A cyberpunk epic. Book One - Low Life Jaded from living in a decaying world, a group of old friends reconnect in a bid to overthrow a private police agency that threatens to destroy what's left of their home.
A beloved football player must find his anonymous hater to clear his name. ⋆☆⋆ Jake Tanner is a lover, not a fighter. Attractive, charming and popular, Jake has everything a high school junior could want: passing grades, a place on the varsity football team, and a cheerleader girlfriend. Then he finds a scathing, anon...
[Wattys 2022 New Adult Winner] Following in his late father's footsteps, Gabe works as a runner during the golden age of a drug empire in late-90s Southern California. Miguel, exiled from his family for being gay, discovers meaningful work in the warehouse where Gabe makes his nightly deliveries. Slowly, resentfully...
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...
🍌🍌🍌Think Netflix's SEX EDUCATION, but without the accents, and instead of pictures and sound, I put the words on the screen, and you paint the pictures with your mind.🥒🥒🥒 *** Some guys are showers. Some guys are growers. Then there's Peter. He's got a big secret about a little problem (in his pants). But one day...
[Wattys 2022 Winner!] Vanessa Brooks, an anxious and cynical seventeen year-old, discovers she can travel to the summer of 1953 through the run-down community pool in her rural Michigan town and risks her future as she falls for a boy who lives in the past. ****** On the last day of junior year, Vanessa Brooks joins h...
Satchmo Turner is a failed private detective from the rusting heart of the Black Country who is reeling from the loss of his sister and fiancee. He's going nowhere at work, and treading water in life, until he picks up a simple missing person case and stumbles into something much bigger. Satchmo soon finds himself in...
Remiya Siu is just trying to get through her senior year in one piece. Between writing articles for the school's newspaper, her part-time job at a local diner, and the piles of assignments she has to plow through for her AP classes, she barely has time to breathe. The pressure will be worth it, though. Because ultimat...
A recently single, newly-graduated and unemployeed Coraline Novak must confront the present mess of her life by addressing the truths of her past - during the course of one evening at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting her father is hosting. 「 2nd Place Winner of the TMoL One-shot Contest / A re-draft 」
Eight international housemates from an elite German boarding school suffer the ups, the downs, and the adventures of adolescence. After a few abrupt sexual escapades, one of them (whose name is Elias) gets caught up in a world of crime and secrecy when he ends up by the side of the beguiling principal's son, Calvin. ...
Dave Coker, soldier turned cop is instinctive, a man of principles. A corrupt boss with tons of skeletons in his wardrobe and a serial killer on the loose is enough to torment him. When he unearths a conspiracy of catastrophic results, its a race against time to bring down the bad guys before the streets of Lagos are...
Tuesday lives with her aunt after the death of her mother in a car accident following remission from cancer. Angry at the world, she rebels against her guardian, her education and her nervous peers, and it isn't until she meets Max (with his own burdens to bear) that she begins to learn how to navigate the tumultuous...
Nina felt a pair of eyes watching her. Warm, gilded brown, like the whiskey in her glass. That was how she met Roman Conway for the first time. Three years later, she meets him again, and she is pulled back into a past that cracks the surface of the seemingly perfect life she curated. ...
Maybe he feared he'd learned a thing or two from Silver, but Vendi was dreaming about royalty, and about how a girl from the pauper side outside the niche could have achieved this accolade. Highest ranking: #61 in diverselit
When culture tells us what is appropriate, we accept it as the "views of the time". However, when do we, as human beings, draw the line of this popular acceptance? When--after we have questioned the structures of society--do we begin to stand up for our findings and challenge authority? Metro Riverton, a highly intell...
A group of guys pitch in for a share house on Crystal Southwest University campus. What could possibly go wrong? Cover: @Zeus___
Arlo and Myles embark on a mission to teach their town a lesson about hatred. (extended summary inside)
a personal collection of depression passed off as teenage angst (and a bit of that, too). read to the end to understand. Highest rankings: Slampoetry #3
A quiet, sitting boy from England and a destructive boy from France are each other's only saviours in an explosive quarter of the French woods.
Screen burn: "Where a permanent mark is burnt into the mask of the TV screen due to prolonged display." If Jake's life is a TV show, the set that plays it is afflicted with screen burn, forever displaying his character in a frozen state, unable to change. He is the nice guy who always finishes last. He is stuck being...