A retelling of the colonization period like you have never heard before! Halia never knew the Elders' ancient way of life. She was a nymph born in a dark alley of a human town, far from nature, and had never left it. One day, in 1534, a frenzy took over the community as they are offered a new life in a newly discovered world. They hoped for the best but, as they soon found out, things wouldn't turn out the way they had hoped.

[NOW PUBLISHED ON AMAZON! You can buy it here: http://bit.ly/ColdFireBUY] [*SAMPLE ONLY* LAST 10 CHAPTERS REMOVED] [A Wattpad featured novel] Melissa has a rare, undiagnosed disease, or so say the doctors that did tests on her for half of her life. She doesn't need a medical certificate to tell her that she's different. She was born with a body temperature so low that most people would die before they even started living. Keyword: most. Somehow, Melissa has managed to live for fifteen years, but those years have not been without their hardships. The doctors told her that in order for her organs to function in such cold conditions, her body must absorb the heat from the surrounding air in a painful process dubbed a "heat attack", which slowly turns her temporary home freezing and uninhabitable. Forced to move from city to city in order to keep everyone in her vicinity alive, and plagued by the stares and hushed whispers that accompany her, Melissa tries to lead a normal life. But she's failing miserably. And when she's approached by the new kid in school, all hope of an ordinary life slips from her grasp. Suddenly, strange is the new normal, and Melissa finds herself wrapped up in a new world where ghosts aren't "just in her head", glass windows shatter unprovoked, and rare, undiagnosed diseases aren't actually diseases at all. And to top it all off, someone - or multiple someones - seem to want her dead. So much for normal... © 2013 by shayebay All Rights Reserved PUBLISHED JUNE 26, 2019 WITH TYPEWRITER PUB!! You can buy it on Amazon here: http://bit.ly/ColdFireBUY A WATTPAD FEATURED NOVEL: -- from September 2015 - July 2017; -- and again in February 2018 Highest ranking: #3 in Paranormal Listen to the Cold Fire playlist here: http://8tracks.com/grymoires/cold-fire

Jillian's senior year was supposed to be easy, but when her father's job causes the two of them to uproot their life and move to Byrendale, it doesn't take long to realize that the small town is still mourning a tragedy. Meeting Parker was something she didn't expect. He's an outcast, but more importantly, he's been accused of murdering his sister. The more time the two of them spend together, the closer they grow, and Jillian is able to see what everyone else refuses to - he's innocent.

Summertime in Chesterfield means two very different things for teenagers Tess Copeland and Maddie Lambert. For Tess, spending time with family and anticipating the annual Crush Festival goes hand-in-hand with the country air and the sweet smell of a cane fire. For Maddie, Chesterfield offers an escape from the demands of a reality that she's just unable to run from. This summer, however, there is one lit fire that's even harder to contain than the massive bonfires that characterise the town's summer spectacle, as young love and awakened passions smoulder in the shadows. Amidst the turmoil of growing up and the pressures of youth and fame, can these two young women navigate the precipices of adulthood unscathed? Will Maddie and Tess be able to overcome the secrets of a small town and save the beloved festival before it's too late?

My name is Asia Kaplan. Strange name, I know. But I have my parents to blame for that one. So besides an exotic name, life was actually pretty good for me. I had a pretty wonderful family after all. Good friends, fairly alright school, and all that crap that gets thrown into a normal teenager's life. But after I turned sixteen, things became... Different. And oh-so not very normal anymore. And all my past bad deeds were payed for in one night. With my life. ... Think my story stops there? Oh no. Somehow, it continued. And with one story after another... I began to figure out that the life that I had known... Was all a lie.

Each baby born beneath the waves is killed--with one exception: the one hundred thousandth is spared. There's one rule shared between the island's tribes: don't touch the water. When Cressa-la breaks this law, her world, and body, changes. Sure, change is normal... but when has growing scales ever been normal? • • • Watty Award Winner 2015: Best Use of Visuals • • • Each baby born beneath the waves is killed--with one exception: the one hundred thousandth is spared. Among the spared, magic chooses a rare few, connecting them to the moon or sea. These are the One-Hundreds, mermaids and humans with the power to save the world-or corrupt it. When Cressa-la breaks the first rule of her tribe and touches the water surrounding her island, everything she knows turns on its head. Talking, sinister dolphins, mind control, and a whole world just under the waves await her on her eigteenth birthday... but she never asked for any of this. All she wanted was to become a Tribe Leader and take care of her village. It's amazing how one screw-up can change everything. A relentless darkness reaches for her, wanting her affections for his own twisted purposes. In opposition stands a fractured light, haunted by a painful past where corruption eroded friendship. Unless Cressa-la can bring the darkness to his knees and fight the war raging inside, the world is doomed. • • • Content warning: This story contains themes of depression and violence.

Short story about image. This was around Homecoming, teachers also got a king or a queen this is a teacher talking about that moment he found out he was nominated for king. Today I heard a teacher talking while he was talking about Homecoming for the students, a student of his asked what if you were homecoming king? in his response he said " I don't want that, I don't want them to vote for me, I believe that they would be doing it as a joke, so why would I want to be a joke? He said it in an odd tone of voice too, like he was scared but of what? that it could be a joke? or that it might not be a joke? and why would it matter if it was a joke or not? I mean look at all of us, look at the human race, were no better than animals judging others on money, strength, weaknesses,looks,jobs,everything even eye color, even judging on things that we can't even change, we all act like monsters verbally and physically look at us......It's sick, terrible, terrifying, nauseating,ill, even morbid, it some how makes me want isolation, death, solitude, even some sort of magical opportunity but then again at the same time I don't know just the thought of a teacher even feeling this way makes me sick.....that kids, possibly his students even would make this a joke, make him a joke.....it just shows how society judges us, like if your not pretty, smart, thin, and popular you don't matter or at least you don't until you are dead, if your bigger than a size 2 you should starve yourself or if you don't have great hair you should get a wig or shave it all off. In all reality just because of this situation it makes me think that society is sick, twisted, scary, and morbid.