(CW: aphobia / aro and ace issues)

I’ve never quite fully understood the concept of a soulmate.  That we are all halves of a person until we meet another, who is meant to complete us, is downright absurd.  I’ve never once felt like I was missing a piece, like I needed anyone else to make me whole.  Besides, once a soulmate is discovered, what are you supposed to do with them?  Hold hands while t...

School dances.

Those used to scare the crap out of Bell. People went full on for these. Dance proposals. Evening gowns. Limos. Her school took dates very seriously. It caused the soulmate topic even more prevalent than usual. It made her uncomfortable. For more than one reason. She never knew if she and Cross went as friends or went out of conscience.

That was before they found out they were s...

Close your heart

Live smart

Too much stress

Buy a new dress

Don’t look twice

You don’t have to be nice

Live alone

Avoid the phone

Work for yourself

Heart on the shelf

Soulmates are fake

Love hesitate...

Kat hated these weekly meetings with the Ministry. Standing in line for an hour, filling out form after form, and only sips of burnt coffee and a nibble of stale donut to keep her occupied on this carousel they implored was for her benefit.

“Katherine Mann,” she grimaced at the sound of her name cooly called. Maybe this time they would take the hint. Quickly gathering her paperwork, bag, and...

Penny wasn’t very into the idea of a soulmate. She hated that there was only one person who was meant for you but they could live on the other side of the world and you would never even know they existed. Or in others cases, they might be as close as a next door neighbour.

As she sat down in the corner of a coffee shop on the end of the street, she looked around to see couples snogging. There wa...

There is only tragedy in this game of hearts.

Everyone always played ping pong with Luca’s heart.

Luca always knew this truth. No matter how hard he tried, he could never prove this truth wrong.

Now, they wanted to force an ‘arrange marriage’ on him.

Love cannot be forced. It cannot be arranged. It can only be used as a stepping stone for desires

Luca lowered his head, he had done everythin...

"You know," Masahiko twirled a length of ribbon idly around his finger, "there are other ways."

Selander may have been reptilian in form but even he felt the temperature in the room rise when Masahiko spoke.

"Other ... ways?" he managed to say. "What other ways?"

"Well," Masahiko steepled his fingers, "at the risk of sounding lawless, I would suggest good old fashioned blackmail. You know, catc...

Young girls listen to their grandmothers—even when their grandmothers are rambling nonsense. The nonsense sticks better than the good sense.

“It’s like a whirlwind. It picks you up and carries you where you don’t want to go,” said Nana Mia. She lifted her ice tea that definitely wasn’t only ice tea, and gulped the fire water down. She rocked in her chair on the porch as little Edwina sat on the s...

Everyone searches for a soulmate, right? Someone to share all their experiences with, to try new things with, to love and be loved by.

Well, I have a dedicated mark to show me who my soulmate is when I meet her. Everyone does.

Mostly appearing on the wrist or ankle, soulmate marks are a fact of life; they can not and will not be erased or changed once developed.

Those who attempt to edit their ...

“What’s this marking?” Theo asked quietly, running his fingers across the swirls and stifling a gasp. “Jesus, what the —“

“I don’t know. I don’t care.”

“Quill…”

I didn’t say anything, just pulling my arm away and removing my watch — the article that covered that I could never date Theo.

“Uh, what is that?”

How do you tell someone that you’re not human?

“Sort of a… soulmate thing,” I sighed....