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 way? Let's see what I did with this. Shall we? ~*~ Fair Warning: I left the ending on this one open. Feel free to complain in the comments, though. I have already been told off for it, just FYI.

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 won't find until a handsome outsider comes into her life. Will his appearance change things for the better or is love just not in the cards for Kayla? •Excerpt•Excerpt•Excerpt•Excerpt•Excerpt• Ongoing story available on Inkitt.

Classical mythology tells us a phoenix is a rare bird that burns upon its own funeral pyre in order to rise from the ashes. Life is renewed after this process, and the phoenix's journey begins once again. - - - Daniel Lakhan, photographer and agoraphobe, desperately needs a change. Life outside his safe, familiar home seems unfathomable. Enter Thaliela Nesmith, a beautiful woman who lives to put herself out in the world. To Daniel, she's a phoenix...rare and fiery. Her only fear is missing out on what the rest of the world has to offer. Together, will they rise or be consumed in the flame? - - -

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 trouble than she can get out of by herself this time? Read to find out... ***

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.