waste away | poetry & prose

ramblings of an overthinker

Hush

(A personal piece chosen to be in the top 10 for the Mind Over Matter Contest) Please don't hesitate to view my other works as well as request a cover from my cover book! :) The world thrives on pain. It is never about the happy ending, the prize, reward or the success. Life is about the journey. How we got there, wh...

Just Checking

Maybe checking really isn't that bad after all. Contest submission for To The Bone by Netflix. Copyright © 2017 by SmokingxDaisies

Riptide | #MindOverMatterContest

{Winning entry for ChickLit's #MindOverMatter Contest 2017} rip·tide /ˈriptīd/ noun a strong current caused by tidal flow in confined areas such as inlets and presenting a hazard to swimmers and boaters. I am confined within the inlet of my brain. But I will not get lost in the riptide of my mind. ~My entry for Wattpa...

Before the Silence

It will all become silent if you just stop listening. A sample contest submission for To The Bone by Netflix.

10 Ways to Say Goodbye

Completing everything on that list was the hardest thing I ever had to do. Not because I lost you, but because I had to learn how to love myself. [commissioned entry for the To The Bone short story contest]

Nothing Serious

I've struggled with body image issues since middle school, and during my freshman year of college I developed a pretty severe eating disorder. I lived in denial for months by telling myself that it was "nothing serious," just something I was doing to make myself feel special, or for the sake of having a dramatic secre...

The Broken #MindOverMatterContest

❝ the saddest thing about betrayal, is that it doesn't come from your enemies. ❞ ➳ by maddyy19 ➳ all rights reserved ➳ © copyr...

You Are Beautiful #MindOverMatterContest

What do you see when you look in the mirror? Do you see someone beautiful, or do you see what I used to see?

anxiety #mindovermatter

anx·i·e·ty aNGˈzīədē noun a feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome. -entry for the mind over matter contest-

Willa & the Extraordinary Internship

⭐️ 2016 Watty Award Winner ⭐️ Willa Grainger is your average twenty-four-year old with one exception - she never left her university. A year after she graduated she still remains employed with Professor Paige Grimsby, acclaimed author of the popular Simeon Lee series. Her struggles to find a boyfriend, find a job...

Birthday Suits

A body positivity movement, in which Belle Moore emphasises the beauty of our birthday suits.

69 Days Without You ✔ [COMPLETED] #Wattys2016

{Highest Ranking: #1 in Short Story} Liam Walker's life changes drastically when he watches his best friend Allison Parker get hit by a car. The injuries are so bad that Allie ends up in a coma, leaving Liam devastated. He visits her at the hospital as often as possible, wishing for nothing more than to see her wake...

A Summer's Secret

Secrets come with a price. Asia Cassidy is about to learn that secrets aren't free (and are not that easy to keep either). Once you're in it, there's no backing out. It's like an internal contract, and it binds one's soul to another's. It would've been fine to be bounded to someone's deepest secrets, unless if that...

Late Night Conversations ✔ [COMPLETED]

{Highest Ranking: #2 in Short Story} One collision. Two strangers. One unorthodox way to pay off her debt. Three weeks of late night conversations. One Date.

The Eighth Breakup ✓

"For a broken heart, the limit for revenge . . . does not exist." __________________________ What happens when you get caught breaking garden gnomes and throwing eggs at your sister's ex-boyfriend's house? In Helen's case, she gets stuck with Nolan Milesblue, the revenge-driven high school outsider who wants to...

You and Me (A Wattpad Featured Story) ✔

A YA love story about the power of emotional heartbreak, the barriers in life that we may face and the actions of others close around us. Currently Featured on Wattpad! Fifteen year old Sara thought she had the perfect relationship. Boyfriend Mark was kind, patient and a person that she could turn into in times of nee...

How to Steal a Happy Ending

Claire was never the girl that got the happily ever after. Instead, she was the one standing in the sidelines, whose only scenes consisted of her being a major bitch. And when you're stuck in a plot line that doesn't allow you to be anything but the bad guy, the only way to get a happy ending is to STEAL one. ...

city lights

There in those city lights, there was no her and there was no him. There was just everything and nothing and the spaces in between, like flickering lights against a never-ending, black sky. There in those city lights, there was no love and there was no hate. There was just listening and talking and understanding every...

Guilty Pleasure

Elle Grayson's guilty pleasure is reading cheesy romance novels. Always has been, always will be. Maybe that's why she's never had a boyfriend - no guy can live up to her expectations of the guys in romance novels. She doesn't think there is one guy that can prove to be even half as decent as guys in books. But when t...

Anywhere But Here

THIS BOOK IS PUBLISHED!!!! COMPLETE VERSION IS AVAILABLE ON AMAZON!!!! "The night I met the Olsons, the family was in chaos." All his mother's life, she had denied the fact of having a son. Except, in his mind, she was right. As soon as Sawyer had the chance, he ran as fast and as far as he could with a backpack and a...

Eternal Darkness - Book One ✔

Living in the aftermath of a vampiric invasion is not easy, especially if you are human. But if you are human, and you find out you posses some sort of magical powers, it's even worse. Even more so if the vampires find out, and rest assured, they will. Emily Carthwright has been on the move most of her seventeen year...

The Exchange

Exchange (v.): 1. Hailey Brookes trades in her original summer plans to, instead, swap places with a family friend's young son and live at their suburban estate. Having just been dumped by her boyfriend Ben, her goal for the summer is to steer clear of guys - after all, she's in no rush to find a substitute relatio...

CURSE CLUB

Boy meets magic. Boy meets death.

Yellow (editing)

❝She was a sunflower, and even though she never faced the sun, she was still beautiful.❞ When Finnegan Annson reunites with his anything-but-boring, garden-scented childhood friend Orenda May Castellano on a cold winter day, it's no secret that his uneventful life slowly alters into a marathon of new beginnings. And...

Y

CASE: CLOSED "She's dead now, and there's nothing we can do about it." --- Kasia Andrews expects very little on a Monday morning. Until, whilst locked in the PE store cupboard, accompanied with basket balls, netballs, soccer balls and the guy that she doesn't really know anymore, Charlie Allen, they both uncover the...

SIDEKICKS

Because the city never sleeps. copyright 2018 @quibbIer

Screaming off the Cliff

Poetry assembled from the very depths of a deranged mind. Trigger warning. Tragedy ensues.

Shattered

Poetry that I've thrown together by grasping the wisps floating around in my head full of hot air and Christmas songs.

Plan B

Plan A might have been just as dangerous as the police insisted it was safe. It involved being locked away, out of sight and communication, and didn't solve the problem that Fran's stalkers seemed to have access to police files and data. Plan B the police didn't know about, and while the stalkers were at least tempo...