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Poem / Fan Fiction

June 23, 2018

Reads: 8

Comments: 1

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

The clerihew poem is actually about Norman Bates, a character that Anthony Perkins had once played in Psycho (1960). Read More

Tags: dark, death, fan-fiction, misc, clerihew

Book / Other

June 23, 2018

Reads: 145

Shelves: 1

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The rise and fall of a tyrant. Read More

Tags: dark, fiction, chapter-one, the-beginning

Book / Mystery and Crime

June 21, 2018

Reads: 168

Comments: 6

Shelves: 4

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Detective Daniel Kane is the loose cannon of the Erol city police department, bogged down by the stress of a crime ridden city and haunted by the brutal murder of a loved one, his mental health is already on a knife edge, However when a killer rises with a… Read More

Tags: dark, murder, mystery, crime, film-noir

Book / Fantasy

June 21, 2018

Reads: 239

Shelves: 1

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Leo is bored and tired of his life and relies on playing video games to bring satisfaction to his life. A new VRMMO (Virtual reality massive multiplayer online) company emerged and presented their product to the world, which allows players to switch their consciousness to another world. Leo wants… Read More

Tags: dark, japanese, psychological, tragedy, manga

In this short story, a wandering outlaw gets spooked by a lone homesteader... and for a good reason. Read More

Tags: dark, death, adult, misc

Book / Fantasy

June 20, 2018

Reads: 628

Comments: 21

Shelves: 3

The Booksie Classic House

BOOK TWO (All credit for the cover goes to RoseandStone, thanks again!) As chaos grips Azure and its capital, a darker force is at work in unraveling the world for its own sinister design, reveling in the destruction that is allowing it to flourish. Under suspicious circumstances, a king… Read More

Tags: fantasy, dark, fiction, adult, newadult

A simple poem of the not so silent night Read More

Tags: dark, music, poem, night, fight

You think your parents are bad? Treat you terribly? Well, obviously you've never met Kayla Genevieve. Follow her life as she watches her mother die and shares secrets she promised to never spill to the only boy who seems to notice the hidden sadness behind the smile. Welcome to… Read More

Tags: dark, death, secrets, murder, basement

Book / Fantasy

June 20, 2018

Reads: 3106

Comments: 66

Shelves: 19

The Fantasy Realm House

This is the anime/manga that I want to create. . .even if it might not ever happen. Kita is a pariah among her race, the Aubade sylphs. With only two friends and a bad reputation, her life is not going too well. Especially with the constant, strange… Read More

Tags: dark, adventure, drama, demons, anime

In this four stanza etheree poem, a young girl runs away from her drunk father and nasty mother and finds herself a new home. Read More

Tags: dark, adult, hope, etheree, misc

a poem I wrote about temptations, desire and the truth of what really lies beneath all of that. Read More

Tags: dark, evil, lust, control, sadist

This is the 1st novel in the H A T O series that takes place in the character known as Hato Livelda before he became a leader of the Aojeernar. He is faced with many challenges and obstacles that will try to kill him at every turn... Can he… Read More

Tags: dark, adventure, alien, depressing, revolution

Poem / Poetry

June 17, 2018

Reads: 18

Comments: 1

Shelves: 2

The Booksie Classic House

My existence is just a sham. Read More

Tags: dark, self, light, shadow, independence

nefeli, a girl born to the hiraeth family, one of 10 great families resembling which resembles the god of power lacks any skill with the power her family had created and mastered through the eons of creation. deemed a failure she grows up in the shadow of her younger… Read More

Tags: fantasy, dark, death, power, gods

Book / Fantasy

June 17, 2018

Reads: 4

Shelves: 1

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The Kingdom of Sundew; irrelevant, unnoticeable, small. They are protected from the Garwicks with magic from the court sorcerer. Oddroff Mass believes his personality and life match the bland and boring kingdom- until the sorcerer's staff is stolen. And Mass and his best friend Eralow are blamed. Read More

Tags: fantasy, dark, friendship, magic, female-lead

Poem / Horror

June 15, 2018

Reads: 0

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

The one scenario of horror that a woman might have no choice but to face is being told in this six stanza etheree poem. Read More

Tags: dark, adult, etheree, misc

In this double etheree poem, a woman finds out too late that it was not a good idea to be a nosy busybody. Read More

Tags: dark, adult, life, misc, double-etheree

Gabriel & Grace have been best friends for years. Ever since childhood, but it's almost Halloween, the night of the costume party. They have seen several people fall in & out of love so many times. They make a bet not to fall in love with anyone especially each… Read More

Tags: dark, halloween, gothic, macabre

Poem / Flash Fiction

June 10, 2018

Reads: 3

Comments: 2

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

This six stanza etheree poem features a woman being betrayed by her lover at a party he's throwing and the horrific aftermath. Read More

Tags: dark, death, adult, etheree, misc

Losing everything you love but, one thing. Games to suppress your depression but it's still in your head. Financial, abusive, and family problems. All these problems that this 14-year-old boy has to go through. Read More

Tags: dark, depression, suicide, issues

Short Story / Horror

June 08, 2018

Reads: 10

Comments: 1

Shelves: 2

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Started writing and came up with this. Just a BAD dream. Read More

Tags: dark, scary, nightmare, suspense, dreaming

Poem / Poetry

June 08, 2018

Reads: 22

Comments: 1

Shelves: 2

The Booksie Classic House

So, this is an introspective piece I wrote in June 2017. I'd been toying around with the idea for many years but I never actually put any effort into creating something of it. Personally, it isn't one of my favorite pieces and maybe that's because it isn't true. This… Read More

Tags: dark, pain, suicide, mother, suffer

Hey guys! it's time to put the sequel to the Underdogs out there. If you have not yet read my other story "The Underdogs" I suggest doing so first. however, you can still enjoy this story without knowing what happened in the Underdogs. please let me know any way… Read More

Tags: dark, humor, war, sequal, ww2

Mankind has as a whole lost sight of what matters and there are just too many of us, brought into suffering and not to love. A sense of safety that we're missing, while other precautions are supposed to make us safe. Actual families are less common. The beauty of… Read More

Tags: dark, hope, sadness, light, realization

Poem / Fantasy

June 06, 2018

Reads: 2

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

Tags: dark, light

A man finds himself in the shadow of the Hound's Den, for love and for land. Read More

Tags: dark, medieval

A quick little idea, a woman who’s lover is missing and she spends her days alone drinking alcohol while still in search of him. Read More

Tags: dark, whiskey, wine

A man wakes up and finds himself inside the body of his high school sweetie in this eight stanza nonet poem. Read More

Tags: dark, death, adult, misc, nonet

A man discovers something horrifying about his girlfriend while they hike through the woods in this free verse poem. Read More

Tags: dark, death, adult, free-verse, misc

What is life, is there a meaning, which is the correct religion, what is my fate? I'm x and I see the world this way and searching for answers. People distract themselves from this naked and pure questions they dress them up and let them go into… Read More

Tags: dark, misery, life, darkness, meaning

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