Dark things swarm around the city. Newspaper-boys are lured into houses, strange mansions whisper into musicians' ears, old men tell tales of vampires, drums boom in the Savannah, children worship false gods and priests begin to question the very foundations of the universe. And all this has something to do with a...
bit·ter·sweet: being at once bitter and sweet; especially: pleasant but including or marked by elements of suffering or regret. A collection of short stories I've written since joining Wattpad for various contests, challenges, and publications. These works range from one hundred word drabbles to short stories up to te...
Thirty-year-old Elise Andrews couldn’t bring herself to marry Griffin, her childhood friend-turned-sweetheart, so she let him walk away. Eight months after their break-up, she arrives in her hometown of Chicago on Christmas Eve and hears a voice from the past calling her name in the grocery store. It’s Griffin’s mothe...
❝we're like cracked eggs, both broken.❞ ❝can't we be hard boiled?❞ In which two teens become more then project partners. cover: @Rolling_in_the_Dice trailer: not yet made Highest Ranking: #69 Short Story _________________ lower case intended ©mia a.
❝HELP HELP HELLLP!❞ ❝Hello, this is the Fine Apple market, and no, we are not an Apple knockoff store; how may I help you?❞ ❝Well, someone just stole my phone.❞ ❝Sorry, what?❞ ❝You asked how you could help me.❞ ❝...Oh.❞ ◽︎◾︎◽︎ in which a jittery workaholic who realizes she needs help and an antisocial beach bum who do...
What if time travel is like alcoholism? Shouldn't mermaids have blubber to stay warm in the ocean? These short stories of fantasy and science fiction explore the weird, the bizarre, and the concretization of untenable fantasies.
{Honorable Mention for the Romance "Those Blue Eyes" contest.} There are happy accidents and dangerous accidents. Luka and Eleanor have to figure out which kind they're living - or if their meeting is a blend of both. // For Elizabeth - who saw it all. // 2015 © Ara James. All rights reserved. Cover art by @lucyfac...
He put flowers on her doorstep for her birthday. Too bad Nina was allergic to pollen. [ cover made by @incendia- ]
{ Watty 2015 Winner + Featured Story } Meet Sawyer Jameson. On the outside, she's a normal seventeen year old girl with amazing friends, a charitable job and a loving family. She's beautiful, funny and easy to get along with and just by looking at her, you'd think that she's the perfect girl, living in the perfect wo...
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...
~complete~ Charlotte is as sweet as a strawberry. She's the kind of person who will drop everything just to help you, just to put a smile on your face. She's as sweet as the sugar that constantly runs through her bloodstream, and as excitable as the rush that comes with it. And then there's Benjamin, who's as sour as...
"Hello?" "Um, hey?" "Wait, you don't sound like my Aunt Kathy." "Unless I was miraculously converted into a member of the opposite gender and somehow related to whoever is on the other side of this call, then yeah. I'm not your Aunt Kathy." "Oh, shiitake mushrooms." ...
Keeley accidentally swaps cell phones with a rivaling high school's star quarterback. Unable to switch back until a week later, she must interact with the arrogant boy, passing along texts and voicemails. As she gets to know him better, she realizes there's more to him than sexual innuendos and egotistical comments. B...
‣ Book Two in the 'Play' trilogy. in which a girl's life pauses after her best friend's death. [Cover by @lets-defeat-the-huns] {Highest ranking: #81//shortstory} All rights reserved © 2016 LeiLani Lopez Warning :: If you are reading this story on any other platform other than Wattpad, you are very likely to be at ris...
‣ Book Three in the 'Play' trilogy in which two broken teens move forward into their lives. All rights reserved © 2016 LeiLani Lopez {Highest Ranking: #55//shortstory & #18 rollercoaster} [Cover by @lets-defeat-the-huns] Warning :: If you are reading this story on any other platform other than Wattpad, you are very...
