"We called it zero o’clock. Because to us time wasn’t about the number, it was about the feeling. And zero o’clock was the feeling of not being able to sleep but at the same time not caring. It brought this weird ataraxia and for some reason we liked it." His name was Finn, and his biggest flaw was himself ...even tho...
He wasn't noticed by girls. She wasn't noticed by guys. But because of the courage and determination used to step out of the crowd they were so used to emerging themselves in, they found each other. Even though they knew that they other was easily overlooked in the eyes of others, both discovered that from ordinary...
There really was no hope for us in the end. We were doomed from the very first moment we met. We didn't trust each other. We couldn't trust each other. We built a friendship on lies and betrayal, and allowed it to fester into something far more toxic. So don't expect a fairytale ending from this - we never deserved to...
Cruella de Vil might have been cruel, manipulative and ambitious to a fault. But she was also pretty, resourceful, straightforward and most importantly herself. After her release from jail, (if you remember) she finds herself changed slightly; slightly good, slightly kind. This doesn’t bother her as much as the fact t...
A BUNCH OF STUFF ELIZABETH ("please for the love of god call me El") THROPP DOESN'T EXPECT: 1. Her mom signing her up to be a counselor at her old summer camp ("I don't care if it's for extra credit, mom!"). 2. That children are this annoying ("no, you can't have another stupid cookie"). 3. Sharing a cabin with Grac...
"Stop making homes out of the arms of people who used to be yours." (Copyright © Flores, Catherine 2016)
❝ You said g o o d b y e when I was about to say h e l l o . ❞ • • • There's always a certain time and place to say something. The problem though, is that once you let that moment slip away from your fingertips, it's gone forever. And you're left with a wonder of what if. • • • HR | SHORT STORY #65...
❝If I'm going to write a book it will be about you − about your flaws − because when I first fell in love with you it was because of your flaws.❞ All rights reserved @ o p t i c a l i t y | 2017
Sebastian Bowman is a glasses wearing, fiction writing dork. He has a thing for finding trivial things fascinating. He has a Broadway singing roommate who doubles as his best friend. He's happy. Arya Lennington is a leather wearing, fiction writing loser. She has a thing for The 1975 and typewriters. Her roommate is a...
Ellie Carter is a princess. She has all that a princess would: the maids, a life in the palace, beautiful gowns. Living the life everyone dreams of but she dreams of something else; the life of someone who lives beyond the gate. It being against the law to even look at them, Ellie is forced to live her life wondering...
❝ You're the most extraordinary piece of life I had ever come across. ❞ When Lennon is thrashed in a whirlwind of problems, he decides to look to the girl living across from his new building - Felicity. The girl who seemed to have all the answers to his problems, even though her level of exhaustion was scraping t...
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, and for these two, their lives have been planned down to a science. For Wylan Olson, being yourself can be very stressful. Since she was young, her emotions have always been backwards. The embodiment of 'tears of joy,' that laughs to keep from crying, not many...
❝We found wonderland You and I got lost in it And we pretended it could last forever❞ - W O N D E R L A N D Copyright © 2014 BubblyPenguin
Ember has thirty-seven days to...A) Learn how to play the bass well enough to perform in a concert with over 500 people attending. B) Match her best-friend, who is only interested in the likes of Brad Pitt, with the school's soccer star. Whom her friend hates, with a passion. C) Figure out what, exactly, the whole of...
The greatest tragedy the world has ever known turned out to be the ultimate catalyst for change. In the wake of World War III, which decimated most of the world's population, the remaining survivors vowed to not continue to repeat the same mistakes of the past. Fortunately, they had something previous generations did...
It's early summer, and in a small community on the central Jersey Shore, a black car screeches to a halt outside the Wright Bros grocery. Danny looks up from where he's working at the carwash to see the driver rifle out of the car and chase a girl rushing into the store. For some reason-fate perhaps or intuition-he de...