Bringdiversity Stories

Michael Cross has been able to see spirits for as long as he can remember, and he uses this gift to help ghosts move from this world to the next. Sometimes, people don't realize that they're dead, and Michael has always tried to keep his wits about him when dealing with these "cold walkers". But what is he to do when a ghost manages to capture all of his attention? Before he even realizes it, Michael finds himself wrapped up in a dangerous mystery... One that could have HIM joining the ranks of the dead. [2ND PLACE WINNER: PARANORMAL/HORROR, 2018 PEN AND INK AWARDS] [3RD PLACE WINNER: MYSTERY/THRILLER, 2018 UNICORN AWARDS] [2ND PLACE WINNER: PARANORMAL/VAMPIRE/ACTION/HUMOR, 2018 LGBT AWARDS]

[ON HIATUS PENDING MAJOR REWRITE] Tidus Crestfall doesn't want to be a knight. He certainly doesn't want to enter the knight's tournament. He DEFINITELY doesn't want to fight a dragon. But most of all, he doesn't want to marry a princess. How can Tidus win (or even survive) the tournament's challenges alongside REAL Knights from prestigious families? How will he make it back in one piece? And, more importantly, how is he supposed to put his feelings aside and ignore his gorgeous fellow competitor?

Nico spends his days in the city, slashing demons and creatures and such. Lefu Hughes spends her days on the streets, holding the hand of her dead brother. Odd? Just slightly, but Nico Di Angelo takes this as the opportunity to recreate Lefu's life back into the way she would have wanted it. Starting from the beginning. {Heroes of Olympus Fanfic, original character } *Slightly rewritten. Honestly, this book is too old and far too bad for me to repair without rewriting the entire thing. Apologies in advance.

Almost dying can change a person. For most it pushes them to live life to the fullest; for Ryan, it lets him hear voices and see ghosts. After a fatal car crash, Ryan Hubbard wakes up hearing a voice in his head that isn't his own. It wants him to find something--someone. As if that isn't the worst of his problems, he can see ghosts too. Naturally, he tries telling people about his new abilities. And just as naturally, no one believes him. When Ryan gets dared to go into a supposedly haunted house, he almost refuses. But curiosity gets the best of him when something inside him (specifically, the voice) tells him to go. He wasn't exactly hoping to find anything inside-least of all the diary of a dead little girl and the sudden urge to find her killer. With the help of his friend Lya and the voice that refuses to leave him, Ryan is set to unravel the mysteries and unlock the secrets of the little child's past. • • • A paranormal mystery that takes place mostly in the present and sometimes in the 1960s. • • • This work mentions suicide, contains mildly violent, and/or traumatic content. Reader discretion is advised. Cover by: @solidarity_ • #11 in voices • #10 in ghost • #40 in paranormal

Jordan Terrell is tied to the Stonehall County Library by an emotional tether that she can't for the life of her break. Dominic Richards, however, is being forced into the library every day, a punishment for a bout of bad exam results. As the two's lives suddenly collide and they slowly become aquatinted with each other, uncovering dark truths and shameful secrets along the way. __ First posted 01/05/16 Completed 09/10/16

"Some say the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice. I say the darker the flesh, then the deeper the roots." -Tupac Young, African-American teen Ebony Brooks is considered an outcast to society. Not because of any disabilities or awkward personality traits, but because of her rich cocoa skin. However, Ebony is still confident with her dark complexion and receives uplifting praise from her family. Ebony travels through her entire life being a target to other kids, but when will she take a stand and stick up for her beautiful chocolate complexion? cover slayed by @aneonsky This story will be entering in the Wattys2016.

Anker lives in a world where humans can not dream. At night, those who wish to enter the world of dreams should take pills specially designed for it. One day, in the elevated train, Anker buys the first dream of his life.

Fan-fiction based on all the Marvel Cinematic Avengers and Thor films. In the perspective of a woman of colour. When Malinda Evans is involved in a laboratory incident. She is faced with a difficult decision to take a path towards something, her heart aches against. But when she encounters Loki; the notorious anti-hero. She begins to realize her destiny.

