My short story version of Van Houten's "An Imperial Affliction," featured in John Green's bestselling novel "The Fault In Our Stars." The story of a girl named Anna, a Dutch Tulip Man, and a hamster named Sisyphus.

In which a Subway worker teaches her customer the real reason why people use condiments

η. olive juice [ol-iv-joos] a term commonly mistaken for the words "i love you" when silently mouthed to another * * * Four people. Two boys. Two Girls. One year. A Companionship. In a society where prejudice and exclusion are the roots of all evil, Olive rotates through groups of four called Companionships every year. Befriending the randomly assigned Companions in your group is expected. Befriending anyone else, the Outsiders, is punishable by death. But, when Olive meets a boy outside of her Companionship, she starts to realize everyone should have a choice.

❝What would you do to find your Prince Charming?❞ Everyone knows your first kiss is supposed to be the most exciting thing in your life. For Grace Carter it just so happened to take place in a janitors closet with a boy she doesn't even know. Now with the memory of a kiss she'll never forget, with a boy she doesn't even know, she decides it's time to find her Prince Charming once and for all. Kissing half the boys in your class is hard enough, but kissing half the boys in your school is a whole other problem. Firstly, she has to figure out a way for them to actually kiss back. Secondly, her best friend thinks she's crazy for even thinking a guy like him exists. Thirdly, she can't help but wonder if it was all in her head to begin with. With senior year almost ending, and the boy in the janitors closet still a secret, Grace is willing to do whatever, and kiss whomever, to find her mystery man. Even if she has to leave a trail of broken hearts in her wake to find him.

Kayla Mays knows first hand what it's like loving the wrong guy. All her life she's loved the one person who could never love her back. She was the girl who could bag any boy she wanted. She was the Wild One. Now in a place where her perfect sisters image can't touch her, Kayla decides to live the life she always wanted. When she thinks she might have found The One, the guy who she currently calls her boyfriend, everything seems to fall into place. That is until a someone from the past makes their way into her future. Sterling Parker is a changed man. From the untouchable good boy who was her best friends love, to a part time cop who's body is harder than his personality. Sterling is the one thing she never saw coming. She knew then he wasn't hers to have and he still isn't. But why is it that when the tough as stone cop asks to hide out in her apartment does she agree? And why, after all these years, does she still want the one thing he couldn't give her before? Through love, hate, lies, and trust, you will learn what happens when two people are thrown together and pleasure and passion become the one thing they can't deny. He's her guilty pleasure and for Kayla, being bad has never felt so good.