Talkthepoc Stories

[⚠️ Major Editing, Mind the Changes] Scattered through the air carrying wishes, Dandelions dancing in the wind, Watch them twirl and watch them spin, Ponder a while on your desires, For once blown away from their stems, Can never be caught again. An anthology of some short stories :)

"I'm not star-crossed. Not unless you cross me." Ro is a Montague who killed her father to inherit the drug-running business and their considerable stash of bio-tech. Jules is the heir to the Capulet Casino and the single rose of the blood-stained, rotting streets of New Verona who wants to escape their captive world. But will the rose smell as sweet if Ro steals them away? *** Two crime lords, both alike in villainy, In New Verona, where we lay our scene, From older murder leads to new misery, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From the delinquencies of these two foes A pair of star-cross'd felons take their fight; Whose misadventured bio-tech overthrows Do with much death bury their parents' might. Let the tech war into brothels, casinos, and fatal masquerades, And in the shadows of the city's cruel rage, Aside from their vendetta's end, nothing could remove, Turn now your consciences from this page; The which if you, with patient eyes attend, The past is gone, this dark future we must end.

{ NOT A BTS FIC } "What's the one thing you can't live without?" Taz looked at me, brown irises steadily holding my gaze, eyes endearing. The faintest of smiles ghosted his lips, but there was no joy behind it. I almost didn't hear him say, "I think you already know the answer," before he finished his drink and slipped back inside. Almost. * * * In which an ordinary girl finds her peace through an unusually named boy. * * * {Highest Rankings} 7/19/18 - #1 in Asian American 8/11/18 - #8 in AMBW AN: she's unedited and very much a work in progress but she is my baby and we live for growth in this house

Meet Elizabeth. She follows all of the rules. Hands in her homework on time, cleans her room when asked (not that she needs to be), says please and thank you, arrives home 5 o'clock sharp, cooks dinner, and appreciates her family for who they are, no matter their flaws Now meet Liz. Liz doesn't like to be looked at in the wrong way. She wouldn't hesitate to put you in your place, Below her. Liz doesn't care about school, she arrives whenever she feels like it. Her room is a mess, and so is her attitude. No one has ever heard her utter a single grateful phrase in their lifetime. Liz gets home at any time that she wants. She believes that her brother is a spoiled brat, her mother a dirty whore, and considers her father a stranger. What if I told you these two girls Were the same person? After her father packs up and leaves for another woman, Elizabeth believes that it is time for a new and better her. Newport beach, California was her new destination, and that's where Elizabeth meets Alex, the man who changed her life forever. Find out how this tale of love, loss, and betrayal lead to the death of the most important man in business.

Previously known as 'Knight with no Armour.' ❝their love was like fireflies. small, fragile and alive only in the dark. it made them the king and queen of the night.❞ _________ It always takes a momentary weakness to screw things up and Danuj Pradhan learns this the hard way. After cheating on his fiancée slash best friend with their other best friend, everything starts going down the drain. When push turned to shove, Danuj takes the easy way out. He runs away from his home, or hellhole as he prefers to call it, to his spinster aunt's place to just start everything afresh. What he didn't expect is to be hit, literally, by an annoying ball of sunshine in the name of Keira Wilson, who is persistent in showing him that it's okay to be a knight with no armour. But everything isn't what meets the eye. Because, she isn't exactly a ball of sunshine. And he isn't someone whose only problem was a love he lost. #VillainsArePeopleToo #ProjectNobody - - - Cover credit: yours truly Image credit: to owner Trailer credit: @ketterdams Spin-off of Is He A She?! Can be read as a standalone too. #109 [teen fiction] #60 [short story] © copyright 2016- All rights reserved.

THIRD PLACE WINNER OF THE CHRISTMAS CONTEST 2016! December 1956. Experience Christmas in the most iconic period of history through the eyes of a young, black boy.

Liyah Hamilton was-in summery- stubborn, pretentious, and stuck up. Chance West was definitely obnoxious and had one heck of a smoking problem. There was absolutely no way at all these two could even formulate anything beyond a friendship. Right? Wrong. Chance already loved Liyah. And Liyah was coming to love him too. And turns out, they worked just right together. - sweetlly

The Princess of Positivity is thrown into a life of turmoil when she collides with someone not normally in her social solar system, uprooting her secure future and stable foundations, launching her into a whole new side of the galaxy that is New York. There, she finds the difference between 'then' and 'now', and how neither can co-exist without implosion. [#178 chicklit]

a dialogue and mixed media short story about FELIX, a university student who hates his job at Ralpho's Pizza and GIANCARLO, an american who recently made the move across the pond with his univeristy's year-long study abroad program. ❝Your total is £4.58. Name?❞ ❝Giancarlo.❞ ❝Ugh.❞ ❝Don't scoff at me!❞ ❝You're named like a character from Downton Abbey.❞ ❝That's a great show, so I'll take that as a compliment.❞ ❝Eh, I'm more of a Coronation Street kind of lad. ❝Utter rubbish.❞ ❝Never say that again. Your salad should be ready in ten minutes.❞

A black woman's cries ain't heard in a white man's world.

