The Undoing of Kira Nakata

The beautiful die young.

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

twenty one

❝ it takes 21 days to form a new habit. ❞ -dr. maxwell maltz when you practically live in a hospital, you'll inevitably get used to terminal sicknesses, depression, and death. it further underlines the quote, "nothing is permanent." caleb has nothing permanent in his life. and ever since his mom's absence, that's all...

Cry Until You Bleed

This is not a ‘boy saves the girl’ type of story. This is anything but that. No boy can save a girl like Ana Shaw. She is saveless. Ana Shaw has had a rough three years. After a traumatic experience when she was fifteen, she has been in and out of mental hospitals in hopes of trying to make her whole again. Now, afte...

Iron and Ink

***Inspired by the upcoming TV series event DIG on USA Network.*** ***Companion short story to two of my series, The Triumvirate Histories (completed) and The Forgotten Passages (completed).*** Lorraine Ellis was used to her father's stories - impossible stories about kings and pharaohs, pirates and sunken treasures...

Laugh Until You Cry

Stella Wayne is on her way to a bright future. With multiple awards under her belt and the most elite dance school in the country on her transcript, any college would be lucky to have her. With a full ride scholarship to Julliard already in her name, the only thing Stella has to do is survive her last year of high sch...

Paper Planes

One Shot.

Almond Boy

Two teens unable to participate in gym watch their fellow students from a park bench. One of them eats what seems like a pound of almonds each day. The other wants to know why. [ © 2014 - Samantha Grace. All Rights Reserved. ] Cover made by the amazingly talented Julietta, or, -therapy

Parchment & Pearls

(The Forgotten Passages Book One) After almost nineteen years, I was used to life - used to school, used to having to put down my beloved books in exchange for heels and pearls, and used to lying to everyone who wasn't aware of my second, secret life in the Brotherhood of Time. It's been five years - five years since...

Condiments

In which a Subway worker teaches her customer the real reason why people use condiments

Imperfect

Nell Watson just can't seem to get it right. Her parents treat her coldly no matter what she does and the one member of her family she could count on, her younger sister Paige, has turned her back on Nell. Now, everything's changing and Nell is starting to think that maybe perfect isn't all it's cracked up to be, esp...

Catching His Queen [MDM Sequel]

Every King needs a Queen. Sebastian isn't going to let his slip away, no matter how hard she tries. +++++ Sequel to Million Dollar Man

Chocolate Chips

Brielle Evans was an ordinary girl with an ordinary job at the local bakery. However, she had a not-so-ordinary problem - acute lymphocytic leukemia. When seventeen-year-old Tyler walks into the bakery, Brielle's life turns upside down. Spending all of their free time together, when will Tyler find out Brielle's secre...

Community Service

"'Caution. Hotness at work. May spontaneously combust.' I read Ross' neon shirt with something akin to disgust, brushing back my hair and shooting him a glare. 'Really? Really, Ross? I hope you realize that no one's going to find you attractive when you're picking up trash from the ground with a stick.'" When Ross Al...

Penny For Your Thoughts?

in which she lets him go.

Wistful Remembrance (Wattys 2014 HQ Love Award Winner!)

(The Triumvirate Histories Book Four) What does the world think when a girl who'd been dead for three months turns up at the site of a huge CIA raid, which ended up with an explosion and four deaths? That she might have been in a stickier situation before than they'd known. What did they think would happen when she...

Polaroids

❝He was shooting pictures❞ After six years Helen can't wait for her husband to come back home from the army. Instead all she is left with a bluebird mantelpiece clock that he gave and some polaroid shots of them together shot by him. Based on the Ed Sheeran song Photograph. [cov...

Strawberry Ice Cream

I discovered you between three scoops of pink. © stanzas

letters

"maybe i fucking hate you because you said you loved me back when you didn’t" ➴ lower case intended © troubhle 2014

Coffee Stained Love

Two people. Two cups of coffee. Two lives suddenly intertwined. 2014 © All Rights Reserved [Short Story #550, 7.23.14]

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 |

notes (COMPLETED)

"You're just a girl, not even a pretty one. You were just something to fill my spare time, nothing more. And these? Well they're just notes."

never (COMPLETED)

"Never?" Another tear fell from the girl's face, but she let the salty drop cascade down her cheek. "Never."

Hollister

She just wanted their first meeting to be perfect.

Don't Give Up

"I'm pregnant." and "I never cared." are two deadly sentences that Aerial Mason never wants anyone to say to her. So how ironic is it when those exact words are said by her best friend and the one she loves the most?

Madness In Literature

The first time Mel saw Dean was in an elective class called Madness in Literature. He had been sitting a few rows down in his green parka, writing furiously into his notebook. Something about him made her stop and stare, and it felt like she hasn't looked away since. But there is a reason why Dean seldom comes to cla...

boy

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

Letters {Watty Awards 2013 Winner}

{Watty Awards 2013 Winner} This is simply a story about a lonely girl who finds love. I was inspired to write this because I wanted to know that there are good things that happen to invisible girls like me. I wanted to write Hope for those who seem hopeless. • • • In March of 2013, Letters was #1 in the short story ca...

Fateful Hindrance

(The Triumvirate Histories Book Three) What do you call the girl who gets on a jet with the supposed enemy rather than one that would have taken her normal, not so dangerous life in New York? A traitor to the people who call her family, betraying them to the people they'd called the enemy for centuries. Now, add a wo...

Million Dollar Man

Gangs. That was the one thing that had ruined Evelyn Summers life since the start. With her brother being the leader of “The London's Eyes,”growing up in a world of cruelty was something Evelyn Summers had to become accustomed to. But thing's about to get a whole lot worse. Gangs are starting to form all over London...