Tall Stories

He built a fortress around his heart. She brought a wrecking ball and a secret. Elias Thorne is a mystery in Oakhaven, A solitary figure and the owner of a successful tattoo franchise, his wealth is as carefully guarded as his silence. He is the quiet grump the whole town wants to decipher, but no one ever gets close. Elias likes his life neat, organized, and utterly empty of anything that could remind him of love and loss. Then June Hayes arrives. Burnt out from the new york art scene and pregnant via a donor, June is determined to create a peaceful, new life for herself and her baby. To the locals, she's just a sweet, new artist. They have no idea she's also viral sensation with over a million followers who sells her work to the A-list. June sees Elias's grumpy exterior and smiles. She needs a friend, and she has decided the broody, ball cap wearing man (no seriously I never see him without a hat on - June) across the street is it. She invades his quiet space showing up at the inkwell every Tuesday and spending the day, sharing her music, and poking at his meticulous order. Elias fights it all, clenching his jaw and pulling his cap low to hide the truth: he fell for the Wildflower the minute she crashed into his life. As June begins posting subtle, faceless photos of him, their reluctant friendship turns into an online viral romance that threatens to expose both of their secrets. How do you guard a heart that already belongs to a Wildflower, a baby, and a life you swore you'd never have? And what happens when the most careful grump in Oakhaven blurts out, "That's my wife," just to stay by her side? Tropes: - Grumpy x Sunshine - He Falls First - Protective - Pregnancy - Small Town - Forced Friends - Friends to lovers - Secret Identity CAN BE READ AS A STANDALONE AND NEEDS EDITING

When the palace announces the kings betrothal contest, Evander doesn't think too much about it. It's vain and uncouth and certainly, no one is dumb enough to believe the king would actually choose a commoner to marry. His heart is put off of marraige, he isnt interested. He's content. He has his career, his bakery that he worked so hard to open and a peaceful life that he wouldn't trade for anything in the world. When his family enters his name for the competition, he reluctantly agrees, on the condition that if it doesn't work out, his mother would leave him alone about marriage. He doesn't expect it to be difficult. When he meets the king, he doesn't expect him to be kind, and warm and easy to talk to. He doesn't expect him to be...normal and suddenly, Evander has his priorities mixed. He loves his bakery and is determined to further his career, but his concerning feelings about King Zarrall are starting to make him think otherwise. Evander hates royals, and he hates magic, marrying the king means, putting himself directly in the middle everything he hates, but for Zarall? He might be willing to put up with it. This is a high fantasy novel, featuring a reluctant baker and a sweet golden retriever king. Any similarities to other stories is purely coincidental. MM Romance.

After a long dormant virus, which causes hallucinations and death, is discovered to be living in every person on Earth, a group of mismatched ratrags drive across collapsed America to reach a safe haven in Californa to deliver the cure

Danny moves to Arizona with his best friend expecting it to be temporary. He has school coming up, no real plan beyond that, and a ranch job that was only supposed to give him something to do in the meantime. Then he meets Zade. Zade is quiet, hard to read, and usually more comfortable keeping to himself. Danny isn't exactly trying to get close to him either, but after enough early mornings, long days at the ranch, and time spent around each other, avoiding it starts to get a little harder. What Danny thought would just be a summer starts becoming something he doesn't want to leave behind. And somewhere along the way, Arizona starts to feel a little closer to home.

Izori Midoriya never wanted to be a hero, she wanted a simple life, but when you're a 12 foot tall six ton extremely clumsy 16 year old girl, you can't be simple, Aizawa has snuck her into the big test in hopes she'll make enough points to get into U.A. since she's already broken too many laws, and her mum's worried she might get prison on her 18th, an experimental story,

He's such a monkey rat

At West High School in Salt Lake City, there are two intelligent students who always seemed to be in a mind competition with one another. Elijah Knoxx is a typical class clown who is outspoken, loud, and super energetic during school day mornings. Yasmine Huang, although smart like him, is the opposite. She rarely jokes, has a bit of sassy tendencies, and takes studying very seriously while Elijah couldn't care less. Their complete different characteristics often brought discord between the two, but will they find a balance in love with one another?

"You don't just call someone 'little girl' when they're just short and not really a small girl, you know." I said quietly and looked around, not wanting to talk to him. He shrugged, "And you don't just call someone 'tall boy' just because they're not little." ---- Skeeter Sanchez never thought she'd be able to have friends, experience pranking, or even just hang out with someone when her Dad and she moved into the neighborhood until Colt Summers, school's heartthrob and bad boy, chased her before classes start. Tyler Peterson, Colt's best friend, thought his life wouldn't get more interesting until he saw his best friend chase a girl he was sure he's never seen before. ---- "You're special to him," he said, smirking. "He never chases any girl." She glared at him as she tried to breathe, "he'll never catch me. I'll be dead if he did." Copyright © 2013 All Rights Reserved, including the right

On August 26, 2008, a very strange story was posted to a website in Japan by a user named "VFtYjtRn0" describing a bizarre series of events that started in their childhood, around the year 1998. Below I'm presenting a cleaned-up translation of the account

Mike was a 16 yrs old teenager who leads a normal life as a single sibling in his family. But soon he discovers that he was not the only sibling in his family and things change out when he happened to meet his weird brothers. Unlike other brothers Mike's brothers were entirely unique in their appearances, one got exact physical appearance of Mike and other even though younger than Mike was lot more bigger than him (i.e. big little brother). How his reaction would be when he meets his brothers for first time? Will their lives and relationships would be normal like others? Build up your curiosity and read the story to find out more about them.

Elena Cromwell has a long way to go in life, despite being 26. She had doubts about starting a new relationship after multiple failed dates following the painful breakup with her ex Trent Bowen. However, her doubts began to fade when she met the straightforward and assertive 29-year-old Draven Knoxx whom is a successful businessman and a former fitness influencer. They both came from a hopeless place full of fake and shallow people. Can love bring them together?

Adeline Meyers, the quirky, shy, sometimes a little bit crazy dog woman tries new experiences. Parties, adventures, friends and maybe even catching up with old 'allies' like Andre? After seeing the women around her treated like dogs ass by men she believes that every guy is the same. Andre dean, every girls stop and stare guy, secretly best friends with his pet turtle Rasputia, loves one night stands with Brazilian models, perfectly represents what you call a guy that's 6'2 and has muscles as big as a church debt, doesn't give a fleas balls about girls and will hurt any one that try's to get into his way. When little A and big A meet again, after 2 years of him living in America, for his fathers business, all hell breaks loose, the hate is still present. It all started when Adeline was in Year 7 and Andre was a year older, when Adeline called Andre out for being mean to another girl, the teasing, bullying, pranks and tears all grew into one big nightmare-Andre. Now that the bullying subsided she made sure nobody not even Andre can beat her around the bush. What happens when they bump into each other again and the hate is still there? Will Adeline run or will she stand up to him. This is my first book so please leave your opinion on what I should do for the next chapters! Xoxo

Penelope Charming is a teenage girl that isolated in her home, just like Rapunzel. Penelope's mother doesn't let her leave the house unless she's with her, kinda like Rapunzel. Penelope has a crush on a man she knows she can't have, not like Rapunzel. Follow Penelope's story and see what happens as truths unravel and love gets shot in the air.

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