VIXERE

❝all empires fall, girl, watch as yours turns to ashes around you.❞ cover by: @allamason

Viper's Nest

"This is the end of the world, boy, and only together can you prevent Hell from being unleashed upon us." first draft © 2019, arkhaic

MOULIN ROUGE | GRAPHICS [CLOSED]

❛BIGGER AND BETTER.❜ Back and open for more graphic requests! rubyruins | all rights reserved ©

Sins On The Skin

"I want to defile you, destroy you, corrupt you in the most sinfully beautiful way. Break you until you're completely mine." "And then?" "Then I'll piece you back together, of course." He took another step in her direction, closing the distance between them. "Love can be holy." He said but the look in his eyes prom...

The Knight's Rose

Many centuries ago, in the kingdom of Chuvaria lived a young poor maiden named 'Rose Van Sparrow'. Rose and her family were the dwellers of a small village in the kingdom and struggled to survive through the obstacles of life. A hopeless romantic, beautiful girl with brown eyes, Rose had never dreamt of any luxury oth...

Baiting Fate

You can't ignore Fate and you can't defy the Fates. That was once the most important rule known to the mortals of Earth and the gods and goddesses of Olympus. Feared by even Zeus, king of the gods, they were respected by the Greek pantheon. The three Fates, fabled immortal goddesses, spin, measure, and cut each and e...

those who speak in dreams | #ONC2020

*ONC ROUND ONE QUALIFIER* *ONC ROUND TWO QUALIFIER* *ONC AMBASSADOR'S PICK* *COMMUNITY CURATOR PICK -- JULY 2020 & FEBRUARY 2021* *MINI AWARD WINNER FOR BEST DIALOGUE -- OPEN DOOR AWARDS 2021* *SUN WINNER - FIRST PLACE FOR FANTASY -- OPEN DOOR AWARDS 2021* ❝ how can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, an...

The Serpent's Veil

Prince of Persia meets The Wrath and the Dawn in this epic retelling of the life of the Abbasid Queen Al-Khayzuran. Arabia - Circa 764. Al-Khayzuran's life changes forever when she is kidnapped from her home and sold to a caravan returning from Hajj. An unlikely and altogether fateful series of events leads her face...

A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO MURDER

virtues are for fools, darling.

Presque Vu

"Vi veri universum vivus vici" When Al impulsively decides to rob her work place, she becomes entangled in a web of mob bosses, stolen possessions and hallucinations to a life that certainly didn't belong to her. She soon finds herself confronted with the choice to either lead society into a disarray of its own burgeo...

Burnt Lisianthus Kisses | ON HOLD

❝THEY WILL BURN YOU, LITTLE LISIANTHUS PRINCE.❞ Amidst the purple lisianthuses, a knight and a prince exchange kisses, entirely unaware of the ruination transpiring nearby; for just above the palace garden, three royal children fall to the floor without their souls. © Copyright 2017 by Lily White. All rights reserved.

THE DREAMER'S LAMENT

In the hearts of dreamers, lament will always linger. Sadness can bloom into the brightest, lambent shades, like the rain giving way to the phantom of a rainbow, like the promise of hope. But sorrow may also wind down a darker, colder path. Our hearts struggle to find our way back, but our footprints have faded into t...

The Bed-Warmer

bed-warmer (n): someone hired to warm people's bed in a hotel rule 1: leave before the client checks in rule 2: never get into the client's personal business rule 3: never let the client know about you what happens when you break the rules? • • • | | | • • • Opal Jennings has been employ...

Platinum Nights (WATTYS 2019 WINNER ) - Excerpts

**WATTYS 2019 WINNER - ROMANCE** Now a published book on Amazon, free on Kindle Unlimited! https://storyoriginapp.com/universalbooklinks/fac9b67a-68fa-11eb-91ea-a7e2ab976566 Isa Duarte has been an escort for over ten years now. It's a hard, nerve-wracking job, but she needs the money to take care of her daughter. At...

