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Sela Locke

  • Shadowy Intentions (Read and review, puh-leeze!)

    It wasn’t Keylaia’s fault. She’d just been running down the beach in her red tankini when it happened. She ran right into someone, and fell, hitting her head on a ...

    3 min read
  • A Pessimist/ And other poems.

    I look for deep weather, To take me down away, The light seems far gone now, And nothing have I to say. I struggle in the smother'ngs, Of day's lightest ...

    2 min read
  • Sourblood

    This may begin oddly, but trust me, it will stay that way, so don't go away. ^^ ------ Trying hard to not think of something isn’t always the best idea, ...

    5 min read
  • *Flagged for deletion*

    You can find the enormity of Sourblood in the one, first thread. Simply titled, 'Sourblood'.

    1 min read
  • *Flagged for deletion*

    Once again, enormity of Sourblood in simply named, 'Sourblood' thread. =D

    1 min read
  • *Flagged for deletion*

    Enormity of this story is in my portfolio, simply named 'Sourblood'. Get it now?! xD

    1 min read
  • The Misunderstanding

    This is actually based on true and real happenings - the two kids Rose (13) and Ben (12) have had their names changed for privacy, and for the fact that ...

    7 min read
  • Faded Fear

    I might not put any more on. Not sure, to be honest. I finally folded under Chern's constant pelting about it. (Sorry Chernobyl, bit of an exaggeration. ^_^; ) - ...

    5 min read
  • Stupid Kids On Islands

    What? Yes, this is a short story. It should be about three chapters long. 'S for a class thing I have. He didn’t know where he could possibly be, or ...

    3 min read
  • Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

    This is, without a doubt, one of my favorite books. Ever. It is, in a nutshell, about the revival of magic in England in the early nineteenth century. The characters ...

    2 min read
  • Those Little Glass Slippers (11)

    “How very nice to – see you again, milord.”I heard him chuckle softly from somewhere deep in the gloom, and was glad, then, for the lack of light, else he ...

    24 min read
  • Jack-in-the-book (1)

    It smelled like fresh paint and old books, and maybe a little mold. There was a man in the back corner reading a comic book, because he thought he was ...

    8 min read
  • Jack-in-the-book (2)

    Minutes passed, and every once in a while there again came that crinkling, spine-tingling sound as page after page turned. Once I thought I heard a voice mumbling along to ...

    6 min read
  • It's Medical

    It's E for now, but I might change the rating if things get dicey, later. No nitpicks please--this chapter's a bit rough, and I haven't decided yet if I want ...

    4 min read
  • Jack-in-the-book (3)

    I had a sudden inspiration the other day, in the form of an amazing character in a not-so-amazing movie. Anyone heard of Mr. Teatime? Well he reminded me of paper-ink-man, ...

    8 min read
  • Jack-in-the-book (4)

    Fourth installment. No nitpicks please!Maybe it was hours later, our minutes, or a whole year, but finally, the sound of a book shutting snapped me out of my self-pitying stupor, ...

    8 min read
  • Norrington's Girl

    It was warm that night. Warm so the sweat dripped offa you, warm so your insides boiled like Mama’s pot on the fire. The blinds had all been shut, and ...

    7 min read
  • Ragdoll (1)

    The street was dark. The darkness therein was not one wistful, poetic—it was ugly, and thick as a lumpy quilt. There was no one there, and not even the slightest ...

    6 min read
  • Ragdoll (2)

    When the nurse – I don’t remember her name – left me alone with my runny eggs and soggy toast, I took the opportunity to study my new cage. There ...

    10 min read
  • Ragdoll (3)

    The day passed slowly. Thorne had given me more work than ever before, and all over the manor, so I spent half the time cleaning, sweeping and dusting, and half ...

    11 min read
  • Ragdoll (4)

    It seemed the sun was shining extra-bright the next morning when I got up. I dressed quickly, and nearly ran down the hall to the kitchen. All the fighting for ...

    8 min read
  • Fluorescence

    This is something that came to me a bit ago. It's a rough draft and I know it's not perfect, but I'd much prefer honest criticism to cankerous little nitpicks, ...

    6 min read
  • Sunset Sand

    Foam sprinkled the sandy shore; a soft sunset-light twinkled along the darkening, rippling sea. A salty breeze brushed along the dunes and danced around the tops of the cliffs, and ...

    13 min read
  • Unforgettable

    “There are no words that can truly do justice to it. Any of it. And that’s why I never say anything. Because people in stories always blurt everything out and ...

    5 min read


here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can home or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)
— e.e. cummings