Daphne is just an ordinary eighth grader who wants to prove herself. When the boy she likes shows up at her math competition, can she prove to him that she's not just some weird nobody by winning?

Categories: General Fiction, May Challenge; Characters: None; Chapters: 1 Table of Contents Series: None
Word count: 1584; Read Count: 566; Completed: Yes

The Angel looked down upon the world his master had created, and wept for the fate of mankind, and for that of Lucifer Morningstar.

Encounters between an angel and the Devil, on the seventh and eighth days of creation.

Categories: Fantasy Fiction; Characters: None; Chapters: 1 Table of Contents Series: None
Word count: 1139; Read Count: 626; Completed: Yes

Falka is a land in danger. The princess has been absent for fourteen years, an imposter in her place. The elves are under attack from the humans to the south.

 Asmera returns to her home of Dutera after fourteen long years in the modern world to find her country in turmoil. Her coming of age ceremony may prove to be the only chance Falka has left at fighting off its enemies. Can Asmera save her people from slaughter?

Categories: Fantasy Fiction; Characters: None; Chapters: 1 Table of Contents Series: None
Word count: 601; Read Count: 537; Completed: No

Luke and his sister find a confusing girl on their return home one night. It is obvious that she needs help, yet the help she needs may be something even greater or more difficult than Luke can give.

"We found her in the shadow of a dumpster, thown away like last week's trash, withering and beginning to smell. At first I thought she was just a pile of rags thrown together, an undersized scarecrow."

Categories: Fantasy Fiction; Characters: None; Chapters: 1 Table of Contents Series: None
Word count: 2879; Read Count: 686; Completed: Yes

I am only fourteen, and already my life has been changed irreversibly. I no longer trust my family; they betrayed me. Read my story here.


Categories: General Fiction; Characters: None; Chapters: 1 Table of Contents Series: None
Word count: 2239; Read Count: 528; Completed: Yes

Sometimes, when I close my eyes, I am in another place, another time; a place where the constant hardships of life cannot interrupt the calm serenity of my fantasy.

A woman, suffering the many hardships of life, has become cynical of humanity and all it entails. Caught in the endless terrors the world seems to conjure, she is beginning to lose faith in man. Then she meets Keiran.

"Your tears bring hope that one day, enough tears will have been shed to end this seeming eternal war"

Keiran, the wind sage of Utopia, is a figment of her imagination. Yet as their relationship strengthens and grows, she begins to wonder where the line is that seperates reality and fantasy and if it can be blurred until they are one and the same.

Categories: July Challenge, Fantasy Fiction; Characters: None; Chapters: 1 Table of Contents Series: None
Word count: 3015; Read Count: 830; Completed: Yes

While on a German trip with her students, Elizabeth Conlon is delighted to discover an important historical source.

She emails her boss straight away with the details, and a typed up copy of the diary of an unknown Nazi.

This diary tells the story of the rise of Hitler, and even the beginnings of the Second World War. While she searches for the rest, come, and read the beginning.

The story of how it all started.

The reasons why they voted for Hitler.

*First in The Second Story series, which follows Elizabeth as she discovers more about the author of the diary, as well as many other, previously untold stories, from all sorts of era's.*

Categories: General Fiction; Characters: None; Chapters: 1 Table of Contents Series: Second Story
Word count: 4890; Read Count: 669; Completed: Yes

Joseph Blackwood is thrown into poverty after the death of his father, a well known and respected artist from London.

Set during the reign of Queen Victoria, Joseph is determined to find he will he knows his father wrote, but, unknowingly, Joseph soon stumles into a tangled web of mystery, intrigue and murder...

Categories: General Fiction; Characters: None; Chapters: 1 Table of Contents Series: None
Word count: 1162; Read Count: 599; Completed: No

Summers family traditions:

 #1: If they play an instrument, play a trumpet.

 #2: To play one, play in PSFVA, one of the city's bands.

 #3: Be good.

 Maya Summers really didn't want to break traditions number 1 and 2, but in order to achieve the 3rd one, she just had to.

Categories: General Fiction; Characters: None; Chapters: 1 Table of Contents Series: None
Word count: 3383; Read Count: 542; Completed: No

A young woman finally frees herself from the bonds that held her for years. A narrative of that change.... and of the resulting triumph.

Categories: General Fiction; Characters: None; Chapters: 1 Table of Contents Series: None
Word count: 697; Read Count: 514; Completed: Yes

“So, this is life. This is what it is to live,” she had smiled.

What is life? Is it merely a state in time to which we interact with others, in which we're influenced by others -- or is it meaningless? is every step or action we take nothing in the great scheme of things?

Time patters on, and waits for no one. As humans, we must push to defy the logical boundaries of death.

 If we wish to live life.

