Dear Reader, It hadn't hit me right away, many things, but especially the fact that I was about to turn twenty years old. It was as if it was just yesterday that I was learning how to make a peanut butter sandwiches, tie my shoes, and draw endlessly with fat crayons--which I thoroughly believed to be a masterpiece. It...
WATTYS 2016 WINNER Untouchable. Stone. Jewel - these are some of the names used for people who are born with a gemstone at the centre of their forehead. This unfortunate phenomenon cannot be detected before birth, it cannot be prevented, if a family has a Jewelled child, there is only one outcome: Before they're sixte...
At first, it didn't bother me, but as I got older, I started to get curious stares from the other kids who had changed. No one ever said anything to me though, they knew my father was Alpha Tom's Beta and I was Alpha Tom's favorite. The Alpha had always been like a second father to me, so the other kids didn't mess me...