Powerless Novels & Stories

I dress in silence, eyes fixed on the small red light blinking from the corner camera. Is she watching me through that thing? The sick witch. Or worse—was my “progress,” as she liked to call it, being recorded and sent to Gratia? I clench my fists, fighting the urge to rip the damn device off the wall and smash it. But I stop myself. My only ticket out of here, is my continuous act of powerlessness. I need to keep acting like her little dumb doll. Jake walks in later just as I tuck myself back into bed like the helpless girl they want me to be. In his hands is a tray of—

He asked, "Your name." I paused for a moment, then immediately brought my legs together and let my arms hang straight at my sides. I raised my head and straightened my back before in a loud, clear voice, "My name is Rebecca Lane! My strengths are that I'm hardworking and can handle hardship! No matter what role it is, I'm confident I can do it well! Please give me a chance, director!" The corner of Theodore's mouth twitched. But what had happened earlier involved certain family secrets, and he could not let anyone leak them.

She sat there for what felt like hours, too shocked to cry, too terrified to move. What was she supposed to do now? Call the police? And tell them what? That she'd found financial irregularities and now someone was threatening her? They'd think she was paranoid. Crazy even. Maybe she was crazy. Maybe she should just walk away. Sell the shares. Disappear. Forget any of this ever happened. You're stronger than you believe, Thomas had written. But was she? Strong enough for this? Strong enough to fight people who could destroy her apartment, hack her computer, watch her through her window?

The officer asked with a little panic in his voice. “You could say that I am a power user but honestly I didn’t use any power on you. You know that.” Zhu Wushang said The Officer looked around the tent and saw the power dampener machine the tent and knew that even if Zhu Wushang were a power user. He could not use his power to obstruct him. Even if his power was so strong to the point of the power user Level 7, the power dampener machine would have blown up already.

The thing about power is that if you aren't careful, it tends to consume you, messing with your mind and turning you into something your friends no longer recognize. Karistus was running off of raw, ancient power direct from the Gods, and as she went from country to country recruiting her soldiers, it was beginning to take its toll.

The mistress just kept on wasting and grooving serpentine steps to the music from the headset. Dale was suffering the worst day of her life, a lioness hooked under a table, with no form of salvation. She knew by now that her acute legs were completely numb and were now cold, her neck hooked in broken range, she also felt severe pain in her stiffened back. Coming out of such a position would mean an hour nap of rehabilitation and by then Zoe would have brutally erased her existence.

I've lied to heads of state and some of the wealthiest people in the world, but one little Midwest angel stumps me. I cleared my throat around the lump that had formed there, blocking the false words from escaping and wishing I could go back to the man I was a few days ago. It's an odd feeling, being powerful and powerless at the same time. What I'm coming to feel for her makes me feel full of vigor, but when I thought she was in danger, the powerless fear that assailed me was just as strong.

I cleared my throat to signal Liani to try so that we could get my mother out of there as soon as possible. She nodded her head as if she knew what I meant. When she went to grab Layla’s hand, she didn’t pull away as Maya did. Instead, her head flew back and her eyes were the lilac color of her wolf’s and her powers were beaming from her and Layla’s hand. She began to shake and I hurriedly went to stand behind her steadying her as she shook to ensure she didn’t fall. Holding her felt weird… but it also felt very right. Eventually, the lights from her powers faded, she dropped Layla’s hand, and her eyes closed as she went limp in my arms. “LIANI” I yell.

I couldn't keep hearing her saying all those things. Hasn't he done enough already? After what happened before I would have never thought she would appear in any of our life's ever again, but I guess I was wrong. Oh, how wrong I was. No one can stop him. He is too powerful. Even if I had told them they wouldn't be able to help me anyway. They can't do anything. They are as powerless as me. That I get to see that. Carefully I leaned back on my sofa and reached up to touch the sore place on my neck were the

I yelled but it didn't affect him at all. "Scared? I can see that your scared but you're only pretending to be brave in front of me. You don't have to be scared because am not going to harm you since am not here for you but for my dad's murderers, your children. Am telling you this because I know you won't tell your family about it since you can't use your powers today. You.. are... just.. helpless."he said emphasizing the word helpless. Indeed I was helpless because I woke up feeling weak and powerless. I didn't know it was my day to deliver until I heard it from him.