The advice you will find here follows the Chicago Manual of Style which is widely used by American publishers. There are some variances in style from country to country (and even from American publisher to American publisher.) **It may be easier to search the Table of Contents, as there is no rhyme or reason right no...
After discovering two aliens trying to milk a cow in his Grandfather's barn, fourteen year old Luke Summers is abducted. Scared out of his wits, he soon discovers that the aliens, Simon and Leonidas, aren't planning to probe him... huge relief. Instead, after injecting Luke with nano-translators so he can understand t...
A collection of my poetic expressions over time... about any moment in my life that incites instantaneous inspiration in me... to pluck the right words from my mind and heart, knit them together... to create the verses that my soul wants to convey to the world.
A collection of random pieces, mainly poetry and short stories, created during participating in different contests in Wattpad.
These are my thoughts on some philosophical issues that are pertinent to Science Fiction in particular and many other genres as well. This is not a rant. There are some really fine rant authors out there on Wattpad. The ones I like are: @mrcharizard15. His 'The Book of Random Stuff' and 'A Teenager's Rants' are especi...
Prologue~ A girl of hazel eyes and brown hair, sensitivity controls part of most of her life. She lost her reasons to love since she lost her father and since that day her mom tried to give her all the love she needed. Piano was more than a addiction, it was a passion. Love was a lost star and she did never believed...
Mystery/thriller Spiritual Isang pampublikong bus ang bumabaybay sa makitid na kalsada ng Kennon road papanik ng Baguio. Marami sa mga pasaherong lulan nito ay pansamantalang nakaidlip habang ang iba naman ay pinagmamasdan ang mga tanawin na madaanan. Nang lumiko ang bus ay nawalan ito ng kontrol. Nagtilian ang mga pa...
Book 1 of the Pact Series (also known as Our Suicide Pact) (Warning: This story was written in 2013 when I was around 15-16 years old. A plethora of errors and triggering themes ahead, such as violence, suicide, and vices.) xx One by one each person who joined the suicide pact gets killed and now its up to the wannab...
"When god does some shit you don't go and question it-you adjust to it. And right now, you're either a survivor or one of these dead walking pricks." He said looking at the dead old man with disgust. Then he looked at us. "You'll be one of them soon, trust me."
Erityian Tribes Series, Book ＃1 || Not your ordinary detective story.
Sam is the most promising swordsman among this year’s crop of Paladin trainees...and knows it. Brash, cocky, and unbeatable with a sword (well, almost), Sam is the kingdom of Thule’s best hope against the violence wrought by demons. The only problem is that Sam is really Lady Samantha, daughter of the seventeenth Duke...
A lawless city controlled by teenaged hoverboard crews, a bad boy addicted to strawberry milk and a group of misfits who band together to conquer an area formally known as unconquerable. These are just a few of the discombobulating situations Sahara faces when she's accidentally transported to a world not her own. Whi...
She has a frightening past. He has a problem but won't admit it. His brother can't live without him. Their band is the only family they know. And she walks right into the middle of all of it.
I was 31 weeks pregnant when my blood pressure spiked to 110/200. The only thing that could save me was writing.
*Formerly known as The Arabian Desert.* He was a cold-hearted bandit with the power to imprison her... Maria disguises herself as a helper boy when Zain, the black-hearted, demonically handsome bandit attacks their prosperous town in the middle of the Arabian Desert and claims it as his own, naming himself sheikh, in...
The five cities of man surround the Sea of Dekatos. The ancient city-states are filled with towers, stone pyramids, soaring catwalks, arching bridges and jade castles. The bronze age men and women fight, love, war and conquer against the backdrop of five massive, sprawling cities. Char, city of chariots, deploys her a...
HE WANTED TO ESCAPE HIS PROBLEMS. HE WANTED TO SEE THE FUTURE. HE NEVER CONSIDERED WHAT THE FUTURE WANTED. Confronted with suffering a painful death from cancer, Dan Sturges, a retired Ford’s engineer, foregoes treatments to try an idea of his own. After reading a theoretical article in Scientific American on time di...
A wandering moth, a dark meadow, a concerned mother and her children, a firefight, a lone casualty, a tree, a silent mourning, a quiet burial. That's it. Mixed all these on one dark night in wartime 1945.
Excerpted from the longer work HyperLife, this vignette captures the essence of a time of life (and history) where everything seemed possible...
Three man-boys celebrate high-school grad night in a local park, comparing notes on their failed and future prospects.
Sylvie, 16, sees colours, where other people only hear words or feel emotions. She knows she has to keep this a secret - as people disappear to institutions if they get sick in the mind. *** Sylvie likes to dress in Lolita outfits and dreams of becoming an architect. She doesn't understand why she has to get married...
Experiment gone wrong, death, and two different clans bent on apocalyptic genocide: something that Sebastian Dawson, a time-travelling theoretical and experimental physicist, must stand up to, now that he is stuck in a future. With friends and enemies, old and new, and some unthinkable tricks up his super-natural slee...
A collection of anecdotes - moments that bring smile, grin, laughter...to me, but maybe to you as well - sorts of topics like my adventures in babysitting the grand kids - yup, grand kids, who I dearly love and adore and like to bond with as they grow. I will also write about other events that, if read some years fro...
Kwento ng isang dalagang lumaki sa normal na mundo ng mga tao. Tinangka syang itakas ng kanyang mga magulang sa Niraseya upang mapalayo sa kamay ng mangkukulam na si Bhufola. Lumaki si Ramses sa pangangala ng kanyang tiyahin na si Ileta. Ngunit lumaki sya ng walang alam sa tunay nyang pagkatao at kung saan mundo sya k...
Tara is bored. Bored with every aspect of her routinely boring life. Same thing everyday: wake up, eat breakfast, draw, Internet, more boring activities until it was time to go back to bed. This was her routine for the summer, the only exception being Sundays when she was required to go to church. Her father being the...
Set in the 42nd century. This is the story of Xanten Pax a brilliant young computer scientist. Xan sees that the plight of humanity is also is own very personal conflict. This story will deal with his quest to make sense of the human condition and most of all to make a difference. His journey will take him through a t...
