Corrina Justice is a team tennis player. One the surface, people see her as Corrina: tennis player extraordinaire, destined to be a professional. However, Corrina herself is dealing with a lot of trauma from her past and present life. She has a broken family after the fresh wound of her older brother's death. Corrina can't help but be attracted to the handsome Oliver Reilly, the all time tennis champion brother of her biggest high school tennis nemesis, Nyla Reilly. She has never been one to not use her head, but in this situation, Corrina Justice may have finally lost it.

A collection of poems about finding solace from life's whirlwinds in everyday objects and places.

Lucia Martin has only ever wanted one thing: to leave her nondescript small town in the Midwest behind for a few months and see the world. In fact, this summer, she and her brother Orion finally have plans to do just that before he leaves for college overseas, and she becomes swamped with college applications. They have saved up every penny for years to go on this epic, inter-continental trip. However, out of the blue, Orion shocks his sister with news of his upcoming wedding. He backs out of their plan, but he insists that his younger sister still go on the trip. But there is still one more ticket. And Orion knows who to give it to. Enter the reliable, realistic, and devastatingly handsome Elias Herrera, Orion's best friend since forever, who also happens to be Lucia's mortifyingly strong childhood crush, whom she been over for years, duh. But has she really gotten over Elias, or will she finally let her guard down long enough to let another person- a boy, and her brother's best friend, no less, into her life?

WIP A note for all you linguists out there: I'm well aware that neither the phonemic nor the phonetic transcription of crush is actually /'krʌshʃ/. However, I found that neither /krʌʃ/ nor [krə́:ʃ] are easily recognizable as 'crush' for non-linguists.