Is learning to lie essential to growing up?

WATTPAD BOOKS EDITION. There are some friends you never forget. It's the summer of 1955. For Ethan Harper, a biracial kid raised mostly by his white father, race has always been a distant conversation. When he's sent to spend the summer with his aunt and uncle in small-town Alabama, his blackness is suddenly front and center, and no one is shy about making it known he's not welcome there. Enter Juniper Jones. The town's resident oddball and free spirit, she's everything the townspeople aren't-open, kind, and accepting. Armed with two bikes and an unlimited supply of root beer floats, Ethan and Juniper set out to find their place in a town that's bent on rejecting them. As Ethan is confronted for the first time by what it means to be black in America, Juniper tries to help him see the beauty in even the ugliest reality, and that even the darkest days can give rise to an invincible summer . . .

talking about trips don't trip don't move don't groove sitting in street poverty such cross nailing you down in the tomb of lost paradise eating at your brain your eyes your infinite holes piercing the guts of well-fed bourgeoisie never gave you a penny what fear they tumbling down your nameless night sucked up into the pit of your desire ever forgetting the laws of herdy life us folks too dumb too spoilt too bribed naturally striving to crush you in filthy squares and let you die in the fire of your extinguished stare and the why of hunger gnawing abandoned in cardboard bare just ignored your ruin in native rug dreaming of plains and flapping wings of eagles white and black plummeting your body shaking essential truths unquenched

Adventure calls to seekers from different eras, different towns, even different worlds. Paths cross. Journeys intertwine. This poetry book highlights mysteries that drive us. It explores loss, endurance, and the struggle to find truth. Featuring gripping fictional narratives with characters that spring to life, Heartpen is an energetic page-turner whose wisdoms stick around long after they are read.

A collection of poetry some old some new and conscious writings. I hope you enjoy.

Home, where my heart lies. Home, where does the heart lie? pour l'enfance. (2013 - 2014)

Short poems and a wandering mind. Life and love in the twinkle of a bird's eye. "Evening light fits the cove rock, a mouthful of gold. Cormorant bathes in amber, deeply still..." #29 non-fiction, #38 poetry. #5 haiku! These are in lots of different styles, free verse, rhymes, sonnet and other forms. Thank you for all your reads, votes and comments. You bring it alive! Thank you for visiting. Call again:) Rose. words and many images copyright all rights reserved cora-2 / @ RosyCarmelina 2019 :)) cover image J J Harrison Creative Commons share alike 3.0 Wikipedia page : cuckoo

Writers have to get their characters from somewhere. Sometimes it's just not as simple as making them up.

'In the old days at home the Neverland had always begun to look a little dark and threatening by bedtime. Then unexplored patches arose in it and spread, black shadows moved about in them, the roar of the beasts of prey was quite different now, and above all, you lost the certainty that you would win. You were quite glad that the night-lights were on. You even liked Nana to say that this was just the mantelpiece over here, and that the Neverland was all make-believe.' -- J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan The image used in the cover artwork is originally from Lyn Hagan's project 'Porculpa - Zero Gravity Cat'.