me: "hi" him: "hey"

Elle Grayson's guilty pleasure is reading cheesy romance novels. Always has been, always will be. Maybe that's why she's never had a boyfriend - no guy can live up to her expectations of the guys in romance novels. She doesn't think there is one guy that can prove to be even half as decent as guys in books. But when there's somebody set on doing exactly that, things just might start to change. Romance #110 Short Story #23 - May 28, 2014

It's a scary thing to do -- trusting someone with the most special thing about you; the thing that defines you as a person: your name. There's no telling what comes after it when someone speaks. It could be positive, and it could also be negative. But sometimes you just have to take a chance and open yourself to every possibility. Whether that be telling someone your name, going on your first date, or even falling in love. [top 10 finalist for the best of me movie contest] [1499/1500 words] [short story #30, 10/03/14]

In which I am you, you are me, and we are the moments that define us.

My name is Julie Quinn and I've been a New Yorker all my life. Life was good. I was swamped with work doing a job that I loved and I was dating the best boyfriend I'd ever had the pleasure to. I have always been a strong-willed and independent woman - or as my best friend puts it "control freak" - and even more after the accident, but what happened on the eve of my 30th birthday was enough to bring down Wonder Woman.

Wayward: Fetching Tales from a Year on the Road is a hilarious and heartfelt ride around the world, wherein the author eats dog, obsesses about chewing gum, gets stranded on an island, does dirty things, reveres rock n roll and muses about everything from death to Star Trek to the President Obama to jail time. Now available on Wattpad, Wayward has been a surprise hit at both iTunes and Amazon, reaching #1 on both retailers' travel charts. It chronicles a year in the life of the author, who lived in 12 countries over 12 months, one month at a time. It's kind of funny, kind of sad and kind of weird. Forbes describes the book: "Wayward isn’t strictly a travelogue or a guide by any means. The book reads like a diary, with chapters dedicated to everything from watching Obama’s inauguration in an Argentinian bar, to viewing a dubbed version of the newest Star Trek film in France and trying to understand the plot despite not speaking French, to remembering the ecstasy and pain of his first love just before breaking up with his then-boyfriend in Berlin, to eating dog in Vietnam, to his experience working with Patti Smith in New York. Gates’ lively, conversational writing style bring all the disparate pieces together for an engaging, enjoyable read."

❝ Growing old is mandatory, but growing up is optional.❞ -Walt Disney ☃ ♪☃ ♪☃ It's Ellie McGillicuddy's Junior Year in high school. She's especially excited because she's joined theatre club and third year is known for having presented the best plays ever. She's convinced her best friend Celia to join with her, and everything seems to be going according to plan. But she suddenly feels like the whole world is conspiring against her when she very unfortunately has to work with a less than tolerable human being, who's been cast along with her, and whose interest in the school play and Disney in general are slim to none -actually none more than slim. So this is where Ellie McGillicuddy's difficult quest begins, and the results will determine whether she can pull off her current dream of starring in the school musical, or succumbing to her partner's negative attitude and giving up completely. ☢WARNING☢: Stories range from crazy mouse chasing, random sing-alongs with hot crustacean bands, being swift as a coursing river to become a man to defeat the Huns, being hypnotized by a mass of red hair, to people turning into llamas. Read at your own risk. Part of the Disneyitus Challenge by @northandsouth. Hope you'll give it a try, especially if you love Disney!

"If you ever die too soon, I'll throw you into the sea and wait by the shore." "Why?" She asked him. "Because eventually, the waves bring everything back." ❖ When Cricket Brown meets gorgeous, clever, enigmatic, shy and self-destructive Autumn Young, he knows something big is bound to happen. To both of them. But when the truth is revealed and Autumn is no longer a mystery, can she count on Cricket to remember who she used to be?

PUBLISHED! Now available on Amazon, and Kindle Unlimited! Shy, quiet, Riley Summers' life is changed once she meets Aiden Callaway, the misunderstood boy at Fairfield High School. Two completely different personalities of the stereotypical high school scene come together to learn that they aren't so different at all. The two journey through their senior year, which consists of Star Wars movie marathons, a crashed wedding, paint wars, and something unexpected: a keen attraction to each other. [Disclaimer: due to copyright reasons, chapters have been taken down]

Sick of cliché Wattpad books? Then this isn't the book for you. We take every single over-used plot, character and trope on Wattpad - from player-meets-nerd to my-boyfriend-is-a-vampire - and mash it all into one, awful, hilarious parody. NOTE: This is a parody. Characters have not been created to mock a race/nationality/sexuality, they have been created to lightly poke fun at the way certain teen fiction writers reduce them into crude stereotypes. Thanks for helping this pile of junk get to #1 in Humor!