Beyondthebox Stories

in which a girl is forced to leave her friends behind to protect them and find her family

If her memories were recorded on a tape and put into a recorder, life was the play button. Death wasn't the stop button, however. For caroline, death meant her life in repeat. The replay switch. That's all death was. And that's all it would ever be for a long time.

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Makayla never knew that the one syllabled two lettered word NO will change her life forever............... Leaving her broken and shattered inside out. ************************************************************** When Bryan the school's computer geek asked Makayla out, her answer was a capital NO. He never mentioned it again and they continued to be friends so Makayla assumed it was all in the past. Little did she know that just a simple rejection was all it took for him to flip; revealing a dark side to his personality. He thought she loved him but she never did. "People accept rejection differently" Cover by @maramartha P.S : This is a dark, disturbing story and clearly not for the faint of heart. Please read with discretion. You have been warned.

As everything around them crumbled to mere existence, Earth's greatest scientists made one last effort to save the world that had been ravaged by climate change and human fault. Gene enhancement. The testing on pregnant women was indubitably dangerous; but what else was there left to try when Earth faces the ineluctable consequences? If there was any chance of volition that this generation could make the difference, it had to be taken. But with no palpable differences at their birth, only time will tell if these children will truly be the key to Earth's salvation. Not only for humanity but also for the place they live in. Even if that is the case, can they get the better of the ignorance that destroyed the planet in the first place? Book summary by @minusfractions (mostly some parts). Book cover by @Apollyon- (it's so awesome!) Ranked #710 [04-16-16]

My whole body paining like hell. I crawled weekly towards the wall and rested my back on it. My breathing unsteady, the marks on my body giving me the pain, the same pain which I am getting I don't remember from when. Tears, I think now I am short of them. With difficulty, I crawled towards the side table to drink the water, my throat burning ,tongue dry. I grabbed the jug with my shaking hands fear raising in my innerself. What if the jug fell down? I drank from it, getting the taste of my blood from my busted lips. Full of grammatical mistakes.

Former street rat, Elijah Clifton finds himself at a crossroad in his life. Continue surviving inside the dangerous world he's known his entire life until letting it run its course or leave to find a better tomorrow. Unfortunately for him, that choice only becomes more dire after crossing paths with a boy who holds the key to his freedom as well as the key to his worst nightmare: His troubled past. Given an opportunity to finally live a normal life instead of a criminal, Elijah takes this deal. Though the long journey will be anything but easy. Cover by @kia13AS Critiqued by @Addie_Belle

A great evil has returned to Ophelia. A devil is hell bent on spreading death and chaos. In a large attempt to enact revenge on the people who killed him. He'll hit them where it hurts by destroying the lives of Aria Helion and Harper Collins. Harper is a college student; Aria is a luminary . Two girls, from two different realms should have nothing in common. Yet, this "devil" and the secrets of their origin bind them together. Slowly, they each become overwhelmed by the increasing danger. Aria is forced to venture amongst a dark realm, while Harper tries to deal with her developing psychic powers. Tensions will rise as the threat of war loom over their heads. Will these two girls be able to protect themselves and those around them from the supernatural world? Or will they lose everything to the man lurking in the shadows? ~~ Ophelia is a Paranormal- fantasy NA novel, that centers around African, Greek, Caribbean and Roman Mythology. Please enjoy. ~ ~ ~ © by @j_lovely. cover by @weekender

Fifteen year old Isaac Locke has lost his way because of a gruesome wolf attack on his parents when he was ten and finally recovering, he lived five home-schooled years with his adopted parents and is now beginning to go back to public school. But it will all change in a way that rocks the cradle of Isaac's already fragile reality maybe for the better...but mostly worse. After meeting all of Oak Meadow's key players, he is bitten by a red-eyed werewolf and all of his new friends discover that they are deeply connected to the supernatural corners of the planet, realizing that the world is bigger than anyone could have imagined. His journey through freshman year will tell you keep your enemies close, but your true friends are what keep you alive. Are you prepared to believe in the impossible?

What does it mean to go beyond the box?

