Tracy/ The Waitress No one knows struggle better than Tracy. It's hard being a single mother and Tracy knows this best. Bills are piling up and Tracy is falling in a pit of her own failures. Pride and insecurity is a toxic mix... maybe this new customer can help her overcome both. Camron/ The Babysitter Camron is a hardass with a soft heart. Her dream is to attend Notre Dame but money isn't easy to find. So, what happens when she takes up babysitting for a no good man? Well she gives him a piece of her mind of course... maybe more. Harmony/ The Best Friend Harmony and Zeke been best friends since monkey bars. It's just the jungle gym of senior year they have to survive now. Zeke is the "It Boy" and Harmony is... well, his sidekick. Zeke has always managed to stay by Harmony's side despite the harsh world of the high school status quo. Harmony has only one secret that she can't tell her best friend... she's in love with him. 3 separate stories. 3 different lives. 3 thick girls.

My eyes roam over her face while I wait for my brain to finally click back into gear. But I just can't stand here like a total dumbass, I have to say something. Maybe if I can figure out who she is, I can get us back on even footing. "Let me save you the trouble, Parker Montgomery, because I can see the little hamster wheel spinning in your head. You don't know me. And frankly, because of your rather man whore-ish reputation, I'm totally okay with that. You're like a walking advertisement for STD's." I'm pretty sure my chin just hit the cement. Holy crap. Did this girl seriously just say that to me? I have to admit that I'm sort of blown away. Man whore? I'm not a man whore. I mean, sure I've been with a number of girls, but does that necessarily make me a man whore? All I can do is stare at her feeling totally... damn it! I can't even adequately explain how I'm feeling right now. The only thing I seem capable of doing is hoisting my cup to my lips and taking a giant gulp of beer. I have to admit that this has not exactly been one of my finest Parker moments. Not by a long shot. But like I said, this girl has somehow thrown me completely off my game. I'm hoping the beer will help me get my mojo back. Liquid courage or something like that. I don't even know anymore. Just as I open my mouth to fire some cutting retort back at her she beats me to the punch. "Listen, this little meet and greet has been awesome, but I've got to take off." What? Does she really think that I'm just going to let her walk away from me? Oh. Hell. No.

Indigo Ramirez, daughter to an archaeologist and a marine biologist. Just like the many of the other teens and children that live on Cierra, a home base where they learn and learn to survive in the year 2112. Children of Scientists who were saved 60 years ago from the great "Change". She's taught to never go outside the Fence for it is too dangerous. Though, she knows there is more. As she tries to collect information on the planet, she stumbles across Xavier, a survivor from the outside. Who gives her the opportunity to explore places beyond her imagination.

ALL IS SILENCE finished #37 of 151 for Wattpad's Story of the Year! Also a WATTYS 2015 - Dream Collections Winner! Thanks to everyone who added me to their collections! You made my year! The sequel, STRAIGHT INTO DARKNESS, is available in print and e-book on all major ebook sites. If you are interested in hearing about special deals on this or any other works, please sign up for my monthly newsletter at www.desertedlands.com. #1 in Science Fiction - 57 days so far! Thank you, readers! PG-15: [Yes, you read that right. I would recommend teens not read it until they are 16!] Profanity, violence and sexual situations. Warning: There is talk of cutting and suicide. If any of these are triggers for you, please consider that when reading. Take care. Rob What if death forgot you? In a future that could be ours, Lizzie, a suicidal teen-age girl, barely navigates her own life. Then everything falls apart. In an apocalyptic land nearly deserted by disease, she lacks reasons to live until a shocking turn of events reveals a phone number. Her call pulls her dangerously cross-country to meet a stranger she thought was dead. In a world where there is plenty of food, plenty of gas, plenty of space... fear, anger and a lust for power still control the patterns of human life. This coming of age, edgy young adult novel is the debut of a former alternative high school teacher. If you like this, try Toils and Snares, a Deserted Lands novella, sampled on Wattpad.

A world so dark and hopeless that people believe God can no longer watch. In an effort to bring new light into this dying world, a project is started to create a race of perfect, sinless humans. Isolated from the world, they know nothing. However, many things unplanned for begin to occur and soon these children will face a new reality. This is Project Purity.

The future isn't friendly. People in Meta are dying from a mysterious disease and Sean wants to know why. But in the Core, asking the wrong question can be dangerous. Pursuing the answers, Sean and his friends embark on a perilous journey that will put them on a collision course with the malevolent Niles Galvin, the most powerful and treacherous oligarch on the planet. Could Susan's Plague be something more sinister than they thought? Will they discover a much darker side to the oppressive oligarchy that rules them? Sean finds himself caught up in the complex machinations of an evil man bent on seizing and controlling the power of the past for his use to rule the present. With their lives hanging in the balance, Sean struggles to save himself and his friends when he realizes the truth has dire consequences. By Rick Chisholm Copyright © 2014 Rick Chisholm All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or in any means – by electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise – without prior written permission.