The Promised Land
A short story about the humanity beneath the Palestinian-Israeli conflict
A short story about the humanity beneath the Palestinian-Israeli conflict
Thousands of innocents die every day in Palestine. Their lives are being stolen from them unceremoniously, from innocents, from little kids that could have grown up and made a difference. I am not from Palestine, nor do I have any family in Palestine, but everyone there is a human being, just like me. This is not only...
Their sympathy had worn off and I was back to how I started, except I no longer had my husband beside me. I thought the niqab (face veil) would protect me like it used to, make me look like I fit in with everyone else. But the little person holding my hand gives it away. His beautiful dark skin and short frizzy hair s...
Poor Palestine. A place where the government are so corrupt they would kill an unborn baby. This story is about a young boy struggling in Palestine and you can understand how desensitised he is. The closest thing to a friend he has is a rat. His entire world is nothing like what we have , but his endurance and gratitu...
"It is your choice," he said, stepping so close to me that our lips were almost touching. "Either do what I say - or get another job." My heart stood still as I gazed up into his deep, dark, dangerous eyes... In a world where women's only role in life is to sit at home and look pretty, Lilly is determined to f...
Coming up with five adjectives to describe your character barely scratches the surface. In order to make your character figuratively come alive, you'll need to know them better than they know themselves. The exercises in this book will make you think about your characters in ways you never have before.
Cara’s mother has disappeared. Her father isn’t talking about it. Her big brother Max is hiding behind his iPod, and her genius little brother Jackson is busy studying the creatures he collects from the beach. But when a watery specter begins to haunt the family’s Cape Cod home, Cara and her brothers realize that thei...
|FEATURED ON ROMANCE AND WATTPAD OFFICAL READING LIST| Seventeen-year-old Adelaide (Addy) Badmus has grown up with the colour of her skin being her sole identity in her racially biased small-town. Armed with her ambitious and carefully laid plans, she's mere months away from walking away and leaving behind the constra...
🇿🇼🇿🇼🇿🇼😤❤ * [Completed] ✔ All it takes is for both of them to give into their desires and their self control will come crumbling down. * Zara is a spunky young black woman with dreams. The only thing standing in her way is money. Desperate to achieve her...
There are more things in the inside than on the outside. The one who seeks deeper finds it. Beauty entails a lot! That is; the mere physical appearance and the complicated heart. The heart being the greater of the two. The title portrays more than it seems! How long would one go for money in the synthetic face of lo...
When Christelle, a plus-sized girl with zero confidence, gets the opportunity to move out with her older brother (who's a model) and escape a home she's never felt comfortable in, she jumps for joy. But simply "moving out" turns into so much more. Suddenly she's thrust into a world filled with individuals whose job it...
Connor Meyers, Vice President and COO of Meyers Motors, has always been focused on his job and doing it well. As he is currently working on planning the biggest business meeting of his life, one that will merge his company with one in Japan and earn him the title of CEO, he has no desire for distractions. He only has...
Basically, the problems/occurrences dark skin girls confront on a regular basis. READ! You'll like it, I promise.✨
He y'all, this is my first ever book here in Wattpad yet, I have been on the app for years. But, one thing that I love about Wattpad is the books that help you to find the books you want to read. So, with that being said I have decided to create my own "What to Read" books. DISCLAIMER 🛑🛑🛑🛑🛑: Majority of the...
Alexandrite and Aiden had never exchanged more than five words and yet loved each other. A short story of first love during the early '70s and all the hassle that came with loving someone of a different race. DISCLAIMER: ALL IMAGES DO NOT BELONG TO ME IN ANYWAY, SHAPE, OR FORM. I got them from google or Instagram.
If you search up the definition of normal on google, you'll get this: nor·mal ˈnôrməl/ adjective 1. conforming to a standard; usual, typical, or expected. And then some sentence with the word in it. If you look up the opposite of normal, the antonym, you'll get a picture of Jacqueline. A girl who's life is been beyon...
Thoughts to a future lover. Feel free to make them yours, just give credit where's it's due:) DISCLAIMER: As far as I know, I made almost everything in this book up. If you feel otherwise, do private message me and I'll happily give credit. ALL IMAGES DO NOT BELONG TO ME IN ANYWAY, SHAPE, OR FORM. I got them from goog...
Deandre Romeo Every Romeo has their own Juliet right? Well, not for Deandre Romeo. He's cold inside and out. He's only nice to his family and his bestfriend and it makes girls afraid to get close to him. For him, love does exist but he doesn't want it. Tatiana Kamerie She's deeply in love with her highschool sweet he...
What happens when you experience something that brings into question all you know about the world in which you live? Something that eats away at the already-frayed notions many of us have about what is true and what is not true? About what is possible and what is impossible? For Alice Caitlyn (Kate Johnson what was)...
Born a bastard of Echo, a haven occupied by savage conquerors, the Vrai, sixteen-year-old Hain is haunted by both the coward living within him, and the guilt of having spilled innocent blood. Loathed by his kin for his dark hair and mismatched eyes, Hain finds his purpose ranging beyond the haven walls as a spy for th...
Max has spent the past several thousand lifetimes as a Reaper among humans and, despite the pleasures of a tidy country home with a well-dusted library and a finely tuned Harley, he's starting to get bored. His best friend gives him some advice: "Drink some scotch. Bed a woman. Join a rock band. Get it out of your sys...
Connor and Vince fight their forbidden attraction as they attempt to rescue themselves and fellow residents of the underground Refuge facility from a toxic breach. ***** Connor Nichols spends his days alongside several young cadets training to...
Ashton Miller was the richest, most powerful and sexiest man alive. Being a multimillionaire, he had everything he could have ever wanted; girls, cars, and so much money he didn't know what to do with. As the biggest playboy in New York, Ashton jumps from girl to girl breaking their hearts as he went along. He didn't...
🇿🇼🇿🇼🇿🇼😤❤ *** Julian Greyson has braved the pyramid of Tutanakhamun, sat down with a Laibon from the Masai Tribe, visited the Dogon Tribe of Mali and gone on many other adventures of his----why ? Because he is an amazing anthropologist/ archaeologist. Unfortunately, he is a terrib...
Royse Williams didn't think that her life could change any more than it had when she was accepted into the prestigious Riders' School. And then the war against the Tsoro spread into more populated areas, putting lives at risk and forcing the riders to take more drastic actions. With more and more of her friends goi...
When powerful witch Marithyda Skyelorn becomes a participant of the Royal Exposition, the last thing she expects is to fall in love with the Prince--or to be the cause of his death. ***** Every year, the kingdom of Karvoth hosts the Royal Exposition: a corrupt carnival...