Barney Conroy is an average guy trying to live an average life. He's just not as good at it as the rest of us. Each chapter of 'The Chronicles of Barnia' captures a particular episode in Barney's struggle to be socially acceptable. They can be read in any order. Barney's adventures continue in a full length novel right here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01CSIFKQK Enjoy! Guy

What happens between blades of grass? Watch Acacia as she's sent out to California to face the man she never wanted to see again. Not knowing the struggles she has to overcome in order to save her quality of life, she's determined to do anything in her power to get sent back to her friends. Acacia's in for an even bigger surprise from her unrelentingly nosey neighbor. He wants nothing but to see behind her mask; she just wants to stay as closed off as possible. See, no one knows just what lies between blades of grass, and Damian intends to figure out just what life- if any- lies behind this new little spitfire's misleading toleration of things. Follow her story of self-discovery as she simaltaneously combats her heart, her mind and her soul in a matter of a few months.

Hudson Ellis is good at his job. Somehow, he manages not to annoy people when he knocks at their doors and asks them to contribute to the charity he works for - instead, he gets them to sign up for sponsoring programmes and fish whatever spare change they have out of their pockets. Even the infamously tough residents of New York City are falling victim to Hudson's easy-going ways and wide smile; that is, until one woman renders him speechless with sarcastic refusals and slams her door in his face. Perhaps Hudson would be able to forget her - if it wasn't for the fact that she lives on the same floor of the next apartment over, and they both have floor-to-ceiling windows that allow for a rather generous view into each other's flats.

The Adélie penguin migrates to the southern beaches of Antarctica during the summer months of November and December for mating season. The males go on a long search to find that one perfect pebble to impress their female mates. If he succeeds, the two penguins will build a family together, making a nest out of stones, and raising their newly hatched chicks. Lianna is homeschooled, living in practically the middle of nowhere in the state of Utah, and the only friends she has are either online or penguins. Yes, penguins. Her mother is a marine biologist, and together each year they take a three month trip to study in Antarctica. Lianna takes after her mom, keeping a notebook of all the species she observes down at the bottom of the planet. But this year, her mother's new partner travels down south to help with a big new project... And he brings his son, Dean. Lianna's life spins into a complete disaster and into situations concerning the meaning of life and death itself.

A newly expanded and professionally edited version of the Boy in the Woods is now available for sale as an ebook and paperback! Buy it at Amazon, iBooks, Barnes & Noble, Smashwords, and many other online outlets. Winner of the 2014 Wattys Talk of the Town award. After a devastating accident takes Jess's parents, a cold and controlling uncle is the only family she has left. Ripping away everything she's ever known, he takes her far from her home in the big city to live on the rural family estate. With a spoiled and stuck up older cousin the only other young person in the home, Jess struggles to adjust to her new life of loneliness and quiet isolation. While exploring the woods surrounding her home one day, she stumbles upon a mysterious boy. Desperate for a friend, she's instantly drawn to him, but he's deeply distrustful and wants nothing to do with her. Sneaking away to see him, she works hard to break through his walls and slowly gains his trust. As time passes, their bond grows from forbidden friendship into something more, but the threat they'll be caught looms closer. How far will Jess have to go to protect the boy she's fallen in love with? Or will her uncle find out about them before she can escape his control? The Boy in the Woods is a mysterious and poignant coming of age novel set in the late 1950's, with the same classic feel as A Little Princess and The Secret Garden. As one of the top ten most read historical fiction stories on the popular reading website Wattpad.com, it's already loved by tens of thousands of readers. This compelling story is twice the length of the average young adult novel, and is appropriate for ages 14 to adult. By the same author as Wattys finalists Stolen Hearts and Love You Forever! Best Ranking: Historical Fiction #1 General Fiction #3 Warning: This story contains occasional language and mild violence.

Miranda and her best friend ride their bicycles through the hurricane, but nothing will ever prepare her for the most dangerous storm yet, growing up.

Vanessa Wilkaz has always thought that she was perfect, or at least as perfect as it gets. She’s the most popular girl at school, a blonde, she has the best friends ever, Alicia and Malex, she has the best boyfriend ever, Ash Lindon. She has parents who spoil her, an older brother who introduces her to his hot friends, she’s rich, she has everything. But suddenly, it all happened the day Vanessa cuts her eyebrows by mistake, she was shaping them up and got so frustrated, she cut them with a scissor. Immediately regretting it, she screamed, her mother ran in and found her precious daughter’s face damage, she tells Vanessa that she’d buy her eyebrow pencil immediately, and Vanessa covers it up. But some say that chopped eyebrows bring bad luck, and suddenly unspeakable horrors are thrown Vanessa’s way, can she survive this? Or will she die?

Growing up in a world related to everything Potter, Libby Rowling decides that she has had enough. Ready for a change, she packs her bags and embarks on her journey to the states. Her plan blows up when she meets Mason, a Harry Potter fanatic who might just turn her world upside down. [#31 short story 1.23.14]

The car pulled up closer and closer, I squint to look at my new house. My heart stops when I lay my eyes on it. Because one of my fears are creepy old houses. This one is made of beat- up wood planks, and really old would be an understatement. No I can’t live here. I just can’t. I don’t know what’s in there. All I know is that it’s not something I’d like to see. Molly McAllister, a 17 year old girl, is forced to move to an old dark house, when she totally loved her apartment, but she never knew that this house has a secret. There are four apparitions in this house, spirits that died long ago, Molly is fine with that after a while of getting used to, but each of the ghost are very different, and two of them really are going after her. And Molly has no idea about all the other hidden secrets in that house, and around that house! And she's about to find out. You're about to as well. Click Start Reading. }:) © 2013, ilovefingerprints. All rights reserved.

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