Darkread Stories

Trilby didn't lose herself all at once. No. The wheels began turning slowly but surely, when she met with the father she'd last seen as a mere toddler and the family he chose over her. They are nothing like her, and they make sure she knows it. From the moment Trilby steps into their perfect home, all dripping wet while dragging her drenched and heavily packed suitcases on their grey Persian carpet, she is not so subtly glared at and condemned. Her fate, sealed. In a mansion built on appearances and silence, she quickly becomes the cold reminder of what her father, their dad, once did. Every look strips her down, every dinner turns into a quiet execution and it's not long before every argument is about her. Surrounded by cold smiles, unspoken resentments, a family that wants absolutely nothing to do with her and nowhere to go after her mother blatantly forsook her for her new husband and her two step children, Trilby mistakes survival and self-destruction. By the time her mother, the reason Trilby is with her father's other family, notices or her father finally looks closely, the signs are no longer warnings but wreckage. Trilby is broken beyond repair and long lost course. Yet somewhere in the quiet aftermath of her destruction, the world seemed to hold its breath, waiting. Trilby's life, once a predictable arc of reckless choices and fleeting pleasures, now teetered on an edge she hadn't realized existed. A pivot she didn't see coming, a whisper of something, or better yet a certain someone, who'd always been there, but she'd been too blind to note. But now, faced by her new cold reality of raw pain and emptiness, his presence seemed to pulse with unspoken significance. As though he had been waiting for this exact moment, waiting for her to stumble, to break, to see. And in that realization, chilling yet oddly comforting, Trilby felt the first strange tug of a new path opening, one that might lead to more ruin or revelation...

High up on the ceiling rafters lives a girl. A life wasted away. Dreams flooding out in all directions. She makes a friend. But does this friendship last.

It has been said that if a butterfly flaps its wings at just the right time in just the right place. It can cause a hurricane on the other side of the world. The chaos theory. Although, you see, chaos theory isn't just about something big. It's about how the smallest shift in a huge system can affect everything. And when bad boy; Heath enter's her life and her childhood love; Nathan come's back, her life become's her very own chaos theory. Andrea's got her year all planned out, enter freshman University smoothly, find a great job, get a hot boyfriend, and find a roommate. Everything was going accordingly, until Heath an intriguing, arrogant, demanding, broken boy enter's her life just as Nathan, an old family friend comes back into Andrea's life. She must finally reconcile a lifetime of feelings for Nathan, the boy who's not the same person she knew before, and the lust she find's in Heath. Together they did not only intercepted her plans, but completely changed them. ------ A/N *sighs* I'll probably really regret writing this... Get ready for Continuous Grammer mistakes (I'll try my best to edit), cheesy plot lines, and romance...*wink wonk* *hands bouquet of daisys* thank you for reading :)

What rests beneath the ground is not always asleep... Mike Cooper has spent his life fruitlessly searching for gold in the great American West. Looking to finally make his fortune, he decides to risk everything and pack up his crew of fellow miners to head for the heart of gold-rich Ghana West Africa, where an opportunity arises that's too good to ignore. Leased a plot of land, Mike and his crew feel they're on the cusp of success. Overrun by greed, they ignore all of the warning signs that something is dangerously wrong with the land they're mining. And soon they discover that the time-worn ground holds secrets that are best left buried. For nothing is as it seems in this forgotten world. Terror lurks in the hearts of men who quickly learn that the stuff of nightmares is all too real and what starts as a new beginning, rapidly becomes a frightening ordeal of horror and bloodshed. They signed the contract. They staked their claim. And now time is running out for them. They wanted to find gold, but now they only want to keep their souls. But the demon is awake, and he's hungry...