Her name is Misery, and she does NOT want company. *** It's not every day sixteen-year-old Misery Hayes finds a rock band full of pretty boys on her door step. Actually, it's not every day Misery interacts with humans, because being named after an emotion Merriam...
This is a short story modeled after a song called Little Susie written by Michael Jackson that was based on true events. It is written for the purpose of a contest; the prompt: a story with the theme of fear. Word count: 1,649
"He was my everything. He was a breath of fresh air everywhere he went. He always told me that we would end up together. I never believed him. Until the day he got down on one knee, forever claiming me as his. He was my prince, my knight in shining armor. I never expected him to leave me alone. My heart...
Some people were blessed with a lucky love story. I just didn't happen to be one of those people. My love story wasn't one you'd write about or wish for unless you had no other choice. Like me. My boyfriend, Zach, was all I had and he preferred it that way. If my focus ever veered off the course he set for us, his fis...
Never been kissed before, Xue struggles in a city that never sleeps. A barista by day, a Chinese herbal tea brewer by night, she works her ass off every day to support her borrowed family. All she has ever wanted was to stay beside her best friend since childhood, but now he's gone. If only the tea she brews can make...
"Cinderella had till midnight, I have twelve kisses to win back my prince's heart," John wants Metilda to end their marriage.He believes that he has fallen in love with another woman. Metilda agrees but she has one condition. John must kiss her every afternoon in-front of their son for twelve da...
Adele Mason and Harold Bryon have escaped the wrath of aging and have stayed in their young years for reasons unknown to man. Although they have never officially met, the spark to their never ending life was the same night, the same hour, the same second. They both moved from state to state often, keeping themselves u...
The last two years of Alex's life have been emotionally challenging to say the least. Yet, this is a new year and all her unpleasant memories are behind her; including him. Just a few months into the new semester at her university and things start going a little haywire again. Especially with the arrival of a certain...
