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Chp10 There are many things that will never make sense to me. The way I felt when I saw that guy kissing Ray is one of them. There was no reason to feel the jealousy I felt, or the instant hurt. Ray wasn’t aware now, nor would he ever be, of how I felt about him. I stood outside the door with Kelly, simply waiting. “Should we knock?” “Why don’t we just come back another day?” “Oh, c’mon Liam. We’re already here.” “Fine, I’ll knock then.” I tapped the door sof
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I can feel it. All of it. Every agonizing second creeps past me as I try, to no avail, to loosen the restraints he's tied around my wrists. Keeping calm is difficult, it takes far more energy than I thought it would. Every inch of me longs to run away, to break the ties that bind and run head-first into the lake. It is still, a perfect mirror in which I can gaze the clouds and the treeline that surround the small clearing we are in. It has been at least four days, and still here I am,
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A series of short stories, one-shots, and ponderings that I have collected over the span of the last decade or so
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"Tall vanilla latte, extra pump pf vanilla, three sugars, lactose-free milk please." "Would you like to try one of our new scones?" "No, thanks. Just the latte." The machines whir around Lola, the bean grinder grinds, the doorbell pings as another customer enters the small establishment. She is tired of being on her feet, tired of hearing the orders pour in, tired of writing names on cups that await filling. She loved the smell coffee as she was growing up, the heady scent that s
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Chapter 10: A Last Moment in Alaxio *David* As Chris vanished both me and Caleb were glued to the spot. There was finally a possibility of us leaving this place…finally a way home. “I can’t believe he did it…I thought he would, but…wow…my brother, my big brother broke barriers to get at me…wow” As the realization of what Chris had done hit me, a silent, bitter tear rolled down my cheek. I knew they would be looking for me, but I had doub
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Chapter 9: Where’s Caleb? I kept looking around, hoping to catch a glimpse of the Halliwell Brothers, I went to the nearest flight screen, and looked for flight 374, San Francisco to Ipswich. It had arrived on time, meaning the brothers should be around here somewhere. I went to the food court, thinking they might have gotten hungry, but they weren’t there. I headed outside to the smokers corner, who knows one of them might smoke, but they weren’t there either, their flight had gotte
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Chapter 11: Paradox in Time I felt the arms pick me up, and somewhere deep inside me I knew that it was late. I snuggled into Johnny’s arms and held on a bit tighter. “We zonked out. Want me to carry you, or you wanna walk?" “Which one involves keeping your arms around me?” “The one where we’re going to the same place at the same time.” I smiled, and held on a bit tighter, and then I lifted us off the ground and made us go pas
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Chp9The darkness was comfortable. Its embrace made everything feel...okay. I was vaguely aware of a voice calling my name, someone kept trying to bring me back, trying to wake me from this haven that I had fallen into. Everything seemed trivial while I was in this darkness, the urge to win simply receded to a part so deep within me that I could barely feel anything more than peace. Time was irrelevant, and I was happy. Content.There was a sudden pain on my chest, a brief flash of light and the a
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Chapter 8: The Wastelands This Chapter is from Wyatt’s POV I orbed into the wastelands, keeping to the high grounds. The Beast might’ve been vanquished by Cole, but there might still be more things lurking. No one from our family had ever come here after my aunt Phoebe came to get closure after Cole’s first death. “COLE!! COLE!!!” I looked around hoping to see him, hoping that maybe he’d know of a way to get David back; this was a last resort, the last toy in the grab-bag. “Wyatt Matthew
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Chp8 "Ray, anything you want to say to the judges?" He just stood there, utterly frozen, completely still. Something was clearly wrong. The light in his eyes had dimmed, the pallor of his skin was more than just the avoidance of the sun that came with being a loner. Ray was completely frozen in fear. His performance of "Say Something" had lacked everything, his entire performance had been void of anything that we could compliment. He'd landed himself right in the bottom two, and the real
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Chp7 Hollywood week had come and gone. The experience had been grueling but immensely satisfying. The choices made by the judges had already created an air of excitement over the coming season, and here I stood, part of the top 20. I had been noticed at every stage, complimented by the judges and my fellow competitors. I had even gotten a standing ovation at the end of my rendition of Josh's "You Raise Me Up" and Marc Anthony's "My Baby You." I was ecstatic, filled with anticipation an
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Hello my Dear Lisa, how are you? I skipped a chapter, but I have submitted it. Please do read it, and let me know your thoughts. I highly rcommend the acoustic version of Perry's "The One That Got Away" as per "Donkey" i have never heard it!! but now I will look for it =)
