Mason Marks is a screw up. Every day is a struggle to cough up enough money for rent, to ignore the reek of despair flooding the streets, to stop himself from slipping further into the shadows and slums of Downtown L.A. And he is sick of it. When he's kidnapped by a creature seemingly taken straight out of folklore, his world is flipped upside down--quite literally. There, he is rescued by two strangers who are part of an organization tasked with keeping the peace between the two words: Earth and the land of folklore, Somnium. Though Mason stumbles to find his footing in a world where fantasy and reality walk side by side, he is nothing but determined. Mason has no choice but to fight for both worlds. To fight against the oppressors, those who claim to be on his side, his doubts, and his own inner darkness. *** from readers: "With it's wonderfully diverse and interesting cast of characters, The Los Angeles Lighthouse will take you on a little adventure into a world of pure fantasy and some emotional rollercoasters. Easily my favorite book on Wattpad. And don't forget to keep your eyes peeled for stray spears!" -@honey-tea-rosemary * * * FEATURED on @Wattpad 's 'Fresh Reads' Reading List @Fantasy 's 'Featured Fantasy Stories' Reading List 'Magical Realism' Reading List 'Celebrating Black History' Reading List & @WattpadMulticultural 's 'Celebrating Black History' Reading List ranks: | ranked #1 | #LGTB #Lighthosue| |completed| 07.23.2019| awards: | long list | Authentic Skull Awards 2019| [Completed ✔ Currently Editing]

** Winner of The Watty's 2014: Collector's Dream Award ** ** This is a true story. Now FULLY edited ** I was diagnosed with Cancer a week before my 16th Birthday. I had Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma and had to undergo Chemotherapy and a Stem Cell transplant, back in 2003. My whole life changed. I wrote this book when I was 17, when all my treatment was over, to catalogue everything I had learned and experienced. I had no information about Cancer during my treatment; it was all aimed at adults and I was a teenager who didn't understand most of what happened. So I wrote this book. I was a teenager when I wrote, when I had Cancer and I wanted this to be an information, honest account of what it was really like to have Cancer and go through the treatment....from a teenager's perspective. It's sometimes funny, sometimes sad, always honest. There may be parts that you squint at, because you're embarrassed to read them...well, I was embarrassed writing them. But that's the whole point of honesty. To get it out in the open. To be real. And that's what this is.

h i g h e s t r a n k: #1 in #dailythoughts a rose without its thorns is similar to that of a brain without its thoughts ____________________________ | TOP POEMS | "Perfection is an Opinion" (Excerpt): 'I set the bar too high Skip the walking--attempt to fly And just when I think I've reached the sky I'm falling Down...' "Like A Puzzle" (Excerpt): '...Not all lines have neighbor Or the perfect phrase to fit..." "My Mind is a Highway" (Excerpt): 'Thousands of thoughts And only one of me' ____________________________