.My heart..My mind..My soul..My body. .Always..Beating faster at the sight of you..Lingering on thoughts of you..Craving to feel the closeness of you..Wanting to feel your touch. .Always..Fluttering at the memories..Dreaming of the possibilities..Feeling the energy surrounding you..Relaxing into the safety of your arms. .Always..In each heartbeat..Entangled in the memories..Tied to one another..Exploring possibilities and learning […]
.Let it happen..Let it hurt..Let it heal..Let it go..Let it grow. .Let them be..Let them live..Let them decide..Let them leave..Let them love. .Let yourself flourish..Let yourself cry..Let yourself learn..Let yourself try..Let yourself believe. .It’ll be hard..It’ll be okay..It’ll be painful..It’ll be beautiful..It’ll be honest..It’ll be yours. .It will all be what it’s meant to, as […]
“Deal?” he questioned extending his dirty hand toward me. I reached out slowly waiting to see if he would take the hand back. Frank thought he had the upper hand, and in a sense he did. Until the final shake. What he did not know was that he was making a deal with the actual […]
Another prompt to short story! I love when things take on a life of their own! I hope you enjoy! -Adrianna From The Inside Ten Years Ago The building was on fire. The screams from outside were making my ears ring. The fire burned from rooms away. The crackle and pop were right behind me. […]
This was a little tidbit that has been sitting in my brain for a while. I have been trying to work on a new aspect of my writing with each piece. This time I wanted to focus on the descriptive pieces and making my dialogue stand out. I wanted to find a different kind of […]
This is the piece I submitted for my final story in my writer’s workshop. I wanted to do something completely new and totally different for me. I wanted to challenge myself. I hope everyone enjoys! -Adrianna Courage in Words Aiyana closed her eyes listening to the sound of people clinking glasses, and it was beautiful. […]
Well the prompt sparked a story! I might want to dig into these characters more and build on it, but for now this is a small part of their stories that I wanted to tell. I hope you all enjoy! –Adrianna The Huntress and the Wolf The images flashed rapidly of fire, snow, metal, and […]
It has been a long and crazy two weeks where finals and work were concerned. I know that I was doing edits around one this morning so I hope I caught them all, but here it is. My next short piece. I hope you all enjoy it! -Adrianna Words of the Watcher There are days […]
I hope you all enjoy this short story! Adrianna Other Lives The snow was falling lightly in the village. As the girl looked out through the small window she smiled and listened for the waves of the sea below. Her grandfather was cooking stew in the kitchen for lunch to warm them on the cold […]
This week has been a little rough. I hope you all enjoy. I really did like writing this piece. It just came to me line after line. I haven’t written anything that simply without thinking every little word in a very long time. –Adrianna The Fountain in The Garden Legend has it that in the […]
This one was an interesting write for me. I have been working on it over the past week and have debated if this was the route I wanted to take. I had four other endings for it that just didn’t seem to go how I wanted. This one felt like my best fit. I hope […]
I hope you all enjoy my story of the week! Thanks for reading! Adrianna The Pillars The wind crept across the earth bringing with it loose, vibrant, red and orange leaves. The crossed the stone path until they stopped at a young woman’s feet. They shone bright against her black mid-calf boots. The red leaves […]
I recently submitted this to my school’s online literary website. I have been waiting for news for a little bit, and the story is special to me. It has been my first official submission anywhere, it touches on some very important issues I have dealt with, and it is a piece of work that I […]
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