Scandal

"Why do you chase murderers like you have nine lives?" In which a heartthrob and a reporter team up to bring down Seraph City's most lethal killer.

MOLT 32

The world has never been a favorable place for the insects. Permanently branded as a pest and a nuisance, they have faced an impressive array of threats to their existence, from flyswatters to pesticides to the soles of human footwear. Yet they endured. They endured, and they thrived. They took up residence on...

Woman Overboard

Alessandra Broderick is the widow of an American pirate captain in the 19th century. In the midst of his death, she now finds herself captaining his ship. After a vicious attack by another pirate ship, she's forced to accept the mercy of another captain: Afiba Igbi. Raised on a plantation in Aless's home of South...

The Caïssan Stratagem

''Love, you may be royalty, but out there, you are as easily wasted as a pawn.'' Fira, the princess of a kingdom at war, has infiltrated the enemy lines. Disguised as a lowly commoner when the biggest battle yet breaks out, she must find a way to return to her kingdom without revealing her identity, and if that is not...

Yellow Mimosa

*Made for the March 2016 contest of FWOY magazine, an amazing piece of work (that I now work at ;D). In which an ordinary Rosie receives some yellow mimosas and realizes that maybe she's a little less ordinary than she thought.

Awkward Firsts

Meghan Carter is what you would call your typical wallflower. And she's proud of it, too. At least, until all her other wallflower friends begin to branch out and spread their wings, transforming from clumsy caterpillars into beautiful butterflies. Feeling the heat, Meghan is desperate for a change, but she doesn't ev...

War of Dawn

From a parallel world, the Valnr laid siege upon Earth seeking to claim the life force of every living creature. By the intervention of the Altr gods, select humans were empowered to stem their tide. Thus, the Corps of Scions came to be. Over the course of a thousand years, the Corps has stood against their foe, locke...

Twins of Egypt

At the fall of Queen Cleopatra and Mark Antony in the Battle Actium, one man rises to meet the level of the Gods and he takes a Goddess' children with him. Two out of the three children of the greatest tragedy survive and live long enough to alter Augustus' world. Brought in chains, the twins of Egypt, Alexander Helio...

Maybe We Were More

"You have to pick your battles, big brother. You can't fight them all." "I can try." (in which a house full of hearts chases life too differently.)

Phone Friend

He calls her at night and ignores her by day. But she shouldn't be upset. Despite everything, she's only his phone friend; nothing more, nothing real.

shadows of you [#1]

"if i write poems to you, will you finally understand me for who i am? for can you not see that the way i love is the way that shouldn't be?" ✦ lovely cover by @klexos c: {#19 in poetry on 9/8/16} ✦ © lusterless (galena t.) 2016 all rights reserved.

CURSE CLUB

Boy meets magic. Boy meets death.

Heartbreak

Love doesn't hurt... does it? Extended summary inside. © 2016 Cvlliope

golden

Summer gave him to me, and Autumn was here to steal him away. Forever. [Entry for the Fanfic Drabble Contest] Golden | 26/8/14 | © cherrylisps

CHEAP TALK

a cataract for the pages of history

The Last Dance | ✓

You are dictators, tyrants, despots, narrating my dreams even as I sleep. You instill opinions and thoughts into my brain and make me think they are my own. That is who you are. [formerly, the night before]

White Knight Syndrome

Carter Knight is a nice guy by day and a superhero by night. He can’t help but help the helpless. His first name might as well be “Help”. When he saves a girl in his high school from ruthless bullies, and then saves another girl that same night from an even more ruthless killer, Carter makes it his duty to defend his...

Damage Done

In a world where only the strong survive, Morgan Vienna finds herself surrounded by those who thrive on death. To live is to let others die, and after one fatal mistake, Morgan finds herself slowly losing her grip on reality, the thin threads of sanity slipping from her reach. But to live is to let others die, and sho...

Blackout Days

"So did you murder them?" Kate was never happy with her family. Her parents never felt like her parents, after the pain they gave her all her life. She knew that she had to do something to stop it. In the end, she couldn't stop herself from pulling the trigger. Now her parents lie dead in her house and Kate has to fin...

The Knight Who Breathed Fire

In which a dragon shapeshifter and a king heir work to find the Lost Princess and humbly save the world from a fae massacre.

This Year

Eleanora Cox writes thirty letters in a period of thirty days to combat her end-of-the-year realization that she didn't accomplish anything.

Brazilian Lounge

Love doesn't always come in the expected ways. Maybe it was the alcohol in his blood, maybe it was the smoke in his lungs, or maybe it was all the years of subconsciously listening to the poisonous words of people adding up. Whatever it was, it affected Aftonio's emotions that particular night. The night when Ms Ameri...

Novocaine

"They said everything was fine. They said that nobody got hurt. They said that everyone was safe. What they didn’t say was who there. What they didn’t say was who wasn’t. But most importantly, what they didn’t say was what happened there. And why it happened there.” [cover by @weeknder] [campnanowrimo'15]

Her Name Was December

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...

Beautiful Dreamer

Parker Elway is having dreams. Strange dreams; waking dreams; dreams in which she opens her eyes in the darkness to find herself paralyzed and surrounded by shadows from her deepest nightmares. The doctors call it sleep paralysis. But is it really so simple? As the waking terrors worsen and strange people begin to app...

She is Not Made of Roses

Rosie Alder-Pembrook isn’t planning on letting her ultra-feminist club get shut down due to the senior class council’s budget cutbacks (and to be honest, it’s kind of killing her senior year buzz). But when it seems that the only way to revive it is to strike a deal with the semi-sexist/mostly ignorant Class Council p...

Ardently

From the Latin 'ardere': "to burn"

Human

Let me be vital. / I want to burn myself out. #39 Poetry - 11/6/16.

The Moon in the Door

When Shiloh Tucker was born, his life expectancy was that of any other child, until he was diagnosed with a congenial heart defect as an infant. But after seventeen years of being told he would die, Shiloh Tucker is very much alive, with one little catch: after his heart failed him in infancy, his brain lost too much...