He looked over at me in the dimness, fingers loose in my grip. "You are hurting me," he said, without interest. He had caked powder on his already pale skin, all of one shade except for points made by a hot pencil. Though it was no longer the mode at court, the new fashion more ostentatious and overdrawn, he still favored it, and as I did. My fingers crept up his wrist. I felt rough punctures, half healed and raw, a scattering of them, and I pulled. Laurent could not resist, weakened by the drawing of his blood. My vocal cords had been severed by the younger one's teeth, and so I could not speak, but I pushed up his sleeve, the luxury of his white linen, and found his arm colored like a polluted river. I touched the bites with my fingertips, ten, fifteen, twenty. "I have felt your judgment already," L whispered, trying to pull his arm back, "I have felt it these now two hundred years. Judgment judgment. Cry not. Is it pity? You are a cold thing, without heart, to judge me for what I do. Prideful toad." His arm muscles worked against my grip beneath his blood bruised skin. "Unhand me. Wretched, lye-broken flesh." After a time, he made a sound like a trapped fox, a dying child's keen, and gave up, lying back on the bed such that his hair fell across my face. My other hand found his neck and stroked him. "You will not know what it feels like, good heart," he said to me, softly, doing me one of his gentle nips of an insult, "for love to change you in an instant." He relaxed under my stroking, and his tone softened. "I only meant to help him die." ** After his untimely death, the story of the vampire "L" comes together. Devotees tell the story from many points of view across history, painting a portrait of a man crushed by great loves, desperation, and the indifferent march of time. featured 3/9/16 complete 8/31/16 Editing, as of 5/11/2018. Log: 0/129 chapters edited. 0 added. Cover by @ferret-bird

Rhea Arienne, a normal college student who's drowning in loans and debt, dies by the infamous truck-sama. Unwillingly being bounded to a System, She is forced to travel to other worlds. Whether it's a futuristic mecha world or an ancient Wuxia world, bitch-slapping horrible protagonists and seeing a certain someone in every world, is what seems to be in store for---- "...Is that a snake I see in my pants?" (o*｡_｡)o "HOST!! DON'T KILL ME!!! A malfunction happened during the transfer process..." ｡ﾟ( ﾟஇ‸இﾟ)ﾟ｡ Her? ------- *BL!! Not BxG!* *1V1 relationship* *I don't own most of the pictures (only some) or videos I put on this story. All credit goes to their creators respectively* *VERY EXPLICIT language, smut and gore* *Extremely mature content* *I cheat by using Grammarly* HA HA 🙃 Inspired by: - 'Save the love-struck best friend of the protagonist system go! BL' by @KSAdams - 'Uprising Of The Cannon Fodders (BL)' by @Rose_Darkblood

loiyorel didn't give much about life and lived it to the fullest his thoughts if I'm going to die tomorrow then I might as well live today and so the man had free spirit upon one of his many unruly parties loiyorel dropped from a 6 story building was that was what killed him no it was during the fall he was it by a speeding truck and went splat. upon his death he was reincarnated in to a side villain called Itony Leizarelle as a child from a novel he read in a few years when he would be 16 he would die at the hands of the Male lead his adopted brother but he didn't mind he lived his life to the fullest he has no time wasting preventing avoiding death flags a crap like that he'll just lays around until this blows over

What lengths would you go to in order to achieve your dreams? Spencer has always seen the world through numbers. While they watch those in negative numbers strive for positives and those in the positives risk everything to stay in the positives, they long for the simplest of numbers: Zero. At Zero, they will experience true tranquility and feel at peace with themself. To help reach as close to Zero as possible, Spencer writes books, novelettes, poetry and more. By sharing their experiences as an agender person living with a mother who doesn't understand them (nor try to), they hope to inspire others and assure them they are not alone. When Spencer is given the opportunity to work with a publisher and publish their own book, they are determined to write a romance book proposal that no one will want to turn down. The only problem: none of their ideas are authentic enough. Since Spencer never felt the need to date before, their writing teacher encourages them to pursue romance to help inspire their book. While Spencer is determined to not date anyone, they are willing to give it a try for the sake of their writing. And when they find out their cute classmate seems to be interested in them, they decide to see where their blossoming relationship will go. After all, they're willing to do anything to reach Zero.

in which fate threatens to be the undoing of a star-crossed pair who dare to defy the rules of life and death

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

❝ 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]

An introverted mage. An isolated warrior. Their adventures are epic. Their friendship is legendary.

impossible heists, lawless youths, and centuries-old paintings that hold immeasurable power. ✧ cover art by Louise Delfin

we are gods slowly fading from mortal memories © all rights reserved to atlas | 2017