A/N: This is an unedited, significantly different version of the soon to be published novel by losangelesque aka L. Akhter. This draft was written when I was 15-18 years old and I highly encourage new readers to read the published version instead. Former high school football star Frank Novak meets profound and depress...
Seventeen-year-old botanist Isla Blume believes every life deserves a chance to survive, even in the apocalypse. So when collector droids kidnap her mom, she knows she has to fight back to save her life. No one returns from being collected, not even her boyfriend Daniel, and after a failed attempt to combat the droids...
Wishing doesn't make it so, Azra does. Azra has just turned sixteen, and overnight her body lengthens, her olive skin deepens, and her eyes glisten gold thanks to the brand-new silver bangle that locks around her wrist. As she always knew it would, her Jinn ancestry brings not just magical powers but the reality of a...
A mentally unstable girl dreams that a man named Andrew Wolfe is coming to murder her and her diabetic grandmother. She claims to see him in the streets stalking her and in the dark corners of her room keeping watch over her. She won’t be able to elude him forever. Soon, Wolfe will devour her. A red coat. A sick grand...
Colton Pearce is annoying, a flirt, and definitely not in Cassidy's ten-year plan. Then again, neither is falling in love. When their English teacher hires them to clean his grandmother's house for the summer, she discovers that there may be more to Colton than meets the eye. Through a valuable baseball card, strained...
Ain't we drowning but still floating in our complexities of love and hatred, happiness and sorrow & life and the journey. Short stories and poetry about true living i.e living through an ache and coming out of it. Want to meet my words in versatile meanings, Come on in! #5 Rank 17th & 25th Aug 2015- Best Coexistence...
Sarah is in a mental hospital. She meets a boy named Connor, a quiet angry whirlpool. Together, they work through the problems inside: the mentally unstable, the corrupted staff, and Sarah's own demons. Together, they find there is light in all the darkness.
To the public, Cassidy Lelling leads the perfect life; her stepfather is Mayor, her stepmother is a dentist. She's rich, intelligent and beautiful. Her private life, however, couldn't be worse. She is abused by her parents and has been for years. When she meets Chris Toppler, will he be the solace in her tormented lif...
The Wall of Thoughts… There’s this room I keep secret. I loved this room. You know why, because magically every people’s thoughts are written here. The room is small but that’s what you would see. The concrete walls are rough they’re plain black and the people’s thought are written in chalky white handwriting. Somehow...
NOTE: If you read Untraceable, please consider POSTing an honest review on Amazon (or other platform). If you post a review, email me the review link at shelli@srjohannes.com and I will offer you a free copy of Uncontrollable (Book 2)! :) Limited Offer! Untraceable is an award-winning teen wilderness thriller. Uncontr...
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...
Don’t miss this imaginative new short story set in the magical world of Watersong—a realm of enchanting beauty…and terrifying secrets. Aggie is a mythological creature on a secret mission. Lydia is a young woman from a magical family with no real powers of her own. And Daniel is a high school boy who’s made it his du...
It’s been six weeks since angels of the apocalypse descended to demolish the modern world. Street gangs rule the day while fear and superstition rule the night. When warrior angels fly away with a helpless little girl, her seventeen-year-old sister Penryn will do anything to get her back. Anything, including making a...
Lauren Rivera is a broken girl. She lives with her father & has built tall walls around her over the past ten years. She is poor and sings at the mall to earn money. No one knows and it wasn't hard to keep it a secret since she talked to no one. Her dad abuses her and Lauren has all kinds of bruises covering her body...
This is Margaret Atwood at the absolute peak of her powers. For readers of "Oryx and Crake," nothing will ever look the same again. The narrator of Atwood's riveting novel calls himself Snowman. When the story opens, he is sleeping in a tree, wearing an old bedsheet, mourning the loss of his beloved Oryx and his best...
The sequel to Being in One Direction is out!!!!! I kept having these dreams about him. I still feel that he was still alive but that could never be. He was dead and we buried him. Everyday i keep going to his grave just to sit there and feel his presence but somehow there was something inside me saying that he wasn't...
"Before I can prepare myself, the whip lashes against my torso. The pain is indescribable. And it doesn't stop. I scream out loud, but in vain. If this is how I'm going to die, I wish it happens faster." * Even nightmares exist for a reason. Meira Esmund has been through what every twelve year old girl should never g...
James Kirkpatrick's difficult life leads him to take solace in virtual reality—a momentary peace soon shattered by mystery, intrigue, and unseen forces bent on plunging the world into chaos. An epic tale of love, loss, and the boundless influence of technology, No Life to Lose examines our fears, our hopes, the price...
