Jackie does not like surprises. Chaos is the enemy! The best way to get her successful, busy parents to notice her is to be perfect. The perfect look, the perfect grades--the perfect daughter. And then... Surprise #1: Jackie's family dies in a freak car accident. Surprise #2: Jackie has to move cross-country to live w...
There in those city lights, there was no her and there was no him. There was just everything and nothing and the spaces in between, like flickering lights against a never-ending, black sky. There in those city lights, there was no love and there was no hate. There was just listening and talking and understanding every...
In which, we see the reactions of the lucky 30 reading their letter from Cath. Book 2 in the Reaction/Action series. [#1 in Short Stories 2/25/15] Cover by: @imparitea
A/N: This is an unedited, significantly different version of the soon to be published novel by losangelesque aka L. Akhter. This draft was written when I was 15-18 years old and I highly encourage new readers to read the published version instead. Former high school football star Frank Novak meets profound and depress...
Hayley West is not confident, or popular. When she ends up at a masquerade party where she shouldn't be, she takes the opportunity as it comes, being able to be whoever she wants to be, and do whatever she wants to do, including kissing her best friend, Casey Porter, as her feelings were getting stronger for him. Case...
2000; Indiana Wiley and Carter Warren; five year olds. Very dedicated fans to the Beatles. Ice cream lovers with Big dreams. Sounds like normal children who lived normal childhoods, right? 2011; Indiana Wiley; sixteen years old. Depressed. Anorexic. Brokenhearted. Carter Warren; sixteen years old. Illegal alcoholic w...
"Sometimes happiness feels like a chore." A short story chronicling the relationships (and lack thereof) of Drew; in which nights and days are spent curled up in the tear-and-food-stained sheets, with and without the warmth of another living soul, because he has lived like this and he'll probably die like this -- whet...
If you're judging this book by its cover and title, you're already proving the point this story wants to make. Try to move past this satirical obstacle in front of you. This is a story about bullying, and like the hundreds of other books on the topic, it will show you the harsh reality of being discriminated, belittle...
Macey is shopping for her date when she's suddenly caught up in a shopping mall scandal. In fear of tarnishing her reputation, she does the only thing she can do. Run.
( In the process of being severely edited ) When Olivia Caplans life goes from simple to turbulent. Experiencing things most of can't say we have, or would want to happen, her life gets completely flipped upside down. Within a day she witnesses a murder, makes it on a hit list, and just so happens to stumble into the...
Sometimes all you really need is a place to call home. * * * Being re-written completely as of May 14, 2021
In which I am you, you are me, and we are the moments that define us.