Sylvie, 16, sees colours, where other people only hear words or feel emotions. She knows she has to keep this a secret - as people disappear to institutions if they get sick in the mind. *** Sylvie likes to dress in Lolita outfits and dreams of becoming an architect. She doesn't understand why she has to get married. It's a government efficiency - have children younger, work harder, longer. She wants to find love on her own terms. Her parents force her into an arranged marriage with Alistair - he's a town planner, an obsessive gamer and has weird tendencies. On her honeymoon, she meets the love of her life, Jarvis ... Now she has to find a way to be with him ... *Originally published on Wattpad in 2014. A major rewrite in 2020-21.

"Anna dislikes being stuck three-quarters of the way down a chimney. She really does. Not to mention, she's still going round North America, and there's, like, three continents still to get through in about as many hours."

Essays on Writing is a collection of thoughts I come across during my writing journey. They cover topics such as grammar, editing, writing, publishing and very often character and story development within the expectations of genre or society.

"The difference of high Sensations with and without knowledge appears to me this - in the latter case we are falling continually ten thousand fathoms deep and being blown up again without wings and with all [the] horror of a bare shouldered Creature - in the former case, our shoulders are fledge, and we go thro' the same air and space without fear." - John Keats

He pulled the locket out and placed it around her neck. It had a goat on its pendent and the note. “This is the first. Z.” As the first rays of sun burst through the horizon, he pushed the girl into the grave. She was gagged and tied up, her eyes dilated with fear. “I’m sorry.”He murmured kindly, patting the girl’s cheek before he started shoveling mud back in the grave effectively burying the girl alive. “One down. Eleven to go.” He whispered anxiously, walking away from the girl and her aura of terror.

Jace and Knox go backpacking in the Canadian mountains for what they plan to be only for a week. But when their harmless vacation becomes a two month fight for survival, their only hope may lie in the guidance of a wild dog. ___________ 2015 FEATURED STORY ON WATTPAD #31 in Adventure EKS 2014

-first book in Complex series- In the Complex, where everyone is emotionless perfection, a young girl discovers through forbidden friendships the frightening truth behind her seemingly flawless world. (the lovely cover was created by @clarkethevirus)

Writers block is the bane of every author. It leaves you sitting for hours staring at a blank page of screen. Writing prompts can help you jump start a story by giving you a tiny kernel of an idea to build off of. Here is my collection of random ideas for stories that I hope will help other writers.

[Cover made by -therapy] It's 1986. Milo is an average teenage boy who has always felt something for the girl in his english class, Aria, even though he has never spoken to her. Aria is everything but average. She is always quiet and vacantly staring at everything but Milo. The day before winter break, she unexpectedly talks to him and leaves an address to send letters to during winter break. But why is it that when winter break is over, she hasn't come back yet? Where is she? And why is she still writing to Milo letters that get closer each day to sounding like goodbyes?