Dance Into The Dark
- Reads 27
- Votes 0
- Parts 2
Ongoing7m
Last published Wed, Nov 28, 2018
Talia is a 22 year old who grew up too fast as a kid. Instead of going to college, she works full time to support her adopted sister, Kelly. She moonlights as Flicker, a masked street performer. Some days she dances, others, she sings. She does everything she can for Kelly. But once she meets Nicolas, things start to change. She finds herself opening up. But heartbreak strikes, and ghosts from her past start showing up. Is it too late for the life she should have had?
All Rights Reserved
#13
streetperformer
Join the largest storytelling communityGet personalized story recommendations, save your favourites to your library, and comment and vote to grow your community.
You may also like
Motherless
No one hears her screams. No one sees her pain At just 13, Talia has learned that survival means silence. Trapped in a home filled with violence and cruelty, abandoned by the father who once promised to protect her, she clings to the hope of escape. But with no one to turn to and danger lurking at every turn, will she find the strength to break free-or be lost to the darkness forever? ⚠️ Trigger Warning: This story contains themes of abuse, drug involvement, self-harm, and violence. Reader discretion is advised.Complete
FATES CROSSROADS
Dahlia's childhood is shaped by love, loss, and self-discovery. Growing up in a once-happy home, she bonds deeply with her father, Bumpy, while facing the emotional turbulence of her mother, Akosa. From an early age, Dahlia realizes she's different-not just in her intelligence but in her emotions. Her first crush, Keziah, leaves her questioning herself when Keziah moves away. As she navigates adolescence, Dahlia witnesses the unraveling of her parents' marriage. Akosa brings men into their home, leading to an unexpected pregnancy. When the child is born, a DNA test confirms what Bumpy feared-the baby isn't his. Despite the betrayal, he raises the child as his own. Meanwhile, Dahlia is diagnosed with a heart condition, adding another layer of struggle to her already complicated life. Amidst the chaos, Dahlia and her siblings, Lucky and Talia, find solace in their bond. They transfer to an international school in Nakuru, but tragedy strikes when Lucky is killed in a road accident. Overwhelmed by grief, Dahlia and Talia relocate to their aunt's house in Mumias while their father remains in Eldoret. Life moves forward, the young child their mother left behind grows, and eventually, Dahlia completes high school and gets a boyfriend. Still undergoing treatment for her heart condition, Dahlia's life takes another turn when Bumpy, now focusing on his career, travels to Australia for business seminars. Dahlia and Talia enroll in separate universities, but Dahlia transfers to be closer to family. Meanwhile, Akosa has long since left for the USA. Years later, as Dahlia's uncle graduates in Nairobi, the family reunites, and fate brings an unexpected closure. Her father, Bumpy, returns from Australia, and in a twist of fate, meets a new woman-marking a fresh start after years of pain and endurance
BEASTLY
In a world where werewolves are known to be a myth but are realer than the air we breathe, Annabelle's world comes crumbling down after the death of her parents. She is forced to move in with her uncle Nicholas and his son Lucas. She leaves the busy busking city to go to a dense forest rumored to have venomous snakes and everything a human would be allergic to with the fear of losing her precious human life. As she is driven deeper into the heart of the dense forest, what lies beyond is a whole new world more civilized than the outside human world she has left behind. Being the human niece of an Alpha comes with more forfeiture than perks for Annabelle, as what awaits her is constant bullying and disgusting stares while capturing the attention of others that live in the shadows. She befriends a witch outcast who tells her something about herself that she finds so hard to digest. Speaking of perks being mated to, Alpha Peirce's son Jake, the heir to the Blood Moon pack and the Alpha king, makes it on the top of them. She has to navigate her feelings as her path intertwines with both of them. The tension rises between the two brooding wolves and their unwillingness to give up on their mate results in her life being put in danger. ⚠CURRENTLY UNDERGOING EDITING⚠ All Rights Reserved
FIRE & ICE: 90 Days of Hope
Hope Young is a 23 year old, living in LA. She's a selfish, self absorbed and cold-hearted person. She loves having the money, the clothes and the big house. At least that's what she tries to make everyone think, though the truth is, it's all just an act to stop anyone from getting close. But the question is; will she ever take that mask off and be the warm-hearted person she really is? What happens when someone comes knocking on Hope's door; disguised as an innocent school girl, only for Hope to do what she always does and treats her just like every other person and slams the door in her face. Except what Hope didn't know is that this 'girl' isn't just any ordinary girl, in fact, she is a powerful witch and her name is Karma and she loves to find people like Hope to teach them a lesson; in hope to either change them or break them. Hope didn't realise that the moment she slammed that door shut on Karma, was the moment her entire world would forever change as she gets pulled into the supernatural world that she never knew existed. Once the witch curses Hope, she gives her 90 days to prove that she can be Empathetic, Loyal, Respectful, Forgiving, Honest, and most of all, Courageous and Selfless, but in doing so, she will have to face all that she's been running from for the last 6 years, which means that she'll have to face what changed her into the closed off person that she became in the first place and with each bad thing that she does from day one will have a karmic consequence. If she succeeds and becomes who she is destined to be by the final day, then the curse will break, but if she fails, she will die and the witch will entrap her soul for all eternity. Will Hope survive Karma's curse and will she be able to cope with what she faces along the way, including the shocking truth about herself and those around her? She may have 90 Days of Karma but with the help of her friends, each one starts to slowly get taken over by Hope.
