Litfic Stories

In the fall of 1921, Valerie Sigrid flees to the isolated city of Nastrond with nothing but a guilty conscious, a drinking problem, and a secret. She spends her days there achingly alone until she meets Lance and Lila Hundingsbane, two siblings struggling to make ends meet in a city growing both more expensive and more hostile to outsiders. Through them, she discovers a sense of purpose and belonging unlike anything she has ever felt before. However, Valerie's past is becoming harder and harder to outrun. Investigators back home search for answers about her disappearance. Political tensions become unavoidable. Rumors spread, all of them half baked. Suddenly, all anyone seems to know about Valerie Sigrid is the depravities they think she has committed. Would anyone ever see her as more than that? Genres: Literary/genre fiction blend, upmarket fiction, speculative fiction, drama, coming of age, alternate historical, romance Themes: Moral superiority complexes + Moral absolutism, The importance of nuance, Forgiveness and understanding, Human complexity, Trauma and coping, Propaganda Note: Although not particularly spicy, this story does contain mature themes and moderate sexual content

Assorted flash pieces.

[When the stars intertwine] We are a impossibility in a impossible universe. - Ray Bradbury A mysterious boy rise up from the sea, claiming the ocean is his father. Every year he becomes human and forgets everything from the last 365 days, but everytime a single star brings him back. A starfish-turned-boy and a celestial visitor are bound by something neither time nor memory can fully erase. Gentle, strange, and filled with love-this is a story about learning to be human, one season at a time. [Irregular updates]

Take a break. Have a cup of coffee. Or maybe a shot of whiskey. While reading a couple of short stories. *** Featured in Official Wattpad Ambassadors Reading List @ShortStory | Microfiction @Ambassadors | Shorts & Poems

Do you believe in love at first sight? It might be with the love of your life. 🌹 Princess Rosaline's life was bound by a prophecy long before she was born but her interests lay with her people who beseeched her for help. When she meets with opposition within her own kingdom, threats from the outside world, and even on her own life, she is left battling her foes alone. Until a stalwart archer enters her life - and her heart. Can he be the answer to her troubles? Will she survive the prophecy and still find her king and true love? 🌹 🏆WINNER of the Embers of Destiny contest hosted by Wattpad's @Badassreads & @WattpadRoyals.🏆 ⭐FEATURED in Wattpad's @BadassReads contest winners' reading list August 2023 and in the@BadassReads Anthology book.⭐ 💖FEATURED in Wattpad's @Romance LOVE BITES reading list November 2023.💖 Precise word count: 3.9k words. © All rights reserved.

Danita loses her husband and is forced to raise their daughter and take care of their 1,500 acre farm all alone. During one of the harshest storms the farm has ever faced the mayor arrives with a compelling proposition that could change her life for the better. However, unbeknownst to Danita, something more sinister is at play.

An introvert spends his Saturday lying to strangers. This story explores his process and his motivations for this odd behavior.

Evil lives in the back woods and swamps of the Deep South. From the dark corner of a decadent plantation mansion to the soggy decay of a one-room swamp shack, it breeds and festers, grows and blooms. It lies in the recesses of small town ignorance and poverty. Waiting. Waiting. Always waiting. Watching patiently like a hidden viper coiled and ready to strike! And when it does, its venomous fangs show no mercy and suffer no remorse. Who will be Evil's next victim? *** Five Miles to Paradise is the second installment of this series. Pale Moon Over Paradise is the first installment.

| Short Story | Him. Quiet. Sarcastic. Shy. Dreamer. Her. Loud. Impulsive. Beautiful. Unpredictable. All along, they knew. It wouldn't last forever.

I'm writing as artist draws sketches - they are raw but real, based on my observations and real life experience. The idea is to practice a lot, so they may be good or may be shit, feel free to let me know either way

"He already had two beers?" I asked my brother. "Three, actually." He stretched with his shovel in hand. "Ahead of the schedule, aren't we?" I said. It was noon, and the sun went just above our heads and hit hard and hot. You could smell your skin burning, but we had to finish as we wanted to come home tomorrow. We didn't want to spend more time than needed at our farm. Dad helped a lot, he did a job for two men, digging and working in the field while we were young and not so strong. But sometimes Dad was no help.

A teenager's character in the school play gives him the popularity that he always desired, revealing the true nature of friendship and the persona that one puts on for the world.

In a city where magic flows like code-compiled, structured, auditable-Vex has learned to survive by being useful. They cannot cast. Every spell crashes with a fatal error no diagnostic can explain. So they've become a translator, a compiler, making everyone else's magic work while their own refuses. When wild-code appears-magic that flows from intention rather than syntax, impossible to regulate or suppress-the Mage Council sees risk. Vex sees people whose magic works differently, not wrongly. People the system rejected first. Commissioned to help eliminate wild-code, Vex must choose between the safety of invisibility and the risk of being seen. Between a career built on working around their "limitation" and fighting to prove it was never a limitation at all. A novel about systems that claim to be neutral, magic that refuses to lie, and the cost of rewriting infrastructure when you can't stay invisible anymore. Updates Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays!

♦♢✤novel currently on hold✤♢♦ Amara Kingsley has known only one thing her entire life: peace. She has everything a girl could ever want, any and all of her problems whisked away under the marvelous tip of her paint brush. She has a gift. That's why she is sent to England to study art and photography, which has been her dream since the second grade. Soon, though, Amara learns that dreams aren't as amazing and perfect as they seem. This move triggers an unstoppable downward spiral in her life, a torrent of suffering and pain that no paintbrush can sweep away. To make matters worse, she is unable to rely on her grief stricken mother or any of her shallow new friends. All hope is lost. It would just be better to die. But then... Two people enter her life and change it for the better. They give her something that she could never find anywhere else. Hope. A reason to live. She will never be the same.

a short story of losing ones sense of self in the little moments

After a devastating family tragedy, Theo finds himself living in the sleepy town of Morrisville, in a new school with no friends. When he is recruited by a group of outcasts to join their annual Halloween quest to the town's infamous haunted house - rumored to be home to a wicked old woman and her imprisoned granddaughter - he reluctantly joins. What Theo doesn't realize is that this one night will lead him down a path of no return. M is no ordinary fifteen-year-old girl. Cursed and living in the attic of Old Lady Laurel's house, the local teens believe her to be a hideous creature, labeling her "The Monster," despite never actually setting eyes on her. That is, until that Halloween night. As Theo continues to seek M after their encounter, he is drawn into a world of parallel time and space, developing an unlikely friendship along with an unhealthy obsession with trying to save her. But when details from his past start to resurface and his relationship with M gets more complicated, Theo is forced to face his demons and make a difficult decision. One that not only risks his life but also puts M's life in grave danger.

dinner in new york. where are people falling in love these days?

Two friends talk about dreams while being among the sky.