Ella Jane's annoyingly average life is upended when she catches her classmate, Ryan Hunter, breaking into her house. Ryan owes a mysterious group of men a lot of money - $5,000, to be exact. He has two months to gather the money on his own, or he's a dead man. Instead of turning Ryan over to the cops, Ella offers to help him get the money. When robberies, money, guns and love are involved, nothing is black and white. For Ella and Ryan, there is only gray. (extended description inside)

In the midst of 1992, Jules has fallen into the unforgettable music scene, thriving on late Seattle nights and an inner circle in which River Phoenix is the lead singer of Running Knees, a band that has joined the likes of Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, and Soundgarden. This is her nineties memoir of love and loss, misery and denial, and never-ending nostalgia.

she became his music. her voice, the melody. her heartbeat, the drums. her eyes, the inspiration. her soft words, the tattooed lyrics on his skin. he became lost in her.

What happens when one of the last freakshows comes to your town? Not only is it a grotesque event viewed for pleasure at a circus but one that harbors secrets and hidden evils behind the curtains. Scarlett didn't know what to think when she heard about the circus coming to her town; her town was small, rarely anything visited it. She never expected to be ripped from her life and forced into their society of freaks, struggling to keep their business. She wasn't and would never be a freak, especially ones that didn't know right morals from wrong ones. ___________________________________ THIS STORY CONTAINS GRAPHIC MATERIAL AND POTENTIALLY TRIGGERING CONTENT: READ AT YOUR OWN RISK (18+) I WROTE THIS WHEN I WAS 14. It's not edited but gets better over time as I learned how to write. That being said, some depictions of mental illness are not accurate because was not very knowledgeable at the time. All rights to this story and it's characters belong to me. Also, I use phrases from poems and those belong to their rightful owners. cover made by: @Harley_Quinn_18 trailer made by: AlyxMck :)

A/N: This is an unedited, significantly different version of the soon to be published novel by losangelesque aka L. Akhter. This draft was written when I was 15-18 years old and I highly encourage new readers to read the published version instead. Former high school football star Frank Novak meets profound and depressed loner Lolita Abri - and falls headfirst into love. Throughout the course of one school year, they unravel each other and their sadness, setting apart their differences and realizing that sometimes love isn't enough - and sometimes it just might be. [FIRST DRAFT] Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXTbhopy9ts © All Rights Reserved. Teen Fic #7 A Wattpad Featured story