A fear of flying is one thing. Being seated next to a Tetris-addict who claims to be the Reaper is quite another. "He pulled out a business card. Where his profession should have been stated, the card read 'Destroyer of Worlds'. Nodding slowly, I pocketed the card." [check out the new spin off: http://www.wattpad.com/story/19632442-reaper-man] Copyright S.Ranasinghe 2013 HG Wells Short Story Competition [shortlisted]

This woman could have been a spy, a duchess and the lover of a young cameraman all at once. She was a conjurer of a thousand stories, each unique to every observer; the elusive face behind any tale you put to her. {Written 2013.}

Sixteen-year-old Paige Brooks lives in an economically-segregated society in the future where one can determine what economic class they belong to by the color of their eyes. When a person is born, their eyes are genetically mutated to represent the color of their class. Paige is part of the Economy, the middle class, and, having gray eyes, belongs to the poorest sub-division of her class. Being Economy is tough, and her dream is not only to get out of her gray eyes, but to help others get out of the poverty pit as well. Everything seems normal. But when a strong hereditary gene is suddenly turned on inside of her, Paige is mistook for being upper class and finds herself pulled into the luxurious lifestyle of the Capital.

"Hey Becca, we need to talk..." Her whole life, Rebecca Smith's relationships have never lasted long enough. And they all ended with that one, sad excuse for a line. "It's not you, it's me." She believed the first couple of guys, then a few more. But now she's had enough. Little innocent Becca was going to ruin every player in her school. And she was going to write her own manual about it, but what's an experiment without fun, fights and fiascos? This time it was her turn... "Maybe we can still be friends?" To be a heartbreaker...

It's been six years since Terry witnessed the brutal murder of his mother. It's been five years since he was released from the institution. It seems like a lifetime since his breakfast didn't consist of medications, or the sight of blood didn't send him into a panic attack, or since he's gotten a full nights rest. The World thinks Terry has moved on from the death of his mother and onto bigger things like fulfilling his role as the womanizing, cigarette smoking, alcoholic son of a billionaire. No one is able to see past his mask, and no one wants to until Jo Adler. -- Jo has a lot of Names. Freak. Loser. Slut. After her almost rape, which no one believes was a rape, her mother decides it's time to move away from their small town in Maine and to better placed. New York City for instance. From the start Jo knows it's bad idea and that only multiplies when she meets Terry Chase. He's the exact kind of guy she hates, arrogant, spoiled, and trouble. But through a series of events that push them together Jo learns that there's a lot for to Terry then he lets on. -- Now Jo makes it her personal goal to save Terry from the prison of his mind and in order to do that she must make him relive things that he has spent years trying to forget.

Sam Smith can't remember the days when she was considered part of the popular crowd. With frizzy hair and bulky glasses, her only friend is the nerdy and charming Will Larson who she befriended freshman year. However things start to get strange for Sam when the most popular guy at school, Chase Michaels, decides that he's interested in her. But Sam has a secret of her own, a secret she will do anything to protect. She is a famous actress. But they don't know that.

Book one of the The Chip, The Glitch, The Link trilogy At the age of 15, Will Knight was dying, until he met Doctor Aaron Johnson and the chip. Now, a human super computer, Will is the countries best weapon against evil. But what if he wasn't created to stop the people that want to rule the world, but to lead them?

"Give me ten days, and I can give you ten reasons not to die." Evan paused. "And if I can't change your mind by then, you can go jump off that cliff."

"It's happening again, Aidan. We didn't stop it, after all." As an elemental, Aidan Brook holds the power of water at her fingertips. A descendant of the earth's oldest magic, she can cause tides to ebb and flow, put out house fires without calling 911, and give anyone who's annoying her an impromptu shower. But even her magic has its limits. After it fails her one terrible night, she hides from the world and everyone she once loved, trying to escape the memories that haunt her. Ten years later, her exile is brought to an abrupt end when her former best friend appears on her front porch. An elemental killer is once again murdering her friends, and she must return to the scene of her own crimes. Lake Tahoe proves more than she bargained for. Between a sadistic killer, some clever FBI agents, an annoyingly attractive landlord, and way too many new roommates, she has a pretty full plate. Add in a past she's desperate to escape and her own uncontrollable powers, and Aidan Brook is having a very, very bad month.