Shawrocketfundcontest Stories

Parabelle is a sixteen year old girl, with big dreams and an even bigger sense of determination. She's loyal, smart, and inspirational. And deaf. Parabelle writes her own original music, and hopes to be a singer/songwriter. And, yeah. Being deaf does make that a bit hard. And maybe having some body issues and questioning her sexuality makes it a bit hard as well. Watch a young girl tackle the topics of young love, questioning sexuality, view on disability, and self esteem in this slice of life drama meant for people who want to love, cry, and bond with a likable and relatable character.

Luna Aella recently moved to LA to be with her brothers while her dad goes traveling to Europe. Ondreaz Lopez lives in the Hype house with his brother and other famous influencers. What will happen when Luna's youtube career takes off and decides to do a bunch of collabs with the hype house and most specially Ondreaz...

A story of an immigrant family. Who happen to be superheroes.

Stephen, a boy with a sleeping problem, tries to lead an average life, that's pretty hard since his narcolepsy is pretty intense. His dreams are pretty normal but when a being starts appearing in his dreams saying that Stephen could see his dad again, what will he do? Will he face his dreams? His nightmares? And will he face his Dad in the end?

2132: Jason Aelous, youngest son of the Aelous family who rule the Thessaly system, has been given a suicide mission by his usurper uncle Pelias; traverse beyond Thessaly and towards the edge of the galaxy, where the King Aeetes holds a most rare and valuable resource, the Golden Fleece. If Jason managed to retrieve the Golden Fleece and return alive, then Pelias would return his annexed throne. In order to give Jason a fighting chance, the Olympian Court, the most powerful rulers of the Grecian Sector, sent his call for help to various warriors, mechanics, and navigators to aid him in this journey. Now, with a crew unlike any other, they set sail on the magnificent spaceship Argo, towards danger and adventure. How far will they go to retrieve the Golden Fleece? (This was made for the Shaw Rocket Fund Contest, and they had a word limit, so I couldn't put too much in there. I may return to continue writing this when I have some spare time. Anyways, I hope you guys enjoy!)

Their is nothing if you don't have hope and mystery. Everline is another story of innocence and naivety , she cares for everyone and everything and mostly in her world of books and mysteries. Abnus is as his name dark mysterious with eyes so blue that can make ocean jealous . He is all for practical and thinks you have to fight for everything in your life and most importantly have no hope for his life. So what happens when a girl with stars meet the guy with darkness.? would they embrace or would it be too much bright for dark or too dark for bright.?

Don't stare. Don't look. Don't Linger. Pretend like you don't see. Sam has never understood why people see "The Blemish" as a flaw. Everyone has it, everyone always has, why should it matter? When a new student, Jonah Lee-Yang, shows up to the school Sam starts to fall, and fall hard for the young man who barely has any of the Blemish yet doesn't seem to judge even those massively disfigured by it. If Jonah can accept people with the Blemish, maybe he can accept Sam...and the secret. Written for the #Shawrocketfundcontest

I wish upon the starlight... After the collapse of earth humanity has been forced to colonize other planets. Astraea is to be queen of the moon, however; When she receives a cryptic message from her supposedly deceased mother stating her whereabouts on earth. Astraea sets out to find the root of her mothers disappearance, abandoning her royal duties before crowning.

[Under major changes] "All I asked for was peace. Not any less or more." Both teenagers, Hassan Saad and Radiya Mansour lived a life of serenity throughout their time on earth. Nothing seemed to fall out of place as they awaited their well-expected graduation which would have been peeking at their doors in the short span of a year. But one day political conflicts arise and in the batter of an eyelash, everything was falling apart tragically. They find themselves in an irrational affair with death, the finest line they had ever been pushed to walk on. Fate has never been stronger and their lives were on display to the harsh world just to be stolen from them ultimately. Will the line snap, leaving them to be doomed, or not? Alternating between Radiya and Hassan's broken voices as they hold onto their dear lives, They Stole Our Lives is a heartbreaking novel about the abundant lives lost to the Arab Spring throughout the Middle East. While shedding light on the most unspoken topics accompanying that situation, it will leave you in ethereal tears even before you set thumb on the end.

Garret Smith was at school when one of his friends was bullied because he was black. Garret knew he had to help his friend. Rage built in him as he tried to help his friend. Little did garret know that there was a painful hit coming his way. Liver shot.

Cassia has spent the last seventeen years of her life living on a spaceship amongst orphans like herself, in competition to be elected for the next planetary colonization. In a desperate attempt to stick with her best friend Gigi, Cassia takes a leap of faith. Drama, romance, enemies, danger and a new environment. Can Cassia manage to juggle it all as her friendship with Gigi is put to the test? Mysteries lurk back on the ship, while danger crawls in the shadows on land. It's up to Cassia to get to the bottom of things.

Seems like no one is here.." She quietly whispered to herself. Bang. Ozzie jumped in fright. "What the hell" She murmured. She looked down the hallway, a broken ceiling light lay shattered on the floor, sparks flying everywhere. Read to find out what happens next

Addison Thea Kinsley is a Fairy, she has blood that Vampires love because it's sweet and it gives them a 'high' and they killed them all out basically when they found out so all the fairies had to spread out across the world to go into hiding. But she just thinks she's a regular highschool girl...

Earth is way too dangerous to live in. There's no food, no water and things are just getting out of control. The only chance humans have a chance of surviving is to transfer their body in a virtual world that was created just in time but what happens is there's a glitch? And why did that glitch only accrued to 6 people? (1010 words)

𝐼𝑠𝑙𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑'𝑠 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑 𝑖𝑠 𝑑𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑝𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟- those who are shadow-dwellers and those who are mute. Born into a family of shadowdweller's, Isleen is believed to be a lowly mute and stands in stark contrast against the shadowdwellers whose supernatural abilities makes them godly. But Isleen knows she's a Somnium, a dream controller who can see the future in her sleep, an ability long believed extinct. Her world spirals out of control when she decides to change the future and she saves the long lost prince from death. Four years pass and Isleen regrets the future she saved. She wishes she had allowed the prince, who is now the most famous assassin in Ardrhalis, to die. But a twist of fate leads her to the royal palace, where she is drawn into the shadowdweller world and forces her to meet the mysterious grim reaper, who knows more about Isleen's past than herself. Isleen's actions put into motion a deadly and violent dance, pitting her against her own heart.

A talking chicken travels through space at the speed of light as the universes most sought after bounty hunter. As he travels he encounters lots of dangerous foes, but is anyone a match for the notorious, Simone le Silkie.

Most have heard of the lost city of Atlantis... how it is rumoured to have been sunken and now inhabited by mer-people. It is waved away as a myth, as a preposterous idea that a child's over-active imagination concocted. Nobody will ever know unless it is finally unearthed like everything else in the world. When the Titanic sank, the ship was found, right? According to the internet, it took nearly 70 years to find the ship. Not that this story has anything to do with Atlantis... well, it is similar in the sense that this story takes place in the water. _ Eighteen years old, Annabelle Ainsley sets out to find herself in 1870. The last person to see her alive was Donny Acker as she leaves him in Dartmouth, Devon and is never heard from again. That is... until the year 2020. #ShawRocketFundContest

A poor young girl is shamed for loving women, and after being disowned by her parents turns to her girlfriend, Mollie, for security and a new life.

A world with a controlled population, Where in the end, society will be a smaller nation. A place where the government has many plans, But those plans will lead to terror and scams, As riots occur to take down the leading group, They never know who's part of the government's troop. Who will stop them? Who will tear the plant by the stem? Will the master scheme be blown to smithereens, Or will the government win and remain unseen? - Grace Smith