|| a featured story || Aurora never planned on spending her final month alive falling in love. When she meets Gus, a curious boy who is all too eager to waste away the days with her, she finds herself trading in her month of solitude for a month with him instead. Under the summer sun, they promise each other a forever...
One bridge. Two guys. Three secrets. Four therapists. Five attempts. Six months. Seven bad habits. Eight family meetings. Nine visits. Ten cuts. One death. Spiritual #4
Brooklyn Quinn is a pretty boy. Pretty hair and pretty eyes. Pretty face and pretty body. Pretty laugh and pretty smile. Everyone knows Brooklyn Quinn is a pretty boy. Everyone loves Brooklyn Quinn. Except Brooklyn Quinn. {Trigger Warning: This story will have strong mentions of anorexia, self-destruction, and briefly...
Sarah Campbell has everything she's ever wanted. She worked day and in and day out for her acceptance to her dream school, Vanderbilt University. And now that she's got it she can't wait to finally let loose. She never was the goodie-two-shoes her parents thought she was, but with a new start here at Vandy, she's real...
Life is an everyday struggle for Dina. She doesn't need a breath-taking romance. She needs a friend and that's exactly what Theo is to her.
For a girl who lives in Tennessee, Sophia has always believed in love and happy endings. Not only in general happiness but with her long-term boyfriend, Michael who has moved to New York to further his studies, causing them to have a long-distance relationship. With Sophia putting her trust in Michael without a slight...
Ivy Lynch has been babysitting practically her whole life. She is known around town, getting job offer after job offer. It pays. This summer, she receives an offer to be a full-time nanny for the Kennedy family while the mom goes on a mission trip to Haiti. Unable to turn down the job due to the promised payment, Ivy...
Preacher's daughter and Alabama native Grace Baxter has never really felt like she belonged. Sure, she has good friends and sure, people generally like her, but she's always felt like somewhat of an outsider. On the track to graduating second in her class and heading to the University of Alabama on a full-ride scholar...
"Why jump?" "Do you know what another word for 'autumn' is?" she asked. He stayed silent. "Fall."
"Do you like texting more or writing letters?" "Writing letters sounds more romantic." "And that's why we are texting." In which a boy and girl meet because of a stupid school project Credits: Cover: @sunswept
Louisa and Kinsley have been best friends since their first day of college. As graduation approached, they were determined to finish their studies in style - by planning a crazy cross-country road trip to California. But when family issues send Louisa back to the UK early, they're forced to put their plans on hold, an...
"I'm not attracted to you at all, to be honest.'' ''And I don't really believe that's true, to be honest.'' *** Ellie Hepburn wasn't really candid to herself recently. She pretended to be happy and to live a fantastic life, but that was just an illusion. In reality: her life sucked at the moment. Big time. Her parents...
"When he first heard her, he knew. She was his bestseller." Before there were great stories, there were only words. Luke's were smart and eloquent but hollow. It was nothing like Emma's story, bleak and awkward, but honest to a fault. This is a coming-of-age journey of a writing prodigy in search of a story, his stor...
Fat. Wait, no. Fatter. I distinctly remember when I admitted it to myself, the first time I willingly stepped onto the weighing scale in my bathroom. Sure. I saw it coming. All the secret stashes of M&M's. Hershey's. Mars Bars. I suppose I'd known from the start of the summer that chocolate was the devil... When A...
"I see more cons than pros," she tells me. "Life is just one big jumbled mess of broken hearts and endless battles and words left unsaid." © valarie rae, two thousand and fifteen.
"why are you back again?" "donut worry about that." "..." "..." "did you just-" "yup." #9 in short story [081217]
❝u n s a i d were his feelings. walls around him, not even by a machete be broken. uncertainty descends on me, making me think I was nothing but forgotten.❞ she would spent everyday in the same cafe they met, only hoping to come across him, while he would spend everyday not knowing that someone could possibly love h...
When the quiet girl in Clayton Hugh's chemistry class comes knocking on his door at five in the morning barely covered up in her little pajamas, inattentive, and drooling like crazy, he has no choice but to take her inside. But once Lucy Walker wakes up inside a room she has never seen before wearing an over-sized t-s...
Eighteen year-old Cameron Evans has lived her life peacefully -- living with her single-mother, a boyfriend who is loving, and having small admiration for the man playing the piano across her room from the balcony. But everything goes wrong, like a meteorite crashing to her backyard, when Cameron found out that her m...