Shawrocketprize Stories

All Phoenix ever dreamed of was flying. When he gets into the Air Force Academy he is delighted! But when an attack is launched, and the Academy destroyed, it suddenly becomes real. Can Phoenix survive in dangerous skies?

We've teamed up with Shaw Rocket Fund to bring you an incredible opportunity to motivate and inspire you to use this time to start creating your next story idea and share it with the world. Come up with an idea for your next novel, and write your first chapter. In 1500 words or less, write the first scene or chapter of a story you'd love to see adapted into a film.

Jessie Clarke was born to blend in. With senior year winding up all she wants to do is spend her final summer with her best friend Kia (and maybe her sketchbook). But the next few months ahead aren't quite going to go the way she intended. A party, new friends and a long summer. For a girl that has always blended in, what will happen when she suddenly begins to stand out. Cover by @phoebeconrey

Dedicated to my long lost best friend. Based on a true story. A story about two girls who become best friends. About how they fight and talk about their secrets. About how one friend has to leave.

In a world dominated by automation, what happens if someone forgets how to live?

"...so what do you think happens to a person if their azmosis is too low..?" He quietly asked slowing the pace at which he spoke, trying to mask his clear nervousness. Zuri would soon find out. -- As a government attempt to lower crime rates and promote world peace, a new technology has been invented that scores a person based on the number of good or bad deeds a person has committed. Everyone starts at a hundred-- a perfect score but with every moral oddity that the system finds, points are deducted. They can be gained too, if a person does a good deed, saves a life or acts in a way that's deemed commendable. They call this score azymus. It dictates a person's occupation, wealth, to whom their heart is allowed to yearn for, what dreams were already shattered or could be fulfilled; in essence, their very place in this world. #ShawRocketPrize Entry Word Count : 1489

Axel is a thirteen year old boy who leads a rather pitiful sentimental life. The latter meets a girl he is in love with but who will treat her like a dog. His story will come to the rescue of several people. Read !

[UNEDITED] Mina has the most perfect life anyone can dream of; loving, caring, and supporting parents, a wonderful boyfriend, and friends who likes her for who she was. But something goes wrong. her parents' doesn't seem to love her anymore, her boyfriend cheats on her, and her friends talked behind her back. What had gone wrong? Mina didn't know.

What's that noise that you keep hearing out your kitchen window? Is it a killer? What's the noise... "The Noise" is a horror short story, that ends with humor and a catch at the end. Hope you like, please leave comments!

How do you hold onto a secret when the one person who could expose you comes crashing into your life? How do you continue to keep that secret when this person becomes significant in your life? How do you tell the truth and risk this person leaving your life?

Lexis thought she was pretty average, as average as she could be with a mother who had schizophrenia, a recovering alcoholic father and a cute little brother. She had a pretty good time living her life, but it turned upside down when her and her brother got put in foster care. They were placed with a family that didn't care for them much, so Lexis took the lead. She got the news her birth father died and that was when she started losing control, finally ready to find out who she really was.

It's been years, and slowly everything started to fall apart right in front of my eyes. I don't know how long ago the cause, warnings, and signs had started, but we were too late to do anything. Why didn't anyone listen to us when they had the chance? Were we too naive to believe they would heed our warnings or were they too stubborn and arrogant to think that maybe, we were right? It's only Us now. A lot of things could have been done to prevent this, but now we can't ponder on that. I'll...no, we'll do our best to fix the mistakes of those before us, and hopefully, we will be wise enough to not make the same mistake. -A representative of Generation Z You have the baby boomers, millennials and all those before that, but then you have Generation Z, those who were born at the time of the many global problems of the world. Despite their young age at the time, they were able to recognize many of the future endeavors they would have to face, but because of those in power, they had no proper voice. While now they're left to deal with the problems of their ancestors, one individual is put into a life-changing position. While she figures out along with her peers how to fix things, she has to look back into the past and discover, what had gone wrong for it to turn out this way?

Rosemary Parkins and Peter Williams seem like polar opposites but they share one thing in common. Some unknown person is sending them letters daily, threatening to ruin their entire lives.

Two Twin Sisters, Princess Audrey and Princess Diane. Both hoping to be the next queen of Orus. Little do they know that being the Queen comes with more than they thought.

Killian Luk was only nineteen when he lost his parents to a tragic car accident. He and his six year old sister were orphans, destined to be lost in the system as Killian was of age to take care of Linda since Killian had just moved out at the time - the government moving on from them after the insurance was reimbursed to the remaining Luks - Killian not wanting his only family separated from him, yet Killian barely getting by all the while. He can only do his best in picking up where his parents left off in raising his baby sister... Linda Luk grew up to the age of thirteen with book smarts beyond her grade levels and a case of loneliness beyond comprehension by her genius older brother. Killian did his best raising her by himself, however he failed to fill the void that grew in her heart over the years that she couldn't quite indicate the origin of. Not wanting to burden her brother with more problems as she was painfuly aware of what he went through on a daily basis just trying to survive in the cruel world they lived in, she took it into her own hands to fill that void elsewhere, having faith in herself that she might just do it. She had never anticipated the next events in her life to be as dire as her coming to in an all grey room, looking up to the man who held the technicolor she called her pathetic life flashing in his eyes. Meanwhile, Alden Williams is one of his school's loners and no one in Major Mackenzie Secondary School thought that he'd grow interested in anyone else's life except his own, especially not the new girl's. #shawrocketprize

(Originally made for the Shaw Rocket Fund contest) This tale follows a young thief as he struggles to collect enough wealth to make ends meet for himself and his family. When he stumbles upon an opportunity to obtain enough wealth to finally quit his streak of thefts, he must find a way to work together with a knight, struggling to serve a king he does not respect, and a young mage, struggling to break away from the rigid traditions of magic-users. (Note: I may not update this story for a short time, as there is a word count on the Shaw Rocket fund contest. I will probably update the story after the contest ends, especially if you readers like it.)

This is an allegoric and psychological thriller about a psychotherapist who has nightmares... about people being murdered. Suspicion starts to fill her as the deaths start to come true. The serial murderer gains a title, The Mask, who is it? Who is behind all of this? How is Judy foreshadowing these murders in her dreams?

Theresa Stone is an intelligent young adult, she finished high school early and started college at the age of 15. She's the type of person who takes no shit from nobody. Even though her body is rather small, she's willing to fight anyone twice her size. Her mind is very simple and neat, she believes that everything is already worked as it should be. She thinks anything has an explanation and can be explained with science or simple logic. So what would happen if she bumps with a person and accidentally switches their train tickets and that ticket lead her to another world? Will she came back? or will she be stuck there forever?

We die to live and live to die. Imagine if life wasn't life. If all our families and friends were, just illusions of what we craved for. Here is my story. On the darkest days. The truth hurts.

two people, between them, a pact...with the devil. The goal, a single destiny.