"Once upon a time..." All the best stories begin that way. Once upon a time, Jack climbed a beanstalk. Cinderella did go to the ball. Once upon a time, his parents died. When your parents are killed in front of you, on the one day of the year when all crime is legal, what do you do? You prepare for next year. You pr...
From the account of Katniss Everdeen, no tribute could compare to the brutish power and strength of Cato, a boy from District 2 who was so confident in his abilities to win that he willingly signed up for the Seventy-fourth Hunger Games. Nothing seemed to stand in his way. He was power. He was strength. And in his min...
Growing up in North Korea, in the days before her Father destroyed the world, Young Moon was happy. At least she thought she was, but that was so long ago and she was so very young. Her Father would grow excited when he told her impossible tales of the Great Neighbor, China, with dozens of astronauts in orbit and on t...
It's at the start of the annual Purge that Max receives a desperate call from a family member that can't be ignored and has to risk absolutely everything in order to save them. But the Purge doesn't just bring fear, it also brings revelation. And the truth about who your real enemy is might just be the thing Max needs...
HE WANTED TO ESCAPE HIS PROBLEMS. HE WANTED TO SEE THE FUTURE. HE NEVER CONSIDERED WHAT THE FUTURE WANTED. Confronted with suffering a painful death from cancer, Dan Sturges, a retired Ford’s engineer, foregoes treatments to try an idea of his own. After reading a theoretical article in Scientific American on time di...
When Marla Jacobs discovers that the shop next to her Little White Wedding Chapel is to become a funeral parlour, she declares all-out war. Marla’s chapel in the sleepy Shropshire countryside has become a nationwide sensation, but the arrival of Funeral Director Gabriel Ryan threatens everything Marla has worked for...
Under the public eye, she was perceived as the weakling. Behind the closed doors of the training room, she was hostile and indifferent. It's time for the underdog's story. Johanna Mason hadn't planned on coming out alive, and after getting into the arena, she was subjected to face her doubts, fears, and ultimately, he...
The Hunger Games are about to begin, and each district is apprehensively waiting for the next tributes in line to represent their own district. Serena Elodea, who is a Career from District 4, soon finds herself as the tribute for the fishing district. Her initial plan to come out formidable in the Games soon backfires...
In a Futurist-Victorian London, Ex-Carnie Victor Hart makes his living as a dinner party entertainer and mountebank, using the skills taught to him by his Romani mother – the Patterns. When tragedy strikes a wealthy friend, Victor Hart puts his skills to use in an alternative manner. This Steampunk London has its fair...
After christmas break Ridley must recruit new members before regionals and Ryder desperately wants to tell Ridley he loves him but is scared of his reply.
Aloe Mellark is the daughter to Katniss and Peeta. With her 12th birthday nearing and the Hunger Games soon after the family is on edge. Though it is only her first time to the reaping Katniss and Peeta feel that the odds may be rigged and President Snow may finally have his chance to make them pay for the havock they...
Catherine Hunter is one of the lucky ones. Fourteen years old, a daughter of privilege, she doesn't need to fear the Collections which rip other Anglyan families apart. But she longs for escape - before her dad can marry her off to a rich government brat and imprison her forever. So Catherine becomes Cat, and stows a...
A BOY. A CAT. A NIGHTMARE IN TWO WORLDS! (A Wattpad FEATURED Story) * *Voted 'TOP 100 Children's Books to Read in a Lifetime' by GOODREADS.COM users!** ***Raves from The Guardian (UK), KIRKUS, Midwest Book Reviews, AMAZON, and more!!!*** In the sleepy town of Appleton, a young loner follows a stray cat onto the road...
In the near future, two teens are swept up in the battle for the internet. A fast-paced thriller about the consequences of the choices we make. Jonah Delacroix can't stand the real world - so he lives most of his life inside a global computer-based virtual world called the Metasphere, where everyone is represented...
Codi James is a chronic underachiever. A straight C student, her life is going nowhere. Causing havoc at yet another school it looks like she's heading for another expulsion, until one teacher decides to call in a favour from an old friend. Codi is sent to the one place where her aggression might do her some good. Joi...
Meet Luke Evans, handsome but downplayed because of his nerdyness. Seemingly normal, except for the fact that his parents were murdered when he was 15.. The only thing he has of them is a box that he isn't supposed to open until his 17th birthday... Now it's his 17th birthday and he opened the box, thrust into a whole...
⁑⁑⁑ EDITING AS OF MARCH 2019 ⁑⁑⁑ [Winner in the 2012 Watty Awards for Undiscovered Gems]: ★ Read at your own risk. There are major grammar issues, plot holes and probably some really annoying stuff in this book. If you want to read a story written when I was 12, then please proceed. Major editing in process. ★ Ei...
Now complete! ~~~ It's a bad time to be a superhero. When the world turned its back on metahumans, the golden age of superheroes came crashing down. But now a mysterious supercriminal is making one final bid for power, and with no one else left to protect the world, ex-hero Spook must risk everything to take him down...
It has been a century since the rebellion, and the Capitol still wants revenge... As it is the Fourth Quarter Quell, there will be four games held this year. One will be held with twenty-four children reaped from Districts One to Four. The second will have twenty-four children reaped from Districts Five to Eight. The...
*completed*The Jotun have been fighting amongst themselves for centuries. But now Valka, a young servant from the ice palace, is about to discover a new and terrible enemy has arisen. Note: FLOOD is a stand-alone book set in the Jotun world. It is not book 2 of the Frost series (that will be published by Patchwork Pre...
We all know that Annie Cresta is the victor who went crazy inside the arena, and is the person that Finnick Odair loves the most. What is her story though? Who was she before the madness had consumed her?
Ashton can't take care of his own brother, so his parents hire a babysitter. © goldenstarkey | 2014
"*Completed*"I froze the first boy I ever kissed. And I don't mean he got cold feet..." Megan is pretty unhappy when she's forced to move to a tiny, freezing town in Canada. It's going to be totally boring, right? Things heat up when she discovers that she possesses a growing power that's becoming more and more diffic...
Selene is a "non-essential" crew member on a generational spaceship that classifies artists as insane. She and her fellow non-essential artists are given a rather unique assignment: create art they find beautiful, with no angle of making it essential for life on board the ship. As they hone their art skills, Selene te...
Kiera's best friend drags her across the universe to find her a man, only the man she's destined to meet is a battle-hardened warrior living in exile. Calculating A'Ran is too cautious to be surprised by whatever life throws at him - until faced with the challenge of becoming a worthy partner for his lifemate.
Blaine had everything. He was popular. He was on the football team. He could have any girl in the whole school. He's the new kid but everyone already loves him. Including Kurt Hummel. But the football hottie isn't suppose to fall for the only openly gay kid. He's suppose to hate him for being different. But Blaine's d...
Eighteen-year-old Kali McAlister enters her steam-powered "dogless sled" in a race, intending to win the thousand-dollar prize and escape remote Moose Hollow forever. The problem? Fortune seekers and airship pirates are after her for the secret to flash gold, her late father's alchemical masterpiece. With her modified...
