"Why do you chase murderers like you have nine lives?" In which a heartthrob and a reporter team up to bring down Seraph City's most lethal killer.

The world has never been a favorable place for the insects. Permanently branded as a pest and a nuisance, they have faced an impressive array of threats to their existence, from flyswatters to pesticides to the soles of human footwear. Yet they endured. They endured, and they thrived. They took up residence on this lovely blue-green planet long before the first human stood up on his two feet, and they will be here as ever-present witnesses to the workings of time as our cities are abandoned and reclaimed by the forces of nature. At the height of our power, we humans did all that could be done with our planet. We mapped, we charted, we analyzed, we conquered. We tamed and we eradicated. We silenced and we manipulated. Yet we could not seem to put a dent in the thick-skinned little class Insecta. Kill a roach, and there will always be another to take its place. Find a termite and you might as well have found a thousand. Through war and peace, famine and prosperity, wealth and bankruptcy, the insects endured. We are no longer the kings of this planet. The tables have turned. It is now our turn to endure. So we take inspiration from our exoskeleton-clad comrades and we endure. We endure. We MOLT Highest Ranking: #200

''Love, you may be royalty, but out there, you are as easily wasted as a pawn.'' Fira, the princess of a kingdom at war, has infiltrated the enemy lines. Disguised as a lowly commoner when the biggest battle yet breaks out, she must find a way to return to her kingdom without revealing her identity, and if that is not possible, how to save her kingdom while playing double agent. But what Fira soon realizes is that queens and pawns have at least one thing in common when it comes to the battlefield: both are easily slain. ~ Cover by the goddess @Abyss-of-Crazy

*Made for the March 2016 contest of FWOY magazine, an amazing piece of work (that I now work at ;D). In which an ordinary Rosie receives some yellow mimosas and realizes that maybe she's a little less ordinary than she thought.

Meghan Carter is what you would call your typical wallflower. And she's proud of it, too. At least, until all her other wallflower friends begin to branch out and spread their wings, transforming from clumsy caterpillars into beautiful butterflies. Feeling the heat, Meghan is desperate for a change, but she doesn't even know where to start. And with her friends' accomplishments mounting higher and higher while hers remain nonexistent, Meghan starts to wonder if she's destined to be that awkward wallflower all her life, or if there is such a way out of her boring slump. If there is, she's determined to find it. --- Copyright: Awkward Firsts, including all chapters, prologues, epilogues, and associated content, is COPYRIGHTED. All rights reserved by the owner and creator of this work, Tiffany / -tigerlily, and any unauthorized copying, broadcasting, manipulation, distribution, or selling of this work constitutes as an infringement. Any infringement of copyright is punishable by law.

From a parallel world, the Valnr laid siege upon Earth seeking to claim the life force of every living creature. By the intervention of the Altr gods, select humans were empowered to stem their tide. Thus, the Corps of Scions came to be. Over the course of a thousand years, the Corps has stood against their foe, locked away in the frozen Northern Reaches. They've tasted a costly victory, saw the Valnr's resurgence and remain, to this day, locked in a battle of attrition. Young conscripts are forced out of their lives to join the ranks of the Scions. Who they were, what dreams they had matters not - they must face ahead and learn to endure the responsibility placed upon them. For if the Corps' vigil falls, the gods themselves shall weep over the massacre that follows. *Cover designed by @seventhstar*

"You have to pick your battles, big brother. You can't fight them all." "I can try." (in which a house full of hearts chases life too differently.)

He calls her at night and ignores her by day. But she shouldn't be upset. Despite everything, she's only his phone friend; nothing more, nothing real.

"if i write poems to you, will you finally understand me for who i am? for can you not see that the way i love is the way that shouldn't be?" ✦ lovely cover by @klexos c: {#19 in poetry on 9/8/16} ✦ © lusterless (galena t.) 2016 all rights reserved.