As a last-ditch effort to heal her heartbreak, Lyla starts writing letters to the most popular boy in school, who also happens to be a contender for valedictorian and captain of the football team. But before all that, he'd just been James. Her James. It isn't until Lyla has amassed a notebook full of letters to him that she starts to realise maybe the whole reason she can't stop writing is because their story isn't finished, after all. But, like life, it might not have the happy ending she's been holding out for. Or maybe it does... and it's just with the last person she ever expected.

"Why suffer for all of eternity when you can indulge?" "Indulging leads to sin." Her smile held no shame. "Aren't we already damned?" || Damned: a vampire romance - 2023 An original CallMeByYourName production

"i choose to breathe life back into myself." in which a girl who has been silent for a lifetime finds her voice on the path to freedom. [#6 in Feminism 6-25-18]

A girl's acceptance of herself, in four parts. 「 Top 10 in The UK Beauty and The Beast Short Story Contest 2017」

「 WATTYS 2019 WINNER 」 the failings of a surgically healed heart, is a series of autobiographical poems arranged into six thematic parts to form a collection which examines the idea of the collective and how that informs individual. i. family an exploration of my relationship with the men and boys in my household and how that has worsened, whilst the opposite is true of the rest of my family ii. immigrant an exploration of the immigrant experience and how as the first child of igbo parents; i was the intermediate between the east and west iii. spirituality an exploration of growing up in the catholic faith and an examination of all its faults and hypocrisies. iv. loving an exploration of friendship, artistry, sexuality, failed romance, but most importantly self-love and all it entails. v. womanhood an exploration of how in many ways puberty was a bitter sweet reality check along with everything that it entailed. vi. catharsis a reflection on the worst period of time in my life where, with hindsight, i come to terms with harsh and lovely realities of life and death.

A poem about the loss of my grandmother, in seven parts.

WATTPAD BOOKS EDITION. There are some friends you never forget. It's the summer of 1955. For Ethan Harper, a biracial kid raised mostly by his white father, race has always been a distant conversation. When he's sent to spend the summer with his aunt and uncle in small-town Alabama, his blackness is suddenly front and center, and no one is shy about making it known he's not welcome there. Enter Juniper Jones. The town's resident oddball and free spirit, she's everything the townspeople aren't-open, kind, and accepting. Armed with two bikes and an unlimited supply of root beer floats, Ethan and Juniper set out to find their place in a town that's bent on rejecting them. As Ethan is confronted for the first time by what it means to be black in America, Juniper tries to help him see the beauty in even the ugliest reality, and that even the darkest days can give rise to an invincible summer . . .

❝I swear, people are the cause of cancer.❞