❝Iᴛ ɪs ᴍᴀɢɪᴄᴀʟ, ᴛʜɪs sɴᴏᴡ ɢʟᴏʙᴇ ᴡᴏʀʟᴅ.❞ a collection of one-shots about winter

“You have a sister." Harry Styles didn't want to hear those words three days before his X-Factor audition. Whoops. "You have a brother." Chelsey Burke didn't want to hear those words from the mouth of a stranger, seated in her kitchen. Where is fate going to take the unwilling twins?

Maisie Lockhart is your non-believer of "love at first sight". Until, it may become an awaken belief when a particular delivery boy catches her eyes one day at her family market. Without a doubt, Maisie finally feels that "attraction" kicking in. But what happens when that certain delivery boy is nowhere to be seen? Enter the Valentino's. They are the handsome, upcoming heirs to well known company, Phoenix Empire. Maisie finds herself sharing some interest with one of the Valentino's. Just when things can't get any messier, her delivery boy may be more than she expects once Maisie manages to catch sight of him once again.

It's always been the two of us since I remember, as Tom (my dad) left us when I was just a toddler. He never accepted mum's complete dedication to music and I think this is what caused them to break up. I'll never forgive him for giving up on us, and even more for not being there when mum fell ill. But he was too busy raising his new family I guess. And now that we have to live under the same roof, I feel like he’s no more than a stranger to me. Fortunately, I still have my music. No matter what happens around me, I know that I can always find refuge in music. It's hard to explain but as I sit at the piano the world hushes and my soul starts to sings. And I still have my Big Dream - to get into Julliard and become a great pianist as my Mum. The most famous conservatory in the world and New York City are waiting for me! I just have to nail an important audition that is just a few weeks away.. Fingers crossed!!

She could be considered a certified insomniac. He hasn't slept the whole night through because of circumstance. She's reserved and quiet at school. He's the silent bad-boy everyone admires. She loves photography. He loves his little brother. Nicole Evans and Caleb Shaw are two completely different people, but they may have a lot more in common than they think. Join these two night owls as they roam the city of Berkeley at night, discovering secrets not only about the city, but about themselves as well.

'Watching your brother go down for rape sounds like a difficult task, right? Try being the girl in the witness stand, the victim.' Most people ignore Kat Price and go straight for her perfect, confident and attractive older brother, Finn. The day that Finn goes down for rape, Kat's in the spotlight, Kat's the one with the answers. She also just wants to be left alone, remain invisible and live happily with her mum and her horse without the gossip and drama. So, what happens when a brooding boy with beautiful eyes and a love for horses is thrown into the mix? Eli is the proud new owner of Finn's old mare, Tempest. He doesn't know about Kat's haunting past or why she's so skittish. All he knows is that he's desperate to help. Headstrong and broken is how Eli describes Kat when he first see's her. But is her past too shattered and her heart too destroyed for Eli to fix?

‘“Elle,” Niall smiled. “It’s a pleasure to meet yeh’.” He said, shaking Elle’s hand gently. Elle recognised the twang that was evident in the way he spoke to be an Irish accent. She caught his bright blue eyes in her own and felt somehow that Niall was also familiar to her.’ Elle has lived in central London for a little over a week with just one key to her flat. One afternoon she bumps into somebody in the street, losing her only key down the drain. The stranger, somehow familiar, convinces her to stay the night at his place where she meets his flatmates, who are also familiar to her. They are generous, humorous and very welcoming, and it doesn’t take long for Elle to recall who they really are. From there laughter, talent, friendship, romance and careers ensue, all by chance.

[ (BK 1) -COMPLETED -BK 3 IN PROGRESS- (CURRENTLY EDITING) ] Ashley Dawson has spent her life living in the shadow of her pop-star sister Ellie Dawson. Life's dull, it's boring and Ashley's beginning to tire of the same old routine. She's bored of always thinking inside the box and keeping up her usual sensible and co-operative demeanour. Finally something seems promising for changing and Ellie gleefully announces she'd like to go in a new 'direction' with her music and resorts to the media task of working with British-Irish Boy Band One Direction on her new album. After things take a turn for the better in their Father's business, their parents take a fluke six month business trip to California leaving their daughters behind their Father is forced to use the connections he has in the Music Industry to the test and soon Ashley finds herself living with One Direction on strict orders from her record-label Dad. Summer's now ruined, right? After being pulled away from her social group and everything she knows in her home and being forced to move to the other side of London and stay with a boy band she barely knows things just seem to get worse. But pretty soon un-expected romance is found with band member Niall Horan, who not only gives her the best summer of her life but shows her the world in a whole different light, but we all know that summer had to end sometime, right? Everything seems to be perfect, but there's only so high you can go before you fall down and hit the ground, and sometimes, even the people you're blood bound to can be willing to help you make the fall and drag you away from the one you love. The perfect relationship turns into being based on failed lies and there's only so long that lies can hold everything together before one person crumbles underneath the pressure. But the question is, how far are they really going to go to let true love bring things back together?

Young teenage girl, Elise Roy and her two best friends Ray Toro and Frankie Iero have been together forever. They have had there own band since they were five. Now it is eigth grade and everything is about to change. The threesome meet two mysterious brothers that they had no idea that were living right across from them! These brothers have been kept inside there house since they moved there three years ago. Now they have emerged and the three best friends and the Way brothers are going to make history. What happens when Elise starts to have feelings for the oldest Way brother, and he secretly feels the same way? ******Warning: This story is obviously made up, but i still tried to throw in a few silly facts. I don't really have an ending in mind ( I'm just coming up with ideas as i go ) so I will probably continue this story for a long time. Hope you like it! Sorry, there might me a lot of typos

[NOTE: This book was written in 2010, a time of long-distance phone cards, weight-loss obsessions, and searching for a man as a solution to life's problems-what a messy time to be alive! In other words, I hope you enjoy this throwback, and while this book does end on a cliffhanger of sorts, the sequel addresses any unanswered questions (which is hopefully fair, given that book 1 is free, ya know?] An awkward family homecoming at Christmas. A humiliating public weigh-in, with two judging parents as the audience. The announcement of a deadline for arranged marriage doom. And that's just the first two chapters. In "Year of the Chick," Romi Narindra must find love before her parents find her a husband. Easy to say, less easy to live through, as this book takes you deep inside "awkward Indian living in the West." To escape her fate, Romi wades through the waters of secret-dating, where self-consciousness is at an all-time high, and experience at an all-time low. It's the sort of thing that would turn almost anyone into a man-crazy freak with romance tunnel-vision, and that's exactly what ends up happening. All the while, a lack of inspiration in her corporate job leads Romi to her love of writing, in what quickly becomes a man-quest play-by-play. From whiskey-breath scum bags to uni-brow creeps and everything in between, Romi and her wingmen come up empty time after time. And that's when she meets a fellow writer. On the Internet. So will it be arranged marriage doom, or an Internet affair that's not as creepy as "To Catch a Predator"? Time will tell in the "year of the chick," a twelve-month quest to find love. Tick-tock. --------------------------------------------- "Year of the Chick" is book one of a series, and book two is available at Amazon! LENGTH: 75,000 words or 285 pages DISCLAIMER: this book contains profanities, blunt accounts of the dating scene, and many awkward family moments. Enjoy!