❝ Things are only as beautiful as you make them, Charlie. Including murder. ❞ It's the opening night of Burton Abbey's production of Romeo and Juliet and all is going smoothly - that is until the climactic death scene. Romeo takes a big gulp of the poison to be with his lover, except it really is poison and Elijah, who plays Romeo, is now dead. Charlie Monet, in charge of props, is the first suspect but soon the suspicion around her turns to worry as it seems she's the next target. Khaleel Rahim, an aspiring writer, is dying for a mystery to solve at his new school. When he sees Charlie sneaking around at night he thinks he's finally found something worth writing about. After discovering Charlie's ability to see visions of the past, Khaleel decides that they're the perfect pair to solve the mystery. With threatening notes, a quiet library and poison disguised as props; somebody in the school is blurring the lines between theatre and reality and the fast friends are about to discover that there's more to boarding school than just silly rumours. [2022 Watty's Shortlist]

'I want you to want me,' the text read, and he smiled as he shot off his reply. 'You have no idea how much I already do.' Wesley Chao doesn't believe in love and Wyatt Carter wishes he wasn't always in it, until they both meet at an art exhibition and fall like toy soldiers. - [ Cover © by Harvey Elliot ] [ Copyright © 2020 by Harvey Elliot ]

what's the matter with you © eve anna pritchard

"ICARUS DID NOT SCREAM WHEN HE FELL. HE DID NOT CRY OR BEG FOR MERCY. HE DID NOT REACH OUT, SILENTLY PLEADING TO BE RESCUED WHEN HE FELT THE WAX MELT OFF HIS BACK FROM THE RAYS OF APOLLO. INSTEAD, HE THREW HIS HEAD BACK AND LAUGHED." Everyone who Apollo loved, either left him or died. That was the cold hard truth he had learned. But after a millennium of loneliness, he may have more of a shot at happiness than he thought. When Apollo meets Kyros, a 5"7 ball of sass, old feelings he thought he would never experience again are reignited and painful memories are remembered. But when a war starts brewing on the horizon, Apollo must make a decision that will change his life for ever. Dancing around murders and random natural disasters, Apollo has to fight for everything he has, but what ensues when the greatest risk is not death, but love. {the amazing cover is made by @Repulsify, check out their graphics shop, they do some amazing stuff!} @Deductor_Demigod | All rights reserved

♚ a boy kills, while a girl plans to. warning ; includes few violence, alcohol use and unlawful thoughts © tricia stratus : arcticdonkeys 2014 completed || 05/05/15

careworn and smiling with a crooked grin, adoration slept in the wrinkles beside his eyes as he observed the mosaic beauty. she held his callused palm in hers and whispered to the moon; "tonight, we're monsters." romanticism isn't always beautiful.