Secrets Aren't Safe
When 18 year old Talia goes through some rough patches with her boyfriend Alex, but she seeks comfort from her best friend Michael he doesn't want to be just friends. Talia finds love with an older guy. A fellow student spy's on Talia. Someone around the school knows her little secrets. Are they safe or soon will everyone know her true colors.Complete
Pieces (#WATTYS 2016)
Once a bright and happy girl now laid a blank and dull zombie. Once a sister was now a memory, a ghost of the past. Once a full and loving heart was a heart now broken in half. Once a girl with a future, laid a pile of tears and piles of old letters. Ayrshire aka Ayra, was now a broken girl. Her life of childhood faded as she grew up quick, when her only sibling dies on a unexpected day. She's sent to live with her aunt who has a daughter of her own, Keenia, and when she gets there, she notices that Keenia was slowly falling in love with her next door neighbor. A guy named Trent who was the cliched bad boy and ironically Keenia, as the innocent good girl. Ayra can't stand the nagging thought that the same thing would happen to Keenia. The same thing that happened to Grace, her only older sister. The way they thought they were falling in love, but was just thinking that they were in love, the exotic idea of it. Ayra will do everything in her power to keep love from interfering in their lives ever again. Because this time she knows, that she won't be able to forget or forgive, if one more person she cares about falls helplessly in love. Because after, it's nothing but heartbreak. Love can be so cruel.Complete
𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐅𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐑𝐨𝐭 | 𝟏𝟖+ | ✍︎︎
[𝐌𝐌] ╰┈➤ 𝑻𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒚. ── For a century, Midgard has rotted from within. The dead do not rest; they rise. Draugr, cursed remnants of the underworld, stalk the realm of mortals and spread Liik --- plague that turns the living into the damned. In desperation, the gods offer divine blessings to chosen humans, demanding unwavering faith in return. With the opening of a gate to the underworld, the kingdom of Ásveldi witnesses their very own undoing. 𝑶𝒅𝒆𝒍 𝑨𝒏𝒔𝒆𝒍 is no chosen one. As a weather boy among the Blessed Ones, he bears no gift from the gods; only a fierce hope to cure his sister, who teeters on the edge of undeath. He's got a secret, bigger than what anyone could imagine. For a decade, he's lived in the shadows of a lie, pretending to be who he is not. But there is one who has chosen him. The prince of Ásveldi. The man whom no one has seen since the opening of the gate. The one they call 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑹𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒏. At every turn, every waking moment --- he is there. Watching Odel. And to make matters worse, his hunter squadron gains a new captain, one that makes Odel realize that the hate in his heart isn't just reserved for the undead. For he is 𝑮𝒓𝒊𝒎𝒏𝒊𝒓, the bastard whose name takes after the old Ásveldi children's tale. When his squadron is tasked to travel to the underworld in search of the cure for Liik, Odel must push aside his hatred and work with his sworn enemy to save the realm from hell.
Mystic Wolf
Devran is a handsome, dominant, certainly arrogant, and aggressive Alpha who despises humans... Mira is a human. Both docile and beautiful. When this human finds herself in the lives of werewolves everything begins to change. Both tension and attraction build between herself and the rising Alpha who continues to claim he hates her kind. Everything Mira thinks she knows about herself is about to drastically change when unexplained events bring forth more mysteries and secrets than anyone could have expected. Will Devren regret pushing Mira away once she figures out who she truly is? ------------------(Sneak peek) "I'm thinking about it" his voice was still low but not at all soft. His breath fanned the side of my head and it felt like it's own sense of caress. "You are?" I squeaked. "As soon as your scent wafted through this house I thought about how you taste...how you sound" he licked his lips as if the memory were truly there for him to have again. I swallowed hard. I was pinned in place by his heated gaze. "D-Devran" I tried warning him to stop messing with me. "Yes, just like that, you breathlessly calling my name again."Complete
No one hears her screams. No one sees her pain At just 13, Talia has learned that survival means silence. Trapped in a home filled with violence and cruelty, abandoned by the father who once promised to protect her, she clings to the hope of escape. But with no one to turn to and danger lurking at every turn, will she find the strength to break free-or be lost to the darkness forever? ⚠️ Trigger Warning: This story contains themes of abuse, drug involvement, self-harm, and violence. Reader discretion is advised.
More detailsContent Guidelines