The Summer That Melted Everything Novels & Stories

Bethany's expression froze, the joy in her eyes vanishing as sheer panic took its place. The terror she felt was laid bare in front of Mitchell, and in that moment, it looked almost comical. Though it was the height of summer, Bethany felt a chill crawl over her skin, a chill that had nothing to do with the weather. She had already experienced the madness that Mitchell could descend into for Heather's sake, twice now, and the fear of reliving it a third time made her stomach turn.

My eyes fixed on the water that was almost at the door, it was better than staring at the walls that were almost close enough for me to feel. When did the music turn to static noise? I swallowed. “HELP!!” It was really close to the door. “Somebody…” “Olive?!!” My head shot up, my eyes frantic. I didn't make that up. I didn't!! “Help!!! I'm here!!” The handle wiggled about for a moment. “Why is this so hard?!” No, was I stuck here forever?! No, no…!! The door flung open and a worried Summer was staring at me, the sun shining brightly behind her.

A desperate, terrible option. Because in twelve days, the apocalypse would begin. The temperature would drop to negative forty degrees. Power would fail. And in the chaos of a frozen world, people disappeared every day. Including hired killers. Including the Hart family. Maya picked up her phone with trembling hands and opened her notes app. She began typing, planning, calculating. If she couldn't beat them before the freeze, she would survive it. And in the aftermath, when civilization had crumbled and the old rules no longer applied, she would make every single person who had hurt her pay.

Felt her mother’s hug. But she felt all the pain, too. The sadness of everyone lost in the Great Freeze. Her mind threatened to burst. “Stop it!” Samuel shrieked. His black suit split, revealing rusted metal gears beneath. “You’re breaking my books! Destroying the cure!” “It was never a cure!” June yelled, voices swirling around her. She watched as her statue melted from stone to skin. Gray eyes to brown. The “perfect” version gave her a sad smile. “Thank you,” the double whispered, turning into light, flowing back into June’s chest.

The voice on the other end of the line rose, cutting through the speaker so sharply it seemed to rattle the dishes on the table. "I found Julian 440 yards above Camp One, at the bottom of a cliff. His whole body is frozen solid. And he was still clutching a torn piece of note in his hand."

Ethan and the Ferguson Group had once occupied a huge part of my life. They brought me happiness once. They also brought endless pain. Still, all of that belonged to the past, like a nightmare I finally woke up from. After waking up, the sunlight was still warm. Life was still beautiful. As for my future… It would be filled with light and hope. I would never again be trapped by the shadows of the past.

I am sure that I will going to have headache I wondered why the road is zigzag and when I look outside of the window I panicked. Sweat started to fall and my chest started to contract. We are in a mountain! It is dark outside but I saw some lights in some parts of the mountain “why did you bring me here?!” I shouted "Hey don't panic Astraea. West will be careful " North tried to calm me but I can’t. Memories started to wash over me and my body started to feel cold and yet I am sweating, I found myself breathing hard

I ask with low voice but no one answers the question and the door suddenly flings open making my heart get so much shocked and so much panicked right now. "What's that?" I say in fear as I see all the red, green and blue lights all over the place with students in their strange dress ups and various paintings shaking their booty in music. "Halloween Party Of course," I say to myself as I enter into the party and someone grabs suddenly in my arms. It's Melanie. "Girl! What happened to you? Why are you all wet and in the uniform?" she asks? "I couldn't get back to home and change for the party. I was just trying to come to the party and the road was all jammed and because of that I couldn't get

He would calm down when I whisper sweet nothings in his ear and run my fingers through his hair but then again he starts trembling when I'm just about to fall into sleep. But he doesn't remember anything once he wakes up. And once he wakes up, he starts acting like the happiest kid in the world, smiling, showing off his beautiful dimples. Nobody probably knows how fragile he really is. Yesterday I wanted to tell him, I'm here and I'm not going to leave him alone but I couldn't. If only he was a girl... At some point, I drift into sleep and only wake up when Stephen calls me at noon, asking me to have lunch. He had brought our lunch to the tent. Eric thankfully doesn't return. Maybe he is avo

In her past life, Elara Newman had married Orion Baron, who turned out to be an absent husband. On the day she gave birth, she suffered a severe hemorrhage and lost consciousness. However, Orion was unreachable. After she was snapped awake by the doctor, she had to sign her name on the surgical consent form while her hands were still shaking. When her children caught a raging fever, Orion was still nowhere to be seen. She had to rush to the hospital all by herself, and after three consecutive days of looking after them, she was exhausted and passed out in the corridor. On the day when her parents passed away in a car accident, Orion was still absent. As she returned home with the urn