“Don’t you dare leave me Maddie. Don’t let go, hold on to our love for each other. Fight the darkness, don’t let him win.” Maddie's life got turned upside down when her and her friends were put on a school lockdown. No, not the kind where there's an intruder on campus, I guess you could call him that though. There's a killer in her school. Not the kind that just wants to kill you for no reason and get it over with, no this is the kind of killer that loves to see people suffer. He loves to play games with you until you've had enough. He can make you think you've gone crazy just by looking in your eyes. He can trick you into killing yourself just by putting a knife or gun in your hand and saying "do it." With their lives on the line, the group does everything they can do to keep each other and themselves alive while others are getting killed off one by one, each kill very different from the last. The question is, how do you get away from someone who you can't see, but can always see you?

A short story about a girl understanding the true value of friendship. Sequel now available: "Goodbye" on my page.

"Why don't you play anymore?" "The music is gone." "Why don't you love?" "The love is gone." Fire. We all get burned in the end, so why try to fight it? Tyler Brandon. Loving. Talented... Depressed. Lifeless. Tyler Brandon.

Delaney Escott lives in a world where popularity reigns supreme. If you want to be noticed, social status is everything. The government is run by the Superiors: a very exclusive group of individuals who are virtually flawless. They are smarter than us and stronger than us, and to join their ranks is the highest honor. The Superiors pay an annual visit to the top schools in the nation and evaluate the students, choosing one boy and one girl - the most Popular in the school - to go the Capitol and train for Superiority. Delaney thinks that she's the only one indifferent to (and perhaps even suspicious of) the Superiors, until Caleb Payne, the most popular boy in school, approaches her with a request. He has a task for her, one that he believes she is uniquely capable of completing. And as she helps him, Delaney discovers that the government is hiding many secrets - and that the truth of the Superiors is far from what people believe it to be. [Watty Awards 2012 Winner, Science-Fiction: On the Rise]