Worth 1000 Words

One photograph. 1000 words.

Possibilitea

A change of venue. One drink, poured carefully and sipped slowly. Is that truly all it takes to see the potential for your future? Part of the NARomance #SpringIntoLove contest Prompt 5 (gif)

Exist

Grant has big dreams of taking his company worldwide. That involves going in public, including a stop for coffee on his way to the train station. A small voice behind him piques his interest, but Grant is laser focused is on his goals. He knows how to exist... but is there more to life? Written as part of the #CoffeeS...

I'll Catch Ya I #FiveYearsSinceCollabContest

Short story submission for the Five Years Since Collaboration Contest Juliette has made a life for herself in a new city and established herself in her career. A morning walk brings her to her knees with grief. Can she find a path to recover from her past?

Train Wreck

Two people, heading toward the unknown. Tragedy brings them together, unearthing secrets and guilt that could devastate their lives. Will the tangled wreckage be the end, or a fresh new beginning? **Trigger warning - this book will discuss grief, loss, death, mental health issues, suicide, and substance abuse. Consi...

Eight Ball, Corner Pocket

This is my uncut entry into the #SexLifeContest. Marlina Myers is a bi woman in college seemingly happy in her newest relationship with Sheri Caste. The only problem is she can't stop thinking about her roommate Brant Simpson. Living together and sharing classes is bad enough, but he insists on inviting her to partie...

Feudal Love

My second uncut entry into the #SexLifeContest. In the Kamakura period of Japan, the classical culture flowers under the rule of their great emperor. Servants to this man, Suiko and Mashida attend to his needs in the great palace. It just so happens that on one particular day, they tend to his more carnal needs. Once...

Who Spilled It?

My entry into the Coffee Community's Coffee & Crime Contest. Prompt: You walk into your usual coffee shop to grab a cup when someone nudges you on the shoulder. "Great you've arrived. Our main suspect." That's when you turn around and notice the yellow duct tapes all over the place. ꧁••••꧂ Charisa McDowell has to ha...

The Caffeine in My Veins

Coffee-wanted and very much needed. As a student in Prague, Kamila Wesson can't survive without it. The Kavarna Prazirna offers that and much more when she bumps into a handsome stranger one day. What or who else does she soon learn she can't live without? _ _ _ Entry in the #CoffeeShopsBrewStories contest.

Trick or Treat

Eager to let loose in her last year of college, Gina Hanscum goes on a search for a bit of fun in the form of a party. When she attends the Halloween costume party with her new boyfriend Dylan, she never dreamed that things would turn into a nightmare. Is her evening and possibly life ruined, or does a longtime crus...

Love No More

Kayla Addams is seemingly lost adrift in college trying to find her way. At twenty-two, being a virgin is thought of as one step away from insanity. Wanting to be in love first before doing the deed has interested guys dropping her left and right. The one thing she wants most is beginning to look like something she...

Played Together

Seeing the unique musical experience given in Austria, a group of friends and part-time musicians decide to follow suit. Using their love of music, they are able to overlook the odd choice in instruments to give a memorable performance. The only issue is these organic tools are less than pleased with the humans' brig...

The Mirror

Amelia Baxter is the epitome of a carefree twenty-one-year-old. Never giving much thought or concern to anyone, she parties her way through life. That is, until one fateful New Year's Eve. When she wakes up the next morning in a strange place, an unfamiliar face stares back at her in the mirror. What is going on? Joi...

Hypnotized: A Nanotale

Hypnotized: to capture the attention of someone in its entirety; fascinated, entranced, or bewitched. *** Kannika Deo finds herself out on Valentine's Day in a place she never expected to be again: a party thrown by Ivan Petrov. Will her penchant for shrugging off responsibilities and partying land her in more troubl...

A Sheltered Christmas

This short story is a part of a group event we did on another platform. I'm bringing it to Wattpad for your enjoyment. Here is my prompt: You work for an animal shelter and one of the animals has touched your heart. Your goal is to find a loving home for the animal before the holidays. Maybe you find love along the wa...

Secrets Under the Moonlight

Gray Matthews spent every summer of the last ten years at Camp ArrowWood... it was the highlight of his summer. Three years he's been a summer counselor at his beloved camp, and every summer is better than the last. With his friend Ryan by his side, it's set up to be the best summer of his life. Violet Woods has g...

The Storm Inside Your Mind

Cora Stephensen was in an accident that she can't remember, parts of her mind seemingly locked forever. A lost love remains a mystery as her family tries to protect her from herself. Will she ever remember what happened last summer? Short story entry in the Last Summer Contest 2020 First Place winner in the @NARom...

Marked by Love #SpringIntoLove Contest

Jules was born with the same faint birthmark that everyone else in the world was, fated to darken into a brilliant crimson color when she encounters the other half of her soul. Her true soulmate. The only hitch is, she doesn't know who he is, and she only has a year to find him before the marks fade. Will she be do...

Levittown

"Pretty girls like you get lost in these woods all the time, Alexa." On the night of Sebastián's annual Beginning of Summer Bash, amiable and adventurous Melody Tryniski went missing. What might have appeared as a juvenile escapade - a casual incident in eerie Levittown, Utah - turned into a missing person's case. Nob...

Light as a Feather, Cold as Marble

This is the sequel to Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board, the first book in the Weeping Willow High School series.