Lana doesn't like the way people fit in, she has never found someone with whom she connects with enough to bear her soul to them. She reaches out to a celebrity, someone whom she's watched on the big screen countless times, in a hopeless attempt to find meaning in her, otherwise dreary, life. Everything was fine, but fine wasn't good enough, Lana wanted extraordinary.

In 2093 crime rates in America were at 93% and showed no signs of lowering, so Congress decided that the laws had to be started over, and needed a new name—The Society. Every year, all sixteen-year-olds would be given an assigned job, a small apartment, and would be given an independent life. At eighteen, you are aloud to love, and get married. Young love and heartbreak was believed to be the number one reason of violence. If you were caught having a relationship with anyone you would be punished immediately. The Society knows everything, including your exact death time, and how you die—even if it hasn't happened yet, and won't happen for many years. They know your every move and every breath. The year is now 2173 and sixteen-year-old Jessamine Cicely is about to start her life as an adult. She thinks that her life in The Society is perfect until she discovers some of its darkest secrets and how it was before. Science Fiction #108 copyright © 2014 odairsthecake

They weren't supposed to meet. But life does that sometimes; it throws in a couple of new faces that bring you the utmost of joys in the most unlikeliest of places, and every now and then, you'll come across someone who changes you - someone who's genuine and wonderful and full of hope; someone who changes your perspective on the things that you had stored away in the cardboard box sitting in the dark corner of your closet, someone who opens up your eyes to new things; bright and beautiful things that you can't believe you hadn't seen before, someone who's iridescent. And once you meet them, nothing will ever compare.

Five teenagers, five stories. All yearning to be told. [ temporary cover; credits for style used for the cover go to @hepburnettes ] #weneeddiversebooks #FreeMentalIllness #youngadultreads

Completed Short Story. Annie Parker is lost. She has been wandering blindly through life for four months now, just hoping and praying that some day she will find the light and be guided back onto the right path. This is Annie's story of finding that light in the most unlikeliest of forms. [Watty Awards 2013 Submission]

"Could you please stop? Just stop it. Stop trying to crack my head open and pour sunshine in. I don't want it!" I screamed at the woman who did what I hated the most. Counseling me. "But, Miss Sparks-" she tried to reach for me. "I said stop it! There's no pot of gold at the end of this f*cking monochrome rainbow, okay? I know I tried to kill myself, who cares if I do it again and succeed this time? I'm already dead inside!" I again curled into a ball, my nails digging into my skin to keep myself together. I can't move on. I can't live. I'm not supposed to be alive. I just want to be left alone. But they wouldn't leave me alone. He should leave me alone. He told me that he cared. But nobody cares, at least not for me. Yes, this is my story. Don't worry it won't be long. It'll end soon enough. Because this is the story of how society took a life that is not worth saving.