Wherever your shadow in the paper mache my heart will be awakening me in dreams, I sleep listening to a pendulum strike the hour awakening me disguised as a flower to the dawn's dew with a spiritual whisper until we embrace again on Heaven's stairway wher...
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Young Adult Stories
The focus of young adult fiction is primarily on a protagonist aged between twelve and sixteen rather than an adult.
The main character faces the usual challenges consistent with their age group; emotions, first love, peer pressure, divorce and family relationships. Stories can cover the entire range of fiction genres.
Of little puppy dogs and dreams with powdered sugar knees socks and memories of my Elmo as nursery rhymes play in my mind looking out the window seeing the snowfall of a fantasy building snowmen and snow castles in the lazy days of childhood without a car...
Notes of Melody
When wishes do come trueIt was just another New Year’s Eve for Melody. Her thirteenth one to be exact and completely unremarkable. Her mother stuffed her into a dress two sizes too small, accompanied by the furrowed brows of disapproval and invasive pokes and prods over her tumm...
When a Stupid Wish Becomes True
What happens if a stupid wish becomes trueBack when I was in high school, there was a boy who was two years younger than me. He liked to tell on everyone. I never understood his motivation. Maybe he thought telling on people was funny, or made him powerful, or maybe he just thought being a male v...
The Sisterhood, Part 1 - Defeat
And so it begins...In the beginning was Chaos. And Chaos detested organisation and structure. He was roguish and full of mischief. Whenever order and logic looked likely to prevail, he would chuckle, wave his divine hand and delight in thwarting such impudence. Exasperated,...
Schemers Scheme
A girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do.Newly polished toenails safely propped on the crowded coffee table, Darlene Barnes let out a long plume of cigarette smoke and waited for her friend to come back from the kitchen. Waiting in silence, however, had never been her 'thing'. The thirty-somethi...
The Chocolate Shop
"What? You don't like chocolate anymore?" he asked them."What? You don't like chocolate anymore?" he asked them. "No, Saba," Tommy was pulling away. "I still like chocolate. It's just that I don't want to go here." The older man looked inside at the tables and chairs, the shelves of light and dark chocolates,...
Aegean Adventure
Isabella and her friends visit ancient Thera on a daring mission.“You’re planning on doing WHAT?” Isabella exclaimed, her voice emerging higher and louder than she expected, but her startled outburst had little or no effect on her group of friends. The men of the party, Luke and Marius, who were normally so protective...
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“Hey Andrew,” Jeremy began. “You know, when you said you had exams to study for, I thought you meant you were going to study for them after our little outing.” Andrew rolled his eyes. Sarvanez knew that they were friends, or at least, they knew each...
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Shadows and Streets-Chapter 1
A wealthy girl, with an unlikely team, sets out to find her fiancé in New York.Sarvanez shifted in her chair. The corset pinched into her waist and it was every bit as uncomfortable as it looked. How do the women here wear these every single day? She thought to herself, feeling irritated. Still, in being a good visitor, she had agre...
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The County Fair -Chapter 1
After being laid off from her job, Songul decides to join the county fair.Songul’s head spun under the glare of the different colored lights. She had only been to a county fair one other time in her life, and that was when she was a kid. Still, after being laid off from a job she had worked at for a while, it was refreshing to...
The Last Summer Before Life
Responsible Glenn is on the edge of adulthood, but can his mother handle letting him go?The red bathing suit stood out from all the others, its modest cut being a departure from the scant bikinis dominating the poolside. I noticed the girl wearing it from under an umbrella. She moved with ease in and out of the water, shoulders glistening wi...
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The Spring Dance
I want to go with Rocky, not nerd boyStudy hall… last class of the day before what is supposed to be a relaxing weekend restoring another car he had just bought. However, the relaxing weekend would only happen if Jim finished his history report before the bell rang, and now that just did not...
Ease Your Mind - Chapter One
All I need is your hand...Rain hit the window, and my eyes traced the lines of water traveling down the glass. Long streaks trailed behind each one, telling the story of where it had been. Every splatter would leave its own reminder behind, letting the person seated know it had ex...
A Glimpse of Heaven
Inspired by the turbulent history of the Book of Kells.Perched on a craggy outcrop, staring out to sea, the priest opened his mind and his heart to God. In such wild and lonely places, he felt closest to his Maker and His divine word. He was not a young man, and knew his role as a travelling preacher, bringin...