Beyondthebox Stories

"Nᴇᴀʀʟʏ ᴀʟʟ ᴍᴇɴ ᴄᴀɴ sᴛᴀɴᴅ ᴀᴅᴠᴇʀsɪᴛʏ, ʙᴜᴛ ɪғ ʏᴏᴜ ᴡᴀɴᴛ ᴛᴏ ᴛᴇsᴛ ᴀ ᴍᴀɴ's ᴄʜᴀʀᴀᴄᴛᴇʀ, ɢɪᴠᴇ ʜɪᴍ ᴘᴏᴡᴇʀ." ― Aʙʀᴀʜᴀᴍ Lɪɴᴄᴏʟɴ ❉❉❉ When you are 5 inches tall, who can you trust? Bᴇɴɴᴇᴛᴛ ᴍɪɢʜᴛ mean her no harm when he discovers a tiny young woman in his kitchen, but faced with something he never believed possible, he now finds himself having to fight an inner battle to suppress a whole host of strange new impulses and desires. He wants to do what is right, but when you literally hold the life of another in your hands, it just seems so easy to do what you want instead... Aɴᴅ ᴡʜɪʟᴇ Bennett must yet discover if he is Man or Monster, Martin is running for his very life trying to escape his former captor, only to suddenly find himself at the mercy of a stranger... ❉❉❉ A ʀᴀᴄᴇ ᴏғ ᴛɪɴʏ ᴘᴇᴏᴘʟᴇ has been living their lives on the fringes of the human world. They don't remember where they came from, or how they lived before. Only one thing is certain: Their society is falling apart. Tʀɪʙᴇs ᴀɴᴅ families are split by accidents, never to find each other again, others get lost, with no way of returning home in a world that is too vast for them to conquer on their own. Fᴏʀ sᴏᴍᴇ, revealing themselves to humans and relying on the help of those gigantic creatures might be the only chance they have. For others ... not so much. Tʜɪs ɪs ᴛʜᴇ sᴛᴏʀʏ ᴏғ ᴡʜᴀᴛ ʜᴀᴘᴘᴇɴs, ᴡʜᴇɴ ᴛʜᴏsᴇ ᴡɪᴛʜ sᴇᴇᴍɪɴɢʟʏ ᴜɴʟɪᴍɪᴛᴇᴅ ᴘᴏᴡᴇʀ ᴍᴇᴇᴛ ᴛʜᴏsᴇ ᴜᴛᴛᴇʀʟʏ ᴡɪᴛʜᴏᴜᴛ. Enjoy! [FULL AUDIO will be included in future] - [WARNING: Cᴜʀʀᴇɴᴛʟʏ ʙᴇɪɴɢ ᴇᴅɪᴛᴇᴅ]

When Annalise Mitchell is struck with the reality of losing someone that means a lot to her, everything comes crashing down. West Darryls had always been there, and knowing that she'd never see him again kills her. There's nothing she can do about it. And coming face to face with the truth that this isn't some high school prank or a rumor hurts even more. It's real. And you can't change reality. Until one day, she finds a letter behind West's bedroom door, followed by fragments of sentences which led into something more. Clues. And in the strangest places, she finds out that even the truth can be twisted into a lie. (Undergoing Editing)

Tracking down the killer of her friend's mother wasn't what Mia had in mind for the summer break, but it is what she ends up doing anyway. Secrets are revealed and sinister truths uncovered as she steps into a world of murder and abuse. There isn't anything better than catching a murderer red-handed. Especially when he has blood on those hands. [ A story written in phases ] (Cover credits go to the amazing @-fadedlights )

"I can't do this anymore," he whispered. "I have to go." When Max leaves Claire unexpectedly, she is shocked. They had grown up together, and grown to love each other. Claire knows about Max's dark times, although he refuses to talk about it to anyone else. But when Claire is notified that Max has gone missing.. Can Claire's inside knowledge help discover Max's whereabouts? And if she can, will she be too late? --- This story mentions underage drug abuse, mature themes and contains graphic content. Copyright © 2016 by @clouhdiest All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

For the sassy, the sad, the satirists and everyone in between. 5k → 12.02.17 10k → --.07.17 HIGHEST: #740 in random

