She was told she was crazy when she claimed she saw someone with red eyes kidnap her siblings. People told her she was only guilty that they went missing on her watch. Fourteen years stood between the incidents but still the Carson family dealt with the same horrors. The problem never started in the small no...
What if negative thoughts controlled your entire life? A sample entry for To The Bone's 'Mind Over Matter' contest.
I've struggled with body image issues since middle school, and during my freshman year of college I developed a pretty severe eating disorder. I lived in denial for months by telling myself that it was "nothing serious," just something I was doing to make myself feel special, or for the sake of having a dramatic secre...
It will all become silent if you just stop listening. A sample contest submission for To The Bone by Netflix.
❝What's so great about sanity? I don't see you having any fun.❞ When asked to define insanity, a great majority of the Eichen House staff would direct the questioner to a petite brunette by the name of Lita Mitchell. In a building comprised of clinically insane people, too dangerous to roam freely within society, th...
After waking up in handcuffs three hundred kilometres from where he's stationed, Samson cannot remember what happened. And what happened might kill him. A British soldier in The Great War, he has been accused of desertion, a crime punishable by execution. Before he can face a trial and firing squad, though, something...
Valora cannot remember who she is, where she's from, or anything other than her growing longing to find the Doctor, whomever that may be. The Doctor gets a distress signal on his psychic paper, which no traveler could pass up. After finding her broken and seconds from death, he discovers that she's not human; not even...
FORMERLY KNOWN AS IMPOSSIBLE "The definition of innocence lies with whom you're speaking to. Most use the term meaning sex, others for a more vast amount of physical things, few with psychological matters, and some even pair it with naive. I, however, believe that someone who has full innocence doesn't know what it's...
Clara Oswald wakes up in a cheap, little hotel in London with a wiped memory. As she tries to start her life over she meets the consulting detective, her neighbor; Sherlock Holmes, and he immediately becomes intrigued by her; she is impossible. But he is yet to realize: Clara Oswald is only trouble.
During her 7th year at Hogwarts, Hermione is intrigued right from the start by the new Astronomy teacher, Professor John Smith. This strange man has captured all her attention and she seems to have done the same to him. As the year goes by, talking to someone on a more intellectual level becomes something of a drug fo...
Sherlock Holmes always keeps his cool. Always. He's like a machine, never showing any emotion, and completely in control. So when he bursts through the door in tears, clutching a bloodstained shirt, something has got to be very wrong indeed. Hedgehogs, hysterics, and a highly-strung detective. What could make John Wa...
Terra is dying, when a strange man in a blue box comes to comfort her. One moment she has no idea who he is, and the next she remembers - she's known the Doctor her whole life. And he's going to make sure she's never alone.
**PUBLISHING 6/20/2017** Mermaids are soulless, flesh-eating monsters of the sea, wicked in all ways-but some are born with more humanity. Nathaniel Thomas believes in monsters. He's seen his share since joining the pirate crew of the Blood-Red Siren. Tales are rampant, especially of mermaids-the deep sea nymphs. With...
❝I- what? What are you talking about? Who is this?❞ ❝Well the bathroom stall says that this number is the gateway to a good time, and unless you're trying to say that a bathroom stall is lying to me, I think I need a little more information to be sold. Do you have like a yelp page I could look up? Past customer review...
BLACK MIRROR meets PRETTY LITTLE LIARS in this multimedia thriller where an anonymous advice website gets hacked and the dark origins of the site start to come to light. (shortlisted for the 2017 wattys, #1 in mystery/thriller)
To me, Peter Pan always seemed like he can get any girl's interest. After meeting him for the first time, I have decided that my fate didn't belong to him. Peter, untainted by my rejection, took it as a challenge. A game, if you prefer. 10 days for me to fall in love with him which meant 10 days for him to prove hims...
in which a boy goes on a mission after accidentally walking into a freewheeling bisexual girl's shower--while she's in it. [ cover // @soundthealarm ]
[SPONSORED BY TELUS] Eva Shaw's junior year falls apart when she sees a website dedicated to making fun of Cathy, a reclusive student, and does nothing about it. Eva watches the posts pop up every night and doesn't speak a word. But when she accidentally gets closer to Cathy, it slowly gets tougher to keep quiet abo...
it doesn't hurt to stop and listen to her and when you do, you'll realize that she's an ocean waiting to be explored. highest ranking : #35 on 12 May 2019
[COMPLETE ✓] Rumour has it that a new guy is joining our class this year. All the girls are going crazy, imagining all the case scenarios from cliché YA books: mysterious, rebel, bad boy, werewolf, fallen angel, even vampire! The worst part, I don't even think they have read the books; they only watched the films...
Three strangers' lives intersect on a train ride from hell, when a dangerous dispute leaves most of their lives hanging in the balance. Inspired by the the thriller that shocked the world. The Girl on The Train, in theaters October 7.
Stacey Williams had always loved Axel Teller. But he had paid her no mind. She wanted more than the meaningless flings they had. She wanted her love to be returned. She wanted to be loved back. She did everything to get his attention. She had one-night stands with countless boys - throwing away...
[ This story was written in less than 30 Days - Winner of November NaNoWriMo project ] Delilah Rose (the actual Devil from actual Hell) sucks at keeping relationships afloat. In desperate attempt to win the heart back of Ryland Woods, a moody, teenage boy from Earth who dumped her ugly persona in the first place, th...
Don't be Dramatic It's only some plastic No one will love you If you're unattractive - Melanie Martinez, Mrs. Potato Head -------------------- Dedicated to all the people who support me, inspire me, and encourage me to be myself. **Poem titles are lyrics to Mrs. Potato Head by Melanie Martinez** Cover by...
It is no secret that Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy despise each other. Tired of their fighting, a Ministry Official (who seems to be hiding more than she leads on) decides to teach them a lesson. Their lives spin and turn, and now Hermione and Draco are stuck in each other's bodies. Things can't possibly end well;...
COMPLETE: Set as a sequel to the 2003 live action Peter Pan movie. . His cold lips brushed her neck. "...And I'll kill your boys, and your fairy, and I'll burn this godforsaken island until it's nothing but ash and bones." . It's been decades since Wendy Darling stepped foot on Neverland's shores, and Peter Pan soon...
High school. It's difficult enough to navigate on its own. Especially when you were quick-witted, bitterly sarcastic, and emotionally constipated with a bad case of verbal diarrhea. And yes she was aware of the inherent contradiction contained within that phrase. When Charlie Oswin moved to Beacon Hills to live with...
She, trapped in an abusive relationship. He, desperate to save her. She, blinded by a sick kind of love. He, dying to take her away from all the pain. She, who's got to believe she deserves that life. He, who only wants her to be happy.
Def.; Short for definition "I think these letters will heal the both of us, I guess you can say."
