NJ Starling

I have been writing novels and stories since I was six years old, and dream of becoming an author one day. I admire authors like JK Rowling, Suzanne Collins, Veronica Roth, and Shannon Messenger. I am too creative to not write. It is my passion.

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NJ Starling

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How The World Was Destroyed

NJ Starling

2 min read

10 years ago, without any notice or clues to why it happened, an 8-year-old girl named Adelaide Brinker disappeared from my small town of Westville.

People searched for her for years, but nothing came up— no body was ever found. Her parents, heartbroken, left Westville and moved to a village far away.

It has been six years since the case of Adelaide Brinker closed, and she was presumed dead.

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Thriller

Humour

Dream Land

NJ Starling

1 min read

In a place where stardust sparkles bright

Evearything is perfect in broad daylight

The clock unwinds, and time stands still

In a world of wonder, we chase a thrill

Cotten Candy clouds, and skies so blue

Where every hidden wish is waiting for you

A melody floats on a gentle breeze

Lifting our hearts like the tallest trees

Stars are the secrets that we will unveil

Every heartbeat tells a f...

Poetry

The Girl Who Could Tame The World

NJ Starling

1 min read

The key they’d given me still fit the lock, but the house no longer felt like home. It was now a place I hated, a place I kept away from.

But I couldn’t just leave forever.

Part of me wanted to, but the other knew I needed to find out more answers.

All I knew now was that the family that I had been adopted into, the family that had graciously given me a key and welcomed me into their home. T...

YA fiction

The Grim Reaper’s Humble Home

NJ Starling

2 min read

Fog fills the air around me, and the bitter smell of burning prey fills my nose. I try not to make a sound as I make my way to the dark leaning tower ahead.

The wind whispers with an evil sound, and the world rumbles at my feet. I try to stay upright, and continue on my way, but I can barely keep my footing.

As quickly as it started, the rumbling stops and the ground goes still. I don’t move, ...

Thriller

Humour

Behind The Mask Of An Old Friend

NJ Starling

3 min read

Mac and I have been friends since we were kids, I have known him for as long as I can remember. Our parents were friends, and we were neighbors, him just living across the stream in our back yard. We would always go there and talk, or just to sit in silence. We were close, inseparable, for nearly a decade, until when I was about 14, and Mac moved away. His family seemingly disappeared anonymously,...

Thriller

Fantasy

He Sees You When Your Sleeping

NJ Starling

2 min read

Some know him as Santa Claus, the jolly old man who brings gifts to every child in the world. They consider him a hero, an elf that puts others before himself.

I do not look at him in that way.

Saint Nick is not as everyone thinks he is. He butters everyone up with hope and joy of the Christmas season so they don’t notice the horror of the situation.

An old man sneaking into your house in th...

Thriller

Horror

Princess Hazel

NJ Starling

2 min read

“She is not who she says she is.”

I hear one of the voices say from the cellar below me. My stomach twists, I know they are talking about me. The way I claimed to be Princess Hazel, Prince Davidson’s fiancée in the arranged marriage. The one no one had ever seen before, acting like a princess from a far off country was easy—I thought I would never get caught.

I had planned on killing Davidson ...

YA fiction

Thriller

The “Mad” Man

NJ Starling

2 min read

Everybody wants to judge, but no one wants to listen. In my family, being the oldest brother of five, I was supposed to lead by example—never do anything wrong.

But they won’t listen to my reasons. They don’t know why I killed my wife. To them, I am just a mad man. But they don’t know the whole story.

We live in a world where everything is free to those willing to risk anything to take it; thi...

Thriller

Fantasy

An Escape From Reality

NJ Starling

1 min read

I long to be in a place where time nearly freezes, where you can ride above the heavens without a care in the world.

I want to be in a place where all your wildest dreams come true; and the seemingly impossible is always possible.

Where the sky is always painted like a sunset with swirls of violet and Cotten-candy pink.

Where there is nothing to be scared or worried about and you are free to ...

Fantasy

Entangled Hearts

NJ Starling

1 min read

(The Lover)

In the twilight’s whisper, I found her glow

A sunbeam dance, of a flame growing cold

But shadows lurk, as fate weaves it’s thread

Two souls entwined, in dreams we’ve tread

Yet a tempest blooms within my chest

A paradox of love, I can not confess

While I’m drawn to her, my heart feels the strain

In this dance of desire, we inflict the pain

(The Best Friend)

In hidden...

Poetry

Romance