Children shouldn't have to play with IV lines attached to the back of their hands. But they do. Cancer made it so. Here are some stories of some of those brave kids I have met in some of those playrooms. To be honest I never wanted to able to tell these stories. I didn't want to have a reason to go into those rooms. But, as bad luck would have it, I will visit these rooms on and off for a while with my grandson Andre. There is sadness here, but there is also so much hope.

There are some excellent storytellers with some excellent books on this site and you have NEVER HEARD OF MOST OF THEM. I am not talking about the people that got a million votes for finding every popular cliche on the planet and sticking them in one book. I am talking about people that know how to write. The ones that understand human nature and writing and know how to put them together. They write what they know and know what they write. They don't want to be like anybody else and they don't like to follow all the rules. Good honest prose is not a popular thing on Wattpad, but it is with me. So here are some of my favorite writers on Wattpad. I follow them all, and all for different reasons. Some of them will make you cry, others piss you off, and others will make you wish you were smart enough to figure them out. You will be amazed at the rawness of some of the stories and at both the complexity and simplicity of some of the storytelling. Other times you won't know what to think. But at all times I am sure you will think to yourself "Damn, now this, this is a writer".

Based on a true story. By all accounts, Jorge Salas was a good man. He was a well known and well respected businessman, doting husband, and loving father. Many of the older officers in the department knew him well. Unfortunately, when I first met him he was lying dead in the office of his own business with 3 bullets in him. Follow me while I chase rumors of cartel assassins, disgruntled employees, missing money, bloated insurance claims, and a cheating wife. The truth will shock you.

From the corporate life desk job, to mop and bucket, and now a life of catheters, BP cuffs and again the occasional mop... Becoming Not Quite a Nurse, as some might call it, my crazy life continues on! Now joining me is Hon. Hon 'Her Own Nut!' As in crazy nut bar! Get your mind out of the gutter. Sheesh! This is the collection of quirky and enlightening stories form the PSW days. That's 'Personal Support Worker' in case you're not familiar. We are the ones that do everything the nurse's do except administer medications, wound care, and anything that actually penetrates the patient. Which seriously turns out to be a load of horse 'dodo' because we 'do do' all those thing. And then some! Need catheter care? How about DBS? Digital Bowl Stimulations are considered a really crappy job, but necessary for some patients. Tis my specialty! I am told I can bug the sh*t out of anybody, and that's a real complement in this industry!! Not Quite a Nurse? Sure what ever they say. But, I wouldn't trade my job for the world! More unbelievable situations as only the Cleaning Lady can seem to get in. Still, believe them, they are again ALMOST all true! --- FOLLOW MACJANNY ON FACEBOOK! Find a link to the full Collection of Stories and have fun with some contests and giveaways :) https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010381951356 The FULL collection of The Cleaning Lady Chronicles has just been published :) Yay! available here on Amazon and to read free with KindleUnlimited http://www.amazon.ca/Cleaning-Lady-Chronicles-MacJanny-ebook/dp/B015HFTZZI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1442714419&sr=8-1&keywords=the+cleaning+lady+chronicles

This is a series of stories based on observations I have made while drinking coffee at Starbucks. Years of training as an investigator gives me little choice but to accidentally look into the lives of people I see. I don't do this so I can have something to write about. I do this because this is what I do. It just comes natural now. You would be surprised at the stories that are sitting right in front of you if you just knew what to look for. Cover by @Setalmage

Just a few moments in a regular day at work. Put on a badge and gun and see if you have what it takes.

These are the stories of my cleaning days, my invisible days, my soooooo lost I got found days. You do have to get lost before you can be found. It's just the way it is! Here's a bit of my lost days stories and my coming through to the other side of nearly two decades of struggling with Idiot. Idiot, at one time, was thought to be my high school sweet heart. But honey, there ain't nothing sweet about this man's heart! Choosing to be 'The Cleaning Lady' really helped me clean house you might say. As 'The Cleaning Lady' I see everything that goes on in a home, in a family, in the lives of those that open their doors to me. I see everything and in turn that opens doors to life lessons I never imagined, and characters, people, I will never forget! From the corporate life desk job, to the mop and bucket to be an 'almost' at home mom, the situations become almost unbelievable. But believe them, they are almost all true :) ----- ----- ----- WANT MORE? Follow MacJanny on Facebook :) https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010381951356

These are the stories of the people I have met during my over 20 year career in law-enforcement. They are all true. Some of them are ugly, others sad, but some are hopeful. Some of these people are on paths you can predict, others will surprise you. Whatever the case you will see that we all are a bit closer to each other than you think. We are all human and fall. Some of us get up. Some of us don't. There is something to learn from all of it.

Caroline King's dad is gone. She's depressed. She's consumed in grief and guilt. She's drowning underneath it all. And then suddenly, she is very literally drowning in the ocean, and then she finds herself encouraging the water to keep abusing her, encouraging it to keep her down in the water. She's drowning and she's okay with it. Until her plan of drowning is foiled when a boy jumps into the sea and saves her. And he's got some secrets of his own, and he's not going to share those anytime soon. It's up to Caroline to figure those out all on her own.

Dylan Crammer is in a stage 5 coma, but he is more concious than people are led to believe. Through memories and intuition, he tries to piece together how he got to be in this predicament. As time goes on he gathers more and more information as to what happened on that pivotal day. Past events keep surfacing in his mind; and most involve the same girl. He knows that she had, and may still have a connection with her. Even if he may not know why. Yet... Something terrible has occured that threw both Dylan and the girl's life away: and it is nowhere near over. There is so much risk involved and the girl has no choice to stay away and watch his progress from the sidelines, but, she does not know that she is being watch herself. This rollercoaster of a read will bring the readers a wide variety of emotions, knowing facts that the characters may not; willing them to aqquire knowledge that is key to their survival. The question is: will they both come out of this alive? She never knew, but she was in this right from the beginning, dragging innocent peoplle unawares into a tale of danger and lies.