What could I become if I stopped worrying about death, about pain, about anything? If I stopped trying to belong? Instead of being afraid, I could become something to fear.
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What could I become if I stopped worrying about death, about pain, about anything? If I stopped trying to belong? Instead of being afraid, I could become something to fear.
pickfiction
fantasy
romance
young adult
adventurous
dark
tense
slow-paced
Read: May 2021
That was why they called it temptation—it never presented itself as something ugly, or tepid, or harmless; no, it came in the guise of glorious feelings and a sense of utter rightness, even when it was wrong. That was why one needed principles.
pickfiction
historical
romance
adventurous
hopeful
medium-paced
Read: May 2021
Why in the world was I going to college? I could be in bed, all cuddled up and shit, dreaming about hot men with abs covered in powdered sugar.
No one commands me out in the wild. I will behave the way I want to. I will be who I am, and I won't hate myself for it.
so-sofiction
fantasy
romance
young adult
adventurous
fast-paced
Read: May 2021
“Once more,“ he said. “Speak my name once more.“
He was ancient, I knew that. But in this moment he was just a boy - brilliant, blessed with too much power, burdened by eternity.
“Aleksander.“
His eyelids fluttered shut. “Don't let me be alone,“ he murmured. And then he was gone.”
so-sofiction
fantasy
young adult
adventurous
mysterious
fast-paced
Read: March 2021
“Why won‘t you leave me alone?” I whispered one night as he hovered behind me while I tried to work at my desk.
Long minutes passed. I didn‘t think he would answer. I even had time to hope he might have gone, until I felt his hand on my shoulder.
“Then I‘d be alone, too,“ he said, and he stayed the whole night through, till the lamps burned down to nothing.”
panfiction
fantasy
young adult
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
Read: March 2021
I closed my eyes, feeling tears slide down my cheeks, and I reached out to the thing within me that I'd kept hidden for so long. I'm sorry, I whispered to it.
I'm sorry I left you so long in the dark.
I'm sorry, but I'm ready now.
so-sofiction
fantasy
young adult
adventurous
dark
fast-paced
Read: March 2021
She lifted her eyes to his face, and found his gaze lined with silver. “Get up,” was all he said.
And in that moment, somehow his face was the only thing that mattered. She stirred, and couldn‘t stop her sob as her body erupted with pain that made her lie still again. But she kept her focus on his brown eyes, on his tightly pressed lips as they parted and whispered, “Get up.”
pickfiction
fantasy
romance
young adult
adventurous
dark
fast-paced
Read: March 2021
“Love is beautiful fear”
“Sometimes I feel like we're a knot, too tangled to be taken apart.”
“When we died, no one would know, and that fraction of a moment that was so important to who we were would be gone.”
panfiction
romance
young adult
emotional
medium-paced
Read: March 2021
“True love is usually the most inconvenient kind.”
“It's always the fear of looking stupid that stops you from being awesome.”
“No wonder I‘d never had any friends. I was shockingly bad at it.”
“I let myself be sad. I let myself think of him.”
panfiction
romance
young adult
emotional
lighthearted
medium-paced
Read: February 2021
“He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain is usually the person who locks up the maiden and throws away the key. He was the one who let me out.”
“To the stars who listen— and the dreams that are answered.”
pickfiction
fantasy
romance
adventurous
slow-paced
Read: February 2021
There are those who seek me a lifetime but never we meet,
And those I kiss but who trample me beneath ungrateful feet.
At times I seem to favor the clever and the fair,
But I bless all those who are brave enough to dare.
By large, my ministrations are soft-handed and sweet,
But scorned, I become a difficult beast to defeat.
For though each of my strikes lands a powerful blow,
When I kill, I do it slow...
pickfiction
fantasy
romance
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
Read: February 2021
“How much easier it would be if everyone knew their role: the hero, the sidekick, the villain. Our books would be neater and our souls less frayed. But whether you have blood or ink, no one's story is that simple.”
“A lie. A dream. Good stories are both.”
“We think stories are contained things, but they‘re not. Ask the muses. Human, stories, tragedies, and wishes—everything leaves ripples in the world.”
“It‘s easy to be brave on a leash.”
so-sofiction
fantasy
lgbtqia+
adventurous
mysterious
fast-paced
Read: February 2021
