I was never overly fond of Christmas. The card giving, buying presents, the overall thoughtfulness of it all. Jolliness and singing didn't come naturally to me. Of course, since my best friend slowly added traditions to our twelfth month over the years, somehow I found myself doing something festive every day of Decem...
[featured on @wattfest's holiday shorts reading list] During a rare, snowy day in a normally sunny California town, a boy and a girl learns a thing or two about love. © 2016 by Hilly Ecclesiana. All rights reserved.
Single and heartbroken, Tala Flores decides to spend this Christmas alone, but life has other plans. chicklit 24 21.12.2017 - 02/03/2018
When 16-year-old Freddie is publically disgraced at school, his outraged father takes the broken family to a cabin to escape the shame of his son being gay.
How far will you go for your 'Happily Ever After'? It has been eight years since the Nutcracker has defeated the Mouse King, and he is still a cursed doll. The Nutcracker's one desire is to break the curse, allowing him to take his rightful place as King and make Marie his queen. But nothing has worked. The Nutcrack...
Laughs, smiles, jokes. This is what 25-year-old Eleanor Woods misses about her life. After her husband, Cameron Bailey, left Eleanor and their 2-year-old child, Iris, enstranged, there's just the two to continue their life. Two years later, the heartbroken Eleanor who struggles to forget her past, decides she's...
Madelyn "Lyn" Creeke and her grandmother were the last of their family. At least, that's what Lyn's grandmother always led her to believe. Lyn had never heard of or seen pictures of Georgina Creeke, a great aunt that had been living a few hours away for most of Lyn's life. So it came as a surprise when Lyn got word...
When Sutton gets dumped right before what was supposed to be a romantic Christmas weekend getaway in the mountains, she makes a Christmas vow: a man free Christmas. She's going to finish writing her Christmas novel in peace and have a nice time skiing and reading books by the fire. But the Christmas fates are against...
Twenty-four days. That's how long it took me to fall in love. Pretty impressive, since for the first twenty-three days all I had to fall in love with were little presents slipped into my locker. [#81 teen fiction / #1 holidays] NOTE - I wrote this book at 14 so the characters are 15-16 year olds. This is your warning...
Rudolph, that very famous red-nosed reindeer, has been accused of blowing up Santa's sleigh! Join him as he, with the help of a very special squirrel called Flop, try to escape from prison and find the real culprit! Then meet a spider on your present and a mouse who took a stroll through a deep dark wood, in a wacky c...
Estelle Richards' parents don't celebrate Christmas. She doesn't feel like she's missing out on anything - she's just used to it by now. After a tragedy convinced her to follow her parents to New York about a year and a half ago, she's spent her previously outgoing life in the quiet. And she likes it. She likes it a l...
❝I just wanna scream out 'til my voice breaks Even if the tears fall and my heart hates me I just wanna know how I can save me Even if these three words choke and take me Baby I love you.❞ { 2 0 1 5 © josie nicholson short story. all rights reserved. } edited by the great @solitarypathways! myself and my readers ca...
When Rhys, heartbroken by his breakup with a cheating girlfriend, returns to Peregrine Hollow during winter break, he cannot imagine that he will meet Melanie, the girl that will make him forget everything before her. In her eyes live all the stars in the midnight sky, but that light is clouded in darkness and sadness...
Claudia Mori only has one goal in order to survive winter break: Avoid being home at all costs. So when she runs into Lucas Elwood, her old crush who she hasn't seen since high school, she can't resist hanging out with him - even though she knows she should be staying far, far away. What Claudia doesn't know is that L...
Jingle Hell, Jingle Hell, Jingle all the way. Oh what fun, It is to hide; To slaughter and to slay... (Winner of @Fright's Holiday Horror Contest!) Highest ranking: #10 in horror, 27th December 2016 Featured in @IncarnateMovie 'Best of Horror' reading list Featured on @Fright @Wattfest @SpeculativeFiction @ForbiddenW...