[Short Story] When Robin Park is diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, her entire world seems to change. Her only constant is the Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary-- a tool that comes in handy whenever she needs to define things like complex human emotions. Until she meets Vana, that is. Now it seems the dictionary isn't helping her much at all. 🏆Featured in Short Story's Puppy Love reading list.🏆 🏆Featured in LGBTQ+'s GirlxGirl Teen Fiction reading list.🏆 [©2017-2018. All rights reserved.]

For the daughter of a well known Chinese CEO, money isn't a problem for Li Hua Tián, but she has other things to deal with. Like trying live under the control of her father, and hiding the fact that she's a raging lesbian, all while being a college student. After she was attacked four months ago, Li Hua is told she'll have a personal bodyguard to follow her everywhere...making it a lot harder to hide any secrets. Valen Kotova has worked as a personal bodyguard and caretaker for years. She has more experience in the military than anyone and has outstanding abilities that no human could ever possess. Yet she chooses to live a life of self-restraint. Valen doesn't talk much and doesn't mind spending her whole life working for others. After all, how else can she forgive herself for her bloody past? . . (Yeah the cover is kinda cheesy, I'll admit that.)

When a celestial body forms, its soul manifests as a dragon, and seeks out the nearest inhabited planet to hunt upon. The moon dragon's power is cataclysmic on Earth, as she draws her strength from the gravitational force which creates the ocean's tides. Thousands of years ago, a violent king cursed a fragment of the moon; anyone who held it had the dragon's perfect obedience. The king used her as a weapon, destroying countless lives in his conquests. After the king's death, his heir decided such a weapon was inhumane for war, but too valuable to relinquish; The dragon was commanded to remain in her prison beneath the kingdom forever. Enraged, she began to kill any human who entered her cell. Rather than command her to stop, the royal family found her to be an efficient executioner, and an effective threat to dissenters. When Lyra is sent into the dragon's cell, fear conflicts with empathy, as both have suffered at the same hands.

Daisy Kane is your worst nightmare. Well, unless you're Allegra Gates, in which case your worst nightmare is pollen.

Two women leading different lives both are missing something from their lives: a connection. Neveah Jones was a once top-selling NYC author. She's twenty-six years old and has hit a low point in her career and needs to make a best selling book fast. Convinced she needs to learn how to write romance, her best friend drags her to Seattle for a change. Danielle Davis a thirty-one-year-old, originally from a small town in Louisana, works at a famous fish market in Seattle. She spends her time hiking, fishing, and taking care of her farm; some days she'll use her charm and go out with a girl. With a few invisible and unaddressed issues, she tries to live a simple life with routine.

The sixteen-year-old pianist Xenja is suffering from selective mutism which keeps her from talking to people outside of her family. This made finding friends almost impossible for her and being alone constantly made her fall into depression. The spoiled eighteen-year-old Stevie had to move in with her grandparents and now has to adapt to a very poor and limited lifestyle. SHe had dreamt of taking piano lessons for a long time but doesn't have money to do so. When both Xenja's mother and Stevie's grandparents ask the school for help with their situations, Xenja giving Stevie free piano lessons seems to be the solution that kills two birds with one stone. But sometimes things aren't as easy as they might seem...

Ainsley is a dragonblood princess, powerful but constantly restrained by her duties and her oppressive father, the king of Ellay. When a pirate crew makes a shaky truce with the king and asks for a guarantee of their safe travels around his country, he offers up Ainsley as an unwilling hostage and a show of good faith on his part. Ainsley suddenly finds herself powerless and trapped on a pirate ship, but the crew is nothing like what she expects, and neither is the lady captain, Gael, who defies every expectation and leaves Ainsley curious and unsure of where her loyalties lie. She tries her best to hate Gael and the pirates, but slowly, they're winning her over, and she must face the awful truth: to follow her heart will bring about catastrophic consequences, and she will need to be prepared to fight fire with fire.

"Kala's dark, smooth skin and Kelly's pale, heavily freckled face contrasted so vibrantly I wondered how they could both be so beautiful. They were like a living yin-yang. Kala sat with legs crossed and arms on her armrests, calmly waiting for the curtains to open. Kelly was talking and laughing excitedly with people all around her. Both girls radiated energy. Kelly's was all kinetic. Kala's was pure potential. Fire sat next to water." Analee didn't have an LGBTQ community to join. In her small town, she WAS the LGBTQ community. When two new girls move into town her senior year, one older, one younger, everything changes for her. It turns out falling in love is harder than she thinks. Even with a steadfast belief in true love, Analee finds navigating romance, friendships, and family something that has to be figured out one day at a time.

When Ash comes out to her friends as lesbian, they suggest she goes on seven dates to confirm her lesbianism before she comes out to her parents. ***** Ash is a teenage girl with a weakness for Asian food, good music, Japanese culture, art history, and...girls. She hasn't told her friends about the last part yet. When she comes out to her friends as a lesbian, they tell her her one G-rated high school boyfriend isn't enough experience to use to judge all of boykind. Ash's parents may not approve, so her friends want her to be certain of her sexuality before she comes out to them. Ash and her friends make a deal: If Ash goes out with seven different guys and decides she is a lesbian, her friends will help her come out to her parents. Will she find love along the way or will the seven dates confirm her sexuality? (A completed teen fiction drama, romance, and comedy novella written for Wattpride and winner of The Love For Writing Awards: 1st Place in Teen Fiction.) (© 2018 Sonic_Books All Rights Reserved)

It's the classic love story... The rebel. The sweetheart. But what happens if there isn't exactly a "bad boy"?