When Beck returns to Milford after seven years, she doesn't expect to run into two problems: developing sudden, inexplicable feelings for her childhood nemesis, and her childhood best friend. ---------------------- When Beck Livingston left Milford to go live with her grandmother, she thought she and her neighborhood playmates would stay friends forever. Fast-forward seven years, and she's suddenly back in Milford, her only connections to the town being her older sister (who tries way too hard to mother her), and her old friends, whom she's texted sparingly over the years. Her biggest saving grace of all is Lizzy, her old best-best-best friend, although Lizzy's girlfriend doesn't appreciate how close they are. While trying to avoid her sudden confusion around Lizzy, Beck's childhood bully is back---and he's changed. Now torn between keeping her summer drama-free, or pursuing whatever this is with Donovan, Beck has no choice but to fend off her feelings for Lizzy and beg for her help---because, seriously. She needs all the help she can possibly get.

*entry for ONC 2022* prompt seventy: his [her] eyes were cold and lifeless as he [she] stared at me. "you have no idea who i am, do you?" - It's only been three weeks since Vera Watson and her father moved to Goldhurst Lighthouse. She's trying her best to settle in, but it's hard when they're the only non-white family living on the property. And to make matters worse, she's never worked at a lighthouse before. But when a storm rolls in--the first one Vera will experience since moving here--everything changes. In the middle of the raging tempest, Vera finds a strange girl by the rocky shore. Wearing a white dress, her skin pale white and her hair as dark as the night, she looks like a ghost. Thing is, she is. And she's asking Vera for help. © myrawritess 2022. all rights reserved.

"They tell you all these things to prepare for someone's death. They warn you about the funeral expenses, the hospital bills, and the implications it could have on your mental health; but they don't tell you how to live after the love of your life dies." -A ONC 2022 Novella-

The time is up, yet why is she still breathing? · There can only be one witch or warlock every hundred years - crumbling to ashes once they've reached their time. It's been two weeks since Verona Frost turned 100 years old, and she's still alive. . Began: 16/02/22