what is hope but a feeling?

"Have you ever done anything outside of character?" Levi questioned. "Why would I want to be someone else?" Blue countered, raising a brow at the person standing before him. "Maybe, you want a break from being the good guy." "And what? Be like you?" "Maybe what you need is a bit of me inside you." "Maybe I need to get away from you." All Rights Reserved UNBROKENSMILE - Copyright © 2020 Cover: jaszthewayyoulikeit ♛ Awards ♛ ⇛First Place Short Story in Vintage Awards

❆ book two of the Soulmates Series ;; can be read as a stand-alone ❆ It's been four years since Mark Lee has been reunited with his brother; four years since he woke up from the horrific coma, that saved his life. Now the CFO and the head of Lee Enterprises in China, Mark Lee must build his own team. Xiao Wei has no experience, no references, and is as shy as one can be. When acting on a dare set by Mina, his best friend, Wei applies for one of the open positions; head of IT. But what Wei does have, is a secret. All Rights Reserved UNBROKENSMILE - Copyright © 2020 Cover: jaszthewayyoulikeit ♛ Awards ♛ ⇛Second Place LGBTQ+ in Mono Awards ⇛Honorable Mention Romance in Evergreen Awards

Elisica was the goal of four boys. She was the girl they all sought after for weeks, trying to win her heart in order to win money. If they won her heart and broke it, they won the bet. She, of course, found out. She kept it to herself, knowing who was going to win. She was biding her time until the winner confessed. Except the guy who won wasn't who she thought. It was the guy she hated with every fibre of her being. Jack's world unraveled almost instantaneously. Elisica pulled on one thread and everything came apart, because Jack finally understood exactly what Elisica Andrews was made of. Cover by the great and talented and wonderful and amazing and fantastic and fabulous and I'm running out of adjectives @lolowild

9412 is a Different, she's a mistake. She accepts it because she's told to. But when she catches a glimpse beyond her home's barrier, she starts doubting what she's been told... "...but I am a box full of misfit toys, and even I keep finding ones I've forgotten about." A 'scientific mistake', Differents are anything but perfect and spend their life trying to change who they are to be Normal. No one disagrees, no one falters, because if you do, you're never seen again. 9412, a girl of seventeen, never questioned her life but always wondered what it would be like if she hadn't had a genetic mutation, causing her to be as she is. Where would she go? Where would she live? And looking out over the vast expanse in which her home is situated, the most unnerving question of all: What else is here? dif·fer·ent /ˈdif(ə)rənt/ adjective not the same as another or each other; unlike in nature, form, or quality Copyright © 2020 by @mel10rism First place in "POC Winners" of the Diverse Awards (April 2021) Winner in the WattOriginals 2020 Awards (November 2020) Second place in SCI-FI of the Watt in the World Awards (September 2020) Second place in SCI-FI of the Creator's Choice Awards (July 2020) 2 in #SHAWROCKETPRIZE (May 2020) 2 in #FLAWED (May 2020) 3 in #FLAWS (May 2020) #theaceawards2020 ----- Started April 2020 Finished December 2020 All chapters published February 2021

It was eight years ago when the lights first went out. The lamp on the desk of my dimly lit room flickered. Once. Twice. Gone. For days and weeks and months we all though it would come back on, but it's easy to lose all hope after you've lost all light.