Martyred souls bleed words. ♡ A collection of short stories, blog posts, and prose & poetry.

"Are you jealous?" "Of course not! I just...I don't like seeing you with him." "Harry...he's my boyfriend." - I have a boyfriend named Luke. What I would have never expected was to have THE Harry Styles be jealous of a guy who works part time in a run down cafe.

WARNING: This contains mature content such as sex, drugs, violence. Zoe Fray has just moved to Bradford when she meets Zayn - a guy from her neighborhood who's got the looks of a Calvin Klein model, and an arrogant yet alluring bad boy attitude. For some reason Zoe quickly catches Zayn's eye, and when he starts using his irresistible charm on her, Zoe's new friends tell her to stay away from him, saying he has a bad reputation including drugs, crimes and girls. Can Zoe trust him and put up with his bad reputation or is he really nothing but trouble?

Jack Price, a small-town public defender living in Coles Creek, Mississippi, gets more than he bargains for when he's appointed to represent Lester Crowe, a mysterious drifter charged with the murder of local high school girl Amanda Dunbar. Jack soon finds out Lester Crowe is no ordinary client; he just might be the Devil himself. He's got a deal for Jack: help him beat the murder charge - by any means necessary - and Lester will help Jack with his failing marriage and alcohol problem. More importantly, he'll help Jack find his daughter, Sarah, who was kidnapped two years prior. Jack is torn. He'd do anything for his daughter, but he knows helping Lester Crowe could cost him his soul. With the help of a former client named Eddie who owes Jack a favor, Jack embarks on a mission to find Sarah on his own. In a race against time, Jack must find and rescue Sarah before Lester is acquitted for murder. Along the way he'll have to deal with Lester's minions - a group of people Jack's wife dubs the "broken men" - as well as the supernatural games Lester plays, even as he's locked in his cell at the Hernando County Sheriff's Department. This supernatural thriller, told from Jack's perspective and set on the banks of the mighty Mississippi River, runs about 67,000 words. At least the first two chapters will be posted here on Wattpad.

This isn't a happy story. It isn't about the bad boy falling helplessly in love with the quiet nerd, it isn't a fantasy and it certainly doesn't have an happy ever after because this story is real life. Fairy tales are great and all, until you realize that they are just fairy tales and they don't happen in real life. If you're looking for something more childish and unrealistic, than I suggest Cinderella is perfect for you, otherwise carry on reading. Anna Winslet, a girl who was so depressed, so lonely, she decided to kill herself. She thought no one cared, she was wrong. One boy had been watching her and he slowly began to understand her. Even though technically he didn't know her, he felt as if he could just read her, she was like a book to him. But he never thought she would do what she did. All the signs were wrong, he couldn't understand what made her do this, who made her do this. His pain ran deep, he needed to know what happened. This is why we are here, we're here to help him and to tell his story. Maybe things would of been better if he never laid eyes on her, if she never committed suicide, if he never decided to uncover the secrets Anna had. Maybe things wouldn't of got messed up. I told you; this is not a happy story.

Each baby born beneath the waves is killed--with one exception: the one hundred thousandth is spared. There's one rule shared between the island's tribes: don't touch the water. When Cressa-la breaks this law, her world, and body, changes. Sure, change is normal... but when has growing scales ever been normal? • • • Watty Award Winner 2015: Best Use of Visuals • • • Each baby born beneath the waves is killed--with one exception: the one hundred thousandth is spared. Among the spared, magic chooses a rare few, connecting them to the moon or sea. These are the One-Hundreds, mermaids and humans with the power to save the world-or corrupt it. When Cressa-la breaks the first rule of her tribe and touches the water surrounding her island, everything she knows turns on its head. Talking, sinister dolphins, mind control, and a whole world just under the waves await her on her eigteenth birthday... but she never asked for any of this. All she wanted was to become a Tribe Leader and take care of her village. It's amazing how one screw-up can change everything. A relentless darkness reaches for her, wanting her affections for his own twisted purposes. In opposition stands a fractured light, haunted by a painful past where corruption eroded friendship. Unless Cressa-la can bring the darkness to his knees and fight the war raging inside, the world is doomed. • • • Content warning: This story contains themes of depression and violence.