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• Fiction > Romance
  Klutz

  

  By TeaganOlivia, Someplace, MI

  "Pick up your sneakers, Ella! This isn't the junkyard!" My stepmother, Helga, (hideous name right?) screams up at me. Ohmygosh, I think, won't she just shut up?! She never asks Bertha and Eunice (they're my stepsisters, they look like frogs and they eat they pigs) to pic...
• Fiction > Sci-fi/Fantasy
  Dance of the Faye Queen

  

  By TeaganOlivia, Someplace, MI

  I look out my window at the back yard and then on towards the woods. Everything is calm and serene. The tire swing that hangs from the old willow sways gently in the evening breeze. The dragonflies flit to and fro across the little pond, and hop along the little red toadstools that encircle it. No...
• Fiction > All Fiction
  Colors of Heaven

  

  By TeaganOlivia, Someplace, MI

  Cold fear, like ice slipping down my back. That’s all I can feel, nothing else. Everything is bright and white and cold. A swirling mist wraps around me, and grabs ahold of my ankles, dragging me down further and further down, until the whiteness turns to cruel blackness. Suddenly water rushed ove...
• Fiction > Historical Fiction
  Healed By the King

  

  By TeaganOlivia, Someplace, MI

  “And moved with compassion, He stretched out his hand, and touched him, and said to him, “I am willing; be cleansed.” Mark 1:41 I looked down on my arm, as my wife lay next to me, peacefully asleep, unaware to the disease that was coming over me. A small reddish...
• Fiction > Thriller/Mystery
  Hidden Whispers

  

  By TeaganOlivia, Someplace, MI

  “Don’t touch me!” she cried, as his hand traveled down her arm and along her curves. He nuzzled her neck. She pushed him away, “Demetrius, get your hands off me!” “Why Ms. Beckham, it was only last week you let me do much more than touch you!” She slapped him, hard and full aga...
• Fiction > Romance
  Free of You

  

  By TeaganOlivia, Someplace, MI

  I pick up my phone, dancing to the “Paradise” ringtone. “Hey babe,” I answer, knowing that it’s my boyfriend, Will. “Hey gorgeous, I was wondering if you wanted to go to dinner with me tonight?” he asks, I love hearing his voice through the phone. I lean against my kitchen counte...
• Fiction > Romance
  Eternity

  

  By TeaganOlivia, Someplace, MI

  She could feel it, the pain, etching itself into her heart, carving out tiny pieces and throwing them to the wind. It felt like someone had taken a knife and plunged it through her heart, as if she were the one dead, not him. Trailing her fingers along the squareness of his pale jaw, she let a tear ...
• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  Shock

  

  By TeaganOlivia, Someplace, MI

  Chapter One “And one two three four, and one two three four, and one...” Eva tried hard to concentrate on her feet as Stephen kept the beat to the music, but her feet wouldn’t cooperate and quickly she found herself tangled up on the floor. “Stop!” Stephen said, frustrated. He sh...
• Poetry > Song Lyrics
  Rag Doll

  

  By TeaganOlivia, Someplace, MI

  Am I glass to shatter on the ground? A little doll to abandon? You can’t wrap your mind around, The fact that I love you. It’s like I’m some silly little girl, Who must be insane. Because to you The idea of me in love with you is crazy. Cause you don’t see the tears that I cry ov...
• Fiction > Action-Adventure
  Ara-Jai

  

  By TeaganOlivia, Someplace, MI

  “Amaraya, throw! Now!” I aim my throwing knife, pull back and release, not having pity on the Power member that my knife sinks into. I am the Ara-Jai, a rebel, the most dangerous person in all of Reule-Charn. The Power is the oppressive force that chains my country in bondage. They are t...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Standing Alone

  

  By TeaganOlivia, Someplace, MI

  Standing Alone When I was just a little girl, I was my daddy’s princess. When I was just a little girl, I dreamed of a prince. That would come and save me, Take me away. But as I’ve grown older, Those dreams have disappeared. They’ve begun to fade away. But I’m still here waiting...
• Fiction > Action-Adventure
  The Fade

  

  By TeaganOlivia, Someplace, MI

  My name is Eclipse. I live in Llawr. The Fade is coming. And what you ask is the Fade? Well, I’ll tell you. The Fade only occurs every three hundred years, it just so happens to land during my lifetime this go around; lucky me. The Fade lasts for four weeks, and in that time everything turns bla...
• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  Dear Alex : Persevere

  

  By TeaganOlivia, Someplace, MI

  Dear Alex, Hey, it’s me again. So I know ever since I told about Lacey, you’ve been really struggling. All that stuff you wrote and gave me to read rebroke my heart. I want to see you happy Alex, not hurting. But like I’ve said before, give it time. If it’s the right thing, then it will wo...
• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  Dear Alex : I'm Here for You