Adrik wished he was living a nightmare. His grandpa just passed away, his parents are getting a divorce, and he has to move to a completely foreign part of the country. At least with nightmares, you get to wake up. Alaska, the Russian America, has a lot more in store for this 17 year old boy than the brochures could ever inform of. With only his mom at his side, he has to battle through his senior year of high school as a stranger. His dad is back in Florida, and the only thing Adrik has to remember his grandfather by are his glasses. However, when Adrik finally takes a glance through these ancient lenses, his whole perspective is going to change. His problems now won't seem to matter at all compared to the problems he will encounter once he takes that first glance. Disclaimer: mental illnesses are present in this story, however, I mean no offense to anyone by anything said in this content. Also, I do not wish to trigger anyone who may be struggling. If you have any problems with this, please message me and I will alter it. 2017 E. Thomas © The Glass Journals. All Rights Reserved.

in which a girl is forced to leave her friends behind to protect them and find her family

Everyone's heard a picture is worth a thousand words, but when you only have a few months to live it can be worth so much more. Noah Prescott wanted nothing more than to be your everyday typical 15-year-old boy, but with stage 4 melanoma, he was anything but normal. Depressed and completely ready to give up on life, he has lost all interest in the world around him. That is until he meets Glenn Green, the dying boy with a sunny disposition. Unable to accept Noah's pessimistic outlook on life, Glenn sets out to show the younger teen that life might not turn out how he pictured it, but it can still hold so much beauty. That is, if you know where to look. Highest Ranking in Short Story #50 *Featured Story*

"Don't be so conceited. This is not some storybook. Here, people die and are never even mentioned, and only those who make an impact are called heroes. And you, most certainly, are not the latter." Myra grew up on the stories her father told of adventure, magic, and action. The hero even had her name! But as he and time passed, the wonder from those magic times faded. But when one day seems to be the start of an amazing adventure, Myra learns a truth that the stories never taught her: that heroes grow up, and you're not always one of them. *Irregular updates, more on the way though!*

BOOK TWO Earth is a crumbling catastrophe and Skylar still hasn't found her father and now Chase has disappeared off the grid. Her mission: Get back the ones she loves, no matter the cost. But first, she has to deal with Nexus and their underlying ulterior motives with their captivation of her. She must escape and form alliances as well as battle the temptations rising before her, granting her the chance to end Nexus once and for all. The planet is shaking and a young Skylar doesn't know what's happening around her. Her mission: Protect the ones she loves, despite the price. Trapped inside a fortified bunker in Vietnam, Skylar and her closest friends undergo the toughest tests of friendship and survival as they try to escape the bunker lockdown with nothing but the power of their minds. Skylar wasn't always tough, but in this new world she must endure, she's going to have to learn pretty fast. **** Book two of the AfterEarth Trilogy **** Book one : Journey into the Aftermath ****

Former street rat, Elijah Clifton finds himself at a crossroad in his life. Continue surviving inside the dangerous world he's known his entire life until letting it run its course or leave to find a better tomorrow. Unfortunately for him, that choice only becomes more dire after crossing paths with a boy who holds the key to his freedom as well as the key to his worst nightmare: His troubled past. Given an opportunity to finally live a normal life instead of a criminal, Elijah takes this deal. Though the long journey will be anything but easy. Cover by @kia13AS Critiqued by @Addie_Belle

❛ In which Johnathan is given a second chance to love and to lose her again. ❜ Ranked #393 in General Fiction 【I Survived The Most Brutal Review】 【Winner of The Brigade Choice Awards for SS】 【Winner of Star Writing Awards for GF】 【Winner of The Undiscovered Awards for GF, Original At Its Core and Straight From The Heart】 【Winner of Rose Awards for GF】

In the near future, the human race has been forced to quarantine an entire country after the Known Virus, also known as the K-Virus, spread throughout their lands, killing millions and mutating thousands. The Alliance, the supreme government of the world, have imprisoned them all in specially designed jail cells, more than 200 million innocent citizens. Every time the virus emerges from within a person, soldiers haul them away, never to be seen again. Now, Audra, herself a victim of the K-Virus outbreak, has begun to show symptoms. The soldiers come, and Audra finds herself in a new world, and realizes what really happens beyond the cell doors... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cover credits to @RebellionOfALifetime

