"I made the choice a long time ago." Built with passion caused with obsession, feelings that grew within time, and lastly some emotions made from rage and belonging; a psychopath will be created. It's been like this for years. Time is ticking. And Lyra Fields won't know what hit her.

𝒑𝒔𝒚𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒄, 𝒉𝒐𝒕, 𝒃𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒅𝒚. 𝐢 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐮𝐩 𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐛𝐨𝐨

a collection of extras: short stories, rants, and competition entries. a place for me to add all my works that don't belong in a story of their own.

2016 WATTY AWARD WINNER - HQ LOVE THE TERM SHEET is a fast-paced technothriller about entrepreneurship, startups, encryption, and the delicate balance between national security and individual privacy. Its complex characters explore thought-provoking questions about the role of technology in an ever-changing society. Step into the high-stakes game played by today's technology innovators, who push the envelope and risk it all. Get ready, this thrilling book gives you a taste of what startups are really like. _____________________________________________________ David Alexander, a young programmer in Portland, Oregon, loathed his job. Computer programming had always come naturally, but being an employee never suited him. So he tried entrepreneurship instead. After making a series of embarrassing blunders, David finally hit on a startup idea that stuck: encrypted chat. Sure there were alternatives, but as Edward Snowden has shown us, most of them (willingly or unwillingly) have backdoors for spies and bad guys. A new approach made David's app one of the most secure options out there, which caught the attention of many people, including Shawn Douglas from the Secret Service. Shawn Douglas worked with eight different presidents, preventing twenty assassination attempts, forty-three terrorist plots and two bullets. When he was promoted to a desk job overseeing and organizing travel, he picked up on a cryptic email thread that hinted at a threat to the President's life. In a race to unravel the conspiracy, Shawn and David both have to make some difficult decisions. Will Shawn stop the terrorists in time? Will David be able to navigate his startup out of a crisis and keep his entrepreneurial dream alive? Or will fate deal them both a crushing hand? Read the book to find out.

Man created superheroes, and now they hunt them. A terror attack on London kills Britain's top geneticist and destroys life as nineteen year old Eva Saunders knows it. Soon she is at the center of a political conspiracy, and dragged into a dangerous game of the strong vs. the weak and man vs. god . . . The explosion sixty years ago separated the population into three categories: Humans - a score of 0% on the genetics scale. They have no superpower. Voids - a score of 50%. They have the potential. Or the worst: Pariahs - a score of 100%. They have the power. Eva has tested as Void all her life, missing the complete Pariah gene that would grant her superpowers at a moment's notice. But people with the gene are exiled, sent to the Badlands -- known as Zone-B -- in newly imprisoned Wales as punishment for their abilities. And they're fighting back. The only one to survive a Pariah attack on the British Headquarters for Genetics Screening she's recruited by the Prime Minister to work for the Humans. Tasked in aiding the secretive Detective Thomas Kingsley of the Metropolitan police in his race to catch the killers, the stakes rise and more than just a politician is on the line. Except Eva has her own problems, secrets hidden in her DNA, and it will push her to the very edge of the law. The fight for power has hit London. And it's spreading . . . THE PARIAH SERIES: BOOK ONE. Copyright © EmilyCharlotteCooledge 2015-2017 [Action / Science Fiction / Paranormal / Thriller.] Cover created by the talented @Carkann ! WINNER of the Wattys 2016 New Voices award! x

Evelyn is given a dare, go into the supposedly haunted house. Easy right, not so much as Evelyn soon discovers as she wanders around the house and finds stranger and stranger things. Eventually coming face to face with a mysterious man named Asmodeus, claiming that he's taking her to Hell. Evelyn's world is turned upside down when she learns that Asmodeus is a prince of Hell who embodies the sin of Lust. Just what are this man's intentions? Will Evelyn only be allowed to leave when the roads of Hell are paved with ice? Cover done by _eena_

"The more people you love, the more weaknesses you have, and the people of this world simply adore picking your weaknesses apart until you crumble and fall" SUMMARY Katrina Hawke has spent the last five years of her life hiding in Winterfell, playing the part of a simple serving girl. But her fate has finally caught up with her. After Queen Cersei pays a visit to Winterfell, Katrina has no choice but to reveal who she really is, as Cersei has but one wish. To wipe out Katrina's bloodline, but why? Her darkest secret end up tearing her world apart, forcing her to abandon the life she built for herself. Starting a new life sounds easy, but doing it twice? No. As her fate unfolds Katrina discovers a few familiar faces she'd believed had been lost forever, and regains her strength to fight on. Can Katrina secure the North? Will she ever have to face the Queens sentence? ... What is her darkest secret? ~Won 3rd Place in RubyRuins Stella Awards~ *Not my characters, places or events, all copyright goes to George.R.R.Martin and HBO, no copyright intended* *Certain characters such as Katrina and her group are my idea*

The daughter of Drogo and the daughter of the late Khaleesi. Zheanae, which means beautiful in Dothraki, is faced with a new mother, one who is her age. When Drogo dies and Daenerys becomes leader she is offered to Robb to unite the families.

Nolan Howard and Piper Reynolds had the perfect sandbox beginning. Nolan, the boy next door. Piper, the girl through his window. But there's is not a perfect path. Even some sandboxes have to remain secret. ranked - 499