Breakthecliche Stories

Welcome to BTCR 2017! This time, we have revolutionized the contest itself to give both readers AND writers a refreshed experience. Whether you love reading or writing original stories, there is something for you! So flip the book open for more details.

Cliche (adj.): 1) a trite phrase or expression; also : the idea expressed by it 2) a hackneyed theme, characterization, or situation 3) something (such as a menu item) that has become overly familiar or commonplace Maggie is not known by many, but Paisley the Panther is. Star Athlete Kyle Beyer is known by many, but Kyle Beyer himself is not.

A task force specializing in tracking and killing genetic mutations or vampires as history would make you think. Follow Patrick, as he spear heads the task force, but not without his personal reasons, as he happily and mercilessly kills any mutation in his way, each kill getting him closer to his goal. Him and the team dig deep into what they only know as the Organization. How deep does it go. What was just another mission might turn into a bloody war for the survival of the world as we know it.

Hotaru Konno left like a legend but returned in dirt. Either way, she was under the spotlight. Merciless gossip and rumors spread around. Turning 27. Single. Jobless. What a perfect time to take a little advantage of her filthy rich family. She was about to embrace the life of a NEET (Not in education, employment, or training). Life was pretty easy except... Her mom was determined to marry her off; Her idol-wannabe baby sister ticked her off every single day; A mysterious high-school boy with perfect white teeth was living under the same roof. A disappointment. A loser. A weirdo. Hotaru was all of the above. Nonetheless, she said NO to changes. At least not now and not by the people mentioned above.

The girl who wanted to fly... was stuck dreaming in her life, while the boy who could, planted his feet firmly on the ground. Told through two perspectives of very different protagonists. Ariel is an average girl, with beyond average ambitions. When she was young, Ariel's dream was to fly. To soar. But now, she knows there are many different ways to fly. And she'll accomplish her dreams, even if it meant jumping off of someone else's. Eric was a little boy, until death made him older. He had everything, until he tumbled down down down. Stuck in one place, emotionally, has made him construct walls that no one can penetrate. He vowed to help people, but how can he help others without curing himself? Their stories intertwine and connect, but both are affected. It starts when they are eight. More specifically, when the new biomechanical wings came out on January 1st, 2657.

Living in a world filled with wannabe tinpot dictators (aka Alphas), pack members who disagree with his every move, and dispossessed rogues, Alpha Jim of the Shadow Bluff Pack has given up on the idealism of his youth. The world he inhabits has inured him to dealing with the impasse of pack politics with practiced indifference. But then, as the world around him is destabilised by a series of seemingly unrelated and increasingly serious events, he becomes aware, slowly but surely, that something malevolent is afoot, and that he must shake off this impassiveness to preserve his and his compatriots' way of life. Cover by @ophidiae

❝I bleed gold and you bleed nothing.❞ In an alternate modern-day world where bored gods, vengeful werewolf hunters, cannibalistic werewolves, soul-sucking monsters, and clueless humans coexist, the world is in a chaotic routine of war and death. ...But Cupid still has arrows to shoot and love stories to create. Ronan Darragh is a broken-hearted Alpha. Hillary Crawford is a love struck werewolf. Wednesday Blue is a free-spirited human with a secret weapon. And Cupid must be the winged devil wearing white skinny jeans because this love story isn't going to end well. --•-- a/n: pretty cover is by @Neontouch. on hold till i can get it together.

COMPLETED: 2019 Watty Award Winner in Fantasy Every night she plays...and every night they come... Lira is a violinist by nature and a performer by imprisonment. Stolen as a child by a malevolent wraith and trapped in the Spirit World, Lira now spends her days playing the very music that seduced her in the first place. She sees no escape from her existence under the sorceress Bebinn, until one day her music lures Owen who, at age 16, is supposed to be too old to succumb to its spell. Imprisoned alongside Lira and desperate to find a way back home, Owen vows to find a way to free them both. The only problem: no one has ever escaped Bebinn and the Spirit World alive. 1st Place Winner in Fantasy for the Undiscovered Writer Awards! 1st Place in Fantasy for the Hidden Author Awards! 1st Place in Fantasy for the Hot Dog Awards! Winner of @EventualElites "Hypnotized and Hooked" Award! 3rd Place in Fantasy for the Book Center's Summer Awards! Cover by: @Baneen121

In which a girl tries so hard to give up, and a boy tries a thousand times to save her. *Warning: Graphic, Violent, and emotional!

It starts with a crack. Or maybe it starts with a question. Or maybe, just maybe, it starts earlier than that, when a particular bubble of a universe arose from the heaving sea of the multiverse and began to grow. Eventually, stars formed, then exploded, giving birth to more stars. Planets grew alongside their stars, and a few special ones happened to contain the right conditions for life to form. Maybe that's too far back, though. Maybe, you argue, the crack and the question are really what's important. So let's get back to the question... "Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the fairest of them all?" Winner of the Otherworldly category of @BreakTheCliches revolutionary contest

These are the thoughts and feelings of Caroline, who is schizophrenic. But the thing is...she doesn't know that she is schizophrenic.

"What do we call this then?" He laughed. " It's kinda like love without measure." •>•<•>•<•>•<•>•<•>•<•>•<•>•<•>•<•>•<•>•<•>•<• The average female is approximately 5'6. So that means Tina the six foot tall sixteen year old is anything but average. Her height continues to tower over all her hopes of falling in love and finding the one. But then as time goes by she figures that maybe her standards are just a bit too high. Will she find what she's looking for? Or is she just simply Too Tall To Love? •Extended Synopsis Inside! • •Somewhat based on a true story• (Proceed with caution, this book is filled with tons of cheesy jokes, pickup lines, puns and sometimes stupid/ love struck teenagers)

She needed payback. He needed forgiveness. Funny, only the twists of fate told them that they need love. 〰〰〰〰〰〰〰〰 Copyright © 2019 By Ilayda Mathews

"Life is like a rollercoaster that you just can't wait to get off." Alex is suicidal. Alex is depressed. This much is true. When Emma finds her crying in the girls' toilets, she tries to help, but she makes a fatal mistake in telling her friends. Word spreads, and Alex is labelled as the coward, and Emma knows that she is to blame. She's determined to fix things, but how much can you help before you ruin everything? The cover above is by @cleverwren!

"Don't move." I heard someone say as the sound of their gun being cocked was heard behind me. "You see I would but there's just one problem." I said. "And that is?" The guy asked. "You're pointing your gun the wrong way." I replied as I turned to face him. "No I'm not." The guy said. "Let me rephrase that. You're pointing your gun at the wrong person." I said. "What are you talking about?" He asked as I pointed to something behind him. Turning around the guy had little to no time to react as the zombie that had been following me pounced and pinned him to the ground. •°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•° In this world, you'll be reading as Rain Rozelle. A nineteen year old college student who is a freelance street artists. She will have to deal with all of her split personality shenanigans from top to bottom, side to side, up and down all around the things their'll be doing to those poor souls so called survivors, military people and much more to come in the distance future. Who will she encounters if her other self gets the chance to come out and play? •°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•°•° Welcome to the first book that I ever posted here. All of the idea came from a dream I once had. So basically I never really watch an actual zombie apocalypse movie. The logic in my story will be whacky so do asked any questions and I'll gladly answer them to the best of my abilities. ~Liya 💙