Emily Dickinson: 227 books

A gust chilled him to the bone. The night was filled with starlight. It was a serene, glittering night that kept the world's children warm. But he was far from warm. His heart was in the icy, relentless grip of loneliness-a bone-chilling snare that threatened to break him like a twig. Winds...

Maya, and Talia stared off into the distance their silence settling uneasily between them. Since elementary school these girls had done everything together...until now. This was the summer of their senior year and while they are excited to be setting off into the wide world they will be going to different...

The rain played an almost identifiable melody on the roof. I lay in bed enjoying the welcoming sounds. It had been one of those days, in fact one of those weeks. It was all good as within a few hours I would be on an airplane and off for the well needed vacation that I had been planning for over a...

Betty entered the room like she always did; large eyes with her head tilted down to emphasize the fake innocent look atop her young lithe body. She swayed as she walked in with hips exaggerated to the sides. It was something new. She moved with purpose and seductive intent. With her tight yoga pants it was easy to see her curves shouting sexuality.

I’m working in a successful company almost 3 years. Every day we are in a hurry to make some money for the company and be on the list of top 5 successful companies in my country. I have different colleagues, men and women. I hang out almost with everyone and everyone like me as a person. I must...

He will come for you, if you offer. He will give the dying life. Give yourself. Give all. Of all, he will devour. Kallisto was still out in the field gathering olives from the emerging harvest. Usually, she'd sit quietly between the rows plucking the lavender and thyme that grew on its outskirts and...

And of course, I called him. He picked up with his manly voice. I said nothing besides, “Melting Chocolate.” I hung up the phone, and I sat there, touching my chest, feeling as though I was living in a dream. I had just encountered the man who made me melt, made my ice cream melt, made my heart...

Sunlight filtered in through the blinds causing Lauren's auburn hair to glow like fire against the crisp white linens. She stretched languidly, like a cat, feeling each muscle awaken and aching from her activities the day before. Moving was always hard but to leave everything you have ever known...

My name is Bethany Goose, but my friends call me Becky, and I just moved here to the small town of Spoonings to live with my father after my mother married a super rich chiropractor and decided that she totally didn't feel like raising me anymore.... on my 18 birthday... so I'm pretty sad about that...

I lifted the phone from its cradle. I pressed the concierge button. Settling back into the pillows, I waited while a machine voice told me all about the hotel’s offerings. I was only interested in one. When at last a real person answered, I sighed patiently as he, too, recited his required script. “How...

I’m in a relationship almost a year. My boyfriend is not from my country, so when we decide to be in a relationship, we actually decide to have a long distance relationship. Usually, people are feeling afraid to start this kind of relationship. Till now, I can say that is the best thing that I ever...

Brave. Strong. Graceful. That was how Saki was raised to be. She was born into a samurai village, after all. Now, that village is in danger and knowing she cannot protect it, there is only one thing left for her to do, though there is enough time before that for one last sweet reverie…

Jasmine passed quickly through the doors of the Olde Saloon—as good a name as was needed for what was, after all, the only watering hole in Dead Paul's Drop. The business had been her father's and, by a stroke of fate or fortune, her father had died shortly before her sixteenth birthday. That had...

Claudia inhaled Lauren deeply. Lauren’s perfume, an exotic blend of spicy musk filled Claudia’s head. She felt as if she were floating above it all; intoxicated by this goddess in a way she’d never experienced before. Claudia licked her lips. Lauren smiled sensually. Lauren’s blue eyes sparkled...