they climbed as kids like he never left town. “Ten years later and you’re back. Why?” “I heard you were getting married,” Carver sa...
A college love. Nona and Gale meet, they fall in love. See their life progress through Nona's thoughts.
He makes a sound of approval, one that betrays the human side of me by appealing to my wolf. "Do not forget your place again. Keep your eyes down, I want to inspect you." Inspect me? Like some show dog? He begins circling me. I feel akin to prey. "You're a tiny thing," he muses, sounding impossibly both unimpressed an...
He's the new mysterious tenant across the street. She's spent her entire life here. Can he convince her that life isn't a place, but what you keep with you? [Thank you for reading! Just a note that later chapters of A Little Crazy will contain content that is suitable for a mature audience. HAPPY READING! - Christina...
"You know what this company runs on?" he whispered. "What?" she said softly not really wanting to hear the answer. "Secrets." "But what happens if someone doesn't want to keep any of the secrets anymore? What if they're just tired of lying?" "Then they die." For those apart of Pulia, an undercover organisation, it is...
In the grand tapestry of Regency England, where societal expectations and whispered rumours reign supreme, a most unconventional union is forged. Sophie Fulham's life has been a canvas of suffering since her parents' untimely deaths, leaving her at the mercy of her heartless uncle and his unrelenting cruelty. Enter Pe...
Olivia Knight and Lord Gregory Willington have never liked each other. They make it very clear to each other that they want nothing to do with the other. So what happens when their respective parents decide that its time for their children to get married? What do they do when the people their parents want them to marr...
Bronwyn Kirk doubts that anyone can be as much of a romantic wreck as her - until she meets Thatcher Lucas, divorcee, bad driver, and determined to find out about Bronwyn's past.
Sophie Campbell is a seventeen year old senior at Jackson High that also holds down a part-time job at the local coffee shop. The way Sophie sees it, there's no need for her to have a boyfriend in high school. All the boys are immature and she's lasted without love for 17 years so far... why not wait one more? However...
Rachel got sick of the jocks picking on Jeremy and decided to offer him a deal; she’ll be his bodyguard, he can tutor her. She never thought she’s end up falling for the resident geek who has beautiful blue eyes and a cute smile. It’s just too bad as she starts to realize her feelings there’s someone else in the way.
After an accident between Hailey and a stranger leaves her summer (and car) in ruins, she is left with no transportation and one ultimatum: to get a job and pay off the damages. But when the only person she wished she would never have to see again is the same person who she is forced to work with all summer, it seems...
Completed Short Story. Annie Parker is lost. She has been wandering blindly through life for four months now, just hoping and praying that some day she will find the light and be guided back onto the right path. This is Annie's story of finding that light in the most unlikeliest of forms. [Watty Awards 2013 Submission]
~ 19th century ~ One girl who always wanted to be free. One weak heart. A human. And him. One without the beating heart. A creature. Sophie is a girl living in the 19th century, who has always been weak due to her heart illness. Unlike her older sisters, she has always been sheltered by her parents, always feeling tra...
[Zeus x Hera] (Note: Rake is an old term for player) For thousands of years, the Queen of the Gods has put up with her philandering, arrogant, conceited and uncaring husband. She became known as a jealous and vindictive queen. But turning your husband's mistresses into a cow was justified, right? But what happens when...
Kalen Mercer's Rules of Survival Rule #1: Don't get caught. Rule #2: Always get even. Rule #3: Trust Nobody. Survival isn't just a word to Ioney Mercer; it's a way of life. Having grown up in poverty in Chicago where some of the most ruthless gangs in the country preside, Ioney knows better than anyone what it ta...
"People like to see pretty boys fight." "People like to see our blood." Stolen from their lives, hidden and trained, the boys are a product and a performance. What hope is there when you live in a secret hell hole? When you are the dirty pleasure and the twisted entertainment for the worlds most elite psychos and sadi...
Madeline Woods she had the time in the world to find a husband but that was unfortunately cut short when her father decided to arrange her a marriage without consulting with her. What happens when Madeline meets someone that she desires with her body and soul? The contract has been made and theirs nothing that could b...
The heavy droplets of rain were slowly slipping down the hood of his leather jacket and a few effortlessly kissed his dark chocolate hair. »H…Hi.« I sputtered. »What do you have there?« He walked closer to me and gazzed into my eyes with his dark ones, that perfectly matched his hair, then lowered his sight towards...
You only get one shot at a first impression and for seventeen year old Lara Blackwood, first impressions are lasting ones. So when she first found out her mother was forcing her to attend Luxe Academy for her senior year, she was furious. Lara expected a snobby school full of rich kids where she wouldn't fit in. Does...
I smirked as I realized what would get him stumped. "I have a pet monkey named George. I'm a really good skateboarder. And, I can kick your ass in Call of Duty," I counted down on my fingers. One of them was a lie and if he guesses correctly, I'll have a new found respect for him. He scratched his forehead as he tried...
I fell in love with a physicist, and then we lost ourselves. Maybe there are places we can all be happy. We just need to find those places. Or maybe they don't exist.
In a span of twenty-four hours, the life that Trina Costa has come to love so much was over. Heartbroken, she's forced to move back home to the small back woods town she grew up in- McLeansville, N.C. Facing old friends, going toe to toe with a certain sexy, smart-mouthed cowboy and being pursued by a dangerous ex tha...
Voted "Most Likely to Join the Circus" consecutively by Killian High's past three 2009-2011 published yearbooks, and as said by practically every person in the entire school, Derek Wells is the school's ultimate class clown. Seriously, if you're ever in need of a good laugh just go to him and he'll have you clapping y...
