Beyondtheromance Stories

"What if I refuse your offer?" Rizelle was nervous. "Just asking," she clarified. The dangerous gleam in his eyes intensified. "I think you know what." She did. He'd kill her, if she refused. __________________________________________________________________________ Despite her noble background, Rizelle now has nothing left. Living among the poor in a cruel city, it isn't long before she is driven to turn against everything she believes in and become a thief. Then she makes a mistake, and the secrets she's been fiercely trying to bury come back to haunt her. The only place she may be safe is with the most dangerous person around. However, this mysterious new guardian seems to have ulterior motives in helping her, though Rizelle can't figure out what they could possibly be. Faced at every turn with challenges, Rizelle must search for the truth, while deciding who to trust - and trying to stay clear of the jaws of darkness and death. Feedback please! Thank you! #writteninaction #writeforyou #beyondtheromance #badassreads (I do not own the picture on the cover)

A lonely girl decides whether or not to tell the truth of how she got her scar. Awards: Massive Magazine Short Fiction Award - First place Massey University top first year short story This is the short story version of my first full novel I wrote at fifteen. I may post the full version at a later date. Cover by Tahiwi Trenor-Hunt (It relates more to the novel than the short) Message me if you want to see more if his work!

"The Blind God walks around me, and I feel my mind prodded again like it was in the cavern, a spider weaving a tangled web. "Would you do anything to be remembered, Ode, even play a villain, the one who rises against the Chosen One?" In answer, I draw my dagger and make a slight incision against my thumb. Blood drips down, hot against my flesh. I hold my hand out as an oath, a promise. My ghouls hiss, yearning to drink. "I would rather reign over darkness than grovel as a servant to the light." *FEMALE ROBIN HOOD MEETS ONE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS* Ode Ngayoh is the only child of a bloodthirsty desert warlord. When the Blind God chooses her as champion, she's deemed a dark witch, a blemish against the Empire for her necromantic powers of summoning ghūls, the undead. Facing off against the prince and his handsome lover, Ode stands alone with the cursed god's favor. However, the more Ode defends the outcasts of the Empire, the more she finds herself being labelled a villain... (UPDATES DAILY) Highest Ranking Fantasy #16 on November 30, 2017 #1 in Dark Fantasy on July 13, 2018. #1 in Desert May 16, 2018 #6 in Kingdom COPYRIGHT 2017 BY SOPHIA WHITTEMORE. All Rights Reserved.

The Order is a group out to find one child. One child that isn't human like the rest, and Cecelia is that child. * * * How special is your life? Cecelia often questioned this in her young life as an orphan. She had no idea what the future could hold, or how it felt to have someone to love. She had planned out what to do, and how to act, but then that changed the day she found it. A camera of some kind, one completely special . . . One with a power to traverse time through the photos that it made. Cecelia never knew her life could take such a drastic turn, but it did. From making a new friend, to realizing the world was not what it seemed. There was more out there, more depth to explore. And she was the special one. |Chapter Four will be posted soon!| |Edited by @Andicook|

Almost dying can change a person. For most it pushes them to live life to the fullest; for Ryan, it lets him hear voices and see ghosts. After a fatal car crash, Ryan Hubbard wakes up hearing a voice in his head that isn't his own. It wants him to find something--someone. As if that isn't the worst of his problems, he can see ghosts too. Naturally, he tries telling people about his new abilities. And just as naturally, no one believes him. When Ryan gets dared to go into a supposedly haunted house, he almost refuses. But curiosity gets the best of him when something inside him (specifically, the voice) tells him to go. He wasn't exactly hoping to find anything inside-least of all the diary of a dead little girl and the sudden urge to find her killer. With the help of his friend Lya and the voice that refuses to leave him, Ryan is set to unravel the mysteries and unlock the secrets of the little child's past. • • • A paranormal mystery that takes place mostly in the present and sometimes in the 1960s. • • • This work mentions suicide, contains mildly violent, and/or traumatic content. Reader discretion is advised. Cover by: @solidarity_ • #11 in voices • #10 in ghost • #40 in paranormal

Follow Leena Moin as she records her family's misadventures in her diary during her gap year between high school and college. Her family eventually finds their way into her diary (literally), so Leena has to make a way to escape (figuratively) through her personal pen of fate.