Orlando Santos Suite

He's as ruthless as Ancient Kings. Mind games are his forte. Girls he encounters are bereft and scarred for life given his inability to feel. Not even his luxurious cars, unfathomable wealth nor villas can satiate his non-existent soul. His suite is filled with a forest of secrets one can't possibly begin to uncover. ...

ekstasis

Sophie Boyd has spent her whole life longing for an escape from her dreary childhood home and distant widower father. So when she receives a generous scholarship from the prestigious Bragdon Academy, she jumps at the opportunity to trade her working class upbringing for a boarding school education alongside Europe's r...

A Strange Kind of Hunger | FIRST DRAFT

dr. jonathan deere, trapped in a small, stifling town, spends his days working and pining after the gravedigger's son: sweet, silver-souled jesse goodwin. but the goodwin brothers have a devastating secret, and when jesse falls ill jonathan must force his way into their shadowy world, facing a battle for the life of t...

SAINT PABLO

Last month, pop sensation three-times Grammy award winner Ira Camille killed herself. cover by @maskedst

Godspeed

The moment Marley Mason moved to the United States of America he stopped speaking. Dislocated from his mother, friends, and culture, Marley found it impossible to voice his thoughts to anyone but his father. Thereafter, he gave up on himself and his happiness. What else was an alien to do? Until he meets Ava DeLougher...

The Things That Stay

The year is 1965: a year thrumming with promise and hope and change all around the globe. But for two people, change seems out of the question. Their worlds are rigid, stuck, fixed—and completely contradictory to one another. Holly is a frazzled and reclusive mess from the wrong side of the tracks—well, the wrong side...

Dusk Days

In the late summer of 1986, Winona Swan finds herself on the run with only her cat, a backpack and an old rucksack to her name. She has fled a dysfunctional life in Tucson with her flighty mother and controlling stepfather, and now hopes to start anew with her father in the tiny town of Forks, Washington. She has litt...

Conflicted

Struggling to make ends meet isn't something relatively new to Ada Johnson. Life throws difficulties one way or another at her be it from trying to pay her rent to being unable to say no to people which tends to lead her into rather awkward situations. However an opportunity comes her way seeming to cause her life to...

triumph.

«If we could give it a name, we could say that my rage was biblical. I was the chariots and the plagues of Egypt. I was the Red Sea parting and David fighting the giant. I could turn men into salt if I looked at them. I was biblical. Nobody should dare take the sacred words and thread them around my wrists. I was a bi...

A war that is Secret, Cold and Bloody

Raelynn Fei is a solider. She serves in an elite force meant to fight monsters and magic. But when a hidden rebellion comes to light, she finds herself battling more than just arcane threats, threats more human and more deadly then she could possibly imagine.

Icarus

❝A boy and a girl, feathers and flames. A tragic love story, and a life that came to an end❞ ➳ The body dies but the soul survives; Punished by the gods, Icarus is cursed and doomed to centuries of pain. Reborn every eighteen years, He is bound to fall in pure love with an innocent soul and cause her death. Consumed...

Mieux Que Tout

LA : where dreams are either made or broken, where actors and strangers become lovers, where life is alluring and the opportunities endless. But is it all too good to be true? ©2020

Misselthwaite

"A great many things have happened in that garden - things you oughtn't to know about. Some good, some bad, and all akin to magic." Yorkshire, 1910 Sixteen-year-old Mary Lennox has said her goodbyes to the sun. Plucked from India and the only life she's ever known, Mary must find her place within the walls of Misselth...

Child of the Pyre | ONC2020

『FROM YOUR SADNESS COMES YOUR DESPERATION. AND FROM YOUR DESPERATION COMES YOUR DEMISE.』 A fey daughter born in the Royal House of Elysium leaves home with a simple task. Steal 99 souls of the most miserable mortals in exchange for her freedom, in exchange for her right to her name. (#ONC prompt #32) © 2020, onethous...

Symphony of Lilacs

• Long Listed for the 2018 Wattys • A Wattpad Featured Story • Top 30 in the first ever Historical Awards [ A "GREAT EXPECTATIONS" RETELLING ] GENRE: historical fiction London, 1884 "Sometimes, even messiahs can't bring back the dead." Instead of earning the reputation of a modest doctor, Matthew Knightley seems to be...