What haunts Sam Hughes? ("The Multitudes Within Me" is the sequel to "The Sound of Ice.")

Hockey player extraordinaire Cameron Beckett not only has to deal with the pressures of making it into the NHL and graduating high school, but also figuring out his feelings for the boy next door. ***** Cameron Beckett is the ace and co-captain of his hockey team, but he's failing his math class so badly that his coach threatens to bench him if he doesn't improve his grades. He turns to Sam, his neighbor, only to start developing feelings for him that he's not ready to confront. Cameron pulls away, afraid that his sexuality will cost him any chance of being drafted into the NHL. But when Sam needs him the most, Cameron can't be there for him, making him question whether his fear of coming out is actually holding him back.

Oscar is blind. Jason is not. One hot summer day, when their paths cross by chance, Jason takes a leap of faith and Oscar helps him see the world in a whole new light. FEATURED IN THE LGBTQ SUN-KISSED ANTHOLOGY #1 WINNER OF THE PURPLE APPLE AWARDS JULY 2017: SHORT STORY 1ST PLACE: BEST LGBT CHARACTER 1ST PLACE: BEST CHARACTER WITH A DISABILITY 2ND PLACE: MOST DIVERSE H-DOUBLE-F-DOUBLE-S 3RD PLACE: MOST DIVERSE STORY OVERALL HONORABLE MENTION: BEST DIVERSE CHARACTER OVERALL AT THE WOKE AWARDS 2017 [COMPLETED]

When an overprotected blind woman meets an injured war veteran, an unexpected love blossoms between them, altering the course of their young lives in unpredictable ways. Connor Wright doesn't feel like he has a place in the world he risked his life to protect. Depressed and misunderstood by those trying to help him, he is slowly sinking into himself - until he meets her. Olivia Harris, a young woman without sight, who somehow manages to see him better than he sees himself. As their budding friendship slowly and passionately grows into something more, they must wrestle with their own personal demons if they want to hold on to a relationship that neither might believe they deserve, but that will transform their lives forever.

Rebecca can't see. Emily can't live without her violin. But they both love the rain, and the city, and talking to each other. A novella.

They walk among us. All three, living normal mortal lives. Cloe is graduating college; Lacey is getting married; Atria is bar-hopping and breaking hearts. Today, they are human. But they are also the three Fates—the all-powerful directors of human destiny. And they don't even know it. Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos did not always take mortal form. They dwelt in the Cave, working the Loom, till something happened on Olympus that changed everything one day. Since then, they've roamed the earth and led thousands of lives throughout its history. The Fates may not remember who they are, for now... but their legacy is not to be forgotten. And their story is just begging to be told. *A Wattpad Featured story* *Winner of 2014 Watty Award – Best of Interactive Storytelling* [PG-13 for adult language, non-graphic sexual content, mature themes]

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Kei Tsukishima didn't expect much of his volleyball trip to Tokyo. In fact, he expected nothing of it. The team was going to be staying with the boys from Nekoma High for half a month - a sort of low-budget summer training camp. Tsuki could think of much better ways to spend his summer, but he didn't. It was summer. He wasn't supposed to be thinking at all. Of course, Tsuki might have been right about his expectation of the Tokyo trip. Tsuki was almost always right. But then again, he had been assigned to none other than Tetsurō Kuroo, the captain of the Nekoma High volleyball team, and so, of course, this time he was wrong. He was so wrong.

❝o god, the son of peleus is indeed a fury; his grief is rolling off in waves of sweat and blood as he brings countless ills upon the achaeans.❞ a rendition of the trojan war in verse [© afterwords 2016] poetry #367

Holden Peters expects nothing exciting to happen during the summer before his final year of high school. But in a spontaneous act of bravery, he saves his pretty next door neighbour from drowning and is deemed as a local hero. Thanks to his newfound reputation, he's given a job as a lifeguard at the local pool. But the responsibility of saving lives quickly takes its toll on him and he realises that it's impossible to save everyone. Some things are just out of his hands.