Young Adult
On my way
I walked for hours. Until I couldn't feel my feet. Until I couldn't feel the blisters borne of worn-out threads that once held. I walk until my soles weep, and my soul shakes, and I shuddered to think. I walk until I convince myself I can no longer feel my heart shattering, even as the last shards of winter's light fall to the forest floor, a dizzying array of starlight pooling at my feet.
By Christy Munson2 years ago in Fiction
The Legend of Ardanor. Runner-Up in Whispering Woods Challenge. Top Story - April 2024.
The trees are talking. At least that's what it sounded like to Rin, he could hear the birds tweeting, and the rustling of leaves replying. He imagined deep and long conversations happening between all the creatures of the forest and the trees of old.
By Liam Storm2 years ago in Fiction
Tales of Ardia: A Whisper of Waking
A pair of chattering squirrels wound themselves up, down, and around the trunks of two enormous trees. The noisy critters were completely oblivious to the green eyes surrounded by freckled brown skin that watched their every movement.
By D.K. Shepard2 years ago in Fiction
The Seventeenth Summer (Ch 20)
Chapter Twenty Despite the impending upheaval in his life and the many new experiences he was enjoying, Danny was asleep almost before his head had hit the pillow, with thoughts of exciting and erotic adventures soon filling his mind.
By Mark 'Ponyboy' Peters2 years ago in Fiction
The Forest of Lost Knowledge. Top Story - April 2024.
Tomorrow marks eight hundred years since the great Celestine Library vanished. Einar rested his pen on blank pages. Some scribe he’d turned out to be. They were a week into their journey and not once had he written about their travels or findings. Not that there was much to report on that had not been recorded a thousand times over.
By M. A. Mehan 2 years ago in Fiction
Identical Cousins
“I don’t know, officer, every where I went that afternoon, I saw the same little girl. Everywhere I turned, there she was. At the market, the square, the rose gardens, and by the time I got to the church, I must have been going crazy because she was on the ground, smirking and waving at me, then nodding at me to look up. When I looked up, I didn’t know; the sun must have been in my eyes because there she was, and she’d shoved a gargoyle off my head.
By Mother Combs2 years ago in Fiction
The Twin
Mindy’s life had been turned upside down this year. She’d had three fights, been in detention twelve times, and arrested once—all for actions she swore she did not commit. Everything seemed to start when the new girl, Cindy, came to school, or about that time.
By Mother Combs2 years ago in Fiction
Easter Egg Lick
Seven year old Joseph has arrived at Gator Stadium with his mother Ariel for the city’s annual Easter egg hunt. Joseph is not as excited about the hunt as most children would be because he does not think that he will collect many eggs due to so many other children that will be running to get the eggs as well.
By Joe Patterson2 years ago in Fiction
Vampire Hunters
I sat there staring at the TV, which I had turned off. My pistol, badge, and phone which was tossed on the coffee table. Jake was in the kitchen reading an old leather-bound book. We just got home from work about thirty minutes ago. It has been two days since we received the message from the demons. My phone buzzed continuously, I looked at it and it was Zach who was calling. I picked up my phone to answer it.
By Jorden Dunbar2 years ago in Fiction
