The Definition of You and Me

In which I am you, you are me, and we are the moments that define us.

Robin des Bois ✓

robin des bois - french, meaning "robin hood" Isis Greene is a girl with an unconventional hobby. She steals from the rich to give to the poor, or as she believes, restores some much needed balance to the universe. But after one robbery gone wrong, she finds herself in more trouble than she'd ever anticipated, and he...

Straighter than Parallel Parking

❝I think you're more of a goddamn female than I am, James.❞ | ❝Pfft, don't you know? The only thing straighter than me is my parking, Janice.❞ | Copyright © 2015 Sarena Akhter. All Rights Reserved.

Shutter

"Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell." -Kim Edwards Eleanor Morisette doesn't speak. She doesn't have an illness that causes it, and wasn't born mute; she just chooses not to talk. What reason is there to say words when no one's there to hear them? Instead, she expresses herse...

Saving Wishes

*COMPLETE STORY* For Charli Blake, being seventeen is a tough gig. She's been branded a troublemaker, her reputation is in tatters and she's stuck in Pipers Cove, a speck of a town on the coast of Tasmania. Thankfully, it's temporary. Her lifelong dream of travelling the world is just months away from becoming realit...

Caligula and Caesar's American Adventure

Join Cali and Cae as they explore the vast expanse of the Americas, and the lovely platonic-yet-slightly-lesbianic relationship they have with one another. Bands, books, ice cream, and confusing British terminology are all conversations on the table. Care to join? Get in the van. There's no going back. Humour #228 Tee...

Halley's Comet

Skylar Keaton doesn't believe in miracles, or God, or anything else that isn't scientific fact, so maybe that's why Halley Demarco was able to turn Skylar's life upsidedown. She wasn't a miracle, she was a comet.

Summer Rain

[Includes Something about Summer & After Rain] Raine Evans had everything. Okay, maybe not. So she avoided her problems a bit too much and didn't have the best past, but she was happy. Then summer came. What started out as a crazy challenge and a devious, match-making best friend turned into an unconscious game of hea...

The Fantastic Dreams of Roxanne Song

Narenj

There used to be a narenj tree in my grandmother's garden, and I would often wonder why she had chosen to grow a bitter orange tree instead of the sweet, normal ones. Years later, when I grew old enough; I started to understand my grandmother's choice. I started to realise that time changes our tastes as much as it ch...

It's Just Ann

Let's get the facts straight. I am no heroine and I will never bring pride to my family. I am what you could call a failure. My grades? Average. My social life? Average. Talents? Hmm... well, I think I have none. I'm not exceptional in any way and I know I'm a disappointment for my father. And in this day and age ther...

Iron & Wine

Iron & Wine is a Paranormal Romance set in a world full of hidden magical places and secret societies cloaked by modern day. In the first instalment of the Iron World Series, young artist Avery Quinn reluctantly leaves behind her quiet and comfortable home in the country and moves to the city with her best friend Jul...

Forget Friday

When faced with a time loop, an adorable boyfriend, and impending death, you can, may, and probably will experience crazy stuff. But that's good; crazy is good. It means that something's going on. And that's what we need to have a story.

My Highland Home

Pretending to live in the historic days of old in the highlands of Scotland wasn't exactly how Kenzie McDowell thought to spend her summer, but then things go from bad to worse when she finds herself transported over 250 years into the past. Sick, confused and furious the 17 year old finds herself at the mercy of Lair...

The Most Fantabulous Journey of Skye Roberts

This is the story of how Skye Roberts realized she wasn't as straight as she thought. [With the help of an accidental trip to a gay club, Ellen DeGeneres, Walmart, and of course, Taylor Swift] © 07/16/14 by Nova Hunt

The Irony of Being a Hero

Felix Welter is a superhero. In the safest, most normal town in America. Did someone say 'be yourself'?

Diversity for Dummies

A thirty day writing challenge -- because the world around us isn't a white-washed, heterosexual, able-bodied, one-religioned, cisgendered ideal. The world around us is a beautiful place, and maybe its beauty is only accented by the crazy people within it.

Bad Boy Blueprint

❝In which dorky, quirky, super-duper nice and anything-but-cool, Liam Argent, transforms into a loud, arrogant and belligerent bad boy in hopes of catching the eye of a girl who's clearly not worth it.❞ Copyright © 2014 All Rights Reserved. [extended summary inside] [very ROUGH draft: plot holes, grammar mistakes, and...

Children of the CIA (On Hold)

When you think of the CIA, the first thing that comes to mind is men in suits and earwigs. Teenagers in sweatshirts probably doesn't come up in a conversation about the Central Intelligence Agency. Aleksandra Meledin was genetically created, the hospital she was made at burned down two minutes after she was 'born', an...

Finding Ford

Jas gives me a sympathetic look. She sighs heavily, long nails tapping against the wooden table, dodging the 'Missing' posters scattered all over the surface. "Maybe," she finally says, "Just maybe, he doesn't want to be found, Ava." I clench my jaw. "No. I refuse to believe that. He's not like that." "What do you kno...

Calling Her Bluff

She didn't like to socialise. Friends were a waste of time, and they were always so dramatic. He lived to help people. It was his passion, being a motivational person and to help people with obstacles in their lives was something he was good at. So here we have the Social Butterfly and the Highschool Recluse. And to e...

The Legend of the Eight: The Gifted

The World of Magic is safe. At least, it used to be. A senseless act of violence at the Academy of Magic leaves two people dead and countless others wondering if their school will ever be safe again. Weeks later, a mysterious tattoo appears on eight otherwise ordinary students & they quickly realize that what happe...

Where Things Begin to Fall

"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.

Battle of the Captains

It started out as a game. She's everything a girl wants to be. He's everything a girl wants. As head cheerleader and quarterback, Kody Taylor and Austin Collins would normally be expected to be together with them being the schools Mr. and Ms. Perfect. Lucky for all the single boys and girls in their school, it'll neve...

Horny

All the things I want to do with you.

Iridescent

They weren't supposed to meet. But life does that sometimes; it throws in a couple of new faces that bring you the utmost of joys in the most unlikeliest of places, and every now and then, you'll come across someone who changes you - someone who's genuine and wonderful and full of hope; someone who changes your perspe...

Long Story Short

Long Story Short Definition: phrase used to introduce a shortened account of events. Usage: slang. Example: Long story short, I like you. Top ranks: short story #81, romance #230 [current beautiful cover by @lydiarse]

Ten Tiny Breaths - Excerpt

FIRST THREE CHAPTERS Just breathe, Kacey. Ten tiny breaths. Seize them. Feel them. Love them. Four years ago Kacey Cleary’s life imploded when her car was hit by a drunk driver, killing her parents, boyfriend, and best friend. Still haunted by memories of being trapped inside, holding her boyfriend’s lifeless hand and...