❝I- what? What are you talking about? Who is this?❞ ❝Well the bathroom stall says that this number is the gateway to a good time, and unless you're trying to say that a bathroom stall is lying to me, I think I need a little more information to be sold. Do you have like a yelp page I could look up? Past customer review...
Genre: Poetry. Summary: Nove Otto are 9-line poems with 8 syllables per line, rhymed aabccbddb, created by Scott J. Alcorn. This collection is more spiritual, meditative and humanistic. I explore different topics on the human condition and experience and create a kind of narrative from birth to death and everything in...
What is new about how teenagers communicate through services such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram? Do social media affect the quality of teens' lives? In this eye-opening book, youth culture and technology expert danah boyd uncovers some of the major myths regarding teens' use of social media. She explores tropes...
This is a series where I discuss topics of the day. Nothing is out of bounds here. Racism, police shootings, homosexuality, politics, and so on. Never be afraid to discuss things out of your comfort zone. These problems don't fix themselves.
"Tell me, Gwen," Peter says, looking at me with his impossible green eyes. "Are you afraid of the dark?" "No." I say, and I'm lying. But he pretends that I'm not, and I pretend not to notice, and the portal zips shut behind us. No going back now. "Welcome," the hollow children say, as I follow Peter through the crowd...
A young woman who was always the life of the party, quick to tell a joke, always smiling and happy, tragically dies at age 23. What her mother found after her death reflected a much different young woman, her poetry. Her words showed a young woman crying out to feel loved, wanted, beautiful and worthy. Struggling to a...
Living in a world where the human race is dying off faster than it can reproduce, sixteen year old Maddie Ryan has started her period, an almost guaranteed sign of fertility. Knowing it's only a matter of time before the government finds out and forces her into the life of a Breeder, where her sole purpose will be to...
This is a series of stories based on observations I have made while drinking coffee at Starbucks. Years of training as an investigator gives me little choice but to accidentally look into the lives of people I see. I don't do this so I can have something to write about. I do this because this is what I do. It just com...
Felix Welter is a superhero. In the safest, most normal town in America. Did someone say 'be yourself'?
These are the stories of the people I have met during my over 20 year career in law-enforcement. They are all true. Some of them are ugly, others sad, but some are hopeful. Some of these people are on paths you can predict, others will surprise you. Whatever the case you will see that we all are a bit closer to each...
In my Chasing Wattpad series I made fun of short poems and pissed a lot of people off. I hate short poems. They are a waste of time. But never let it be said I will not try something once. As penance for my sins against the Haiku poets I will leave my comfort zone for a while and try and write some. I am guessing it w...
There are things in Harry Wylde's life that are far more important than The Others. Sure, the arrival of aliens is a big deal, but he's too busy with his own life to care. He has parties to go to, friends to see, girls to impress. When Harry's step-dad Sean decides to lead his family out of the city to safety, Harry r...
My daughter, as smart as she is, sometimes says the craziest things. This is a collection of actual quotes that came directly from her. You can't make this stuff up. I blame it on her hair.
Children shouldn't have to play with IV lines attached to the back of their hands. But they do. Cancer made it so. Here are some stories of some of those brave kids I have met in some of those playrooms. To be honest I never wanted to able to tell these stories. I didn't want to have a reason to go into those rooms...
Things you already know not to do but you do them anyway. Why? I'm not gonna lie, you do it because you are stupid. Cut it out.
Now a digital pilot for SYFY The Society knows when we're going to die. They imprint it on our arms at birth. I was supposed to die yesterday. I'm the girl who's Expired. Winner of the 2020 Readers Choice Awards Cover by @Forcade
