Hi! Rave again. I've been experiencing a lot of scary shit recently and I decided to write one down. Since you clicked on this story, grab a bottle of water, snack of your choice, sit back, relax, and don't look behind you.

Part of the Don't Look Behind Youseries

Everyone has a story to tell, made from the moments in the lives we share. Consequently, every person has their own perspective, their own subjective experiences, and thereby, their own subjective realities. Even if the exact same story is told by two people, the details from one will differ in the other.

Reed and Lumina share their lives together, but each of them came from different backgrounds; each of them went through their own unique experiences. Reed is a human being like everyone else on Earth. Lumina is an Altiri, like every one in Genosis. Both are aliens to their own world, and both have seen their own source of immense darkness in their time.

The other side of the same story might sound similar at a quick glance, but in the depths of every personal reality, very little is ever the same. Welcome to the far side of the universe, in a safe corner of the world you've probably heard nothing about. Welcome ~ to Genosis. Welcome ~ to The Other Side.

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A struggling writer finds comfort in a goldfish after a flight cancellation to New York City, but when an unexpected accident occurs, the fish and man must remain calm until help arrives.

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Twenty-four-year-old Bailey hates and loves writing and dreams of becoming an editor and author. During a trip to New York City for an interview with the New York Times, a snowstorm cancels his flight, and he's forced to stay in a Marriot overnight, where he meets Oscar the Goldfish.

Oscar has met many people over the past few months, but none have intrigued him as much as Bailey. He acts as a therapy fish and listens to Bailey's writing and life concerns.

The two begin to bond, but when an unexpected accident occurs during Hour Seven, they must put their differences aside and help one another through the tense situation.

Will Oscar and Bailey's newfound friendship overcome the accident, or will they succumb to their pasts and grow apart as most fish and man do? Hour Eight will determine everything.

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*Moral: The past is the past; this is the future.**A novelette inspired by a story I heard at work about Oscar the Goldfish.**Weekly updates**This story is not meant to bash Romance writers (I like Romance but don't write it). It's meant to teach struggling, non-Romance ones that they don't need to write Romance to be good writers.*

|SAMPLE|Sparks fly when Riley, a human, and Brenda, a ghost, meet while investigating the Cold Case Murder of Banyan and are dragged into the adventure of a lifetime.

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Thirteen-year-old Riley Kendall doesn’t believe in ghosts—not until he meets Brenda, the victim of the Cold Case Murder of Banyan from the 1970s. People claim someone strangled her and dropped her body into a well, while others believe she strangled herself with her tights, accidentally or deliberately.Drawn in by Brenda, Riley learns how to trap her spirit into a stuffed animal via his father’s YouTube channel and takes her from her house for the first time in fifty years, where he learns the truth behind her and his mother’s mysterious disappearance when he was born, leading to an encounter with the Banyan Serial Killer. Now, he and Brenda must work together to prevent him from escaping into the Human World and destroying everything Riley loves, including his newfound attraction for Brenda, his first realfriend.Will Riley and Brenda’s love save their worlds, or will the serial killer continue his kill streak even as a demon?Most importantly, will Brenda ever rest in peace?

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*Moral: There is just as much good in the world as evil.*

*Caspermeets Ghost Adventuresin a story about friendship and first love through the lens of a human and a ghost.*

*Inspired by a real legend in the U.K. about a girl named Brenda, who was supposedly strangled and dropped into a well.*

*Also inspired by my older brother’s unfortunate death in 2021.*

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A rainy day encourages Teuila's father to take her out on Oceania, but what will happen when their boat flips and they're left stranded in the Atlantic Ocean?

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Teuila just wanted a peaceful summer break after her first year at the College of Charleston. However, peace in her family never happens with her father's sailing blood. To grow closer to his little girl, he takes her out on the family's Laser, Oceania, on a rainy day that mimics a special one nineteen years earlier.

When Oceania flips and leaves father and daughter stranded in the Atlantic Ocean, they must work together to return to shore without the buff lifeguard girls running out to rescue them. Teuila has to see past her father's sailing personality and find the one she grew up with before she and her parents ran aground in Charleston Harbor.

With the help of the current, love, and just a little imagination, Teuila and her dad's fight for survival becomes nothing more than a mere Disney Channel movie. Not only that, but Teuila learns a secret-the truth behind why she carries such an unusual name.

