austenite

My pencil scratched across the page rapidly as the clock on the wall chimed two o’clock. One hour to go. I looked around at my classmates. Their heads were bent ...

People were scattered throughout the house. The music pumped through the speakers, shaking the walls and coursing through my veins. Everywhere people laughed and danced around. The living room had ...

This late in the afternoon, the pier was scattered with people. Old men sat in little picnic chairs, eskies by their sides and rods in hand. Small children with patient ...

Thank you to everyone who read and reviewed Part One!! Kudos to you. A quick note...you'll notice that this doesn't pick up exactly where I left Part One off. No ...

This is something I wrote for a short story comp a while back. The first line of the short story had to start with the sentence "I was reading a ...

So I wrote this for Captain Classy's contest, thought I'd post it and see what people think!! Rated 16 for implied adultyness content. Short because of the word limit. swept ...

Remember, remember, the fifth of November...I felt my nose twitch. It seemed like an involuntary action, one that my brain hadn't told my nose to do. It kept twitching, like ...

I walked up the steps of my Dad’s beachfront house, hesitating before I went in. Standing on the faded white porch, I looked around me. The sun had set as ...

I sat in the small economy seat of the Qantas plane, playing with the model airplane Ben had bought me from the airport’s gift shop, a last minute present. On ...

Author's Note: To people who read chapter one - please semi-disregard that chapter. It's getting reworked. Even the character is getting slightly reworked. Please take that into consideration when rea

I still remember that night. A memory that haunts me day in, day out. A memory that will never let our family be the was the porch light that first ...

Spoiler! : So this story is something I've been working on for the last couple of days. It was spurred off by a friend of mine telling me that in ...

Spoiler! : Rated 16+ because this novel contains things you shouldn't do aka sex drugs and rock n roll. Sorry, I meant alcohol. There was a splash as Shane disappeared ...

I took a deep breath in, letting the fresh sea air seep through my body. It had a sort of calming affect, like a drug. Nerves jittered inside my stomach ...

The New Girl.I shuddered, thinking of the tag that would be automatically associated with me once I stepped inside the school. I’d been called all sorts of things before - ...