*THE UNEDITED VERSION* Beware of typos, errors, and general mistakes. This is a very, very rough draft. "I live in a place called Compound 4. We are one of ten different compounds placed at strategic locations around the US. It's been thirteen years since the virus overtook humanity, turning about ninety percent of us into zombies. I'm not sure how it started exactly; that's classified information. I do know that in order to save what was left of the human race, the president at the time took a bunch of really smart people and kids and relocated them into new 'protected' cities. My father was one of those really smart people. I was only five at the time, but I knew what was happening." Within the walls of the compound, Jay makes stupid mistakes, mistakes even she doesn't understand, putting everyone inside at risk. All because she can't shoot someone. All because she misses the wind in her hair, the flowers on the hillsides, the sound of crickets at night. All because she's different, the only person untouchable by the Virus. When the mistakes begin to duplicate, and a girl shows up who knows her name, everything begins to change in Compound 4. Highest rank in Science Fiction: #9

{WATTPAD FEATURED STORY, NOVEMBER 2017} Welcome to the Grove. Two years after a devastating sickness swept the planet, the surviving human population barricaded itself into walled cities, shutting off the outside. While these self-preserving men and women tried to repopulate the lost Earth, the remaining scraps of society, the children orphaned by disease, were thrust into the wilderness. This is the Grove. My people, my tribe. When the world denied us salvation, we banded together with only one common goal: survive. We call ourselves the Ravens. Welcome to the wild. MAY BE TRIGGERING IN RESPONSE TO COVID-19. PLEASE PRACTICE SOCIAL DISTANCING/QUARANTINE //cover by @sophgray

UPDATE: ***Available on Amazon*** Remembrance is coming in E-book and paperback July 27th, 2021, published by Darkstroke Books. This is now only a preview but you can check back here for more details or (best option) sign up for my newsletter at sjmoquin.com and follow me on social media to stay up to date with the latest details. ~~~~ Sometimes home is a place you've never seen, a place you've never been, or even a place you never dreamed existed... Nothing in Gwelle's seventeen years aboard the starship Deliverance prepares her for life on the surface of Varax, her new home world. Life is good, but hard. But Earth's last survivors have lived through hardships before; they will survive this, too. Or at least that is what Gwelle thinks until accidents begin to plague the settlement. But wild beasts, explosions, and kidnappings do nothing to deter her from living her best life. That is until she uncovers a secret no one is supposed to know. Together with the help of her friends, and the boy who broke her heart, she will do whatever it takes to protect those she loves. Gwelle has no problem breaking a few rules to get to the root of the tragedy wracking her world. What she isn't ready for is embracing her past. But to forget yesterday's pain, she will do the one thing she does not think she can. She will remember.

+WATTPAD FEATURED+ A bitter blizzard sweeps through the streets of sixteen-year-old Amelia Harris' town, leaving her fighting for her life. The power clicks off, food runs scarce, and Amelia must do all she can to protect the family she loves. With her autistic sister silently fading away, and her mother growing weaker by the second, Amelia, knowing she is the only one who can save them now, must venture into the cold, icy world outside - one that is full of ploys and secrets. Only the expedition gone wrong soon brings her to the presence of a mysterious boy named Joshua. And he only seems to raise questions. Why did the storm hit when it did? Or was it really a freak storm at all? A novel about love, danger, and keeping your mouth zipped when it needs to be. Sequel, WINTER WENT, is published. + + + Readers' thoughts - "This was so good and I want to see it in bookstores and someone needs to adapt it into a play and a movie honest to God" - "Oh my dear God! What an ending! Now I have to read the second one!" - "I can't believe you did this author - THIS IS NOT OKAY!" +++ -FEATURED AUTHOR of 2019 Shay Spencer's Contests- - Winner of the Reach For The Stars Awards (Mystery and Thriller) - -Winner of the Rare Diamond Awards- -Featured Author of the Month 2018 (June) on Shay Writes Smiles- -Featured on Wattpad Winter Wonders reading list on home page- - Featured by Wattpad YA Fiction Reading List- - Wattpad Dystopian+Apocalypse Fiction Reading List - -Featured on Shay Spencer's Fall Reading List- -Wattpad Superhero Fiction Reading List- -Wattpad Fantasy Wintery Worlds Reading List- Cover by @Ink_Smoke_ZS Highest ranking: #388 in mystery and thriller (23/12/17) COMPLETED STORY