Ramona "Mona" Gray only wanted to catch a big fish. Instead she caught a boy the same height as herself. Adam Fink was trying to catch a girl to take home to his grandpa that only wanted him to fall in love... With anyone, he didn't care as long as Adam was happy like his parents had been when they had met. Ramona didn't want a boy to bring home to her mom. Her sister already had a man lined up for the both of them, and neither of those boys was Adam. No, they were "respectful" gentlemen. Which to Ramona meant they were snobbish and most likely sexist in their own subtle ways. They wouldn't care for her boy short hair or that she loved her beanie dearly and would never part with it. Still, with matching plaid button ups that were both bought from the same side of the store it was clear that these two would get along... Well mostly, Adam wasn't too keen when she pushed him off the dock. And Ramona wasn't too happy to jump in after him to save him when he could have easily stood up in the water. After she took to calling him princess while he continued to access that she needed to grow out some stubble since she was already working the "man of the wilderness" look. Their adventures of their senior year will be tricky, probably a bit roundabout, and maybe just a teeny bit romantic. Still its like Ramona always says, "high school is just some pond to practice life in, once its over you go down the river of college and then you're at the ocean of opportunity and depending on what kind of fish you are it could be scary and vast or it can be too small and lonely." Former cover made by -ichor

"Go ahead," I said, backing up against the pink wall of the shop. "Do something other than glare at me." I waited. One, two, three seconds... and nothing. I raised my chin at him. "You're boring me, mute boy." He stepped closer. Leaned toward me as his gaze burned into mine. Then... ❀ ❀ ❀ After three months in juvenile detention, it's time for Romy Pereira to help out with her family's flower shop. And it's not all bad... until they hire Jack Michel to work beside her. He doesn't speak, communicating with glares and scowls instead of words, and seems to be more interested in literal rocks than other human beings. And with an ex-convict mother, her friends drifting away, and the flower shop falling apart, the last thing Romy wants to deal with is Jack's attitude. She'll forever praise the day he screws up big time and gets himself fired, but until that day comes, it's mostly one cold-hearted girl, her silent (but still infuriating) coworker, and a whole lot flowers. [word count: 100k] [originally written in 2014-2015; re-write completed 2020-2021] ❀ Rankings ❀ #1 in #badgirl #1 in #goodboy #1 in #flowershop #1 in #sociopath

daisy and duke are mad at each other. surprise surprise. [ #131 - humor | 12/1/14 ]

When 14 year old blind girl Alice Arcus falls in love with a voice who has read the most beautiful poem she has heard, she will start to hate herself for having been born blind. Alice will soon find out what love really is but also comes at a price for being blind. Will Alice find her rainbow colored love? Or will she be alone and blind not knowing what the world looks like or how love feels like?

It all started with a word written on a paper aeroplane - Eat. Alice is battling with anorexia, and paranoid delusions of being ugly. So when she meets Sam, falling in love doesn't seem like such a bad idea. But her heart is broken again, and soon enough she finds herself spiralling back into her hole of depression...

stories left behind by burnt out souls. [trigger warning: suicide. viewer discretion advised.]

"Remind me again why I thought spending six weeks with a bunch of hyperactive, sweaty and supposedly 'musically gifted' kids was a good idea?" Bailey Cunningham has gone and taken the plunge - she's not only signed up for the job of a camp counselor at Triple Lakes Camp for Musically Gifted Children, but she's roped her best friend, Savannah, into it too. However, the pair really get more than they bargained for when they discover they'll be sharing their summer with not only the kids, but the guy who looks as if he's stepped out of an Abercrombie and Fitch catalog, the quirky brother, and the sugar-coated flautist who's way too sweet for her own good. In the midst of the madness, only one thing's for sure: Bailey knows absolutely nothing about music.

If there was one thing Spencer Quinn knew how to do, it was making coffee. That's why working at Lucinda's, a quaint coffee shop, was the perfect job for her. It kept her mind off her troubled mother, helped pay the rent for her apartment and her co-workers weren't that bad. But trouble seems to follow her wherever she goes, but this time she's making an effort to leave her past where it belongs so she can make it to college with a new life in sight. Though the unpredicted entrance of the famous Adam Kessler seems to bring along bumps in her path and she has to rethink whether believing in yesterday is worth it.

Penelope Ivory. Witty, hardworking, and hates meeting new people. When her father is introduced to a brand new job in a different state, Penelope grows to be devastated. Not only is she going to miss her best friends, Wendy and Max, but she hates change. The thought of the word made her cringe and left a bitter taste in her mouth that made her want to throw up. On her first day of school, which is embarrassingly in the middle of the school year, she has trouble making new friends and the process of starting all over in a brand new city is frustrating. Not only does she have to deal with school, but also her seventeen year old big sister Brooke, who comes back home after she ran away three years ago. Ever heard of that saying 'When life gives you lemons you make lemonade'? Well when life gives Penelope a teacher that hates her, a sick cat, the class bully, and a bunch of old elderly people, you get the tales of a curious third grader.