Four exceptional scientists. One mission: change reality. A mysterious case stocked with increments of a lost artifact turns out to be next revolution as it can emanate infinite amounts of containable energy. It also proves to be the game changer Dr. Eric Greyson needed to save his career before it became deadly power struggle of greed. But that was before the systems stabilizers malfunctioned and the entire project became an international nuclear incident. Three years later, year 2100, arose his daughter from hiding. Her mission: exonerate her father who was framed for the explosion. Except all she had to go on was a damaged video pleading his innocence and his tattered journal to find him. Having to narrowly escape the clutches the all powerful company Nexus who gained imposible amounts of money off of the explosion. She will have to embark on a journey through the wreckage of the dying Earth and make split-second decisions that will decide the fate of her life, her family's, and the rest of the planet as we know it. *** Book one of The AfterEarth Trilogy *** Every breath is a victory. *** Highest: #163 in Adventure

BOOK TWO Earth is a crumbling catastrophe and Skylar still hasn't found her father and now Chase has disappeared off the grid. Her mission: Get back the ones she loves, no matter the cost. But first, she has to deal with Nexus and their underlying ulterior motives with their captivation of her. She must escape and form alliances as well as battle the temptations rising before her, granting her the chance to end Nexus once and for all. The planet is shaking and a young Skylar doesn't know what's happening around her. Her mission: Protect the ones she loves, despite the price. Trapped inside a fortified bunker in Vietnam, Skylar and her closest friends undergo the toughest tests of friendship and survival as they try to escape the bunker lockdown with nothing but the power of their minds. Skylar wasn't always tough, but in this new world she must endure, she's going to have to learn pretty fast. **** Book two of the AfterEarth Trilogy **** Book one : Journey into the Aftermath ****

"I can't do this anymore," he whispered. "I have to go." When Max leaves Claire unexpectedly, she is shocked. They had grown up together, and grown to love each other. Claire knows about Max's dark times, although he refuses to talk about it to anyone else. But when Claire is notified that Max has gone missing.. Can Claire's inside knowledge help discover Max's whereabouts? And if she can, will she be too late? --- This story mentions underage drug abuse, mature themes and contains graphic content. Copyright © 2016 by @clouhdiest All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

"Don't be so conceited. This is not some storybook. Here, people die and are never even mentioned, and only those who make an impact are called heroes. And you, most certainly, are not the latter." Myra grew up on the stories her father told of adventure, magic, and action. The hero even had her name! But as he and time passed, the wonder from those magic times faded. But when one day seems to be the start of an amazing adventure, Myra learns a truth that the stories never taught her: that heroes grow up, and you're not always one of them. *Irregular updates, more on the way though!*

Every living thing is dying on earth. Organisms, plants, insects, birds, man and, everything else that's a living thing, is dead or dying. An ancient disease has waken in our bodies that has been around since the beginning of earth. Anything that breaths in earth's air or, drinks the water or even has been born on earth were all doomed. So, the last of the humans have sent a time capsule into space, hoping and praying that anyone would find the capsule and find the heart to help the living things on earth. Maybe even give them Another Way to live... ~~~ "It's ok to show that your upset, Jillian. Deep down we're all suffering, just that some people show it more than others." Aavet tells me. She's right. We're all suffering, but when we're forced to abandon our only home we've known for so long and leave all our love ones to die, kills apart of you that you'll never get back. FROM CHAPTER 6/PART 2 Beautiful Cover made by @stardust24601 Highest Ranking in Science Fiction #51

The Order is a group out to find one child. One child that isn't human like the rest, and Cecelia is that child. * * * How special is your life? Cecelia often questioned this in her young life as an orphan. She had no idea what the future could hold, or how it felt to have someone to love. She had planned out what to do, and how to act, but then that changed the day she found it. A camera of some kind, one completely special . . . One with a power to traverse time through the photos that it made. Cecelia never knew her life could take such a drastic turn, but it did. From making a new friend, to realizing the world was not what it seemed. There was more out there, more depth to explore. And she was the special one. |Chapter Four will be posted soon!| |Edited by @Andicook|

Tracking down the killer of her friend's mother wasn't what Mia had in mind for the summer break, but it is what she ends up doing anyway. Secrets are revealed and sinister truths uncovered as she steps into a world of murder and abuse. There isn't anything better than catching a murderer red-handed. Especially when he has blood on those hands. [ A story written in phases ] (Cover credits go to the amazing @-fadedlights )