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ElenaHartley
ElenaHartley

The Watchmaker’s Daughter

When the clocks stopped, even for a second, she could feel it in her teeth. The world stuttered imperceptibly to others, but to her it was a scream.

0 0 315 words
ElenaHartley
ElenaHartley

The Delusional Fairy

Deep in the overgrown garden behind a half-forgotten cottage, she lived. She carried a wand, a snapped twig bound with ribbon and glitter.

0 0 188 words
DataLore24
DataLore24

Six Years Old

A poem written through the eyes of a six year old child.

8 0 154 words
sammielee46
sammielee46

Light.

#beginningline. #nightdwellers. The moon lit up the cobbles,. As the stars lit and dazzled the sky,. Lanterns rise and illuminate,. The faeries as they fly,. Little orbs of glowing light emerge,.

24 14 154 words
aloneinthewoods
aloneinthewoods

Wings. -3-

"So, what do your parents do?" Derek asked, walking beside Aubrey, his back continuing to burn. Her face drained of colour. "Did I say something?" She stared at the ground. "I um...

6 0 571 words
Rawren
Rawren

Glass Boy

A girl so fair and young was one who held her tongue. She spent much time all by herself echoed by cries she'd sung.

52 10 285 words
a_thousand_roses
a_thousand_roses

The Old Days Of The Sun

Once there was a girl Who walked alone in space. She's the one in the summer We call old Golden Face. She tiptoed with the stars And sang a song to rain.

22 0 85 words
blindsilence
blindsilence

Cauliflower Ears

Overlong hedgehogs terrorised the quaint shanty towns of the North East of England.

8 3 561 words
beth4856
beth4856

The Whisper

*chapter 3* I came to oak tree to try and find the charm. "What you looking for bruise fool?" Asked Lucas, meanly. Lucas is the schools bully and pick on me because I faint to much.

4 6 206 words
Limea
Limea

Winter vs. Spring

[a weird bedtime story or something] I stand in the crossroads. I stare at the sky and see - its another half is Winter's and the other is Spring's.

0 0 495 words
jackalice
jackalice

Sugar Jewel

A fairy tale was told to me By a little girl of all but three Her voice the sound of cherry pie Topped with sugar so that I Could not help but listen to Her fairy tale she made for you.......

16 2 113 words
CookieCandyCream
CookieCandyCream

Story: stories come to life

Katie was a normal girl, for a while anyway, she was a literacy genius she loved reading ,writing and revising for anything English.

6 14 593 words
dreamyfeather
dreamyfeather

Raging Waters, Emerald Gaze

She is the creator of the world she lived in, her every word the most concrete and defined element that turned the blurry and evanescent dimension of pure fiction and imagination in a reality she can...

14 0 493 words
katnisseverdeen4
katnisseverdeen4

It Was Actually Quite Plausible

By Miscellaneous ‘…It’s actually quite…” the child paused, struggling for words. “Plausible!” ‘Is that so.” Loretta turned the page of her novella.

0 0 591 words
leelee101
leelee101

The Night Shift

In the dead of night. When the moon is high. The remains of the day. Are laying idly by. The mess that we make. As we dive through the day. Need collecting completely. And storing away.

22 15 307 words
al_ec
al_ec

The Genie

Ah it's you who hath set me free. Such divinity in your mortality. I thank you much, but owe you one. You seem to be broken, tattered, alone. Maybe ask for a brand new start.

20 19 149 words
jackalice
jackalice

Water Jewel

I spy With my little eye Something beginning with..... Love.

28 4 100 words
yamaarashi
yamaarashi

The King's Last Stand

Deep and still waters reflect observers with crystal clarity the knotted trees that surround are the last to posess such emerald green.

12 1 207 words
sarahgamal
sarahgamal

A Love Spell

I summon a breeze. That can bend the trees. And awaken the waves in all the seven seas. I call on Venus, the goddess of love. To listen to my heart from high above.

30 24 97 words
onyxheart
onyxheart

The Scribetree Grove

On a little tiny island. Off the coast of Europe. If you walk through the forests. Of alantha and pines. Sticky with minty sap. If you cross the river. That flows in a circle. Then you will find.

24 4 156 words
OfMonstersAndMen
OfMonstersAndMen

The Frog And His Orange Padlock

A surreal story I had to do for art homework… it's kinda surreal…… A big shooting star looked down and saw a torch peer through a keyhole, looking for a frog and his orange padlock.

8 3 281 words
jackalice
jackalice

The Hollow Tree

The Hollow Tree A shadow in my dreams, since I was a boy, haunting me with tales of trolls , and witches, goblin kings, ghosts, and tiny, hidden thieves trying to steal the fingers of little boys who...

18 2 650 words
leelee101
leelee101

The Girl and the Songbook

The girl with the wild red hair. Came to the cliff face stair. And with a wave of her sonic wings. Took me absolutely everywhere. She threw a shape and threw her head back.

54 26 168 words
jackalice
jackalice

LAVONDYSS

#acrostic. Lavondyss, ancient forests come. Alive in Holdstocks masterpiece. Vast imagination,. Old myths inspiral Tallis Keaton,. Norse legends in hollowings,. Days lost in time in other worlds, I,.

14 2 45 words
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