She'd shown up at the bookstore every day since the start of the winter season with a pen, a journal, and a pad of post-it notes stuffed in her bag. She spoke in metaphors, and sarcasm rolled off of her tongue like it was second nature to her. Her name was December, and Greyson Kaye couldn't keep himself from falling...
Hannah Taylors finally gives in to her desperation and does one of the stupidest things a girl can do to grab her unapproachable long-time crush Jonah Gibbs' attention: spill soda on his white shirt and leave a motherfrigging red blotch on it. Accidentally... on purpose.
Brielle Evans was an ordinary girl with an ordinary job at the local bakery. However, she had a not-so-ordinary problem - acute lymphocytic leukemia. When seventeen-year-old Tyler walks into the bakery, Brielle's life turns upside down. Spending all of their free time together, when will Tyler find out Brielle's secre...
❝Roses have thorns, my dear, but so do you. ❞ In which Jan falls into an existential crisis, and Pete is there for her, if only in the form of words on her screen.
Oliver Jensen had no intention of colliding with Helene Lucia that rainy Monday night. However, fate had other plans. The well-educated, charming, often angry city boy meets the narcissistic, entitled, often judgemental runaway who has never settled down in her life, moving from city to city because of the pure bo...
Ever since Sarah moved to Florida, she's found it quite hard fitting in. Seeing this, her mom suggests that she at least join the soccer team, since back home, she played soccer for her school. Everything goes well for Sarah and most of all, she makes the team! From making the team, she also gets close to the scho...
A short story of an abandoned bathroom stall door giving desperate, heartbroken girls relationship advice, hot guys incorrectly trying to woo hearts, a stupid dare in action, and irrationality ruling the minds of every character.
Self-proclaimed weirdo April Hale and the notorious troublemaker Ryder Black have been living side by side for more than ten years. Both never attempted to communicate with each other, but on the night Ryder Black is thrown out by his own father, he asks her a question that might change both of their lives: "March...
[Humor #115 / Teen Fiction #158] - 13/4/14 "Jane, did you hear? Noah Flynn is back." "Noah who?" ~ Jane Doe isn't a murder victim. She's a bitchy head cheerleader-to-be with a secretly nerdy brain and a secretly-er hopeless romantic heart. Noah Flynn isn't holy -- unless of course you're talking about his looks. He's...
Annabelle Dickson is the most popular girl at Hillton high school. Annabelle Dickson is the nicest girl you'll ever meet. Annabelle Dickson is dead. And Adrian Humphrey is the main suspect. A war errupts at Hillton High School, a rift between the people who believe Adrian's innocence and Adrian's guilt. Adrian must r...
A few days before the 25th, Farah Dailey decided to take a risk and anonymously deliever a Christmas gift to her long-time crush, Jamie Bright. Things don't go quite as planned when a sudden snow blizzard strikes and Farah blunders her way into a sweet shop - coincidentally owned by Jamie's family. Hm, but perhaps bei...
Adeline Welsh had always been pretty confident that she was cursed. Ever since her fourteenth birthday, she'd had a totally unrealistic, totally uncoordinated, and totally uncalled for string of bad luck. To make matters worse, on the day she truly believed something was going to go right for once, she ended up being...
There in those city lights, there was no her and there was no him. There was just everything and nothing and the spaces in between, like flickering lights against a never-ending, black sky. There in those city lights, there was no love and there was no hate. There was just listening and talking and understanding every...
robin des bois - french, meaning "robin hood" Isis Greene is a girl with an unconventional hobby. She steals from the rich to give to the poor, or as she believes, restores some much needed balance to the universe. But after one robbery gone wrong, she finds herself in more trouble than she'd ever anticipated, and he...
skinny love : (n.) when two people love each other, but are too shy to admit it, even though they still show it. Paristella's Contest ~ Round 2 [ Short Story #54 / Romance #240 ]
"As far as I can tell, there are two basic (kissing) rules: 1. Don't bite anything without permission. 2. The human tongue is like wasabi: it's very powerful, and should be used sparingly." In which Anna writes about a lot of people kissing.
The first time Mel saw Dean was in an elective class called Madness in Literature. He had been sitting a few rows down in his green parka, writing furiously into his notebook. Something about him made her stop and stare, and it felt like she hasn't looked away since. But there is a reason why Dean seldom comes to cla...
★ ★ "Anything is possible." Magnus and Meredith were more than just best friends—they were partners in crime. Every Friday since they were six years old, they had been going on secret adventures that nobody knew about, not even their mothers. But as the two of them entered their senior year of high school, life starte...
❝If life were a palette of colors, which color would best simulate you?❞ Red; The glow of intensity. Red is the color of burning fire, capable of massive destructions. Red is the blood circulating in our body. Red is what keeps us alive. Although red is often misunderstood as a deadly color, red is the color of roses...
Eva Owen's summer sucks. It's her last vacation before going off to college and she's spending it bored out of her mind, stuck in her shabby hometown. Caleb Porter doesn't do much, at least that's what everyone keep telling him. He's content spending his summer days working away and counting down...
"Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell." -Kim Edwards Eleanor Morisette doesn't speak. She doesn't have an illness that causes it, and wasn't born mute; she just chooses not to talk. What reason is there to say words when no one's there to hear them? Instead, she expresses herse...
Tony hated winter. It wasn't because of the weather -god no- it was because of all the obnoxious, loud, and unsurprisingly, rude customers he had to serve during the snow-filled months. Not to mention that his glasses always manage to fog up to the point where his driving skills were dangerous to the public. And his...
They weren't supposed to meet. But life does that sometimes; it throws in a couple of new faces that bring you the utmost of joys in the most unlikeliest of places, and every now and then, you'll come across someone who changes you - someone who's genuine and wonderful and full of hope; someone who changes your perspe...
For seventeen years, Henry’s always been content with a cup of tea and a good book. But when he decides that he wants to write one of his own, he realizes he lacks something to write about. So, when the enigmatic Winter McLane transfers to his school, he thinks he may have finally found what he’s been looking for.
"Sorry--Annie's a bit busy trying to figure out her life at the moment." After high school and a long list of denied college applications (and one too many headaches), Annie Horne has just about had it with trying to meticulously plan out her life down to the very last detail. And in lieu of a college education, she...
→ finished ← Claustrophobic and agoraphobic, Alaska Gouramie doesn't leave the house much. She whiles her days away nurturing her goldfish, Gordon. Her life is passing her by. Elver Harrison James is scared of fish. He won't go near the pond at the bottom of his garden. He will do anything to stay away from those wate...
req·ui·em (noun) 1. a Mass for the repose of the souls of the dead 2. a musical composition setting parts of a requiem Mass, or of a similar character 3. an act or token of remembrance --------- There’s something charming about the idea of a musician that doesn’t speak. Or at least Garrit likes to think so. Violin...
"Cross my heart and hope to die, I'll see you with your laughter lines." a boy. a girl. you know the rest. © Valarie Rae, two thousand and fifteen.