‣ Book One in the 'Play' trilogy. in which a boy has less than twelve hours till he's gone, and replays his life. All rights reserved © 2016 LeiLani Lopez | #iGotCancer | [Cover by @lets-defeat-the-huns] {Highest Ranking: #78//short story} Warning :: If you are reading this story on any other platform other than Wattp...
❝Finally, someone answered.❞ "Uhm, you've been calling for the past three minutes. What the heck do you want?" ❝Isn't this the famous 'Love Line'─wait, who is this?❞ "No, it's not, you idiot. Now stop calling." ❝So... you're not looking for a partner?❞ ❝... hello? sigh... she hung up on me.❞ in which he asked for a ho...
-Featured Story -Wattys 2016 Winner Eve's a vegan zombie, and she really doesn't care what you think of it, so shush it. All she wants is to get by and find some pigeons or a fat rat - anything without a name she can eat before she starves to death in What's-Left-of-Los-Angeles, California. Because I don't care what y...
Now A Wattpad Featured Story... A collection of short stories where faeries good, bad, and just plain scary roam a world of Rock-n-Roll and Marilyn Monroe. ♛ CONTENTS ♛ 1. Truly Elemental // 1957 2. Barren // 1941 3. Red Cap // 1962 4. Dress Up // 1950s 5. Over Your Grave // 1956 6. The Bleeding Boy and the Bruja...
Creepy. Thrilling. Mysterious. Dive into The Land of Never Looking Up and find yourself immersed in short stories that will have your heart beating and your mind whirring. --- A collection of short stories that were probably formulated while showering, laying in bed or during long car rides. I'll be adding more sto...
Tyler wakes up at midnight to shouting. What he hears next isn't very pleasant. cover by the amazing @sighstiles
✰ A WATTPAD FEATURED STORY ✰ Short tales about troubled girls -- some sad, some dangerous -- each with a paranormal twist. 1. LUX AETERNA: Hell has its demons. Lux has Foster Dad George. A flash fiction superpower origin story of a sort. (1K words) *** Get the complete collection of beautifully creepy paranormal tale...
Sometimes rumors really burn... Ben and Trissa used to be the "it" couple, but a misunderstanding has turned their love into a war of words and a fight for first blood. Cameron falls for Hope at first sight, but does he really know anything about her? When a scandalous video that appears to star Hope makes its way aro...
There's nothing you're forced to trust more than your own mind. You're dependent on it, it stores the memories that make up your world. But what if it could be stolen from you? Aspen's world is growing, from the boundaries of her country farm to the edges of the city. Her first year of university. It's supposed to...
Logan Reed is addicted to drugs. He is obsessed with drugs and spends too much time with them, trying to forget his dark past. But one fated day, he meets Hayley who is strongly against drugs, telling him they're disgusting. This catches his attention and before he knows it, Hayley becomes a new obsession of his and t...
WATTPAD FEATURED STORY Daniel Evans is trying not to let his crush on Jonah Clarke get in the way of their new found friendship, because Jonah Clarke is definitely not gay. Placed third in the Valentine's Day Contest hosted by @taygetsthegay
✯ Highest Rank: #284 [05.02.17] ✯ Davian Grey West is football captain and everything else that sums up a bad boy. He drinks, he smokes, he cuts class and he breaks the law, but the only different thing about this bad boy is that he's passionate about something school related; football. Enter Jess Sawyer, good girl...
**FEATURED BY WATTPAD** The oldest story of falling told in 401 words. Cover by @MissBookNut
This is a collection of original fairytales and fables. Some are funny, some tragic, and some whimsical. They are modern in ways, but also (I hope) timeless. They were written at different points in my life, but are meant to stand together. Wattpad Featured Story. Highest ranking so far in short story #121. C...
All Ed needed to become the Internet's latest boyfriend was a chili-pepper costume. But getting sunny foreign-exchange student Audra to prom will take a lot more than that. Ed doesn't know he's beautiful. But he is. Even when his crazy boss forces him to wear an "extra-spicy" chili pepper costume as part of a May 5th...