Think, dream, believe what you want, but you can't change that part of the truth no matter how much you want to, my ringmaster. I still love you.

Aria is the child of an artist sponsored by the monarchy of Steorra, gifted with the ability of seeing the rain children. Protected by her parents, her ability is kept a secret until one day the barrier between the realms breaks and Aria is desperately needed to save her people.

Charon has a new job.

Out in the surf one day, seventeen-year-old Celia is stuck in a rip and dragged out to an island inhabited by a boy with a fascination for limes and puddles. Meanwhile, another boy watches her from behind a wall of glass and feels himself burning away...

All she had wanted for Valentine’s Day were either black or white roses.

Her legs clad in dark stockings, my eyes rose and I took in the dark circles rimming her eyes and shadows so deep I couldn't see a trace of humanity in her gaze. Society and this life had sapped her dry and I had nothing left to give.

there's a little bit of love left in this little ole heart, not yet killed off by wishes of what ifs.

Mindy's part of a legacy spanning four generations and she feels its her duty to uphold the legacy, but when family ties are broken and her world is tipped upside down, it's time to rethink her expectations of what she expects of herself.

Three things can never long be hidden: the sun, the moon and the truth. Let me shine that rusty halo so I can hide the truth for just a little bit longer.

Imogen was supposed to be the firstborn, but nature intervened and took her away from her family before she was born. Now a guardian angel for the girl who would've been her younger sister, she feels like she has to live the life she never had through her

Everyone needs a little bit of wonderful every day. Prompted by a teacher's assignment, Emily Ravell endeavours to find a way of making this happen – or finding out just -how- it happens.

The apple usually doesn't fall far from the tree - but madness reigns in this person's life, and they find they have a friend in their madness. This person's apples all fell a long time ago.

A collection of short stories and musings based around the 100 themes challenge from deviantART. Theme number one: 67%.

Abandoned by her parents as a young child, Mara was taken in by a family of wellwishers and raised as one of their own -- yet her face is the only one that shines when the moon is out, everyone else is hidden in the darkness.