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you're absolutely right!! I have submitted the correct chapter, and will be submitting new chapters sson. hanks you so much for reading, I hope u r enjoying
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Chp6 We never know just how strong we are, until being strong is the only choice we have. Frank often said this to me. He tried to instill in me, I think, a sense of righteousness. He wanted me to eventually be a better man than some of the men I'd met. Lacking, as I did then, a grandfather figure, Frank had taken it upon himself to give me advice on how to be a better human. Strength however, is not always measured in actions. Sometimes its the things we do not do which so often truly
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Yes, Ray dies text from the car.When I had my business with mom the BBB would send us suggestions during really bad storms, they're not things you have to do its like their way of letting you know things are pretty bad...it may have been another agency though. In some places (ie where I live) EMTs and police refers to ambulances as buses, why I dunno, it just seemed fitting when I was writing that part. You can have a pulse but not breathe, albeit only for a narrow amount of time, it's called pulmonary arrest I believe
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I so completely mean something utterly different lol he's had his gallbladder out, which I should know the name of but I guess I bad a blond moment
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I so completely mean something utterly different lol he's had his gallbladder out, which I should know the name of but I guess I bad a blond moment
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Chp5 The thing about family is that you can't ever quite know what the word means. I've never had an actual definition of it, I can recognize them, but it's not often that I even try to. Growing up in multiple homes, with different families, made my understanding of it almost clinical: a group of people, usually bound by blood or marriage, sharing common goals and activities such as holidays and milestones. I'd never felt the need to revise this definition because nothing so far in my life had
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Chapter 10 (Chris, I am your Mother) I walked to Jean's office in the med-bay, hoping to catch her there, each of the questions I had for her ran through my mind faster and faster. I wanted to know if what I thought was true. If Jean was really my birth mother then I wanted to know who my father was and why they'd abandoned me. I wanted truths, and I wanted it simply for my peace of mind, not for a family because that I already had, I simply wanted to know the truth. Then a thought so perver
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Happy New Year!!! The Collins are a Ray's foster parents. I think you'll like where this is headed
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Chp4 The sun broke through my window with a vengeance. I'd managed to stay out all night, finally stumbling to my room drunk and numb. I wanted to get up and draw the shade but I knew the sun meant I'd have to go to work, and that meant another distraction, one more way to keep myself from thinking too much. I stumbled to the small bathroom and turned the faucets, letting the water warm up as I stripped off my clothes. The person in the mirror looked like someone I'd never want to meet. The
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Chris’s POV “Wake up! Please wake up. ATHAMEY!! CHRIS!!!” I felt lightheaded and disoriented, my head was muggy. I looked up and there was a guy, he was about 5’ 10” his eyes were ocean blue, with specks of much lighter blue fading into the iris, making his eyes looked like they eternally sparkled, his lips were full, and through the black t-shirt I could see his muscular arms rippling with the strength of the power he was hurling at the demons, he had on black jeans which fit his frame per
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Ray does assume a lot. His personality is actually fragments from friends of mine who were actually in the system and who even now have certain psychological and emotional scars which they cannot...we'll say control for lack of a better word right at the moment...The reason Ray hasn't met the Collins' extended family (beyond just them) is revealed later on. Hang in there my dear Lisa and I think you may like what will happen. All the best, your cyber-friend Matthew
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Thanks for the feedback!!I know even I didn't like the beginning but truth be told this is a story I'm re-booting from my past and I decided to keep some of the original elements as thy were rather than go through an extensive editing process and risking loss of interest in the plot itself. I promise I will do my best to keep it simple, just have to ask you to hear through the first 5 chapters with me, after that I think it gets much better :-) I'm glad you're enjoying it and I hope to hear more from you in the coming days :-)
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Today was my birthday, my 18th. I was no longer a ward of the state, so I was no longer allowed to stay here, with Camilla and Andrew, I had to pack up and start making my way for myself. Thankfully I had my job, and school was done, I could work full time and get a room at a hotel nearby while the time came to go off to Hollywood. I had my ticket on the nightstand, it was my hopes and dreams materialized. "Hey, Ray?" Came Camilla's voice from the steps. "Yes ma'am?" "Could you come to the
