Bright Eyes, Heavy Heart
We are all blind fools.
A/N: This is an unedited, significantly different version of the soon to be published novel by losangelesque aka L. Akhter. This draft was written when I was 15-18 years old and I highly encourage new readers to read the published version instead. Former high school football star Frank Novak meets profound and depress...
Ophelia Morgan was always viewing herself in parallels. While she thought she was the ‘bigger’ girl and could be spotted miles away, she also thought she was invisible in the eyes of those around her. Her self-conscience nature made it hard for her to look at herself in the mirror. And if she couldn’t love herself…who...
We were six years old trying to conjure up an image of the tooth fairy when we made the crayon pact. We are sixteen years old dreaming about our wedding and we still haven't broken it. (For the Valentine's Day one-shot competition held by taygetsthegay; The aim is to include lgbt+ characters in Literature)
Sixteen-year-old Opal might be everything you hate in a person. She's snobby, conceited, and has more popularity than she knows what to do with in her sunny and densely populated Florida city. In contrast, Jack, nicknamed "Alaska" by Opal in regards to the quiet Alaskan town where he resides, is sweet, caring, and com...
In which I am you, you are me, and we are the moments that define us.
collection of teen fiction reviews made by me! :D
In the Year 2075, Topeka, Kansas, is hardly how it used to be back in the historical age of Democracy. Follow the lives of four teenagers in the cataclysmic age when adolescence just got a lot harder.
Sometimes all you really need is a place to call home. * * * Being re-written completely as of May 14, 2021
❝ my thoughts are stars i cannot fathom into constellations. but you, hazel grace, you’re a supernova. ❞ // based on john green’s “the fault in our stars”
The title is pretty self explanatory. Enjoy! #326 in General Fiction #670 in Random
"Little Women" follows the lives of four sisters – Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March – and is loosely based on the author's childhood experiences with her three sisters.
"Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus" is about an eccentric scientist Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.
This novel was removed from dictatorships in Europe during the the 1920s and 1930s. From Wikipedia: "The Call of the Wild is a novel by American writer Jack London. The plot concerns a previously domesticated dog named Buck, whose primordial instincts return after a series of events leads to his serving as a sled dog...
"Black Beauty" is narrated as an autobiographical memoir told by the titular horse named Black Beauty—beginning with his carefree days as a colt on an English farm with his mother, to his difficult life pulling cabs in London, to his happy retirement in the country. Along the way, he meets with many hardships and reco...
Though classified as a comedy in the First Folio and sharing certain aspects with Shakespeare's other romantic comedies, "The Merchant of Venice" is perhaps most remembered for its dramatic scenes, and is best known for Shylock and the famous "Hath not a Jew eyes?" speech.
"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" tells of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as children.
"Sometimes happiness feels like a chore." A short story chronicling the relationships (and lack thereof) of Drew; in which nights and days are spent curled up in the tear-and-food-stained sheets, with and without the warmth of another living soul, because he has lived like this and he'll probably die like this -- whet...
The worst thing you can do is try to tame the chaos in you. It's like being thrown into the fire and told not to feel. -R. M. Drake
"that's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones." a series of (short) stories in which people never get their way.
“I taught you to fight and to fly. What more could there be?” ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan and Wendy
He disappears with magic. She sits on her chair all day. But when the two collide... The Ghost of the school and the New Damaged Girl consume in their flaws. © 2014 All rights reserved | Short-Story #1 |