Monique Nelson

Joined June 2021

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Bio

Life is made up of stories. Stories I want to read. Stories I need to write.

Stories aren't better than real life - they are what make real life better.

Achievements (1)

Runner-Up in Pitch Your Pilot Challenge

Stories (18/0)

Top Story - April 2024
RedemptionTop Story - April 2024
My six-inch, razor-sharp claw was an ineffective tool for unearthing a fragile seed, but it's what I had to work with. With predatorial patience, I took my time digging around the bioluminescent moss cushion, careful to scoop enough earth to avoid puncturing the tiny kernel.
By Monique Nelson26 days ago in Fiction
You Can Trust Me
Trigger Warning: This story contains explicit themes of psychological manipulation, and implied violence, domestic abuse, and child abuse. Reader discretion is strongly advised.
By Monique Nelson7 months ago in Horror
The Memory Thief
Clara Jordan had always imagined the inside of her head to be like a well-organized filing cabinet—until the day she opened a drawer and found it empty, as if some invisible thief had stolen her past.
By Monique Nelson7 months ago in Horror
The Scorpion's Sting
Disclaimer: This image was generated by AI art creation program, MidJourney. This story was also assisted by AI in order to evoke the tone and structure of a time-honored fable, but the story, plot and writing is entirely my own.
By Monique Nelson9 months ago in Fiction
Runner-Up in Pitch Your Pilot Challenge
InfluencedRunner-Up in Pitch Your Pilot Challenge
As a bleeding heart, I have a love-hate relationship with comedy. I absolutely love to laugh, but so much “comedy” rests on either stereotypes, physical injuries or embarrassment, or self-deprecation.
By Monique Nelson10 months ago in Humor
Useless
Years of hard work and dedication destroyed in an instant. Every repeated mantra, “I am worthy, I am enough,” a lie. All the trauma I worked through.
By Monique Nelson12 months ago in Fiction
Sapientia Arcana
Every night at midnight, the purple clouds came out to dance with the blushing sky. It was a sight few had ever witnessed, and those who had were left with a sense of wonder and awe. Some believed it was a sign from the gods, while others claimed it was a trick of the light. But for Lila, the sight was something more. It was a reminder of the magic that still existed in the world, a promise of the mysteries that lay hidden just beyond the veil of the ordinary. And tonight, Lila knew she was about to discover something that would change her life forever.
By Monique Nelsonabout a year ago in Fiction
The Columbus Paradox
2130 Eve sat alone in a dimly-lit room, finalizing the paperwork for her latest debriefing. Her task had been a simple one: cover up an atrocity in history to preserve the timeline.
By Monique Nelsonabout a year ago in Fiction
Haunting Adventures
In an abandoned ghost town, Where once an asylum defiled, Child me is stranded all alone, In a land now overrun and wild.
By Monique Nelsonabout a year ago in Poets
Scratching in the Walls
I jolt awake, mind foggy in protest, My heart thudding loud and wild inside my chest, The sound of scratching and a writhing silhouette, Fills my soul with a dread I'll never forget.
By Monique Nelsonabout a year ago in Poets
Perspective
In the distance, far an easy feat, but draw close, look up—reality
By Monique Nelsonabout a year ago in Poets
Enchanted Mountains
every day new, fresh everlasting, immortal the magic of change
By Monique Nelsonabout a year ago in Poets