Key To a [name_m]Crow[/name_m]
[name_f]Lacey[/name_f] had always loved birds. She grew up feeding the ducks and gathering chicken eggs. Often times, she went birdwatching with her grandfather. But one day, her whole life is turned upside down. In an instant, she is on the streets, stealing chicken eggs to survive. Why? she asks herself, she asks the world. Why! And then she was in the hospital, staring out of the window, birdwatching. The crows would stare, their beautiful black feathers pulling her into trances…
The doctors worried, but she knew there was no need to.
[name_f]Cathy[/name_f], a 35-year-old woman, is married with 3 kids. Her life is stable. Her husband is a good man. Her kids light up her world.
However, when [name_f]Cathy[/name_f] catches feelings for [name_f]Shanna[/name_f], a fellow housewife, her identity, her marriage, and her life is turned upside down.
Next title (this is the name of my Wattpad story I’ve published, so don’t cheat Paxramena (@PrezzJausten) - Wattpad): A Crown of Blood and Sunlight
When she first found the boy in the woods, [name_f]Jenny[/name_f] knew instantly she had met a king. The shape of the blood around his head, still red but turning brown on the leaves, the way the occasional rays of sun brightened up his pale face, and the regal aura of calmness he had about him left no doubt of that. [name_f]Jenny[/name_f] felt honored by his presence, she didn’t tell anyone of him. The king was her secret, and she told him everything, but when one day he finally spoke to her, too, he had a horrible story to tell.
When [name_f]Miri[/name_f]’s parents first bought a goose for their pond, they let her name it [name_m]Zeus[/name_m]. It was part of her Greek mythology phase, they figured, and what was the harm of a goose with a silly name?
Then violent storms started brewing overhead, the likes of which hadn’t been seen in their town for years. That was just a coincidence, until one night [name_f]Miri[/name_f] saw lightning strike the pond, leaving only the goose unharmed. And the neighbor seems strangely obsessed with the new goose?
As more and more mysterious events build up around [name_f]Miri[/name_f]’s goose pond, she has to confront the idea that her beloved pet might be… divine?
Zariza’s family has guarded the most sacred Mirror in the kingdom for generations. [name_f]Zariza[/name_f] is forbidden from entering the room containing the Mirror. However, being as curious as she is, on her twelfth birthday she gives herself a gift— a trip to the Mirror Room, and while there, she can’t help but touch the glass. Instantly, it is destroyed, and [name_f]Zariza[/name_f] becomes afflicted with the [name_u]Seven[/name_u]-Year Curse— having to suffer through horrible luck for the next seven years. She is banished to the [name_u]Rebel[/name_u] [name_u]Forest[/name_u] where all who have contracted curses are sent.
In the heart of the forest, [name_f]Zariza[/name_f] meets [name_f]Chiara[/name_f], who is under the Beast Curse— transforming into a beast at random— and [name_u]Nuri[/name_u], under the Wandering Curse— losing the ability to ever stop walking. They have each destroyed powerful relics, but [name_f]Chiara[/name_f] has not yet been caught— after destroying the magical [name_f]Opal[/name_f] Pendant, she left her own necklace in the place of it and was forced to the forest on her own, and she and [name_u]Nuri[/name_u] have been preparing for a battle with the guards of the Pendant ever since. When they meet [name_f]Zariza[/name_f], they know that her terrible luck will affect them if she befriends them, so they torture her, attempting to make her hate them. However, [name_f]Zariza[/name_f] can’t help feeling sorry for them, drawing [name_m]Talbott[/name_m], the fiercest of all the guards, straight to them, and therefore beginning the fiercest of all the [name_u]Rebel[/name_u] Wars.
The house on [name_u]Hunter[/name_u]’s [name_m]Hill[/name_m] had always been rumoured to be haunted, and everyone in the town of Bleakburn knew this.
Thing is, when the [name_u]Callan[/name_u] family first moved in, everything paranormal around the house appeared to stop completely. Nobody was quite sure why, and they still aren’t now.
Because now the ghostly footsteps that rang through the empty halls of the house are returning and echoing through the minds of the [name_u]Callan[/name_u] twins. Without any clue as to who these spirits are and why they vanished for so long, what can they really do?
Deadly Butterflies
It never really left Ivy alone, you know. Fear. Butterflies. Whatever term you want to use for that thing that flutters in your stomach and throughout the rest of you, turning everyday tasks into a mountain too brutal to climb. Still, she was trying, she had a list, and she had the support she needed to perhaps make it further up the mountain than she has before, just in time to graduate high school. Her starting list?
