"It's majestic to think that everything in autumn dies yet it makes a new lovely haven." Do you experience the warmth of your significant other's embrace or it can be your mother, your sister, your friends? That moment the arms squeezed a fraction tighter as every muscle lost its tension to the spring. Drowned into the warmth of it, as you appreciate the simple gesture. How about those exchange of looks? As if at that moment your souls have made a bridge. How about those conversations? Like whatever you talked of never mattered, only that the two of you were talking, connected. But Autumn Marigold a 10-year-old kid, never understood those feelings when she started spending her autumn breaks in her grandma's house. It all started with the boy who easily fades. "Tale of the Monarch Butterfly" a story filled with extraordinary love, treasured memories, pain, and longing. Awards: > 1st place for short story in Fall awards 2020 > 1st place for poetry in Hogwarts Awards > 1st place for short story in The Premiere Awards > 1st place for best first chapter in Books Beyond Awards 2020 > 2nd place for short story in Book Got Talent 2020 > 2nd place for short story in Cardinal Awards > 3rd place for short story in Autumn Awards > 3rd place for Fantasy in The Escalarte Awards > 3rd place for short story in Books Beyond Awards 2020 > 3rd place for short story in The Siren Awards > 3rd place for short story in The Hidden Phoenix Awards 2020 Started: 09/04/20 Cover made by @heyitsmeerikamae

In 2024, the Deva Software Corporation releases the Samsara Virtual Reality Headset alongside their flagship title: The Pure Lands, a Virtual Reality Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (VRMMORPG for short). This single release promises to revolutionize gaming and the way we interact with others online. By October of that same year, Leon Cris is College graduate with no plan, no career, and overall no prospects outside of his mysterious "uncle Rick" who's bankrolled his life so far. For his twenty-second birthday, this unknown "uncle" gifts him the Samsara Headset with a note telling Leon to "Come Find Him" in a specific server on the game, a role-playing only server. Now Leon has to navigate the player-created world of the game, dozens of new influences on his life in the forms of friends, inspirations, and allies, forge connections, and meet the father he never knew, all while figuring out what he wants to do in life outside of this new game. Inspired by hit works of fiction like Hunter X Hunter, Sword Art Online, She-Ra: Princesses of Power, Black Clover, One Piece, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, the works of Studio Ghibli and more, while also taking thematic inspiration from religions such as Taoism, Hinduism, and Buddhism, "Come Find Me" is a story about living your life to the fullest and finding a family that will help you do that. As of November 11th, 2022, this story is COMPLETE.

He came closer peering into my eyes. " I hope you know who you're talking to?" His words were steely; he wanted to intimidate me. I took the last stride closing the little place left between us. I wouldn't be the first to back off. He stepped into my space he would be the first to leave. "Does it matter." I spit back. He stood at least a head taller; his eyes green. The color of freshly cut grass after it rained. Embarrassed I had been staring I take a step back. By now I could imagine my cheeks blossoming pink. I shuffled my feet. Blushing furiously I brush past him, our shoulders knocking against each other. When he groaned I didn't turn around. I dribbled the ball at the end of the court, my wrist rolling on the release into a layup. *** Justice has been homeschooled for most of her life, so when her parents suddenly decide to enroll her into the local high school for her junior year, things don't go too smoothly. She's against the idea, but the decision has already been made. With school-life comes new things for justice. Sports, teamwork, and boys. Well, maybe not all boys are new. But as new hardships approach she has to take them on, one on one.