I made this poem for all the girl who felt herself was lost in the crowd. I wanted them to love and respect herself, so they would feel no regrets. I hope you enjoy it!

High school is hard for most people and for Chloe Miller, this is no exception. She is forced to learn the perils of her choices the hard way and the result leads her to building a steel wall around herself that is impossible to crack. Eventually, her mother loses her job and Chloe is then forced to move in with her cousin and their family. This means a new school and on the first day she arrives with a dynamite mission in mind. A mission to reclaim everything that she had once lost at the hands of others. She quickly finds herself fighting a past that she struggles to forget and creating a future that she can live with. It becomes a constant battle for her, centered around peer pressure, character stereo types, cliques and consequences. Couple that with the plight of falling in love and she finds herself playing a starring role in the game of life where everyone is playing for keeps. Will she win... or will she lose? Excerpt: Sauntering forwards, she slid onto his lap with all the grace of a prima ballerina and wrapped her long arms around his neck. Leaning in to his ear, she blew out a little puff of hot air so that it fanned lightly over all the right places. She felt a sense of utter satisfaction when he shuddered. Now that Chloe was certain that she had his attention, she whispered in his ear. “You may have been the best bucko, but guess what…..I’m going to be better.” She lifted up so that she could look him in the face and smiled confidently back at him. His previous cocky demeanor had seemed to have lost some of its earlier steam, “Who are you?” he asked so low that only Chloe could hear him. His forehead was creased as he searched her face, watching her as if she was some type of strange puzzle that needed to be solved. Chloe lifted her hand patted his cheek. The boy didn’t have a clue. “I, my friend, am your biggest adversary. So what do you say Mr. Player, won’t you play with me?”

THIS POEM DOES NOT BELONG TO ME However, it is by someone that I loved very dearly. It is about the pureness and love that a woman, my grandmother, felt towards her invalid daughter. It will tug heart strings but it is well worth the read. Please enjoy, vote, leave comments and like it if you wish.;

Jenna is a down to earth kind of girl. Everyone sees her as the girl whose skateboards, strong willed, and extremely sarcastic at the most inappropriate times. But what they don’t know is that she steals every once in a while just to save up money for her mother’s surgery to get her out of her coma. She does it for good reasons, you have to admit at least that, but robbery should never be the way to go. She meets Daniel at a robbery and realizes just how dangerous all this really is...to her heart, that is.

Hayley Potter has always despised Draco Malfoy. And him, vice versa. But a sudden change in his behavior over the summer of their transition from fifth to sixth year has her getting curious. He seems almost . . . vulnerable. Nothing like the cruel boy she was so accustomed to. And when she vows to find out what happened to this boy, something else besides knowledge of it pursues. All characters, places, things, etc., are property of J. K. Rowling and associates. I own nothing except for Hayley.

Rosalie Harness is a typical seventeen year old teenager, she goes to school, dates, parties and all other typical teenage things. But there is one thing which is not so typical, she got kicked out of her own house, by her own parents! Not because she is a rebel, far from that, simply because she existed. So when she finds a perfect place to stay, there is one problem. She has a roommate, a male roommate, who happens to be the hottest boy in her school; Vincent Clarke. Secrets are told. Deep Secrets. And you realize, not everything is what it seems...

With two brand new stories by Grady Richards. In this dark collection you will find otherworldly spiders, zombie debt collectors, malevolent pets, and prophecy gone awry. You will see into the heart of a child-killer and into the heart of a man mourning the loss of his daughter. You will find terrors locally in a man who fears his neighborhood demons, and distantly in a man who caught a devastating illness in deep space. You will look through the eyes of a maniac, you will feel with the soul of the vengeful, and you will peek through spread fingers as you watch the things which keep you up at night as they begin to crawl forward and feed.

Who is Marilyn Monroe? It is the 1940's when Marilyn becomes a symbol for women's independence. She is a symbol for men's desires. Even in death, she remains every girl's idol, the woman men drool over. She is who girls wish to be and who men wish they had. But outside of all the fame and fortune, there's another side to Marilyn. In there is the shy, insecure girl overwhelmed by sudden success, who idolizes Clark Gable, who had a rough childhood, and who is used by men but can still fall head-over-heels in love. Go back to her time and see how she lived. This is the real Marilyn Monroe's story.

Senior year couldn't be better. Avery Nelson's finally dumped her brain-dead boyfriend, she's taking all easy classes, and she finally has a job working at the local McDonald's. Her life couldn't get any better. But when McDonald's gets robbed by a psycho with a gun to the back of her head, Avery can feel everything falling apart. A mysterious masked man dressed in all black appears out of no where, saving not only her life, but the rest of the restaurant's as well. And thus begins the meetings between Avery and the masked man. He hasn't claimed a name for himself, yet the media has been all over him. Unoffically known as The Man With The Green Slash, he has taken a liking to Avery. His arrogant attitude matched with the mystery of him leaves Avery curious for more. And soon she finds herself struggling to figure out who the Green Slash really is under the mask.