Corporal Dia Zephyr assumed it was just another drill, no more than a Navy tradition, a rite of passage for the recruits. She expected a spacewalk, maybe a shooting game inside an asteroid field, skimming along the Collective's border before turning back to the Empire's space. After all, this was what they knew, what everyone expected. But that's not what happened. Highest ranks: [27 in #Science Fiction - 25 in #Horror 10-01-2018]

In this futuristic retelling of Beauty and the Beast, Bo is the leader of a group of refugees with no homes to return to. It is the time after a great war between the inhabitants of earth and creatures from another planet. Now the humans rely on scavenging the war-torn remains of the blast zones to keep themselves alive. When Bo's father is late returning from a hunt, she knows something has gone wrong. Fearing that he might have taken her request to bring back a now-extinct rose seriously, Bo sets off to find him in the Dead Woods. Only, when she does find her father, she also finds an enemy that was thought to have left the planet long ago. Bo is forced to choose between her freedom or her father, her refugees or a creature she wants to kill with every fiber of her being.

Set in its own fictional world in the lands of Voluntas with two suns, a blend of medieval and modern speech and an endless war no one knows the reason for; will the protagonists be able to make an impact or even outlive it? Or just be yet another unremarkable generation that will be forgotten? Current best : #10 in Adventure First place in Adventure - The Blue Rose Awards, November 2018. Third place in General Fiction - Belle Ame Awards, 2018. -@ChildishTycoon

All the things I wish I could've said but was to afraid to say.

Short works, school assignments, and freewrites that don't deserve to be their own book. I've ordered them from best to worst. This collection is also published on FictionPress; however, the chapter order is different. Section I - Stand-alone Stories 1. The Graduate. Flash fiction. When she begged for help from "anyone or anything who could help her pass her class," she wasn't expecting a demon to actually show up. 2. The Sting of Betrayal. Flash fiction. She was just trying to do a good deed. She learned her lesson. 3. How to Avoid Moving Your Body in P.E. Essay. Tips on minimizing others' awareness of your physical body while you're going through puberty. 4. Middle School: An Anthropological Study. Autobiographical essay. A homeschooled nerd takes a journey into a strange, foreign land. 5. Bus Stop. Creepypasta-style. A woman chases a purse snatcher, but the thief might not be what she appears. Section II - Short scenes 1. Forbidden Fruit - A girl trying to hide contraband cookies. 2. Muffy and Sephy - A pubescent relationship from two POV's. 3. Ten Seconds, 300 Words - The last ten seconds of a girl's life. 3. Dialogue Exercise: Eavesdropping - Badly injured, a boy overhears a conversation between a vampire and the human he's brought to feed off. 4. Hospital Scene: From an assignment to write a scene set in a hospital. 5. Characterization - Using setting to make a point about character. 6. Primal Landscape: California Suburbs: For an assignment to write the beginning of a story set in ones hometown. 7. 99 Red Balloons: A challenge to write a story based off a song. Lovely cover by awakenedskies. Middle School: An Anthropological Study was published in the 2014 volume of Kula Manu Literary Journal. Featured on @CoffeeCommunity's Anthologies reading list. Featured on @WattPadAnthologies's Multi-Genre Anthologies reading list.

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