"You don't need to pretend, Zoya!" Logan shouted over the radio noise.

Zoya's heart ached as she tucked in her lips, wishing she could turn back time to when she was a teenager. She was baffled by how the only man she had ever loved could cause her such heartbreak, one that couldn't be diagnosed under an X-ray machine.

In the past ten years, Zoya had invested her time and emotions into the marriage, neglecting her own needs and desires.

Her parents had never supported her relationship with Logan, advising her to focus on her studies when she was just 16. But she had threatened to run away, using her status as an only child to force them to accept her early marriage.

After graduating high school, Logan convinced her to become a full-time housewife. Initially, the marriage was perfect, with Logan taking her on dates, shopping sprees, and vacations. He swept her off her feet, and she abandoned her plans for further education.

However, as Logan became a successful business tycoon, their time together became limited. Whenever she complained about his late nights, he would wrap his arms around her and give her a gentle squeeze, silencing her protests.

Now, Zoya felt a tiny bump in her stomach, followed by a sour pain, but she remained silent. "I can go on a three-month trip," she bargained, her voice discreet but frail.

Logan's response was a dirty smirk, and he leaned forward, staring deeply into her eyes. "My sweet pretensions, Zoya, I don't need you to think for me or go on a vacation."

Zoya felt rejection crawling into her shattered heart, wondering if their love boat had crashed long ago. She remembered her father's fury ten years ago, her mother's attempts to pacify him, and how her father had blocked all communications with her after the wedding.

"Can't you give us a try?" she asked, her voice sounding like a plea.

Logan's lips moved closer to her ears, his words barely audible. "Taste changes, people move on." He shrugged expressively, and Zoya saw his mouth move but couldn't hear properly due to her own emotional deafness.

She crawled on the floor, begging him not to end their marriage, desperate to save it. Logan stepped on her hands, grinding on them in circles, and Zoya swallowed the pain.

He stumbled back, spat on her injured hand, and threw divorce papers on her lap. "It's over, Zoya. Keep the house; I don't want to be stuck in the disgusting memories you've forced on me over the years. Sign that, and I'll have someone collect it in the morning."

With that, Logan turned and walked out of the house, leaving Zoya shattered and alone.

"Only the weak show mercy."

In a world of narcissism and discrimination where Holders are taught to never show magnanimity, Ivy Pearls flees her death-dealing kingdom in dread and hostility, only to come back three years later to finish what should have ended centuries ago.

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With the Holders known for their great capacities and jamborees and the Powerless beings unable to go a day without being spat on, being born without an Amulet has been labelled to be, without a doubt, the worst thing that could ever occur in a being's life.

After witnessing and encountering a perturbing series of executions, adversities, and loneliness as an ungifted child, which hauls her over the edge and causes her to flee the kingdom, Ivy Pearls comes back for vengeance. Now, not only is she despised, but millions of Holders are demanding for her head.

Yet, for Ivy's devilish plot to work, she must put her trust in thirteen other students who are just as troubled and insistent as she is. So, what happens when trust is the one thing she's lacking? Fourteen adolescent children. How are they meant to save one kingdom, let alone the entire continent, when they can hardly save themselves from their barbaric fates?

Note:The main relationship in this book is straight,but there will be side gay ships/couples that'll be just as important, which is why the book is also tagged boyxboyand girlxgirl.

Short stories based on people (mostly guys) I've had crushes on. Cover by Esfandier C. Hale (who's work you should check out!)

"Crushes were never meant to be easy, that's why its called a crush because they can crush your heart and mind."

Madison Sinclair is your average teenager who's been crushing on a guy, Nathan Brooks for months. He's tall, handsome and basically a guy who almost every girl could ever ask for. But this is just how Madison views him based on the outside. Soon she plans to actually talk to him and when they actually do, everything she every thought of Nathan starts to unwrap and its the opposite from the guy he looked on the outside. Four years later, a new neighbor moves into town where Madison meets a lovely woman named Catherine who owns a home bakery. She develops a new hobby by helping her around at her shop. But there's another surprise waiting for her just around the corner which she is definitely not prepared for.

Alexis Everbree has always been an ordinary girl, with wishes almost all girls have in highschool. She has her best friend Rachel by her side who brings out the best in her. But Rachel has some secrets of her own that she hides from the world and also Alexis whom she is the closest too. Highschool drama never looked soo good for them and when Alexis comes to a realization that the person she thought she was in love with... Isn't all that perfect after all. She meets Blake Collins who annoyed her at first but they begin to hit it off when the day of their camping trip arrives. So join in on this journey of Alexis and how she sorts everything out.

───── ❝ inspired by gabby tye's run, hide, seek ❞ ─────

A classic tale of the undead taking over the world.

In modern-day Singapore, the Nightwalkers have risen and are wreaking havoc everywhere on the small island Iris calls home. Stuck in a public library overrun by zombified schoolmates and teachers, a motley crew of teenagers and adults have to do whatever it takes to reach their Safe Haven before humanity falls.

≿ thiswas hell. and they made it through alive. but there was another level they still had to face≾

If only they knew how loud my thoughts were; how I can barely fall asleep at night because my mind is racing at a mile a minute.

See, that's the thing about not being able to talk and not being able to relieve some of the communicative pressure building inside of your head. It piles up after a while, and all of those unspoken thoughts fester until they explode in a different way.

Headaches render me to my bed all day and my hand cramps from trying to write down what I'm thinking so people don't get bored and leave before I can form a sentence.

But for all of the difficulties, I may face in my silent days, it doesn't affect my story or me.

2 people Roman and Anjolina are in different classes. They're total opposites and they barely know each other. Will these two opposites attract or will they fizzle out and realize a mistake?

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I literally got the title for this story in my 6th period class when some kid said, "This is where it all started.....". So, I hope you enjoy reading my book even though I'm a beginner and am trying to get better at writing.

A werewolf story! (there is warlocks, goblins, witches, spirits, fairies...and more) Read and see ^.^

Graham Hayes is an extraordinary guy. Gifted with a supernatural ability to learn things about people through physical contact, he has never once hesitated to learn about peoples' past, their present, and their deepest darkest secrets. When he meets Anna, however, it feels wrong to him to learn about her in such a way. As their friendship progresses further, how can he justify a relationship when every touch of her skin gives him knowledge she does not give willingly?

Working title and description. This is my first romance novel, so any feedback is welcome and appreciated!

It is supposed to be just the usual go-home together for him today with his usual companion, Aya. But along the way during the talk, he manages to trigger a question from her, which could possibly change everything between the two of them. To find the right answer, he recall everything that has happened since the event of that Monday.Butterfly Stories is a web-fiction which tells stories in chapter format. Each installment (Volume) tells one to two one-shot stories. The stories are parallel and happen in one same universe, with the genres of romance and life drama.

I fell in love with the boy who dragged his fingertips across my cheek and kissed me with cigarette smoke leaking from the corners of his mouth. Though, as unhealthy and scarring as he was, a beautiful pistol in himself, you knew you had to let him go. Deep, deep down.

He was the epitome of addiction.