❝This is a story about a bunch of teenagers who attempt to take on the world - which is kinda hard to do when you live in a small town.❞ Meet Benjamin Carter: a cheeky-grinning, surfboard-riding fuckboy if you've ever seen one. Charlie Carter: newly seventeen and already hitting a quarter-life crisis. Mackenzie Lawrence: bold, brash, bisexual, and - as she likes to refer to herself - a 'budget version of Beyonce.' Jesse Tuitama: an aspiring professional skater who's wiser than his years. A mission to discover the identities of an adopted daughter's birth parents. A romance that begins on a soccer field. A party girl caught up in an abusive relationship. A broken family and a boy trying to hold it all together. Four friends attempting to navigate their last year of high school and make it out alive. Every character is flawed. Every character is worthy of love. This is a universal reflection of you, and of me. This is BEAMERS. [Written in a format that's a cross between a pseudo screenplay and a novel, each chapter is a different episode focusing on one character's perspective at a time. Reads like you're watching a television show play out before your eyes. Set in a sleepy fictional New Zealand town and written by an author with a background in youth work, this story aims to shine a light on the lives of Kiwi teens and the issues they face everyday, including sexual abuse, mental illnesses, internet bullying, and drug use.]

Sammy was just a girl from New Jersey. She is a very secretive girl who doesn't open up about much from past experiences. Her mom decides to bring her across the globe to Singapore, Asia. So, what can happen within 19 hours in the clouds? Read along ;)

Avery Light has been abused from her father since she was five. Her aunt found her though, and took her to a therapy camp called Foreverland. Avery is a person that just wants to live, and stop being jittery. She stutters most of her sentences, and most people don't notice her. Besides Reece Macintyre, who sees something in the broken girl. ••• "Scars never heal." I say. "Neither do people, I guess we're all scars..." He whispers "Wanting a reason to heal." I finish for him.

Reece Bremer goes through life with a scowl and cold personality. Jessica Andrews goes through life with a glowing smile and positive outlook. Reece looks at life with dull, judgmental eyes that make him hate the world and the people living in it. Jessica, well... She looks at life through a camera. Literally. They're polar opposites, and that's what sparks Reece's immediate hate for Jessica the moment they meet. All he sees is a girl with the best life, put in the category of those who get everything handed to them on a silver platter. But who says Jessica's life is like that? Just like a photograph, there's more to the story than what you see. Stumbling across one of Jessica's hidden portfolio might reveal that her happiness isn't all that true. Behind that smile and each picture she takes, holds a thousand words of a very big secret - one that Reece is determined to find out. And who knows? It just might change everything between them. cover by dysanic || 2015 watty's winner for talk of the town ||

One day, Morgana decides to pick up a pen and write a series of letters addressed to those she loves and hates. In these letters, she reveals her deepest fears and darkest secrets, in these letters she tells of the only boy she's ever loved and in these letters she realises that nothing is ever as it seems, and after these letters, nothing will ever be the same again. (used to be named Thirty Letters) (Inspired by the 30 Day Letter Challenge)