When the zombie apocalypse starts, 5 teens find themselves together to survive. They become the best of friends, vowing to leave to no one behind to the best of their ability. With zombies and natural disasters plaguing the world, can they all stay together in one piece? Note: The POV of this book will change from chapter to chapter. You can tell who's POV it is by the name next to the chapter number. This book is currently not rated mature, but it is likely to change. So far I only have a lot of swearing, but some of the deaths may get a little gory and the rating might be changed to mature. I don't know yet.

Four exceptional scientists. One mission: change reality. A mysterious case stocked with increments of a lost artifact turns out to be next revolution as it can emanate infinite amounts of containable energy. It also proves to be the game changer Dr. Eric Greyson needed to save his career before it became deadly power struggle of greed. But that was before the systems stabilizers malfunctioned and the entire project became an international nuclear incident. Three years later, year 2100, arose his daughter from hiding. Her mission: exonerate her father who was framed for the explosion. Except all she had to go on was a damaged video pleading his innocence and his tattered journal to find him. Having to narrowly escape the clutches the all powerful company Nexus who gained imposible amounts of money off of the explosion. She will have to embark on a journey through the wreckage of the dying Earth and make split-second decisions that will decide the fate of her life, her family's, and the rest of the planet as we know it. *** Book one of The AfterEarth Trilogy *** Every breath is a victory. *** Highest: #163 in Adventure

As everything around them crumbled to mere existence, Earth's greatest scientists made one last effort to save the world that had been ravaged by climate change and human fault. Gene enhancement. The testing on pregnant women was indubitably dangerous; but what else was there left to try when Earth faces the ineluctable consequences? If there was any chance of volition that this generation could make the difference, it had to be taken. But with no palpable differences at their birth, only time will tell if these children will truly be the key to Earth's salvation. Not only for humanity but also for the place they live in. Even if that is the case, can they get the better of the ignorance that destroyed the planet in the first place? Book summary by @minusfractions (mostly some parts). Book cover by @Apollyon- (it's so awesome!) Ranked #710 [04-16-16]

I firmly believe that graduation instills in everyone a feeling of nostalgia. Which is why, as I attempt to find my seat at graduation rehearsal, I find myself stumbling into hidden pockets of memories that had long been shoved into the back of my mind by the stress of high school. Faces will forever be the bookmarks of our lives. Different people take us back to different moments that we would love to relive or rather forget. As we view everyone, we are reminded of who we once were and who we will strive to be. They stir up emotions of love, jealousy,hatred, thankfulness, helplessness as we view how others have grown and often compare their progress to ourselves. Welcome to graduation, the last moments of juvenility, as we look back on our past selves and strive to see the future. ** She has regrets when she looks back at her high school years. She regrets the person she turned into. She regrets that she didn't realize that she didn't want to be that person sooner. She regrets that she didn't become her own person until later. But she doesn't regret the people she met. She doesn't regret the true friends she made. And she can't say that she regrets the memories, however hard they are to relive because in the end, they helped compose the person she is as she walks across the graduation stage. So on the true final day of her high school years, she sees and she remembers. *continuously being updated

"Some things in this world cannot be unsaid, Athella - and my love for you, irrefutably, is one of them." In which Rhys pens out her feelings for the illustriously broken Athella Halle. Cover made by @HailPerseusJackson © Makenna Collette (@mack-collette) 2016 All Rights Reserved

Fifteen year old Isaac Locke has lost his way because of a gruesome wolf attack on his parents when he was ten and finally recovering, he lived five home-schooled years with his adopted parents and is now beginning to go back to public school. But it will all change in a way that rocks the cradle of Isaac's already fragile reality maybe for the better...but mostly worse. After meeting all of Oak Meadow's key players, he is bitten by a red-eyed werewolf and all of his new friends discover that they are deeply connected to the supernatural corners of the planet, realizing that the world is bigger than anyone could have imagined. His journey through freshman year will tell you keep your enemies close, but your true friends are what keep you alive. Are you prepared to believe in the impossible?