"Am I going to break you, Case? Or are you bamboo?" The days are dry and hot, school is out, and all 17-year-old Case wants to do is party hard with his friends over the Fourth of July weekend. But when a drug deal goes wrong, his plans for an epic summer vacation are cut short. Case is taken captive, driven halfway a...
A fierce warrior seduces a mysterious rebel to protect the king. --- Epsa proudly defends the nation as a member of King Makapu's Royal Guard. When a resistance movement threatens the kingdom from within, Makapu calls on Epsa for a task requiring more than just combat skills. Epsa must seduce Izra, a mysterious and ma...
"Jezebel looked down at the ground that wasn't really the ground, and bent in her inhuman movements, bowing. 'Long live the Queen,' she peered up at me, a wide smile on her blood red lips." *** Holly was sort of a jerk - she was bossy, cocky, and refused to take orders from anyone else. But, that doesn't mean you...
Grief is everlasting. Some say it gets easier with time. Some say that the pain lessens. I don't believe them. My grief and pain is still there every day, like a storm cloud following me. It doesn't get better. It doesn't get easier. It's all a lie that they tell you. When Kurtis died, part of me went with him. How do...
The unnatural urge to run brings Talilah to the edge of a cliff, both literally and metaphorically. Taking the plunge, she's reunited with the past she had thought she'd escaped from. [For the Last Writer Standing competition, Round 3 (Figment). Highest scoring entry.]
After a traumatising breakup, a young city woman takes the spur of the moment decision to accept a job as a private teacher to the daughter of a rich aristocrat in the small town of Grenlae. She doesn't care that the townsfolk is superstitious, or that she is not allowed in the left wing of Bryn Du, the Lord's mansion...