I pledge myself to you, my love, My life is no longer my own, My afterlife is unknown, If I'm fortunate, If I'm adequate, To be in the heavens, I'll plead for my home. Your eyes are my home, Your breath is my air, Your voice is my song, Your arms are my shrine, Your heart is my altar, Your smile is my prayer, Your hand is my prize, I ache to make you mine. I need you in every way, My rib is not in place. My certain heart calls you, My present, My future, My solace, My first and last, My onliest love. My other self, My life, 'I love you' is not enough. ** Melody Summer is a nineteen year old homeless girl with a tragic past. Shy and introverted​ with major insecurities, Melody aged out of foster care and was left to fend for herself in the concrete jungle of Manhattan. When she meets Akram Sadiq, the handsome Juilliard student, her life takes a very unexpected turn. ***This story is a draft so hopefully will be edited once finished. Wish me luck :)

October Contest for the Storytellers Saloon. Prompt: You find a key. What does it open? Where does it lead you? 500 word Flash fiction. Deadline: OCT 31st Winners to be announced, Nov 5th. ©All rights are reserved by the authors posted within.

From wingless birds to creative masters - voices can be silenced but there's nothing that can stop wild imagination when it strikes. So here's a small handful of the poetry I've been writing from my humble corner to the world at large. These poems have been arranged into a series that explores the ups and downs between losing one's voice and the triumph of finding the creative power within. I hope you'll enjoy this little poetic ride while it lasts. [This book was started on the 27th of June 2018 and was completed by the 9th of July 2018] Highest ranks: #1 in censorship (10/4/2019) #722 in poetry (08/07/2018-10/07/2018) #213 in emotional (09/07/2018) #238 in passion (09/07/2018) #341 in general fiction (09/07/2018) #15 in motivational (08/07/2018-09/07/2018) #3 in fastread (28/09/2018) #4 in freedomofspeech (08/07/2018-09/07/2018) #11 in spirituality (08/07/2018-09/07/2018) #125 in faith (08/07/2018-09/07/2018) #11 in environmental (08/07/2018-09/07/2018) #816 in featured (09/07/2018) #70 in philosophical (11/07/2018--12/07/2018) #122 in multimedia (17/07/2018) #1 in censorship (01/09/2018-12/09/2018) [For more poetry like these, please go to https://hauntingangel.com/category/poetry] I hope you enjoy them. :) Cover photo credits here: https://hauntingangel.com/2018/06/26/strokes-of-passion/

There's a new shopping-centre in the suburbs called Scrubber-Town. It's full of dodgy dealings, bad behaviour and larger-than-life characters. Some of these are: Komik kal, Kara-Lyn and Lainie and Janie, two BFF's who are roving-reporters for the monthly Scrubber-Town Saga magazine. Add to this the crazy mix of an all-girl gang, an unruly child-care centre and The Crockerie, the aged-care home across the road from Scrubber-Town, not forgetting Asteroid Travel, agents for the nation's new budget airline, Asteroid Air. Chaos accompanies all events at Scrubber-Town. It's politically incorrect and satirical, but was great fun to write. It has been suggested to me by several people that it would translate well to T.V. Hop on the specially painted pink-and-purple leopard-print bus and go shopping. While you're there, have a Raving Lunatic Cocktail or the coffee/giant sausage roll/cream-bun special on me. I promise a distracting, truly good-fun read. How could you not want to go and see for yourselves the phenomenon known as Scrubber-Town? Go on I dare you!

Enter the world of Claire Jones, where she occasionally runs into bizarre adversaries in her school and around her neighbourhood, Kaki Hantu. A world where every class is a crisis and every day is a social struggle. To top it all off, she has to deal with Jack, her annoying little brother and her parents who don't always understand but mean well. Can Claire live with it all? Follow Claire and her two best friends in their story of love, life, friendship, and adventure. Highest rank: #01 in Krampus (01/09/2018-12/09/2018) #5 in Malaysia (01/09/2018-11/09/2018) #65 in Christmas (12/09/2018) #483 in general fiction (04/09/2018) #24 in multimedia (21/3/2019) This is an experimental work of mixed/multiple genres in one story and it is episodic in nature. Hopefully, you'll be able to find something that you'll like as the story progresses. :)

Six months ago, James brought his mother to the restaurant downstairs for her regular breakfast. James and I worked at the same bank. For some reason, he found it convenient to take me to work, which he did every day. He was the C.E.O and I was a customer relations officer. This my story of the day James and I decided our forever began, not as two souls, but one. --Sue Highest Rank: #479 in Sea (26/06/2018) #54 in Sunsets (11/09/2018) #3 in perfectdate (03/09/2018-04/09/2018) #7 in fastread (12/09/2018) (This short story was submitted as an entry for Wattpad Romance's Challenge 20 - The Perfect Date.)

"You just swallowed a watermelon seed, honey. You'll be better soon." But the mass in his stomach wasn't a watermelon, and he will never get better