  

  By TeaganOlivia, Someplace, MI

  Dear Alex, So the other day you told me of how you felt about my best friend, Lacey. How you loved her and thought maybe she was the one for you. I was so happy! I couldn’t help but smile, inside I told myself how perfect you guys would be. So I ran and told my friend Penny. I was so happy, how ...
• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  Dear Alex : Your Prescription

  

  By TeaganOlivia, Someplace, MI

  Dear Alex, When I heard you wanted to be a youth pastor I was like “YAY!!” I told my mom and she was really happy for you. I want you to know something. DON’T EVER FALL OFF THE FACE OFF PLANET EARTH. Ever. Don’t go underground, you hear me? You persevere. That’s really what I’m trying t...
• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  Dear Alex : Storytime

  

  By TeaganOlivia, Someplace, MI

  Dear Alex, Okay hopping off topic again, I’m going to tell you a story. Once upon a time there was a girl named Tawnie. She wanted a boyfriend like nothing else. For a while she liked this guy named Trey and he liked her too, but he was sort of out of it, and the whole thing flopped and failed...
• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  Dear Alex :Seek and Surrender

  

  By TeaganOlivia, Someplace, MI

  Dear Alex, Okay, back to you and Lacey. I know it shatters your entire world when you think about her dating someone else. Believe me I know how it feels to like someone who is already taken. Don’t let it drag you down. Be friends with Lacey and don’t lose that friendship! She knows how you fe...
• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  Dear Alex : Big Brother

  

  By TeaganOlivia, Someplace, MI

  Dear Alex, So you know how in my first letter, how I said you’re like a brother to me? Well you are. I’m not sure if you know this or not, but my mom had a baby boy before she had me. His name was Jed and he died three days after birth. Between me and Jed, there’s always been this weird conn...
• Fiction > Sci-fi/Fantasy
  Prologue: A Wynda Child

  

  By TeaganOlivia, Someplace, MI

  The Wynda couldn’t resist the force of the waves that pushed her frail form towards shore. Contractions rocked her body and she knew the time was coming. She knew that once her tail hit the shore, she would be too weak to form her legs. The waves crashed over body again and she was pushed closer t...
• Fiction > Sci-fi/Fantasy
  The Heart of A Queen:Prologue

  

  By TeaganOlivia, Someplace, MI

  Princess Zahara of Umbar gazed up at the intricate golden designs on the ceiling of her chamber. The sunlight shone through the thin lavender colored curtains and played tricks with her long, glossy black hair. It was the morning of her 17th birthday, a day most princesses looked forward to, but Zah...
• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  Wishing For Limbo(Also titled: Dead Grass and Wild Strawberries)

  

  By TeaganOlivia, Someplace, MI

  I walked home from track practice today, the spring mud squishing underneath my Converse. In one hand I swung my water bottle back and forth, and over my other shoulder hung my bag from India. The bright spring sunshine shone between the trees on the mucky dirt road. I closed my eyes imagining I was...
• Fiction > Sci-fi/Fantasy
  The Room

  

  By TeaganOlivia, Someplace, MI

  She reached harder, straining all the muscles in Her arm, pulling at nothing but thin air. The tiny hole in the windowless, doorless Room seemed to be Her only way of escape. But no matter how hard She tried, the hole only allowed Her hand and wrist through. She collapsed to the concrete floor, agai...
• Fiction > Fan Fiction
  Loving Boromir-Part 3

  

  By TeaganOlivia, Someplace, MI

  He was gone by the time Noelle woke up the next morning. Istelle walked into the room and asked for her hair to be done. But before Noelle had a chance to braid her hair, Istelle grabbed her left hand and looked at the ring. “You get marred to Bearmir?” she asked. “Yes Istelle he asked me...
• Fiction > Fan Fiction
  Loving Boromir-Part 2

  

  By TeaganOlivia, Someplace, MI

  It had been two days since the column had attacked Osgiliath, and Noelle worried more and more every minute. It was a clear, crisp morning as the sun began to make its way over the mountain and sparkled Minas Tirith in its warmth. Noelle woke up and got dressed in a blue dress and apron. She braid...
• Fiction > Fan Fiction
  Loving Boromir -Part 1

  

  By TeaganOlivia, Someplace, MI

  Daises, daffodils and other flowers covered the cobblestone streets of the White City. Horse hooves trampled them over, grinding the petals into the cracks of the marble street. At the head of the column rode a tall, proud man astride a brown horse. At his side sat a very much humbler man, who looke...