Litreads Stories

13x featured wattpad story. Before everything, it's assumed there was nothing, but what if there was no real difference between the two? Just two extreme philosophies from the first conflict. The planet Huom has been under observation for longer than should technically be possible. The primary watcher, a bitter black hole, is excited to see that there is finally a proverbial Darkness at the end of the tunnel. Meanwhile, on the planet, in the freezing mountains of Empris, Lyeasrakardsul, the oldest living sorcerer, suffers from devastating nightmares. At the same time, far away in the sandstone desert of Zenon, Herschel, a man filled to the brim with weird ideas is escaping a prison filled with strange old men. What does all this have to do with arsehole Gods, hairy Dwarfs, frustrated Afreets, curious Knomes, lizard-women, and nude Áettar? Perhaps Nothing, perhaps Everything... but why can't it be both?

Daniel Callahan once called the small brick home on Honeysuckle Lane his, until he died. He has had to share his home with countless others since his death. Daniel has found ways to encourage the past renters to leave, but when the Wakelin family moves in he only wants them to stay. --- Was featured on the @Ghost Reading List 📚 Die Young, Stay Pretty 💕 Highest Ranking--#75 on Ghost Hot List (05.19.18) --- *ON HOLD* Thank you so much for your time and reads. xo, Leanne ** cover created by @quietlyflourishing **

A man who's always seen the world through an artistic lens, where boat railings are covered in vermilion paint under cotton candy clouds, would like nothing more than to get validation from the son who's always thought his father was crazy. What if he isn't crazy at all? What if faeries are real? What if pixies did steal his shoes? Sometimes fathers and sons have lenses that will never be focused the same. Like most of my stories, this one has a surprise ending that makes people say, "Wait! What's next?! Give me more!" If you want more after you read it, you better tell me! :) ********** This is a short story I wrote for a series of shorts I am putting together for a community education course that I hope to teach one day (maybe in retirement to keep me from going stir-crazy, though that's still quite a ways a way). I've receive so much good feedback, that I have decided to turn this short into a novel. I wrote 60+ words for in November of 2019 for NaNoWriMo and am hoping to be done writing and editing it mid-2020 so I can query it to agents. All Rights Reserved. This is a copyrighted work. Do not reproduce without my express written approval. If you want to share the story, please link to this Wattpad story or send people to my Smashwords page or Amazon to purchase it. (It's often free to download to your Kindle on Smashwords. If it's not free, ask me for a coupon!)

From @InspiritusPress & the @LiteraryFiction Network, a collection of experimental poetry, prose, photography by 15 brilliant contributors. The body is the sole mediator between man and universe, the moment between birth and death. Sometimes, there may be unity, love, transcendence and liberation. Other times, separation, lunacy, limitation, atrophy, violence. In this visionary anthology, the physical body and its relationships are celebrated, examined, distorted, degraded, dissected, exposed. Gritty and grotesque, surreal and transcendental, curated selections from acclaimed and established authors, emerging student writers, local Torontonians or Literary Fiction Network contributors: B.W. Powe, Takatsu, Evan J. Hoskins, N.J. Greenfield, Aaron Capelli, Daven Sharma, Thomas Arthur Farrell, Sierra Marilyn Riley, Skyler Clarke, C.J. Garrett, Deniz Sonkan, Colette Thomas, Nikita Shorikov, Aaron L. Sheng, Mae Claudette Costan

"This is me. This is my story. This is my life," said I. "But how about me?" you asked. "This story may be about you," I replied. - One Shots of Various Topics and Genres -

A collection of stories, 50 words or less, as an experiment in what can be developed--and how--in relatively few sentences.

GRAND PRIZE WINNER in Margaret Atwood's The Heart Goes Last fiction competition! A prequel to Margaret Atwood's latest novel, The Heart Goes Last, and an entry in the Heart Goes Last Fiction Contest. In the days before the great economic collapse, Conor and his brother Stan share a few drinks at the local bar, PixelDust. But the differences that have shaped their past become even more clear as they face each other in a drinking showdown.

1. When You Hear Echoes From The East A story of a young probinsyano girl in the middle of World War II 2. Miss Indigo A story of lost time between two sisters 3. I Promise You The journey continues between Lira and Arny who bonds over a tragic folkstory

A journey through time measured in miles and memories all connected to a treasured pink Cadillac

A fly-by-the-seat-of-the-pants criminal type is trying his damnedest to write the Great American Novel but his underworld past and violent proclivities are making it difficult.

After the death of a co-worker, twenty-seven year old Monica Turner unravels a trail of secrets. Some of them are her own while others come from another source. Cover::: @Katherina_Michels

After being afflicted with depression at an early age, 17-year-old Mae finds a way to cope through diary exchanges with her best friend. Using an old leather-bound journal to jot down every instance of pressure, joy, and bitter strife, even this solace seems to be no match for constant break downs. Mae thinks no one notices when she stifles tears in the back of art class. But someone does. Maybe it's high time Mae realizes that even though crying sucks when someone else sees it, that's all the more reason they deserve to know why.

What happens when you can't stop the voices in your head? Louisa Simmons is just another girl, invisible to the world, lost in the abyss of her thoughts, desperate for an escape. But can you really run away from yourself? Sam Mitchell is just another guy, on the verge of giving up, plagued by his past, unable to forgive himself for his mistakes. But can you really run away from the truth? Two broken people from two different worlds. Both alive but barely breathing. So what happens when two broken people collide? Will they learn to overcome the things that tie them down? Or will they lose sight of themselves in the process? (Cover by @lucferr)

In which I take on the nonsensical and awkward moments of life, with quotes and prose, a few (sort of) poems and some definite randomness.

PRIDE'S CHILDREN, Book 1, is complete. ***** Finalist for 2016 Wishing Shelf Independent Book Awards (UK)***** If you start reading on Wattpad, and would CONSIDER writing a review on Amazon (purchase not required, PM me for an electronic REVIEW Copy). The review is up to you - I won't nag. [It is published, on Amazon in Kindle Select, as of Oct. 30, 2015. The requirements for KDP are that the story not be available anywhere else, so I have taken all but 10% off Wattpad, where it had a great run. It is available in print as well.] If you like the sample here, let me know - all comments welcome. ***** WHAT YOU DO WITH AN OBSESSION COUNTS "I, KARENNA ELIZABETH Ashe, being of sound mind, do... But that's it, isn't it? Being here proves I am not of sound mind..." So begins Book 1 of the Pride's Children trilogy: Kary immediately regrets the misplaced sense of noblesse oblige which compels her to appear, live on national television-at exorbitant personal cost. What she cannot anticipate is an entanglement with Hollywood that destroys her carefully-constructed solitudinarian life. A contemporary mainstream love story, in the epic tradition of Jane Eyre, and Dorothy L. Sayers' four-novel bond between Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane, Pride's Children starts with a very public chance encounter, and eventually stretches over three separate continents. ~ ~ ~ The complete blurb is on Amazon: http://amzn.com/B017AZLTLG http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B017AZLTLG ~ ~ ~ RATING: Sexual innuendo, mild swearing, occasional non-graphic violence (PG-13).

A story of a German boy who witnesses the capture of a Jewish girl. *fully edited, just a work I did in school.

A dark craze has gripped the streets and suburbs of South Wales. It's unlikely leader - a modest, middle-aged accountant - explains the thinking behind the mayhem which his new past-time has unleashed ... to a lifelong detective who thought he'd heard it all before!