Prithika Singh would have told you that her love life was going great. After all, who could argue that the pretty cheerleader and the handsome quarterback with their sweet year-long relationship were anything less than a dream couple? But Prithika is startled awake when she sees her boyfriend, Carter Hale, kissing Julia Hart, one of the supposedly average girls, in the middle of the hallway on the first day of school. Suddenly, her vision for her junior year is totally derailed, and she's left feeling uncertain about her sense of trust and relationships. And then along comes Jackson Rains, Julia's ex-boyfriend, notorious at Poppy Hills High for his (crappy) motorcycle, tousled dark hair, black leather boots, and two very public fistfights. In an attempt to save their past relationships, Jackson and Prithika hatch a probably terrible plan: make everyone think they're dating. Prithika will try to show Carter she can be a more low-maintenance girlfriend, Jackson will try to show Julia that he can be a more attentive boyfriend, and then Carter and Julia will get jealous and return to the partners they were supposed to be with in the first place, and it'll all go back to normal. But it seems the more Prithika tries to make things fit the picture-perfect path her life was on, the more things fly off the rails: she's trapped in trying to be someone she's not, she's lying to her best friends Laila and Aurora, she can tell Aurora's keeping secrets, she realizes how little she actually knows Carter, and she's getting more invested in Jackson's personal life than expected. Can she get her life back under control? Or will trying to fix things make a bigger mess?

UNTIL THE SKYSCRAPERS CALL US HOME is a short story set in the heart of New York with civilization on the brink of destruction from incoming meteorites. Scrambling to make the most of their time together Adriano and Jason set out to spend their last moments learning what it means to love until the end of times.

Drew's parents were the ones to come forth with the marriage proposal. It was more like a business merger contract, but it wasn't too bad. I had heard about Drew, and he knew about me. I didn't mind being held by him, and I suppose I could imagine a future with a man like him. A few dates and conversations had proved it. Proved it, that I was beginning to fall for him. So we could do it. Marry each other, that is. The date was fixed. The dress fittings were done. The invitations were sent. We were going to get married in a week. And a week was all it took to break my heart. All it took to make me hate glitter and sequins. And Poppy. And pink. ~*~

[Spin off to Suicide, Skittles and Skates] Hannah Adem is one of The Elite at Premrose Private School, standing at the very top of the social ladder. But when her world - as she knows it - comes crashing down, she's forced to face reality. Behind the façade of indifference she paints on every day, Hannah is hiding a lot of insecurities that stem back to her background of which she knows next to nothing about. So when Rayne Parker, the quiet kid in her English class manages to see behind the towering walls she's constructed around herself, she's torn between two choices. Should she take the easy route and disregard him as a nobody, continuing living obliviously or will she allow him to help her face the fears of her past? But as she's about to learn, she's certainly not the only one with secrets and not everything is black or white. Sometimes you have to look at the shades in between to find out the truth. Sometimes you discover that life is entirely greyscale.

2016 Burgandy Rhittee All rights reserved Full description inside Old cover by @gallagherwolf New cover by @gnarly- Banner on Chapter 1 by @GhostsInsideOfMyBed Movie poster by @Emvlia

-Editor's Choice! Dec 2019 - 17-year-old Lucille Monteith wants nothing else to find her brother, who, despite what everyone says, she refuses to believe is dead. She'll do anything to locate him, to bring him back home safe, though it begins to dawn on her that she's hopeless in her investigation. After a tragic accident, brothers Cian and Vincent Horne were torn from their normal lives. Vinny stuck as an earthbound spirit and Cian becoming an angel of death, the two roam the earth together, unafraid of death and its meaning. When Vinny discovers that Lucie can see him, however, it changes everyone in the trio's lives, and Lucie finds she may not be so hopeless after all. Embark on this journey as an angel, a ghost, and a teenage girl search for a loved one, battle their demons, and fight to keep pulses beating.

What happens when all the ice in the Arctic melts, and all the animals migrate to new area? The world is destroyed, and we have a vacant planet on our hands, with nothing but the water and land. Plus, piles of dead bodies everywhere. Follow Eleanor Rigby, Mayuran Srirakshan, and Josephine Aquinas on their journey to figure out how climate change started. A/N: Mars is probably not the best option for a living environment, and living on Mars probably won't happen in this short amount of time. Although, there will be some non-fiction elements, such as, how global warming started, etc.