Go shopping by herself
Ask a stranger for their story
Tell her parents the truth
It’s a simple beginning, yet none of the items seem possible to complete, and she certainly has no plans to complete them all in one day. But when the most unexpected of tragedies strikes, Ivy finds herself going through all three in less than twenty-four hours. Perhaps she can keep walking even as the butterflies inside transform into something more sinister with every step. Either way, her life is forever altered.
Next title, courtesy of @StormySkyz: Dreaming of Darkness
Hey @BookSneakersMovie- that plot sounds so cool, how would you feel about me trying to turn that into an actual story? No pressure and not like I’d actually do anything with it , I just wanted to make sure that you were okay with your idea being used!
Ebony never expected her father to return home. [name_f]Ebony[/name_f] never expected her mother to stop hovering over her. Most of all, [name_f]Ebony[/name_f] never would have guessed that the sun would rise again.
However, her father just walked into the house as though he hadn’t been missing for 10 years, and just like that, the sun rose once again and [name_f]Ebony[/name_f]’s mother ran away— she had promised never to forgive her husband for disappearing like that. [name_m]Even[/name_m] more surprisingly, the sun never set, just like before except endless day. Now her father is home again, and [name_f]Ebony[/name_f] is forced to admit that she misses the dark, infinite night in which her mother was present, in which constellations sat overhead, in which her friends [name_f]Andromeda[/name_f] was always there for her. She discovers that the stars occupy her every dream, in which she is sipping an elixir made from diamonds, only to find that the drink is made of gold, a reminder of the constant sun.
When [name_f]Ebony[/name_f] discovers that same golden drink hidden in her father’s room, she finally pays attention to the names of her parents— [name_m]Leo[/name_m] and [name_f]Luna[/name_f]— and realizes that she may have the power to influence both of them, as well as their counterparts in the sky.
Forever Empty
The children sleep, tucked away in the cavern that has been their home for a century. Outside, their story is nothing but a legend, until [name_f]Ariella[/name_f] discovers she can see the children walking the world in their dreams. As she learns to communicate with them, they tell her she must find and wake them to prevent a great darkness from feeding off their dreams and emerging from the cave - but as [name_f]Ariella[/name_f] sets off accompanied by her ghostly friends, she begins to suspect that a hundred years may have hollowed out more than the country’s memory. Whatever these children were before their imprisonment, they’re no longer something she wishes to unleash upon the world, but the promises they make leave her torn.
The last time I can remember laughing was exactly 2 years, 5 months and 8 days ago. The memory of that day sits like a pit in my stomach. A sharp excruciating pain that slowly dulled over time until I eventually came to barely notice it. Numb and hollow, a slow and insidious aching for something that hides in the depths of my soul and subtly, silently yearns to be fulfilled. Since that day, hopelessness shrouded and enveloped all. Feeling forever empty became my new normal. I wrapped that feeling around me like a thin blanket and took comfort in the fact that it kept me clear-eyed and obedient. That is why I didn’t expect to laugh today, when the whole world is in sorrow, and why I definitely did not expect to laugh with HIM.
To Rise Without a Name
***** OOPS! @midwinter beat me! Go ahead and answer her next title!!
There’s a law in Aramoor - only family members present at your birth can name you.
This generally poses no real issue. But enter [name_f]Amelia[/name_f] [name_m]Winston[/name_m], who gives birth alone and dies before having a chance to name her daughter.
Is it possible to rise in the world without a name?
Anastasia Dupont, billionaire philanthropist, is going to die in one hour. Twenty-four hours ago, she got a letter stating exactly this, which she dismissed as another empty threat and threw away.
Now a trained assassin waits in the woods outside her home, their career on the line. Meanwhile, [name_f]Anastasia[/name_f] is gathering friends for a party she refuses to disclose the purpose of, and the assassin begins to suspect she is aware of more than she seems.
In the end, which one of them will survive to the end of the day?
Next title: And the [name_u]Sky[/name_u] Began to Fall
And the [name_u]Sky[/name_u] Began to Fall
[name_f]Abigail[/name_f] MacCarthy doesn’t want to go to her husband [name_u]Dean[/name_u]’s [name_m]Bond[/name_m]-themed work party. She expects a boring night of tacky costumes and small talk - but as the party draws nearer, she realises [name_u]Dean[/name_u] has something far more sinister planned. The party is the perfect setting for the perfect crime, and the only way to prevent it is to destroy the man who has given her everything. Torn between her love for her husband and her own principles, [name_f]Abigail[/name_f] only know one thing for certain - the idyllic world she used to live in is falling apart, and there is nothing she can do to fix it.
(Sorry this was a little bit of a stretch!)
Next Title: The Family Down the Road
, I just wanted to make sure that you were okay with your idea being used!
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