Talkthepoc Stories

Princess Faustine, a clandestine, self-taught magician, must embark on a perilous journey beyond her all-too-conventional kingdom to uncover a hidden truth and shatter an insidious curse that looms over her realm and the Seven Lands.

The storm said to the wall, "I rage to give you purpose." And then the storm said to me, "I rage to give you life."

Enter Jericho Tucker: a Nigerian, Brooklyn native with serious daddy issues, a killer afro, and has a whole lot of love to give. But toss picture-perfect Joseph Turner into the mixing bowl; quarterback, silver-tongued, white boy from the dirty south, and you'll have a real disaster on your hands. It's their last year of high-school, and things are already getting hot; just add a pinch of fake friends, two cups of jealous exes, and a little too much southern lovin', and now you're really cooking! So, if you can't handle the heat, you better get the heck out of the kitchen. + 5th place Ace Awards Supreme LGBTQ batch 2 + #2 in talkthepoc + #2 wmbm + #3 in diverselit + #3 bmwm + #7 in weneeddiversebooks + #10 in diverse ***HIATUS***

Sade's life changed for better and for worse after the birth of her son; her husband, Graham, was never home, and somehow she found herself all alone.

"I didn't expect anyone to actually text me." "You wrote your number on the men's bathroom stall. What did you expect?" Áurea Nikiforov Reyes always knew the story behind her parent's everlasting love. A simple text at three in the morning. Since she was a little girl, Áurea dreamed of having a fairytale romance like her parents. Now she's entering her second year of college with all hope for her fairytale ending gone. With summer approaching, Áurea decides last minute to study abroad in Japan. One drunken mistake in a nightclub might have changed her life for the better. A spin-off of Sailor's Moon. Takes place five years after the epilogue. You do not have to read it, but a little background might help. traditional writing + texting format #14 in Phones #2 in Dialogue book #170 in Messages © sapphire nyström 2021. cover by @sereneur

[ the second book in the drops of sunshine series ] As much as she ended up loving her first one, AJ Hood never wanted to go on another quest. But somehow, she ended up on one anyway. And this time, it's not going to have a pretty ending... but at least there will be food! [ a percy jackson and the olympians fanfic ] © 2019 - 2023 by athena m.

Meet our heroine Tiwà the beautiful princess that has an affinity towards the wild beasts of the forest, the girl that has the brains of a thousand scholars wrapped in her brain. With skin the colour of mahogany and eyes the colour of night her hair is as wild as the Lions mane long and beautiful tightly packed curls she's also fierce and her voice like a thousand harps playing softly in harmony She's beautiful the only princess of the royal house of Abìoyè Meet our Hero the Greek war god Alkaios the king of the great Greek empire, the one who is feared by many for his ruthless ways and string firm in ruling except when it comes to Tiwà he's like man who doesn't see anyone except from her. His love for Tiwà is priceless and endless it's a great as the sands on the sea shore he knows he'll never let her go not in this life not in the next life for their soul shall be entwined for all eternity and he shall be with her till the end of days We follow them on the journey of live war and betrayal

About a boy who must take the trip of a lifetime with the most unexpected companions in order to fulfil his grandmother's dying wish and discover everything that is extraordinary. *extended summary inside*

some underused and underrated gems for you!! [all pictures & gifs belong to the original owner]

When Annet's mother steps out for the week, Annet takes the chance to socialize with the family's housebot, Percique. Percique, having been warned, is well-prepared to argue her way out of being seen as a human, but Annet won't give up that easily. A science-fiction/romance short story. Read on Medium: https://medium.com/@yvesdot/a-fruit-platter-of-unintended-consequences-3d5ef1c3db5 Read on AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/15393681 Cover photo by Federica Galli on Unsplash. Entered in the Wattys 2018.

I hate you. I hate you. I hate you.

❝black girl magic, emphasis on magic.❞ five witch clans in an epic battle for control over new orleans. one dark secret hidden from them, with a plan to kill them all. (synopsis inside)

Laure Mynett is a budding literary sensation at the age of 25. She lives alone in her sprawling property, left to her by the people who she always called Mama and Papa. But there is another side to Laure that she has only recently embraced, no, acknowledged: she is indigenous. Laure has never understood who she is. A visit from her biological aunt and uncle confirms her worst fears: she is a mistake and a fake one at that, or so people say. To most people, she is the inscrutable, privileged, genius, living in her world of heartbreaking stories. But is her own reality any different?

Ai wishes she could stop seeing the past. Barclay wishes he knew if he had one. cover by @chaosinspace

❝You're an ass.❞ ❝That wasn't your line...❞ ❝I don't care. You're an ass.❞ When Isadore Macentyre is casted for a new season for a TV show she realises, not everyone is as nice as they seem on the screens... Conflicts and tension arise from these situations, how will she survive filming an entire season? | © all rights reserved copyright 2015 to devon mufasa.

there is a warrior in you. © y, 2016.

*Featured on @dangerouslove profile!* She wants him. Bad. Too bad she's still irrevocably in love with her boyfriend. The one she'll be moving in with, in a year. The one they say she killed. ~*~ Previously - Another Significant Other

Vellichor- n. the strange wistfulness of used bookstores, which are somehow infused with the passage of time-filled with thousands of old books you'll never have time to read, each of which is itself locked in its own era, bound and dated and papered over like an old room the author abandoned years ago. Ingrid Griffith had been spending her summer with her closest friend, Maxine. Actually, she was the only person Ingrid was out to. She never spent time worrying about expressing her sexuality because it seemed like all the girls that caught her attention were straight anyway. That was until one blazing day in a bookstore, Ingrid met a certain girl who was going to make this summer a bit different from the rest.

"Mele Kalikimaka is the thing to say, on a bright, Hawaiian Christmas day" "Yeah, only I hate brightness. And Hawai'i." ... nanowrimo ywp '15 cover by aciddaises