Being pretty is a privilege. But why don't we acknowledge it? Dylan is the only coloured girl in her final year class. Growing up Asian in a white-dominant community warped her perceptions of beauty and she believes she could never be as 'pretty' as the tall thin non-coloured girls in her grade. Her mom often lectures her "Gwapa, you are beautiful just the way you are" before school and she KNOWS she'd be a sucker if she fell for another masculine white male who played sports - but deep down, Dylan feels she needs to do something about her low confidence. Whether it's to stop being afraid of the sun in fear of her skin getting darker, or to change her idea of success from 'how men see her' to 'how she sees herself', Dylan can't help but think if she's even pretty enough to do anything about it.

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There are forty-eight million players in The Realm but it doesn't matter. She's number one. Kira Stormcrest accomplished what no other player has ever done before and she has the skin to prove it. There isn't a dungeon she can't clear, a foe she can't kill, or an artifact that she can't find. Every player in the world has heard of her thief, Navi. Developers want her to be the face of The Realm and companies are offering her endorsements. Everything is one click away but there's just one problem: Kira Stormcrest is a nobody. If she clicks that button she must sign her real name on the dotted line and be forced into becoming somebody, so she does the next best thing. She hacks the system. That's when the town of Angelwood goes to hell. Warning: Contains Graphic Language, Intimate Content, and Mild Violence. Cover by Carkann

Pirate - Lady - Fighter Cyra Lykos had been working her entire life to be the best, to prove to everyone that she can do everything and more. The only thing that stoped her was her lack of magic. It was that alone that caused her to be disgraced by her noble family and have to turn instead to a life of thievery on the sea. She taught that she would always be the only one like this until one day everyone looses they're magic and she's the only one that can bring it back.

A collection of poetry from the young mind of a black, teenaged girl that experiences hardships and witnesses struggle on a day-to-day basis. There will be use of AAVE (African-American Vernacular English). Before you say anything about how it isn't "proper English," learn the background behind it. AAVE has grammatical rules just like any dialect. The most common example of AAVE is zero copula or copula deletion, which refers to the absence of an auxiliary verb. It occurs frequently in standard English as well. Another example of AAVE you will witness is the dropping of the last letter of a word. Words like "singing" become "singin'" and words like "respect" become "respeck." REMINDER: I am recounting my emotions and thoughts. There are somethings that you may not agree with or experience, but you DO NOT attempt to silence me. DO NOT try to belittle my problems as if they are something so trivial.

Desmond Grey is a bone, a member of a secret organisation called the Bone Society, tasked with investigating magical deaths in both the temporal and invisible worlds. When Desmond is assigned to a covert operation investigating the deaths of stiffs and heiresses of high ranking houses, he uncovers that the murders are merely footnotes to a much darker design. Hidden outside the line of sight is the House of Shadows, an obscure magical household with a devastating power harbouring a plot that will rock the entire invisible world to its foundations. People are dying; shadows are rising, and time is running out.

Life was all average for Shin until that one rainy day, when a girl in a baggy hoodie and a plain umbrella came and stood beside him, her umbrella over his head and with no words. And that's how it started. His love. Well... who knew all it takes is a girl, a boy and an umbrella to fall in love? Cover credit: yours truly Image credit to owner. < Really short short story. Don't tell me that I didn't warn ya > Highest ranking: #28 under HUMOUR on September 29th, 2016 #26 under SHORT STORY on October 4th, 2016. ----------------------- © copyright 2015-2016 Do not copy. All rights reserved.

The Avalonian Coup and assassination of the Venti Queens has left Northern Flareia in turmoil. Olivier, Flae and Kylan decide to turn to the other Flareian countries for help, with the intention of forming a Flareia-wide alliance against Tommel, the False King on the Avalonian Throne. However, with the Gaian and Venti Dragonheirs missing, an alliance is not something that can be made easily. As they travel to Anemasi for help from the Spirit Dragon, hysteria is spreading across Umbrasse. Emperor Nequami insists the Dragonheir perished in the coup, but a rumour begins to spread that he is alive, and willing to help. With the shadows spreading more rapidly across Flareia, and his country pushing more than ever to overthrow their Emperor, Kylan must make a choice - to follow his wishes of not becoming Emperor himself, or leave many of his friends to die.