Elysian

A collection of short stories inspired by fallen heroes—those forgotten and those most remembered.

Colored Lights

a one-shot for Saving Elliot

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And, suddenly, Elliot feels like a little boy again and Jensen is the girl sitting in class right next to him. He’s so confused because he peeks at her again, and this time it’s not Jensen, it’s Nova with her dark eyes and soft hair and god, what Elliot would give to have her back there. But it’s not Nova, it’s Jensen...

Twats Will Be Twats

[SAVING ELLIOT ONE-SHOT] In which; 1) Finley is a complete and utter twat--wait, no O'Connor is the real twat. and 2) Finley is leaving and O'Connor can't make him stay.

S a t i n S h i r t s

She writes all night. He flirts with girls all night. But when they come together in his room... the Cool Boy of the school and the Socially Inept Girl share a bed and make the night theirs. © 2014 All rights reserved | Short-Story #2 | Humour #15 |

V e l v e t V e s t s

He disappears with magic. She sits on her chair all day. But when the two collide... The Ghost of the school and the New Damaged Girl consume in their flaws. © 2014 All rights reserved | Short-Story #1 |

L a c y L e a t h e r s

She has skin like porcelain. He is a shade like bronze. But when all their differences are put to the side... The Brown Boy and The White Girl indulge in the sparks between them. © 2014 All rights reserved | Short-Story #3 |

J e a n s J a c k e t

[FEATURED STORY] At school, they were nothing. At midnight, they were lovers. Because one minute after midnight... a rich girl and a boy who came from nothing found something they had in common. © 2014 All rights reserved | Short-Story #2 | Humour #25 |

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...

saving elliot // say something

"Decades can pass, you can move country, wars can be fought, people can die, people can change, but the stars will always stay the same. They stay constant. They are really the only reliable thing in life."

boy

"i remember." © ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 2015. N. A. The sequel to 'Boy' is 'Funnybones' and is available to read on my profile.

run

do you ever feel the desire to run? [Cover made by etherealinsanity]

Crushed

"We often confuse what we wish for with what is." ~ Neil Gaiman

Twelve Ways To Spend One's Christmas Eve

"Anna dislikes being stuck three-quarters of the way down a chimney. She really does. Not to mention, she's still going round North America, and there's, like, three continents still to get through in about as many hours."

Mittens

The next December, they were apart. [Sequel to December]

In 27 Days (Watty Award Winner 2012)

Hadley Jamison doesn't know what to think when she hears that her classmate, Archer Morales, committed suicide. She didn't exactly know him, but that doesn't stop her from feeling like there was something she could have done to help him. So to Hadley's surprise, on the very night of Archer's funeral, she has a r...

painting paradise [tuesday]

❝she painted a picture of paradise.. to melt, around her heart, the ice.. and through it she wandered, ever alone.. building a home she could call her own.❞ || a jumble of emotions that speak when words fail ||

fadingtimebytheseaside

Summer Chronicles, Part II: Poems from August 2013.

Display

It's always a flat white coffee with one sugar.

Six Last Lessons

"We all live, Emily, and we all die. It's part of being human, but more than that, it's part of being alive. I'm proud to say that I lived, and when I die, I want you to be proud too." Emily knows a lot about life. She does, after all, have sixteen years of hands on experience. But when her best friend is diagnosed wi...

The Baby Project

Avery and Andrew have been best friends since middle school; they're close. But they're about to get a whole lot closer when paired up for the project like no other: the baby project.

The Dreamer ✓

One day, Morgana decides to pick up a pen and write a series of letters addressed to those she loves and hates. In these letters, she reveals her deepest fears and darkest secrets, in these letters she tells of the only boy she's ever loved and in these letters she realises that nothing is ever as it seems, and after...

Let Her Go

❝ he told her the story about how the sun loved the moon so much, he died every night just to let her breathe. ❞ {memoirs from a girl who didn't realize how much he cared until it was too late.}

Ten Reasons Not To Die

"Give me ten days, and I can give you ten reasons not to die." Evan paused. "And if I can't change your mind by then, you can go jump off that cliff."

Three Months

Paisley has a bucket list. After all, she's going to die in three months. What she expects is for her little excursions to be fun-filled and light-hearted, but what she doesn't expect is to have one thing on her bucket list that can only be achieved by bringing along badass Jude Andrews, who's got some secrets of his...

5:48 [re-write 2.0]

Sometimes all you really need is a place to call home. * * * Being re-written completely as of May 14, 2021

Polaroid

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, when all I really want is five.

Three Days Dead

The girl he's loved more than any other has died, leaving him with a confession he never got to deliver. But, thanks to a deal struck with a Pedlar in a graveyard, Colt now has three days to spend with Aquarius Joans, the girl who stole his heart.

Late Summer Rain

It was pity that first made Dannie speak to him. She had known Ryan since she was a kid, but he had always been the popular Golden Boy, and she had always been the tomboy that didn’t mind not having any friends. It was odd, she had thought, that all the popular kids who had once kissed the ground he walked on, didn’t...