The tension that girded my shoulders like a cloak fell away, my lips tugging upward in an easy smirk. It was electrifying, I could feel the heat of the arena beneath my feet yet at the same time, I felt strangely detached. I allowed myself to revel in the moment, tentatively holding onto it as though it were a fragile bird ready to fly away at the drop of a pin. My opponent stood at the far end, clothed in leather garments such as I had, only she wore a pauldron of burnished bronze, intricate designs too small for me to see carved upon its surface. There were no weapons between us, and I was thankful for that. I knew that would come later, however.

Welcome to this page, dedicated to the collection of Darkwater Chronicles mysteries, legends, electrifying tales and shocking histories. Prepare to be entranced, mesmerized. Once you enter, it is impossible to leave.

COMPLETED | ONE-SHOT In contemporary India, there is severe water shortage. While this is a new concept to the urban areas, the people of the Thar desert have suffered for decades. Despite this, offenders continue to waste water, a precious natural resource. This one-shot story is written with the sole purpose of cautioning people in any part of the world that water crisis that can hit any area on any given day. The readers are urged to not waste water, irrespective of their place of origin/residence. This story doesn't have any specific target audience, it is for the whole world to enjoy and reflect upon. Cover by @pathways_end

'our backs tell stories no books have the spine to carry. women of colour - rupi kaur' The harsher way at looking at what its like to be woman of colour, not just in 21st century western society but all around the world. #WomenOfColour #ProjectWomanUp #TalkThePOC

"Farzaneh..." I pull her to me, flinching when my sleeve rolls back, her eyes drawn to the markings. On my bare skin's a map revealing a different tattoo, one for every person I killed. I hate looking at the running tally of tattoos on my body. It reminds me of how many I've murdered. Reminds me I'm a human with a death goddess. My hakama, the color blue, blends into the folds of the red cloak around her, the effect like fire and ice. I bat my lashes, flex my muscles, all wiry from climbing the rigging when I get bored. "I'm just a boy." The look on her face is cruel. It reminds me why those chains are on her wrists. We're both cursed. Dark fantasy PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN with an LGBT+-ensemble *** Trans Captain Lucky Dice's enemies know him as a gambler, playing a game with a cursed set of dice that kills the losers instantly. The only person unaffected is Lucky, who's said to have sold his soul to the Rahasian goddess of death to get the dice to kill everyone but himself. But now, on his eighteenth birthday, the goddess of death calls on him to return the favor. The Divine princess, Kaliya, is trapped in the body of an all-devouring serpent, cursed by the Witch Goddess, the Matriarch of Truth, to weaken and murder her own godly parents. The gods are dying. And the world is truly ending if a pirate, a cursed witch, a vengeful warrior, and a con artist have to save it. (UPDATES DAILY) COPYRIGHT 2018 BY SOPHIA WHITTEMORE. All Rights Reserved. HIGHEST RANKING: #245 in Fantasy on April 21, 2018. #31 Mythology on May 27, 2018. #59 Gender Fluid Sub-Category on May 8, 2018. #22 in Journey on May 27, 2018. *** COVER CREDIT: PrinceOfRedroses and Rinmaru (further details inside)

I am Nathalia Beckham Kaur Khan. The time I hit 25 was the day I decided to run away from my cage to taste freedom. Little did I know that running away from NewYork to Delhi to unite with my father who left me on my birthday ages ago would make me end up on a running spree. I honestly lost count on the number of time's I kept running away from the people around me and the problems that surrounded me. I was running away from someone only to run into someone. Was all the chaos worth it? "I was running away not because I was a coward but because I knew I would run into something better." Sometimes all we need is a little push of motivation; maybe even a bit of running. Cover by Befikre

Years after Earth's desolation, humanity finds itself on Acrora -- a planet that might just be their new home. The Terraformation is well underway, and in five years, they will be able to start living above the ground again. Enter Rory, an assistant to the mind who brought their race to Acrora -- Doctor Arion Ross. After spending most of his existence living and working with the doctor, he's ready to have just a bit of fun on his own. That is until his games lead to the discovery of a series of deaths happening around the new human colony. His new mission: help Doctor Ross bring everyone out of their bunker and to a more sustainable environment. The problem: he doesn't believe in his new mission. The bigger problem: his friends are slowly learning about his job, and they can't help but get involved. It wouldn't be such a big deal if thousands of lives weren't at stake, but Rory finds himself ready to sacrifice them all to save just one. --------- Best ranking: #136 in sci-fi! Thank you so much :D I update every Friday and Tuesday (maybe Sundays too). Feel free to leave any feedback or criticisms on my story :)