 

Categories: General Fiction; Characters: None; Chapters: 1 Table of Contents Series: None
Word count: 1831; Read Count: 414; Completed: Yes

This is a story that almost every teenage girl can relate to. This is the story of a girl who strives to be popular, but hates the popular people.

At first, it was harmless. At first, it could be passed of as a playground fight. At first, she was hurting peoples feelings.

At first, it didn't matter. But one night, in the quiet streets of her home town in England,  Becky takes things too far...

Categories: General Fiction; Characters: None; Chapters: 7 Table of Contents Series: None
Word count: 10841; Read Count: 8128; Completed: No

Olivia and Stewart are a busy upperclass couple with a lot going on in their lives. Watch as they try to make it through Valentine's Day while dealing with each other's quirks.

Categories: General Fiction; Characters: None; Chapters: 1 Table of Contents Series: None
Word count: 1431; Read Count: 667; Completed: Yes

An agent, a boy, a hope. Dragged into a world beyond his clear concise logic, what happens to someone trained to operate on logic alone? A story of love, of intrigue and conspiracy, a story of the paranormal, of music and of teenagers awaits you.

Categories: Fantasy Fiction; Characters: None; Chapters: 1 Table of Contents Series: None
Word count: 2208; Read Count: 470; Completed: No

An entire world exists that we are un-aware of. Unfortunatly, a rather simple girl is about to be lured into it.

Categories: Horror Fiction, July Challenge; Characters: None; Chapters: 1 Table of Contents Series: None
Word count: 1391; Read Count: 620; Completed: Yes

Her smile was unchanging, but her eyes became oddly unfocused.

Sunshine, smiles, and poolside laughter can be unsettlingly deceiving.

Categories: General Fiction, July Challenge; Characters: None; Chapters: 1 Table of Contents Series: None
Word count: 1453; Read Count: 648; Completed: Yes

Franz is a child of the Five Points who wants nothing more to escape. He nearly does before being chased back to his neck of the Points by rough men, only to find the only one he could count on deceived him.

Categories: General Fiction; Characters: None; Chapters: 1 Table of Contents Series: None
Word count: 1515; Read Count: 595; Completed: Yes

Philippines, 1896. A young man named Antonio is forced to choose between his family and his country during the biggest revolt in Philippine history.

Categories: General Fiction; Characters: None; Chapters: 1 Table of Contents Series: None
Word count: 2639; Read Count: 513; Completed: No

Daphne has made some new friends--including Jacob. But could it cost her Erika's friendship?

 

Sequel to "All For You."

 

 

Categories: General Fiction; Characters: None; Chapters: 1 Table of Contents Series: None
Word count: 1451; Read Count: 347; Completed: Yes

It's Valentine's Day. How can Caleb Malone, a creature believed to exist only in myths and legends, convince his human friend of his true existence?

Categories: General Fiction; Characters: None; Chapters: 1 Table of Contents Series: None
Word count: 3155; Read Count: 634; Completed: Yes

That song calls me. Am I human? Maybe. No one knows. No one knows that it's me - me that takes the children. No one knows where they go.

They just vanish.

I only came a short while ago. But it's been enough time.

Why do you fear me so? The same reason you fear the dark. The same reason you fear that strange noise outside your window.

Because you can't see me. You can't stop me.

So here is the story of a few of my memorable victims. Read it, if you must, and make up your own mind on what I am, and where they go...

Categories: Horror Fiction; Characters: None; Chapters: 1 Table of Contents Series: None
Word count: 2505; Read Count: 567; Completed: Yes

Upon the tragic death of her mother, fourteen-year-old Elyse is forced to move to live with her father, at his great estate in the country. But Mr Lyndon is a bad-tempered man with little patience for young girls, and his estate is as secretive as he is, filled with riddles, mysteries and ghosts.


Categories: General Fiction; Characters: None; Chapters: 2 Table of Contents Series: None
Word count: 2418; Read Count: 1502; Completed: No

The first chapter in the Gossip series.  Speculation abounds regarding the old man who can be seen ranting to no one at all while standing on the street corner of a busy intersection.

Categories: General Fiction; Characters: None; Chapters: 1 Table of Contents Series: None
Word count: 1398; Read Count: 414; Completed: Yes

It was the last straw!

Anadel and Noraalei are as close as any siblings can be, but when Anadel fails to follow society's standards, her mother banishes her from the kingdom until she cleans up her act, and can be the princess she needs to be.

Categories: Fantasy Fiction; Characters: None; Chapters: 1 Table of Contents Series: None
Word count: 2229; Read Count: 429; Completed: Yes

Did you know a telephone call can change your life?

Categories: General Fiction; Characters: None; Chapters: 1 Table of Contents Series: None
Word count: 1452; Read Count: 473; Completed: Yes