Gruelling Stories

"When she was just a girl She expected the world, But it flew away from her reach, so She ran away in her sleep And dreamed of Paradise." - 'Paradise', Coldplay A Short Story | For @octaves's writing Competition Number 2 (which has to be based off of a song). Word count (excluding epigraph): 1300

Random short stories I come up with or found some where and tweaked a bit

Unuhanga te Taniwha; unleash the monster. In the beginning, when the European first landed on the shores of Aotearoa, one of the monsters they've brought on the ship, escaped without any difficulty. One of the leaders of the leaders tried to lure the monster back once it was found, but they quickly discovered they were too late to retrieve it, once the monster the made a pact with a Maori chief. Now in modern days, the monster is still lurking. Killing and wrecking havoc upon the traitors and enemies of Ngati Te Utu who lives rightfully up to their name, but only if one made a mistake of underestimating them. Particularly the government who is still fearful of them, since they want to capture the monster. The catch is, a monster can never be tamed.

{Highest Ranking #306 In Poetry.} "Even while faced with violent criticisms, the whole World and her destiny against her, She couldn't be suppressed, She didn't lose her heart & she won all the battles of her life and beyond because; "She was born to persist, And She Persisted."