WATTPAD ORIGINAL EDITION In 1955, mixed-race Ethan Harper leaves his progressive hometown for a summer in Alabama where he's not welcome, except by resident free spirit, Juniper Jones. ***** After getting himself into a bout of trouble, 16-year-old Ethan Harper's parents send him to Ellison, Alabama, to live with his aunt and uncle for the summer. But the year is 1955, and Alabama is a far cry from his beloved home of Arcadia, Washington. As much as it's hotter in temperature, it's colder in every other way, and Ethan learns the hard way that people see his mere existence as a threat. Amidst all the mayhem, a fiery, free-spirited, oddball walks into Ethan's life. Her name is Juniper Jones. She is the first person in Ellison who seems unfazed by their racial differences, and she promises to give Ethan a summer he will always remember, filled with endless adventure and discovery. With Juniper, Ethan can breathe, he can be, despite the incessant attention and bullying their newly formed friendship attracts. Can the two survive the summer, run in the light and block out the noise of the outside world? [Published version comes out June 16, 2020 with Wattpad Books!] [[word count: 70,000-80,000 words]]

❝Lethe (LEE-thee) - (n.) a river in the Greek underworld that, when drunk from, made souls forget the sufferings of life - oblivion or something to make you enter oblivion and forget❞ [Previously known as Beautiful Disaster]

Set in a futuristic pirate world, 'Blue' is about a young mechanic, Faia, aboard the pirate ship, the 'Restless', and how it all started when she helped save a mermaid. But that's not exactly true. What happens when this world is ruled by the Terra government, responsible for the enslavement of the merpeople to mine for rare minerals in the depths of the ocean? What happens when the merpeople rise up to fight for their freedom? And what happens to the pirates who are allied to the merpeople, to the Rebellion? Winner of the Young Writers Short Story competition (2014)!

[Short-Story] "I approached the willow tree in the distance, it's memories effectively warming me up. I made my way to the trunk of the tree and felt around before my fingers fell upon a familiar carving, only five years old. The carving was that of a heart with 'M+A' carved in the middle. A soft smile made it's way onto my face before my legs gave out and I was sitting on the surprisingly dry dirt. I pushed my forehead forward and lay it onto the trunk of the tree. My hair drew like curtains on a stage and covered my tear stricken face. I wanted to feel the warmth again; I needed to hear my name again, they way it was meant to be said. "I'm sorry, baby girl' I said in a low whisper, "I'm sorry mommy couldn't help you" *Awesome cover by Marveler_*