Only once had she heard him say three words to her; "Take a sip." With a crooked smile plastered on his face, that she'll never come to forget. ➝ Former blurb dismantled ➝ Under major editing ➝ Short story, highest rank : #23 10 • 26 • 15 ➝ # Coffee Shop, highest rank : #1 11 ● 29 ● 19

The next December, they were apart. [Sequel to December]

They met in December.

Winter Winds is a story about Reilly Rain, a single girl in her mid-twenties, who is sick of always being the only one without a boyfriend at family Christmas parties. As Christmas approaches she accidentally tells her mother that she will bring a guy with her to this year's family Christmas party. The whole family is excited about meeting the guy who finally managed to sweep her of her feet, but the only problem is that Reilly made him up. With only a month till the big yearly party time is running out for Reilly. She either has to find a guy really fast or face the humiliation from her family as she once again has to be the one who sits by herself chastened by her family's growing interest in her singlehood.

The two of us sat around the beautiful tree in silence, admiring every detail of its existence, but still it did not feel like Christmas. Not without Daddy. Felicity's father was an army father and husband serving his country year round without much break. Although, he's rarely home for Christmas never does he forget Felicity. Every Christmas there would be a small box on her doorstep with some sort of present for her, but it was never actually the same as really having him there with them on such a magical morning. This Christmas Felicity receives a gift from her father like she usually does, but this time it's different, she receives a snow globe. You're probably wondering how exactly a snow globe is different. It's not that the snow globe isn't a normal present, but it's what's inside the snow globe. One shake of the beautiful glass and time is put to a permanent stop, transferring Felicity into the tiny decoration. At first the snow globe seems like a nice change from her reality, but what happens when she tries to get herself back out, to restart time and get back to her family? What will happen to the bonds she created inside her second home?

Dear Santa, I've always written you one letter each year demanding what I want most. But don't worry, this year I will change. A humorous story about a 12 year old girl, who thinks she can be Santa's helper. She thinks very practical doing lots of funny favors for him, awaiting her big prize on Christmas Day!

Dakota Peters is a simple girl. She is okay with surviving high school with her friends, her brother, and her pathetic crush on Caleb Fisher. She has been pining over Caleb since freshman year, but is totally okay with just admiring from afar because she knows that she's too awkward and weird to actually have a boyfriend. Dakota's life is pretty simple this way, pathetically stalking an improbable crush and that's how she's happy living her life until, of course, things get complicated. There's a new boy in town just as another one of her brother's friends confesses feelings for her just as Caleb begins to take notice to her. With all three things happening at once, it's overwhelming for Dakota because she isn't used to boys actually liking her back. She was content with stalking from afar with no real love interest, but now she has three and that's not okay with her. Not to mention her secret manhunt to find her mother, who abandoned her family when she and her brother were four. How can she get through the last half of senior year with all of this abnormal drama going on around her?

Paisley Valetta was once an average, artistic teenage girl. Finishing her junior year in high school with her best friend and her hot boyfriend. She's also really close to her free spirited mother. Until one night, Paisley and her mother get in a car accident, killing her mom and leaving Paisley all alone and forced to move across the country to live with her father, the man who abandoned her when she was six. Along with having to live with her dad, she finds out that not only will she be living with her dad, but also with an unexpected roommate. Alex, who is her age and living with Charlie, Paisley's father, is staying just down the hall from Paisley for the summer. How will she get through this grieving, fighting, and finding out who her true friends are?

Avery and Andrew have been best friends since middle school; they're close. But they're about to get a whole lot closer when paired up for the project like no other: the baby project.

With summer just around the corner, Coraline's prepared for another busy tourist season at her family's hotel. What she's not expecting, however, is England's hottest up-and-coming music sensation, Leon McCarthy, showing up at the check-in desk.