BOOK #1 [A Watty Finalist & Newly Edited!] The Swarm - thought to have originated from biological warfare, arrived, it killed and left millions dead in its wake and still has not been eradicated as it makes its way around the world. A cure is not possible. Irissa Maclin, a reclusive and hostile girl from a desert region that borders the capitol Arid, is on the verge of turning seventeen. Girls of this age from the surrounding regions are selected at random for surrogacy. They will be taken to PURE, a lab to help harbor Seraphim - genetically perfect embryos. If she is to be sent away, can the turmoil deep within her be mended by a young man from a neighboring region - a forbidden attraction that can change everything? Secrets, betrayals, and love pave the path for Irissa. Will she choose her own fate, or succumb to the science that promises a brighter future?

Sometimes all you really need is a place to call home. * * * Being re-written completely as of May 14, 2021

Goodbye Letters is about two girls, one, writing her 'goodbye letters' to the world as she contemplates suicide and another as she searches for meaning and direction in her life. that is a lousy attempt at a description but give it a shot, pleeeease :)

Titus 3:2~ to speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show perfect courtesy toward all people. I strummed my guitar and wrote some more lyrics. I heard a knock on my door. Then in walked the one and only Jeremiah West. The new Justin Bieber of the Christian world. "Hey Naomi, you working on my new song?" I handed him the piece of paper I had been working on. "Man I wish you could sing this with me." I glared at him. 'Really? You know that's not possible.' Naomi and Jeremiah have been friends since birth. They both loved to sing at their youth group until Naomi was diagnosed with brain cancer. Her wish was for him to sing on national TV.

After an incident three months ago and her parent's divorce, Reina Caverly finds a way to cope: cutting herself. Her mother's a workaholic, her sister is an out of control teenage girl, and her dad disappeared from the face of the planet. She can't even tell her two best friends, Joshua and Megan, about her problems. Then she meets young and mysterious Calvin Young about to commit suicide by jumping from her school's rooftop which surprised Reina. He's rich; he's handsome for his age, and does well at school, so why? Why would someone who has everything want to kill himself? Everyone has a dark secret, even Calvin who seems to have the world. Can Reina and Calvin learn to speak up about their issues? Can they find their reasons to live? ______ "One day you'll leave me. You don't want a girl with a rape story," I said as I desperately tried to stop my sobs and hiccups. "You deserve someone who is prettier and more stable then me." "Mon ange ," he whispered to me lightly as he held my tear-stained face. I looked at him and my breath shortened as I met his intense look. "I don't want anyone else," he said, "because I just want you." ______ WARNING: Story contains rape, self-harm, and suicidal ideation.

Writing to finish. Story will be continually updated once life slows down again~~~ The Etchings are active, the prophetic tablets again inscribing our fates. Well, or so it seems. Lord Mundus has cheated the future, and now everyone is going to pay a price. Fetoven Vas, a rather moody and impusive serf of Lord Mundus's manor, is bestowed the greatest cost of all: the curse of the Axis Palm. Along with the alien dragon Laetres, the mysterious sneak Serpo, the cousin Enervent, and the lord's son Maccus, Fetoven flees from the estate, in hopes of righteous truth and the peace within the struggle of an unlikely romance. Can he fight his dark destiny before it's too late? Or will he stumble over the fine line between good and evil?