Pen Factor stories

Three Dreams

There are three children, one boy and two girls. They are meant to represent everything we are as children growing up in a world...

Coming-of-age / Young adult fiction

Shelby Garnier

Black Ink Guilt

Albernathy Central, a boarding school in Connecticut, is hosting a summer program for individuals who got accepted into an Ivy...

Coming-of-age / Young adult fiction

Sarah Kee

Little Girl

This is a story about a girl who is coming-of-age and breaking free from the comforts of childhood.

Coming-of-age / Young adult fiction

C. L. Beare

Viewer Discretion Advised

Her life started out so simple, so happy, so innocent. She wonders how it ever got like this.

Coming-of-age / Young adult fiction

Emily Speth

<TheLoletteLizzy>

Lizzy Harden moves to Rivers, Georgia with her adoptive father in their new/might-be-haunted bed and breakfast. When Lizzy quickly...

Coming-of-age / Young adult fiction

L.P. Adams

My Best Five Years

How would you cope if you lost the one person you swore would never leave your side?

Coming-of-age / Young adult fiction

Larson

Someone to Watch Over You

Story about a woman's chance encounter with a teenage boy who sparks something in her that she has been looking for.

Coming-of-age / Young adult fiction

Catherine

Set in 1964, Jimmy, aged 18, leaves his life on a million acre sheep farm in central New South Wales, Australia, to take a job...

Coming-of-age / Young adult fiction

Karin Bennett

Succor

Being born into one of the most wealthiest families in the United States, Hazel was born with a silver spoon in her mouth. She...

Coming-of-age / Young adult fiction

Amber Reed

Doppelgänger Chapter 1

Doppelgänger is a book about a shapeshifter who has just escaped three years of captivity and follows her journey from living...

Coming-of-age / Young adult fiction

Tia Powley

In Hindsight

Have you ever looked back on a choice and wondered 'What was I thinking?' Well, Megan Morse sure has. But what exactly does she...

Coming-of-age / Young adult fiction

Zoha Baig

Baby

A young woman deals with an emotionally abusive boyfriend and experiences a moment of clarity when watching a movie.

Coming-of-age / Young adult fiction

Kaitlyn Fraser

My Vivid Memory

Its about a time when I realized not every situation has a happy ending

Coming-of-age / Young adult fiction

Ashley Alex

Everything Against Charlie.

The first chapter of a story about a trans girl called Charlie. She thinks she'll be alone forever, but then she meets Eleanor...

Coming-of-age / Young adult fiction

Danni Clarke

Alligator Alley

Ginny is sixteen and feeling less-than when she encounters an alligator and a fish-truck driver one steamy morning in North Florida...

Coming-of-age / Young adult fiction

Nancy Bachana

Late Night Adventures Part Two

Since it is indeed my last year of High School and there is only enough time to enjoy my life once more as a teenager, I figured...

Coming-of-age / Young adult fiction

Mouree K.

Quatermasters Juju

A Burmese woman's hair is a symbol of beauty, vanity and even dignity.

Coming-of-age / Young adult fiction

Sandi Adams

Sinking

A few seconds in the head of the misunderstood.

Coming-of-age / Young adult fiction

Oliver Jones

The Painting Jumper-Chapter 1

A story of a boy who finds that he can jump through paintings.

Coming-of-age / Young adult fiction

Gloria DeMoura