Leah Preston was a normal 17 year old girl, until she wakes up and finds herself staring at her own lifeless body. She has no idea what happened to her or how she died, and the only person who can see her is her sworn enemy Jared. Neither of them have a choice, they must put their differences aside in order to find out what really happened to Leah and how she died, or better yet, who killed her, while at the same time fighting each other and the feelings they are beginning to develop. ©makeandoffer

Mia Walker is escaping from a past.Jonah is hiding something from his friends.Nick just came out. Jackson is the bad boy with a secret.And Dray is just weird.When a favor from the most popular boy in school pops into Mias life,everything changes ad she cant decide if its for the better or worse.

" And for the first time in my life, I realized that daisies were meant to die at one point in the dark, only to be revived by a sudden and unexpected drop of golden sunshine. Petals were meant to crumble and shrivel, then be gifted with life with the warm touch of loving sunlight. So I, as those petals, was gifted with his existence in my life. " ******** Mabelle Reed is the type of girl you'd find sitting on the floor of the school's library reading a book, or laughing her heart out in a field of daises with her friends at sunset. She's awkward in a beautiful way, and graciously stands out in all that she does. Enter Theo Porch into the painting, and watch as colors mix and twist continuously while they both try to exit their internal worlds and invade each other's, with Mabelle trying desperately to bottle up her developing emotions towards him.

Once Upon Now Grand Prize Winner published by Gallery Books. Sixteen-year-old Mira Sighansen never questions her place in the majestic wilderness of the Yukon Territory until she witnesses her brothers' oil rig explode. Refusing to believe the young men are dead, the teen's suspicions are strengthened when their bodies aren't found and she's later visited by six wild egrets. But these are no ordinary birds, and Mira is faced with a remarkable task not even the loss of her voice or the anger of her best friend (over a boy, of course!) can hamper. Convinced she can break a magical enchantment to bring her brothers back, Mira will risk jail and even psychiatric commitment to stop the rig from being rebuilt. Failure to overcome the doubts of her mayor mother, the opposition of her drilling foreman step-father, and the wrath of an industry thirsty for the valuable natural resource could mean not only the end of her family as she knows it, but also the loss of a vital part of her peoples' culture. This 9,000 word original short story is a modern-day retelling of the Brothers Grimm's fairy tale number forty-nine 'The Six Swans' with a First Nations twist. It was part of the #OnceUponNow contest sponsored by @Target for a chance to be included in a published anthology. As of July 5, 2016, it has made it into the Top 25 and as of August 16, 2016, it has been announced as one of the Top 10 Grand Prize winners.