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Adonis by Nicoismysenpai
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[ BACK IN 2023 ] One cold morning, Simon meets a boy with starry eyes and poetry-wreathed lips, and that is when their tragedy begins. *** Simon Huang's a quiet loner with dreams of being on stage. Too scared to disappoint his overbearing, grade-focused parents, he forces himself to stick to books instead of scripts. Then he meets his Literature professor's son, and all that changes. For piano prodigy Vincent Kelle, failure is not an option. Gifted from birth, he prides himself on dominating all the competitions he participates in with a giant smile on his face. After his mother enrolls him in a piano competition outside London, he's forced to fly to America to stay with his estranged father until further notice. Determined to win the contest and head back home immediately after, he's intent on getting out of America as fast as possible. Then he meets his father's star student, and all that changes. When a boy who's afraid to try meets a boy who's afraid to fail, there's only two ways it can go. It'll end in heartbreak---or maybe they can rewrite the stars. [ UPDATES ON SATURDAYS, 9AM EST ]
Falling Colors by Somethingtrue
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"The unfixable; the shattered; the torn; the broken. They all come here. It's my job to remake them, because once its broken there is no going back to the way it was. It must be remade." Six individuals. Six unique stories. Five exercises. One room. One mirror. One therapist. One goal. Odette is put into group therapy after one-on-one therapy doesn't work. She meets four other people who have gone through the same thing she has. She also meets her group therapist Cleo Patricks. Cleo's methods for therapy might not be what some people call "ethical" or "compassionate" but they have been proven to work -- or that's what the medical journals say.
Blind to Beauty by Somethingtrue
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"What is beautiful anyways? Is it the color of someone's skin or eyes? Their height? The way they dress? What is it?" I asked, not really expecting an answer. "I think beautiful is someone who looks past the exterior and gives people a chance. Someone who tries to understand another. An unselfish being. Someone who doesn't see with their eyes but their heart," he replied playing with the bracelet around his wrist, "That truly is a beautiful thing." Celeste has been called beautiful all of her life. She is convinced that guys only want to go out with her because that's all they say they like about her. She's beautiful. To graduate Celeste needs thirty-five hours of community service. She decides to answer an ad in the paper for a temporary aide for a blind teenager, Seamoore. With their new found accidental friendship, Seamoore opens Celeste's eyes that seeing isn't just with your eyes. © Somethingtrue 2013. All rights reserved.
The Pursuit of Felicity by istolethecookiez
istolethecookiez
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Enter: Cameron Woods, a persistent boy with a few too many friends, 2 dads, and a goal to befriend Felicity Reyes if it's the last thing he does. Enter: Felicity Reyes, a free spirited girl who likes her relations by the dozen and her interactions with Cameron Woods by the few. Cover Made By: @Smart_Water
All of Me by lydiahephzibah
lydiahephzibah
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Storie Sovany is used to being dismissed as the fat friend, until she moves from New York City to rural Ohio for college and the charming frat boy Liam Alexander approaches her. Torn between disbelief and flattery, Storie hopes her luck may have finally changed - but is it too good to be true? [author's note: this is not a romance!]
shades of blue by julixtta
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Charlie doesn't speak, so he paints.
Potentially You and Me (Two Truths and a Lie) by lalalalawriting
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★ NOW PUBLISHED! ★ What do you get when you add the ultimate meet cute + a bruised head? = A whole can of heartbreak. It all starts in aisle three. Lacie O'Connor prefers to see the world in black and white, logical, rational, and natural, like her biology major. She just wants to survive her freshman year of college, but first she must find a can of peas. Instead, she gets hit on the head with a box of cake mix. Trent Montgomery is all saturated and technicolor even in the maroon employee polo. Lacie thought she left him and his sheepish smiling friend at the grocery store but finds him in her most dreaded class: Intro to Philosophy. He sits next to her, and it's all PLATOnic until he presses his foot up against hers. That's all it takes for her to get lost in the philosophy of Trent. What starts out as sidewalk conversations soon leads to study sessions that transform to cuddle sessions that transform to make-out sessions. But just before winter break, Trent steps back. He dodges her texts. He kisses her in private but blows her off in public. Lacie knows miscommunication and mixed signals spread like an invasive plant species, but what she can't figure out is which version of Trent is real. The one she met in aisle three, or the one who likes to get drunk in dorm building basements. © 2015 ℓαℓαℓαℓαwriting © 2019 ℓαℓαℓαℓαwriting |Edited/NEW| © 2022 Published version All Rights Reserved |Third Place Winner in #Readytoreadya2018 Young Adult Reads Contest|
Hey, Celia? | ✔️ by goldensunflower-
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Sometimes texting the wrong number isn't so wrong after all. A dialogue story following Cecelia and James as they realize this fact, starting at 4:36am on a Thursday... (amazing cover by @elysian_writes <3) [this is trash, lmao. Don't read it-]
Jovie & Bash [Publishing Summer 2025] by KiaraLondon
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He's a would-be college student stacking books in the local library. She's a high school senior nearing graduation. He leads a life of organized chaos and she's living by the book. He's free but all she can see are consequences. You can't control who you fall in love with. [To be published end of summer 2025. Stay tuned for details.]