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*Moral: Tell your loved one you love them every day.*

*Huge thanks to my dad for helping me edit!*

*Word Count: 4,000-5,000*

Quote: "Why does a daughter love her father so much? It's because she knows there's one man who will never hurt her." - Anonymous

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When Maisie and Feya's friendship is tossed into the danger zone, they must work together to save it before Summit 2023 destroys them forever.

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Coronado Springs, the epicenter of Southwestern culture in Disney World, carries a legend. Unknown to Maisie and Feya, who have waited a month to attend Out and Equal: Summit 2023, it's rumored a ghost haunts Veracruz in Coronado's Convention Center.

Just when Maisie and Feya thought they were finally settling in as suitemates, they're thrown into another adventure with a mysterious girl, Melody, who seems to hold a grudge against the Disney College Program and someone whom Maisie doesn't want coming between her and Feya.

Still recovering from what happened to Feya in August, Maisie must find a way to understand that her fairy is safe so she can trust Melody and finally start moving on from The Tragedy. Destiny always finds her, though, and now she must face the world without Milo.

Will Maisie overcome her jealousy and grief, or will Summit 2023 destroy her and Feya's friendship forever?

And what will happen when Melody's caught between the feuding friends?

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*Based on a real legend at Coronado Springs.*

*Must read Milo and Maisiefirst!*

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Lost in the depths of the Lady Evelyn-Smoothwater Provincial Park, Ranger Kates meets a mysterious hermit who may very well have a connection with the decade-old legend of the Ghost of Ontario.

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Ranger Kate wants only one thing: to see her son, whom she lost to a canoe accident ten years ago. The opportunity comes when she and her partner, Ranger Amelia, attend the 24-Hour Ghost of Ontario Challenge in the Lady Evelyn-Smoothwater Provincial Park. Legend has it that a ghost haunts it with his mysterious lullaby, "Lucilla", and the only way to connect with him is for two individuals to brave the lakes.

Ihaan never expected to find Ranger Kate on Red Squirrel Lake, said to be the birthplace of the ghost. He and his eagle friend, Ro, band together to win her trust, which is crucial for Ihaan's Guardian Trial. It's the only way for him to learn whether he is truly dead or not.

Fate turns to reality, and suddenly, the legend of the ghost is more real than Ihaan and Kate think. What will happen when the Spirit Animals come and try to interfere with their long-lost memories? Will Kate and Ihaan defeat them, or will they lose themselves to the hands of Ontario's Beast?

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*Ihaan is pronounced "I-an".*

*Based on a canoeing trip I took with my family to Lady Evelyn-Smoothwater Provincial Park!*

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Lately, I don’t know where I’m going

Don’t know what to plan for

Do we have to continue like this for a certain period of time?

Really?

I mean really do we gotta do that?

Why?

What is the reason anyway?

We got plenty of options here

Let’s put cards on the table

To see what we got

The road to nowhere

Damn

I knew it from the beginning

What a chance we had missed

Did you realize it?

What just happened here?

Nothing at all

Just keep grinding

Based on the author's life, What It's Like To Be Lovedis a story about the struggles about living as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints as a part of the LGBTQIA+ community. Ashley (Ash) Stevens, a senior in high school, just moved from her beloved home in Atlanta, Georgia, to Sacramento, California determined to stop lying about her sexuality and mental health state.  While struggling to make friends at church and school, she meets Lizzy Williams and finds herself falling again. But high school romance is never without its flaws, and Ash has a lot to learn about herself...

TRIGGER WARNING: This work mentions mood and anxiety disorders, homophobia and transphobia, self-harm, and nonconsensual kissing and touching.

1001 Reasons to fall in love with the wrong person, but whenyou meet the right person you don't need a reason.

1001 Alasan untuk jatuh cinta dengan orang yang salah, tapi ketika kamu bertemu dengan orang yang tepat kamu tidak butuh alasan.

Alright more angst.

Moved by what I am seeing around me, I have decided to post a series of short stories. These will be like monologues of women disappointed by men. The stories will vary and though I have tried to make them as fictional as possible. There is a seven percent possibility that they were based on real events.

Uh uhmm.

Here we go....

Based on a true story.Bullying has always been there and has caused so much pain and suffering.This is a story about a teenage boy that goes to a boarding school. He is not like other boys and is bullied and teased constantly. What will happen to his self-esteem and will he have courage?Will he survive?(NB there are references to abuse in his life before boarding school)

I will be posting this story on RoyalRoad