Valerie Diestro’s Favorites
From the Secret Journals of Professor Snape
- Fantasy
- English
- 5810 Words
- Ages 6 and up
- 375
- 5
Among the journal entries of the late Professor Severus Snape has been found an unusual memoir. It chronicles the occurrences of the day, several years before the coming of Harry Potter to Hogwarts, when a mere muggle not only performed magic, but bested Lord Voldemort... Read more...
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- Fantasy
- English
- 4374 Words
- Ages 14 and up
- 324
- 1
Stuff happens. The world changes. People get weird. Then stuff gets even weirder. Zara is right in the middle of all that, trying to make sense of what the heck is going on in a world gone more than a bit crazy.
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A touching story about true friendship
- Juvenile Nonfiction
- English
- 2195 Words
- Ages 0 and up
- 2420
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A touching story about a friendship that I had first experienced in my teen life. I will never forget about them. I will never ever forget my true friends.
Keywords: short story, short story about friendship, friends story, friends, about friendship story, friendship, true story, true story of friendship, Butterfly Fly Away, story, a story of friends, non-fiction, juvenile story, non-fiction story, teenage friendship story, true teenafe friendship story, a touching story, touching, touching story [more]
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Can you hear me?
- Romance
- English
- 2406 Words
- Ages 14 and up
- 1037
- 15
How can you discover happiness? If it's there, will you appreciate its presence and make the most out of it before it's too late? Or will you walk away and just let it go? Katelyn never wears a smile on her lips since that day her world shattered. Her only friend... Read more...
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- Romance
- English
- 1619 Words
- Ages 0 and up
- 540
- 18
A short story adaptation from my novel,"Cathedral". Matthew Ash, world famous, but lately-failing author, has gone to a scenic lodge, high in the Colorado Rocky Mountains in order to break the back of the horrible beast that has grabbed hold of him–writer’s... Read more...
Keywords: Romance Tragedy Writing
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An Ode to Herman Melville
- Language & Literature
- English
- 827 Words
- Ages 8 and up
- 769
- 3
When recovering the dead Bartleby, the coroners happened upon a letter hidden inside the poor souls coatpocket. It was a queer letter, and was almost tossed to the flame, but, by happenchance, this letter came into my possession. Upon reading the tale, I have found, in my... Read more...
Keywords: Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener, History, Literature, Mystery, Autobiography, Lost, Found, Death, Letters, Mail
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- Fiction
- English
- 1976 Words
- Ages 0 and up
- 675
- 11
A grocery store supervisor has a not-so-mundane second job. She moonlights as something no one at her day job would understand, yet it's this second job she finds most fulfilling.
Keywords: occult, humor, speculation
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- Fantasy
- English
- 26318 Words
- Ages 0 and up
- 7765
- 152
They walk among us unseen, unrecognized. They look like us, speak like us, but are not us. Aliens from another planet, then? Ghosts? Inter-dimensional beings? No. Dragons.
Keywords: Darastrix, shape-shift, dragon-lore
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- Romance
- English
- 4748 Words
- Ages 14 and up
- 661
- 14
"It's a lie. Something like this wasn't supposed to happen!"
Charles Smith, a 16 year old boy finds himself in Reveres High School after a long summer break. Back in school he suffers from major bullying that no one seems to notice not even his own teachers. His mother... Read more...
Keywords: Homosexual, Stalker, Horror, Murder, Romance, Bullying, Psychology, Betrayal
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The moment you wanted everything to end you just open the door of possibilities you might miss. -uncovered
- Fiction
- English
- 2034 Words
- Ages 16 and up
- 380
- 4
If you’re hidden all lifelong of something you cannot change… And in just a blink of an eye you’re falling so hard facing the truth dangling all over you. Would this be the reason to pay life with death to ensure the future? Or would this be the cause to repeat... Read more...
Keywords: Love, Romance, Adventure, Pain, Magic
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